A trip to any record shop nowadays will, just about, prove wrong the much-stated fact that "you can't get KLF stuff any more - it's all deleted". You can't get UK KLF releases, that's true; but most larger British record shops import their material from the US, where the record labels TVT and Arista keep two or three albums available. Arista still produces copies of the 1991 "White Room" album, with slight changes to the UK tracklisting, and shrink-wrapped with the CD single "Justified and Ancient" (which again, features different tracks to the original KLF99CD in the UK).

TVT, the KLF's other US label, and home to many experimental and industrial bands, has had a long association with Bill and Jimmy, stretching back to 1988, with special 12" US issues of "Burn the Beat" and "What Time is Love (Pure Trance 1)" and a very rare 3" CD version of "Doctorin' the Tardis". This association extended to a compilation album, roughly based on "Shag Times", which appeared in early 1989 called "The History of the JAMs (aka the Timelords)", with a cover based strongly on the burning-LPs-in-a-Swedish-wood sleeve of "Who Killed the JAMS?" (JAMSLP2). The LP and cassette of this compilation are now quite rare, but the CD continues to be available as effectively the only KLF "greatest hits" around - even if it only contains one "hit". All the JAMs singles are included, along with "Gary in the Tardis" and a few other off-cuts from "Shag Times".

However, a far rarer edition of the "History of the JAMs" exists - released in Australia on the Possum label, in late 1988 (possibly predating its US counterpart). This CD - ripped and uploaded below - is one of the rarest KLF releases, and is unique in containing an edited mix of "All You Need is Love" without intro; the Australia-only Possum 7" version of "Burn the Beat" (an extra disco-fied mix, although I'm not sure who by); and the only official CD appearance of "Disaster Fund Collection" from their second LP "Who Killed the JAMs". Left off this version, but available on the US CD, are "Gary in the Tardis" and (curiously) "Whitney Joins the JAMs".

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Tracklisting of the Australian "Who Killed the JAMs":

(1) All You Need Is Love [intro missing]*
(2) Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)
(3) Disaster Fund Collection*
(4) Burn The Beat [7" Possum mix]*
(5) Porpoise Song
(6) Down Town
(7) Candyman
(8) Burn The Bastards (the long version) [w/chimes outro + ford]
(9) Doctorin' The Tardis

* - Those unique tracks

Link: http://www.protectlinks.com/97999

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