The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North (Official Video)

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North (Official Video)
An Atlas Adventure
Directed by Bill Butt
KLF Communications
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[@dafunkester]

Please stand for the national anthem of the north.

[@lewisner]

it makes me want to cry when i hear Jerusalem

[@bermudarailway]

I'm still standing.

[@maestroh2986]

The depth of talent of this duo is staggering

[@Maclabhruinn]

When I hear those first few notes of 'Jerusalem' kick in, I'm ready to pick up my broadsword and start marching south down the M1.

[@alanoneill3065]

THAT made me chuckle

[@paulmidsussex3409]

You wont make it past Newport Pagnell, malnutrition, its grim up North.

[@bermudarailway]

We Southerners will be waiting with open arms ready to welcome you.

[@MarkMark-mn4jo]

The cut to Jerusalem is pure genius.

[@sglenny001]

Ezacky

[@fraxis2007]

Their performance of this on Top Of The Pops was, IMHO, the absolute pinnacle of that show's 42 year history.

[@alanoneill3065]

You made me do this... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYSqhGWAq9ZmiLM

[@GMS1981]

There performance on the Brit Awards was surely their best performance, all the suits clapping at the end, no idea what they’d just watched! 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/inixq2N_jJ2ph9ksi=YbwUKhlfRYlsTGZD

[@Monkonelove]

I tip my hat to TWO of the most talented artists on the planet, what a ride you took us all on you are legends in your own rights, never followed the mainstream and did it your way ♥️✌️💯

[@talitmohmoodmalik4544]

Bill & Jimmy Are Truly Gifted, This Why I’ve Been A Fan From 1987

[@manuelaklotzing9054]

I loved this song so much when it came out. It's ingenious just to name citys along a motorway and make a song out of it. I loved this band so much. They were my heros when I was 13 and I still think that they are magnificent! Hope Bill and Jimmy are gong to publish "The black room" one day. I'm still waiting!!!

[@narc78]

Lol, same here! We had definitely a good taste in music in our early teen years.

[@JuanMartinez-kq1ms]

My daughter´s name is Manola. I must say that you have a great taste in music 🖖🏻🇲🇽

[@akf2000]

is there an order in the towns they name then?

[@nige3801]

@@akf2000 no they random northern towns

[@RIXRADvidz]

Get Your Kicks on Route 66

[@mphunk666]

Bloody brilliant track. You can hear Orbital, Chemical Bros, Prodigy, all the 'big beat' stuff taking inspiration from this. How the KLF managed everything they did is astounding. Art-rave experiments from beyond acid house.

[@Pauldjreadman]

Orbit started around the same time so did The Prodigy. It wouldn't be surprise me if the The Klf we're influenced by The Art of Noise.

[@mphunk666]

@@Pauldjreadman yeah, I'm not necessarily saying 'sole inspiration', nor that they inspired the beginning of said artist's careers. Just that I can hear bits of KLF in bits of t'other acts' works. Which is the nature of dance music, after all, they all borrow from each other.

[@Pauldjreadman]

@@mphunk666 What I meant by that was they have been around as long as each other.

[@swordmonkey6635]

I hear a LOT of KMFDM in this song

[@williamnunn8847]

Imagine this on a very high end hifi.

[@davidgray2163]

Still sounding as fresh today.

[@mossadon]

Play it on a big rig and it can stand next to anything made since. it kicks arse!

[@andynixon2820]

I was an essex scooter boy in the 80s , we'd travel the country for the seaside parties often in the north . This song perfectly sums up our adventures in these exotic foreign places - post industrial Victorian mill towns with very down to earth people . Love it .

[@daryld4457]

Utter dumps you mean? I'm surprised that you didn't catch anything.

[@no15minutecities]

the north are far more friendlier than essex folk

[@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse]

@@daryld4457 Hahahahahahahah if isn't lil Daryl (cum) Dumpster up to his ol tricks again..... 🤣💀

[@pyeltd.5457]

The Norf is poor people

[@1966bluearmy]

40 years and still doing it...

[@wendyshaw5658]

Just heard this on Vernon Kay on Radio 2. Wow fabulous. I'm from Manchester and it brings it all back to me the places up North. Grim it never was and never will be. Proud to be Northern Manc Lass

[@rj8862]

Damn we need these guys now more than ever

[@tonyttt31]

One of the greatest dance songs of all time. You can hear the careers of Underworld and Chem Brothers unfolding. The transition into Jerusalem does strange and wonderful things to my brain.

[@flare242]

Jerusalem is absolutely fantastic. I'm not into choir music, but Jerusalem is one of these pieces that cause every single hair on my body to rise, send shivers down my spine, and just freezes me in place.

[@Jayfive276]

If you're not making a track that doesn't so much end as collapse, you're doing it wrong.

[@antgedge7588]

fantastic beat - it's also a bonus that they filmed it during the height of summer up in the grim north ;)

[@k.r.baylor8825]

This was filmed on the then-newly constructed Brighton bypass....down South. Waaay down South. Like miles from the Channel.

[@Breaky717]

This track can't tire me at maximum volume levels too with its phenomenally smooth and deep bass kicks. The original, extended part 1 and part 2 versions are absolutely perfect.

[@charlielynes]

It's still box fresh ☮️❤️🏠🎧

[@jaco_bin]

the greatest song of the 90’s... possibly of all time. the north will rise... again.

[@stevenashford8029]

Was it ever down?

[@robwilliams6753]

not a song, was a spoken word track. big difference.

[@elektra81516]

That kick drum is so powerful it could bring down all the blocks of flats in Hull!

[@GeoffStead]

Welcome back. We missed you!!!

[@OliHarris]

Basically one of the greatest dance tracks ever recorded - Cauty is a tech-musical genius. The liner notes in the original release are beautiful as well. Long live The KLF 🔥🔥🔥

[@bubcentral23]

There was no liner in the 12"

[@OliHarris]

Sure I meant the sleevenotes further elaborated on The JAMs' inspiration: "Through the downpour and diesel roar, Rockman and Kingboy D can feel a regular dull thud. Whether this is the eternal echo of a Victorian steam driven revolution or the turbo kick of a distant Northern rave is irrelevant. Thus inspired, The JAMS climb into the back of their truck and work."

[@tonyttt31]

Imagine that their peers at this point we're The Prodigy and Altern-8.

[@mcbain23]

love the quote thanks OP

[@g23rock]

I am lucky enough to own [one of?] the original montages of the sleevenotes, made to be photographed for their advert in NME at the time.

[@edfromtheairship]

In the light of Andy Burnham's epic speech last year, wearing an anorak on a wet Wednesday, speaking from the seat of the Industrial Revolution that changed the entire world, and articulating the utter frustration we have with the London elite : Utterly precsicent.

[@daryld4457]

I wouldn't expect anything. Labour or Tory, the north has been ignored and neglected since time immemorial. That won't change as long as the money remains in the south east. The north is an irrelevance.

[@FCPWHAT]

It’s also Grim down south!

[@deegx7916]

Especially Slough.

[@blehblah9309]

It's Grim Up North London

[@wh5603]

Anyone who can incorporate the mighty towns and cities of the north along side Elgars Jerusalem is absolute genius. Now can we have Chillout & Space revamped please.

[@markofsaltburn]

Chillout is definitely happening.

[@bazahaza]

@@markofsaltburn This explains rambling man by Lemon Jelly

[@SDevoAU]

2020 was grim, 2021 is looking up with the KLF coming back to kick out the jamms

[@madselmvig1457]

Comming back?? "Its grim up North" is from 1988, the video is from 1991.. its not new.

[@HeizelGonzalez]

@@madselmvig1457 they were so ahead of their time that it feels new :)

[@scrollofthedragon962]

@@madselmvig1457 Correction, the original was with Peter Wylie from the late 80s, this version was a remake with Drummond as the vocalist was released in 1991.

[@MsMarciax]

And yes back then it was f*%kin' grim up north which make these days in 2021 a simple breeze if you have lived through it.

[@citychamps12]

Brilliant that these guys are back! What a start to the year. I remember when this was released I spray painted "It's Grim Up North" on a railway bridge in my home town of Gainsborough. Way back when.

[@markofsaltburn]

Was that the one overlooking the A1? I remember that!

[@citychamps12]

@@markofsaltburn No Mark, this was in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. It was there for years in large red capitals before it got painted over.

[@benroper9153]

Spital Terrace? Was that you?

[@citychamps12]

@@benroper9153 Yep, certainly was! 😂

[@frankhollier2241]

I spray painted, The KLF on any wall I found, had huge pyramid and speakers Pic on my school bag, the regular Afrikaans kids could not grasp the light years this band was ahead of its time.

[@MysticMia]

Drove through some of the north in our old vw van with this blasting . Classic it is

[@wisteela]

Everything about this is so epic, and I mean in the original proper sense.

[@KovietUnionDefector]

Love the rain pouring down on the black and white....truly Grim and Northern.

[@DjRenigade]

The KLF are NOW BACK IN THE BUILDING!!! 2021!!!

[@dmhterrier]

KLF bonkers but fantastic music! never to be forgotten!

[@pkf4124]

The KLF and Pop Will Eat Itself were the soundtrack of my youth. Welcome back

[@IrrationalRecreation]

Amen

[@neiladams4839]

Amen again!!

[@Impulse-One]

AWESOME!! I FORGOT HOW GOOOOD THIS WAS! GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK!! NOW LETS SHOW THE WORLD REAL TALENT AND MUSIC!🤟🤘🤟🤘🤟🤘😎😎😎😎

[@tommyjohnson5533]

Not going anywhere

[@robwilliams6753]

ok, lay off the coke.

[@Impulse-One]

😂😂😂😂 i don't do drugs but thank you all the same😅

[@robwilliams6753]

@@Impulse-One Good, calmed down, turned off caps lock, now put down the flintlocks.....

[@squizza28]

I loved how they merged it into Jerusalem at the end. I imagined the sun would shine in the video, but....no, there's no sun up north!

[@flipflop1975ify]

As a northern lad from Leigh the hairs on my neck still tingle when i hear that northern anthem on the end. Oh and i think Leigh gets 2 mentions to boot.

[@duartefx5437]

Ladys and Gentleman...this is KLF!!!👏👏👏👊👊👊🎸🎹

[@emmerdale2710]

What a fookin tune 😊

[@stingmen]

Effing AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! :-) I taped this off Radio 1 over 20 years ago!!! If not longer!!!! Am going through my Audio Tapes to de-clutter and came across this! I love this song and the AMAZING ending to it. Blooming creative.

[@dereksidders2084]

What a track. Original classic

[@lindahoeymakers8898]

I love this...................................

[@jonhunter8737]

How they produced such outstanding music, whilst, effectively taking the piss, is beyond me!!! Jimmy, Bill. I salute you!!! Oh, and you name my home town of Maghull!!!!!!!!! Absolutely love everything you have made. I'll forgive you Glitter!! We didn't know!!! My fave is definitely the pipe band on America:What Time is Love!!!

[@michaeldewane2002]

Always keep your bass player on a chain, lest he escapes.

[@klaxoncow]

You jest. But if you've ever been in a rock band, then you'd realise this is actually sound advice.

[@btuckervideos4705]

I've been to various places in the north. I can confirm, it is Grim Up North

[@Beckford4000]

I've been to Leeds, Blackpool, Chester and Manchester - I can definitely agree.

[@davidthorne8383]

As Alan "Fluff" Freeman used to say: "Not arf!:

[@judithherdman5222]

I live in Durham. Grim is an understatement.

[@pyeltd.5457]

It's splendid down South 🌈☀️⛱🌞😎

[@stevenashford8029]

Did you visit The Lake Disrict, the Trough of Bowland, North Yorkshire moors, central Manchester, the Cheshire Plain......? Probably not.

[@AlexandraStarr1974]

Heard this at a rave in cambridge one damp december evening, already knew the track being a huge klf fan at the time, but never heard it in a rave before, not while i was off me nut, and omg, the extended version is beyond awesome, what with all the smoke and lasers flying through the air, hands up, it was a memorable moment to say the least! At one point the klf were probably one of the most sampled groups during their time, ironic considering their origins, but you would hear the original version of What Time Is Love on various acid rave tracks with just some vocals thrown over the top, you would think the klf are being played and it would be some other track that just sampled huge chunks of the klf and called it their own, again, the irony is not lost on me and it should not be with you =) I still have all my KLF vinyl after all these years, got this on white label, as well as all the pure trance releases, and the majestic Space, the only thing missing is Chill Out, but i still have that on CD and a ripped mp3 which still gets played to this day!

[@paulsimmonds3003]

Sublime, welcome back KLF!

[@koolerking440]

The KLF is of my time, right in beginning, middle and end. I remember having IGUN on CD, at a friends house party (his dad was moving out of the house, and it was empty....what was he thinking....) furniture was still there, inc the CD player AND sub......so this was played constantly at midnight. I bet the neighbours loved it as much as we did.

[@Abdullah_Alsinani]

All hail KLF 🔥🔥🔥♥️♥️♥️ Techno Acid Legends

[@moobengy]

Fantastic. Takes me back. Talk about atmospheric! Love it! ❤

[@bethw6806]

This is how you know 2021 will be better than 2020, KLF are finallyyy back after 29 years and im so here for it, excited !!!!

[@DaddyLaser]

These are old videos.. uploaded recently.. KLF are not back. p.s. i hope im wrong

[@pyeltd.5457]

@Nick BLAKENEY RAM was crap so good riddance

[@pyeltd.5457]

@@DaddyLaser they made Boris Johnson is a wanka or something

[@christobin8108]

my dad always used to play klf, he had all the albums, i was so sad that i couldnt really find a complete discography online, but if they are gonna do this, im all for it

[@BDF30]

check discogs

[@arthurballs9632]

They were cheesy high street-nightclub crap.

[@Abdullah_Alsinani]

We Will Rise Again ✊✊

[@random22026]

The solemn treatment of green and pleasant 'Jerusalem' in a grim, dank, techno-punk setting was the ultimate in tongue-through-cheek irony. Yowza, yowza, yowza

[@markofsaltburn]

The only thing Bill Drummond ever got wrong in his career was to ignore Teesside on this record. No Middlesbrough, no Redcar.

[@operationgoldfish8331]

Well, wouldn't you? There's 'grim' and then there's the lower circles of Hell.

[@roylennie8117]

@@operationgoldfish8331 Then there's Grimethorpe.

[@bunglesfinger7549]

I live in Redcar. It’s far too grim even for KLF to mention 😆

[@roylennie8117]

@@bunglesfinger7549 No mention of Hartlepool either. No surprises there, it even comes up as a misspell on my reply.

[@chrishorne2308]

It's all just the mid-North or, if you like, the Acceptable North. The posh bits.

[@Caldinea]

A friend posted a picture about KLF coming back - you beautiful beings, welcome back. We've missed you.

[@augusts1]

Living in bumfuck assbackward Portland, OR when this was released it never made it there. I missed so much of their output back then. So glad they are releasing all this now. Thank you KLF!

[@centureye]

Driving down the motorway after a night Blackpool listening to this loud on BBC Radio 2 12am windows open

[@davidfraserscott4765]

..never thought I'd end up here...this evening? But here I am , lol, xxx...

[@cjbrown4898]

King of The North!

[@MegaStephybear]

Why have I only just found this? Lol The bass line is incredible ❤️

[@JoseLara-dg4zk]

Thank you for coming back, KLF!!!

[@NinaPondelak]

This just made the following decade look and sound more hopeful! Welcome back, beloved KLF ❤️❤️❤️

[@malcolm8938]

The KLF, genius and yet utterly bat sh@t crazy at the same time!

[@sandyfleming275]

Amazing!

[@SebastienNellessen-ux5rh]

AS A DEVOTE KLF FAN I'M LOVING WHEN HE IS SPELLING THE NAME OF ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL CITIES.COULD THE KLF BE ETERNAL...(AND NOT ONLY AT 3AM!)😂AS A BELGIAN FAN MY WISH IS THAT THEY COULD PERFORM A DUETT WITH ONE OF BELGIUM'S MOST UNDERRATED BANDS OF THE MID 80's AND THAT IS THE NEON JUDGEMENT IN A VENUE LIKE “LE PARC DU CINQUANTENAIRE” IN BRUSSELS❤❤LOVE THE KLF MORE THAN EVER...

[@robwilliams6753]

1) turn capslock off. 2) not spelling, but speaking. 3) towns, bot cities. 4) rest of it is fine.

[@viv1921]

Loved these guys 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@thehobosapienshome]

Good to have you back! Best electronic music from 2021!

[@gigiboi_david658]

1991. Decade worth of all sorts of musical pioneering and original sounds. I cannot believe it was one year. Music is still moving out from this Big Bang.

[@britishbuldog2552]

Love it!

[@MrVisuall]

Shivering all over my body... Just like every time I'm listening to the Art you''ve created!!! And now show how to make music again to this so called artists

[@tekoppentekoppen761]

Pure class!

[@thewolfgirlliberation]

KLF are gonna rock you ..Oweeee A Woooow!!

[@robertalloway4794]

Wow a classic. Love the KLF. 👍🏻

[@skumsters2323]

This video still rocks your socks off!!

[@rtstrong]

It’s grim up north but the beats are absolutely boss.

[@markroskilly1097]

Please do it again today's music is dire and depressing

[@husmusmedia]

Great music video, great track.

[@e-motionscooters3069]

One of the most awesome tunes ever written

[@alanoneill3065]

BRILLIANT...in the days when music had a sense of humour...Mr Drummond was a GURU (of Mumu?)

[@mcsorleypeter]

I love this Tune!!!

[@douglasjohnthorp7181]

I have waited for this moment for decades. WELCOME BACK KLF!!! Tonight we sleep, tomorrow we fight x

[@edcool77]

Remastered KLF!, fucking yeah!

[@majic2613]

Thank you guys-first time I heard this was on Jeff Youngs Big Beat Show, an incredible piece of music

[@pabloojeda3596]

Epic!!! My first cd!!! I love it!

[@xmasu]

Wow, just wow...i was just getting my annual dose of KLF/The Jams and then this. Thanks for the Comeback!

[@gabrielluque1870]

A pure Gem!

[@MrKnightboy2000]

I have never heard this version before love it !

[@johnmccnj]

"So what's the job?" "You stand out in the rain, wearing a trenchcoat and radio backpack, with an oversized army helmet covering your eyes." "That's it?" "That's it."

[@johnmccnj]

".... and you do it again at Top Of The Pops." (kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYSqhGWAq9ZmiLM)

[@MinekEzQM]

Did you realize that is a mannequin, right?

[@johnmccnj]

@@MinekEzQM Nah, not rigid enough for a mannequin. She does a good job of standing still, but there's still a little bit of motion there.

[@carolinemckenzie9377]

"The North Will Rise Again"...borrowed from The Forever Ancients Liberation Loophole. Magnificent record.

[@JoshuaRoss2]

There are a lot of references to The Fall here The NWRA Hit The North Their 1988 cover of Jerusalem

[@hardclub1]

Great track and video!!

[@billhall8625]

Fucking epic tune, and when Jerusalem kicks in at the end, lump in my throat!

[@djresource717]

I remember this tune, its grim up north, but sunny down south kent🏵🌻☀️

[@acciid]

Great track.I always liked the B side - stomping techno that sounds as fresh today as it did then

[@Cassidy127]

B-side? Mines a single sided sliver 12". Are you telling whopping great fibs to everyone?

[@acciid]

@@Cassidy127 www.discogs.com/The-Justified-Ancients-Of-Mu-Mu-Its-Grim-Up-North/release/25831 A It's Grim Up North (Part 1) B It's Grim Up North (Part 2)

[@hustysemporium6359]

KLF is gonna rock ya !!!

[@ned900]

DO MORE! You did so well first time round.

[@ChromeFreeDisco]

Great to hear this again. I still have it on tape, but nothing to play it on!

[@cf5785]

A gem of a record

[@jameskelly2559]

23 Enigma on tour. Justified.

[@terrymessner2940]

I don't remember ever hearing this song but I love it!

[@stefandraghici3450]

Draghici Ana Maria from Carpathians Mountains from România This are the Great Componists and Instrumentals Singers of Planet Mother Terra.God Lord Jesus Christos Bless You.

[@DaniRaj666]

Brilliant song!

[@NAANsoft]

I love the atmosphere in the track. Great EDM!