1991, The White Room Album Version."Build a Fire is The KLF’s only ballad, and the pedal steel guitar isn’t the only nod to country music. Even in a thick Scottish accent, Drummond’s softly-spoken lines are straight out of a Nashville lyrics generator – whether it’s stopping at a roadside bar or heating beans over an open fire and pondering about blown chances. He even gets in a reference to Lee Marvin’s Wandering Star, and the way he rolls his r’s as he hums the tune “to all the girrrls I’ve known” could drag a tear out of a craggy-faced cowboy.
And unable to resist further pop culture plundering, the melancholy four-note bassline is lifted straight from the Twin Peaks Theme – around the time it was the biggest cult TV show in history.
Even though it appeared on The White Room, Build a Fire had been around since 1989 as the soundtrack to a scene in the KLF’s ill-fated road movie The White Room, which folded under money woes. The hissy, grainy video has made it to YouTube and instead of frontier men on horseback, Drummond and Cauty tackle the arid west in their modified cop car the Ford Timelord – all bound for Mu Mu Land."
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