{"id":1164,"date":"2017-05-10T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/?post_type=ufaq&#038;p=1164"},"modified":"2022-08-15T23:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:32:04","slug":"brilliant-sound-like","status":"publish","type":"ufaq","link":"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/ufaqs\/brilliant-sound-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Brilliant sound like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.ewd-ufaq-faq-title .ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol span { font-size: 16px !important; }div.ewd-ufaq-faq-categories, div.ewd-ufaq-faq-tags { font-size: 10pt !important; }div.ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol {\r\nmargin-top:7px;\r\n}\r\n\r\ndiv.ewd-ufaq-faq-category-title {\r\n   display: none;\r\n}<\/style><div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-list ewd-ufaq-page-type-load_more ewd-ufaq-category-tabs-\" id='ewd-ufaq-faq-list'>\n\n\t<input type='hidden' name='show_on_load' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-show-on-load' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='include_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-include-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='exclude_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-exclude-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='orderby' value='set_order' id='ewd-ufaq-orderby' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='order' value='asc' id='ewd-ufaq-order' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='post_count' value='-1' id='ewd-ufaq-post-count' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='current_url' value='\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq\/1164' id='ewd-ufaq-current-url' \/>\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faqs'>\n\n\t\t<div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-div ewd-ufaq-faq-column-count-one ewd-ufaq-faq-responsive-columns- ewd-ufaq-faq-display-style-one\" id='ewd-ufaq-post-1164-9b3AnmJcHg' data-post_id='1164'>\n\n\t\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title '>\n\t\n\t<a class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin'  href='http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/ufaqs\/brilliant-sound-like\/' >\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol ewd-ufaq-square'>\n\t\t\t<span >B<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title-text'>\n\n\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\tWhat do Brilliant sound like?\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-clear'><\/div>\n\n\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-body' >\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin ewd-ufaq-faq-post'>\n\t<p>Most people who have heard them will think that Brilliant featuring Youth and Jimmy Cauty with June Montana as singer were fairly awful really. Cheesy, clumsy, disco pop music (albeit with loud guitars too) produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman on a major label. \u201cBut it\u2019s also worth remembering, rather like the KLF, that there are two phases to Brilliant\u2019s career. First they were a sort of a funky Killing Joke who released some records via indie label Rough Trade; I remember listening to their first (perhaps only) Peel Session and thinking \u2018funky bass\u2019. Then they hit the \u2018big\u2019 time, signed to WEA and were given the SAW treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1MxSuojSE3RDir2U1M2aeb?si=ujq2Uvz5QHi9E3OgmSFvqg&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso does \u2018on a major label\u2019 equal bad? \u2018I\u2019m sure we\u2019ve all got favourite artists who are on majors. I do like to support indies, but I\u2019m sure you get my point. Also \u2018produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman\u2019 does not equal bad either. Those of you who have read the Timelords\u2019 Manual will know Bill n\u2019 Jimmy have a deal of respect for SAW, and they\u2019ve produced enough quite excellent pop records to be always worth a listen in my book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir near hit LP I have to confess I\u2019ve only heard at a party and I was almost quite impressed. I thought I\u2019d just get a few singles by them rather than buy the LP. I would describe their later sound as being quite poppy but with a harder edge. Although totally different musically in some ways they did remind me of Frankie Goes to Hollywood in terms of the interestingness of the production. As a rule bands that SAW produced who were not totally part of the SAW Hit Factory (i.e. SAW did not write their songs) are usually worth a listen.\u201d The author of the FAQ can\u2019t comment on this one as he\u2019s never heard them, and he\u2019s relying on other\u2019s testimonies by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Some more: \u201cI finally found Brilliant\u2019s \u2018Kiss The Lips Of Life\u2019. Backing vocals are contributed by, amongst others, Princess and Pepsi &#038; Shirley. That shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise since the album is produced by Stock Aitken &#038; Waterman (except for one instrumental, \u201cCrash The Car\u201d, which Brilliant produced). Not totally typical S.A.W. \u2013 those guys only helped co-write 2 of the album\u2019s 9 songs. They cover James Brown\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s A Man\u2019s Man\u2019s Man\u2019s World\u2019, and \u2018The End Of The World\u2019, not very impressively on the latter. Two almost-catchy songs, \u2018Love Is War\u2019 and \u2018Somebody\u2019, are the highlights of the album. Cauty helped co-write the 7 original tunes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I like S.A.W. and The KLF in all their incarnations I thought I\u2019d like this album. Not particularly\u2026 it was done before S.A.W. found the one beat that they used in 739 Top 40 songs for Jason and Kylie, and just sounds like some poorly constructed cheesy pop. I only paid $5 for it, so I\u2019m happy, but if you have to pay much more I\u2019d pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuite a few singles were lifted from that album, I have some details somewhere. It was this musical project that caused Jimmy to first meet up with Bill: Drummond was working for WEA at the time, and they put up the money for this material to be recorded etc., since it was being released on a WEA subsidiary, Food Records, run by David Balfe. The project failed: Brilliant never became the megastars they were supposed to become, and the money went towards the setting up of Pete Waterman Limited. So, you *could* say, with a touch of cynicism, that it is Bill who is responsible for all those Stock, Aitken and Waterman tunes you ever hated\u2026 ;-).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-custom-fields'>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-categories'>\n\t\n\tFiled under\n\t\n\t\tWhat does [...] sound like?\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-tags'>\n\t\n\tTag:\t\n\t\n\t\tbrilliant\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B What do Brilliant sound like? Most people who have heard them will think that Brilliant featuring Youth and Jimmy Cauty with June Montana as singer were fairly awful really. 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