- Awesome Music: The 45-minute relaxing, pastoral piece that comprises Chill Out. The album evokes images of a peaceful route through the Southern U.S. thanks to the field recordings, noises of passing vehicles, and samples interwoven in the music.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- "I'd love to meet ABBA! They used to be one of my favourite bands..." in "The Queen And I" from 1987: What The Fuck's Going On?, wherein King Boy's enthusiasm for the Scandinavian foursome now sounds like an ironic commentary on the legal storm arising from this track, and the ensuing roadtrip, on which Bill and Jimmy utterly failed to meet ABBA.
- The legal storm regarding the ABBA sample would become ironically hilarious itself the next year when the Austrian dance group Edelweiss had a worldwide hit with "Bring Me Edelweiss". Word of God confirms that they followed the instructions from The Manual, specifically the line "Compose your music with bits you've nicked from other songs." What was one of the songs sampled? "S.O.S." by ABBA.
- Just Here for Godzilla: Most people only watch "A Foundation Course In Art" (better known as "The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid" due to confusion with the tour where the KLF showed unedited footage of the infamous burning) for the footage of the KLF burning a million pounds.
- No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: They had some weird publicity stunts - giving their gold record to a Swedish prostitute (who they pretended was Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA "fallen on hard times", after they failed to meet the band), burning one million pounds, firing blanks during the 1992 BRIT Awards and dumping a dead sheep at the aftershow partynote ...
- Periphery Demographic: Popular among Industrial crowds due to some songs (e.g. "It's Grim Up North", "What Time is Love?") sounding similar to EBM and New Beat. Chill Out has also found a following due to it being released on the influential Wax Trax label in the US.
- Questionable Casting: Tammy Wynette's appearance on "Justified and Ancient". It was originally intended as sarcastic commentary on the "past their best artist collaborates with an up and coming hip new group" situation... And ended up being one of their most popular songs.
- Refrain from Assuming:
- "Doctorin' The Tardis" isn’t called "Doctor Who". The KLF even state in The Manual that it could’ve been a better song title.
- "Justified & Ancient (Stand By the JAMs)" isn’t "All Bound For Mu Mu Land", although that was the title to one of its 12" versions.
- Signature Song: "What Time Is Love?", "3 A.M. Eternal" and "Last Train To Trancentral", better known in their Stadium House versions (although the Pure Trance versions have a cult following). "Justifed & Ancient" is also another contender for this.
- So Bad, It Was Better: While the album version of "Last Train To Trancentral" is widely-hated by many people due to not being the same as the "hit" version, it is a fan-favourite with many KLF fans. Ditto for the White Room version of "Justified and Ancient".
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