The KLF - Build a Fire - 1991 - (Music Video)

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 instea