10 Completely Insane Musician Team-Ups (That Actually Happened)

2. The KLF And Tammy Wynette, Justified And Ancient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjggN-KByI The KLF are the best pop band you've never heard of. Formed in the early 90s by Bill Drummond, former manager of Echo and the Bunnymen, and Jimmy Cauty, latterly of chill-out pioneers The Orb, the trance/hip-hop act are as well known for their off-stage antics as their string of hit singles: writing a book called The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way), bringing a dead sheep to the BRIT Awards, and burning a million quid. They were genuinely anarchic, weird, and also made some bloody brilliant pop songs. All of those aspects of the KLF came to a head with their 1991 single Justified & Ancient (Stand By The JAMs), which would be pretty bonkers on its own - it's a funk song, but with frequent rap interludes, the refrain "alllll bound for Mu-Mu land" (a reference to the band's impenetrable, fictional mythos) - but then you through Tammy Wynette into the mix. Tammy Wynette, the "First Lady of Country", singer of "Stand By Your Man", the song you probably just thought of at the mention of country music. Tammy Wynette sings the verses of Justified & Ancient, lending her unmistakable vocal tones to lines like "They're Justified, and they're Ancient, and they like to roam the land / They're Justified, and they're Ancient, and they drive an ice cream van". Glorious insanity.