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2.003: What's the difference between the various Shag Times and History Of The JAMs compilations? Where do "Towards the Trance" and 'JAMS26T' fit in?

Here are the tracks from the releases in question:

Shag Times cover Shag Times (UK double album)
All You Need Is Love / Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) / Whitney Joins The JAMS / Down Town / Candyman / Burn The Bastards / Doctorin' The Tardis // Whitney Joins The JAMS (remix) / I Love Disco 2000/ Down Town (remix) / Burn The Beat (club mix) / Prestwich Prophet's Grin (dance mix) / Porpoise Song (dance mix) / Doctorin' The Tardis (minimal)

The last seven tracks (the second disc on the LP version) are labelled only by (innacurate) BPM; these above are the actual tracks.

Shag Times (European single album)
All You Need Is Love / Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) / Whitney Joins The JAMS / Down Town / Candyman / Burn The Bastards [edit]

NB. Some discographies note a release "Towards The Trance KLF LP1". "Towards The Trance" was the second part of the Shag Times UK double LP. The first part, "Shag Times" was definitely released as a single album in Europe (and omitting "Doctorin' the Tardis"). No-one has ever seen "Towards The Trance" as a separate single album release. It may be that it never got released, and then they decided to run with "Shag Times" in the UK to cash in on the "Doctorin' the Tardis" success, and bundled it with "Towards The Trance". The catalogue number and above details came from Bill himself when asked in a letter from Culf, what happened to "Towards The Trance". Most of the LP is the second disc of Shag Times, i.e. a collection of remixes showing the JAMs progressing towards the KLF.

The thing that was released in Europe was the remix 12 inch (JAMS 26T) which has remixes of tracks off Who Killed The JAMs? (JAMS LP2). From JAMs info-sheet 001: "JAMS 26T? When we put Downtown out and gave it the cat no. JAMS 27T it was a mistake. We forgot we hadn't made a 26T. Then we decided to release Dance Mixes of tracks from the LP. This would be the missing JAMS 26T. We pressed up 2,000 then decided we didn't like them, so we sold them into Europe. One of the tracks we remixed and is coming out titled 'Burn The Beat' by The KLF with the cat no. KLF 002T. If you are confused so are we."

History Of The JAMS a.k.a. The Timelords (US version)
All You Need Is Love / Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) / Whitney Joins The JAMS / Porpoise Song (dance mix) / Down Town / Candyman/ Burn The Beat / Doctorin' The Tardis / Gary In The Tardis [CD only]

History Of The JAMS a.k.a. The Timelords (Australian version)
All You Need Is Love / Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) / Disaster Fund Collection / Burn The Beat (ext. 7" mix) / Porpoise Song / Down Town / Candyman / Burn The Bastards / Doctorin' The Tardis

"Burn The Beat" is labelled "Whitney" on this release.
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