Do You Remember The First Poll? - ILM Artist Poll #11 - PULP - Results Thread!

I was one of the two who put "Seconds" at #1. I first heard and liked "Do You Remember The First Time?" when I saw the video, about a year later "Common People" was everywhere and a girl I knew lent me a taped copy of it at a party where I got drunk for the first time, rode an inflatable whale down a flight of stairs and jumped in a pool fully clothed and had my first kiss to boot. Took the tape home, realised that 10 of the other 11 songs were JUST AS GOOD (Never liked "Pencil Skirt" as much as the others though), gave it back, and was fortunate enough to grab a copy of "Different Class" with the Second Class B-sides CD.

"Seconds" was the one that completely slayed me and told me to buy all their records.

Nice work Lex!

I guess "Babies" was my "Common People" then. The former was the first Pulp track I ever knowingly heard (it, and then "Do You Remember..." were their first tracks to get major airplay here) and I'd be lying to myself if I'd not voted it #1.

Pleased to see that the only other track I could have honestly put at #1, "Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)", was not all that far out of contention.

Nice poll with unpredictable results. Thanks Lex.

"Mis-Shapes" seems really shockingly low to me!

i mean fun poll, obv, thank you for doing it -- that's just the first thing i thought looking at the final lineup

Meaning you thought it would do better, right? Me too

I had a lot of fun bringing a little "Seductive Barry" boosterism to the results!

it was in my top 10!

x-post - My ballot is on my work computer but I'm nearly certain it was in mine too.

Lex, thanks so much for doing this in such an enthused way. I was smiling all the way to number 1, thanks a lot! :)

This may be true of others as well, but I noticed that E's ballot had all top five songs in the top five-she just switched around the order of do you remember the first time and babies IIRC. Nicely done!!

And you are almost definitely welcome. I had so much fun doing this!

*all most not almost lol

lol

I said I knew my choices were obvious!

A little shocked this placed so high tbh!
12 - HELP THE AGED - 14 votes, 270 points

It was the first "new" single after they blew up, probably made a big impact on ppl that way

Last Man in Space 0 20
The 1st Man In Space 0 21
First Man in Space 0 48

by my count this puts 1st Man In Space at #49?

Shit - I went over it several times! My apologies. :(

Heh, I can't believe I didn't catch at least one of those - a few other songs, especially F.C.L., had a ton of variations.

This poll was great fun! I noticed a couple more duplicates-

-We Love Life @ #94
-I Love Life @ #76

-The Birds in... @ #81
-Birds in... @ 83

it's weird to think of "Pencil Skirt" and "Monday Morning" missing the top 40, those are totally key Different Class songs imo

I thought "Weeds" would place higher than #51. But I was pleasantly surprised by how high "This is Hardcore", "Pink Glove", "Underwear", and "Something Changed" placed. The highest ranked song that I don't really like is "Do You Remember the First Time?" at #3. The person who introduced me to Pulp loves that song, but somehow it never quite clicked with me.

the past couple weeks listening to a lot of pulp "first time" kept coming up and sounding really amazing. i put it at #7 but it easily could've been much higher.

brilliant poll! kinda surprised at Roadkill being so low; bloody heartbreaking track that.

ehh, fuck me with the duplicates! Very sorry about that guys. All the same, very enjoyable. We should have a thread where people just post clues and we guess the song(s)! Because now I want to play!

btw Pulp ppl, it seems there is now actually a band called Blouse - they even have a vaguely Pulp-like cover for their album. They don't sound much like Pulp though.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RwFnbvSgL._SS500_.jpg

"So pogo on that, you twat".

LOL!

hahahaha I have never heard of any of this and the video looks funny! Will have to check it out. That cover IS very Pulp-like.

The video is from a UK show called Brass Eye which is pretty much all comedy gold. They also did a Pixies parody called "Motherbanger" which is A++.

Are we posting ballots?

Anyway, here's mine which I literally threw together in about 10 minutes but I don't know that much would have changed had I given it more thought.

1. Common people
2. Pink glove
3. Babies
4. Seconds
5. Do you remember the first time?
6. Like a friend
7. Mis-Shapes
8. Mile End
9. Sorted For E's & Wizz
10. She’s a Lady
11. Lipgloss
12. Disco 2000
13. Acrylic Afternoons
14. Something Changed
15. Help the Aged
16. Party Hard
17. Razzmatazz
18. Monday Morning
19. Further Complications
20. Underwear

This Is Hardcore
Acrylic Afternoons
Styloroc
Feeling Called Love
Countdown
Sheffield: Sex City
She's A Lady
Razzmatazz
Pink Glove
Pencil Skirt
Death II
Joyriders
Wishful Thinking
I Spy
Do You Remember The First Time?
Seductive Barry
Lipgloss
Sunrise
A Little Soul
Wickerman

enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNyyZpP3GM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTZ0hYlto7Q

and for extra goodness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sxZ4tsp8gc&feature=related

:D

These will serve my lunch break well. Thanks!

The video is from a UK show called Brass Eye which is pretty much all comedy gold. They also did a Pixies parody called "Motherbanger" which is A++.

Motherbanger was Morris solo on a Select flexi six or seven years before Brass Eye.

ok, five years

details, details ;p

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/wiki/_media/music:chris_morris_parodies:select.jpg

Wish I still had that flexidisc.

pleased to see This Is Hardcore placing so highly as it was the first Pulp song I ever really loved, possibly influenced by the embarrassing fact that I was only convinced to listen to it by a friend telling me that it was produced by RZA! This turned out to be a lie. Maybe.

Hahaha - I can just about see it!

This Is Hardcore is the song that really got me into them, too. I'd heard and liked a few Different Class songs (I was a teenager in Wisconsin, so I didn't have a lot of exposure to Pulp), but then I saw the This Is Hardcore video, by chance (maybe on 120 Minutes, like Gukbe?), and was completely blown away.

as a proud listener of only "Hits" (and Different Class) I offer a top 5

1. Babies
2. Razzmatazz
3. Something Changed
4. Common People
5. Help The Aged

Seconds is a major discovery. thanks!

That video *is* incredible, I was pleased to see it in a 'top 20 videos ever' for Time or Rolling Stone or something like that recently. The whole package, though, it jumped out as clearly the best thing they ever did when I went relistening - it takes guts to take an idea so far. I thought it might sneak #1, so I'm slightly disappointed.

"This Is Hardcore" was also my introduction to Pulp. It is a fucking incredible song.

I think I'm the only person who doesn't completely love that song. The video is pretty great though.

that piano line is one of the greatest things ever recorded

haha add me to the list of (surely all american) people who got into Pulp via the "This Is Hardcore" video. i think 120 Minutes played that, "Like A Friend" and "Help The Aged" in the space of a few weeks and really sold me on the band.

My ballot:

1. The Trees
2. Blue Girls
3. This Is Hardcore
4. Disco 2000
5. Common People
6. Do You Remember The First Time
7. A Little Soul
8. Acrylic Afternoons
9. Sylvia
10. The Night That Minnie Temperley Died
11. Love Love
12. Inside Susan
13. Mis-Shapes
14. The Fear
15. Love is blind
16. She´s A Lady
17. Don't you want me anymore
18. Help The Aged
19. Wishful thinking
20. Underwear

my shamelessly new school ballot (stuff from both Jarvis solo albums, not a lot from His N Hers and nothing from before it):

1. Like A Friend
2. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
3. Big Julie
4. Mis-Shapes
5. This Is Hardcore
6. Disco 2000
7. Do You Remember The First Time?
6. Common People
9. The Night That Minnie Temperley Died
10. Seductive Barry
11. You're In My Eyes (Discosong)
12. Monday Morning
13. Acryllic Afternoons
14. Weeds
15. A Little Soul
16. Babies
17. I Love Life
18. Party Hard
19. Help The Aged
20. Pencil Skirt