Why are Pulp so unpopular now?

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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

bene_gesserit, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

A little something I wrote:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/04/five_pulp_obscurities_that_are.php

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Rob Sheffield liked it.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

goddamn so jealous of people who saw that show. is there any idea of the likelihood of a larger scale US tour?

deejeridoo (some dude), Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

I doubt it. Even back in the day they didn't tour the US very extensively.

Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

well yeah but reunion tours in general draw bigger audiences, better money, i'm sure they'd be able to sell more tickets in the U.S. than they did in all of the '90s several times over

deejeridoo (some dude), Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

It was so damm good.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 12 April 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

you are all monsters

I love you

and hate you

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 April 2012 18:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's just the way of things.

A...bonus, I guess: turns out someone's finally put the one 'lost' Pulp song from the mid to late eighties on YouTube, "Silence" -- this is the one that Jarvis refused to allow on the Masters of the Universe compilation and reissues since, according to this:

That features the only Fire track which hasn't been reissued: "Silence", from demos recorded in an old karate studio, written at that first rehearsal with Russell. Oh, it's so depressing, a two-note keyboard drone, someone playing one of those hunting horns you have on the living room wall and me alternately talking and screaming this story about a love affair that doesn't work out. I banned it from going on the Fire compilation, because it's terrible - I couldn't live with it being out.

And yeah, can't blame him for that:

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

feeling like I missed the boat on these guys, Different Class came out when I worked at college radio but I was kinda down on Britpop at the time and never really got into them ... now friends my same age were all getting super hyped for the shows and posting camera-phone photos of the big PULP stage sign and I'm strangely jealous

dmr, Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lol I totally posted a bunch of those last night.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's an impressive sign

dmr, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

They opened the show with a drawing of a... dolphin? It was a little strange.

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah that was sorta weird, huh?

wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

><i> NY was pretty mid-Atlantic last time I checked, dude.

Still a 10-hour drive from DC, and I'm burned out from too many long drives lately

― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:21 PM (Yesterday)

ok New York is TOTALLY not mid-Atlantic (unless you're from Canada or something) but it is not a fucking 10 hour drive from D.C.! more like 5 hours with pee breaks.

― some dude, Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:48 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Perma</i>

Yeah I was thinking the long 10+ hour drive I often make through NYC to points northward, and <i>those</i>are 10hrs., it just seems NYC is the bulk of the trip due to traffis slowing to a crawl so often there. Anyway DC to NY indeed much shorter, but silll aways from DC., esp. if you start in the morning and arrive in afternoon.

Anyway, nice set list; I'll find a way to catch something.....

everything else is secondary (Lee626), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

NY is actually considered a mid-atlantic state btw. Just saying.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think it's about 10 hours from DC to here.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

i see wikipedia agrees with enbb but i just can't accept that, what does 'mid-atlantic' even mean if it includes a state that borders canada, i always thought of ny as part of new england

some dude, Saturday, 14 April 2012 01:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Pulp Coachella:

Kent Burt, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

new york is definitely mid-atlantic and totally distinct from new england culturally.

horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's as distinct from the mid-atlantic as it is from new england though! sorry i don't know why i keep talking about this.

some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah i don't know why it matters to me, either, but it does. western new york is more like the midwest, anyway, but new york is like pennsylvania imo. mid-atlantic.

horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

aaaaaanyway, pulp

horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

All I know is that it is technically classified as mid-Atlantic and definitely not part of New England. This was like middle school social studies basics guys. It doesn't really matter though. Anyway - Pulp! Best show I've ever been to probably. I want to see them again now.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 16 April 2012 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol x-post

wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 16 April 2012 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

Seeing them Tuesday :).

svend, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

You will love it. We danced pretty much the entire time.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 16 April 2012 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

I haven't seen them since they opened for Blur, looking forward to it.

svend, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh that was good.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 08:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes it was.

Spencer Chow, Friday, 20 April 2012 09:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

Setlist!

"Do You Remember the First Time?"
"Monday Mornings"
"Razzmatazz"
"Live Bed Show"
"Disco 2000"
"Sorted for E's and Wizz"
"His 'n' Hers"
"Dishes"
"Mile End"
"Like a Friend"
"Babies"
"This is Hardcore"
"Sunrise"
"Bar Italia"
"Common People"

1st encore: "OU"
"Bad Cover Version"
"Mis-Shapes"

2nd encore: "Back in LA"
"Something Changed"

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

need to add "Help the Aged," but may strike a little close now.

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 April 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

god i'm so jealous at the west coast set lists i can't even deal!!! we basically just got the entirety of "different class" with a few other things from later albums. they better play more old stuff when i see them in spain!

bene_gesserit, Friday, 20 April 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Back In LA? wow.

Jamie_ATP, Friday, 20 April 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

YOU GOT OU? OH YOU ARE GOING DOWN, RAGGETT.

Seriously though that's super awesome and I am glad you had fun!

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 20 April 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

(Notices and adores her inadvertent OU/OH YOU wordplay)

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 20 April 2012 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hahah. I KNEW some of those choices would inspire, how you say, jealousy...

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

And yeah -- a super long droney great version of "OU" -- and I still can't believe they did "Back in LA!" Imagine Jarvis on megaphone and the band making a huge racket -- if you had told me early Blur essentially ripped them off just from this I wouldn't've been surprised.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yah, I saw them three times last year and still green looking at that.

Unrelatedly, I found myself in Bar Italia a few weeks ago. It's pretty great.

Upt0eleven, Friday, 20 April 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh and I forgot to mention: at one point, Jarvis doing an a capella (falsetto!) version of the chorus of Tina Turner's "Steamy Windows." Never in a million years etc. (Does make me think he would be a perfect dude for karaoke.)

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hahahaha! We got a little bit of Louie Louie which was fun.

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 20 April 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh also, best T-shirt by a mile that night was some guy wearing a Suede shirt, classic logo and all -- on closer inspection, the small type above it was not 'The London' or any of that nonsense, it was 'Bernard Butler-era'

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

omg i want that shirt!! haha

bene_gesserit, Friday, 20 April 2012 15:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Just done on JRoss show.

Mark G, Saturday, 2 February 2013 22:52 (3 months ago) Permalink


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