Why are Pulp so unpopular now?

Rob Sheffield liked it.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/04/pulp_radio_city_music_hall_april_11_recap.php

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

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

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

It was so damm good.

you are all monsters

I love you

and hate you

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-8QOTEUOc

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

Lol I totally posted a bunch of those last night.

it's an impressive sign

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

Yeah that was sorta weird, huh?

><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.....

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

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

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

Pulp Coachella:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twq9miTwYms

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

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.

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.

aaaaaanyway, pulp

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.

lol x-post

Seeing them Tuesday :).

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

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

Oh that was good.

Yes it was.

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"

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

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!

Back In LA? wow.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.)

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

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'

omg i want that shirt!! haha

My review is up!

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

Okay so

http://www.spin.com/articles/pulp-james-murphy-after-you-itunes-release

Just done on JRoss show.