The last time they played the States was 1998...13 years...entire generations (like me) have grown up, gone to college, discovered Pulp, lived their lives, etc. in that time period...would murder to see them live. Saw Jarvis solo once and it was spectacular, but clearly a shadow of what it could/should have been. Seems ludicrous a band of that size/influence only played in America a handful of times.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
Back in the day Jarvis said it was a waste of time touring as a niche band in the US/Canada when they could be playing to tens of thousands back home/doing tv shows etc.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
And if I recall correctly, he had put a limit on how many gigs he was willing to do on a tour here. Something like five shows. That made it financially unsupportable.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
last night they opened with: Do You Remember, Countdown, Lipgloss, OU (Gone Gone), Have You Seen Her Lately
I was pretty excited. Pulp are the best band of all the bands.
― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 1 September 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
Very classic last night. The final pre-encore stretch of Babies, This Is Hardcore, Sunrise, Bar Italia and Common People was astounding (the middle three all, I realised, about the consequences of hedonism). Despite all the funny between-song chat, what strikes me now, far more than in the 90s, is the jealousy, revenge and all-round emotional desperation rather than the wit. The atmosphere was celebratory but the songs are fraught and sinister. They felt necessary, which is how any worthwhile reunion should feel.
Also liked Jarvis introducing Common People with Eldridge Cleaver's problem/solution quote because it was Cleaver's birthday yesterday.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Thursday, 1 September 2011 09:49 (twelve years ago) link
I'm still so jealous of all of you who got to see Pulp this year.
― Sonny Chevrotain (dog latin), Thursday, 1 September 2011 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
Have they ever played Dogs Are Everywhere live this reunion? I love that.
― Sonny Chevrotain (dog latin), Thursday, 1 September 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
Argh, so they played all the relatively rare stuff at the Brixton shows, that they played in Toulouse and dropped afterwards? I saw them at Primavera and it was just all the more obvious stuff.
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
So much for me seeing the 'last ever' performance of 'O.U.' at Leeds Roundhay Park in 1995. ;(
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
ARGHGHGHGH I should have gone.
DYRTFT?CountdownLip GlossOUHave You Seen Her Lately?Something ChangedDisco 2000SortedWickermanBad Cover VersionBabiesUnderwearThis is HardcoreSunriseBar ItaliaCommon People
Encore
RazzmatazzMis-shapes
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
Could still go tonight? I'm tempted.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
Saw the show at wireless and then last night at Brixton. So glad they varied the setlists for these.
If you're wondering whether to go tonight, just go. I would try again, but my body says otherwise.
― jellybean (back again) (Jill), Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
GAAHHH they didn't play OU or Countdown in Sydney despite advertising (like, literally, in the print ads) that they would be playing songs from all eras of the band
not sure if they played Razzamatazz either
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
or "Everybody's Problem"...
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
They didn't do Razzmatazz in Sydney, because I don't remember spontaneously orgasming on the night.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Thursday, 1 September 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Really interesting seeing them last night with DL's insights in mind. Very different to the other occasions I've seen them this summer; being just them and being in an inside venue. Loved that Richard Hawley was there and loved that they played Trees.
Do You Remember the First Time? Monday Morning Razzmatazz The Trees The Fear Lipgloss Something Changed Disco 2000 Sorted For E's & Wizz Sheffield:Sex City Babies Live Bed Show This Is Hardcore Sunrise Bar Italia Common People
Encore:Party Hard Countdown Mis-Shapes Encore 2:Wickerman
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 2 September 2011 09:00 (twelve years ago) link
Sheffield:Sex City
FUCK YOU ENGLAND
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Friday, 2 September 2011 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
Somewhere in Toronto, a too-tall redhead is crying.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 2 September 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
Loads more post-Senior stuff coming into the sets.
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Friday, 2 September 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
AMERICA
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 2 September 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
noted a difference between primavera and now was that Russell didn't leave the set during Sunrise...can't remember if he did during Hardcore.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 2 September 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Hey it would be really cool if Pulp curated an ATP in the states...right, right? That would be pretty cool...
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 2 September 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
yep that would be a dream come true for me personally.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Senior came back on for outro of Sunrise both at Primavera and at Reading the other day.
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Friday, 2 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently he played violin on 'Wickerman' at Brixton too. OOOOh.
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Friday, 2 September 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. April 11. Tempted.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 23 January 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Just listened to We Love Life for the first time in absolutely ages... that outro to 'Sunrise' gets me every fucking time.
― zip-a-dee-doo-dah, motherfucker! (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
And from me today in the Quietus...
http://thequietus.com/articles/14998-pulp-his-n-hers-review-anniversary
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
thanks for that Ned. 20 years hard to believe but will admit that i didn't get it until after their next album.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
NB: Please do not read the ilx whilst listening to the recordings.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Saw the (world premiere of, apparently) the new doco at the Sydney Film Festival on Saturday night. Hadn't known until the opening titles that Russell properly left during the reunion, not just skipping the long-flight legs. It's a good movie, but isn't really about the band, at all; more about what it's like for the city of Sheffield to have the homecoming/farewell show of one of their best known bands taking place.
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Thursday, 12 June 2014 03:56 (nine years ago) link
holy shit. looks amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5lZHF01A_o
― piscesx, Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/57482-pulp-a-film-about-life-death-supermarkets-screening-on-pitchforktv-for-24-hours/
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
what do we think about this
― a total laugh package (s.clover), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
This needs more Pulp and less kids reactions/random English fans/dance teams rehearsing/etc.
Also the opening mix of the live "Common People" sounds like it was performed on a Casio in a drain pipe.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
Is there an actual Pulp documentary out there? Like w footage of music videos and performances?
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
it's brilliant this, way better than the recent hyped up pop/rock docs (Made Of Stone, Shut Up And Play The Hits etc)
there's a ton of other Pulp stuff; mini-docs etc. check this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz4fIxPQBvc
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:16 (nine years ago) link
this new doc was utterly routine save for the kid in the DUDE shirt
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:49 (nine years ago) link
Classic, for 'Babies' and 'Common People'.
That's all I need by them
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
pulp have a lot going on and this docu reduces it all down to some v. obv elements of 'different class' -- like it would go well with some town full of laid off miner strippers and a boy who wants to dance and idk something about football?
― a total laugh package (s.clover), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/mental-health-nurse-deborah-bone-mbe-who-inspired-pulps-disco-2000-dies-aged-51-9953976.html
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Friday, 2 January 2015 11:48 (nine years ago) link
Christ, Freaks is such a strange record... on one hand, you can hear a very rough version of the band that they would eventually become but on the other, there's these bizarre tracks that are reminiscent of early Gorky's Zygotic Mynci(!) ... Jarvis' fake Morrissey vibrato on this record is hilarious, too.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
Listening to Different Class right now for the first time in a long time, and while the likes of 'Common People' and 'Disco 2000' are starting to feel relatively fresh to my ears these days (they were both inescapable in the mid '90s), the tracks that are grabbing me this time around are the lesser cited deep cuts like 'Live Bed Show' and 'Underwear' ... I remember thinking at the time that 'Something Changed' was my least favourite of the singles released from this album, but now it's one of my absolute favourites, and 'F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E' sounds as great as ever.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
Underwear is quite possibly their best song. Live 105 in the Bay Area gave it steady rotation in the fall of ‘95. First song that turned me onto Pulp.
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
That's incredible! It wasn't released as a single here or anything, and I think half the album (or something like that) had been released as a single by the time it had run its course.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
It was a b-side of Common People fwiw
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
Different Class is perfect, just a towering achievement in songwriting. My only complaint is that "I Spy" might be a little too long? I don't know, that's really nitpicking.
On a theory note, these guys really love the IV-iv turnaround.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
Something I wrote about Underwear a couple of years back, with links to various live versions, etc. - https://pulpsongs.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/underwear/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
aaah I haven't listened to this album in years. It reminds me so much of trips to London, hanging around in bars and clubs circa 96...I think I remember passing in front of Bar Italia !Anyway, I would have to listen to it again but iirc it was such a great album.I remember particularly liking "E's & Wizz" and the over the top disco moment in "I Spy" !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 08:28 (six years ago) link
When I heard 'Disco 2000' last night, I was amazed at just how well it slotted in with all the new wave/synthpop I've been listening to a lot over the last few years. If I'd never heard the song before and you told me it had been released anywhere between 1977 and 1983 instead of 1995, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link