Pulp: C.L.A.S.S.I.C.O.R.D.U.D?

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

Sheffield:Sex City

FUCK YOU ENGLAND

Somewhere in Toronto, a too-tall redhead is crying.

Loads more post-Senior stuff coming into the sets.

AMERICA

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.

Hey it would be really cool if Pulp curated an ATP in the states...right, right? That would be pretty cool...

yep that would be a dream come true for me personally.

Senior came back on for outro of Sunrise both at Primavera and at Reading the other day.

Apparently he played violin on 'Wickerman' at Brixton too. OOOOh.

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. April 11. Tempted.

Just listened to We Love Life for the first time in absolutely ages... that outro to 'Sunrise' gets me every fucking time.

And from me today in the Quietus...

http://thequietus.com/articles/14998-pulp-his-n-hers-review-anniversary

thanks for that Ned. 20 years hard to believe but will admit that i didn't get it until after their next album.

NB: Please do not read the ilx whilst listening to the recordings.

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.

holy shit. looks amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5lZHF01A_o

http://pitchfork.com/news/57482-pulp-a-film-about-life-death-supermarkets-screening-on-pitchforktv-for-24-hours/

what do we think about this

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.

Is there an actual Pulp documentary out there? Like w footage of music videos and performances?

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

this new doc was utterly routine save for the kid in the DUDE shirt

Classic, for 'Babies' and 'Common People'.

That's all I need by them

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?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/mental-health-nurse-deborah-bone-mbe-who-inspired-pulps-disco-2000-dies-aged-51-9953976.html

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was a b-side of Common People fwiw

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.

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/

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" !

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.

If it weren't for the lyrics, you could convince me that Disco 2000 came out last week

disco 2000 doesn't sound like it was recorded in the early 80s wtf are you talking about turrican

the drum sound, the guitar tone, the clarity...

voodoo chilli otm, tho

i mean, i guess its not that far off from a de-funkified "my own way", but it sounds totally un-80s imo

defunkified "my own way" in terms of the beat or whatever

nevermind me, no reponse necc, i don't care anymore

It's okay, I didn't in the first place. You're wrong, anyway.

In fact, generally speaking that particular era of UK guitar music were more influenced by the late '70s and early '80s than the '60s, which is what everyone seems to think. Aside from Oasis, whose influences are more early-mid '70s. There's more "'80s" in Pulp and Blur than folks realise or want to admit.

Those cowards who don't dare to point out that britpop had influences that they freely admit in interviews

*britpop bands

Pulp formed in the 70s and active for the whole of the 80s so what are you on about?

^ is implying that It sounds like Different Class or His 'n' Hers, when it doesn't.

Oh, and Britpop didn't exist.

Also, Wings are influenced by the 60s

But yeah, 'Disco 2000' with its "disco" beat that a lot of British bands were utilising in the late '70s/early '80s, with its guitar riff that seems like it's been beamed directly from the late '70s Blondie song, vintage keyboards and a chorus that wouldn't have sounded out of place on a Dexys Midnight Runners track circa Too-Rye-Ay ... yeah, I'd say it fits in snugly.

Yes, Wings are influenced by the '60s - thanks for that, Captain Obvious.

Pulp's early '80s work, although Cocker's voice is in place from the off, has a very different set of influences. It comes from a different place than the work which actually defines them.