Heh, no - not Computer Love.
I think of Pink Glove & She's A Lady as songs that go, er, hand in hand, so was very surprised to see one rate so much higher than another! I was also pretty surprised about Seconds - not that it isn't good - just that it's never one that pops into my head as something I want to put on.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://factoidz.com/images/user/basic_html_tags.gif
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Do You Remember the First Time?
"I know you're gonna let him bore your pants off again"
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
#3 - DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME? - 21 votes, 477 points (Notably, no #1s.. but people seem to like it a lot anyway!)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Do the right thing, ILM
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
#2
http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1841/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1841-18948.jpg
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
is that a "That goes in there" reference?
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
This is hardcore!Put your money where your mouth is…
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
oh it could be that, too (lol)
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha, no it isn't. but woof's got it!
#2 - THIS IS HARDCORE - 25 votes, two #1s, 559 votes (very large point jump!)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
lol right song, wrong lyric
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
btw congratulations everyone for voting "Seductive Barry" #1, I couldn't be prouder
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
#1
http://img1.tvloop.com/img/showpics/bf/3b/l353958ff0000_1_17145.jpg
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Here...in the night. Seductive Barry....takes the Poll.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
a truly happy moment for you, DJP
If there's ever a poll where one song might appear on 100% of the ballots, it's this one.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
It didn't!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
It wouldn't have appeared on my ballot had it not been for the "Common People Lyrics" thread. I was sick of the song for years and never bothered listening to it until that thread. I put it on one day when walking and it was really, really awesome.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
I inexplicably forgot to include "First Time" on my ballot, where it would have placed around, well, #3. Relieved that it didnt affect the rankings.....
― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW63vnU7yPI
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I realized "This Is Hardcore" was so beloved; I had the impression it was just me!
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
I *adore* TIH, personally. I've no time for Common People, having heard it a thousand times. It's great, yes - but not anymore, to me.
#1 - COMMON PEOPLE - 21 votes, five #1s, 641 points
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for it. Brilliant lyric, but I'm sick of everything else. This Is Hardcore was my #1 - I'd hoped it might just pip it.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Actually kind of surprised at how well that did.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Common People, that is.
Here's the full list!
Rank Row Labels # 1 Votes Sum of Score115 I Never Said I Was Deep 0 11114 Grandfather's Nursery 0 11113 Don't You Want Me Anymore? 0 11112 Angela 0 11111 Weeds II 0 12110 Further Complications 0 12109 Blue Glow 0 12108 Aborigine 0 12107 We Can Dance Again 0 13106 Being Followed Home 0 13105 Fairground 0 15104 Heavy Weather 0 16103 Billy Jack 0 16102 Two Little Boys 0 17101 Last Day of the Miners' Strike 0 18100 97 Lovers 0 1899 You're In My Eyes (Discosong) 0 2098 We Are the Boyz 0 2097 tv movie 0 2096 Last Man in Space 0 2095 Fuckingsong 0 2094 We Love Life 0 2193 They Suffocate At Night 0 2192 The 1st Man In Space 0 2191 Morning Dew (cover) 0 2290 PTA 0 2389 Maureen 0 2488 Don't You Know 0 2487 Deep Fried in Kelvin 0 2486 You're A Nightmare 0 2585 Separations 0 2584 Someone Like The Moon 0 2783 Birds in Your Garden 0 2982 Everybody's Problem 0 3081 The Birds in Your Garden 0 3180 Roadkill 0 3179 My Lighthouse 0 3378 Cocaine Socialism 0 3577 The Facts Of Life (The Chocolate Layers Remix) 0 3676 I Love Life 0 3675 Happy Endings 0 3874 The Babysitter 0 3973 Love Love 0 4072 I Will Kill Again 1 4071 Death Goes to the Disco 0 4270 Sylvia 0 4569 I'm A Man 0 4668 First Man in Space 0 4867 Dogs are Everywhere 0 5066 David's Last Summer 1 5165 Street Lites 0 5264 Stacks 0 5263 She's Dead 0 5262 Big Julie 0 5461 The Day After The Revolution 0 5560 Wishful Thinking 0 5659 Seductive Barry 0 5858 Ciao! 0 5957 Walk like a Panther 0 6256 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis 0 6355 Synchronize 1 6554 Have You Seen Her Lately? 0 6753 Sliding Through Life On Charm 0 7252 Monday Morning 0 7451 Weeds 0 7650 Love is Blind 0 7749 Ansaphone 0 7748 Styloroc (Nights of Suburbia) 0 8547 Little Girl (with Blue Eyes) 0 8846 Bar Italia 0 8845 Running the World 0 9144 I Want You 0 9143 Pencil Skirt 0 9642 Party Hard 0 9641 Live Bed Show 0 9640 Don't Let Him Waste Your Time 0 9739 Glory Days 0 10138 Inside Susan 0 10737 Mile End 0 11436 Blue Girls 0 11635 The Night that Minnie Temperley Died 0 12434 Countdown 0 12433 Joyriders 0 13832 Death II 1 14331 Bad Cover Version 0 15030 Sunrise 0 16129 Wickerman 1 16328 Sheffield: Sex City 0 16627 His 'n' Hers 1 17326 The Trees 1 17425 O.U. (Gone Gone) 1 18924 Your Sister's Clothes 0 19623 Dishes 1 19722 Like A Friend 1 21121 She's A Lady 0 22220 Sorted for E's & Wizz 0 22519 The Fear 1 22918 My Legendary Girlfriend 1 23317 A Little Soul 0 24116 Mis-Shapes 0 24215 I Spy 1 24714 Acrylic Afternoons 0 25713 F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. 0 26412 Help The Aged 0 27911 Underwear 0 29610 Lipgloss 0 3099 Razzmatazz 0 3198 Something Changed 1 3267 Seconds 2 3276 Disco 2000 2 3655 Babies 2 4744 Pink Glove 3 4743 Do You Remember The First Time? 0 4772 This Is Hardcore 2 5591 Common People 5 641
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, that was a great clue photo. Common People wasn't on my ballot. I still like it after all these years, but I've just heard it too many times, and I think Pulp have plenty of songs that are just as good or better.
― !Alicia!, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Ironically - Seductive Barry and Ciao!, which I was manically pulling for, in with a bullet at ...59 and 58.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
"Ansaphone" and "Running the World" were top 50. That's pretty good.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh dammit, if I'd voted I MIGHT have been able to get "Seductive Barry" onto the countdown
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Alicia! I was feeling inspired :)
Bar Italia is one I definitely thought would place higher.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Great poll, thanks for running it!
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, Cheers Lex!!!
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, this was fun!
― !Alicia!, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah thanks for putting this together, the clues were a lot of fun.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for playing along! I had fun watching the guesses roll in!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Lex!
I've gone through plenty of love/hate/bored cycles with Common People, but I couldn't imagine not voting for it.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, November 1, 2011 3:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
Same minus the hate. I always always love it but do get bored of it sometimes. That said, if I'd chosen anything else as my #1 I would have been lying to myself and the world.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Gukbe otm upthread, the lyrics to CP thread woke me up to it again after years where it had felt played out & you know an event to be dreaded when heard in a room full of ppl liable to sing along. The 'who is this narrator anyway? What's he so angry abt?' questions made CP & other things breathe a bit - I think I'd once just enjoyed triumph-of-the-loser identification that he invites, but some of JC's best years' songwriting nods at the latent cockfarmer: spiteful, posturing, narcissistic, resentful – the way losers triumphant can be.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
& yes THANK YOU Lex. That really enlivened a couple of long, hopeless days at work.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sad now! I missed that Common People thread.
Here are just the #1s, for reference. I can see E's point about lying to yourself if it's not your #1 - that's definitely how I *found* Pulp, but it's not one I ever put on anymore. That said, I rarely change it if it does come on.
Rank Row Labels # 1 Sum of Score72 I Will Kill Again 1 4066 David's Last Summer 1 5155 Synchronize 1 6532 Death II 1 14329 Wickerman 1 16327 His 'n' Hers 1 17326 The Trees 1 17425 O.U. (Gone Gone) 1 18923 Dishes 1 19722 Like A Friend 1 21119 The Fear 1 22918 My Legendary Girlfriend 1 23315 I Spy 1 2478 Something Changed 1 3267 Seconds 2 3276 Disco 2000 2 3654 Pink Glove 3 4745 Babies 2 4742 This Is Hardcore 2 5591 Common People 5 641
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh. I don't know if there's been talk about this elsewhere, but seems sensible to ask here - anyone read Owen Hatherley's recent book on Pulp? Any good?
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
I really want to, but I haven't yet. I need to order that at some point.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
encarta, wow
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
That Common People Lyrics/Discussion Thread
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
I found Pulp pretty late to the game because it was either 1997 or 8 when I first heard them. A boy in my writing class took me to a brit pop night on the top floor of a a long since closed down rock club on St. Marks Pl. in NYC. It was very late and near closing when the DJ played "Do You Remember the First Time" and I pretty much thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. I pulled him close and yelled in his ear over the music "Who is this?! I LOVE it!". I still remember exactly how awesome and happy I felt dancing to that song in that moment. The next day I went out and bought everything I could find.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
I got into them around that time a well, in 1998 when I saw the video for "This is Hardcore" on 120 Minutes. Around that time my parents had divorced and my father bought a mustang convertible and got a 26 year old girlfriend and I was all "lol Help the Aged" so I got him the album for Christmas.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
Then I got Different Class and to my teenage brain that was some sexy shit
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
haha.. reading that CP thread now. Kinda happy I missed it the first time it seems! (I grew up poor; I would surely have ended up butting heads against KDT)
My Pulp story is that my whole class adored Common People when it came out, and I was all "pfft, I hate popular music." Then the hype faded and I heard Disco 2000 and thought wait, maybe these guys are for me. So I got Different Class and the next thing I was able to find was the DYRTFT? single (with Street Lights, the Babysitter). God, the pre-mp3s days in Canada were so dismal - I must've spent $20 on those three songs alone. I scoured Toronto and eventually got everything except It - still don't have it! But I did find mp3s or something along the way. Then one day Ned sent me a CD-R of live songs and rarities and whatnot, and made my life!!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link