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

Dud. Interesting frontman, but horrible, characterless band.

The music is just polite aural wallpaper that performs its only requisite function of not upstaging the singer.

It reminds me of John Shuttleworth, but without the daring improvisational bits.

Pulp are my favorite band right now, as of last night, when I spent hours watching live performances (including *the* Glastonbury performance of "Common People") on YouTube. Holy shit-awesome.

Well yeah, because wasps will just sting you for no reason at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BZnuBZhvr0

Precisely!

probably my favourite song of the 90s. and its a bside:

utter classic.

i even like the first mini album It. sounds like Belle & Sebastian's Tigermilk, and it came out before The Smiths had released anything. even Freaks has its good points.

check out that chord progression/build. up and up and up into epicness. sordid but beautiful. proper desperation and stuff. where the fuck are the british bands making songs like this nowadays?

Jarvis Cocker: 'Pulp could reunite for Glastonbury 2010'

http://www.nme.com/news/pulp/48056

Jarvis Cocker: 'Pulp have no plans to get back together'

http://www.nme.com/news/pulp/48079

I am putting away money just in case.

I don't care if anyone thinks they are a good live band or not. I really, really regret not finding out for myself when I was younger.

I hope they play somewhere else though.

classic, different class is a great album

damn, not that i was planning on going or anything but it still was pretty cool news.

i saw Pulp twice and it was an amazing show both times.

94 and 96 LA? With ya there.

i saw the Blur/Pulp thing in Los Angeles in what must have been 1994. I saw them again in San Francisco, when i lived there, in 1996.

I really, really wanted to go when they toured America behind Different Class but I was only 15 and I probably just wasn't able to arrange it. I wish I had at least gotten the poster from the record store. I still think about it.

Jarvis Cocker has sparked rumours of a Pulp reunion, saying he'll "think about it a little bit more".

Although Jarvis dismissed rumours Pulp would be performing at next year's Glastonbury Festival, he admitted the furore surrounding these allegations caught his imagination.

He told this week's NME: "I suppose it made me think a little bit - the fact that people did seem interested, that made me think about it a little bit more."

only interested if russell senior is involved

So how about we start rumors about The Smiths headlining and get all rabid so Moz sits up and takes notice?

Also we can all wish for a billion, zillion dollars each.

So, they're reforming?

jarvo said on aus telly a week or so ago that they weren't..

i was surprised at how vitriolic russell was about jarvis's 'pop star' era in a recent interview for a MOJO special. he left because he got sick of all the attention he was getting but reading jarvis's interviews circa the late 90s you'd never have guessed there was any animosity between them. it's true it was never the same when he left, no matter how good some of the tunes were.

http://i50.tinypic.com/2lw9i7m.jpg

lol?

Spanish new romantic disco act Meccano: http://sheckley.tripod.com/Radcliffe/pulpblackmail.mp3
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:43 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

Holy shit, that Meccano song DOES sound a lot like "Common People"!!!!

They have reformed and will play at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona in May 2011.

Also Hyde Park in London in July.

Oh that's nice.

Will he have a shave?

so happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sln6sKCXdg

my rule: it's not a reformation unless there's FRESH MATERIAL

So, it's a 'reunion' at this point, right?

the line-up: Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Webber

so it doesn't have the most important person

also candida doyle has recovered from her illness? that is nice

so it doesn't have the most important person

which would be who?

oops for some reason i forgot that mark webber was called mark webber, blame the F1 driver

but wait, he didn't play on his'n'hers

my whole world is scrambled

http://ohmars.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/statler-and-waldorf-zzzzz.jpg

^^^^^^^^^^^^L to R: The Lex, Wheal Dream

I never saw them first time around but I would see them if they came to my town. I hope this reunion lasts.

Richard Hawley wasn't a member until after "Hardcore", was he?

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http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/images/mirror.jpg

#based front page

I rather like this cryptic website they've set up.

http://pulppeople.com/faq.php

Metro this morning said they haven't played for 15 years. Which is odd, cos I could've sworn I saw them a couple of times around 99-01

This line-up has not played for 15 years.

Who else left apart from Russell Senior, who isn't even listed as being in the reformed band in Metro?

Dunno but they're wrong, he is in this reunion.

See, I was right, Metro IS wrong.

There's no way they won't headline Glastonbury next year, right?

first gig for 9 years tonight in Toulouse apparently. funny place for a comeback. chatter about the gig, setlist etc here:
http://baritalia.activeboard.com/t43039550/spoiler-2505-setlist-in-le-bikini-toulouse/

That setlist is surprisingly narrow in it's scope. What, 95% His'n'Hers and Different Class?

So like.. 100% what people want to hear? I kid, I kid. I can't believe Manon didn't make it either.