Do You Remember The First Poll? - ILM Artist Poll #11 - PULP - Results Thread!

#39

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I'm not going to be very good at this!

This particular song was very hard to find an image for. I'll give it another minute or two..

that's right folks it's

#39 - GLORY DAYS - 5 votes, 101 points

"Glory Days" ?

XPOST DFAMMIT!

I had to leave Glory Days off but I sure do love it!

hah! Nice one, Mark G! We know you had it, in spirit.

I would have gone with this:

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Never mind, buzzer had already gone.

Were you trying to avoid Bruce pics? (I found a quite good one, but it was way too large)

XPOST ABLUMMINGAIN!

I had to leave Glory Days off but I sure do love it!

cosign. helluva song.

hahahaha! It did not even occur to me to use a Bruce pic. I should outsource to you guys!

but in the meantime, #38

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Inside Susan?

of course!

#38 - INSIDE SUSAN - 5 votes, 107 points

too low IMO

(please let me know if I am doing this too quickly!)

#37

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That's Mile End, innit?]

xpost, I guess.

otm on Inside Susan - my #6. higher than anything on Different Class for me. Love his monologues.

Sure is! Or so Wikipedia tells me - I've never been :(

xpost, I guess ;)

I used to go down there for Kebabs on a Fri Lunchtime for the office (we took it in turns, I wasn't the general dogsbod) so we'd eat in the office and then spend most of the afternoon in't pub. City job.

#37 - MILE END - 6 votes, 114 points

#36

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nothing?

I've got nothing for that tbh

"Do you remember the first time"

for some people, anyways...

hint: nothing to do with energy drinks

Mark G... what was your first time like? Please do go on.

Blue Girls?

It's somewhere on TMI, back when you could post unregistered (he lied)

No idea

Ooohh Alicia must have it!

Alicia did it! :D

#35

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"Blue Girls" by Pulp.

(One google later)

Sorry, I got excited because I like that image - details of #34 - BLUE GIRLS - 4 votes, 116 points

Jez, this low? 't Is my number #02!

Previous one should be Sorted for E Numbers and Fizz.

LBI: Too bad eh? All four people who voted had it in their top 10.

Yeah it's a shame! I'll take it on the chin though ;-) Such mesmerising heavenly song

As I post each song, snippets get stuck in my head and the operatic chorus of Blue Girls is so lovely.. will have to put the proper song on.

in case there is any confusion, still looking for #35:

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I love these picture clues. I feel like I'm exercising my brain. Disney Time for #35? (A very Halloween-appropriate picture.)

Minnie Timperley.

vg+

Alicia - no, I'm sorry :( Not a single vote for Disney Time..

Mark G's got it. :D

I knew that one!

I'm amazing myself here.

Underrated song imo. Well, I guess any good song on We Love Life feels underrated to me.

#35 - THE NIGHT THAT MINNIE TEMPERLEY DIED - 6 votes, 124 points

TIED WITH

#34

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As I say, I thought the whole of "We love life" is 1) Underrated 2) possibly the one album I played the most.

COUNTDOWN!

Oh, I completely forgot about Minnie Timperley! I can't remember if I voted for it, but I'm glad it made it. One of my favorite tracks from that album.

#34 - COUNTDOWN - 6 votes, 124 points (exact tie with Minnie Temperley!)

#33 will be up for a while as Lex goes to get some lunch

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1. Pink Glove
2. Disco 2000
3. Common People
4. Something Changed
5. Joyriders
6. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
7. Happy Endings
8. Sylvia
9. Lipgloss
10. I Spy
11. I Want You
12. This is Hardcore
13. Glory Days
14. The Birds in Your Garden
15. A Little Soul
16. Your Sister's Clothes
17. Dogs are Everywhere
18. She's a Lady
19. Weeds II
20. Sunrise

The album starts strong, peaks massively, hits a little turbulence at "TV Movie", and then by "Sylvia" I'm starting to feel filthy and nauseous. The last thing I need at that point is more songs. But "Glory Days" and "The Day After the Revolution" are so great (especially "Glory Days")! It just took me a while to realize it. Actually, now that I think of it, I like "TV Movie" too. That incongruous, tuneless whistle halfway through makes me lol every time, and I like the way he spits out, "Why pre-TTTEND any longer?" There's really no duds on this album, in my opinion. I guess the one I'm most likely to skip is "Seductive Barry".

I agree with nearly all of this ... when I finally got into "Glory Days" and "The Day After the Revolution", TIH went from being the "difficult follow-up to DC" to "maybe the best Pulp album?" for me. The weak links are "TV Movie" (although it works well as a sort-of intermission to the album), "Party Hard", and "Seductive Barry" (Pulp could never do epics and should have never recorded a song longer than seven minutes).

My #1, "My Legendary Girlfriend" is a sentimental favorite for me since it was the first Pulp song I heard, and Separations was the first album I bought - and only one I had for a long time. Pulp was never popular in the US (none of their singles charted here, and Hardcore was the only album that even made the top 200), so I had no idea until many years later that they'd become huge in their home country and elsewhere. I still wasn't aware "Common People" was their smash hit or signature song - I've never heard it on the radio.

I decided to make things easier on myself by considering only Pulp songs - no JC solo, collaborations, or guest appearances (although I would have loved to include "Fuckingsong"). I somehow forgot to include "...First Time" on my ballot, but am relieved to see that didn't affect its placement; indeed I would have probably put it at #3. My ballot:

1. My Legendary Girlfriend
2. The Fear
3. Blue Girls
4. Ansaphone
5. Babies
6. Separations
7. Acrylic Afternoons
8. Underwear
9. Morning Dew
10. O.U.
11. Love Love
12. This Is Hardcore
13. 97 Lovers
14. Live Bed Show
15. I Want You
16. Glory Days
17 .My Lighthouse
18. Being Followed Home
19. Weeds
20. Sunrise

- 11 songs that placed in the top 41
- 4 songs that nobody else voted for

I wish you had voted for Fuckingsong! I did. It probably still wouldn't have placed but at least I'd get to think about it twice. In fact, I think I'll put that on right now.. :)

That song pretty much sums up Jarvis's ethos for me

It's sort of the less-creepy PTA, no? Or at least - PTA might not have grossed me out as much if he wrote about it as if "it's just a fucking song." N.B. I'm fine being grossed out by him.

I never made that connection, but yes P.T.A. is creepy. FS is more like JC's message to groupies that IRL he can't live up to their image of him, so they're best off just listening to their favorite records since they'll always live up to your expectations. Or something like that....

That interpretation makes sense.. I had just thought of it as "the perfect girl" or somesuch with his allusions to how in real life he's late, messy, etc. Hey, the teenage girl inside me is satisfied! ;)

I just stumbled across http://www.jarviscocker.net/ which I had never visited before and am having great fun watching him eat an apple, read a book, etc in the header. Teehee!

The weak links are "TV Movie" (although it works well as a sort-of intermission to the album), "Party Hard", and "Seductive Barry" (Pulp could never do epics and should have never recorded a song longer than seven minutes).

i disagree with this so much! "Seductive Barry" and "You're In My Eyes (Discosong)" off the last Jarvis solo album were both on my ballot because i think he's GREAT at the 8-minute slow burn (and i probably wouldn't mind if the 6-minute slow burns like "F.E.E.L.I.N.G." and "This Is Hardcore" were a bit longer). those songs are really just masterful achievements in pacing and mood.

Told my husband to guess which song placed #1 and he guessed Song 2 ;_; He's more of a soul man. But still. Sob!

I also tried to seduce him with Fuckingsong and he laughed at me :P

Told my husband to guess which song placed #1 and he guessed Song 2

this is fantastic

Song 2 haha aww he's trying

awwww

PULP, PLUP, BLUR... hey it is almost an anagram if you add a few pen strokes....

To be fair, he knows I am (was) a massive Blur fan too.. so I guess he blanked a bit, since he doesn't post to ILX or anything. He gets partial points. :)

Has anyone ever noticed that Pulp always uses "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" as filler but Blur's always on the "La la la"? Not 100% of the time but I once told him that's an easy way to guess if I'm playing a Pulp or a Blur song, heh. And Song 2 does end with "Awwwww... yeah."

I always thought it ended with an S bomb

Maybe it does!

Just throwing this out there, but I'd be totally down with taking part in an ILM This is Hardcore tribute album, where we recast the songs into different genres (e.g. "The Fear" as a dance track, "Party Hard" as a country song, "This is Hardcore" as industrial, etc. etc.)

Aww, yeah you guys should do it. I've no musical ability whatsoever however.

That could be an asset, not a liability! You could do an a capella track, or a kazoo track, or a minimalist lo-fi casio track!

Listening to Pulp to prepare for the show, I've come across a few songs that should have ranked higher or at all:

Separations - I forgot about the actual song! "Let's Do It.."
the Mark of the Devil

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Oh the 80s!

I have decided: I have a new favorite Pulp albm.

I agree!

Yep: always thought so.