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

Here's the full list!

Rank Row Labels # 1 Votes Sum of Score
115 I Never Said I Was Deep 0 11
114 Grandfather's Nursery 0 11
113 Don't You Want Me Anymore? 0 11
112 Angela 0 11
111 Weeds II 0 12
110 Further Complications 0 12
109 Blue Glow 0 12
108 Aborigine 0 12
107 We Can Dance Again 0 13
106 Being Followed Home 0 13
105 Fairground 0 15
104 Heavy Weather 0 16
103 Billy Jack 0 16
102 Two Little Boys 0 17
101 Last Day of the Miners' Strike 0 18
100 97 Lovers 0 18
99 You're In My Eyes (Discosong) 0 20
98 We Are the Boyz 0 20
97 tv movie 0 20
96 Last Man in Space 0 20
95 Fuckingsong 0 20
94 We Love Life 0 21
93 They Suffocate At Night 0 21
92 The 1st Man In Space 0 21
91 Morning Dew (cover) 0 22
90 PTA 0 23
89 Maureen 0 24
88 Don't You Know 0 24
87 Deep Fried in Kelvin 0 24
86 You're A Nightmare 0 25
85 Separations 0 25
84 Someone Like The Moon 0 27
83 Birds in Your Garden 0 29
82 Everybody's Problem 0 30
81 The Birds in Your Garden 0 31
80 Roadkill 0 31
79 My Lighthouse 0 33
78 Cocaine Socialism 0 35
77 The Facts Of Life (The Chocolate Layers Remix) 0 36
76 I Love Life 0 36
75 Happy Endings 0 38
74 The Babysitter 0 39
73 Love Love 0 40
72 I Will Kill Again 1 40
71 Death Goes to the Disco 0 42
70 Sylvia 0 45
69 I'm A Man 0 46
68 First Man in Space 0 48
67 Dogs are Everywhere 0 50
66 David's Last Summer 1 51
65 Street Lites 0 52
64 Stacks 0 52
63 She's Dead 0 52
62 Big Julie 0 54
61 The Day After The Revolution 0 55
60 Wishful Thinking 0 56
59 Seductive Barry 0 58
58 Ciao! 0 59
57 Walk like a Panther 0 62
56 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis 0 63
55 Synchronize 1 65
54 Have You Seen Her Lately? 0 67
53 Sliding Through Life On Charm 0 72
52 Monday Morning 0 74
51 Weeds 0 76
50 Love is Blind 0 77
49 Ansaphone 0 77
48 Styloroc (Nights of Suburbia) 0 85
47 Little Girl (with Blue Eyes) 0 88
46 Bar Italia 0 88
45 Running the World 0 91
44 I Want You 0 91
43 Pencil Skirt 0 96
42 Party Hard 0 96
41 Live Bed Show 0 96
40 Don't Let Him Waste Your Time 0 97
39 Glory Days 0 101
38 Inside Susan 0 107
37 Mile End 0 114
36 Blue Girls 0 116
35 The Night that Minnie Temperley Died 0 124
34 Countdown 0 124
33 Joyriders 0 138
32 Death II 1 143
31 Bad Cover Version 0 150
30 Sunrise 0 161
29 Wickerman 1 163
28 Sheffield: Sex City 0 166
27 His 'n' Hers 1 173
26 The Trees 1 174
25 O.U. (Gone Gone) 1 189
24 Your Sister's Clothes 0 196
23 Dishes 1 197
22 Like A Friend 1 211
21 She's A Lady 0 222
20 Sorted for E's & Wizz 0 225
19 The Fear 1 229
18 My Legendary Girlfriend 1 233
17 A Little Soul 0 241
16 Mis-Shapes 0 242
15 I Spy 1 247
14 Acrylic Afternoons 0 257
13 F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. 0 264
12 Help The Aged 0 279
11 Underwear 0 296
10 Lipgloss 0 309
9 Razzmatazz 0 319
8 Something Changed 1 326
7 Seconds 2 327
6 Disco 2000 2 365
5 Babies 2 474
4 Pink Glove 3 474
3 Do You Remember The First Time? 0 477
2 This Is Hardcore 2 559
1 Common People 5 641

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.

Ironically - Seductive Barry and Ciao!, which I was manically pulling for, in with a bullet at ...59 and 58.

"Ansaphone" and "Running the World" were top 50. That's pretty good.

oh dammit, if I'd voted I MIGHT have been able to get "Seductive Barry" onto the countdown

Thanks Alicia! I was feeling inspired :)

Bar Italia is one I definitely thought would place higher.

Great poll, thanks for running it!

Yes, Cheers Lex!!!

Yeah, this was fun!

Yeah thanks for putting this together, the clues were a lot of fun.

Thanks for playing along! I had fun watching the guesses roll in!

Thanks Lex!

I've gone through plenty of love/hate/bored cycles with Common People, but I couldn't imagine not voting for it.

I've gone through plenty of love/hate/bored cycles with Common People, but I couldn't imagine not voting for it.

― 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.

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.

& yes THANK YOU Lex. That really enlivened a couple of long, hopeless days at work.

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 Score
72 I Will Kill Again 1 40
66 David's Last Summer 1 51
55 Synchronize 1 65
32 Death II 1 143
29 Wickerman 1 163
27 His 'n' Hers 1 173
26 The Trees 1 174
25 O.U. (Gone Gone) 1 189
23 Dishes 1 197
22 Like A Friend 1 211
19 The Fear 1 229
18 My Legendary Girlfriend 1 233
15 I Spy 1 247
8 Something Changed 1 326
7 Seconds 2 327
6 Disco 2000 2 365
4 Pink Glove 3 474
5 Babies 2 474
2 This Is Hardcore 2 559
1 Common People 5 641

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?

I really want to, but I haven't yet. I need to order that at some point.

encarta, wow

That Common People Lyrics/Discussion Thread

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.

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.

Then I got Different Class and to my teenage brain that was some sexy shit

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!!

(Class was not a pun - it was my grade eight class!)

A whole class full of kids liked "Common People" in Canada? You guys had it all sorted out there. I was scowering malls for import singles in Alabama.

Well, we were Gifted.. so we were the Mis-Shapes of the school. I remember we used to bring a TV into our classroom during lunches and watch music videos that people had taped off of Much Music, and that was a big hit.

Yeah, "hate" is too strong a word, I never hated CP but I bored of it to the point that I started resenting it (as silly as this may sound) for getting all the attention when it was only the 7th or 8th best song on DC. I still prefer "Disco 2000" or "Something Changed" on most days but CP is the essence of DC and I realized I'd be kidding myself if I tried to argue that they wrote any more than a small handful of better songs.

"Babies" would have been my #1 if I'd voted, now wish I had!

I was one of the two who put "Seconds" at #1. I first heard and liked "Do You Remember The First Time?" when I saw the video, about a year later "Common People" was everywhere and a girl I knew lent me a taped copy of it at a party where I got drunk for the first time, rode an inflatable whale down a flight of stairs and jumped in a pool fully clothed and had my first kiss to boot. Took the tape home, realised that 10 of the other 11 songs were JUST AS GOOD (Never liked "Pencil Skirt" as much as the others though), gave it back, and was fortunate enough to grab a copy of "Different Class" with the Second Class B-sides CD.

"Seconds" was the one that completely slayed me and told me to buy all their records.

Nice work Lex!

I guess "Babies" was my "Common People" then. The former was the first Pulp track I ever knowingly heard (it, and then "Do You Remember..." were their first tracks to get major airplay here) and I'd be lying to myself if I'd not voted it #1.

Pleased to see that the only other track I could have honestly put at #1, "Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)", was not all that far out of contention.

Nice poll with unpredictable results. Thanks Lex.

"Mis-Shapes" seems really shockingly low to me!

i mean fun poll, obv, thank you for doing it -- that's just the first thing i thought looking at the final lineup

Meaning you thought it would do better, right? Me too

I had a lot of fun bringing a little "Seductive Barry" boosterism to the results!

it was in my top 10!

x-post - My ballot is on my work computer but I'm nearly certain it was in mine too.

Lex, thanks so much for doing this in such an enthused way. I was smiling all the way to number 1, thanks a lot! :)

This may be true of others as well, but I noticed that E's ballot had all top five songs in the top five-she just switched around the order of do you remember the first time and babies IIRC. Nicely done!!

And you are almost definitely welcome. I had so much fun doing this!

*all most not almost lol

lol

I said I knew my choices were obvious!

A little shocked this placed so high tbh!
12 - HELP THE AGED - 14 votes, 270 points

It was the first "new" single after they blew up, probably made a big impact on ppl that way

Last Man in Space 0 20
The 1st Man In Space 0 21
First Man in Space 0 48

by my count this puts 1st Man In Space at #49?

Shit - I went over it several times! My apologies. :(

Heh, I can't believe I didn't catch at least one of those - a few other songs, especially F.C.L., had a ton of variations.

This poll was great fun! I noticed a couple more duplicates-

-We Love Life @ #94
-I Love Life @ #76

-The Birds in... @ #81
-Birds in... @ 83

it's weird to think of "Pencil Skirt" and "Monday Morning" missing the top 40, those are totally key Different Class songs imo

I thought "Weeds" would place higher than #51. But I was pleasantly surprised by how high "This is Hardcore", "Pink Glove", "Underwear", and "Something Changed" placed. The highest ranked song that I don't really like is "Do You Remember the First Time?" at #3. The person who introduced me to Pulp loves that song, but somehow it never quite clicked with me.

the past couple weeks listening to a lot of pulp "first time" kept coming up and sounding really amazing. i put it at #7 but it easily could've been much higher.