― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
in his greatest kitchen sink operettes the lyrics are witty, esoteric, original and utterly effortless. "common people" on the other hand is IMO hackneyed, patronising, tryhard, and contrived. yes, i understand it is the protagonist in the story who is mainly the source of the patronising take on the working classes, yet this is exaggerated (and repeated endlessly) becoming increasingly divorced from the ultra-realistic stylings of jarv's best work. it is caricature to an extent where it ceases to be believable; and as a working class boy who went to a posh university i know these people exist, it's just a bit more subtle, insidious, and well...real.
to me CP always smelt of jarv knowingly creating something which would cause a bit of a rumpus and become a hit. in this regard he spectacularly succeeded so fair play to him but i think he is even on record himself as saying it is not among his favourite pulp tracks. the tune is average too, even asuming he didn't rip it off (which frankly i dont care about anyway).
anyhow, thought i'd let it all pour out. i love jarv, i love pulp, but i hate common people.
ok. go on then. do your worst....
― edger stewert (edger), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything (everything), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.bobgeldof.info/pictures/deepinthehearcover.jpg
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
-- My Little Ruud Book (louder...), August 29th, 2006.
Dom = bizarro-Aunt Agatha
-- Obvious Ninja (papiermachealamphibia...), August 29th, 2006.
my finest hour
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
'Separations' is actually a really solid album! Just giving it another listen tonight, after it having done nothing for me in the past, and, this sounds really good to me now!
― andi, Saturday, 18 August 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
every time i listen to "separations" i go WOAH THIS IS ACE ... and then after three songs i kinda switch off and forget what it sounds like.
actually, the same is true of the jarvis solo album. hmm.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 18 August 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd still like to know more about this "Common People was nicked from a dodgy Spanish disco record" theory.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 18 August 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I coincidentally just bought "This is Hardcore" yesterday and after one listen I really like it a lot. So as of now "We Love Life" > "This is Hardcore" > "Different Class"
― Stevie D, Saturday, 18 August 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
babies, lipgloss and this is hardcore makes pulp classic. used to like suede more, but the songwriting of jarvis cockers is miles better than gasoline kisses on concrete london skies.
― pft, Saturday, 18 August 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 18 August 2007 16:25 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
wow me too.
― pisces, Saturday, 18 August 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i always thought it was knicked off of lost in the supermarket by the Clash.
― Porkpie, Saturday, 18 August 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― PhilK, Saturday, 18 August 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― J, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Well yeah, because wasps will just sting you for no reason at all.
― MParadis, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BZnuBZhvr0
― MParadis, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Precisely!
― J, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 12 April 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 12 April 2009 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Jarvis Cocker: 'Pulp could reunite for Glastonbury 2010'
http://www.nme.com/news/pulp/48056
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Jarvis Cocker: 'Pulp have no plans to get back together'
http://www.nme.com/news/pulp/48079
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
classic, different class is a great album
― FACK, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
94 and 96 LA? With ya there.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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."
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."
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
only interested if russell senior is involved
― indie spare (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
So how about we start rumors about The Smiths headlining and get all rabid so Moz sits up and takes notice?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Also we can all wish for a billion, zillion dollars each.
So, they're reforming?
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
jarvo said on aus telly a week or so ago that they weren't..
― mr bollock apple (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i50.tinypic.com/2lw9i7m.jpg
lol?
― Cunga, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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"!!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
They have reformed and will play at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona in May 2011.
― margana (anagram), Monday, 8 November 2010 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Also Hyde Park in London in July.
― margana (anagram), Monday, 8 November 2010 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh that's nice.
Will he have a shave?
― Mark G, Monday, 8 November 2010 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
so happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sln6sKCXdg
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Monday, 8 November 2010 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
my rule: it's not a reformation unless there's FRESH MATERIAL
― acoleuthic, Monday, 8 November 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
So, it's a 'reunion' at this point, right?
― Mark G, Monday, 8 November 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the line-up: Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Webber
― margana (anagram), Monday, 8 November 2010 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link