Favourite Pulp Album

[editor]

It's taken me 14 years to cast my vote in this poll!

 

[Humberto]

fucker can't even sing.

 

[Saul Goodman]

fucker can't even sing.

He's certainly no worse a singer than Bob Dylan, and did write a few decent songs, but given that he was the son of a Tory councillor, and was afforded a nice grammar school education, followed by a stint at St. Martin's college, singing about privilege does seem a tad hypocritical.

 

[Humberto]

 

[Saul Goodman]

Excellent songwriter. Shit singer. Proper cunt!

 

[Humberto]

well I like that song.

 

[Humberto]

tbf he is a shit singer

 

[Saul Goodman]

tbf he is a shit singer

I've heard worse... But I'd be more worried about Jarvis' credentials as a common person.

 

[belboid]

He's certainly no worse a singer than Bob Dylan, and did write a few decent songs, but given that he was the son of a Tory councillor, and was afforded a nice grammar school education, followed by a stint at St. Martin's college, singing about privilege does seem a tad hypocritical.

Single parent family and a former grammar school. But why let facts start bothering you now?

 

[killer b]

Isn't... isn't the song actually about being at St Martins College? And are working class single mothers not allowed to be tories now?

 

[Red Cat]

I recently came across this video, Pulp at Reading '94, singing (possibly for the first time) their mega-hit Common People. It's a rough and unfinished song, and a very enjoyable performance, and really weird because no-one is singing along with it.

That was great thanks killer b

 

[SpookyFrank]

It's taken me 14 years to cast my vote in this poll!

Me too. Also I thought His n Hers was their first album

The correct answer though, is 'We Love Life'. A glorious record that I've been coming back to time and time again. And still I only just spotted Jarvis' whispered refrain of 'nougat, nougat' on 'Wickerman'.

 

[killer b]

That was great thanks killer b

Worth comparing the crowd reaction with this performance of the same song at Glastonbury 1995, some 10 months later

 

[killer b]

(I prefer the 94 version fwiw - it has a motorik/velvet undergroundy edge missing from the final song)

 

[Elpenor]

Guardian top 20 songs

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Criminally Feeling Called Love is not in there