Classic PULP Pop Album ‘DIFFERENT CLASS’ Released 30 Years Ago Today

Significant longplayers from yesteryear

30 October 2025

Sheffield‘s pop heroes PULP, fronted by voice/face/songwriter Jarvis Cocker,
who made a comeback this year with More, their first album in 24 years, scored
their biggest LP hit 30 years ago today, on 30 October 1995, with their 5th one
Different Class.

It came out at the height of Britpop.
It topped the UK Charts and won
the prestigious Mercury Prize.

Pitchfork wrote: “On 1995’s Different Class, Pulp and Jarvis Cocker
were arty outsiders worming their way into the lives of ordinary folk,
and they became pop in its most democratically widespread sense
.”

TUTV: Perfect pulp pop for common people like you and me.

SINGLES

ALBUM

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PULP Released Their Epic Anthem ‘COMMON PEOPLE’ 30 Years Ago Today

Daily electricity to load your batteries

22 May 2025

Although PULP were around for some years, actually since 1983,
before Britpop happened the English press presented them as one
of the inventors of it.

They released their triumphant 5th LP Different Class in 1995. It featured their
biggest hit (so far). COMMON PEOPLE is a 24-Carat gold masterstroke. It came
out today 30 years ago, on 22 May 1995. It peaked at #2 in the UK.

LIVE – Glastonbury – 1998

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One Live Shot A Day Turns Summer Into A Holiday – Today: Warming Up For The 2023 PULP Reunion

 

90s Britpop heroes PULP‘s main man and voice Jarvis Cocker just revealed
that the band will get together again (1st reunion was in 2010) to invade
podiums in 2023. Details to follow.

To get us in the mood here’s a 1998 version of their
timeless cracker COMMON PEOPLE (like you)
at Glastonbury Festival in 1998.

EuphoricTastic!

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FIVE INFLAMMABLE SUMMER BANGERS – Part 2…

Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer

Let us focus this week on some ace live firework to turn up the heat

1. ‘Rocks’ by PRIMAL SCREAM
(Glastonbury Festival, UK 2013)

2. ‘Going Up The Country’ by KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS
(Sydney, Australia, 2012)

3. ‘Common People’ by PULP
(Glastonbury Festival, UK 1998)

4. ‘Laid’ by JAMES
(Isle of Wight Festival, UK – 2015)

5. ‘Hot Stuff’ by MILES KANE
(TRNSMT Festival Scotland, 2018)

See/hear you next week, music junkies