Quote Of The Day – PULP Frontman JARVIS COCKER Looking Back At BRITPOP
Pulp ringmaster about Britpop…
Pulp
20 Candles For THE HIVES – PULP – APHEX TWIN
22 October 2021
Band: THE HIVES (Sweden)
Album: YOUR NEW FAVOURITE BAND – 3rd LP
Actually a compilation of tracks of their first 2 CD’s
to get them going in the UK and the US
Released: 22 October 2001 – 20 years ago today
Stream link…
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THE HIVES: All Albums
Band: PULP (Sheffield UK)
Album: WE LOVE LIFE
Their 7th and final album, a ‘not commerce
orientated one‘ but much loved by the critics.
Released: 22 October 2001 – 20 years ago today
Stream link…
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PULP: All Albums
Artist: APHEX TWIN
The musical moniker of British
electronic wizard Richard David James
Album: DRUKQS – 5th LP
Released: 22 October 2001 – 20 years ago today
Stream link…
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APHEX TWIN: All Albums
Classic PULP Pop Album ‘DIFFERENT CLASS’ Released 25 Years Ago
31 October 2020
Band: PULP (Sheffield)
Album: DIFFERENT CLASS – 5th LP
Released: 30 October 1995 – 25 years ago
Score: #1 in the UK
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.” Full review here. Score: 9/10.
Turn Up The Volume: Perfect pulp pop for common people like you and me.
Key singles: Common People / Disco 2000
– COMMON PEOPLE –
– DISCO 2000 –
Full album…
PULP: All Albums
Double A-Side Single ‘MIS-SHAPES / SORTED FOR E’S AND WIZZ’ By PULP Came Out 25 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past…
25 September 2020
Band: Pulp (Sheffield)
Active: 1978–2002, 2011–2013
Single: Double-A with Mis-Shapes and Sorted E’s And Wizz
Note 1: “Sorted for E’s and wizz’ is a phrase a girl that I met in Sheffield once told me”
said frontman/songwriter Jarvis Cocker about the inspiration for that song.
Note 2: The pre-release single had an inlay which a British tabloid/gutter journalist
of the Daily Mirror called Thornton alleged showed how to make an origami ‘wrap’ or
parcel with the intention of “offering teenage fans a DIY guide on hiding illegal drugs”.
Released: 25 September 1995 – 25 years ago today
Score: #2 in the UK and Scotland and #6 in Ireland
Album: Different Class
– MIS-SHAPES –
– SORTED FOR E’S AND WIZZ –
PULP: Facebook
Quote Of The Day – JARVIS COCKER
Ex-Pulp’s leader JARVIS COCKER…
One Festival Track A Day Turns Summer Into Holiday – PULP At Reading 2011
‘Common People’ by PULP
The Jarvis Cocker squad’s biggest hit, released
25 years ago on 22 May 1995. Peaked at #2 in the
UK and Scotland. Here a delirious rendition for an
enraptured crowd at Reading Festival in 2011…
PULP: Facebook
Ten Epic Live Performances I Never Ever Get Tired Of…
Hands up if you like these ten stunning tracks as much as I do. Ten standout performances that send shivers down my spine, ten goosebumps crackers I can listen to any moment of the day, ten stunners I heard for about 1 million times, and will countless times again in the future.
Here’s why…
1. Dead & Gone’ by TOY (UK)
Smashing psychedelia with a mind-blowing finale…
2. ‘I Am Mark E Smith by FAT WHITE FAMILY (UK)
One of the best live bands of the past 10 years…
3. ‘Chlorine’ by THE DISTRICTS (Philadelphia, PA)
Overwhelming passion, towering intensity…
4. ‘Despair’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS (US)
Gorgeous pop queen Karen O at her very best…
5. ‘Baby I Call Hell’ by DEAP VALLY (California, US)
Kick-ass blues rock frenzy by two utterly cool ladies…
6. ‘Common People‘ by PULP (UK)
Jarvis Cocker‘s orgiastic performance leads to spectacular euphoria…
7. ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony by THE VERVE (UK)
Fist-pumping anthem…
8. ‘Laid’ by James (UK)
No festivals this year, but this is my ecstatic alternative…
9. ‘Fried My Little Brains’ by THE KILLS (UK/US)
I’m in love with Alison Mosshart, she does my brains in…
10. ‘Rocks’ by PRIMAL SCREAM (Scotland)
The steamy ripper The Rolling Stones never wrote…
Mournful Ballad ‘A LITTLE SOUL’ by PULP – Released In 1998…
19 January 2020
Band: Pulp
Song: A Little Soul
B-sides: Cocaine Socialism and Like A Friend
Released: 8 June 1998
Album: This Is Hardcore – the band’s sixth LP
Score: The single reached #22 on the UK chart
Here’s the original clip…
PULP: Bio
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…
PULP Released Fourth Album ‘HIS ‘N’ HERS’ 25 Years Ago…
18 April 2019
Today 25 years ago, on 18 April 1994 stylish popsters PULP from Sheffield released their 4th LP called HIS ‘N’ HERS. The album put the band and its lively frontman and sharply observing songwriter Jarvis Cocker on the ‘we are famous‘ map. It peaked at #9 in the UK albums chart.
BBC Music wrote: “Pulp’s breakthrough album some 16 years into their existence. It finally gave them a taste of success as well as introducing Jarvis Cocker to the general public, just as Britpop – Parklife was released the week after, and Oasis were readying their second single – came along as a then-refreshing shot-in the-arm.”
Turn Up The Volume‘s favorite tracks…
– BABIES –
– DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME? –
– HAVE YOU SEEN HER LATELY? –
(Live rendition – Glastonbury 1994)
PULP: Facebook – All Albums
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