February 23, 201312 yr Author 2. Different Class (78 points) HIGHEST: Grebo (11) LOWEST: Various (default 5) http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/57996387/Different%20Class%20High%20Quality%20PNG.png Personal opinion: Shocker! I was expecting this to win being their best seller (1 million+). This really was one of 'the' albums of the 90s and the encapsulates best time of my life. I remember going to town with my best mate to get it on the day of release in October 95 (at the absolute peak of Britpop), going back to his house and listening to it together and looking through the clever little pictures that let you choose your own front cover for the CD. There are some of Pulps best known songs on this album (Common People, Disco 2000, Sorted For E's and Wizz, Mis-Shapes) plus the standout album tracks Underwear (Common People B Side), Pencil Skirt and I Spy. Pulp at their commercial peak. Wiki: It was released in 1995 at the height of Britpop, and led to the band being regarded as part of that movement. Two of the singles on the album – "Common People" (which reached number two in the UK singles chart) and "Disco 2000" (which reached number seven) – were especially notable, and helped propel Pulp to nationwide fame. A "deluxe edition" of Different Class was released on 11 September 2006. It contains a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities. The album was the winner of the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998 Q readers voted Different Class the 37th greatest album of all time; a repeat poll in 2006 put it at number 85. In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2004 it was voted number 70 of Channel 4's 100 greatest albums. In 2006, British Hit Singles & Albums and NME organised a poll of which, 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and Different Class was placed at #54 on the list. It has sold 1,255,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2011. The inspiration for the title came to frontman Jarvis Cocker in Smashing, a nightclub on Regent Street in London. Cocker had a friend who used the phrase "different class" to describe something that was "in a class of its own". Cocker liked the double meaning, with its allusions to the British social class system which was a theme of some of the songs on the album. A message on the back of the record also references this idea: "We don't want no trouble, we just want the right to be different. That's all." VwRfAceTJt4 Underwear
February 23, 201312 yr Author 1. His N Hers (79 points) HIGHEST: Jester, Gezza (11) LOWEST: Various (default 5) http://991.com/newGallery/Pulp-His-N-Hers-289089.jpg Personal opinion: Well, don't we have great taste :D This was the first Pulp album I bought after I became obsessed with Common People - I was pleasantly surprised to find I already knew and loved Babies and Do You Remember The First Time? but had no idea who they were by! This is their enduring classic imo and their absolute peak creatively. Highlights are the singles (Babies, Do You Remember... Lipgloss) plus wonderful albums tracks such as Davids Last Summer, Have You Seen Her Lately and Joyriders. HURRAH. Wiki: His 'n' Hers is the fourth studio album by Pulp and is commonly cited as the band's breakthrough album, reaching #9 in the UK charts. 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the 70th greatest album of all time. A "deluxe edition" of His 'n' Hers was released on 11 September 2006. It contained a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities. "Lipgloss", "Do You Remember the First Time", "Razzmatazz", and a new mix of "Babies" were released as singles, the latter as part of the "Sisters EP". The album closer, 'David's Last Summer', is notable as being one of Pulp's most narrative songs, delivered entirely in spoken word apart from the chorus despite being an uptempo track. It lost out to Elegant Slumming by M People in the 1994 Mercury Music Prize by, as presenter Mark Radcliffe put it in an edition of British rock show 'The White Room', "one measly vote". J5FDj2Bdci8 Have You Seen Her Lately
February 23, 201312 yr Oh! What a pleasant surprise. There's an album track on the #1 that I often regard as my favourite Pulp track, certainly their best single that never was. edit - and you don't even mention it as a highlight! :D
February 23, 201312 yr Author Oh! What a pleasant surprise. There's an album track on the #1 that I often regard as my favourite Pulp track, certainly their best single that never was. edit - and you don't even mention it as a highlight! :D Which one? :o
February 23, 201312 yr Pink Glove. I really love it, I just think it's ridiculously catchy and was a real nod to the album that followed it. Maybe it's just me?
February 23, 201312 yr Author Pink Glove. I really love it, I just think it's ridiculously catchy and was a real nod to the album that followed it. Maybe it's just me? You know, for years I disliked that song. Over the past couple of years it has grew on me. One of the better songs around about condoms for sure.
February 23, 201312 yr Huzzah! I'm VERY pleases HNH won- a far better album, on the whole, than Different Class (I'm glazing over "Something Like The Moon" and "David's Last Summer") and the sheer joy of "Pink Glove" and "Happy Endings"!
February 23, 201312 yr Author Huzzah! I'm VERY pleases HNH won- a far better album, on the whole, than Different Class (I'm glazing over "Something Like The Moon" and "David's Last Summer") and the sheer joy of "Pink Glove" and "Happy Endings"! Now I do love Happy Endings. A forgotten highlight! HUMBUG at you not liking Davids Last Summer though.
February 23, 201312 yr You know, for years I disliked that song. Over the past couple of years it has grew on me. One of the better songs around about condoms for sure. Oh no! It was an instant stand out for me as it just seemed so catchy and single worthy to me at the time. I don't even think about the subject to be honest (although it is admittedly obvious what it is about), it's the melody that sucks me in every time. In fact my other favourite album track is Acrylic Afternoons which again goes without a mention :( - although maybe it just shows how good the album is!
February 23, 201312 yr Now I do love Happy Endings. A forgotten highlight! HUMBUG at you not liking Davids Last Summer though. I'm contrary like that :lol: BUT the highlights more than make up for those two!
February 23, 201312 yr Author Oh no! It was an instant stand out for me as it just seemed so catchy and single worthy to me at the time. I don't even think about the subject to be honest (although it is admittedly obvious what it is about), it's the melody that sucks me in every time. One mans wheat is another mans chaff I guess. I am now quite fond of it really, but still consider it a bit of a duff (though there seem to be no fans of Someone Like The Moon so far!).
February 23, 201312 yr Over the past couple of years it has grew on me. One of the better songs around about condoms for sure. Hmm there's an idea- best selling songs about putting condoms on! :D
February 23, 201312 yr Author In fact my other favourite album track is Acrylic Afternoons which again goes without a mention :( - although maybe it just shows how good the album is! Now I do love Acrylic Afternoons, but was having trouble choosing highlights.
February 23, 201312 yr Author Hmm there's an idea- best selling songs about putting condoms on! :D Pink Glove beats 2 Become 1 for sure!
February 24, 201312 yr Author Just for the record I am sure I only gave This Is Hardcore a 7. Yes sorry you did. Added them up properly with your scores now!
February 24, 201312 yr Hmm there's an idea- best selling songs about putting condoms on! :D House of Fun by Madness. (Although I suppose that's song is more about the process of attempting to buy them, rather than the process of applying them).
February 24, 201312 yr Well, glad Intro came in fourth! It's one of my favourite albums by anyone ever, even though it's really just a compilation of three perfect singles - and, no matter how good the His 'n' Hers / Different Class era was, I don't think they ever reached that standard again. Really pleased that HNH topped the chart though. The singles vote could be interesting as I may have really sabotaged one of the big hits (but deservedly so in my opinion!)
February 24, 201312 yr Author The singles vote could be interesting as I may have really sabotaged one of the big hits (but deservedly so in my opinion!) I will be posting the singles results this evening after 7ish so we will see :D
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