Pulp - Different Class
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Artist: PulpEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1996-02-27
Music Label: Island
Product features:
- PULP DIFFERENT CLASS
- Mis-shapes
- Pencil Skirt
- Common People
- I Spy
- Disco 2000
- Live Bed Show
- Something Changed
- Sorted For E's & Wizz
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
- Underwear
- Monday Morning
- Bar Italia
Music reviews of Different Class
Music Review: the best $10.34 i will spend this year
Rating: 5 Stars
i had recently read about Pulp and this album in particular from a retrospective "Britpop" magazine from NME(New Music Express)i had picked up a few months ago at Barnes & Noble. Me being a huge fan of the era's biggest bands(Oasis, Blur, The Verve etc.), the 1995 section featured a glowing review for this album which was given a perfect ten. I simply accepted it as a great album that i promised myself, i would get around to eventually.
Walking into my local CD shop last week, i managed to come across the first ever copy i had ever seen of this album, i just can't explain it, but it almost as if it was calling for me to buy it, so i just gave in right there and purchased the LP. What i heard when i first popped it in my CD player was absolute, sheer pop music brilliance and it was only a shame i haden't discovered Pulp sooner, but better late than never as the cliche goes.
Never had i heard such fantastic arrangements with elements of guitar rock, new wave and glam. Jarvis Cocker is an incredible talent both vocally with his smooth baritone croon as well as lyrically with his uncanny eye for human emotion and overall observation on life in general, which is usually void in pop music nowadays. With his almost nerdish look, second hand clothes and coke bottle glasses which is completely in stark contrast to the voice you're hearing on the album. No wonder the guy became such a huge star, just the mere fact that he interrupted Jacko's ego trip at the 96' Brit Awards should further cement his status as a legend.
Jarvis' lyrics are a mix of sexual menace and social standing while articulating them in extremely clever ways that have NEVER been explored in pop music like this since The Smiths. As the album goes along the listener gets a sense of what life is like for british suburbanites and working class alike with the glitzy, undeniably fun "Disco 2000" in which Jarvis recalls his first love who has now given birth and facing the hardships of getting old "lets all meet up in the year 2000, won't it be strange when were all fully grown" is one of the saddest lines i've ever heard in a pop song, lifting the riff from the 1982 Laura Branigan hit "Gloria", this song is just pure genius and had radio hit written all over it, to the rallying cry of "Common People" which is the story of a west end girl fed up with high society and simply begins posing as a hard done by east ender but ultimately will never understand about lives like theres because she will always have her wealth to fall back on. with a fantastic driving rhythm, genius lyrics and overall universal message, its a no brainer this one seems to be everyones favourite track.
while i find it to be an outstanding track, the song of the album for me has to be "Something Changed" with its beautiful string section and Cocker's beautiful croon, easily one of the albums best. However, the most personal for me has to be without a doubt, the satirical "Sorted for E's & Wizz", speaking as someone who went through an ecstasy addiction two years ago, i can completely identify with all of Jarvis' lyrics, the words just ring so true of what a user feels both during and after the drug has been taken. the line "at 4 o' clock, the normal world seems very far away" almost feels as if Jarvis is singing about me during my experience with the drug, also with the line "in the middle of the night it feels alright but then tomorrow morning, oh then you, oh then you come down" sung in a beautiful pitch by Jarvis, just sends chills up my spine.
Bottom line, i could go on and on about the brilliance of it, but all i can say is, go out and get it. Never you will hear such biting sarcasm and intelligent wit in a pop song. Combined with Jarvis' impeccible voice and the brilliant musicianship, Pulp hit a home run here, other standout tracks here include: Live Bed Show, Underwear, Monday Morning, Bar Italia. One of the best albums of the Britpop era along with, Definitely Maybe, Parklife, and Urban Hymns.
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