#249

Unrelated, but every time I open one of these new threads I get a wee burst of happiness seeing R.E.M. so high up the scoreboard :smiley:

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#250

Oh blimey er: Pink Glove and This is Hardcore?

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#251

Tomorrow’s best single poll is gonna be a fucking bastard btw…

#252

are Sparks on the list?
and Smokey Robinson and Pavement pls

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#253

Sparks and Pavement already are, Smokey is now.

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#254

gonna listen to all 3 in preparation

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#255

Sparks and Smokey are a 5, Pavement a 3 or 4.

#256

All just a bit worthy in a bit of a clumsy, generic kind of way innit. It’s the Derek of their back catalogue.

#257

You are all crazy

#258

Very much in keeping with the way labels work, though. When a band does something different with an album, leading with the track that’s most like the old days isn’t unusual.

It was a long leader too. This Is Hardcore came out three weeks ahead of the album and I think did set the tone for what we’d get much more strongly.

#259

‘Help The Aged’ was released way in advance of the album and the next single, ‘This is Hardcore’, was released just a few weeks before the album. ‘This is Hardcore’ (as great as it is) is a really perverse single choice.

#260

Always thought I’m a Man would have been a good single but the band apparently grew to hate it very quickly.

#261

I listened outside, I heard you…ALRIGHT

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#262

I liked A Little Soul a lot at the time - but now it sounds a bit too adult contemporary

#263

Not surprised TBH, it’s probably my least favourite song on the album

#264

This is my favourite Pulp song on balance.

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#265

One of my favourite Pulp songs - something a bit different

#266

Common People was released 25 years ago today

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#267

aw i missed this at the time. don’t like any of their pre-90s stuff and never really listened to We Love Life but the 90s stuff is all gold and they are superb live.

Babies is my fave song of theirs, then Underwear - chills every time, the Glasto 95 performance is so good. spent most of early 2011 crying and listening to Lipgloss (and Caramel by Blur). halcyon dayz

also around that time The Guardian got fans to write reviews of their favourite albums by given artists, and my review of His ‘n’ Hers got chosen and some waste of jism complained in the comments that I clearly didn’t know the album at all because the vinyl version didn’t include Babies… i was born in 1992, ‘vinyl’ has never existed for me. grow up dinosaur

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#268

That’s really quite the Internet comment specimen FFS!