#41

5/5. Was obsessed with Different Class for a long time after growing up on an estate and ending up in university and feeling massively out of place.

Still love This Is Hardcore and His ‘N’ Hers and We Love Life is great as well. Excellent b-sides band too. Regret never seeing them live because it’s probably too late now.

Got freaked out when I visited Sheffield first and found the place where he fell out of a window and broke his leg. Met him at Primavera a few years back along with Steve Mackey and could barely get a few words out. Love them.

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#42

Anybody who gives them a 1 or anything like that can FUCK OFF. :wink:

Also Dogs are Everywhere is great.

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#43

5/5 for me saw them do that set at Glastonbury in 2011 was right front and centre. One of the best sets I’ve ever seen at a festival.

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#44

had to mark them down for being from Sheffield. So a 2 from me.

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#45

I love Pulp.

Jarvis has the best name and speaking voice in music.

Somehow manages to come across as charismatic but not pretentious, don’t know how he does it.

Common People is my favourite song of the 90s.

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#46

also the bright and disposable production of 90s britpop stuff that has badly dated other bands actually works with their trashy and awkward aesthetic so they amange to come out of a terrible era unscathed

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#47

If anyone wants to share a playlist or just list of essential ‘deep cuts’ that would be ace.

I grew up in Sheffield and I do think it is really impressive how they capture the city - the use of language particularly and how they manage to combine that working class perspective with an outsider rejected by a lot of that working class culture as well. But there is something uniquely Sheffield not simply Northern or working class that is hard to explain.

Having said that a band I always wanted to like more than I actually did. I did love His ‘N’ Hers at the time along with a bunch of classic songs like Babies but I never really felt like listening to albums all the way through very often; like the buzz of the high points was a little too distracting from the whole.

Should be 3 from me but I’ll probably go 4 based on the chat and hopefully a bit of a (re)discovery.

#48

also nice to find somebody who struggled to get success for ages, a good inspiration

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#49

5/5.

Always felt out of step with the britpop scene that made them successful. Took then a while to get going but they have some indie pop classics in their canon.

Jarvis obviously the coolest and most charismatic British frontman of the 1990s too.

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#50

We Love Life is properly underrated too. This is beautiful:

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#51

Wickerman from that album really grew on me recently when I payed attention to the lyrics, it’s a great little story

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#52

not into them but seem gbol 5/5

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#53

also one of those bands you just can’t cover really

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#55

exactly!

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#56

hope Pulp beat Queen

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#57

If they don’t them I’m off.

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#58

Think I’ve got confused at some point in these threads and convinced myself you are a big Queen fan.

#59

Please lord let them beat Queen.

#60

Bloody hell.

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