Pulp - Different Class
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Free Music Review: WE'LL USE THE ONE THING WE'VE GOT MORE OF...THAT'S OUR MINDS
Hit: 5 Stars
Different Class is an album that flows together well without any odd or misplaced tracks... its charm is hard to deny or resist, as unpredictable frontman Jarvis Cocker's ironic and original Britpop gets its hooks into you. Lyrics are cleverly quotable; vocals ooze sarcasm and seduction (sometimes whispering, sometimes soaring). Cocker sings in "Pencil Skirt", "I know that you're engaged to him, and I know you want something to play with, baby... (AH...) I'll be around when he's not in town, I'll show you how you're doing it wrong... I really love it when you tell me to stop...it's turnin'me on..." Very tempting with its abundant references to revelling in infidelity, "Watch my conscience disappear now baby..." In "I Spy" Cocker goes on to coo in his signature whisper, "You see, you should take me seriously, very seriously indeed, because I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks, smoking your cigarettes, drinking your brandy, messing up the bed that you chose together, and in all that time, I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly one afternoon, and catch us at it-in the front room..." Later in the song he adds, tongue-in-cheek, "My favourite parks are car parks, grass is something you smoke, birds are something you shag, so take your Year in Provence and shove it up you're a**e". The album, with its "Common People" hit for the masses and its rather interesting story of the history of a bed, and the teasing, sexy "Underwear" and its finalé "Bar Italia", is a triumph of Oscar Wilde-like, "I can resist everything but temptation."Free Music Review: Where Was I?
Hit: 5 Stars
How did I miss this CD for seven years until an internet radio station streamed "Common People" to me recently? On the strength of that song alone, this would be a four star CD even if everything else was along the lines of Freddy Fender singing the Best of Barbra. It's not of course, but let's begin with "Common People," one of those rare songs that in its lyrics, its music and the vocals of Jarvis Cocker recaptures the anger, revolt, sex and danger that rock promised back in the borning days of Elvis and Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran. Pulp may never again do a song as good as "Common People." Most bands labor for years and never come close. But it doesn't matter if Pulp does not approach the pinnacle of "Common People" a second time; what matters is once they did. Think of Different Class as an aural Gosford Park, stuffed full of sensuality and muted class conflict, told from the perspective of the "downstairs" class. Once you get beyond "Common People" (and that can take some doing -- on any number of occasions I've played it a dozen or more consecutive times), Mis-shapes (they've got everything, but we've got our minds), Disco 2000 (boy never gets girl), Something Changes (boy gets girl), Underwear (how DID you wind up naked with this person in this room), and Bar Italia (if we can only get home alive...) boost Different Class comfortably into five star status.
Bowie's here, Clash is here, Cure is here, but most of all Pulp -- funny, mad and brittle -- is here. This is a great CD. Nuff said.
Free Music Review: #1
Hit: 5 Stars
I had never heard Pulp before and was introduced to them by the song "Disco 2000" at a britpop dance club. I bought the album and have listened to it hundreds of times and since bought most of their albums. I have found that Pulp reaches deep inside me and Different Class reaches the furthest. It is clever & witty, sarcastic and humorous. I know everyone says it, but Jarvis Cocker is amazing. His voice I never get tired of, it is extremely passionate and soulful. I listen to this album more than any other and I never get tired of it. I find Mr. Cocker's voice is so embedded in my head now, listening to him is comforting and cozy. All the songs are so different and clever, I keep discovering new things in the lyrics and it becomes more brilliant everytime I hear it. I also like the pop, sometimes campy-keyboard music that serves as the backdrop for the lyrics. I have heard some people rip on the music, but I find it deliberately simple and quirky, perfect to showoff the lyrics.I hate to say, this album is not for everyone. I think truly great albums don't reach mainstream audiences and Different Class is a perfect example of this; many people won't understand this album. But personally, I think the album is brilliant, it is my absolute favorite album. This would be my first choice if stranded on a deserted island. I highly recommend it if you are considering it for your collection.
Free Music Review: Life Changing
Hit: 5 Stars
Life changing?
When I was 13 I had a rather bizarre, misplaced obsession with Oasis; I bought every publication that contained their mere name, including outrageously expensive import British music magazines which also conatined the name of the now ever-blessed Pulp. While I still have a fondness for Definately Maybe, Oasis is pretty much out of my system; ten years later, Pulp is not.
For me, Pulp's Different Class was Life Changing. Prior to Plup I had only listened to mainsteam, regular sound; this album was a smack to my head, a concussion really, a concussion from which I have never recovered. No album, not even albums' I like better, have had more influence over the way I have come to think about music, and, believe it or not, life. Pulp single-handedly widened my aural, lyrical, and analytical spectrums and made me a appreciate the many facets of serious music.
Most of you reading this review are neither thirteen nor impressionable. Pulp is a band that carries a great deal of personal meaning for me, and that will clearly not be the case for every listener. Pulp, however, is great, original music unto itself, and Different Class is a prime example of their uniformly superb albums.
Buy this album and you will laugh and mourn with Jarvis Cocker. And hey, you may ever change you life; amid the crazy Pop you will Cry.
Free Music Review: This is your life.....it doesn't get any better than this
Hit: 5 Stars
This really is a priceless work, this is. The 5 star rating is often thrown around a bit, but you really can't find any reason for it to not be justified in this case. There are many among my friends who do not usually agree with my choices when having gained control of the stereo system, but I've seen this one satisfy the likes of many phish-heads, candy-ravers, hip-hop junkies and other hyphenated stereotypes as well. Even the most impenatrable of music "experts" can scarcely resist the intoxicating intensity of the Jarvis Cocker croon. It gets inside you with that inexplicable power that every great singer seems to posess. On that note, one small word of warning. Music often provides a simple, satisfying means of escape. It is my personal experience that this is not the case with different class. The title alone makes it clear as to what a number of the songs on the album are in reference to. In that sense, the album is almost too good as I find the topic hitting frighteningly close to home. Yet it is also in music that we search for empathy, and for those times when you feel your the only one in the world who knows what it's like, there's nothing like a smooth sincere voice telling you you're not. For times like that you'll scarcely find a better example of money well spent.