Pulp - Different Class
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Free Music Review: An essential recording.
Hit: 5 Stars
Released 11 years ago, this was a hit in the UK. I didn't know that until last year.
I was looking for some music from the britpop era, (being a huge fan of Oasis, Blur, Coldplay, The Verve, etc) and a stumbled upon their greatest hits CD. I must say that the only track I really got into was "Disco 2000", the rest were OK, not great. Then, after a couple of spins of that CD (and listening to the lyrics) I started lo like them.
I got His N' Hers (I played it to death) and then this one... wow... I played three times in a row, it was an amazing experience. Jarvis Cocker knows how to create an atmosphere with each song.
Every song could have been a single, amazing lyrics (to me, this guy is one of the best lyricists in britain nowadays). The stories of typical day-life on working-class people from the UK is something that the casual listener can relate to.
I recommend this CD to everybody. It came out during the so-called britpop era (I love that genre, even though most of the bands are now defunct). I won't mention any particular track.
Get it right now, it's a piece of Britain's music history.
Free Music Review: Absolutely Essential Britpop
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this album when I was a young boy, and "Common People" captured my attention. I really liked the melody, and being a 12-year old boy at the time, I saved up my measly allowance and bought this album for the song. Lo and behold, I didn't listen to the other songs very often, and I soon forgot I had this album.I dug the album out of its hidden place near the end of 1999 and gave it a chance, and I finally realized what I was missing the first time I heard it: the sexual innuendo, the great song structures, the insanely catchy melodies. "Disco 2000" quickly became a favorite of mine, and everytime I hear it, I can see metrosexual Britons singing it in the clubs at the height of Britpop mania.
In my opinion, this album outclasses and outshines the offerings of Blur (The Great Escape) and Oasis (What's the Story Morning Glory) in 1995: when music historians look back on the good, bad and ugly of the Britpop scene, this album will stand head and shoulders above any other albums and be regarded as a true (lost) classic of the turbulent 1990s. Get it today and see what you've been missing all this time.
Free Music Review: Best album of the decade? Without a doubt.
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, kids, what we have here is the absolute closest thing you can get to THE PERFECT ALBUM. Different Class has it all: gloriously constructed music that soars and swells, a perfect backdrop for Jarvis Cocker's incredibly witty and biting satire. This album, even after four years, just keeps getting better. it is the one CD out of my entire collection that I would never give up. Song after song, Different Class delivers: from the bouncy yet viscious Mis-shapes, the sultry eroticism of Pencil Skirt, the sheer grandiose bombast of Common People, the high drama of I Spy, the sweet sense of wistfulness in Disco 2000, the incredibly well-told story of social disintegration that is LIve Bed Show, the utter beauty and charm of Something Changed, the dead-on observation of Sorted For E's & Wizz, the way that falling in love is depicted as firghtening & dirty in FEELINGCALLEDLOVE, the sweeping Underwear, the rollicking MOnday MOrning, and the perfect morning-after scenario of Bar Italia, there is not a dud on this classic. I could go on forever, but just buy it and find out for yourself.Free Music Review: Best of the decade
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, kids, what we have here is the absolute closest thing you can get to THE PERFECT ALBUM. Different Class has it all: gloriously constructed music that soars and swells, a perfect backdrop for Jarvis Cocker's incredibly witty and biting satire. This album, even after four years, just keeps getting better. it is the one CD out of my entire collection that I would never give up. Song after song, Different Class delivers: from the bouncy yet viscious Mis-shapes, the sultry eroticism of Pencil Skirt, the sheer grandiose bombast of Common People, the high drama of I Spy, the sweet sense of wistfulness in Disco 2000, the incredibly well-told story of social disintegration that is LIve Bed Show, the utter beauty and charm of Something Changed, the dead-on observation of Sorted For E's & Wizz, the way that falling in love is depicted as firghtening & dirty in FEELINGCALLEDLOVE, the sweeping Underwear, the rollicking MOnday MOrning, and the perfect morning-after scenario of Bar Italia, there is not a dud on this classic. I could go on forever, but just buy it and find out for yourself.Free Music Review: After you hear this everything else is...
Hit: 5 Stars
...sadly un-Pulplike. Jarvis's singing style, for instance: never heard anything like it. He mumbles, interrupts the stream of vocal melody for a monologue. He is unique as Morrissey was (Morrissey would and does stretch the syllables of words till they fit the measure). This cd has a theme of strange, voyeuristic sexuality. Like Morrissey, he makes the one who feels weaker and smaller seem powerful: wittier and more cunning than the big, stupid rich ones. Unlike the Smiths, Pulp has a social sensibility too, a political undertext that hits you gently (no humorless political rhetoric). On top of it all, Pulp has sterling pop instincts. "Disco 2000" is the perfect pop song: unforgettable hooks and a poignant story. Even the "album tracks" have beautiful chord structures and lyrics that stay with you. There's never been a song quite like "Underwear" or "Live Bed Show." I just wish there could be more, more, more...