And a Pulp song that's actually under 3 minutes (probably unfinished but still...)!
The keyboard bits seem recycled from The Quiet Revolution - pretty song on first listen. They really did go down the ''gentle pop song" route around this time, Cuckoo, Birds In YOur Garden etc.
I was always under the impression that the session that this demo comes from were instrumentals only - I wonder how much more of them had recorded lyrics...That much talked about We Love Life deluxe edition just got even more desireable.
Indeed. If we assume that all the other songs from the Depot demos, like My Mistake, also had vocals (which obviously isn't certain), we could have as many as 15 unreleased WLL-era songs:
Darren The Quiet Revolution Cuckoo Song Got To Have Love After You M'Lady Grandfather's Nursery The Performance of a Lifetime St Just Love You Baby Six String My Mistake Last Song In The World Medieval Owl Dream Galaxy
That's more than enough to make up another album - an album that, judging by the few songs from the above list that we've heard, would have been very different indeed from We Love Life. I'd echo Eamonn's 'gentle pop songs' comment - somewhere around 1999/2000, there was a classic soulsearching singer/songwriter breakup album fighting to get out! I can see why a whole album of My Mistake/Cuckoo/etc might not have seemed appropriate for Pulp, but it's a shame they couldn't find some way of putting all that stuff out. Maybe even as a Jarvis solo record?
I still think they could have done a Kid A/Amnesiac job and finished all this stuff off for a quick follow-up album. Then again, they could also have put out a few more decent B-sides!
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I was always under the impression that the session that this demo comes from were instrumentals only
That's what it says on the Pulp People site where details of the demo were first leaked here. Maybe Alex just had an early tape from the sessions, before Jarvis had added his vocals (which, as we know, are always the last bit to be finished). Or... maybe this version of My Mistake is from another session about which we know nothing!
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Wow, thanks! Firstly, is no one else thinking TV Movie? Secondly, it's fantastic to hear a WLL-era song where you can actually hear the f**king keyboards! Great stuff. Really good lyrics too. Also, I completely disagree that this stuff wouldn't have made a 'propper' Pulp album.
And how irritating is it that they didn't give us more propper B sides with all this lying about! C'mon, Island, roll on WLL 2 disc re-issue!
Not bad, and nice to hear an until now unheard Pulp song...but to me it's just more WLL era fodder, and not particularly exciting. I know alot of people really like these tracks though.
I will try and get some more for you..my brother is key to all this..but I know he has demos of most of the WLL period and other demos from way back...one song I heard, that I never knew existed was called "Take me to Tinsley viaduct"..it's quite old...I would guess around 93-4 because the next track is babies without any singing...and the disc has "The peace gardens.. Fon mix " written on it..and I believe the peace gardens are in Sheffield!
Anyway cheers everyone.....I will let you know on my poaching...If he catches me.....I'm dead!!...but we love Pulp...so it should be ours!!
I just looked up Tinsley Viaduct and it tells me it is actually the M1 motorway..on the edge of Sheffield.....Cant think why anyone would wanna go there lol!!
I will try and get some more for you..my brother is key to all this..but I know he has demos of most of the WLL period and other demos from way back...one song I heard, that I never knew existed was called "Take me to Tinsley viaduct"..it's quite old...I would guess around 93-4 because the next track is babies without any singing...and the disc has "The peace gardens.. Fon mix " written on it..and I believe the peace gardens are in Sheffield!
Anyway cheers everyone.....I will let you know on my poaching...If he catches me.....I'm dead!!...but we love Pulp...so it should be ours!!