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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Pulp-Countdown-12-vinyl-WHITE-LABEL-rare_W0QQitemZ320099714201QQcategoryZ58647QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Anyone spot what's wrong with this picture?

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Gift didn't release "Countdown." Fire did.

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Mike wrote:

Gift didn't release "Countdown." Fire did.


 


Damn you I was just about to say that.


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This is true. Wonder what it means... maybe Gift had planned to get in on the act a little earlier than they actually did?

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This is just a guess - but could it not be that Pulp used the Countdown single as a demo for Gift?

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That wouldn't explain why there's a white label of the single with a Gift catalogue number though! That suggests that this pre-release copy of the record was pressed up by Gift, with a view to Gift releasing it.

-- Edited by Sturdy at 00:16, 2007-04-05

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Way ahead of you all. I sent an email to this guy a day or two ago, and he got back in touch saying that he had simply mislabelled the plain sleeve as being "Countdown" himself. The writing on the actual label is just PULP. He tried playing it, and it was O.U. and has rectified the listing.

Had you all excited for a sec! ;)

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You party-pooper Leo.

By the way, my mp3 player was on shuffle the other day and your (ex?) band's rendition of OU came on. Have you tried your hand at any more material recently? I'm still waiting for you to go crazy on 'The Boss'.



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Eamonn wrote:

You party-pooper Leo.By the way, my mp3 player was on shuffle the other day and your (ex?) band's rendition of OU came on. Have you tried your hand at any more material recently? I'm still waiting for you to go crazy on 'The Boss'.

Haha. Oh god...you have that on your mp3 player?? :)

That band is looooooooong dead. The band I've been in for the last year or so is Dogstand : www.myspace.com/dogstand

Don't really do covers though...apart from a couple of DRAMATIC reworkings of I'm Not In Love by 10CC, and If You Go Away by Jacques Brel. Shame, because I'd love to play The Boss live. I'll fulfil that dream someday I'm sure. I still jump around to it in my bedroom from time to time, mashing my hands on the keyboard for all I'm worth. :)

 



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Well record it next time. Or try Can I Have My Balls Back Please? or We Can Dance Again. You have those Candida synth swirls down to a tee on OU, it would be a shame to pack it in. 10cc and Scott Walker sounds good though.

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It's a shame indeed, especially as I actually have a Farfisa Professional these days...the genuine article...so that climbing chord sequence on O.U. would sound 100% authentic. ;)

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Mystery solved! I had your version of OU as well. I lost it tho due to a combination of my ipod being stolen and my laptop blowing up!

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