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What's you favourite album of Pulp? Or you only love 'Jarvis', Relaxed Muscle or the Great Harry Potter Electro Songs?
What do you think about the Harry Potter songs?

http://www.dPolls.com/PollPage.aspx?PollID=21791

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This Is Hardcore is my favorite Pulp album. And I think I like Relaxed Muscle more than the other Pulp albums, because it's so funny and not serious. It would be something like this:

1. This Is Hardcore
2. A Heavy Night With Relaxed Muscle
3. His n Hers
4. Different Class
5. We Love Life
6. The Jarvis Cocker Record

But, this doesn't mean I don't like We Love Life or the solo album. I just like them less.

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1. Different Class
2. This Is Hardcore
3. His'n'Hers
4.We Love Life
5. Seperations
6. Freaks
7. It

If including Intro, Relaxed Muscle and Jarvis:

1. Different Class
2. This Is Hardcore
3. His'n'Hers
4. We Love Life
5. Jarvis
6. Intro
7. Seperations
8. Freaks
9. Relaxed Muscle
10. It

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As for me:
1.Great HP Songs
2.Jarvis
3.Different Class
4.Babies song
5.Acrylic Afternoons song
6.The Fear song
Now you see that I consider all other songs/albums...well, don't want to be rude or anything....but you know what I mean...biggrin
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You're all wrong. This is the correct order*:


1. His'n'Hers
2. Different Class
3. Intro
4. This Is Hardcore
5. Jarvis
6. Separations
7. A Heavy Night With Relaxed Muscle
8. We Love Life
9. Masters Of The Universe
10. It

Though, to be fair, I'm of the opinion that nos. 5-7 are very close in quality (for different reasons obviously) so perhaps their order could be varied.


* I actually haven't heard Freaks yet but I'm guessing it would be competing with MOTU and It in the relegation battle.

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Mine would be:

His'n'Hers
Different Class
Pulp Peel Sessions
Jarvis
A Heavy Nite With Relaxed Muscle
We Love Life
This Is Hardcore

The Pulp Peel Sessions doesn't stictly count as album in it's own right, but I feel that some of the live versions are much better than the album versions (Such as Sunrise and DYRTFT).

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I have a different favourite Pulp album for every day! Today it is We Love Life. Tomorrow it will be Seperations. On Thursday it could be His N Hers. Don't make me choose! I love them equally as if they were my children!

Carry On Camping.... I dreamt I was at glastonbury last nite....!

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Well as Weed was saying above my favourite constantly changes. I'll have to say that Separations is always up near the top though. Intro, His N Hers and Different Class too. I do like a bit of everything else but  the ones mentioned above are the old reliable ones :)

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  1. Different Class
  2. Separations
  3. Intro
  4. His 'n' Hers
  5. This is Hardcore
  6. Jarvis
  7. Freaks
  8. We Love Life
  9. A Heavy Nite With Relaxed Muscle
  10. It
  11. Masters of the Universe


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Lately, it's been:

1- The Sisters EP
2- Intro
3- Separations
4- His n Hers
5- Freaks
6- It
5- This is Hardcore
7- Relaxed Muscle
8- DC
9- Masters of the Universe
10- Jarvis

Regardless of my ranking, I consider each of the above to be a 5-star record, and I hold them all near and dear to my heart. Even their worst tracks have a certain charm, like a puppy who's missing a leg.

However, I prefer to forget the existence of We Love Life.
*looks downward, shakes head*

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I always thought that every Pulp album was better than the last when they came out.



Once again it is worth me mentioning that WLL is fantastic!

I also listen to Seperations quite regularly. And I have also just rediscovered 'It'

(hmmmm .... I see a trend of green covers)

looking back I now think This Is hardcore was a bit of a poor effort. Dispite it containing the best Pulp song ever written, I'm afraid that some of the album tracks really don't do it for me anymore.



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Fuss Free: Regardless of my ranking, I consider each of the above to be a 5-star record, and I hold them all near and dear to my heart. Even their worst tracks have a certain charm, like a puppy who's missing a leg.

You seem to have a Russell bias. I really must get my hands on Freaks.


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The Idiot wrote:
You seem to have a Russell bias. I really must get my hands on Freaks.

Meh... not really. I like This is Hardcore and It quite a bit, and I like most of Jarv's myriad side projects as well. I just don't like WLL, which is wrong in so many ways.

I will say this about Russell, he gave Pulp an edge. He had vision and he imposed his taste on Pulp's sound. When he left, Pulp basically became "The Jarvis Cocker Show", didn't it.

I really can't say for sure. Don't you think Jarvis sounds his best when he's backed by keys and a violin? There is just something -right- about it.
Maybe it's just first impressions. The first time I heard Pulp I thought they sounded like the soundtrack to a dracula movie set in outer space. I never whole-y accepted Pulp as a retro-glam guitar band or whatever it was they tried to do in their waning years. I guess I still want Pulp to conjure images of icy femme fatales and shadowy figures floating down dark alleyways.



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Fuss Free wrote:

I just don't like WLL, which is wrong

Very true indeed, glad you're beginning to come to your senses on that one. But anyway.

I do agree with what you say about Russell. In isolation Jarvis seems to be someone who has an appreciation and understanding of challenging and unsual musical forms, but is actually fairly conventional when it comes to the sounds he makes himself. You could imagine Russell's contribution as trying his damnedest to make Jarvis put his money where his mouth is, and really go for that weirdness and intensity that he admired in other artists, rather than kind of hanging out on the margins of that stuff then going back to his bedroom to write another pretty song about an argument he'd had with his girlfriend on the bus back from the gig. Something like that anyway.

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Has Russell done anything since Appropriation?
Also, tho' TIH is my overall favourite album, I have to say that generally speaking Pulp were better creativly with him around.
Strangely, post-Pulp Jarvis seems to have rediscovered that form tho'. Wish they'd do an album togeather again, ideally with Candida too.

How come Senior never did any vocals post-Separations? Fairground & Will To Power are great.
I can't seem to decide on an order for albums etc, but roughly:

This Is Hardcore
His'N'Hers
Freaks
Jarvis
Separations
Different Class
Intro
A Heavy Nite
Peel Sessions
MOTU
It
We Love Life

With WLL, I love most of the songs, just not the recordings.
& that list is liable to change from minute to minute, obviously!



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Serious Change!smile
Now it looks like this:
1.Great HP Songs
2.Jarvis
3.Different Class
4.His 'n' Hers: ONLY Do you remember the first time?, Acrylic Afternoons and Babies
5.It
6.Intro
7.Separations: ONLY Don't You Want Me Anymore, Death II and This House Is Condemned
8.The Fear song
Again you see that I consider all other songs/albums...well, don't want to be rude or anything....but you know what I mean...biggrin

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I really like We Love Life!
What is it that people dislike so much- The production/lyrics/music?
Okay, songs such as cuckoo and the quiet revolution should have made it past the demo stage and onto the record but we would have missed out on other gems- Weeds/Birds/Bad cover version and Sunrise are some of Pulp's finest.

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From Dutch paper interview Dec '06, Jarvis on We Love Life 5 years on:

'That wasn't a good record either, because it was made with the intention of wiping the slate clean. It was far too narrow-minded and we wanted to let people know that we were on the right path, away from all the temptations of the big city and back to nature, something like that. Who wants to listen to a bunch of has beens who have a sudden longing for nature? Not Pulp-fans, because the record didn't really have a lot of succes.'

Still, him rubbishing his own records is hardly something new.

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Ignoring the merits of the varied special editions.....

1. His 'n' Hers
2. Intro
3. Hardcore
4. We Love Life
5. Different Class
6. Peel Sessions
7. Separations
8. A Heavy Nite
9. Jarvis
10. Countdown 1992-1983 (Cos I'm too lazy to rate IT/MOTU/Freaks - Hits would be 7th if I did other compilations)

And for the singles among u

1. Razzmatazz (February 1993)
2. Lipgloss (November 1993)
3. Do You Remember the First Time? (March 1994)
4. The Sisters EP (May 1994) / Babies (October 1992) 
5. My Legendary Girlfriend (Fire, March 1991)
6. Common People (May 1995)
7. Mis-shapes / Sorted for E's and Wizz (September 1995)
8. This is Hardcore (March 1998)
9. My Legendary Girlfriend (Caff, September 1992)
10. Countdown (August 1991)
11. O.U. (May 1992) 
12. Party Hard (September 1998) 
13. Disco 2000 (November 1995)
14. The Trees / Sunrise (October 2001)
15. Bad Cover Version (April 2002)
16. A Little Soul (June 1998)
17. Something Changed (March 1996)
18. Help the Aged (November 1997)
19. Little Girl (with Blue Eyes) (November 1985)
20. Dogs Are Everywhere (June 1986)






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so, jarvis doesn't like This Is Hardcore, WLL, It and Freaks.  I know he thinks the material on Intro is 'recorded weird'.  He fought the Masters of the Universe compilation from coming out at one point.  He's poor-mouthed individual songs on Different Class.  Does he like HNH then?  Does he like any Pulp material after 20 months? 

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He's still proud of This Is Hardcore, though he says half of it isn't up to scratch.

As he recently said eloquently: "I'd rather suck off a dog's knob than listen to my own music".

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So, there will never be a reunion of Pulp? Although I'm not a fan of Pulp I'd like  to see Jarv in a band again!smile I sorta miss Pulp...weirdfacesmileAlthough, I just LIKE (but don't love) some of Pulp music and in my opinion, Potter songs are the best songs Jarv has ever made in his whole career!!smile And Jarv's solo album is cool!smile

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Do The Hippocriff is fun, but I can't see them three songs as a carreer defining moment.

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Yeah, sorry Misfit but you're just wrong there.  Personally I like This Is The Night but overall the HP stuff is a lot flimsier than anything Pulp did during the nineties.  Not that I'm sure it was he ever intended to create his magnum opus for a movie about wizards.  If nothing else he's one of the best lyricists of his generation.

I do like hearing Jonny Greenwood playing guitar with him though.

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I'm still mad that I paid $11 to see a Harry Potter movie and had to sit through almost two hours of that film in order to see 3 seconds of Jarvis & Jonny Greenwood!! What a ripoff!! Sorry Misfit, I'm just not a fan of that particular franchise.

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