I just downloaded and was listening to a bootleg from Nantes 1993, and like the '92 Black Session, the lyrics to Pink Glove differ considerably from the finished version - well beyond inclusion of the 'friend called Heather' bit. Unfortunately, I haven't found any transcriptions of the early versions on the Web... I was wondering if anyone's yet taken a stab at transcribing them?
The refrains are mostly similar ('get it right first time' etc) but the intervening verses are quite different. Tried to take them down out of curiousity, but I can't parse them well enough by ear to make anything but a mess. The early versions of Pink Glove that I've heard seem similar-but-not-quite-identical lyrics-wise.
you'd better watch what you're wearing ??? this line i guess you're right, but he's trying too hard, when it's always the same, when he's trying to tell you (then the 'go and visit your mum' etc) and the rest of the song, inc. 'if you're going to get down...he says you're a fine-looking woman' and so forth. Would welcome some help!
The album version's one of my favorite Pulp songs. BTW, Acrylic Afternoons from this particular bootleg (the Nantes '93) might as well be an entirely different song - I mean, the instrumental is identical, but almost all the lyrics differ COMPLETELY after the rabbit in dungarees verse. And Jarvis has a particular...lilt? emphasis? to his voice in the chorus that's v different from anything I recognize as the completed song. (Sorry, my English might be a bit off on this one!) Also terribly curious w/r/t transcription. Better-informed individuals, please chime in...?
The problem with transcribing these early versions is that Jarvis would tend not to write lyrics to songs until the last possible moment - which would usually be the night before going into the studio to record them. The earlier versions might have a few vague ideas and perhaps a fully-formed chorus, but for a lot of the time he'd just be mumbling half-formed nonsense and hoping no one would notice (see also the Dour Festival 1994 version of Underwear)!
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