Hey PULPpeople - This is not an original idea (I got it from another music group I follow) and I don't know if it's ever been tried here before, but it often raises some discussion as well as giving an insight into other members' non-PULP interests. How about providing the list with answers to some or all of the following questions:
1. PULP album most listened to in 2010?
2. Best concert you attended in 2010?
3. Best new (to you) artist/band discovered in 2010?
4. Favourite song heard for the first time in 2010?
5. Favourite new non-PULP album discovered in 2010?
6. Favourite book read in 2010?
7. Favourite film seen in 2010?
8. Favourite TV program watched in 2010?
9. Favourite catchphrase or motto in 2010?
10. Favourite PULP song of all time?
I'll be interested to see your responses - they might give me some ideas too!!
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1. His n Hers Deluxe 2. Richard Hawley at the Royal Festival Hall 3. Cosmo Jarvis - love that Gay Pirates song 4. See above 5. Plastic Beach by Gorillaz 6. Can't pick a favourite but have been reading a lot of Discworld recently. 7. Only saw Harry Potter 7 at the cinema so can't comment. 8. Doctor Who 9.Bowties are cool (see above) 10. Wishful Thinking or FEELING CALLED LOVE (post 2000 version - Leeds 2000's the best)
1. Get Frisky With... Pulp (bootleg) 2. Patrick Wolf (Cardiff, Dec 2010) 3. Can't think... I've not been very adventurous this year... 4. Dance In The Dark - Lady Gaga 5. The Divine Comedy - Bang Goes The Knighthood 6. Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes. (Yes, really) 7. Scott Pilgrim vs The World 8. Series 5 of both Dexter and Doctor Who 9. "To bed, gentleman, for we rise at daybreak!" (The Trip) 10. Lipgloss
1. This Is Hardcore 2. An Evening with Einstürzende Neubauten (full concert and solo performances) 3. Beta Radio 4. New York's Killing Me - Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs 5. Brothers - The Black Keys 6. The Plague - Albert Camus 7. The Proposition 8. Grand Designs 9. None 10. The Professional
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1. We Love Life 2. none 3. none 4. Keane - Your Love / Beck - Ramona 5. The Godfather Soundtrack (Parts I-III) 6. Books by Jeremy Clarkson. 7. 2010 films: Inception / Scott Pilgrim vs The World / Toy Story 3; non-2010 films: Pulp Fiction / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Clerks / The Shawshank Redemption 8. I broke my fucking TV on June 20 and very happy about it! 9. Never knew it got so cold at night-time... 10. Cuckoo Song / Live Bed Show 2002
1. Separations 2. Spiritualized @ RFH 3. Darren Hayman 4. Who's That Brooooon - Das Racist 5. Galaxie 500 - On Fire 6. How Not To Grow Up - Richard Herring 7. Inception 8. Eastbound & Down 9. - 10. Wickerman
1. PULP album most listened to in 2010? 2. Best concert you attended in 2010? 3. Best new (to you) artist/band discovered in 2010? 4. Favourite song heard for the first time in 2010? 5. Favourite new non-PULP album discovered in 2010? 6. Favourite book read in 2010? 7. Favourite film seen in 2010? 8. Favourite TV program watched in 2010? 9. Favourite catchphrase or motto in 2010? 10. Favourite PULP song of all time?
1. Dunno...didn't listen to them in full all that much - the iPOD generation curse. But Hardcore is the one that still demands full attention once you put The Fear on
2. Paul Heaton at a small theatre down the road from me. Or The Divine Comedy in Madrid
3. Girls
4. Hmm...couldn't get enough of Alejandro by The Gaga I have to say. I like the idea of Janelle Monae but that Tightrope song got on my tits. OTT warbling, plenty of slick word play but fuck-all melody.
5. MGMT - Congratulations
6. Adrian Mole - The Prostate Years
7. The Hurt Locker or Inception
8. Our Friends In The North (too young to see it when it was on tv...but what a fucking series)
9. ''Any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats''. Well either that or ''Fancy a shag?''
1. This Is Hardcore (deluxe) 2. Joanna Newsom 3. Arcade Fire 4. Elbow "Lippy Kids" 5. Joanna Newsom "Have One on Me" 6. David Foster Wallace "Infinite Jest" 7. "The Social Network" 8. "Mad Men" 9. "Suit up!" (from "How I Met Your Mother") 10. "Babies"
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1. PULP album most listened to in 2010? - does Further Complications count? Otherwise, see Eammon's comment - the albums themselves haven't been coming out that much lately.
2. Best concert you attended in 2010? Ultrasound in Leeds was pretty good.
3. Best new (to you) artist/band discovered in 2010? Post War Glamour Girls - see www.myspace.com/postwarglamourgirls
4. Favourite song heard for the first time in 2010? Aaarrrggh, this is hard. Despite best intentions I get worse at finding new music with every passing year. Maybe 'A Music Lesson' by Groom.
5. Favourite new non-PULP album discovered in 2010? Eerrrr pass!
6. Favourite book read in 2010? 'The Year of Living Biblically' by AJ Jacobs
7. Favourite film seen in 2010? Another Year
8. Favourite TV program watched in 2010? The Inbetweeners maybe?
9. Favourite catchphrase or motto in 2010? Keep up the good work.
10. Favourite PULP song of all time? Pass!
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1. PULP album most listened to in 2010? JayPicks If my Pulp folder is opened, that's the folder that gets dragged to Winamp, because that's the good ones. Includes a bit of everything, even Relaxed Muscle, and a few "People who are in some way related to the love of Pulp", like "Losing It" Gotta love that track!
2. Best concert you attended in 2010? I did naff all, all year! No movies, no concerts. To be fair, there was naff all to see, so it wasn't really my fault.
My sister's husband and his bandmates played a "gig" at their wedding, so I suppose that counts as the only concert I attended during 2010. .. But even then I wouldn't like to say it was the best concert I attended during 2010.
3. Best new (to you) artist/band discovered in 2010? Take That (!) Got my mum the Circus-Live album for Xmas 2009, and.. honestly, that's probably one of very few recent albums that I can happily listen to, end to end, without it having any dodgy tracks. .. I wouldn't recommend anything else, though. Don't think I'm "one of those"!
4. Favourite song heard for the first time in 2010? Gotta be Cee-Lo Green's F'You. It's a really good song!
5. Favourite new non-PULP album discovered in 2010? Wouldn't that be the same question as number 3? Oh, no, wait.. number 3 was Artist, this is Album.
hmmm.. *shrugs* Like I said, naff all good music anymore.
6. Favourite book read in 2010? Life Of Pi Recommended AGES ago, and I'd been hunting for ages. Then one day it popped up on the iBook store for free! woot!
So, yeah, probably that. Been too busy to read much, this year. Confessions of a GP is another I enjoyed, but it was more "Blog to Paper", structure-wise. Bit odd..
7. Favourite film seen in 2010? Nothing. I can say that with absolute honesty. That Star Trek film was the last film I watched, other than the odd "I'm bored, what DVDs can I be bothered to rewatch" instances.
8. Favourite TV program watched in 2010? Fringe. Took a few minutes to decide between that and Stargate Universe. As much as I love Stargate Universe, I like Fringe a teensy tiny teeny weeny bit more.
9. Favourite catchphrase or motto in 2010? *shrugs* ^ Not sure when I started using it so often, but it really has crept into a lot of my forum posts, lately.
10. Favourite PULP song of all time? I refuse to pick one!
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1. PULP album most listened to in 2010? Like Mark I listened to Further Complications a lot, but Pulp-wise I suppose it was This is Hardcore. 2. Best concert you attended in 2010? Iggy Pop and the Stooges (in a non-air-conditioned venue on a 100F degree day!) 3. Best new (to you) artist/band discovered in 2010? Bill Fay 4. Favourite song heard for the first time in 2010? Cee Lo Green's Fuck You 5. Favourite new non-PULP album discovered in 2010? The National - High Violet 6. Favourite book read in 2010? The Road by Cormac McCarthy 7. Favourite film seen in 2010? Black Swan 8. Favourite TV program watched in 2010? True Blood! 9. Favourite catchphrase or motto in 2010? Oh, I can only think of the one's I hate like "To the cloud!" Grr! 10. Favourite PULP song of all time? I Spy
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Kelis/Robyn double headline tour and Dan Black opened.
And V.V. Brown on her debut show in NYC
> 3. Best new (to you) artist/band? discovered last year?
I really liked 'People Can Do The Most Amazing Of Things' by Kisses and I was most Tragically ennerved upon hearing 'Curtain Falls' by Où Est Le Swimming Pool but I can't live without hearing on repeat daily! Little Boots has some amazing songs mixes like 'Love Kills (Buffetlibre vs Sidechains Remix)'.
> 4. Favourite songs heard for the first time in 2010?
Black Leather Gloves By Cosmetics
Officer Officer By Anika
Beautiful My Monster By Husky Rescue
Sur La Planche By La Femme
Penthouse Girl, Basement Boy By Sarah Cracknell
Leave (Featuring Little Boots) By V.V. Brown
Tune Into My Heart or Symmetry (Featuring Phil Oakey) By Little Boots
Toniteor AngelaBy Jarvis Cocker
Quicksand or Transfer Affection By A Flock Of Seagulls
Record Collection or Bike Song By Mark Ronson
> 5. Favourite new non-PULP album discovered last year?
OMD - History Of Modern
The Golden Filter - Voluspa
Metric - Fantasies
Anika - Anika
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
Everything And More Boxset - Dolly Mixture
Marathon EP - Tennis
> 6. Favourite book read in 2010?
Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango a felt fanzine
various Andy Warhol bio books and Diaries and The Philosophy of..
Foundations of Dual Language Instruction, Lessowe-Hurley
> 7. Favourite film seen last year?
Les Demoiselles De Rochefort
Thank God It's Friday
I Love You Phillip Morris
Black Swan
> 8. Favourite TV program watched last year?
True Blood
Cougar Town
Chelsea Lately
Weeds
Buried Alive: Hoarders
>9. Favourite PULP song of all time?
Seconds
<10. Best Catchphrase for 2010?
You're not strangling a dead chicken, honey.
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