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weej


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I've been looking at the PulpWiki and am quite impressed with the size and quality of it. Well done there. However, looking at the song list - http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/Songs - I noticed these two additions:

    * I've Been Looking at the World Today
    * What You Gonna Do About It?

Neither has a linked page and a google search reveals that this is in fact the only page on the internet that mentions them. Are these real songs, then? If so, how do people know about them (considering they aren't on any setlists, etc)?



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I think that they are very early songs that were played live and possibly not even recorded. I think that they are mentioned in Sturdy's book.



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Neither of them ring a bell but there are some rare song titles that Sturdy dug-up in the course of research for Truth & Beauty - stuff that was only ever rehearsed or played live very seldom. So they may have been plucked from there. A couple of ex-Pulp members on this board (Manners, Stephen Havenhand) may also have mentioned one or two unreleased songs (I remember once asking about I've Got A Dream For You after the only mention I had seen of the song was Manners naming it as one of his favourite Pulp songs in an old edition of PulpPeople).

Actually just looking at the list of unreleased songs on Pulpwiki, they are the only two without any info whatsoever apart from their title, good spot weej! Best bet is that they were mentioned in Truth & Beauty.

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Ian is correct, they are very early songs mentioned in Sturdy's book.

There's no particular reason why they don't have pages, other than I've not got around to it.



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The reason I want to know is that I'm trying to put together a song chronology (for a project I'm working on, will tell you what it is if / when it happens) and I'm not sure when these fit in.
I do have Sturdy's book, but it's in the UK and I'm in Beijing for the forseeable future.

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Yes, they're both super-early songs, don't think either even got as far as being played live.

I've Been Looking at the World Today - 1979, remembered by David Lockwood as having a line about "Dead Sea Scrolls and toilet rolls"

What You Gonna Do About It? - 1980, remembered by Philip Thompson as a "really basic Oi type thing"

Needless to say, there are no known recordings of either!

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Is there a chance What You Gonna Do About It is a cover? Of a song also covered by the Pistols (of sorts) on Rock 'N' Roll swindle? Sorry I can't remember the original artist...
Anyway, 79/80 Pulp did a Devo cover, didn't they? So it wouldn't be much of a leap.

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Dunno... I haven't heard that song either (the Pistols one), but Philip Thompson sort of describes how the Pulp version went in the book so you could see if it fits?

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