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liltman wrote:

Was fifteen/nearly 16 in 95 when I heard His n Hers for the first time when my mate borrowed it from a library and it changed my life. Pulp were the band of my teenage years and it's been surreal seeing them again as a married man of 32 with our first baby on the way. What a year it's been!

 That's pretty much my story, give or take. Although I prefer to think as myself these days as two 16-year-olds rolled into one.



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My wife thinks I could write a book on Pulp, I told her there's no point as yours is brilliant! I like the 'two 16-year-olds' analogy.

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Strangely enough, when Common People came out I truly hated it. I was only 5 years old mind, which might explain it. I remember it was on a mixtape we had in the car and I'd always ask my parents to fast forward through it. My mam had Different Class and I remember listening to it on and off when I was 11 and 12, but I was a bit embarrassed about liking it for some reason, I guess I thought it was uncool as everyone at school liked Blink 182 etc. But then when I was 13 I got a girlfriend, one day she was like "yeah I've just bought Different Class by a band called Pulp, they're really good" and I could do the whole "Oh, I've been listening to them for YEARS"...

Though it wasn't till I read Sturdy's book that I became a proper Pulp geek/obsessed with live bootlegs/Bar Italia forum user...



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A girlfriend at 13...you can't possibly be a Pulp fan.

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Nice thread! Love reading how you lot got into Pulp.

I cannot believe it has this long either, as I still feel like a teenager most of the time. I was 15 when I first saw the video for Disco 2000 in 1995 or so in MTV Latino.
I became so obsessed with it, then got into the earlier albums, then 3 years later when I turned 18, I left Mexico for the UK to see Pulp at Glasto 98.
The rest is history :P Pulp shaped my life...

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Pulp shaped my life too :) I remember buying the His'n'Hers tape at my local Fnac and spending hours religiously translating all the lyrics with a dictionnary. I pretty much learnt English thanks to Pulp and also ended up moving to the UK !



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I think I might be unusual as I was already married with 2 going on 3 kids when I got into Pulp around 95/6, and heading fast towards my 30's. They were the band that got me back into music in a big way, and reminded me that music is not a luxury in my life but an essential. It's been absolutely amazing seeing Pulp live again, but feels kind of strange hearing about people growing up listening to and seeing Pulp as teenagers, who are now watching them for the first time as married people with kids - I'm going in reverse on this one! When Jarvis was engaging with the crowd at Wireless, asking who had got married and had kids since they last played, I had a moment of realisation that the last time I had seen saw Pulp I was already married with kids, and this time round was the first time I was watching Pulp as a completely free and single person.

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Eamonn wrote:

A girlfriend at 13...you can't possibly be a Pulp fan.

 Ha ha! It's funny because it's true!



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A girlfriend at 13...you can't possibly be a Pulp fan.

 Ha ha! It's funny because it's true!

 

Haha oh that doesn't mean I was cool or socially acceptable in any way, by the way! Just found a fellow weirdo. My teenage life was pretty much identical to the film Submarine, if anyone saw that earlier this year...



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Submarine is an amazing film. Best thing I've seen in ages. Really captures all that intense teenage awkwardness around relationships. BTW the actor that plays the dad was in a similar film, Flirting, as a teenager, which I really loved when it came out but haven't seen for years.

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I'd never really acknowledged 'modern' music in my early teens. Got into the Beatles when I was about nine and never really stepped outside the 60s musical sphere. It was in December 1994, however, that I heard - and loved - Oasis' "Whatever". After following them for a year or so, a friend at school told me - in no uncertain terms - to go out and buy Mis-Shapes and Blur's Universal. Mis-Shapes was not in stock, it being late 1995, but I got Disco 2000 anyway. Shortly afterwards, another friend copied me Different Class, then I bought Countdown, swiftly followed by Freaks and I never looked back!

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tween wave!

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anet wrote:

... the last time I had seen saw Pulp I was already married with kids, and this time round was the first time I was watching Pulp as a completely free and single person.

First half a dozen times I saw Pulp, I hadn't even met my wife, met her just after Theatre Royal show. The last time I saw Pulp in 2001, I just had a two year old son. Missed Finsbury Park in 1998 because I was on honeymoon. I'd forgotten that was the reason I didn't go. 



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Reading about all you people who's been around since the 90's makes me a bit jealous really. Got in to pulp for real about 5 years ago when I was 18.
Even if I have a blurry memory of hearing "common people" when I was a kid and the line "I took her to a supermarket" got
stuck in my mind. Was absolutely chocked over the fact that someone was singing about such a common thing
as a supermarket in a pop song. It was fascinating, common and weird at the same time. Still love that about Jarvis lyrics.


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Finsbury Park was mental - I really thought I'd die of exhaustion by the end! What are your best gig memories ? Eden Project remains my favourite.



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The highlights that stand out in my mind are:-

one of the forest gigs (can't even remember the name of the place now!), and My Legendary Girlfriend being played as the moon was coming up - real spine-tingling moment

Auto at the Magna Centre (the last one ever before the hiatus) - especially hearing Lyndhurst Grove and being right down the front for the first time

and Wireless this time round - completely losing myself like I've never done before - it seems the older the I get the less I care about making a spectacle of myself!

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"Even if I have a blurry memory of hearing "common people" when I was a kid and the line "I took her to a supermarket" got
stuck in my mind. Was absolutely chocked over the fact that someone was singing about such a common thing
as a supermarket in a pop song."

You'd have loved "Mum's Has Gone To Iceland" by Bennett, then!

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Their gig at Brid Spa at Xmas 95 was the first proper gig I went to, it was incredible. Seen them nine times now.

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Stephen wrote:

"Even if I have a blurry memory of hearing "common people" when I was a kid and the line "I took her to a supermarket" got
stuck in my mind. Was absolutely chocked over the fact that someone was singing about such a common thing
as a supermarket in a pop song."

You'd have loved "Mum's Has Gone To Iceland" by Bennett, then!

Have listened to it twice and yes, it does have a childisness that i think could have appeald to me.



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Love this thread and the discussion of memories attached to Pulp and the very personal meanings of songs to individuals. I was diagnosed with a serious illness 4 years ago (am through the worst now and in recovery) and have had a lot of time off work, much of it spent listening to music. It was then that I rediscovered This is Hardcore, which I hadn't really appreciated when it came out. And I've recently realised a good way to listen to We Love Life is through headphones on a woodland walk. When the comeback was announced I was determined to see them as I missed out before as too busy with babies, career and lived in Belfast where no bands ever seemed to come. Anyway, saw Pulp at Wireless and it was everything I hoped and more. Completely turned round a shit week for me - the anniversary of the diagnosis of my illness - and totally joyful and life-affirming.

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annsaphone wrote:

Finsbury Park was mental - I really thought I'd die of exhaustion by the end! What are your best gig memories ? Eden Project remains my favourite.

Finsbury Park was exhausting! Just before This Is Hardcore, I'm on the video being exhausted- not a good night. Afterwards we slept in Victoria Coach Station which was also bad. I'm going to make sure  Brixton will be great though...



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 What are your best gig memories ?

 I suppose it's the first time I remember most smile  Garage 1993,  we flogged a ticket at the Cock Tavern which paid for the other two, and my mate missed last tube home.  Pretty wild as most Garage gigs were at that time. I remember dancing on glass at another.  Pulp fans were better behaved than most.

Also remember Theatre Royal as the last gig before Pulp made it big.  In eighth row and though there were seats, no one sat and I had a great view of a band just about to break thru.  A few months later my sister said she'd like to see Pulp, and when I told her I had offered her a spare ticket that night she was gobsmacked!

But as it is freshest, I think wireless is the best Pulp gig ever.  Pure celebration.

 



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I'm also married (well as of June next year) with 2 children. So yeah...from being the 13-17 yr old, that was maybe, probabaly, slightly obssesive...seeing them live 4 times in the same week....(god bless EMA) and did arty farty stuff at uni, and then mostly fucked about. My life has changed dramaitcly since their return. Im a full time mummy (and loving it) to two children under 4. I know when they release full dates for thier tour (UK) (cos it'll happen), i'll not get the chance to see them like i used to...i was at many a gig 6 hours before the doors opened. Sleeping homless in london just for a pulp gig!, Those days are long gone, that freedom I will never ever have again. But ill still be there...later..probably just after the support ;)..but ill be there with bells on. ;)



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First time I got into Pulp was when the something changed single came out. Was not into music really then but that christmas in 96 my parents bought me the first two Oasis albums and Different Class all on tape and my life changed forever. Not bad for a christmas present lol!



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liltman wrote:

My wife thinks I could write a book on Pulp, I told her there's no point as yours is brilliant!

 Bit of a belated reply as I've only just read this. Thank you, you lovely, lovely man.



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