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Was it when Common People came out? Yeah probably, but not for everyone. Some of you are too young. Some of you are from other countries where perhaps CP wasn't such a big deal.

Anyone got an interesting story of how they got into Pulp?

I found them a single later with Mis-Shapes.

I remember seeing Common People on Top Of The Pops and not really having an opinion on it.

Then I saw Mis-Shapes on TOTP a few weeks/months later and being blown away by it - I had never heard anything like it. Musically I was amazed, lyrically I felt empowered, I was 11/12. I bought the cassette single and listened to it A LOT. I even remember playing it, fastforwarding through Sorted (which I didn't appreciate at the time) and playing it again and again and again.

Before Pulp I was big into Michael Jackson and remember rapidly losing interest in him as i got into 'Britpop', then quite by coincidence Jarvis jumped on stage and waggled his arse during Earth Song.

It felt like he did it for me. This is what we think of the music you used to listen to before you knew any better.

Of course I now appreciate that MJ was actually rather good as well.

Anyway - JC's been my favourite artist ever since. 

What's your story?

Wow I managed that whole post without saying Do You Remember The First Time? ...D'oh!



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Also Mis-Shapes. I missed Common People. Wasnt aware of that. I was watching TOTP and on came Pulp. Actually heres the link to the very performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZUF7iCiFOk

 

I was fascinated with Russell as I thought he was wearing make-up and being a child that was the first time I'd seen - gasp! - a man with make-up ;) Older sibling bought Different Class on tape in 1995 and the rest is history. I remember those days well. Pulp appeared on some UK childrens TV shows back then but I guess they shrugged off some of that fanbase with This is Hardcore. However, Jarvis was on Live & Kicking to promote Help the Aged. Everyone at school knew I was a fan but everyone else liked Oasis and then next morning walking into school after the Brits in 1996 I can still in my mind see the people saying to me what a hero Jarvis was because they thought he had *punched* Jacko...

The whole Britpop thing was huge but Pulp were always separate from that and yet lumped in with it too. Nostalgic for those days and often wish I had been older so I could have partaken in everything. It was very lonely as a Pulp fan back then without t'internet.

 



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Oh yeah, forgot to mention as one of only two pulp fans in an all boys school I became known as Jarvis for a while until they thought up something crueler. The other guy in a different set got Jarvis shagger though as far as I recall so I got off lightly. Still amazed they didn't think up Jarvis Fucker or Jarvis Cocksucker.

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seeing the video (old video) for Babies in 1992 on Mtv 120 minutes. first it irritated me (being completely focussed on american alternative music at the time, waiting for smashing pumpkins videos to be shown) but after having seen it a few times I became more intrigued by it. it still is my favorite Pulp song and one of the best pop songs I know.

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Summer of 1995 i was camping in Summerset somewhere durring glastonbury festival. I wanted to be at glastonbury festival, not on this family holiday and and spent it mostly moaning and sulking. I was into pulp abit, but mostly prefferd Blur. *sorry*

Febuary 1996, Brit Awards was when my obsession started, i bought different class and his n hers shortly after. Went to V96 that August (first gig + festival) and never looked back.

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But Glastobury's in somerset! That seems cruel. I take it you couldn't hear them by squinting your ears (or whatever you do with your ears to make them hear better)

Additional related questions: how old were you when you got into Pulp and are they your favourite band?

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Didn't truly get into them till 93 though I remember seeing the Babies video on the Chart Show (was that '92?). Had friends who went to one of their shows, probably the Oct 91 gig at the Uni. While they went they asked me to look after a German exchange student they had visiting. I somehow think thats quite Pulp! However, '93 was the first time I saw em live at the Leadmill on the Lipgloss tour. They performed Liplgoss on the Word the night before. Was right on the front and shook Jarvis hand as they came out onto the stage. They completely blew me away just stunning. I suffered terrible bruising across my chest as there are no barriers at the Leadmill just a chest high very sharp stage lip. I remember I wore a bottle green 1970's corduroy shirt with long collars and lost at least one button that night. When I left the Leadmill after the show it had been snowing so I walked to the taxi rank at the station in the snow. It was quite magical really. You see I was already Pulp before I'd even seen 'em. Truly a defining moment in my adolescence, I was 17. They are my favourite group.

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I was 7 when common people came out, I didn't think much to it. That obviously sounds daft because a 7 year old isn't really much of a music critic but yeah. I still got the album with my 2 weeks pocket money and mis shapes kicked it off in incredible fashion for me. I grew to love every track and it was probably my 2nd favourite album (...parklife...) but I never got the others until I was about 11. I still find it weird that I had modern life is rubbish before parklife came out... I mean, I was like 5, and my parents didn't like them or even know much about them seen as they hadnt really got big yet. I don't know how I got it, or why I got parklife on release day, but its strange. Very strange.

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Is Different Class not quite a dangerous album for a seven year old?

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It was His N Hers, it was 95 and I had just got into music in a big way. A fellow Smiths fan had borrowed the album from the library and I loved it. A few months later Common People came out and they were huge, so I went round thinking I was great because I was a fan before then, yeah right - only by a matter of weeks!

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No you are great. You are hardcore.

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Well, i remember seeing the no stilettos thing on tv, but it was on a repeat programme in 95. Around that time my dad had seen the video for disco 2000 on tv and he bought different class. I listened to it and that was it. I was just fascinated with pulps image and i just became obsessed. It was a good time to get into pulp as i was 13 and i suppose their music helped shape me in some way. I used to go to the shops every day after school for an elderly lady (mrs hesson) who i had previously kind of saved from a house fire (another story- i got a pick and mix from woolworths as a reward) I used to get paid £3.50 a week and i used all of the money to buy anything pulp related.

It was my dream to see them live and i eventually did at leeds festival 2011, i never had any friends that was into them and i didn't fancy going to a concert alone so i was gutted when they called it a day.

They are the best band in the world and will always have a special place in my heart.

Now im 28, still living in Preston and thats my story.

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I got into them around 2005 I guess. I had heard Common people of course, because of this documentary Live Forever (used to be a big Oasis fan). Got the albums from a mate of mine, a few years later (2005). I didn't care much for either HnH or DC, but I loved This Is Hardcore and We Love Life. I got into This Is Hardcore massively, found out about Relaxed Muscle and stayed on ever since. Nowadays I like HnH or DC, but it's still the later Pulp that counts for me.

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My dad got me Different Class on tape around the time it came out. I liked it but never really got obsessed until the summer of 2005 after I picked up DC on CD in a sale. Only saw them once - Wireless 2011.

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I just got into them last fall when my friend told me to check out Different Class and His 'n' Hers. I actually didn't even care for them at first for whatever stupid reason and then I got super obsessed with them and here we are. I'd never heard of them because they're not as big in America and I'm only 21 so I sort of missed out on when they WERE more popular here. I'm just annoyed I went 20 years without knowing about them, because now they're my second favourite band.

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Who's your favourite?

And that photo's terrifying.

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haven't the first clue when i first heard common people for the first time being 1 when it came out but I assume my dad played DC a fair bit as I was growing up and it soon became my favorite song - that and brimful of asha really are the songs I remember absolutely loving as a child. Anyway I remember always being excited when it came up on the Vault and I started to discover the other tracks when I was probably about 11 (?)

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I was fifteen when Common People was released, it practically seeped into my veins. As the music press and then TV news debated the 'Blur versus Oasis' debacle, for me Pulp easily emerged as the winners.

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fredthe3rd wrote:

Who's your favourite?

And that photo's terrifying.

 Oh, Radiohead is my favourite. but sometimes I think they're just tied because they're both so different that they're not really comparable. I would say I'm more obsessed with Pulp in terms of knowing information I guess.



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I owe it to the radio. I heard Disco 2000 on the radio sometime before Different Class was released - this was back when BBC Radio 1 would just as soon play album tracks than singles, and I guess there was excitement about DC coming out after Common People. It might have been Chris Evans' breakfast show; it was definitely a DJ who was a Pulp fan, they played Disco 2000 a couple of times a week, just from the album promo. Then I stumbled across a repeat (also on Radio 1) of Glastonbury 95, which I caught on tape and practically wore out. I loved all their songs from that set so it was a natural step to buy up their back catalogue (also on tape!) and it all snowballed from there - when it became clear that they'd never recorded a song I didn't like!

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The first time I encountered Pulp, I'd tuned into the chart show and caught the last 2 minutes of Do You Remember the First Time?

Being a young and naive lad at the time, I was amused to hear a song with what to me were such blunt lyrics ("I don't care if you screw him..").

I didn't really pay much attention until Common People though.. shabby as I'm from Sheffield and could have seen them a lot more than I have if I'd known! :'( I thought Mis-Shapes and Sorted were ok but Disco 2000 reeled me back in and I bought Different Class with some of my Christmas money. Then became obsessed, although this comes and goes in phases - When I get back into them I overlisten and have to take a rest.

This latest phase has lasted longer than most as I've been sorting out my mp3s and updating my live collection and ripping all my singles and so on.



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Yes indeed blueowl, I now have a stack of press clippings, flyers, adverts and reviews that I have found out since my recent Pulp binge. They range in date from '92 - '96. I don't have a scanner so if anyone wants to see any of 'em would a piccie be ok?

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You're in Sheffield too aren't you?

I have a scanner ...

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Mebbe we could work somethin' out blueowl. Whereabouts are ya?

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don't do it blue owl he's a serial killer!

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