Boring answer but definately Pulp. I like other bands, other songs of course, but I wouldn't ever describe myself as being really into music. I am, however, into Pulp in a big way.

Quite simply put... Yes.

they are the reason I live and breathe music and why I learned how to play piano and guitar, then onto writing my own songs. In my life all the great music I have heard - I heard it because I heard Pulp first and realised music is ace!

I was lucky enough to get the chance to tell Jarvis this and somebody snapped a photograph

< There it is to your left!

He said, "Thank you."

I think the only band that means more to me is The Beatles, but it's close. In the past I'd have said the Smiths too. But it took them reforming to make me realise how much they meant to me. I worshipped them from 95 onwards but after the split/hiatus I didn't really listen all that often. Once the reformation was announced I became completely obsessed and bored everyone, especially my wife, silly with it. I became obsessed with wanting them to play Glasto (as I'm sure people on here noticed!), as I wanted my wife to see how amazing they are live, because she'd never seen them but was a fan of theirs. The only news to eclipse them for me this year was my wife becoming pregnant, which sadly meant she missed Glasto. Not many bands could make me cry out loud the way Pulp did when they played Something Changed that weekend. We'd danced to it at our wedding and, wishing she was there with our unborn baby, had me sobbing like a big girl, and I really wish our friend didn't see me do it! I'm now praying for these rumours of something happening in 2012 to come true, and by then we'll have a son/daughter and can see Pulp together at last!