I would sheepishly suggest that you use a petition site (or maybe there is code available?) so the signatures can be verified. I think most official petitions require either an email address (not publicly displayed, but can be sent to whomever the petition is intended) or some other means of verifying that it's not just 1 person signing hundreds of times with made up names.
Also, perhaps address it to Julian Fernandez, if he's still at the company?

twiggy wrote:

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I would sheepishly suggest that you use a petition site (or maybe there is code available?) so the signatures can be verified. I think most official petitions require either an email address (not publicly displayed, but can be sent to whomever the petition is intended) or some other means of verifying that it's not just 1 person signing hundreds of times with made up names.
Also, perhaps address it to Julian Fernandez, if he's still at the company?

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Yep, we discussed using a site such as petitionbuzz but Will can see the IP addresses being used to sign the petition meaning multiple entries from one individual can be filtered out. But he's better qualified to talk about that. Maybe an independent site would give the petition more credibility, I don't know. .

Fernandez was the guy who helped co-ordinate the original deluxe editions wasn't he? There's a guy that fits his description on LinkedIn (Product Manager at Universal) so that's good to know. I'm not professional enough to have a profile up there but it's surely him.

Thanks Twiggy.

Thanks for the suggestion twiggy. I will give it some thought.

At the moment, the IP address of each person who votes is recorded in the database, so it would be very difficult for one person to vote lots of times (or at least if they did it could easily be filtered out).

Email validation would be slightly more secure, but also make it more complicated. A percentage of verification emails will inevitablely disappear into people's spam filters etc.

I looked at sites like -
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/
- when setting it up and they don't seem to require email validation. 

EDIT: Eamonn has already made some of these points while I was typing this.

-- Edited by Will on Friday 28th of October 2011 09:16:16 PM

fredthe3rd wrote:

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Eels released an album of b sides, remixes, rarities and side projects from the first ten years across all albums. Would that be viable for Pulp?

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It would probably be more marketable alright as the problem we have with We Love Life is that it didn't sell fantastically well nor was it seen as distinctive/important/influential in the way that you could argue the previous three (even Intro) were.

I suppose it's the fact that between the previous reissues and the Peels Session, a lot of the unreleased, rare stuff was put out there in 2006. Fire will hopefully do the same with the 80's stuff in the coming months. 

We Love Life is a bit of an anomaly in that it's long gestation period saw a large amount of songs recorded to a high standard before being dropped. And as the album kind of fell flat on its arse (though it still got great reviews across the board in the press and at least entered in the top ten) this era has largely been forgotten about.

The prospect of the entire album being remastered and repackaged is probably slight for the reasons given, but making the demoed songs that didn't come out available for 99p each on itunes or whatever is surely something they would consider should we drum enough interest.

I think you should apply for an internship in Universal and pass these ideas on!

Jazza wrote:

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shit, it's dark and I accidentally pressed enter instead of delete to correct a typing error! That's meant to be Jasmine Lightfoot not Jasmine Lifh.

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 No problem. I've corrected it for you.

What's going on? I'm scared.

Jean wrote:

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This is a great idea & well done both Eamonn & Will for taking the initiative to put it together. Are you settling on gathering the signatures at Wiki or are your going to use a site like petitionbuzz?

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We will continue to gather signatures on the wiki. Now we're started it's not really practical to move somewhere else. I'm happy there are enough controls in place to prevent one person signing several times.

Kentis Cocker??

I'm wondering if Steve D could/should make this thread a temporary sticky?

Well lets see what this project could look like eh? I've noticed that from the previous deluxe editions Pulp aren't keen on putting demos of songs that get an official release, eg. Jarvis reference to Lipgloss demo which doesn't appear the Happy Endings demo that is circulating, only songs that are unreleased. So it's unlikely to feature the Wickerman demo or any other demos of songs that feature on the album, in my opinion. So what does that leave us with?
Yesterday
Forever In My Dreams
Cuckoo
Quiet Revolution
After You
Grandfather's Nursery
My Mistake/Chordy
My Body May Die(?)
These are the songs that are already in circulation, I included My Body May Die as stylistically it fits and it's just too darn good to be obscure. Thats 8 tracks and the deluxe editions range from 11 to 14 bonus tracks. What could take up the remainder?
One of the Trees/Sunrise remixes?
Duck Diving (Peel Session?)
Disco 2000 (Nick Cave)
The songs above could easily fill out a bonus disc in a deluxe edition without anything unreleased or unknown coming to us.
Then we move onto unreleased material
Darren
M'Lady
Peformance Of A Lifetime
St Just
Got To Have Love (vocal)
The Depot sessions are reported as not having vocals so I think it unlikely they will be released, however much I want to hear Medieveal Owl! So in reality we are talking anywhere from none to 5 unreleased songs as a best result? Anyone else have anything to add to this?

Great point Eamonn, thats what I was hoping for. Also, what about the 'The juice of thy cunny is like a fine wine' track? Do we know which song that is from? I'm secretly hoping that's from Medieval Owl and I will get a chance to hear it!