It's interesting Frightened. When I first heard it I thought it was simply an early version of His N Hers but they really are very close together in terms of being recorded. Frightened in Sept 93 and His N Hers in Oct 93. The band also never played Frightened live but His N Hers enters the setlists about November time. So maybe the two songs were both around at the same time? Overlapping, concurrent? I would have thought the band may have played Frightened live if it was around in early 93. If Frightened was the inspiration for His N Hers then the band turned it around in a fairly unprecedented timeframe for them. It's a bit of a mystery Frightened.

I just love everything about it - how it was unheard of until the tracklistings for the deluxe editions appeared (even the Pulp Bible Truth And Beauty knew not of it, as far as I recall), and thinking that maybe it was a demo for His'n'Hers under a working title.

Certainly unfinished lyrically, and the outro jam where the group let loose may well have been removed if the song had been tidied-up and finished but thankfully it wasn't. From the synth frenzy intro throughout, it's completely absorbing and I often repeat it as soon as it finishes. For me it sits with The Boss as two wonderful slices of Pulp outpulping Pulp in their emergent pop phase. I guess it being close to pastiche may have hindered its potential.

-- Edited by Eamonn on Monday 30th of June 2014 06:15:57 PM

Someone Like The Moon

I've always thought that it was much more successful than "Happy Endings" and to be honest, I think that the album would sound odd without it there

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Some anorak notes - it was voted as Pulp's worst song in a poll run by the official site in the early 00's and this was mentioned to Jarvis in a radio interview (I think by Gary Crowley on BBC Radio London around the time Hits came out), at which he (Jarvis) sprung to the song's defence.

 

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Do you (or does anyone) have a copy of that or a link to it? It would be really useful if and when I get around to giving these reviews a second draft.

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It should really have been left off HnH for HnH.  

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I dearly love HnH's, Your Sister's Clothes & Seconds (...and The Boss and Deep Fried the rest of the Deluxe Edition), but I have a mental block when it comes to substituting any of them for tracks that made the original release of His and Hers. Obviously this is due to my profound (over-)familiarity with the album's pacing and running order. Where do you think the track would find its home amongst the listing? 

(This struggle is faaaar harder when it comes to We Love Life - I've tried and failed to compose a playlist with a satisfactory running order for all the wonderful extras that have surfaced (and been so kindly shared by the community here) alone, before even attempting to formulate an 'alternative' running order. Cuckoo, for instance, starts so abruptly and is so different in tone to the other material that it's hard to see where it would fit. Maybe that's why it faded to obscurity, rather than dissatisfaction with the track per se, which appears to be the prevailing narrative?

[And of course, Pulp could lend a big hand here by releasing a Deluxe Edition and ending this misery...]

 

-- Edited by superchob on Thursday 24th of July 2014 07:40:30 PM

My favourite!

Never really given it much thought. Looks like that and The Babysitter were done specifically as B-sides (as with Deep Fried), so it doesn't seem that extraordinary that they were done outside of the main album sessions.

Femme Fatale - and that's the end of that era. I'll be attempting to wrap it up with a best-of next week before we move on to you-know-what.

That perfectly sums it up, nice one Weej. The Deutsche Group 'Propaganda' also did a cover of this which i quite like, mid eighties if i recall.

Sorry, this has more than very likely been covered but didn't they start another attempt at 'Live on' for the his 'n' hers lp left unfinished? Perhaps they should have just let it out as a live e.p?  Space/Death ll/Live on/The boss?