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SarahAWilson


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Spiritualized, Richard Hawley, Arctic Monkeys, Aphex Twin and the "Lawrence" projects (Felt, Denim, Go Kart-Mozart).



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After clicking on similar artists for Pulp, Roxy Music came up. I immediately liked them and went out and got all their records and was so mad I missed their brief US dates back around '01 I think.  Most people I come across like albums 1/2 the best but I think Stranded is the best followed by country life and Siren.  I recently saw an interview w/ Eno where he said Stranded was his favorite as well even though he's not on it of course.  I bought the Scott Walker CD boy child after reading he was producing the new pulp album and was totally into it from the first second of track one "The Plague" ... That led to the Walker Brothers etc...



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A 'me too' on the Scott Walker, but also Artery. 'Into The Garden' would be up there in my list of all time favourite tracks now.

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I checked out the Durutti Column and Psychic TV because of Jarvis. I also checked out Dory Previn because she was on Jarvis and Steve's mix and I love her. Also Jarvis has played Primal Scream several times on his show and that combined with the influence of a friend got me to listen to them and now they're my third favourite band.

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I completely forgot about Richard Hawley and Spiritualized, ditto.



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Serge Gainsbourg,Scott Walker,Gil Scott Heron,Leonard Cohen and Richard Hawley.
Also,i really enjoyed The Zodiac-Cosmic Sounds from the Sunday Service although not really a band.

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oh yeah Steve Mackey got me into Aphex Twin. I still actually need to listen to Richard Hawley's stuff.

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Because Jarvis was in that Nick Cave video, I tried Nick Cave.

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I tried very hard with Scott Walker, but it just didn't happen with me. Sorry, I did at least try!

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fredthe3rd wrote:
beetlebum7 wrote:

After clicking on similar artists for Pulp

 Clicking where? What site?

 Must be one of those new fangled interweb things, the 'magic music portal' or summat. In the old days I just listened to Mark Goodier's Evening Session to find out what other bands I liked.



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I think it was just AMAZON.  When you do a search for an artist there's a like that says "similar artists" and Roxy Music came up first.  Chris Thomas produced album 5 "Siren" for them as well actually I think.



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beetlebum7 wrote:

After clicking on similar artists for Pulp

 Clicking where? What site?



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"Customers who bought this item also bought"?

I always thought there should be an iTunes genius (does that just pick a bunch of songs labelled as the same genre?) in the actual iTunes store so you could see similar music you don't yet own. If that feature does exist I couldn't find it...

Nice hat btw... or is that your hair?

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I thought it was Amazon, it was 10 years ago though so maybe it was a different site. But it was a "similar artists" not a "customers who bought this etc..." so maybe it wasn't Amazon if that option isn't on their site.

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I just remembered! Yes there was one I got into because of Pulp - The Longpigs.

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beetlebum7 wrote:

After clicking on similar artists for Pulp, Roxy Music came up...  I bought the Scott Walker CD boy child after reading he was producing the new pulp album and was totally into it from the first second of track one "The Plague" ... That led to the Walker Brothers etc...

 

Only one that directly comes to mind are Long Blondes. I gave a listen to Menswe@r after catching the end of their set at Theatre Royal and The Horrors after Hyde Park thanks to Pulp. I wouldn't say I got into any of them though. 

I did give Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker and The Velvet Underground more of a listen, but I didn't get into any via Pulp.  Roxy Music were always a band I liked.  Perhaps, if anything I like I Will Survive a little more than I did pre-1993, but I've not got into Gloria Gaynor.



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Leonard Cohen is definitely one, bought that yellow Greatest Hits LP as sort-of research for the book but really enjoyed it in its own right (and still do). Artery too, for similar reasons.

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beetlebum7 wrote:

I think it was just AMAZON.  When you do a search for an artist there's a like that says "similar artists" and Roxy Music came up first.  Chris Thomas produced album 5 "Siren" for them as well actually I think.

 Spotify and Jango do it.  Spotify has the very similar Manic Street Preachers and The Jam among others. Jango is better.



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Similar artists according to last.fm = Jarvis Cocker, Suede, Relaxed Muscle, Blur, Graham Coxon, Morrissey, Elastica. Hm.
http://www.last.fm/music/Pulp/+similar


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i got into pretty much all bands i like now because of Pulp, at least indirectly. Because of them I scored the internet and started listening to indie radio and in general became interested.

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I never thought of it that way... but actually I'd have to agree with that also.

Most the bands I like now are English.  



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Saint Etienne, Sir Scott Walker, possibly Roxy Music.
And various bands who claimed Pulp as an influence or journalists did in the past ten years (Franz Ferdinand, Maximo Park, T'Long Blondes etc.).
I should love Franz Ferdinand given my tastes but I think they're just alright.

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I suspect I only listened to Pulp because of Suede.  In the wake of Animal Nitrate, there was a bit of a buzz about Pulp  re: Razzmatazz.

Found this scan of Select from the period, interestingly with a picture of Jarvis in a supermarket...

http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/?cat=650

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Yeah that was the infamous Select issue that helped kickstart Britpop (I think Stewart Maconie coined the term for the first time in one of the articles).

Sarah Cracknell was quite something back then wasn't she? *Sigh*

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Eamonn wrote:

Yeah that was the infamous Select issue that helped kickstart Britpop.

Yep.  I remember I was listening to Suede and Blur (Modern Life is Rubbish) and trying to find Razzmatazz in various record stores.  I didn't really see the connection at the time, especially concerning Blur, who seemed to have morphed into a Kinks tribute band.

As usual with Pulp, they were a little slow to get records out, it was six months after the article that Intro and then Lipgloss were released.

 



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ArrGee wrote:

I suspect I only listened to Pulp because of Suede.  In the wake of Animal Nitrate, there was a bit of a buzz about Pulp  re: Razzmatazz.

Found this scan of Select from the period, interestingly with a picture of Jarvis in a supermarket...

http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/?cat=650

cover3.jpg

 You've made my day with that link, ArrGee. Brilliant!



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I bought Select religiously at that time and still have all my issues. That article was probbly my first exposure to Pulp on a medi level. Check out Dec 93 for a truly excellent Jarvis interview. Perhaps the first major article/interview with Jarvis?



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I suppose I got into everything because of pulp because pulp were my first proper favourite band and really turned me on to music.

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I became a pretty hardcore Walker fan after picking up the "Boy Child" compilation out of curiosity. However, I would only give him 4 stars out of 5 because of everything he released from the infamous "second side of 'til the Band Comes In" to the later Walker Brothers albums. For me, he only really "got it" again with "Nite Flights".

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Richard Hawley obviously... I tried the walker brothers, scott walker, but they dont do anything for me. Suede was supposed to be a bit like Pulp but after two songs, i turn off their records.

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Sheffield man found dead. Crushed by huge stack of Select magazines.

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Suede followed Pulp in my listening chronology. It all went wrong after Butler left though. Coming Up had its moments, but thereafter they seemed to turn into a Suede tribute act... too many "gasoline" rhymes. Their lyrics became so empty that I started to doubt the sincerity of their earlier works. Good at Brixton though!

Back on subject - the Sheffield connection introduced me to Katsen. Great little electro/synth band, and current.

Jarvis' contribution to the Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited album got me into Serge in a big way, and thereby (some of) Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, and his daughter Charlotte, whose dark cinematic songs make all my Portishead-Nerves jingle. The recent biopic of Gainsbourg is well worth a watch for any music lover. A nice French foray, which continues...

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Suede followed Pulp in my listening chronology...

 Always interesting when people discover bands years later and hear them out of sequence.  Personally, I much prefer the Kinks and the Stones to the Beatles, but without the fab four, I doubt either of the others would have been heard of.

Back in 1992/1993, Suede were a real blast of fresh air.  The Madchester scene was dying on its arse, so when Suede turned up it was great to see a band that seemed to matter.   The first three singles came out before the debut album and music seemed to suddenly matter again.  Arguably they never improved on the first three singles, but without them,  Pulp would never have got much of an airing.  And Dog Man Star is one of the great albums.  It was their Hardcore!

Suede are to what is known as Britpop, as the Sex Pistols are to what is known as Punk/New Wave, and as T.Rex are to what is known as Glam.  In all likelihood this forum would not exist without Suede.

 



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Suede followed Pulp in my listening chronology...

 Always interesting when people discover bands years later and hear them out of sequence.  Personally, I much prefer the Kinks and the Stones to the Beatles, but without the fab four, I doubt either of the others would have been heard of.

Back in 1992/1993, Suede were a real blast of fresh air.  The Madchester scene was dying on its arse, so when Suede turned up it was great to see a band that seemed to matter.   The first three singles came out before the debut album and music seemed to suddenly matter again.  Arguably they never improved on the first three singles, but without them, I don't think Pulp would never have got much of an airing.  And Dog Man Star is one of the great albums.  It was their Hardcore!

Suede are to what is known as Britpop, as the Sex Pistols are to what is known as Punk/New Wave, and as T.Rex are to what is known as Glam.  In all likelihood this forum would not exist without Suede.

 

 Couldn't agree with you more. The influence and importance of Suede cannot be overestimated in my opinion. They were THE key band in my adolescence that opened up so many doors both musically and culturally. Ok, they were superceded in the end but they burned so brightly in the beginning.



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