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fredthe3rd


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Not sure how many people would get beyond disc one... I'd cut right down on the early recordings and concentrate on their golden years. And the song your friend heard on the radio was most likely Disco 2000 - seems to get more airplay than any other Pulp song.

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A few years ago, a friend asked me to make him up a compilation CDR of Pulp because he'd heard something on the radio (presumably "Common People") and wanted to investigate further. I don't copy commercially available material for anyone so I played him some songs in the car and told him to get on Spotify if he wanted to hear any more. However, it got me thinking, and seeing as Blur did it, if you were to make up a "Beginners Guide" compilation of Pulp, what would you include?

For me, it would have to be a 2 CD set as follows:

CD1

  1. What Do You Say?
  2. Please Don't Worry
  3. My Lighthouse (single remix)
  4. Wishful Thinking
  5. In Many Ways
  6. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
  7. Dogs Are Everywhere
  8. Simultaneous
  9. Aborigine
  10. They Suffocate At Night
  11. Fairground
  12. Being Followed Home
  13. Death Comes to Town
  14. My Legendary Girlfriend
  15. Don't You Want Me Anymore?
  16. She's Dead
  17. Countdown (extended version)

CD2

  1. Glory Days
  2. Common People
  3. OU
  4. Babies
  5. Razzmatazz
  6. Sheffield: Sex City
  7. Lipgloss
  8. Do You Remember the First Time?
  9. Seconds
  10. I Spy
  11. FEELINGCALLEDLOVE
  12. This Is Hardcore
  13. Wickerman
  14. Bad Cover Version
  15. Sorted For E's and Wizz
  16. Party Hard
  17. Sunrise 

It would be interesting to hear what you would include...



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Whatever happened to your website Ian?

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Eamonn wrote:

Whatever happened to your website Ian?

 Well, I wasn't too busy with work when I decided to do it, but now I am... I am thinking of doing some sort of reviews blog instead. Watch this space.



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Yeah, I'd take my hat off to the uninitiated who makes it past Simultaneous and Aborigine without skipping!

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I like to keep most of my mixes for other people to one disc.

And I generally like to stick to the singles to initiate people with Pulp.


My mostly comprehensive Pulp mix goes something like this:

My Lighthouse
Little Girl with Blue Eyes
They Suffocate at Night
My Legendary Girlfriend
O.U.
Razzmatazz
Babies
Lipgloss
Do You Remember the First Time
Common People
Sorted
Disco 2000
Help the Aged
This is Hardcore
Party Hard
Bad Cover Version
Sunrise


And there's this alternate, which starts with Separations, which is what I consider the beginning of Pulp As We Know Them


My Legendary Girlfriend
O.U.
Babies
Your Sister's Clothes
Seconds
His 'N' Hers
Lipgloss
Do You Remember the First Time?
Common People
Mis-Shapes
Disco 2000
Help the Aged
This Is Hardcore
Party Hard
Bad Cover Version
Sunrise

The main advantage of this is that I lets me include the entire Sisters EP.

Were I too make a Pulp intro mix that included deep cuts... hmm, I'd have to think about that.



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Hits (+ Misshapes) followed by the Countdown compilation would be perfect

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yeah I bought the Countdown comp after hearing Disco 2000 on the radio and I loved the hell out of it!

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Something like this?

Disc 1

Pink Glove
Mile End
O.U.
Common People
First Time?
Countdown
Razzmatazz
Lipgloss
Babies
Seconds
Mis-Shapes
Monday Morning
Party Hard
Street Operator
The Trees
Birds In Your Garden
FEELINGCALLEDLOVE

Disc 2

This Is Hardcore
Acrylic Afternoons
Ansaphone
Being Followed Home
Ladies Man
Like a Friend (short version)
Anorexic Beauty
Sorted
Legendary Girlfriend
Wishful Thinking
Blue Girls
Little Girl (WBE)
Something Changed
Love is Blind
Help The Aged
A Little Soul
TV Movie
Wickerman
TIH (End Of The Line)

I've only really paid attention to track listings for the starts and end of each disc. Oh, and I tried to put more accessible stuff on Disc 1.


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I prefer single disc comps - was sticking with the Beginners Guide to Blur concept, and trying to make disc one more accessible, then if you like disc one disc two can be like further reading.

Also sticking with singles would make it very similar to Hits (which should have featured Mis-Shapes!)

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Hell, just give them Intro... Excuse the pun, but it's all in the name: Babies and Razz are accessible; Sex City foreshadows the spoken-word majesty of I Spy/Hardcore/etc; and there's plenty of the lo-fi quirkiness and storytelling that the unsuspecting may find off-putting in the earlier recordings. Intro marks the transition, so if you want to help them love Pulp in their entirety, and quickly, make a Gift of it (you needn't excuse that pun).

(On the other hand, if you have 13 or so years to spare, make a gift of It. See what I did there? Pun-o-rama. It's all in the capitalisation. Grammar is wonderful. I wish I knew more about it.)*** 

Anyway, Intro: hook 'em with a couple of crowd pleasers whilst contextualising the earlier darkness and kitsch AND the later sweeping grandeur.

I'm off now to bash myself around the head a few times now so that I can forget Pulp, listen to Intro, and quickly learn to love Pulp again. Call it a project.

Attentive forum-goers may have read elsewhere that I just hid £15 in a book so I could buy an unconfirmed DVD release ASAP. Please don't let me forget THAT. I'm not made of money.

What would be really interesting is - having forgotten my love of Pulp and attempted to rekindle it via Into - is whether or not this unconfirmed release of remastered VHS recordings from 1991 would be as vital to my daily functioning as it seems now. Prior bashing.

 

 

 

***That's "it", not "It". Sorry. But then, don't we all wish we knew a little more about "It"? A little more. I mean, viscerally-more. Experiencially more. Has anyone heard Lighthouses live? Is there an MP3 in circulation? I never have. I've read things. Sturdy things. But to experience...................




-- Edited by superchob on Friday 17th of February 2012 11:12:49 PM

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I think Disc 1 in the OP would scare most people off... you have to break them in gently!

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Have you sniffed a few lines tonight Chobby?

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fredthe3rd wrote:

Have you sniffed a few lines tonight Chobby?

My lines are bound to seem white on this elegent, black background we call home? 



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I meant cocaine..,

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Haha, what a post. Even outfredded fred's zany style! Good question about a live version of My Lighthouse actually, strange that there should be none around?

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I might be wrong but I think that the earliest concerts recorded were in 1982 then the next one is from the Leadmill in 1984. I am guessing most of the songs off "It" would have been played live in 1983.



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What's my zany style??

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