Yeah Like A Friend was good to hear but I think Bar Italia is overplayed now though. Am I the only one who thinks its one of Pulp's weakest songs? I would have been happy if they only played My Lighthouse to be honest, nothing came close!

I've always found it a bit unoriginal sounding for Pulp and too "sing along"

Ah ok that makes sense, I used to play Dogs Are Everywhere and Death Goes To The Disco on my bass when I was a teenager, it was good fun :). Don't think I've heard the slowed down version.

I'm always happy when Bar Italia is played - it gives me a chance to get my breath back and cool down a bit from all the jumping around.

For people with less time on their hands than me, here's a list of how many Different Class songs were played at gigs by year.

That's nine performances of Bar Italia in '95 and '96!

1994: Underwear 12, Common People 11, Pencil Skirt 1
1995: Common People 16, Sorted for E's and Wizz 15, Disco 2000 15, Mis-Shapes 15, Underwear 13, Pencil Skirt 12, Live Bed Show 11, I Spy 11, Monday Morning 9, FEELINGCALLEDLOVE 6, Something Changed 6, Bar Italia 3
1996: Common People 11, Mis-Shapes 11, Disco 2000 10, Live Bed Show 10, Sorted for E's and Wizz 9, Underwear 9, FEELINGCALLEDLOVE 9, I Spy 9, Something Changed 8, Monday Morning 8, Pencil Skirt 7, Bar Italia 6
1998: Common People 32, Sorted for E's and Wizz 30, Underwear 13, Something Changed 13, Disco 2000 12, FEELINGCALLEDLOVE 9, Live Bed Show 9, Pencil Skirt 2, I Spy 1, (Mis-Shapes, Bar Italia, Monday Morning 0)
1999: Sorted for E's and Wizz 3 (all others 0)
2000: Common People, Sorted for E's and WIzz, FEELINGCALLEDLOVE, Something Changed (all 4), (all others 0)
2001: FEELINGCALLEDLOVE 20, Sorted 18, Underwear 15, LIve Bed Show 13, SOmething CHanged 11, Common People 9 (all others 0)
2002: Sorted 13, COmmon People 12, Live Bed Show 12, FEELING 11, Underwear 7, Something Changed 7 (all others 0)
2011: Common People Disco 2000 27, Sorted SOmething Changed 26, I Spy 22, Mis-Shapes 20, Underwear 18, FEELING Bar Italia 17, Pencil Skirt 9, Monday Morning 6, Live Bed Show 4
2012: Mis-Shapes 2, Common Sorted Something DIsco Spy Italia 1 (all others 0)

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There's one at Dijon 28/11/95 that's not amazing quality but is the slow version and is in circulation. Another at Stockholm 6/2/96, Toronto 30/5/96 etc. Seemingly at any 95/96 gig it's the sexy, slow, creeping one. I'll upload one if you're unable to find one yourself.

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Is it on the baritalia yahoo account? Can't find any live versions before 2011 on youtube

Their numbers don't quite match yours (http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/pulp-bd6bdda.html), but given that Babies is seldom not played, you can understand why certain band members began to express revulsion at this too...

That said, I think D2000 attracted more derision than Common People.

Not much dissent voiced since the reunion though. And glorious titbits like Birds, My Lighthouse, OU, SSC and Countdown will hopefully keep things fresh for a long time to come.

...Quite right. Now that I look, they are only surveying 135 gigs. These are drawn from throughout their career though, so I suppose its a little like chucking a quadrangle over some daisies.

Did anyone else notice Jarvis laugh when singing Bar Italia and getting to the 'If they knock down this place....' bit?