Stephen said in another thread he thought His n Hers was Pulp's filthiest song.

What do you think?

I don't agree, although I'll have to be all innocent and naive and admit I was never sure what 'shove it in sideways' meant... (it sounds filthy).

I've been listening to Apparently a lot, and started out thinking, oh this is a nice song! 

Then on my third listen the line 'You blew my cover then you blew my mind, now blow me slowly cause I need some time' jumped out at me as sounding obscene (but am I reading a filthy meaning into an innocent line?)

What's your favourite smutty line.

Has Jarvis ever shocked you with his lyrics?

Are there any lyrics you don't approve of?

I thought he met her while he was doing his shopping... Like I say, so naive!

Surely, It's A Dirty World has gotta be up there and any of the Relaxed Muscle songs. The line in Party Hard 'he's just shed his load on your best party frock'. Oh, you could go on and on.

"He doesn't care what it looks like, just as long as it's pink and it's tight."

With an honourable mention to the slight tweak to the lyrics of I Spy when they did it on MTV Most Wanted: "la la la la la la la la la la, in the midnight hour, la la la la la la la la la la, I will... come on you."

As far as shocking and offensive lyrics, the filthier the Pulp song the better, it's one of the reasons they are the band they are!

What about the hint of incest in Razzmatazz?

Never seen HNH and SSC live. This is something I must rectify

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You do 'get' the song This is Hardcore, right...? :)

And where do you stand on the "you started getting fatter three weeks after I left you...I saw you at the doctors, waiting for a test..." line? Medical student taking exams after eating too much chocolate?

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 I tried getting this played the other day as Steve Lamacq's National Anthem thingy. There was a story about a sale of some Banksy pictures along with the suggestion that the bubble was bursting in the contemporary art market (lost its razzamatazz, see), supported by the observation that one of Banksy's most well-known works here in Bristol is this picture painted on the outside of the sexual health clinic in Park St (I saw you at the doctor's, waiting for a test). Didn't play it though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy_lovers.jpg

And TIH is about doing the filing, right, that goes in there, that goes in there??

fredthe3rd wrote:

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I thought he met her while he was doing his shopping... Like I say, so naive!

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 This is rather nostalgic in a way for those of us (like Jarvis) brought up on 70s family viewing. There was an awful lot of smut very cleverly blended into a lot of it. Mrs Slocombe's problems with her pussy getting wet all the time were right over my head when I was 10. And then there's the Two Ronnie's, that would be a whole book by itself. It's weird to think back now that I was watching all this stuff happily with my parents who clearly did know what was going on (well, my mum was a bit clueless), but were presumably secure in the (correct) belief that I hadn't a clue. So I take a similar attitude now with my kids and just cross my fingers and hope for the best when Red Dwarf or whatever is on. Or Top Gear, they haven't asked me to explain about ladies having crises yet!

So Jarvis is a perv or an imaginary perv ? what do you think ?

(Razzmatazz is probably my fav filthiest song, being a teenage foreigner that was the song that made my realize they were really talking about sex ALL the time).

As we all seem to be owning-up in the naievity stakes...Pencil Skirt's ''If you look under the bed I can see my house from here'' always puzzled me. He's not referring to an, er, position from behind is he?

My favourite filthy moment was Jarvis singing and that goes in there, etc whilst pointing in different strangely seedy ways on Top Of The Pops... At 7 pm on BBC 1! Only topped by Mos Def, Nate Dogg and Pharoah Monch singing Oh No on same show and somehow getting away with saying shit and nigga alot and somehow getting away without anyone noticing. Prefer the smut of TIH on family TV though. I was watching with my mum. It was excruciating.

fredthe3rd wrote:

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My favourite filthy moment was Jarvis singing and that goes in there, etc whilst pointing in different strangely seedy ways on Top Of The Pops... At 7 pm on BBC 1! Only topped by Mos Def, Nate Dogg and Pharoah Monch singing Oh No on same show and somehow getting away with saying shit and nigga alot and somehow getting away without anyone noticing. Prefer the smut of TIH on family TV though. I was watching with my mum. It was excruciating.

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Indeed. Nicely summed-up by the guy on acrylicafternoons.com:

 

Performances in '98 were largely confined to the predictable series of music programmes, TFI, Top Of The Pops, another fantastic Jools Holland and snippets from the wonderful Glastonbury set. At the time, I felt a certain smugness at watching them mime This Is Hardcore on Top of The Pops. How brilliant it was that Pulp could get away with releasing a six and half minute porn-drenched single, thrusting it into the top 20 and then performing it on prime time TV in front of a bunch of teenagers. Subversive or what?

Eamonn wrote:

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fredthe3rd wrote:

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My favourite filthy moment was Jarvis singing and that goes in there, etc whilst pointing in different strangely seedy ways on Top Of The Pops... At 7 pm on BBC 1! Only topped by Mos Def, Nate Dogg and Pharoah Monch singing Oh No on same show and somehow getting away with saying shit and nigga alot and somehow getting away without anyone noticing. Prefer the smut of TIH on family TV though. I was watching with my mum. It was excruciating.

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Indeed. Nicely summed-up by the guy on acrylicafternoons.com:

 

Performances in '98 were largely confined to the predictable series of music programmes, TFI, Top Of The Pops, another fantastic Jools Holland and snippets from the wonderful Glastonbury set. At the time, I felt a certain smugness at watching them mime This Is Hardcore on Top of The Pops. How brilliant it was that Pulp could get away with releasing a six and half minute porn-drenched single, thrusting it into the top 20 and then performing it on prime time TV in front of a bunch of teenagers. Subversive or what?

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 I still vividly remember listening to Mike Read's chart rundown on a Monday morning when he refused to play Relax having read the lyrics while the no. 2 of the week was playing, so it isn't a given that you can pull the wool over the eyes of the BBC meeja types (OK, they didn't have meeja types in 1984). Only trouble was, at the time I was the one that didn't have a clue what his problem was.

Nick is our Banksy.

Possibly only bettered by ''Come on and cuddle me, I could be your teddy bear, a teddy bear with an erection''.

Cocker's short for sucker...
a sucker of...

fredthe3rd wrote:

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That would have gotten the wrong sort of headlines if it had made the album...

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 Grayson Perry got away with it, but then that's art, so it's OK, isn't that how it works?

http://valerydemure.com/2012/01/grayson-perry-at-the-british-museum/

I have to say 'streetlights' ... I can't play that when my family is around. (I admit I love it...but yeah) ;)

Fran, didn't Mike Read actually take the record off the player and smash it live on air...?

How'd I forget that?

Just remembered a line I read on here which is apparently from some unreleased, uncirculated song:

'The juice of thy cunny is like a fine wine'

I was sick in my mouth a bit when I read that - mainly for the visual of Jarvis in the act that popped into my brain.

'We tried hard to make it work, kissed her where she said it hurt, but I was always underneath..."

symphonie wrote:

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fredthe3rd wrote:

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 Is that the ONLY song you can't play round your family?

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 LOL NO actually... but I definitely wouldn't play that or My Legendary GF...or many many more... I guess I only play my HITS cd to save embarrassment...the 'others' stay on the ipod :)

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Is My Legendary Girlfriend really that bad?

Jazza wrote:

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symphonie wrote:

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fredthe3rd wrote:

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 Is that the ONLY song you can't play round your family?

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 LOL NO actually... but I definitely wouldn't play that or My Legendary GF...or many many more... I guess I only play my HITS cd to save embarrassment...the 'others' stay on the ipod :)

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Is My Legendary Girlfriend really that bad?

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 Everyone on Park Hill came in unison at 4:13 am

I find myself singing Little Girl with Blue Eyes to my baby daughter, but luckily I only get as far as the first verse before reminding myself to continue would be very wrong!

The above post is very visually pleasing.

I am the master of this universe and I've got so big it hurts

saw119 wrote:

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Also, can anyone remember who said that Countdown was the best song about premature ejaculation ever?

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Possibly you're thinking of a live review written by Dave Simpson in Melody Maker:
7th December 1992 - Sheffield University Lower Refectory

"Who else amongst today's impotent heroes would have the gall and humility to write about the ultimate male taboo of premature ejaculation? ("Countdown")."

Jarvis later mentioned it at the London Powerhaus Christmas show:

"Somebody said that this song was about premature ejaculation, which is something I've never ever suffered from I must assure you. I may look quite excitable on the stage, but..."

-- Edited by Will on Monday 23rd of April 2012 06:56:09 PM

I remember about the time HnH came out there was some speculation that She's A Lady was about anal sex! It all stemmed from the 'wore her body back to front' line, Jarvis refuted this in interviews and I have to say I was slightly baffled by the claim too. Also, can anyone remember who said that Countdown was the best song about premature ejaculation ever?