Would it be inappropriate to ask him how Russell is doing? 

Sturdy wrote:

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Eamonn wrote:

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Can you please ask him what the band were thinking when they completely discarded It's A Dirty World during the TIH sessions? Or if he has any memories from the writing/recording of that song?

Sturdy never got to ask him about it for Truth And Beauty and it seems to be acknowledged on here generally, and by Jarvis, that it should have been on the album, never mind a b-side.

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I did ask him about it actually. Mentioned the title to him and he didn't remember it at all.

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Sorry Mark! Actually, I think you said on here before that may have been because he might have remembered it under the title "She Said She Was A Dancer" rather than "Dirty World" which is the only title that was available at the time you interviewed him (presumably taken from the demos page on the old official site).

Could have replaced That Boy's Evil?(!) Everyone has their own tastes etc. but I'm puzzled how any Pulp fan could not be impressed by IADW. It always goes down really well with casual Pulp fans when I play it to them too.  In his critique book on Pulp, Uncommon, Owen Hatherley describes it very well. From memory, something like "given the full Chris Thomas guignol treatment, it's so much more likely than the fudges on the record". I think in his reshuffling of the TIH tracklist he replaces a song about a damaged girl that did make the final cut, Sylvia, with Dirty World.

And Jarvis: "The biggest surprise that I got [compiling the reissues] was a track that was on the bonus disc of This Is Hardcore, which I think was the only studio outtake we've ever had, which was a song that we just abandoned called "It's a Dirty World". And when I listened to that, I realized that I must have been pretty fucked up at that time, because it's better than about six songs that actually ended up on This Is Hardcore. So that was the biggest surprise, really. I thought it was a really good song."

I'd go a step further and say after the title track it's the strongest song from that era. 

Anyway, Stephen, regardless of the song's merits which seem more debatable than I thought, it would be interesting to see if Nick's memory of the song has been jogged since its' eventual release. The fact that it's the only fully recorded Pulp song (with bells on) never to be originally released gives it curio status at least so I'd like to hear anything he has to say about it. Thanks.

Eamonn wrote:

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Thought your rap leanings would dig the "Everybody in the house say Woah's". Street Operator is so bland in comparison.

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