My uncle works for Sheffield City Council and is only as vaguely aware of Pulp as any regular man in his early 50s, having only recently (well, last 10 years) moved there. I'm going to make him a compilation of Pulp songs which are about the city in one way or other.
So far it looks like this:
Babies Wickerman Deep Fried In Kelvin Inside Susan 59 Lyndhurst Grove Catcliffe Shakedown My Legendary Girlfriend Sheffield: Sex City
...but it's a bit short. Any suggestions on which other tracks I should include?
You could include Disco 2000 (the fountain etc) and to me David's Last Summer has been about Sheffield because the bit at the end about the glass house, bandsatnd and boating lake is Weston Park leading down to crookes valley park.
"Don't You Want Me Anymore" doesn't directly reference Sheffield, but there's something distinctively northern in the lyrics about a man returning triumphantly to his home town only to be mocked and rejected.
If you're willing to stretch the criteria and follow Fuss Free's suggestion then there are plenty of songs that conjure up a Sheffield feeling, the problem will be that the Sheffield depicted or referenced no longer exists. Along those lines I would also suggest Down By The River, Styloroc: Nites Of Suburbia and Joyriders. I've just realised, you musn't include 59 Lyndhurst Grove as that is set in London. You should also include Your Sisters Clothes as it's a sequel to Babies.
His'n'Hers has the Brincliffe Oaks but that's not mentioned til five minutes in and shut down a few years ago so he may never have heard of it.
Unless parts of Sheff are explicitly referred to, most other references - tenuous or otherwise, may be lost on your uncle and he'll be skipping through a lot of songs at 0:47 at best.
