I put the link up on FB, jokingly saying my boyfriend should wear a pin stripe suit and no shirt, a friend from home said "are you missing scotland again" and put this up...
I'm glad they play it at all, because it did get dropped off the live set for quite a while. It's still my favourite Pulp song. In fact, it's probably my favourite song by anyone. Ever.
-- Edited by ArrGee on Monday 18th of February 2013 11:55:45 PM
Animal Nitrate and New Wave, The Auteurs debut album, are also 20 this week. Saint Etienne's So Tough and Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish reach the same milestone later in the spring. That infamous Select magazine with the "Yanks Go Home!" and the first successful attempt to shoe-horn the 'B' word into something meaningful was just around the corner too. It'll all end in tears they should have said...
Exciting times though I imagine, if you were like ArrGee, young, free and a few bob in your corduroys.
Ok, I'm getting on the nostalgia train. I was fifteen in 1995 and it was the best year of my life! My first proper famous band gig was Heineken festival, my boyfriend was the lead singer in a band and we had Pulp. It was awesome. I feel sorry for teenagers today, not having what we had on the scale we had it. And we fucking had it :).
-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Tuesday 19th of February 2013 02:45:19 PM
I'm glad they play it at all, because it did get dropped off the live set for quite a while. It's still my favourite Pulp song. In fact, it's probably my favourite song by anyone. Ever.
-- Edited by ArrGee on Monday 18th of February 2013 11:55:45 PM
Don't get me wrong I still enjoyed it, just didn't love it quite as much as the recorded version. Its a bit too stop-start without the driving verses.
I din't have much love for this when it first appeared but its grown on me over the years, like mould! I always preferred the old school stylings of stacks/59LG & inside Susan. Anyways, Happy birthday old friend.
Animal Nitrate and New Wave, The Auteurs debut album, are also 20 this week. Saint Etienne's So Tough and Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish reach the same milestone later in the spring. That infamous Select magazine with the "Yanks Go Home!" and the first successful attempt to shoe-horn the 'B' word into something meaningful was just around the corner too. It'll all end in tears they should have said...
Exciting times though I imagine, if you were like ArrGee, young, free and a few bob in your corduroys.
Pretty much the whole of the 1990s were exciting. Everything seem to start with Fool's Gold and Step On, and then didn't really stop until Hardcore. When Suede and Pulp emerged things really got interesting, but prior to that there was Nirvana as well. It was amazing that music that had been pretty obscure prior to those days, pretty much became the mainstream.
After Hardcore, the last great record of the 20th century, music didn't seem to matter so much and there was a retreat to the blandness prior to that. I suppose getting married and having kids may have had something to do with that as well. Never had corduroys though I did have a few bob.
I've held back from being overly nostalgic about those early 90's times in this thread but I simply cannot anymore. I absolutely loved it from '91-'96 I just had such an exciting musical and cultural time. Everything about it was perfect and I saw some of the best music concerts, listened to some of the best music and had some really excellent friends. I long for those days of my brown corduroys and polyester shirt.
I'm a decade behind you guys. Saw some great gigs and got lost in some great contemporary albums throughout the 00's but I think it's natural to hanker after a music/cultural time that you just missed out on or heard bits and pieces of as a kid but by the time you hit your mid to late teens it had been replaced by something else.
Probably not music. More likely to get excited about video games.
My teenage son doesn't care about music in the way I did. He plays bass, but just plays anything that he is taught in numerous styles. Likes to listen to radio like XFM, but wouldn't bother to buy anything. As long as it's some acceptable sort of noise, he's happy enough. His take it or leave it attitude is probably far more healthy than my obsessive one.
I've held back from being overly nostalgic about those early 90's times in this thread but I simply cannot anymore. I absolutely loved it from '91-'96 I just had such an exciting musical and cultural time. Everything about it was perfect and I saw some of the best music concerts, listened to some of the best music and had some really excellent friends. I long for those days of my brown corduroys and polyester shirt.
LOL you can resist, but it is futile. 1989 - 1998 for a multitude of reasons were a great time for me, the music was a soundtrack to my life. Wouldn't do it again, but it was a ten year party.
Had a bit of a laugh in the 80s' and made an absolute tit of myself in the 90s'..but i'm alright now though i think. its all about the balance innit? In any case i would suggest that its better to do these things while you're able to recover from them. regrets are nobodies friend.
I should have been having a ball in the 1980s (sixth form, university) , but for whatever reason, it wasn't that great nor memorable. But for some reason, in 1989, things just got interesting in so many ways. Looking back I have pretty much written off the 1980s as a musical wasteland, it probably wasn't that bad, it's just I have no real enthusiasm for any music between 1982 and 1988. Maybe I was too studious back then...
Not every time mind, but it's definitely my least favourite of that era.
