I don't think Panther was being serious Fussfree, but it's pretty clear that Jarvis hasn't had a: the time or b: the inclination to record and release an album and I don't think we should be on his back for it.
After some of those slightly bizarre live choices during the re-union (Back in L.A/Don't you want me anymore? etc..) i was kind of hoping the guys would perhaps re-record some of the back catalogue that they wer'nt happy with first time around? I guess they must have attempted a few dodgy old numbers in rehersals? But that said, Some new stuff would be a bonus under whatever name it appears..Don't want much do i?
I would have loved to hear them play something dark like Master of The Universe, Aborigine or Being Followed Home. That's the biggest tragedy about this news, there is no chance now of hearing Pulp play some of their best songs live. Jarvis says they've "been there, done that", but there was a lot more Pulp could have done without repeating themselves and getting boring.
-- Edited by shotoki on Tuesday 1st of April 2014 09:54:23 PM
Pulp didn't get boring! They came back when everyone was dying to see them again and went when everyone was dying to see them again. I don't see anything boring about that.
I'm grateful they came back at all.
-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Tuesday 1st of April 2014 10:14:02 PM
I would have loved to hear them play something dark like Master of The Universe, Aborigine or Being Followed Home. That's the biggest tragedy about this news, there is no chance now of hearing Pulp play some of their best songs live. Jarvis says they've "been there, done that", but there was a lot more Pulp could have done without repeating themselves and getting boring.
-- Edited by shotoki on Tuesday 1st of April 2014 09:54:23 PM
Absolutely. There was so much more material that could have seen the light of day and it would have been amazing to see the old stuff that they used to be embarrassed about but which now, I hope, they realise was brilliant all along.
Pulp didn't get boring! They came back when everyone was dying to see them again and went when everyone was dying to see them again. I don't see anything boring about that.
I'm grateful they came back at all.
-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Tuesday 1st of April 2014 10:14:02 PM
I wasn't saying they got boring, but that would have been a fear they would have had if they carried on for too long with no new material.
I always held out hope that something would happen, given Jarvis previously said something along the line of "Will you see pulp again? Who knows?", and admitting in another interview that he had things written in his little idea book with pulp in mind. I think the music world could use a bit of new pulp nowadays, especially after the reception to 'After You'. To end it all with a Jonathan Ross tv performance is a bit odd, but I guess whatever happens happens. AY was just a huge tease as to what have could have been. New Jarvis material sounds nice but nothing on the scale of new Pulp, and to hear such a definitive statement that there will be no more Pulp is very disheartening. There had been so many rumours around last year that the band were secretly recording too, but that's all they stayed - rumours.
I'll just hold out hope they one day change their mind. Or just get on with it and get a deluxe WLL released ;)
If only, as a finale, there had a been a Pulp weekend-long concert, where they played every song they've ever written in date order from Shakespeare Rock through to After You that would have been amazing.
A possibility: Candida and Mark (and of course Russell) not really up for continuing, so we get a new group with Jarvis, Steve, Nick and other new members. They probably wouldn't call it Pulp, though, and they would make a point of only playing new material.