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David


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When Pulp headlined Glasto in 1998 they missed out a few of their bigger hits - similar to what they did at some of their other festivals they headlined that year. Just wondering what peoples thoughts were and what you would have chosen as the setlist.

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David


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This is what I would have gone and in this order:

The Fear

DYRTFT

Monday Morning

I'm A Man

Pink Glove

Lipgloss

Sylvia

Sorted

Something Changed

Help The Aged

Party Hard

A Little Soul

Disco 2000

Razzmatazz

Mis Shapes

This is Hardcore

Encore

Like A Friend

Babies

Underwear

Common People



-- Edited by David on Thursday 31st of December 2015 02:02:05 PM

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Misshape


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I have always wondered if the poor song choices for the major festivals was another nail in the coffin for Pulp shying away from being superstars. Here is what I would have going with:


The Fear - chilling opener

DYRTFT - get some movement

Help The Aged - Given it was the comeback single - they have to play it

Disco 200 - Really get the crowd going

Party Hard - Keep the party going

Sorted - Festival must play

FEELING CALLED LOVE

A LITTLE SOUL - A LITTLE BORING FOR A FESTIVAL. JUST A POOR SONG CHOICE AS THE SINGLE RELESED BEFORE GLASTO.

BABIES

UNDERWEAR

TIH

Common People

OU Gone Gone

She's A Lady

Pink Glove

Lipgloss

Mis Shapes




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ArrGee


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Misshape wrote:

I have always wondered if the poor song choices for the major festivals was another nail in the coffin for Pulp shying away from being superstars. 

To me, Pulp are superstars.  If anything, I felt they were too big, playing the likes of Wembley Arena.  Brixton Academy is as big as I want any act to be.  The song choices don't matter too much because I'd be happy with a random selection of any twenty songs from Separations onwards.   The only disappointment to me is they didn't record more albums.



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Ian


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I think they "missed out a few of their bigger hits" was because they wanted to promote "This is Hardcore". Look at their setlists: no "It" material in 1984, much less "Freaks" and more "Separations" in 1988, the 1995 shows were predominantly "Different Class" so I think, looking back, the setlist is pretty much what was to be expected.

Ok, so "TV Movie" was never going to get the crowd going and as great as "Seductive Barry" sounded live, it was better suited to the smaller gigs than the festival stages but they hadn't had much time to play the songs to see how they would pan out, they had only started touring "This is Hardcore" 3 weeks prior to Glastonbury. I think the Glastonbury setlist may have been different if they had started touring a couple of months earlier.

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I think it was the long Different Class tour that set them on a path of playing fewer hits. I remember Candida saying something along the lines that she "Never wanted to play the likes of Babies or Mis-shapes again" just because they'd played them so many times. But it is also true that they have always tended to play most of whatever the current album was at the time. Also Glastonbury (as most festivals) weren't the same back then - they catered less for your passing fan and bands didn't tend to do a "festival set" laden with all the hits so much. The line up was announced for a festival and then tickets sold on the merit of which bands were playing, so more proper fans of the headliners would be present.

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ArrGee wrote:

To me, Pulp are superstars.  If anything, I felt they were too big, playing the likes of Wembley Arena.  Brixton Academy is as big as I want any act to be.  The song choices don't matter too much because I'd be happy with a random selection of any twenty songs from Separations onwards.   The only disappointment to me is they didn't record more albums.

 This! All of this.



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ArrGee wrote:

 The only disappointment to me is they didn't record more albums.

 

This. I dont really mind them sabotaging their career in 98 with such an iconic record as This is Hardcore. there was so much expectations from my part between 95 to 98 that i thought i could only be disappointed by this record. Reading all bits of info i could in every newspapers... Before the internet, it was really an exciting time, waiting for a record.

Then, they didn't disappoint and delivered a classic. And it's good that this classic put most of the "fans" away, coz now, they could do what they wanted again. Sure, there are loads of missed opportunities for huge hits as i mentionned in another thread (After you...), and i hope we'll hear those songs the proper way someday.

The only regret i will ever have, is them not doing more records while they were still a bit younger. Even if they didn't tour for them, kinda like the Beatles, they had at least two more great records in them.

Pulp will ever be an unfinished business. but then again, so are most of their records. You don't escape who you are...



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David


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What is interesting I actually put in 8 songs from TIH. However I did choose abut 20. I loved TIH but I don't think songs like Seductive Barry or TV Movie are really good festival songs. Personally I always find Jarvis at his very best when he his playing his more punchier tracks.

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andy wrote:
 I don't really mind them sabotaging their career in 98 with such an iconic record as This is Hardcore.

Me neither, though I don't see it as sabotage, for me it made them. Had they done Different Class II in 1996 or 1997 they may well have become a big band, but would have ended up meaning a lot less to me.  This Is Hardcore made them a very credible band and was streets ahead of anything else their peers did after 1997.



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