I love this music so much, and it was such a thrill discovering it (well, being gifted it by fantastic users here) towards the end of the Great Hiatus when any hope of hearing any Pulp was remote. I'd like to hear polished versions. Not sure I've ever heard Fire Island... was it part of the Glasgow or Vienna concerts? The odds are surely only receding though...

The stylophone - with all the instruments that have been used by pulp over the years, this is the one that I absolutely love hearing. I think this is why His n Hers is my favoured album - the use of it live between 1991/1994 was arguably the best sounds they had made. ESPECIALLY when you watch No Stilettos and hear the raw power of it during Pink Glove and Shes a Lady. Simply pure magic if you ask me.

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Just wondering how it is that The Quiet Revolution, Cuckoo Song and Got To Have Love came to be leaked? I can't find anything about how that happened. They're not from the (brief) Trixie haul of My Mistake and After You...

Also, Jason, worth noting there's a remake of Sunrise available. Or sort of available. Scott Frazer made it available about ten years ago.

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 It was an average, unspectacular user on here years ago who one day asked if anyone else wanted the WLL demos he had got in, I think, an old trade. The date on my mp3 tags says 2011 if that's any help. How they ever got out or who first shared them I have no idea. I haven't come across them outside of this board. It's a real shame that they're pretty poor quality mp3's but I'd still rather have them as mp3 than not at all.

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Stephen wrote:

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Just wondering how it is that The Quiet Revolution, Cuckoo Song and Got To Have Love came to be leaked? I can't find anything about how that happened. They're not from the (brief) Trixie haul of My Mistake and After You...

Also, Jason, worth noting there's a remake of Sunrise available. Or sort of available. Scott Frazer made it available about ten years ago.

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 It was an average, unspectacular user on here years ago who one day asked if anyone else wanted the WLL demos he had got in, I think, an old trade. The date on my mp3 tags says 2011 if that's any help. How they ever got out or who first shared them I have no idea. I haven't come across them outside of this board. It's a real shame that they're pretty poor quality mp3's but I'd still rather have them as mp3 than not at all.

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I quite like the space they leave for the imagination to fill-in the gaps. You kind of get a sense of loss/nostalgia for a time that never actually existed. I mean, finished versions can never be promising, can they? And promise is short if you're mourning a band who've packed it all in...

What about Cuckoo and The Quiet Revolution, Jean?

(Jarvis also did a solo Lockdown version of Cuckoo that you can find on here/Spotify)

What's the story with the 'accounts', folks? It keeps wanting to send a verification code to someone. If they're not functional anymore that's fine, was just going to have a look. Can't figure out how I don't have these songs. I can listen on YouTube anyway but I always feel safer with a CD. Got one of those bluetooth speakers at long last and the songs sound great through it. I have TQR but not the other 3 and they're absolutely brilliant songs. I have to say, Eamonn, I prefer the original Cuckoo rather than the lockdown version. I looked that up as well.

Any chance this tour might give them renewed enthusiasm to revisit any of these songs like they did with After You? Here's hoping.

WLL is a fine album. I like My Grandfather's Nursery, but not very fond of The Quiet Revolution.

Yeah, I gather that a lot of people like TQR and GTHL and it might just take a bit of repeated listening for them to grow on me. At the moment, I prefer Cuckoo, Grandfather's Nursey and My Mistake. I could imagine GTHL being a radio hit back then. It sounds very of that time. I love WLL as is but in an ideal world I'd swap some of those songs. I remember a friend saying to me before when I made them a CD full of b-sides and demos that some of the songs were better than the songs on the albums and it's true. You're onto a good band when even their castaways are brilliant!

What about your gandaddys nursery?
Remove I Love Life, I could never get into it. It follows the same quiet/loud style of Sunrise but the quiet part is drab, mediocre lyrics and the loud part is Pulp trying to be a rock band but sounding like a parody.
And I bet Darren, St Jude and Performance Of A Lifetime are all far better. Forever In My Dreams too.

And I know "My Mistake" is only a simple little song but God, I love it. It could be an interlude at the end of side one or a "hidden track" at the end of an album (remember those? You'd be drifting off to sleep and then suddenly, ten minutes after the last song on the album finishes, suddenly you're woken-up and you can't figure out where the noise is coming from....).

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What's the story with the 'accounts', folks? It keeps wanting to send a verification code to someone. If they're not functional anymore that's fine, was just going to have a look. 

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 They are still there. I have the passwords and the answers to the secret questions, but it wants to send a verification code to ArrGee.

It was originally shared via this forum, though I expect the link is long-gone. Here's everything I managed to collate at the time. Track titles might be wrong, I've just tried to match up the songs with the known recording sessions, but it's just guesswork.