OK, let me expand a little. This is a very silly little exercise.
I'm going to give you the track listings of all the albums (plus Masters of the Universe and Intro). So here's a heap of LPs.
ALBUM/COMPILATION
IT
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
FREAKS
SEPARATIONS
INTRO
HIS 'N' HERS
DIFFERENT CLASS
THIS IS HARDCORE
WE LOVE LIFE
SONG NUMBER
SONGS
SONGS
SONGS
SONGS
SONGS
SONGS
SONGS
SONGS
SONGS
1
My Lighthouse
Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
Fairground
Love Is Blind
Space
Joyriders
Mis-Shapes
The Fear
Weeds
2
Wishful Thinking
Simultaneous
I Want You
Don't You Want Me Anymore?
O.U. (Gone, Gone)
Lipgloss
Pencil Skirt
Dishes
Weeds II (The Origin of the Species)
3
Joking Aside
Blue Glow
Being Followed Home
She's Dead
Babies
Acrylic Afternoons
Common People
Party Hard
The Night That Minnie Timperley Died
4
Boats and Trains
The Will to Power
Master of the Universe
Separations
Styloroc (Nites of Suburbia)
Have You Seen Her Lately?
I Spy
Help the Aged
The Trees
5
Blue Girls
Dogs Are Everywhere
Life Must Be So Wonderful
Down by the River
Razzmatazz
Babies
Disco 2000
This Is Hardcore
Wickerman
6
Love Love
The Mark of the Devil
There's No Emotion
Countdown
Sheffield: Sex City
She's a Lady
Live Bed Show
TV Movie
I Love Life
7
In Many Ways
97 Lovers
Anorexic Beauty
My Legendary Girlfriend
Stacks
Happy Endings
Something Changed
A Little Soul
The Birds in Your Garden
8
Aborigine
The Never-Ending Story
Death II
Inside Susan
Do You Remember the First Time?
Sorted for E's and Wizz
I'm a Man
Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)
9
Goodnight
Don't You Know
This House is Condemned
59 Lyndhurst Grove
Pink Glove
F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
Seductive Barry
Bad Cover Version
10
They Suffocate At Night
They Suffocate At Night
Someone Like the Moon
Underwear
Sylvia
Roadkill
11
Tunnel
David's Last Summer
Monday Morning
Glory Days
Sunrise
12
Masters of the Universe
Bar Italia
The Day After the Revolution
13
Manon
OK, so, the idea is that you assemble a compilation of Pulp songs from the above... BUT: they have to appear in the same place that they did on the album. You don't get to pick your pure favourite compilation - you have to have them in the set order.
Now, obviously the results aren't going to be nearly as good as an actual album - of course not! There's no semblance of cohesive, underlying theme, or of song sequencing. So put any notions of quality to one side.
Your challenge is to pick your favourite first track on a Pulp album, your favourite second track on a Pulp album, and so on, and so forth. So Mis-Shapes, Joyriders and The Fear, for example, are all vying against each other - you can only pick one. And same for Babies, Disco 2000 and This Is Hardcore... wait, you can pick the Babies from Intro, ha ha! Except on Intro it's 3 tracks in and is now up against Common People...
Best of luck!
-- Edited by lipglossed on Friday 14th of July 2023 03:52:01 PM
OK, this is pretty fiendish. But here's my tracklisting.
1. Mis-Shapes 2. Lipgloss 3. Common People 4. I Spy 5. This Is Hardcore 6. Sheffield: Sex City 7. Something Changed 8. Do You Remember the First Time? 9. Pink Glove 10. Underwear 11. David's Last Summer 12. Bar Italia
Still not 100% on that.
Also, hmm... is the best song on a Pulp record generally the 5th track? Razzmatazz/Babies/Disco/Hardcore/Wickerman... damn.
-- Edited by lipglossed on Friday 14th of July 2023 04:10:48 PM
I'd enjoy that compilation you've put together, lipglossd, but I didn't have as much trouble with number 5, the challenges for me come more around track 9 because I love Goodnight/Pink Glove/Feeling/BCV. I know Goodnight might be an odd one but I finally got my hands on that on a compilation back in 2001 not long before WLL came out and it just evokes memories of that summer of 2001 for me so I'm emotionally drawn to that one but melody wise I'd have to go with PG or Feeling. BCV I am drawn to because the lyrics are great and it sounds like Christmas. Can't make up my mind... and I'm off to have me tea so.
Otherwise I'd say:
1. Mis-Shapes
2. Lipgloss
3. Common People (though I absolutely love She's Dead and the guitar in the chorus)
4. Help the Aged
5. Disco 2000
6. Countdown
7. The Birds in Your Garden
8. Do You Remember the First Time?
9. Pink Glove (right this second I'm going to go with that because I probably overplayed Feeling when I only had one Pulp album back in the day)
10. Underwear
11. Glory Days
12. Bar Italia
(and I'd like to make that the 7inch mix of Disco 2000 because of all of the little added elements and the spoken word part. In an ideal world I'd also make that the extended version of Countdown though I do like the one on Separations. It's slower though)
1. The Fear
2. Lipgloss
3. Common People
4. Have You Seen Her Lately?
5. This is Hardcore
6. Sheffield: Sex City
7. My Legendary Girlfriend
8. Do You Remember the First Time?
9. FEELINGCALLEDLOVE
10. Underwear
11. Glory Days
12. The Day After the Revolution
1. The Fear
2. Lipgloss
3. Common People
4. Have You Seen her Lately?
5. This Is Hardcore
6. She's a Lady
7. Happy Endings
8. I'm a Man
9. Bad Cover Version
10. Sylvia
11. Sunrise
12. Bar Italia
1. The Fear
2. Lipgloss
3. Acrylic Afternoons
4. Help The Aged
5. Wickerman
6. Sheffield: Sex City
7. The Birds In Your Garden
8. Do You Remember The First Time?
9. Seductive Barry
10. Underwear
11. Glory Days
12. The Day After The Revolution
This was actually harder than I thought it would be- if I was to do a list of my top 12 tracks from the albums, I think my list would be quite different
1. Love is blind
2. OU
3. Acrylic afternoons
4. Have you seen her lately
5. Razzmatazz
6. Shes a lady
7. Happy endings
8. Death 2
9. Pink glove
10. Underwear
11. Davids last summer
12. Bar italia