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WHAT THE FUCKETH



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Pulp debuted a new track in Sheffield tonight. It is called "Hymn of the North".

I'm off for a wee lie down.

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Verdict from @Maclureo was that it's "quite a slow one" (but they loved it)

It was a Jarvis and Candida duet

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Whaaaaaaaaat?! Damn, I left midway through Glory Days to get a headstart on the journey back!

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I thought it was very sweet. Not strictly new but I'll take anything :)

www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jun/04/jarvis-cocker-manchester-royal-exchange-simon-stephens-lucy-ellinson-neil-bartlett

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salmon92 wrote:

Whaaaaaaaaat?! Damn, I left midway through Glory Days to get a headstart on the journey back!

 I'm so, so sorry.



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Well, I love the title! The thought crossed my mind that the bus might not be the big news ;) but I didn't want to build my hopes up!

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Wow Pip, great research. How fascinating!

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lipglossed wrote:
salmon92 wrote:

Whaaaaaaaaat?! Damn, I left midway through Glory Days to get a headstart on the journey back!

 I'm so, so sorry.

 Like George Best in the 99 Champions League final. 



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lipglossed wrote:

Pulp debuted a new track in Sheffield tonight. It is called "Hymn of the North".

I'm off for a wee lie down.

Well there you go, something new smile 



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Noooooooo I sold my ticket! Oh well, they cant take away Jarvis laughing at me last weekend.

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liltman wrote:

Noooooooo I sold my ticket! Oh well, they cant take away Jarvis laughing at me last weekend.

 Indeed. If they have any brains, they'll sample your special sound for the next track...



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It's a ballad with a lovely keys melody and backing strings which then erupts with the full string section/orchestra kicking-in during the middle section. It has a couple of parts (I don't think there's a chorus per se) where a key line is repeated five or six times.

To be honest, as much as I liked it, the sight of Jarvis and Candida side by side at the same keyboard had me welling-up a little so I wasn't fully focused on the song. Like brother and sister together after almost forty years...and the first new Pulp song in twenty. Totes emosh all-round...

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youtu.be/M-AJXibUByo

On YouTube now

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Wow. That's tearjerkingly lovely.

Not a 'new' Pulp song, then? But wow, how incredibly special.

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It feels like a "stately address" type song/missive in a similar way to the last fully new song they recorded twenty years ago, Last Day Of The Miner's Strike.

I think I'm gonna dig this one more though.

I'm not sure what it means though in terms of the future. It could act like another full stop swansong or just be a wisdom-with-local-flavour statement ( à la Blur's Under The Westway).

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Eamonn wrote:

It feels like a "stately address" type song/missive in a similar way to the last fully new song they recorded twenty years ago, Last Day Of The Miner's Strike.

I think I'm gonna dig this one more though.

I'm not sure what it means though in terms of the future. It could act like another full stop swansong or just be a wisdom-with-local-flavour statement ( à la Blur's Under The Westway).

 LDOTMS is also what I thought of.

But god, this song is so effing beautiful. Really made my heart feel fuzzy.



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Yeah, I feel more compelled to go and listen to this again than I would LDOTMS. Going to listen again. I never heard of the play Light Falls so hadn't heard this before. I want to read the lyrics now (but not whilst...). So grateful to have the video but I imagine that sounded beautiful in the arena tonight. Agree about seeing Jarvis and Candida side by side. This whole tour has been not just aurally great but visually striking too. How am I meant to go to sleep now ;)

https://youtu.be/MIISXX_90hc

 

Closer video. I'm sure more will appear



-- Edited by Jean on Sunday 16th of July 2023 12:21:50 AM



-- Edited by Jean on Sunday 16th of July 2023 12:22:21 AM

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God it was spectacular, proper hit home the feeling of a proud northern, (not to sound cringey) but it was stunning

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lipglossed wrote:
Eamonn wrote:

It feels like a "stately address" type song/missive in a similar way to the last fully new song they recorded twenty years ago, Last Day Of The Miner's Strike.

I think I'm gonna dig this one more though.

I'm not sure what it means though in terms of the future. It could act like another full stop swansong or just be a wisdom-with-local-flavour statement ( à la Blur's Under The Westway).

 LDOTMS is also what I thought of.

But god, this song is so effing beautiful. Really made my heart feel fuzzy.

I had that feeling too. For reasons best known to itself, my Spotify has been playing it loads recently, and that rousing "the north is rising" bit keeps hitting me. 

I was struggling a little bit with the sound clarity on the vocals in places where I was sitting, so didn't really catch the lyrics that well. Better watch YouTube a few times. 



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Anyone else get the vibe of Blue Girls too, Id say its LDOTMS in lyrics and Blue Girls in instrumentation

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youtu.be/RxzU_bESuTo

Just to add to the article Pip posted. Some more background to the song. Listened a few times now to the song. Really lovely

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Just watched it back and yeah, bloody beautiful innit?
So...what makes it a Pulp song? Or, rather, why has Jarvis deemed it to be one? Did anyone hear the original?

Maybe entire sections have been added by the band? Mark has some distinctive guitar figures on this, presumably his own work.

Are Jarv Is..members involved in this? They didn't appear to be playing live (Andrew on bass maybe, but I didn't notice Emma or Adam). Does that mean a separation between both bands exists in Jarvis' mind when it comes to writing? Candida being front and centre, Mark playing prominent parts...was that a Pulp-flex?!

So many questions. Sorry, too many. Na'nite.

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joemc5054 wrote:

Anyone else get the vibe of Blue Girls too, Id say its LDOTMS in lyrics and Blue Girls in instrumentation

 

The vocal melody reminds me in parts, of Happy New Year by Jarvis and Hawley. Maybe bits of Big Julie too?



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liltman wrote:

Noooooooo I sold my ticket! Oh well, they cant take away Jarvis laughing at me last weekend.

 Your ticket was very appreciated. I had become fairly convinced I wasn't going to get one.



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