Exciting...nice one, Mark!

Another version of Snow! The Pulp Christmas number one in a parallel universe where The Power Of Love by Frankie was vanquished (though for context, it's great that it makes a background appearance on the opening track of this recording!).

Looks like the below needs to be updated to include Snow as the opener. Man, what a riff that song is built on.

https://pulpwiki.net/Pulp/Live18December1984TheB-HiveSheffield

Pretty cool eh.

A bit of background in case anyone's interested. This tape was recorded by a guy called Clyde who played in bands locally at the time and recorded quite a few Pulp shows - sadly all his masters are gone. He did however give a copy to his mate Tim (one of the other people who can be heard chatting at the beginning and end), who subsequently gave a copy to *his* mate Paul, which is where the previously circulating incomplete copies of this show came from. Tim still has his tape, and he's kindly lent me it for this transfer.

So we now know that the previous version of this show is incomplete - Snow, Repressive Forkout and Take You Back are all new here, and There's No Emotion is back in its rightful place (it was previously stuck on at the end).

It's a shame the tape goes a bit awry around Repressive Forkout and Take You Back (and the start of Little Girl), which is presumably why those songs weren't included on the other copy. This seems to be from the master - the tape isn't physically damaged, and you can hear the same artefacts on the previous copy of Little Girl.

Anyway, enjoy!

Wow, that's great. Thanks for uploading. I always thought that "Snow" and "Repressive Forkout" were played just once (at the Leadmill) then abandoned. "Snow" in particular sounds a little bit different. I will have to attempt a transcription to see how the lyrics compare to the Leadmill version.

Nice find there!

I've had a go at picking out a few more lyrics from the new recording, but it's not really any clearer than the Leadmill one, even after messing around with an AI vocal splitter thing. I've added what I've been able to make out to the Wiki page.

It's frustrating because the two versions do seem to match up for the most part, suggesting that what he's singing is an actual lyric, not just mumbling random syllables as he's been known to do (although there's probably a bit of that here and there). Shame a handwritten sheet didn't emerge for the Good Pop Bad Pop exhibition really.

I use lalal.ai. Its latest algorithms for stripping out vocals or drums are pretty damn impressive when the source material gives it enough to work with.

-- Edited by Sturdy on Tuesday 5th of December 2023 09:31:33 PM