I was just listening to "First Man In Space" that Jarvis wrote for the All Seeing I in 1999. Lyrically, it's effectively an extension of the Pulp song "Space" and there are a some lyrics that appear in both.
Pulp: "Space is cold when you're on your own" ASI: "Space is cold but home is colder when you come home at night and there's nobody here"
But there's another that found its way into "Weeds" Pulp: "This cut-price dairy produce that turns our bones to dust" ASI: "Seems some burn up on re-entry, bones that have crumbled to dust"
Then it got me thinking, there are a few songs with recurring (or very similar) lyrics.
For example: Catcliffe Shakedown: "Pudgy 12 year-olds in Union Jack shorts addicted to coffee-whitener and frankfurters" Modern Marriage: "And what if our kids turn into pudgy blobs, wearing Union Jack underpants, addicted to coffee whitener?" Wickerman: "Yeah, the river flows on beneath pudgy fifteen-year olds addicted to coffee whitener"
Also My First Wife (the loud one): "I died a thousand times, the next day I was still alive" Death II: "I must have died a thousand times, the next day I was still alive"
I have just noticed another:
ASI - Walk Like a Panther: "You look like a reptile, your house is a wreck"
Party Hard (Christopher Just Remix): "You look like a reptile and your bottle has gone"
In Catcliffe Shakedown, Jarvis has another run in with the lads from Joyriders. But of course this is a direct reference to the Pulp-iverse.
"Those boys who said
"Hey mister, We just want your car
'cos we're taking a girl to the Reservoir"
are outside the pub
Fine figures of men,exercising and dieting just doesn't suit them"
Similarly, Monday Morning seems to be on Jarvis' mind during apocalyptic vision of "The Loss Adjuster" (the full length version, an under-appreciated song, by the way)
First Wife quiet version has lines that ended up in the start of David's Last summer (cool green shade, drunk on the sun etc), and also an early iteration of "The sun shone through the dress you wore" in MLG.
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