Bookmark wrote:

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still got the feeling that we have lost 24 years...

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Other than Ash and Manics, I don't think any of their 90s peers stayed together and kept recording over that period; even though most are back now.

The only fail to me is all those WLL and TIH demos left for dead. They could have made such a great record with only those two leftovers


Grown Ups
You Are The One
Street Operator
Can I Have My Balls Back, Please?
Cuckoo Song
Quiet Revolution
After You
The Last Song In The World
Sliding Through Life On Charm
Love Is
It's a Dirty World

Big Bulk of great tunes that could have made one more final album. WLL was a bit of a miss to me.

Mark and Candida had no interest in making a new record in 2012/13. And Nick's comment on the radio the other day was telling. This time round he told Jarvis that if a new album meant spending a year in the studio like the last two times, he wasn't up for it. Luckily, Jarvis felt the same way.

It does feel that in general Pulp didn't release as much music/albums as they could have done. Their quality control from 1992 onwards is really high.

But they are also the most human of bands, flaws and all. (I just read a comment from someone reacting to the Spike Island video - "We don't want no AI. We just want the right to be different. That's all").

I find it more impressive that they held it together to release TIH and WLL. The mid-90s changed all of them and not necessarily in pleasant ways. They had already spent many years perceived as failures. Success was bittersweet and they weren't a band who enjoyed touring, Candida and Russell especially.

 

Even last night on the JR Show, you could sense Jarvis playing along with the famous personality part of his "job", but not being totally comfortable with it.

I just could never see them as a group who does the same three year cycle of write, record, release, promote and tour on a long-term basis. They all need time to do other things and live normal lives.

-- Edited by Eamonn on Sunday 13th of April 2025 11:05:20 AM

Eamonn wrote:

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Mark and Candida had no interest in making a new record in 2012/13. And Nick's comment on the radio the other day was telling. This time round he told Jarvis that if a new album meant spending a year in the studio like the last two times, he wasn't up for it. Luckily, Jarvis felt the same way.

It does feel that in general Pulp didn't release as much music/albums as they could have done. Their quality control from 1992 onwards is really high.

But they are also the most human of bands, flaws and all. (I just read a comment from someone reacting to the Spike Island video - "We don't want no AI. We just want the right to be different. That's all").

I find it more impressive that they held it together to release TIH and WLL. The mid-90s changed all of them and not necessarily in pleasant ways. They had already spent many years perceived as failures. Success was bittersweet and they weren't a band who enjoyed touring, Candida and Russell especially.

 

Even last night on the JR Show, you could sense Jarvis playing along with the famous personality part of his "job", but not being totally comfortable with it.

I just could never see them as a group who does the same three year cycle of write, record, release, promote and tour on a long-term basis. They all need time to do other things and live normal lives.

-- Edited by Eamonn on Sunday 13th of April 2025 11:05:20 AM

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Russell always felt to me like a big in the A, if you ask me. But i could be wrong. For the rest, its all valid points. but as a musician and songwriters, having all those unreleased unfinished demos, it feels really like unborn children.