Definite radio edit, it was only three and a half minutes long.
Version on Spotify/Album version is almost 5 minutes.
It's always been a winning chorus even when all we had for years was the instrumental demo with the BVs.
Production is strong, good vocals and lyrics. Just not convinced by the spoken-word part on the edit as it leaves out the more impressive part. What remains is a ...little bit cringe? And a wise man, well weej, once said that you can get away with spelling out a word/song title once in your career but here we are with another feeling called LOVE.
Pretty good overall. Still waiting for a killer middle-eight.
"listening parties will be taking place on the same day, 29 May, and to mark the occasion anyone present will be able to pre-order a special edition of More proudly displaying the name of the shop where you bought it."
I guess that implies it's exclusive to that day? Maybe not, maybe just another independent record stores exclusive edition. I don't know how much More I can take, but I know I'll end up buying another one. And then in 2050, if I'm still alive, a suite of deluxe re-issues. As the unluckiest nut in the hemisphere, I have no chance of snagging a lucky bag.
It just sucks being an Aussie fan. On the listening parties page they had listed Australia and I thought maybe Redeye in Sydney or Rockinghorse in Brisbane or one of our many splendid record shops would have a party but now no mention. It can be really deflating being a Pulp fan being so far away....
-- Edited by cutcopy on Tuesday 27th of May 2025 06:59:33 AM
Ha, hopefully. Simz is very popular. And actually looking at the album charts, heavy-hitters that have been at number one months after release (Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran) could still go back to number one again...
There's been hints in a review that the liner notes contain thoughts from Jarvis on the songs. Unusual to do that on the original release but I look forward to reading them, if so.
I just realized Farmer's market first lyric line is the answer to the first lyric line of Scott Walker's On your own again
Yeah, I'm bit slow but : do not read the lyrics...
He seems quite motivated by the loss of Steve to stop putting things off for tomorrow.
Now the new line-up are in the groove as a unit, have confidence in their songwriting and have put the recording monkey to bed, hopefully there will be more writing after this tour.
Ive been thinking like that as well. 24 years ago. When I picked up WLL in 2001 I got it about 3 weeks after it was released on the day of my final Year 12 HSC exams. I could not have cared less about the exams, I was more concerned about getting to Target and hopefully they might just have a copy. In 24 years I've changed careers twice, undergrads and postgrads, moved cities, long term relationship ie basically married, bought a house + other fully fledged adulting stuff like grief, getting into gardening, Steely Dan, elections, offset accounts and whether the interest rate is gonna come down -- but on Friday I get to be 17-18 again and not the middle aged grumpy lady that I now am (thanks perimenopause - to much info). Got the day off work and heading straight to Rockinghorse. And the one thread in all that life is this silly band from sheffield.
-- Edited by cutcopy on Monday 2nd of June 2025 10:49:38 AM