So Tina is on the 6Music A-list playlist and has been played on Radio 2 drive-time this week. Is it common for album tracks to get such attention or are Rough Trade testing the waters before releasing it as a single - although I'm not sure what that means exactly anymore. But if not a vinyl release, maybe a video?

A few DC cutouts would look chipper in front of that sign in LA. Perhaps with a crowd of Monroe and Dean impersonators running between them, or something. I dunno. And Jean Harlow, obviously.

Third single from more? I reckon Tina is a shoe-in. I remember it starting the first time I played the album - after Spike finished and I was entering mostly virgin territory, still worried that the whole thing might prove a pastiche (pah!) - and within a few chords I felt the proof Pulp are still the real deal and an ongoing creative force to the pits of my very soul. My very soul!!

Background Noise runs it close, but for me Tina has a touch more sophistication and is less obviously marketable. Both bonuses. Indie credibility: Spike and GRHL are pure pop (and great for that), but Tina is more writerly. Partial Eclipse is great but not marketable enough - the rhythm of the lyrics is too busy at the crucial moment to worm its way into peoples brains after a listen or two.

Id be thrilled if it was My Sex. Pure sass and full of relevance. Capitalise on all those new listeners and earn a few more. Itd be banned from the radio -a wonderful echo of Little Girl with Blue Eyes. But that wouldnt stop that particular demographic hearing it, and to be honest, how many new fans are they going to win in their 40s? Either they know Pulp already but have an Oasis gig to get to, or they havent heard them, and god help them and the rest of us.

50/1 its A Sunset, and therefore the last Pulp release ever. Didnt like that as the name of the last track of More either, and that was before hearing the lyrics. An expensive goodbye though, I suppose, with the royalties thing.