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.

Candida said they recorded 20 so there are plenty knocking around for b-side material.

What was the criticism of blur? That it was essentially pointless as the LP was out?

Violin Thing wrote:

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Candida said they recorded 20 so there are plenty knocking around for b-side material.

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Pulp, if you read this, we obviously need to hear some of them. july or august, even september is fine. An EP. Thanx. 

Eamonn wrote:

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Candida: "I dont know how many songs we came up with maybe 20 but we recorded 13".

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Yeah, I imagine the rest were just the full band tinkering through Proceed To The Route, Locked Down, Cuckoo Song and similar in practice and going 'nah'

Ian wrote:

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The chances are that they at least considered all or most of the "lost" songs from 1999-2001 rather than just going straight in with "Got to Have Love". If I remember rightly, Mark spoke very highly of "Last Song in the World" so there's a possibility that it may be used in future (alongside others - "Emmanuel" for example must have some weight in it if they attempted to record it for "Hits").

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Mark also said that Got To Have Love and After You were always the two obvious 'hits' from that period, but they actively avoided putting them on WLL for that reason.  So perhaps it was straight to GTHL, now they were in a more 'hitty' mood again?

Someone try and get it out of Mark today!

As everybody's guessing, TINA is the winner! Wondering if any of the band member, close friends, band manager use the forum. Or psychic again!

Can't wait!!

A side : Tina
B sides : Tina (live) / Tina remix / Tina (spoken version) / T.I.N.A (spelled version)

andy wrote:

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Tina - A side
Paula - re-record bside ?  

 

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 EP with Sylvia, Inside Susan, Deborah/Gloria and Angela.

A video plus radio-play makes them singles I guess, both were/are playlisted.

It was funny listening to it on the radio - they faded the word "screwing" out on the radio edit.

 

Pulp would like to introduce Tina, the latest single taken from their UK No.1 album More, which is released today with a new video.

 

I love this video - its like digital Fuzzy-Felt, declares Jarvis ****er. Tina was one of the last songs written for More. Its about obsession & fantasy. You should feel like you need a shower after listening to it

Illuminating Tinas lyrics with bespoke designs,  live footage from Pulps recent shows and Jarvis ****ers iconic silhouette,

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Eamonn wrote:

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A video plus radio-play makes them singles I guess, both were/are playlisted.

It was funny listening to it on the radio - they faded the word "screwing" out on the radio edit.

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 Same on the official video. Does the "screw" in Common People get muted these days?