**** me. It's so so good.

album out everywhere but I've got to wait one day more to put my hands on it, not fair, Life. Not fair.
no youtube, no social media, the longest day of my life begins.

My japanese CD version is only being shipped now, but they are fast. Next week ? Maybe :D

So odd, my RT one should hopefully arrive tomorrow. But I can see its in Croydon now, could be a rescue heist situation.

"On sale at the bands merch stands at each venue, the Tour Edition vinyl edition of the album, that comes with a bespoke commemorative ticket, is only available at the venue where it was purchased. Only 250 copies will be sold at each show.



A special Sheffield edition of the album is available in select record shops across the city this week."

Someone out there is going to have about 50 copies of this record, and why not.

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Someone out there is going to have about 50 copies of this record, and why not.

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I'm glad I don't collect vinyl or I'd be pocketless at this point.

Popping to the shops later so will see if I can pick up the CD, just this once I wanted to go old school for this one and buy it off a shelf, just like the old days.

4 listens in now. I should be going to bed but I just cant! I literally ran up Ann Street. Up came the shutter of Rockinghorse and down I went. Not sure if its an age-related thing but I was really aware of being in this moment > being on the train and going to buy a new Pulp album. Could this happen again?? Never been more excited to receive a free tote bag. Like good conference swag that you get - pen / note book.

No Piccadilly palaver, then? Good.

didnt know, James Ford was sick during the recording of the album, maybe that's why some of the track sound different ? anyone got the CD already with all the producing credits ?

-- Edited by andy on Friday 6th of June 2025 03:27:55 PM

Does anyone know about the MP3 download?

Three of the copies I bought from the Rough Trade Pulp webstore - the '1st edition', 'Ink Spot', 'Audiophile 2xLP' - are supposed to come with an MP3 download of the album. I've received no links by email, and there are no download cards/codes with the LP's. Just wondered if anyone here knew what the process is.

Pedantic to ask I suppose, since I've obsessively bought 8 physical copies of More, I don't really need a download, but if you've paid for it you should get it, right? There are already another 2 copies - the instore crystal white label, and the tour exclusive - but I must not buy more More.

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I've had a lot going on in my life lately and to have the consistent love of Pulp and to go into this album this week, something I've dreamed of for so long it all still feels just a bit weird like it's not really happening.

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 Whatever's been going on, I hope the universe is sorting it all out for you, lipglossed. New Pulp is a lovely distraction to have.

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 Thanks, Pip. You know... nothing serious, just a flesh wound. Cuckoos are silly birds etc...

On the plus side, got my degree back and been rather pleasantly surprised at least! I still remember finding this forum once in the university library when I was struggling to write an essay during 2nd year and got bored. (I ended up scrolling back into the 'archives' until 4am and I had to take out a coursework extension!)

Discogs posted "Favorite Album Of 2025 So Far" on Instagram today, and our Pulp got No. 2!!

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMGSXwPS6vM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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?

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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. 

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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'

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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)

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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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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?

I finally don't hate slow jam, hooray

Weener, youre one step closer to loving it forever! Im jealous because thats a thrilling climb but you can only make it the once.

Enjoyed it live (first night in London) but such a full and studioey recording is obviously going to lose something in performance (or better put, translate into something different). Theyd need to wheel-on a second band for the Holy Trinity part to carry the same clout. If Im carrying something Im usually careful to put it down when he starts singing about Jesus being the resurrection man, especially if its valuable, because the recorded version kinda incapacitates me. Jarvis was very committed in his singing and posturing at the gif though - it was still special.

(Related note: I was interested reading just how many tracks they used when recording Common People - 49 or something - and they still needed to bounce down. Quite a step up. No wonder my hammering C, G and F on a tinny piano never quite hits the spot. Heard an interview with Butch Vig about how he tricked Kurt to keep repeating his parts for SLTSpirit. Studio trickery wasnt terribly punk, so he kept saying thered been a technical problem or glitch - eventually he had ten or more guitar parts to stack)

Itd help if 10-15% of the crowd didnt see it as an opportunity to nip to the bar, but the material was still very, very new back then

Sorry

Ah I'm never going to love it (damn that slap note) but lyrically I do. It WAS going to be the 'go and get a pint' part tbh but I'm probably not going to drink today/tonight* as I'm on a stricter budget these days. 

*but the bar at the station will be calling to me saying 'christina christina why are you not coming to say hello to me today' as well as the rutland arms and fagans

Where do people go now after gigs now the leadmill is no longer.

-- Edited by weener on Friday 25th of July 2025 09:36:59 AM

-- Edited by weener on Friday 25th of July 2025 09:37:50 AM

Just had a "But! Wait ! " moment : The Divine Comedy released a Tina-like song on Fin de Siecle called Commuter Love. It's pretty much the same idea, the author imagining his life with a girl he could never talk to.

Funny.

They should tour together. What a night that would be.

Saw Neil and band earlier this week. Really good show. Couldn't see Jarvis performing with a "similar" dude.

Just don't see Pulp choosing a band they are often compared to with a large crossover in fans, as a support act. Call it ego, variety...Neil may consider himself of high enough stature not to need it either. I assume Suede fit in the middle in this scenario...never gonna happen.

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Just don't see Pulp choosing a band they are often compared to with a large crossover in fans, as a support act. Call it ego, variety...Neil may consider himself of high enough stature not to need it either. I assume Suede fit in the middle in this scenario...never gonna happen.

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Divine Comedy, suede and pulp on the same bill!  If only. Would have saved me going to four separate gigs in recent months.  That written, this summer I did see Manic Street Preachers, Charlatans and Ash on the same bill, so maybe another trio of 90s acts is possible, though this year has felt like a re-run of the 1990s. Going to sign off on 1990s tomorrow with EMF/Jesus Jones.  Then its back to the seventies with Boomtown Rats, Stranglers, Buzzc0cks, Damned, Bruce Foxton (Jam), Chris Difford (Squeeze) and DAM (Bowie in Berlin) all coming up.  

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 It was like the mid 1990 re-lived seeing pulp, suede, Supergrass, Ash, Divine Comedy, Rialto, and Bluetones live among others. Didn't bother with Oasis, but sadly no Radiohead tickets.  And Super Furry Animals are back next year. Only blur missing from the party, though Graham Coxon did join Ash on stage recently.

I guess as long as one of the band members are alive, anything is possible.  Though some bands don't even worry about that!

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As doe the double bill, 2025 proved us nothing is impossible in music ! New Pulp album, Oasis reuniting... etc. It wont happen, but it CAN happen 

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 It was like the mid 1990 re-lived seeing pulp, suede, Supergrass, Ash, Divine Comedy, Rialto, and Bluetones live among others. Didn't bother with Oasis, but sadly no Radiohead tickets.  And Super Furry Animals are back next year. Only blur missing from the party, though Graham Coxon did join Ash on stage recently.

I guess as long as one of the band members are alive, anything is possible.  Though some bands don't even worry about that!

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 You should go see Blur at least once, it"s always a great gig. :) 

2025 is such a weird year for music. There's a band i love since the 90's, Ivy. Their McCartney (or Jarvis) was Adam Schlesinger, writer, producer... main man. he died from Covid in 2020. never thought they would reunite. 

But they did... they dug old demos written with him, reworked them and guess what, it's one of their best album.

Anything is possible in music, even the impossible. 

 

It's a Nick Banks book-talk on a boat, apparently!

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As doe the double bill, 2025 proved us nothing is impossible in music ! New Pulp album, Oasis reuniting... etc. It wont happen, but it CAN happen 

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 It was like the mid 1990 re-lived seeing pulp, suede, Supergrass, Ash, Divine Comedy, Rialto, and Bluetones live among others. Didn't bother with Oasis, but sadly no Radiohead tickets.  And Super Furry Animals are back next year. Only blur missing from the party, though Graham Coxon did join Ash on stage recently.

I guess as long as one of the band members are alive, anything is possible.  Though some bands don't even worry about that!

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 You should go see Blur at least once, it"s always a great gig. :) 

2025 is such a weird year for music. There's a band i love since the 90's, Ivy. Their McCartney (or Jarvis) was Adam Schlesinger, writer, producer... main man. he died from Covid in 2020. never thought they would reunite. 

But they did... they dug old demos written with him, reworked them and guess what, it's one of their best album.

Anything is possible in music, even the impossible. 

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I saw blur a couple of times back in 1990s.  Ditto Oasis.  Agree, blur were very good at Mile End and Brixton.  Oasis great at Earls Court, but not so good at Finsbury Park.  I wouldnt mind seeing either again, but I am not going to the likes of Wembley nor Hyde Park to do so.  I have only been to one gig at new Wembley Stadium (The Who) and only because I got a bargain ticket in the front of upper tier and it was fortunate I could see for miles as they were pretty far away.  And my last experience of Hyde Park (again The Who) at the front of the section outside the golden circle was abysmal, with the sound being blown in the wind and general sh!t housery in the area I was in, almost getting into a couple of fights!

The O2 is as big as I will do apart from big sparsely attended fields like Audley End and MK Bowl.  And only because its pretty nearby.  Unfortunately, Damned are playing Wembley Arena next year, which is a bit of a drag to get to.  But I have to go for the 50th anniversary gig

Doubt anyone doesn't have it yet, but Rough Trade just emailed out a link to their sale and an extra 25% discount code. Loads of versions of More are on there. With the code, the "Tour editions" are £16.50 each. Ink spot edition £22.50, the 2xLP 45rpm edition £26.25.

All not bad. Quite like the ink spot edition.

But I ended up with 2 copies anyway, so I'll hold off...

Just had a dream that they reworked Street Operator and You Are the One for the next album, and they sounded great.

So, it is gonna be a premonition ?

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Just had a dream that they reworked Street Operator and You Are the One for the next album, and they sounded great.

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But look what they did with A Sunset. It was a boring track, and they turned it into a magnificent closer. 

My opinion on "A Sunset" is that it has always done very little for me but we can't agree on everything, can we?

I don't agree with reworking older material that has already been released unless it's just one song that could be turned into an absolute classic. I don't think that many of the demos fit this description: "You're Not Blind" is great but too close to "Babies" or "Lipgloss" to warrant a rework. "Modern Marriage" is an interesting one but again, there are other songs that follow the spoken verse / big chorus structure.

Also, there are many songs from 1999-2001 that could be reworked: we've heard the likes of "Cuckoo" and "The Quiet Revolution". Mark spoke very highly of "The Last Song in the World" and "Emmanuel" must have had some weight in it to be attempted for "Hits".

I don't think that they would ever go back as far as the 1980s which is a shame because "Maureen" and the aforementioned "Rattlesnake" could sound amazing on a big budget.

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dont really know where to put this: my wife mentionned a new Chilly/Jarvis Xmas song for december 12, but i cant find any info on it. Apparently it was on instagram. Anyone heard anything ?

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dont really know where to put this: my wife mentionned a new Chilly/Jarvis Xmas song for december 12, but i cant find any info on it. Apparently it was on instagram. Anyone heard anything ?

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 They did this together a few years back, could it be this or something new?

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqoMz7_YlW0

She was not hallucinating !

-- Edited by andy on Friday 12th of December 2025 07:36:20 AM

Chilly and Jarvis its not really making people wild on here 

Yet it's probably the best collab ever.