I think that when Jarvis did that track for the Bird album whatever it was - I think that was when I got most excited about a potential new album. To dust off Cuckoo was so random. Why not use Birds In Your Garden? That just had to mean we were going to get down the line either a We Love Life deluxe, or a new album. This is where I think that Mark wasnt joking about Cuckoo being recorded for the album - as Jarvis had just used it.
This line "A couple are revivals of ideas from last century" implies more than just Got To Have Love will feature from the WLL demos.
Imagine if Medieval Owl turns up in the tracklisting! Mark seemed to rate Last Song In The World highly. Or perhaps a full band version of Cuckoo Song?
Very excited to hear anything though!
Oh Id kill for a full version of Cuckoo Song
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This is really exciting. This will be my 2nd Pulp-release. I was there for WLL - I was in Year 12 and it took about 3 weeks for me to get a copy of WLL. I hope this means a tour of Australia and New Zealand. Sureeeely the Sydney Opera House has approached them... New Order just played and every other band of their sort of 'status' has played / is playing.
It looks like the record deal with Rough Trade was announced immediately after the album was finished recording in December. The next public appearance by a member was Mark at the TIH playback in King's Cross. The last appearance before recording began, was, I think, Jarvis interviewing Lawrence at a promo event for his book in mid-November. I wanted to ask both of them in the Q&A which was their favourite song of each other's but got shy at the last moment.
But Jarvis has got better at finishing albums since Pulp last made one. His solo records were also made in a similar timeframe - ie January 2009 in Chicago with Albini.
Maybe JC was the one holding things up "you're the only one who's holding you down" all those years
If they decide to play the chart game, they might drop a deluxe edition mid-week of launch week, with a handful of extra tracks (the bsides, in old money).
But i doubt they will have recorded more than 12 in that time frame - so 10/11 for the album and 1/2 rejected on quality grounds
-- Edited by HoltbyCity on Tuesday 8th of April 2025 11:44:53 AM
Well, that's assuming that the three weeks it took to make it were consecutive...
Also - "the shortest amount of time a Pulp album has ever taken to record"? What about Freaks, eh?!
As they say about football, records set pre-Premier League era don't seem to count these days. 1992 appears to be recognised as year zero both for British football and British Pulp! Balloons released to mark OU Day to a couple of dozen half-interested people and press on Devonshire Green. Funny how it all falls away.
Well, that's assuming that the three weeks it took to make it were consecutive...
Also - "the shortest amount of time a Pulp album has ever taken to record"? What about Freaks, eh?!
As they say about football, records set pre-Premier League era don't seem to count these days. 1992 appears to be recognised as year zero both for British football and British Pulp! Balloons released to mark OU Day to a couple of dozen half-interested people and press on Devonshire Green. Funny how it all falls away.
That's history eh. Same for humans, you're forgotten after the 3 or 4th generation after you. Once you accept that, everything is fine
For pre-90s football i suppose it makes sense, before that it was not "modern" football. Even the 90s football seem a bit prehistoric now, but it was more fun to watch for sure
Was at Mark's Q&A in Glasgow and someone asked him if we can expect new music and he kind of downplayed it ("We signed a record deal... but it was the label of our existing management"). But you could tell what he was doing.
So excited!!!
-- Edited by lipglossed on Tuesday 8th of April 2025 01:30:20 PM
I thought it was obvious I meant the alleged leak was real, and that the text was written by Jarvis and not a fake, as seen in the link to Roughtrade's (still unavailable) page. Sorry for the confusion. I guess I'll stay on my thread, as you suggest, without causing any inconvenience. :/
-- Edited by srhelvetica on Tuesday 8th of April 2025 03:40:52 PM
To be fair, "Love At 120bpm" sounds like a Jarvis title. Like a final version of Slow Jam/Bad Friday. Apart from the Jason Buckle song, there's no mention of using Jarv Is... material in the press release.
srhelvetica wrote:
I thought it was obvious I meant the alleged leak was real, and that the text was written by Jarvis and not a fake, as seen in the link to Roughtrade's (still unavailable) page. Sorry for the confusion. I guess I'll stay on my thread, as you suggest, without causing any inconvenience. :/
-- Edited by srhelvetica on Tuesday 8th of April 2025 03:40:52 PM
No need to stay with the cover versions, it was just a joke
-- Edited by Eamonn on Tuesday 8th of April 2025 03:52:25 PM