Imagine if, instead of 'Crimpolene Scene' and 'Lion Rock', that the music papers had taken Pulp's own term of 'Stylo Rock' and gone with it?
The term has been playing in my head recently. At Birmingham the crowd were given the choice between Razzmatazz and Like a Friend. Couldn't bring myself to choose, knowing that Seconds and Don't You Want Me Anymore had been options earlier on the tour! Anyway, they went with Razzmatazz. Jarvis came on and did the usual "I heard...there was a vote...democracy is important...you chose Like a Friend, isn't that right?" Boooooo "No? You didn't?" Booooo "Ok. I thought you might have chosen 'Nights of Suburbia'"
The tease.
A question for other times is...would he refer to Styloroc by that title, or the earlier, much more obscure and very hard 'Nights of Suburbia'? Anyway...
When do Pulp go full Stylo-Rock? I was listening to The Babysitter earlier. That's stylo, isn't it? Or a close approximation played on the keys. OU was - and still is. Go, Mark! - a stylo-roc classic. Obviously there's Styloroc itself. And Space. Any more? Do we have an EP of Pulp going stylo-rock, or would it be a mini-album?
When did the **** of the North first play a stylophone on a Pulp song? Maybe the style you speak of is all down to his granny and that Yamaha Portasound keyboard he messed around with while on hospital for weeks and weeks.
I'm just glad that footage of him exists in his chicken-jumper, doing a Hendrix-stylee "blind" stylo-solo as a common person wouldn't believe so, otherwise.
When did the **** of the North first play a stylophone on a Pulp song? Maybe the style you speak of is all down to his granny and that Yamaha Portasound keyboard he messed around with while on hospital for weeks and weeks.
I'm just glad that footage of him exists in his chicken-jumper, doing a Hendrix-stylee "blind" stylo-solo as a common person wouldn't believe so, otherwise.
I don't know about Jarvis playing stylophone - my understanding was that it was always Mark. In fact, playing stylo on OU was what first elevated him to being onstage.
Whereabouts do I find the footage of Jarv having it large with a stylo?
And I think the solo on the Happy Endings demo (but not the LP version) is stylophone.
The footage is Halifax Piece Hall 1991 on YouTube. Don't know how far back he was using the stylo on stage. Space was played at The Day That Never Happened so maybe as far back as 1988?
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Thank you. And now I see the man himself playing it. Presumably, the role was later 'gifted' to Mark. I've not watched this whole gig, so don't know whether Mark appears in any role. Seems a little early, though.
Now, I see, the 'chicken coat'. He wears this at an earlier gig, too. I was trying to describe that gig to Russell. "I am aware of that coat..."
Ooooo im not so sure Mark - I think you find that ALOT of Happy Endings was stylo work. Theres a good chunk of it used in Acrylic Afternoons. Other songs - We Can Dance Again, Have You Seen Her Lately, DYRTFT? Pink Glove (basically most of His N Hers era stuff). There was also a snippit of stylo in of all things, Disco 2000 - albeit the single version.
