I have just put together a theoretical list of what a Pulp anthology could look like. This does, of course, ignore the fact that there are a couple of different labels that own the material and pays no attention to the length of CDs. Third party remixes have also been left off if they have already been released.
Tracks in bold have never appeared on an official Pulp release.
Tracks in italics may not be usable as they appear to have been abandoned during recording.
CD1 It Album
CD2
What Do You Say? (Ken Patten Demo)
Please Don't Worry (Ken Patten Demo)
Wishful Thinking (Ken Patten Demo)
Turkey Mambo Momma (Ken Patten Demo)
Please Don't Worry (Peel Session)
Wishful Thinking (Peel Session)
Turkey Mambo Momma (Peel Session)
Refuse to be Blind (Peel Session)
How Could You Leave Me? (Rotherham Demo)
Why Live? (Rotherham Demo)
Teen Angst (Rotherham Demo)
Barefoot in the Park (Rotherham Demo)
Sickly Grin (Spice Demo)
Sink or Swim (Spice Demo)
The Heat of the Day (Spice Demo)
Please Dont Worry
Sink or Swim
Mr Morality
Blue Girls (alt)
Everybodys Problem
There Was
CD3 Freaks Album
CD4
I Want You (Bad Maureen Demo)
Coy Mistress (Bad Maureen Demo)
Maureen (Bad Maureen Demo)
Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) (Bad Maureen Demo)
Don't You Know (Sudan Gerri Demo)
Anorexic Beauty(Sudan Gerri Demo)
Take You Back (Sudan Gerri Demo)
The Will To Power(Sudan Gerri Demo)
Simultaneous(Sudan Gerri Demo)
Little Girl (with Blue Eyes)(Sudan Gerri Demo)
Srpski Jeb(Sudan Gerri Demo)
Cousins (Sudan Gerri Demo)
Maureen (Sudan Gerri Demo)
Blue Glow(Sudan Gerri Demo)
The Mark of the Devil (Ping Pong Jerry Demo)
Simultaneous (Ping Pong Jerry Demo)
Maureen (Ping Pong Jerry Demo)
Anorexic Beauty (Ping Pong Jerry Demo)
Back in LA (Ping Pong Jerry Demo)
Manon (original version)
Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
Simultaneous
Blue Glow
The Will To Power
Dogs Are Everywhere
The Mark Of The Devil
97 Lovers
Aborigine
Goodnight
They Suffocate at Night (7)
Tunnel
Tunnel (Cut-up)
Manon (re-recording)
Master of the Universe (sanitised version)
Master of the Universe (alt mix)
Silence
CD5 Separations Album
CD6
Dont You Want My Anymore? (FON Demo)
Rattlesnake (FON Demo)
Death Comes to Town (FON Demo)
Death Comes to Town (alt mix)
Death Goes to the Disco
She's Dead (The Demo)
Down By the River (The Demo)
Love is Blind (The Demo)
Death II (The Demo)
Countdown (The Demo)
Separations (The Demo)
Going Back to Find Her
This House is Condemned (alt mix)
200% And Bloody Thirsty
CD7/8 His n Hers Deluxe
CD9
O.U. (Gone, Gone) (OU Session earlier version)
Live On (OU Session)
Babies (OU Session)
Razzmatazz (Island Demo)
Happy Endings (Island Demo)
Styloroc (Nites of Suburbia) (Island Demo)
Your Sister's Clothes (Island Demo)
OU
OU (Radio edit)
Space
Babies
Styloroc: Nites of Suburbia
Sheffield: Sex City
Sheffield: Sex City (Instrumental)
Razzmatazz
Stacks
Inside Susan
59 Lyndhurst Grove
Razzmatazz (earlier version from Razzmatazz sessions)
Razzmatazz (sanitised version)
Le Roi Des Fourmis
Lipgloss (Le Roi Des Fourmis session)
She's a Lady (Lipgloss Session)
Have You Seen Her Lately? (Lipgloss session)
Lipgloss (Ian Broudie Remix)
Joyriders (His n Hers demo)
Do You Remember the First Time? (His n Hers demo)
David's Last Summer (His n Hers demo)
Razz II
Live On (His n Hers session)
Pink Glove (Ed Buller Remix)
CD10/11 Different Class Deluxe
CD12
Mis-Shapes (Different Class demo)
Sorted for E's & Wizz (Different Class demo)
Something Changed (Different Class demo)
F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. (Different Class demo)
Disco 2000 (Different Class demo)
Live Bed Show (Different Class demo)
I Spy (Different Class demo)
CD13/14 This is Hardcore Deluxe
CD15
Help the Aged (Abortive album session)
Northern Souls (Abortive album session / backing track only)
I'm a Man (This is Hardcore demo)
The Fear (This is Hardcore demo)
We Are the Boyz (This is Hardcore demo)
TV Movie (This is Hardcore demo)
Party Hard (This is Hardcore demo)
Grown Ups (This is Hardcore demo / instrumental)
Seductive Barry (This is Hardcore demo)
CD16 We Love Life Album
CD17
Born to Cry
My Body May Die
The Birds in Your Garden (Wessex Demo 1)
Darren (Wessex Demo 1)
Bob Lind (Wessex Demo 1)
Sunrise (Wessex Demo 1)
Yesterday (Wessex Demo 1)
The Quiet Revolution (Wessex Demo 1)
Wickerman (Wessex Demo 1)
Cuckoo Song (Wessex Demo 1)
Got To Have Love (Wessex Demo 1 / instrumental version)
Love Is (Wessex Demo 2)
Bad Cover Version (Wessex Demo 2)
My Mistake (Wessex Demo 2)
The Night That Minnie Timperley Died (Wessex Demo 2)
Forever In My Dreams (Wessex Demo 2)
The Last Song In The World (Wessex Demo 2)
After You (Wessex Demo 2)
M'Lady (Wessex Demo 2)
Grandfather's Nursery (Wessex Demo 2)
The Performance of a Lifetime (Wessex Demo 2)
St Just (Wessex Demo 2)
Got to Have Love (Wessex Demo 2 / vocal version)
The Trees (Live Depot Demo)
Born to Cry (Live Depot Demo)
Under the Covers (Live Depot Demo)
Emmanuel (Live Depot Demo)
Love Is (Live Depot Demo)
Have Your Own (Live Depot Demo)
To Love Someone (Live Depot Demo)
Roadkill (Live Depot Demo)
Yesterday (Live Depot Demo)
Cuckoo Song (Live Depot Demo)
My Mistake (Live Depot Demo)
Love You Baby (Depot Demo / instrumental)
Six String (Depot Demo / instrumental)
Chordy / My Mistake (Depot Demo / instrumental)
Playground (Depot Demo / instrumental)
Last Song In The World (Depot Demo / instrumental)
Medieval Owl (Depot Demo / instrumental)
Candy's Spectre (became Bad Cover Version) (Depot Demo / instrumental)
Disco too Disco (probably an instrumental version of After You) (Depot Demo / instrumental)
Jungle Rumble (became The Night that Minnie Timperley Died) (Depot Demo / instrumental)
I was thinking about this the other night. Obviously FEELINGCALLEDLIVE is now the biggest archive of Pulp stuff out there (and fair play, Ian!)...
...but what if we (some of us? Definitely not me by myself!) started to move things onto Youtube in a really ordered manner? As in a designated account, things listed in the correct, obvious order that an anthology would.
Pulp #1 Session #1 Date and then the tracks, etc.
You could put all the tracks from each session onto the same video. I'd type out some examples, but my niche Pulp knowledge isn't quite what it once was! Essentially something similar to my old Pulp Portfolios, but more broken down into what would make each session, rather than what would fit on a CD. Could use individual period-appropriate photos for each.
If it looked GOOD and was easy to navigate, it might attract attention. It could be administered by a group of people, perhaps, with an email address being something similar to some we used to use on here. Remember the Bar Italia/Pulp email for sending files? We all knew the login and password, so if anyone had anything juicy that they're not supposed to let slip...people might be tempted to support the project. Whether that's people who've had to sit on things for various reasons, or people associated with the band (if it got noticed enough? We know that YT is a hugely popular source for the band - we often hear of the members looking around it).
Thoughts?
Pulp #001 Recording Session #001 (07/08/81) - What Do You Say?
Pulp #002 Radio Session #001 (07/11/81) - the first Peel session, with the intros from Feb '82
Pulp #003 Live #001 (18/01/82) - whatever circulates of the Bath Uni gig, including '...Crabs...'
You could keep it nice and chronological by throwing in other radio appearances, the Heroes of the Beach and Breadcake stuff, etc. But it would all be very findable. Comments open, etc.
Aims?
1) To make Pulp and 'their people' aware of the interest in this stuff
2) To hopefully make more hidden stuff available (always been my aim - which is what I tried with the Portfolios, and did really well with!)
3) Altruistically, make this stuff really easily available. A lot of it's good. Some of it's so awful it's amazing.
Had to pause it because the release of God Pop Bad Pop immediately made it out of date, but if I take some time out as part of research for blog then making it will be part of that process.
Had to pause it because the release of God Pop Bad Pop immediately made it out of date, but if I take some time out as part of research for blog then making it will be part of that process.
That's just outstanding, tbh. I know you're obviously really good at that sort of thing anyway, but that feels like a really epic undertaking. I've only listened to the first bits and skipped through the rest, but I'll listen to the whole thing shortly.
There's an audio book of 'Good Pop Bad Pop' isn't there? I wonder how much of that you can use under the fair-use policy?
Also, focussing on the ancient songs reminds me of a sort of interview I did with Jimmy Sellers some years back where we went through songs, song titles and setlists. I'll have to get that into some sort of form.
There's an audio book of 'Good Pop Bad Pop' isn't there? I wonder how much of that you can use under the fair-use policy?
- Yes I already have it in mp3 form - not sure what legal grounds I could work under here, but I will be as sparing with it as I can.
a sort of interview I did with Jimmy Sellers some years back where we went through songs, song titles and setlists. I'll have to get that into some sort of form.
- uh that is amazing and would be extremely useful, there is a lot of extra info (& even recordings) available now so I would need to re-write the first section of the blog anyway.
There's an audio book of 'Good Pop Bad Pop' isn't there? I wonder how much of that you can use under the fair-use policy?
- Yes I already have it in mp3 form - not sure what legal grounds I could work under here, but I will be as sparing with it as I can.
a sort of interview I did with Jimmy Sellers some years back where we went through songs, song titles and setlists. I'll have to get that into some sort of form.
- uh that is amazing and would be extremely useful, there is a lot of extra info (& even recordings) available now so I would need to re-write the first section of the blog anyway.
Got up as far as 'What Do You Say'. This is fab. I think about 80% of 'Good Pop Bad Pop' is covered here in other interviews. I don't think it would be the worst thing in the world to fill in the 'extra bits' using a few minutes here and there from Jarvis' book. If you were to caption the source of each sound clip/interview etc it might make it better at showing how little has been 'taken' from him.
What's the track playing in the background of the interview at 15 minutes in, anyone? It sounds potentially like a live Pulp recording. But then again, it could equally be some badly recorded punk classic that I'm just not hearing right!
An anthology of some description would be a wonderful thing, sadly, i doubt such a comprehensive collection would be curated anytime soon..
Considering their current profile and re-energized enthusiasm for "new" product i predict if an anthology was realised then it won't be for quite some time...