I was just wondering the other day what were the chances after seeing Blur announce a 30th for The Great Escape.

Slightly disappointing, it's kind of the bare minimum - Glastonbury '95 finally officially released and the vinyl aperture version reissued after years of being out of print.

I was really hoping for the remainder of the demos from here https://pulpwiki.net/Pulp/DifferentClassLPDemos. I count 7 tracks as being unreleased. Would an extra CD with of all the demos and the BSides really have hurt? The proper version of Ansaphone still hasn't been physically reissued.

The 1983(?) version of Something Changed was also on my wishlist.

If Mark is reading this, sorry, I don't mean to complain! But he gets what it is to be a fan. I assume it's Jarvis making the decisions and he has no interest in excavation...

Also, Mark has said before that he wanted to release the video of Glastonbury '95 but it needed to be synced-up with the audio properly. Maybe BBC will do that to coincide with DC's 30th and just show it on TV/the iPlayer.

The lack of interest in bonus material doesn't bode well for a WLL deluxe. I guess DC is a low-effort reissue whereas WLL needs the additional songs to sell it.

But yeah, a bit of a missed opportunity considering this may never be superdeluxe'd again.

Sold-out already on the official store?! No wonder they didn't vote throwing the kitchen sink at it, no need, we're the small % who always want "MORE":

There was only one winner in the Britpop Wars: Pulp. They were in a Different Class...
Different Class (originally released October 30, 1995) is Pulp's most successful album, achieving multi-platinum sales and international acclaim, winning the 1996 Mercury Music Prize and debuting at #1 on the UK Album Chart. It also produced four Top Ten singles, including Common People.

Four months prior to the release of the album, the band headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 24 June. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of what is widely regarded as one of the best records of the era, this legendary Glastonbury performance, the audio wholly restored and released here for the first time, has been paired with the remastered album (each cut over 2 LPs) and is released as a deluxe 4LP boxset.

The audio has been remastered/mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, overseen by Jarvis ****er and Mark Webber, and is presented in a sturdy slipcase with a comprehensive, 28-page booklet featuring extensive notes from new interviews with the band members, plus previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the photos for the original release) and the bands own archives. The original aperture sleeve design, which invited purchasers to Choose your own front cover, came with six double-sided inserts/art cards of alternative cover images depicting cardboard cutouts of the band members in a variety of situations. This has been fully recreated and a 12 by 12 poster featuring miniatures of the cutouts themselves is also included.

LPs 1 and 2 - Original album remastered
Side One
1. Mis-Shapes 3:47
2. Pencil Skirt 3:11
3. Common People 5:51

Side Two
1. I Spy 5:55
2. Disco 2000 4:34
3. Live Bed Show 3:29

Side Three
1. Something Changed 3:19
2. Sorted For Es & Wizz 3:40
3. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. 6:01

Side Four
1. Underwear 4:06
2. Monday Morning 4:18
3. Bar Italia 3:44

LPs 3 And 4 - Live At Glastonbury, 1995
Side One
1. Common People Drone Intro 3:28
2. Do You Remember The First Time? 4:00
3. Razzmatazz 4:44
4. Monday Morning 5:16

Side Two
1. Underwear 5:17
2. Sorted For Es & Wizz 4:34
3. Disco 2000 5:45
4. Joyriders 4:03

Side Three
1. Acrylic Afternoons 6:01
2. Mis-Shapes 4:23
3. Pink Glove 5:09

Side Four
1. Babies 6:41
2. Common People 7:33

Sturdy wrote:

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Stay alive, spend 95.

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Excellent 

Yeah, I can see that view but for completeness and with folk happy to pay for it, it's a relatively easy win. 

If this sells well maybe they could mop-up the BSides and demos for RSD next year...?

I'll be honest......

On the first impression, I was very disappointed. HOWEVER this will give us all a chance to open the Choose Your Own Cover Vinyl, it's remastered, Glastonbury 95 mixed properly, AND it's affordable. I'm all for it.

What's with the difference in price between Amazon France and uK though??????

The only downside is that it will devalue the original 12". That's not a bad thing really as it will stop tossers and dealers selling them for stupid money

Fingers-crossed they act on the demand and consider further material for reissue. Even for RSD next year they could do the Different Class offcuts - can anyone think of a snappy name for this? B-Sides & Broken Biscuits?

Vinyl 1

Side A:

Mile End
PTA
Ansaphone
Live Bed Show Extended
Catcliffe Shakedown (demo)*

Side B:

Common People radio edit
Disco 2000 7" edit
Common People Motiv 8 Club Mix **
Disco 2000 Motiv 8 Mix **

Vinyl 2

Side A:

Misshapes (demo)
Sorted (demo)
Something Changed (demo)
Feeling Called Love (demo)
Disco 2000 (demo)

Side B:

Live Bed Show (demo)
I Spy (demo)
Ansaphone (demo)
Don't Lose It (demo)
Paula (demo)
We Can Dance Again (demo)



* For space reasons across the vinyl sides or to quote TFL buses "to regulate the service", I've put Catcliffe here.

** Remixes don't do much for me but it's interesting to note the comments today on this news from casual fans that the Common People dance remix is a big omission as it was "everywhere" at the time.

There is potential for a 7"vinyl singles boxset in Pulp's Island output. Some of these singles like Misshapes/Sorted weren't even issued on vinyl at the time, right?

They could also have added a DVD bonanza of live material & TV appearances from 1995/'96 but 99% of it is on Youtube and probably not worth the time to research and the cost to license. A doc of the making of the album is not really Pulp's thing. The Story Of Common People is the best we're likely to get.

I do hope that plenty of Mark's camcorder footage is chucked-onto the film release next year.

One final thought - maybe the lyrics of PTA make Jarvis feel uncomfortable now and I can also imagine him being embarrassed by Paula so it might have been easier for him to stick to the album tracks...