Finally got my hands on a copy too, yesterday. I guess the chronological "top forty countdown/up" made sense. Pulp's curious past makes telling their story through songs they released along the way a logical fit for the average reader/casual fan. For "list" articles on the usual rock and pop icons they and Mojo often feature, I assume they're actually based on a song's merit as chosen by their writers/readers and that each song write-up jumps from one era to another of the artist's career.

Anyway, some nice new pearls in this feature, some above-mentioned.

Candida is quite outspoken, I hope she can be persuaded to write a book. I laughed at the bit where she talked about Jarvis' mum giving the rest of the band a "bollocking" for not visiting him in hospital sooner, after he had the window-fall!

There are some "false memories" - i.e the familiar one about Pulp having to write practically an entire album in the wake of Common People's success. I mean they kinda did but Jarvis only remembers them having Pencil Skirt and Underwear in the can when we know Monday Morning, Bar Italia and Mile End were also recorded by then - and I assume the music and maybe even some of the lyrics to all the rest. Still, Misshapes is clearly written with the confidence of a band in the first flushes of success. And it's interesting to read how the first lyric to get I Spy going came about which also appears to have happened in the wake of Common People and suddenly being invited to fancy parties.

Jarvis thinking Disco 2000 might be a hit again once the millenium arrived feels a bit dubious. Didn't Pulp actively prevent the song being licensed for media/advertising "syncs" etc. in the run up to 01/01/00 ?!

Nice to see Mark get the chance to talk about what he enjoys about This Is Hardcore (his favourite Pulp album), The Day After The Revolution is a cool choice by him.
And how curious that another version of After You exists from the studio in 2012 before being mixed by James Murphy and that Mark would like it to be released one day. I'd love to hear that. The 2000 demo is great but understandably unpolished. I always thought of the 2012/13 release as a dance remix anyway. So yeah, the "pure" Pulp version, recorded properly is another one to add on the wish-list pile... Also the fact that Jarvis wrote words to Grown-Ups during that time too - the first reunion - suggests that there was on some level, an appetite to possibly do new stuff. But I guess it just wasn't to be...for another decade anyway!