Also, Spike Island is where Jarvis got his inspiration for "Sorted For E's and Wizz". Essentially, Jason Buckle was shouting "Spike Island come alive" at the same time/same place people were walking round asking if everyone was sorted for E's and Wizz...

Jarvis mentions his name in "The Professional": "C0cker's short for... sucker". We know what the missing lyrics should be but some Island exec probably thought it was too extreme.

There is also that Barry Adamson song he provided the vocals for: I enter a room and all the girls say: "C'mon Jarv, can I be the first? Oh, you make us so hot we feel we're gonna burst.". I have just listened to that for the first time in years, it's quite interesting and the lengthy outro is vaguely similar to "My Sex" in terms of Jarvis noises. The whole album is pretty odd but it's quite interesting. 

There are some recurring lyrics on "More":

• The Universe: Spike Island / Grown Ups / Partial Eclipse
• A feeling: Spike Island / Grown Ups / Farmers Market / Background Noise

Sturdy wrote:

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Mother, brother lover of course.

And don't the sun, the moon, the wind and the rain pop up a few times on Separations?

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saw119 wrote:

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Ste wrote:

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saw119 wrote:

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Does that mean we should include those chubby 12 years in union jack shorts addicted to coffee whitener and frankfurters?

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I guess it should instead be the "pudgy fifteen-year olds addicted to coffee whitener" :D

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 They grow up so fast.

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 Not really they only aged three years between 1995 and 2001!

Eamonn wrote:

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Sturdy wrote:

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Mother, brother lover of course.

And don't the sun, the moon, the wind and the rain pop up a few times on Separations?

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 I was trying to bring them all to mind but couldn't so I've had a look:

Don't You Want Me Anymore - "On the night that I was leaving the moon rose in the sky... You're going to love me more than ever, and the sun will shine again"

She's Dead - "Those years of endless rain, they just washed her away"

Separations - "As the sun shines down on the land... Now the moon is high in the sky... Now the sun shines on a new town... Where the moon hangs high above him now... The same moon that she's praying on tonight, but the wind catches their words and the moon swallows them whole... Now the moon is high in the sky"

Countdown - "and stars and moon are falling down"

Legendary Girlfriend - "And oh the stars came out tonight, and the moon came on his face... And the sun and the moon and the stars all came down today"

Death II "Oh, if I knew the moon I'd ask him to shine his light in through your window"

This House Is Condemned - "He sees the moon, he sees the stars, he sees the sky"

Death Comes to Town - "And the sunlight on your window in the morning, And the wind that blows the blossom from the trees"

More than I thought! It must've been deliberate, but why?

Jarvis hints in the sleevenotes that there is a link between "Frightened" and "The Fear".

There are also quite a few Pulp songs that talk about travel/transport i.e. wandering the streets at night, on a train or bus, along the river

• Boats and Trains
• Blue Glow: essentially the whole song depicts Jarvis wondering the streets at night
• Goodnight: You make your way down the yellow streets past rows and rows of houses; curtains drawn tight against the cold night air
• Being Followed Home: I don't think an example is needed here
• My Legendary Girlfriend: So I woke her, and we went walking through the sleeping town (this contains an earlier line similar to "Goodnight": Outside I can see all the houses - curtains shut tight against the night)
• Don't You Want Me Anymore: Soon as I get off this train
• Separations: With a smile, he gets off the train
• OU: She's at the station because she's leaving town
• Sheffield: Sex City: And now I'm wandering up and down your street calling your name
• Inside Susan: literally depicts Susan's bus journey
• Street Lites: I'll walk it off in the rain somehow / On the back seat of the top deck
• Catcliffe Shakedown: The train that crosses the viaduct
• The Professional: She will meet me from the train and she won't know a thing...
• Like a Friend: You are the train I never should have caught
• Wickerman: Yeah, a river flows underneath this city, I'd like to go there with you now my pretty and follow it on for miles and miles
• After You: Don't stop 'til the train has pulled into the station
• Tina: Saw her this morning on the train
• Grown Ups: It was the night they let me out of the home, it was the night I caught the bus on my own
• Background Noise: I got on a train, started thinking about being single again

Another interesting fact: whilst there are plenty of songs about Sheffield, only two have the name of the city in the title, "Sheffield: Sex City" and "I Scrubbed the Crabs that Killed Sheffield", only the latter mentions it in the lyrics. 

Jarvis said the following in December 1994:

[Following the "Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)" single], "a Scott Walker for the 80s"! People said, "you'd like Scott Walker," but all I'd heard sounded like Tom Jones. It wasn't until 1987 when somebody gave me a tape of his proper solo albums that I understood his genius.

My guess is that he received the tape early in the year because the intro to "Rattlesnakes" (performed in March and recorded in July) is similar to Walker's "The Seventh Seal". It could be purely coincidental.

They didn't demo or record anything for "Separations" until 1989 though the bulk of it (including "She's Dead", a blatantly obvious attempt at a Walker style ballad) was performed in 1987 and 1988. So "Separations" was definitely the first album they recorded after Jarvis became fully aware of Scott Walker. 

Oh and by "sounded like Tom Jones", he must be referring to the "TV Series" album or some of the MOR covers he did in the early 1970s. 

The Hallamshire Hotel on 28th February 1982

It is on YouTube:

Great song if you ask me, probably my favourite from 1982.