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I may have said it before but, Hymn of the North is such a gem

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A great session. I've always said that "Something Changed" works a lot better with a string section. "Hymn of the North" sounds a lot better than it does on record, closer to "This is Hardcore" and the Abba cover isn't too bad.

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I get the feeling Something Changed is JCs favourite Pulp song.

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I'd love to hear the 1984 version with Saskia.

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The full video is up now: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0mtrmfy/radio-2s-piano-room-piano-room-month-2026-pulp

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Bookmark i am so with you- Hymn of the North is like Top 5 Pulp songs. And I hope they do it in a few weeks time. Just want to hear it live. Itd be kind of cool if they pulled out the ABBA cover in melbourne because where they are playing is where aBBA played and its kinda famous for that because god we loved ABBA. 



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You're terrible, Muriel!



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its funny you say that because my better half his Aunty is the real Muriel. Her name is Helena.

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Whaaaat?!

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HoltbyCity wrote:

The full video is up now: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0mtrmfy/radio-2s-piano-room-piano-room-month-2026-pulp

 Wouldn't be surprised if we get a BBC2 broadcast at some stage. That ABBA cover was bloody brilliant, such a Pulp-y song to begin with, they really did it justice.



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I never heard that ABBA song before and if you didn't tell me it was ABBA I'd have believed it was a Pulp song! Like Pip just said, it's a very Pulp-y song. Really enjoyed that broadcast. Sounding fantastic. And I love Muriel's Wedding!!! What a great film

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Youve never heard that aBBA song! Wow amazing. the song is amazing. the cover is amazing. When I went to sweden many years ago the train station in the video clip I went to lols just for that and in my headphones i had the song on.

My favourite ABBA album is the last one - The Visitors. Its a masterpiece. Theres a track not on the album but was part of the sessions called Under Attack and its very Pulp. Actually should add it to the thread of songs not by pulp.



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I say I love ABBA but I've only ever listened to Gold to be honest! I go through phases where I'll listen to that over and over. I must check out The Visitors. I remember in the Pulp People newsletter didn't they ask a question about ABBA and I only remember Russell's answer because I was disappointed he didn't like them didn't he say they were 'amusing kitsch' or something and I think might have picked Dancing Queen as maybe his 'favourite' song of theirs. I might have misremembered that.i think that cover was my favourite though the songs all sounded great. I wonder will you be getting HOTN in Oz then. Nice if they started putting it on the setlist again!
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I didnt do ABBA for many many years. And then it sort of hit. And it hit really hard because the technicality of their songs (who does counter melodies like them anymore - does anyone do counter melodies??) - alongside the beautiful-ness of them. Just incredible. I love The Visitors so much. Top 10 albums for me. Because by that time ABBA were kind of despised. And they were all getting divorces and had styled mullets and big big boots. I even like the album they were released a few years ago. I also like how the cover of the album is like turd brown. Its very Pulp. Ive hijacked this with my love for ABBA.

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One more thing. The fact that all of ABBA are still alive. All that fisk and lax in their diets.

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Great and unexpected choice of cover. I wonder if Abbas critical stock - not to suggest its low - is on the rise? Portishead did a breathtaking cover of SOS for their last release. Alan Partridge was right: maybe I should give Silly Love Songs or Maggies Farm another listen for a glimpse of the future, in case he is again?

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Though the chord progression and style of the opening sequence/bridge of Super Trooper is an awful lot like Death Goes to the Disco. You could construct an entire version of the latter from that short sample of the former - Pulp just loop it.

And ooh - is that a stylophone I detect in Lay All Your Love On Me?



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Eamonn wrote:

I'd love to hear the 1984 version with Saskia.

 Do you know this video? Saskia sings it here, but itīs from a later date. She says itīs a slightly different version, but it doesnīt differ much.



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Thanks, yeah, that's from the Life, Death & Supermarkets DVD.

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Errr, nice performance overall but a bit flat isn't it ? Thought the vocals were too upfront compared to the orchestra we barely hear. Or maybe that's my sound settings.

The cover was nice, especially the instrumental part. I dont know this song but the melody didnt strike me as strong. Maybe i should listen to the original 



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Wow. I'd always thought that Blancmange's cover of The Day Before You Came sounded a lot like Seperations era Pulp, and it'd be a great song for them to do. www.youtube.com/watch

And it happened! Really hope it appears on "Even More" or whatever the next one is called. Or as a B side at least.

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The best ABBA song, great cover!

I'll have to go back to ABBA Voyage, think Jarvis went to the premiere didn't he?

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The Day Before You Came

 

I see from looking at this on YouTube that the whole thing is available via iPlayer...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0mtrmfy/radio-2s-piano-room-piano-room-month-2026-pulp

Be interesting to see if Jarvis talks about this song before they play it. Here's why.

In 2006, he invited readers' suggestions about scary songs, in an Observer piece. The published comments can all be found here...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/oct/15/6

...and one of them was mine:

For me, it's a toss-up between Billy Joel's 'Just the Way You Are' and 'The Day Before You Came' by Abba.

The Billy Joel song is just plain nasty - the narrator wants to fix all aspects of his beloved, chillingly telling her that 'I don't want clever conversation'. In other words, don't argue, missy.

Abba's 'The Day Before You Came' seems on the face of it to document another empty day in the life of a single woman. But if you start to imagine the lyric like a piece of film, it's almost as though the listener is watching the narrator, spying on her: 'And rattling on the roof, I must have heard the sound of ...rain ...'

And then there's that long and dark instrumental end section. Very scary.

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I have always viewed Abba as a cheesy/novelty band (maybe it's an age thing!) but I had a listen to "The Visitors" earlier and I actually quite like it.

If I wasn't already aware that this was a cover, I would have thought it was a Pulp original. I remember when Mike Siou sent me a tape of Pulp rarities in the late 1990s which included songs like "The Night" and "Morning Dew". As internet access wasn't as readily available back then, I didn't find out that they were covers until a couple of years later.

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