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The new Pulp song recorded for War Child is out tomorrow 19/02/26 !

First play on BBC Radio 2 from 8pm 



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Crazy ! the EP out in february seemed so far away when it was announced, and here we are. Time is going fast

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The EP is separate - The Man Who Comes Around is out Friday next week with two b-sides that are leftovers from a More demo session recorded a week or two before the album sessions began.

This new song, Begging For Change, is not part of the above release (although it was recorded without vocals during the More sessions - finished off at Abbey Road a year later - per the photos above) and will not be on a physical Pulp release (not yet anyway), but will be on the War Child compilation which comes out at the start of March.

Slightly confusing but basically we will hear 3 new Pulp songs over the next couple of weeks!



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Yeah that more a "time flies" remark :)

I see that Begging for Change was also produced by James Ford. Wonder how much later work was done on it compared to the track recorded for More. Maybe not that much ? Vocals, some overdubs ? 



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Right, just vocals then :D


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Link seems to be fallen now, but Brooklyn Vegan  guys have heard the song... (feat. Damon and Grian Chatten...???!!!)

Pulp share HELP(2) song "Begging for Change" ft Damon ...


 
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hace 2 horas  Begging for Change may be the most rocking Pulp song ever, a glammy, garagey rave-up that still features many of the band's signature earmarks (Jarvis ...


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It's on Spotify now - god knows what happened to the 8pm BBCR2 play cos it's not been on yet.

This is fantastic, very uptempo and rocking! Not sure where it would fit on 'More', but my first impressions are get back in that studio and give us some 'More' of this biggrin



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It is on YouTube too



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Madcap, driven, angry, unhinged. And smashing.

Love the whirling frantic strings and Webbo must be pleased with the amount of guitar noise!

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Getting Freaks vibes of this. Lovely stuff.

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Blimey, a good old-fashioned rocker. Yeah, would have been a complete gear-shift on More!

Kinda got a We Are The Boyz meets Further Complications vibe off it. Interesting to hear that the music was written over a decade ago. Makes me wonder how much of More was musically written in 2023/24!

When I interviewed Mark which must have been around the time of the Help recording, he said he hadn't got as much guitar in this track as he'd wanted to - presumably "something changed" !



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legohairjordan wrote:

god knows what happened to the 8pm BBCR2 play cos it's not been on yet.

-- Edited by legohairjordan on Thursday 19th of February 2026 08:06:50 PM

 Having subjected myself to 45 fruitless minutes of Radio 2, I looked up the programme running order and it was about 10 minutes from the start, so would have been about 7:40pm live. There's a little clip of Jarvis introducing it from a cave in New Zealand. He's got a bit obsessed with caves!

That was banging.



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This song is fantastic!


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First impression - it'll grow on me. I can totally understand why it didn't make More. Its the 2026 equivalent of Relaxed Muscle.

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Yeah, good shout re Freaks. I think it called to mind a bit the vocals at the beginning of Tunnel for me and the drumming from the likes of Maureen. I love some of that older stuff. Good song.

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Released exactly 30 years to the night of the infamous Brits '96...

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Hehe i love when Jarvis rocks. I think he's a very underrated rock n roll songwriter. Obviously this one is a bside or an album track at best. I can see why it was left off More.

I hope they release a RNR album at some point. This year ? I bet Jarvis has tons of material, they could easily do another one in the coming month. Pulp or solo...

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Eamonn wrote:

Released exactly 30 years to the night of the infamous Brits '96...

 

One day i'll open the debate of the similarities between Jarvis' music and Jacko' music. There are so many biggrin



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Its like We ARe The Boyz vs Most of Further Complications vs Sometimes I Am Pharaoh. Yep like alot. Will we see it played over the next few weeks? Oh Jarvis with those kids. You know if he wants to give up music he could make a good Kindy teacher?


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Has anyone had a stab at the lyrics? I can't make out some of them especially one passage that's possibly a bit too quick to catch ?

Also, the bit near the end where Jarvis repeats "Begging for..." sounds like he's putting on a Sheff/townie accent not too dissimilar to Catcliffe Shakedown ("What you looking at? I dunno, label's come off").

Nick and Mark must have had a lot fun recording this. Amps up to 11 and pounding the fcuk out of the drums. The strings stay out of Mark's way for once and when they do come in, they really add an effective tone, that groany bend in the phrases towards the latter part.

I'd love to hear more of Pulp going wild. Obviously kerb it if the song is sh1t or embarassing or Candida's not got enough to do but it's great to hear Darren Spooner and Myron Wagtail being channelled by the C0ck at 62.



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I have had a couple of listens. It's certainly an interesting one, I agree that it's primarily a cross between "We are the Boyz" and something off "Further Complications" but there are shades of Relaxed Muscle in there.

If it were to appear on "More" then perhaps it would have worked best before "Got to Have Love", thus reducing the ballad-heaviness of side 2.

I will have a stab at the lyrics at some point.

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