Ian wrote:

Hmmmm...at this very moment (and in no particular order):

Seductive Barry
Snow
Being Followed Home
Sunrise
Sheffield: Sex City
I Spy
Don't You Want Me Anymore
Countdown (album version)
Rattlesnake(s)
97 Lovers

Muzzy wrote:

Order takes too long so...

Babies
Sheffield Sex City
Birds in your Garden
This is Hardcore
Lip Gloss
Happy Ending
Tomorrow Never Dies
Mile End
My Legondary Girlfriend
59 Lyndhurst Grove

ArrGee wrote:

1. Pink Glove
2. I Spy
3. Razzmatazz
4. Lipgloss
5. Live Bed Show
6. Do You Remember The First Time?
7. Birds In Your Garden
8. The Fear
9. Dishes
10. She's A Lady

Thing is that's today's top ten, tomorrow who knows? Sunrise, Joyriders, Hardcore, Babies....

(Can I have a top 50?)

Scotty wrote:

Oooooooooo old school stuff Used to love doing these...!! I personally change my mind all the time about my fave top 10, it really does depend what mood im in, but here goes - my current top 10

1- Death Comes To Town
2- Day Of The Revolution
3- Happy Endings
4- Pink Glove
5- Lyndhurst Grove
6- Bad Cover Version
7- Sunrise
8- Blue Girls
9- Wickerman
10-Paula

Andreas wrote:

Paula? Which one is that?

F.U.S.S.F.R.E.E. wrote:

I have no time at the moment, but... can't resist... must post...

In no particular order-

Joking Aside
I Spy
Seconds
OU
Stacks
Countdown
His N Hers
Srpski Jeb
Don't You Know
Rattlesnakes

(I'm already changing my mind)

F.U.S.S.F.R.E.E. wrote:

Rattlesnakes is a lost single that bridged the gap between Freaks and Separations, and it perfectly encapsulates Pulp's changing aestetic. Part disco stomp, part bossa nova, with Jarv's first truly GREAT vocal.

I first heard it when it appeared unexpectedly in the Bar Italia account about a year ago. I thought it was a revelation then. Still listen to it regularly today. I'm not the type of fan that thinks everything is brilliant. I've very picky. Rattlesnakes is a brilliant song.

Frisko2000 wrote:

1. This Is Hardcore
2. I Spy
3. His N Hers
4. Seconds
5. Rattlesnake
6. Bad Cover Version
7. I Want You
8. Death Comes to Town
9. Pink Glove
10.You're a Nightmare

so exactly the types of songs i'm likely not to get on the solo album...

Frisko2000 wrote:

well, he did mention that he thought that four minute numbers were now too long and that this album didn't contain any 'moaning', i think the term was. as well, we have heard no less than seven recordings from Jarvis in the last twelve months or so. '****s' is far and away the best of them in my opinion, but not on par with the premiere pulp material. anyway, i'd definately say there's been a hint or two at where the solo album is going concerning vocals and production...and it doesn't sound like Pink Glove...

Frisko2000 wrote:

i had actually forgotten about the 'Sea-Shanties thingy'. i was thinking of the contributions to the leonard cohen tribute movie/album; 'I Can't Forget' and 'Death of a Ladies' Man'. but i think you make some good points. one, no less than FOUR of the songs are covers and, although some pulp covers were so pulped up that they come close to being originals (the beautiful 'The Night' for example), these only serve to indicate what he was influenced by at some point. the Harry Potter numbers were actually part of a band, the Wyrd Sisters, no? so, there may be stronger influences from the other bandmembers than on Jarvis' solo effort. and finally, '****s', a song that seems to be entirely lyric-driven, and perhaps not a good indicator of how the actual music he's writing sounds.

and i see the morrissey comparison and it concerns me. let's hope this isn't jarv's 'Viva Hate'...

Eamonn wrote:

Anyway. My favourites have generally stayed the same since i first familiarised myself with the back-catalogue.

Something Changed, Birds In Your Garden and Cuckoo are all in a similar vein but have always been in my faves.

TV Movie is one which a lot of people don't seem too keen on, judging on the 'Hardcore Re-Evaluation' thread but it's bareness has always appealed to me. The tune doesn't really come alive until the keyboards parp during the bridge part but...I don't know, it's an easy song to play and sing on the guitar which I often do, so perhaps it's that soft-spot I have for it.

Another personal fave - and another TIH era piece, though more obscure, is 'Laughing Boy'. This is a funny one, I first heard this on the 'The Park Is Mine' vid which was televised on tv here in Ireland during rhe Christmas of '99. I hadn't got the Help The Aged single at the time (nor the Hardcore or HnH lps for that matter!) but I thought that the Finsbury Park performance was gorgeous. I was a little disappointed by the studio recording official version when I finally heard it, thanks to Alex from Pulp People who sent me a cassette of the 'Help The Aged' single. I think it's the keyboard line and the final 'I don't know' at the end that do it for me. Even more-so when I thought about the context when the song was written - Mark's book ends one chapter beautifully with the closing lyrics to 'Laughing Boy' when discussing Jarvis' burn-out and disillusionment at the end of 1996, early '97.

Ansaphone is the only other interesting choice - I think this is a truly wonderful song, often over-looked. Would it be sad of me to confess that the 'Leave your message on the ansaphone...*beep*'bit is my voice-mail message?

Oh and 'The Boss' too, though only after i'd heard the demo version. Candida is a goddess for this synth-frenzy alone (wasn't this one of the batch of songs her and Jarvis wrote in a weekend as they were due to demo tracks for Island and were short on new material, at the beginning of '92?).

So in no particular oder, apart from the first one, it's summat like...

Something Changed
Ansaphone
Wickerman
Cuckoo
Birds In Your Garden
Common People
TV Movie
The Boss
Babies
Laughing Boy

Eamonn wrote:

Looking at the demo page on the official site, I'm presuming it was some of these songs that stemmed from the same writing session (which I read about in either Mark's book or the earlier, half-decent one by Martin Aston)

ISLAND RECORDS DEMO: Razzmatazz / The Boss / Happy Endings / Watching Nicky / Styloroc (Nites of Suburbia) / Glass (aka Your Sister's Clothes). 7 May 1992, Island Records Fallout Shelter, London.

I had thought 'Live On' came from that same period, but that was actually demoed earlier, in January that year as part of the OU session.

The two other demos on the H'n'H deluxe edition, 'You're Not Blind' and 'Frightened' came later, in 1993. Of all the new demoes we're going to hear when the re-issues come out, it's probably these two songs that intrigue me most.

I've often thought Pulp had an album missing between Separations and the stuff cobbled together on Intro... or maybe the album which the singles collected on Intro came from, I guess. Would have been fantastic.

would be..

underwear
razzmatazz
acrylic afternoons
common people
this is hardcore
do you remember the first time
babies
disco 2000
pink glove
joyriders

..for me..at the moment..

Ah, hurrah a list! I couldn't resist a stupid list!

Like most peeps I my favs change but I have consulted my most played Pulp songs on iTunes and this is what it told me I have been listening to a lot of recently:

1. Do You Remember The First Time (live Leeds 2000)
2. My Legendary Girlfiriend
3. Weeds
4. Live Bed Show
5. Babies
6. Dirty World
7. Pink Glove
8. Ansaphone
9. Can I Have My Balls Back, Please?
10.Death Comes To Town

Hi all,this is my first post on here.I'll choose 10 random favourites of mine:

1Streetlites
2Blue girls
3Babies
4The Trees
5They suffocate at night
6Maureen
7Little girl with blue eyes
8Pencil skirt
9You're not blind
10 97 lovers

i shall go for (in no order):

Anorexic Beauty
Love Is Blind
David's Last Summer
Mile End
Live Bed Show (Extended)
The Wickerman
I Spy
Babies
Seductive Barry
The Fear

its ever changing, but here goes:

We Can Dance Again
Disco 2000
I Spy
Seconds
Like A Friend
Underwear
This Is Hardcore
Sylvia
Birds In Your Garden

and of course...Something Changed

At this moment, possibly in - or close to being in - order:

The Fear (breakdown version, just rebought Party Hard from ebay to get this back)
This Is Hardcore
Wickerman
I Spy
Seconds
Do You Remember The First Time
Death Goes To Town
Mark of the Devil (these last two really - I've been listening to them lots lately. I like the La La La parts...)
Your Sister's Clothes
Acryllic Afternoons

-- Edited by Ste at 17:42, 2009-01-18

1. The Fear (The Complete Utter and Breakdown Version)
2. Cuckoo Song
3. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
4. Something Changed
5. Death II
6. Like A Friend
7. Common People
8. It's A Dirty World
9. I Spy
10. You're A Nightmare
--------------------------
This Is Hardcore...

At the moment (from 'old' to 'new'):

Babies
Seconds
I Spy
Disco 2000
Dishes
It's a Dirty World
This is Hardcore
The Night that Minnie Timperley Died
Wickerman
After You

Like the rest of you, my list changes all time... in relatively chronological order:

Countdown (single version)
Lipgloss
Acrylic Afternoons (Brixton '95 version - best ever)
She's A Lady
Do You Remember The First Time?
Seconds
Party Hard
This Is Hardcore
Seductive Barry
Wickerman

Bubbling under:

O.U (Gone, Gone)
Babies
Pink Glove
Your Sister's Clothes
Underwear
Glory Days
Bob Lind (the only way is down)

I'll try that

We Can Dance Again
Love Love
Mile End
Glory Days
A Little Soul
Razzmatazz
We Are The Boyz
The Birds In Your Garden
Disco 2000
The Fear

Perfect Setlist would comprise of the following.

10. The Fear
9. Live Bed Show (V96) - Jarvis rapping/making lyrics up
8. This Is Hardcore (end of the line mix) - its glorious!
7. Party Hard
6. Seductive Barry (Glastonbury 1998) - f**k!
5. Styloroc (Nites Of Suburbia)
4. You're not Blind
3. Dishes
2. Acrylic Afternoons

DRUM ROLLLLL!

1. Sheffield Sex City

my top ten

Watching Nicky

Life must be wonderful

I want you

Cuckoo song

Bad Cover version

Underwear

Death comes to town

you're a nightmare

Help the aged

happy endings (demo)

and many many others