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.