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The Idiot


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The technique I eventually picked up is to type out the FEELINGCALLEDLOVE letters (without periods/full stops) first, and then go back to the beginning and just alternately press -> and .

That's how I ended up doing it all right.

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We Love Life, however, is cringeworthy and if it had been the first Pulp album I ever heard, I'd never bother to listen to anything else. Try playing it for your friends and watch their horrified reactions. The album just doesn't work... unless you really really really want to convince yourself it does. 



I like We Love Life a lot.


As for friend's reactions, a lot of people who heard it in the car ( excluding Wickerman and with the Halloween Birmingham Peel gig on the other side of the C90)  thought it was a return to form after the less accessible Hardcore.  The only track that grates a bit with me is The Trees, which sounds like the tape was slowed down, but I have often felt that in comparing studio and live versions.


I was a bit surprised that there was no special edition of We Love Life, as there are a few alternative versions (the Chris Thomas sessions), and hard to get tracks (Darren/Quiet Revolution/Got To Have Love/Grandfather's Nursery/Cuckoo Song).   I think it could be the most interesting special edition given the time between albums.


Personally, I think that from Separations to We Love Life, Pulp made half a dozen top quality albums (I include Intro in that).  Not sure that a Separations special edition will ever see the light of day!


As a result of this thread, I did take a listen to some of MotU, and there are some tracks on there that could make my worst of list.   Maybe a good time to revisit them all after I have heard the special editions. 



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ArrGee wrote:


I was a bit surprised that there was no special edition of We Love Life, as there are a few alternative versions (the Chris Thomas sessions), and hard to get tracks (Darren/Quiet Revolution/Got To Have Love/Grandfather's Nursery/Cuckoo Song).   I think it could be the most interesting special edition given the time between albums.





Not to mention 'After You', one of Geoff Travis' favourite Pulp songs, plus another half-dozen other totally different songs.


We'll have to start a petition in 2010.


 



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Oh it has to be Silence, surely? Either that or Back In LA.


Albumwise, in terms of which one I listen to the least I guess it has to be We Love Life.



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there is certain something missing from WLL. i think it's lyrics. and jarv's not interested in his vocals. (with the exception of Bad Cover Version.) i sometimes wonder what Wickerman would have sounded like if it were born in 1993...

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Rrrrr, it's your opinion, mate, it's not "certain". Wish you'd state it as such. You seem to be in the majority here, but some of us sharply disagree.

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Silence ISN'T that bad...or is it just me hahah.

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here's what's 'certain' to me: the lyrics to Minnie, The Trees, The Birds in Your Garden, Road Kill, and, to an extent, Sunrise, could have been written by anyone. which is something that is not true for any Pulp song post-1990. which isn't to hint that i don't like these songs, i do. some of them. the vocals, apparently, were all recorded sober. this isn't the case for the other albums. jarvis commented several times that he had much trouble with the lyrics of WLL. so i can say with some certainty that a sober jarvis cocker with nothing to say is missing a "certain something" that the other albums are not.

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PinkGlove wrote:

Silence ISN'T that bad...or is it just me hahah.


Haha, one night, me and my friend played Silence on my crackly old Master Of The Universe single, and sat in a room listening to it with all the lights off. Got to say it was one of the most chilling and depressing experiences I've ever had...I guess that means it's enjoyable on some weird level(!)



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Steve Devereux


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PinkGlove wrote:

Silence ISN'T that bad...

It really is, you know.

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Well, I didn't know those things about WLL. That is interesting.

I want to hear "Silence" now. I just read that he's embarrassed by it. Have you ever heard "Turkey Mambo Momma" from the '81 Peel session? That was an interesting moment. As Peel's introducing it, he says, "...called 'Turkey Mambo Momma'. No, it's not, come on."

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josta59 wrote:

Have you ever heard "Turkey Mambo Momma" from the '81 Peel session? That was an interesting moment. As Peel's introducing it, he says, "...called 'Turkey Mambo Momma'. No, it's not, come on."

That's from the 1995 rebroadcast. After announcing the song Peel (in typical style) played the first few seconds of another track by mistake, hence the "no it's not, come on" comment.

And for what it's worth, I think We Love Life is great and find This Is Hardcore profoundly unlikeable, but you probably all know that already!

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about WLL not being included in the reissue : i think they're keeping for later, because there's so many tracks to release, and because non pulp fans wouldnt buy it. TIH, DC and His n hers are popular records, whearas WLL isnt.

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I think the case for the worst Pulp song being anything other than "Silence" must be pretty weak. That it was ever released at all when they could have put a number of other songs on is baffling.


Incidentally, WLL is my favourite Pulp album, and many of my friends' too.



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