Great news... thanks !

Interesting... So it's the 13th then and not the 6th. The same week Oasis put out their Best Of I think.

I'm pretty sure those Dublin dates are as part of the Leonard Cohen tribute, the Point holds 9000. Can't imagine that many interested in just Jarvis sadly!

I like 'Running The World' but I was thinking when listening to it last, if it represents the strongest song on his album I'd be very disappointed.

 

Edit: conflicting report re 'Cunts' from gigwise.com...

Jarvis Cocker has confirmed details of his solo album.

The Pulp frontman releases ‘Jarvis’ through Rough Trade on November 13.

The album will feature his outspoken swipe at world leaders ‘Running The World’

Meanwhile, Jarv plays tow London dates this year, taking in KOKO on November 15 and the Roundhouse on December 16. 

-- Edited by Eamonn at 21:20, 2006-09-25

running the world isn't coming out properly at all - he was interviewed on richard bacon's xfm show last week, and i think he said that because of the sentiments of the single it didn't feel right to have a physical release.

check www.xfm.co.uk and click on richard bacon's site, you can listen there, though i can't at work

So why all the Reading play then? (If it's not a single).

more details : soundwise (acoustic, electric, guitars, pianos, synths???) 

 

we need to know

we should get infos soon anyway, its in one month.

Here's a tracklisting:

1. Loss Adjuster (Excerpt Part 1)
2. Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
3. Black Magic
4. Heavy Weather
5. I Will Kill Again
6. Baby's Coming Back To Me
7. Fat Children
8. From A to I
9. Disney Time
10. Tonite
11. Big Julie
12. Loss Adjuster (Excerpt Part 2)
13. Quantum Theory

I found it on this site: http://www.recordstore.co.uk/home.jsp

The first thing I notice are the tracks Don't Let Him Waste Your Time and Baby's Coming Back To Me, which are the titles of songs he wrote for Nancy Sinatra a couple of years ago. It's a bit surprising if he has reused those.

-- Edited by Will at 14:04, 2006-10-09

Random Thoughts:

Why reuse those Nancy Sinatra songs? Maybe Jarvis wasn't satisfied with Nancy's versions?

"Fat Children" sounds promising. I love Jarvis in social commentator mode.

Will "Disney Time" have a lot of swearing in it?

Is "Black Magic" a Harry Potter leftover?

Will "Quantum Theory" sound as strange as it's subject?

Awesome. I really like the Nancy Sinatra songs, esp. "Don't Let Him Waste Your Time," so I'm pretty keen to hear Jarvis' take on them.

ok, here's a very quick word about the album, from the few hearings that i've had. initially it was strange to not have candida's keyboards, it gives it quite a different sound, i think that was what my problem was the first time i heard it. there are a bit of keyboards/piano/flute/other unidentifiable instruments. hawley's guitar sound is very prominent in parts but thats only a good thing, i'm pretty sure he's got backing vocals on another track too (sorry i don't remember which one)
the stand out track for me is fat children, you can imagine it on relaxed muscle if it was heavier.

his voice is much stronger, in my opinion too, it sounds amazing, and on further listens there isn't a crap track on there, so i'm glad i was wrong in my first post

and, josta59, sorry i couldn't give you an "indepth critique" at the time of my first post but i don't have a computer at home and i can only pop on the site very briefly at work.

Thanks, Weener; sorry about my attitude the other day. Like Andy said, we'll all be hearing it soon, anyway. I pre-ordered yesterday.

I would love an album full of "Little Souls", personally.

i would hate an album of A Little Souls. i could live with an album of Everyone Loves the Underdog(s), or even of This Is the Night(s). Cunts Are Still Running the world was a nice little novelty that he wrote in an afternoon in LA, but didn't deserve the focus it got as the one-time candidate for the comeback single. the inclusion of the Sinatra songs has me slightly nervous. i'm losing hope for an album of Catcliffe Shakedown(s)...

I can't imagine being disappointed by anything he does. I admire him more than just about anyone, and I'll follow him wherever he goes. He couldn't lose me if he tried. I guess you could say I'm a true fan. I'm not in love with him or anything. He could go all ABBA on us and I'd grow an afro and buy a lava lamp.

it has leaked today.

don't you have to be invited to join Oink, then you have to have something that no one else has, then you have to have a cute "avatar" or some bloody nightmare, before you can download?

The solo album... I finally purchased it.

Yes I waited this long. For the past 18 months I was content to listen to album on mp3. My reluctance until today wasn't so much because I was unsatisfied with the record as I was just offended by the absurdity of the $30 price tag.

I finally convinced myself to purchase the record today when I came across it in a Musicworld Record Store, which is going out of business and selling off their entire stock for 50% off. I still thought it was too expensive, even after the deep discount, but... what the hell, it's Christmas.

I just wanted to say the physical album sounds much better than the mp3s I have on my computer. I just listened to the whole thing through, and I felt as if I was hearing it again for the first time. I'm overall more impressed with the record than I had previously been. DLHWYT, in particular, sounds more nuanced and less plodding, while Jarv's vocals on I Will Kill Again seem more accomplished than I had previously thought. I still think Fat Children is an awkward fit for the album though.

I felt a little dirty buy a CD. They seem so outmoded and wasteful. At this point, my CD collection is little more than a bulky crate that I feel compelled to cart with me every time I move.

-- Edited by Steve Devereux at 11:29, 2007-12-21

Steve Devereux wrote:

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I'm possibly the only person who really, really likes DLHWYT

I'm a fan too, of the album version at least - it sounds like he's finally nailed that big, Spectoresque sound he was aiming for with the likes of Bad Cover Version and Weeds. I don't think it's as good live as it often seems to come off as a bit stodgy and plodding, although it's always fun to watch.

I'm trying to upload The Rebirth! right now, but something is going wrong, and I have to leave shortly...

Massive shock...