My, it is a night for Pulp discoveries - it seems amazon has the tracklistings:
The 1981 session is included - hurrah! No more does it have to buried on an old cassette. And as expected the second cd is fleshed out with sets from JP's 60th birthday bash, the Birmingham Academy gig from the WLL tour and something else which I can't remember and the labs are closing here and i'm off to the college bar...
Oh and this Pink Glove version is the definitive one!
Disc: 1 1. Turkey Mambo Momma 2. Please Don't Worry 3. Wishful Thinking 4. Refuse To Be Blind 5. Pink Glove 6. You're A Nightmare 7. Acrylic Afternoons 8. Underwear 9. Common People 10. Pencil Skirt 11. Sunrise 12. Weeds 13. I Love Life 14. Duck Diving Disc: 2 1. Theme From Peter Gunn 2. Sorted For E's And Wizz 3. Help The Aged 4. This Is Hardcore 5. Sunrise 6. Mile End 7. Do You Remember The First Time 8. Babies 9. Weeds 10. Weeds II (The Origin Of The Species) 11. Fear 12. Trees 13. I Love Life 14. Party Hard 15. Common People
I quite like the design, the play on the classic Pulp logo used for Peel a fairly straightforward piece of thinking. Mr Senior fairly prominent (as he should be) with the three midgets squeezed into the middle.
The best Pulp group-shots are usually b/w aswell I find, particularly with Senior and Mackey's lacquered hair and JC and Doyle's retro-fashion looks.
Fuck yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Bit confused by "Please Don't Worry" sounding a bit strange on that sample, but conversely "Refuse To Be Blind" sounds immense. Why is this even coming out? Who cares? Fantastic.
Might have to delay the relaunch of the site to take all of this into consideration, mind. Proper releases for the '81 tracks, Duck Diving, Peter Gunn etc... messing up my site, they are. Good good good.
I wonder if there'll be a Black Session/French radio compilation to go with it someday?
6. Mile End 7. Do You Remember The First Time 8. Babies
I think these where recorded at the Anson Rooms, Bristol as part of BBC Sound City '95. Unlike the other tracks I don't think these were actually broadcast on the John Peel Show.
Full details: Station: BBC Radio 1 Recorded: 21 April 1995 Transmitted: 21 April 1995 Location: Live at Anson Rooms, Bristol
Thought I'd bump this up (seeing as it's out next week - or this Friday in Ireland) and also have a bit of a moan.
Pulp aren't the only artist to have their Ravenscroft recordings dusted down this month but the press for the Pulp Peel Sessions release has left me bewildered - from this month's music mags only The La's get their wares reviewed (in Q and Uncut), which is understandable I suppose given the maverick nature of their leader Lee Mavers and the band in general who disappeared after 'There She Goes' apart from John Power I suppose who went on to fron Cast, but I digress. Even the ads for the Peel Sessions have Pulp lumped together, sharing half a page with no-marks like Gene and The House Of Love but PJ Harvey gets half the page to herself, and hers is only a 12-track 1CD affair.
The La's and PJ Harvey more important (bigger?) than Pulp?
6. Mile End 7. Do You Remember The First Time 8. Babies
I think these where recorded at the Anson Rooms, Bristol as part of BBC Sound City '95. Unlike the other tracks I don't think these were actually broadcast on the John Peel Show.
Full details: Station: BBC Radio 1 Recorded: 21 April 1995 Transmitted: 21 April 1995 Location: Live at Anson Rooms, Bristol
I think I might have an MP3 of the version of "Babies." JC mentions something about Bristol, I think. There's a great bit, where you can hear him mess around with opening riff, someone in the crowd shouts, "Put it [the guitar] down, you know you can't play. Jarvis responds: "I can play, actually. I'm fonking brilliant, actually." Great stuff. Does anyone know if this is the same gig?
Mike wrote: I think I might have an MP3 of the version of "Babies." JC mentions something about Bristol, I think. There's a great bit, where you can hear him mess around with opening riff, someone in the crowd shouts, "Put it [the guitar] down, you know you can't play. Jarvis responds: "I can play, actually. I'm fonking brilliant, actually." Great stuff. Does anyone know if this is the same gig?
It is the same. And that is an amusing bit of dialogue, though I reckon it will be edited out on the CD.
Think I will order this tomorrow, might get another 20% off ! Just wondering about getting the reissues as well, but finding it hard to justify even shelling out £30 for an alum's worth of stuff. At times like this I should just have a list of records I want, and save myself trawling through.
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I was thinking of using that discount, but its a pre-order and will not be applicable. I did however go ahead and order, and the nice thing is I received and email confirming it has already been shipped....so i'll have it soon.
In my dreams, I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows they learned to swim
Waves of regrets, Waves of joy
I reached out to the one I tried to destroy
You, you said you'd wait
Until the end of the world
"The La's and PJ Harvey more important (bigger?) than Pulp?"
I don't know anything about The La's other than that song "There She Goes", but I think it's safe to assume PJ Harvey is more important and/or bigger than Pulp. For instance, PJ Harvey has been on the cover of Rolling Stone, whereas, I don't think Pulp have ever even appeared in Rolling Stone outside the reviews section.
Fuss Free wrote: "The La's and PJ Harvey more important (bigger?) than Pulp?"
I don't know anything about The La's other than that song "There She Goes", but I think it's safe to assume PJ Harvey is more important and/or bigger than Pulp in America. For instance, PJ Harvey has been on the cover of Rolling Stone, whereas, I don't think Pulp have ever even appeared in Rolling Stone outside the reviews section.
Fixed that for you.
Anyway, this is out now, and I'm assuming some of us have got it (or already had it). What do we think, then?
Picked up the album today, wanted to on Friday but with the money I had then it was either a choice of a bus-home (and the home-cooking and clothes-washing that goes with it) or the album...a no-brainer then!
Haven't had chance to listen to it yet fully, did go through the liner notes earlier. Nice little essay from Jarvis, mostly reminiscing on the debut session (though every 'Pulp Scrapbook' anorak on here will know most of the details he mentions) and a couple of group shots that I hadn't seen before - it's a b/w affair, the booklet. Can someone in the UK tell me what the price is in HMV or Virgin there, it cost €18 here in Virgin in Cork, a bit steep considering it's £9 online but for a double cd it's not overtly dear I suppose. Full review later.
I've not bought it yet but is it the version of 'Pink Glove' that goes something like "You had a friend called Heather, you never kissed her never"? If it is, then I transcribed it once. I'll see if I can dig up the transcription.