Frisko2000 wrote:

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isn't that the version where jarvis forgets literally every line, "baby baby baby baby you know it!", etc.?

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no its not, but i like that one. I bought the peel album today and i love it, i like common people at the end of cd 2, "lets get a fooking vibe going" i think jarvis says after telling someone to turn the stage speakers up

Listened to the first CD, and it is very good.

The first four tracks, though not the Pulp I know and love, are very listenable and coming on the back of listening to Jarvis, energetic and tuneful.  Lyrically, not too interesting, but it made me wonder about other pre-It material and the record that could have been prior to It.

The next two sessions (His 'n' Hers/DC) both present the songs (bar Underwear) in an embroynic less polished form that those that made the albums, and in the case of Pink Glove, a far better result.  Common People lacks many of the vocal inflections that make the song so good in its final form.

The We Love Life sessions are the most polished and suggest they were recorded after the album was made with precious little variation from the album.  However, there is Duck Diving!  This is a long track on Cocker's reluctance to dive with his glasses on, yet duck diving to fetch a can from the bottom of the water.  Shades of David's Last Summer, and though you can drift away from it it's quite a compelling track.

Just listened to Peter Gunn/Sorted/Help The Aged on Disc 2, which are live versions.  Nothing too spectacular on their own (though Aged is a better song outside the studio), but I have a whole disc of live Pulp to listened to this evening.  Bliss.

 

Wanted to bump this up, because I finally got this CD. (For some reason, it took CDWow almost two months to acquire a copy. And I'd been really happy with them prior to this.)

 

Holy shit, that "Pink Glove" is awesome! Also, though I've had it for years, the 40 years in broadcasting version of "Help the Aged" is my favorite rendition.

I wonder if it was because I ordered it from the U.S. site.

I think the versions of many tracks, especially Pink Glove, Sunrise and Help the Aged are superior to the album versions.  The best Pulp retrospective of all, ahead of Hits.

My only quibble (and this is just greed) is they didn't have an additional CD with the entire Birmingham Academy gig and started with some Glastonbury tracks on the second CD.  I suppose it's too much to hope for a legit release of Carry on Camping (with the 1994 set as well )

I love it.

Especially Refuse..., Please Don't Worry and Wishful Thinking, aaah. What a great stuff!