It's the 'Silence' of the 90s. Best avoided.

PinkGlove wrote:

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I can't seem to find anything on the Internet regarding this song and Soulseek is not returning any results.

I'm just curious about this song.

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That Boy's Evil
(Steve Mackey, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Mark Webber)

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

(Various garbled extracts of American teenagers talking, with a heavy echo added):
...Some girl got a haemorrhage...
...or something...
...I heard it was the biggest ever...
...Shit, and I had the mumps...
...No, I really did, she's an honest girl...
...Haemorrhage...?!
...He kept kissing me and I couldn't stand it...
...There's a pop star who's a group in itself...
...poxy...
...the chocolates...
...she's living with Lynn now?...
...No, Lynn's living with Jeanette and Emily...
...Those English groups are so kinky!...
...God, randy...
...and so piggy...

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

That Boy's Evil

(and so it goes on, for a considerable length of time)

Review by Stéphane Devereux

Er... Well, it's interesting, I guess, but it's repetitive as hell (as you may have noticed from the, er, lyrics). Basically That Boy's Evil is Pulp's best stab at being a sort of dance band. It pretty much consists entirely of a pounding beat-cum-drum roll, a big guitar lick sampled and looped in the background, and some woman's sampled voice exclaiming "That boy's evil!" over and over and over again. This is only interrupted by a completely surreal section in the middle where the music dies away and instead several quite annoying North American teenagers apparently had their conversation taped, cut into little pieces and glued back together again at random, with a sort of half-second delayed echo on their almost unintelligible outbursts of gibberish which makes the whole thing very very strange indeed. In a word: "experimental". But hey, isn't experimentation what B-sides are for?

James wrote:

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It's the second-worst ever Pulp song, behind My Errection. I actually prefer Silence to it.

I don't really dislike Silence that much.

(Btw, this is just my opinion, Im not trying to state it as fact.)

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I quite like My Erection, the song. I very curious to That Boy Is Evil. 

Considering they left it off the re-issue CDs, I'd guess it would probably be considered "not commercially available", yeah.

But I should make it clear it's nothing to do with me - just like Bar Italia the site has nothing to do with file-sharing in any shape or form, etc.

doctea wrote:

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I'd just like to stick up for this song and say that I quite like it!

I think I got it off soulseek way back when...

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Finally, a That Boy's Evil lover!

Maybe I'll find it once.

Is there any way we can buy the bsides of the reissues separatly from the rest? Like on Itunes, buy each song individually?

There's nothing wrong with That Boy's Evil. It's nice to have a proper b-side rather than some crappy remixes that sound nothing like the original.

I quite like it. It's strange not to hear Jarvis on vocals, but I like it.

I like it too. It doesn't sound like pulp at all, though.

That Boy's Evil is occasionally enjoyable, if it catches me in the right mood. I like that it doesn't sound anything like "Pulp". But I have a special place in my heart for all the -odd- Pulp songs.

My Erection is great and I rank it one of the best outtakes. Might I remind you, however, that I have a keyboard fetish and guitars bore the hell out of me.