Different Class (1995) ( )

Artist: Pulp
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Label: Uni/island
UPC: 00731452416520
Release Date: 2/27/1996
Buy.com Sku: 60395507
Item#: M7YWFT
Buy.com Sales Rank: 27308
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Mis-Shapes ~ Pulp
2. Pencil Skirt ~ Pulp
3. Common People ~ Pulp
4. I Spy ~ Pulp
5. Disco 2000 ~ Pulp
6. Live Bed Show ~ Pulp
7. Something Changed ~ Pulp
8. Sorted For E's And Wizz ~ Pulp
9. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. ~ Pulp
10. Underwear ~ Pulp
11. Monday Morning ~ Pulp
12. Bar Italia ~ Pulp

(P) 1995 Island Records Ltd.
(C) 1995 Island Records Ltd.

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Pulp: Jarvis Cocker (vocals, acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, Vocoder, synthesizer, MicroMoog, Mellotron); Mark Webber (acoustic & electric guitars, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Russell Senior (electric guitar, violin); Candida Doyle (Farfisa organ, Fender Rhodes piano, Minimoog synthesizer, synthesizer); Steve Mackey (bass); Nick Banks (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel includes: Anne Dudley (conductor, arranger); Chris Thomas (guitar, keyboards); Matthew Vaughan, Olle Romo, Anthony Genn, Mark Haley (programming); Gavyn Wright.
Recorded at The Town House and Air Lyndhurst, London, England.
Personnel: Jarvis Cocker (vocals, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, Mellotron, synthesizer, Moog synthesizer); Russell Senior (guitar, violin); Chris Thomas , Mark Webber (guitar, keyboards); Candida Doyle (Fender Rhodes piano, Farfisa, synthesizer, Moog synthesizer); Nick Banks (drums, percussion); Mark Haley, Matthew Vaughan, Olle Romo (programming).
Recording information: Air Studios, London, England (06/24/1995); Town House, London, England (06/24/1995).
Unknown Contributor Roles: Gavyn Wright; Antony Genn; Candida Doyle.
Arranger: Anne Dudley.
Judging from the tone of the songs on DIFFERENT CLASS, Jarvis Cocker, Pulp's lead singer, chief lyricist and main attraction, seems like a spiteful little bastard playing Robin Hood--or, maybe, Robin Hood playing the spiteful little bastard. His suave thespian delivery of songs about English class warfare and an outsiders' existence, suggests a class-conscious Bryan Ferry. And he fronts a band as majestic, glammy and multi-faceted as the Eno-era Roxy Music playing a form of modern-day Rocky Horror Britpop.
Pulp's is a thoroughly British pose--the themes, colloquialisms and topics of DIFFERENT CLASS have little to do with American culture. Like E.M. Forster novels, however, the best songs play with emotions of societal existence, which translate easily across the ocean. "Mis-Shapes," an acoustic-guitar-fueled call-to-arms for the working class young, and "Common People," the tale of a young upper-class female who goes slumming for a commoner lover ("I wanna sleep with common people") and finds a venomous Cocker, are alone worth the price of admission. And judging by his coldly detached description of a rave in "Sorted Out For E's & Wizz," Cocker finds no solace in the counterculture either, which suggests that the different classes he's talking about aren't simply shaped by the contents of pocketbooks but the contents of hearts and minds.

Producer: Chris Thomas; Chris Thomas

Engineer: David Nicholas

 
Artist Overview
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker writes the kind of literate and self-consciously sophisticated songs that spell career suicide in the U.S., but are right in line with a proud tradition of British songwriting. Pulp, therefore, managed to eke out a comfortable living as cult faves in their native Britain, releasing a string of oddly sultry Britpop albums during the late 1980s and into the early 2000s. The band tasted major success with 1995's DIFFERENT CLASS, which featured the soaring dance-rock anthem "Common People." Following a 2001 collaboration with Cocker's hero, Scott Walker, the band was put on indefinite hiatus.

Artist Influences
David Bowie | Echo & the Bunnymen | Elvis Costello | Felt | Ian Dury | Joe Jackson | Julian Cope | Marc Bolan | New Order (UK) | Nick Cave | No?l Coward | Orange Juice | Roxy Music | Scott Walker | The Beatles | The Fall | The Jam

Artist Contemporaries
Belle & Sebastian | Bernard Butler | Black Box Recorder | Blur | Book of Love | Cousteau | Culture Club | Edwyn Collins | Elastica | Felt | Gene | Geneva | Human League | Kitchens of Distinction | Longpigs | Manic Street Preachers | Mansun | Marc Almond | Menswear | Oasis | Pet Shop Boys | PJ Harvey | Radiohead | Richard Ashcroft | Saint Etienne | Spiritualized | Stereo Total | Stereolab | Suede | Supergrass | The Auteurs | The Boo Radleys | The Divine Comedy | The Durutti Column | The Lightning Seeds | The Mekons | The Smiths | The Tears | The Verve | Tindersticks | Ultravox | Visage

Artist Followers
Baby Bird | Blur | Elastica | Gay Dad | Magnetic Fields | Radiohead | Robbie Williams | The Auteurs | The Divine Comedy | Tindersticks


 
Compilation Appearances
Trainspotting
Velvet Goldmine
Music From Glastonbury The Film(Explicit Version)
The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium
Good Night (ost)
Island Records Post Punk Box Set:out

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 02/27/1996
Original Release Date : 1995
Catalog ID : 524165
Label : Island
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 82m : 54s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00731452416520

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.64)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

Rolling Stone (4/4/96, pp.61-62)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...a brilliant, eccentric, irresistible pop album about fucking and fucking up..."

Spin (9/99, p.140)
- Ranked #1 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."

Spin (1/97, p.58)
- Ranked #3 on Spin's list of the "20 Best Albums Of '96."

Spin (3/96, p.108)
- 9 (out of 10)
- "...Jarvis Cocker [is] the most observant, quotable British lyricist since Morrissey and Neil Tennant....Pulp elevate themselves to a level...supportive of Cocker's minutely detailed narratives and excessively theatrical delivery. The new-wave arrangements stay focused..."

Q (p.116)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n album that deserved its huge success. It defined the mood of the day."

Q (p.129)
- Ranked #4 in Q Magazine's "10 Essential Reissues Of 2006."

Q (10/01, p.67)
- Ranked #23 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"

Q (12/99, p.84)
- Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."

Q (2/96, p.67)
- Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995.

Q (6/00, p.70)
- Ranked #46 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"

Q (12/95, p.142)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...the range of DIFFERENT CLASS is impressive: `Live Bed Show' is the sort of brooding ballad Nick Cave might favour...tracks such as this and `Feelings Called Love,' render more redundant than ever the view of Pulp as kitsch..."

Uncut (p.98)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "Middle-class snobbery, the beauty and banality of rave and the endless cycle of hedonistic desperation are all grist to the tragicomic mill."

Option (1-2/96, p.110)
- "...a vivacious extravaganza of mod, melodramatic fun..."

Melody Maker (12/23-30/95, pp.66-67)
- Tied for #1 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year.'

Melody Maker (10/28/95, p.37)
- Bloody Essential - "...at once richly evocative of a quintessentially English pop past and yet as irreducible, idiosyncratic and NOW! as...The Smiths in their heyday. Pulp, in fact, are The Smiths if they hadn't been so appallingly disco-phobic..."

Village Voice (2/25/97)
- Ranked #10 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.62)
- Ranked #39 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[T]his was a bigger and brighter work, with brilliantly drawn, era-defining vignettes..."

NME (Magazine)
(12/23-30/95, pp.22-23)
- Ranked #7 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995 - "...A call to arms for the misfits and the misunderstood..."

  
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