Review #162: Different Class, Pulp

#162: Different Class, Pulp

I’ve heard of Pulp before, but only because of my selective BritPop phase. For about one year, I only listened to these three bands: Blur, Oasis, and Manic Street Preachers. Whenever I read about these bands, Pulp shows up as an aside. They’re like the cool BritPop bands’ less cool friend.

Because I love those bands so much, I wanted to be excited about Pulp so bad. I wanted to hear them and think, Wow. Another band for me to fall into a deep rabbit hole with.

Instead, I just thought, Huh.

I think Pulp is probably very good and that their frontman, Jarvis Cocker, is probably very smart. But the only song I really loved was “Common People,” and the rest of them just annoyed me.

That’s why I wasn’t so surprised to see that Pulp had to release four whole albums before anyone started caring about them. Aw, poor Pulp.

FAVORITE SONGS:

“Mis-Shapes” — I kind of liked their opener. Nothing much to shout about, though.

“Pencil Skirt” — They are so British it hurts.

“Common People” — I loved this one — it’s about a rich girl that Jarvis Cocker met at a bar who he basically thought was kind of a slum tourist.