PULP (PART 2)

Left-click [HERE] to download the PULP (PART 2) mix.

TRACKLIST >>>

01 THIS IS HARDCORE
02 WE ARE THE BOYS
03 THE TREES
04 THE FEAR
05 THE BIRDS IN YOUR GARDEN
06 A LITTLE SOUL
07 WICKERMAN
08 BAD COVER VERSION
09 SYLVIA
10 GLORY DAYS
11 LIKE A FRIEND
12 THIS IS HARDCORE [end of the line remix]

PULP (PART 1)

Left-click [HERE] to download the PULP (PART 1) mix.

TRACKLIST >>>

01 ACRYLIC AFTERNOONS
02 COMMON PEOPLE
03 I SPY
04 DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME?
05 PINK GLOVE
06 SOMETHING CHANGED
07 DISCO 2000
08 SHE'S A LADY
09 ANSAPHONE
10 RAZZMATAZZ
11 UNDERWEAR
12 F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E
13 MONDAY MORNING
14 BAR ITALIA

PULP (ADDENDA)

PULP on WIKIPEDIA.

Just thought I'd throw in a few relatively obscure PULP songs that more casual Pulp fans may not be familiar with....

[MP3] "You're a Nightmare"

[MP3] "All Time High" [w/DAVID ARNOLD]

[MP3] "It's a Dirty World"

[MP3] "The Boss"

[MP3] "Born to Cry"

PULP

Today's career-spanning mix comes courtesy of PULP -- an old-time, all-time favorite of mine.

Left-click [HERE] to procure the Pulp.

PULP TRACKLIST >>>

01 Acrylic Afternoons [1994]
02 Common People [1995]
03 I Spy [1995]
04 Do You Remember the First Time? [1994]
05 Pink Glove [1994]
06 The Birds in Your Garden [2001]
07 Disco 2000 [1995]
08 A Little Soul [1998]
09 This is Hardcore [1998]
10 We Are the Boys [1998]
11 The Trees [2001]
12 She's a Lady [1994]
13 Something Changed [1995]
14 Razzmatazz [1994]
15 Ansaphone [1995]
16 The Fear [1998]
17 Glory Days [1998]

JARVIS COCKER/PULP

Imagine my surprise (and horror) this past week when I realized that I'd never produced a proper post on PULP, one of my favorite bands of the past dozen years.

In a review I (over)-wrote some years ago on the great 1995 LP DIFFERENT CLASS, I had these things to say, amongst others:

"For better than two decades, whippet-thin singer/lyricist JARVIS COCKER has served as the band’s jigging-jester bedrock. A dandy deviate with a lurid libido, he is the Benny Hill of pop performers -- the sort whose outlandish, unzipped-knickers shenanigans ultimately prove charmingly harmless. On DIFFERENT CLASS, Cocker dips into his patented bag of thematic tricks -- voyeurism, fetishism, illicit trysts -- and, sporting a vocal delivery alternately deadpan and camp theatrical, essays a range of naughty narrators -- whether they’re shouting from the mountains the importance of non-conformity ("Mis-Shapes") or just sitting listlessly in the dark, emitting sordid smoke rings (the unsettlingly sinister "I Spy" and "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E."). The gorgeous, irony-free "Something Changed" features a soaring synthesizer line; "Disco 2000" appropriates its riff from the LAURA BRANIGAN "classic" "Gloria"; and the record’s sterling centerpiece -- the relentlessly catchy "Common People" -- makes delicious mincemeat of a shallow-souled West End girl slumming her way through an East End summer."

Well, Mr. Cocker no longer looks to be "whippet-thin," and, as far as I know, Pulp has been laid to a permanent, gentle rest. But that's no reason not to take a look back at the "glory days" of one of Britpop's brightest lights of the '90s.

The first two songs below are from Cocker's solo release of 2006. The rest -- except where noted -- are drawn from the Pulp canon. Dig in. Evaluate. Luxuriate.

JARVIS COCKER on MySPACE.

From the LP JARVIS, 2006 >>>
[MP3] "Tonite"
[MP3] "Fat Children"

From the LP WE LOVE LIFE, 2001 >>>
[MP3] "The Birds in Your Garden"
[MP3] [VID] "The Trees"

From the LP THIS IS HARDCORE, 1998 >>>
[MP3] "The Fear"
[MP3] [VID] "This is Hardcore"

From the LP DIFFERENT CLASS, 1995 >>>
[MP3] [VID] "Common People"
[MP3] [VID] "Disco 2000"

From the LP HIS 'N' HERS, 1994 >>>
[MP3] [VID] "Razzmatazz"
[MP3] "Pink Glove"

BONUS TRACKS >>>

[MP3] PULP/"We Are the Boys"

[MP3] PULP/"Ansaphone"

[MP3] JARVIS COCKER/"I Can't Forget" [LEONARD COHEN cover]

[MP3] JARVIS COCKER with LUSH/"Ciao!"

RICHARD HAWLEY

Once upon a time, RICHARD HAWLEY played guitar with one of my very most favoritest of bands, PULP. He did so for others, as well. ROBBIE WILLIAMS. BETH ORTON. NANCY SINATRA. ALL SAINTS. GWEN STEFANI. Et al., etc.

For years now, though, he's also been doing the solo thing -- releasing album after album of sophisticated lounge-pop that will either make you swoon or grow sleepy. For me, depending on the track, it's sometimes the former, sometimes the latter. The songs below, of course, I find uniformly swoon-worthy. If you disagree, you were probably already in need of a nap.

RICHARD HAWLEY on MySPACE.

RICHARD HAWLEY hauling ass >>>

Sep 7 2007 8:00P/Symphony Hall/Birmingham
Sep 8 2007 8:00P/Philharmonic Hall/Liverpool
Sep 9 2007 8:00P/Rock City/Nottingham, Midlands
Sep 10 2007 8:00P/Colston Hall/Bristol
Sep 12 2007 8:00P/City Hall/Sheffield
Sep 14 2007 8:00P/Queens Hall/Edinburgh
Sep 16 2007 8:00P/City Halls/Glasgow
Sep 17 2007 8:00P/The Sage/Gateshead
Sep 20 2007 8:00P/St George's Hall/Bradford
Sep 21 2007 8:00P/Bridgewater Hall/Manchester

From the LP LADY'S BRIDGE, 2007 >>>
[MP3] "Tonight the Streets Are Ours"
[MP3] "Valentine"

From the LP COLES CORNER, 2005 >>>
[MP3] "Hotel Room"

From the LP LOWEDGES, 2003 >>>
[MP3] "Run for Me"

From the LP LATE NIGHT FINAL, 2002 >>>
[MP3] "Baby, You're My Light"