Do You Remember The First Poll? - ILM Artist Poll #11 - PULP - Results Thread!

Here we go, friends!

As mentioned previously I do not have sound on my computer and thus cannot post Youtubes with any certainty as to whether they would be the correct song (remixes/covers/etc).. so I will be using the inspiration of the Blur results thread and posting 'teaser' pictures a few minutes before each reveal. If there's a body out there interested in posting the Youtubes, I'd love the support!

117 songs voted for over ~29 ballots.. going to list out the top 40 results! Full list to follow at end.

should probably put "pulp" somewhere in the title there.

OR POLLP

The first poll was Blur, wasn't it?

Oh shit. I had Pulp in there, but something.. changed. Groan. Waiting on one last minute ballot and results in ~30 mins!

There had been an REM poll before that xp, but not as part of this series.

ahh, sorry. I grabbed the numbering off of the thread to coordinate order and timing etc etc

P.O.L.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.P.U.L.P.

so this is what i'm doing this afternoon. okay then.

alright guys!

#40

http://i40.tinypic.com/befosg.jpg

Actually - that's #41 - one song placed twice due to a typo and thus got bumped up a bit when I added votes together! Any guesses?

His 'n' Hers?

Good guess! It could have been. It was hard to find a good picture for..

#41 - LIVE BED SHOW - 5 votes, 96 points

(BTW, there are a few ties, but Excel just sorted them alphabetically and that's what I'm going to do to)

LBS was #40 until ENBB's ballot, which messed up my numbering a bit. LBS is now tied for #41 with PARTY HARD (5 votes) and PENCIL SKIRT (6 votes) - should be true winner of #41 slot - sorry, I'm going to get better as I go along! I hope.

If that song made it into the top 40/41 then I guess every song on "Different Class" will make it.

#40

http://i42.tinypic.com/fatex.jpg

Countdown? ("I wasted all my time")

Or maybe Don't Let Him Waste Your Time?

oooh, that's better

You got it, !Alicia!

#40 - DON'T LET HIM WASTE YOUR TIME - 6 VOTES, 97 POINTS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I-FlVjryw4

#39

http://i41.tinypic.com/29m23qa.png

I'm not going to be very good at this!

This particular song was very hard to find an image for. I'll give it another minute or two..

that's right folks it's

#39 - GLORY DAYS - 5 votes, 101 points

"Glory Days" ?

XPOST DFAMMIT!

I had to leave Glory Days off but I sure do love it!

hah! Nice one, Mark G! We know you had it, in spirit.

I would have gone with this:

http://api.ning.com/files/c248Fmqv5oY21L5jB4YbMVIDgXXeS3sIDeUf8d-6r3Jzcqh5UpmXmSfZNLacMn2JZVuXSH2QtcBzPrxxOgkqh9wM4SmhbaE-/725118739.jpeg

Never mind, buzzer had already gone.

Were you trying to avoid Bruce pics? (I found a quite good one, but it was way too large)

XPOST ABLUMMINGAIN!

I had to leave Glory Days off but I sure do love it!

cosign. helluva song.

hahahaha! It did not even occur to me to use a Bruce pic. I should outsource to you guys!

but in the meantime, #38

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ed1b1z.jpg

Inside Susan?

of course!

#38 - INSIDE SUSAN - 5 votes, 107 points

too low IMO

(please let me know if I am doing this too quickly!)

#37

http://i43.tinypic.com/vxnn91.jpg

That's Mile End, innit?]

xpost, I guess.

otm on Inside Susan - my #6. higher than anything on Different Class for me. Love his monologues.

Sure is! Or so Wikipedia tells me - I've never been :(

xpost, I guess ;)

I used to go down there for Kebabs on a Fri Lunchtime for the office (we took it in turns, I wasn't the general dogsbod) so we'd eat in the office and then spend most of the afternoon in't pub. City job.

#37 - MILE END - 6 votes, 114 points

#36

http://i42.tinypic.com/153boup.jpg

nothing?

I've got nothing for that tbh

"Do you remember the first time"

for some people, anyways...

hint: nothing to do with energy drinks

Mark G... what was your first time like? Please do go on.

Blue Girls?

It's somewhere on TMI, back when you could post unregistered (he lied)

No idea

Ooohh Alicia must have it!

Alicia did it! :D

#35

http://i44.tinypic.com/2lo6p2f.jpg

"Blue Girls" by Pulp.

(One google later)

Sorry, I got excited because I like that image - details of #34 - BLUE GIRLS - 4 votes, 116 points

Jez, this low? 't Is my number #02!

Previous one should be Sorted for E Numbers and Fizz.

LBI: Too bad eh? All four people who voted had it in their top 10.

Yeah it's a shame! I'll take it on the chin though ;-) Such mesmerising heavenly song

As I post each song, snippets get stuck in my head and the operatic chorus of Blue Girls is so lovely.. will have to put the proper song on.

in case there is any confusion, still looking for #35:

http://i44.tinypic.com/2lo6p2f.jpg

I love these picture clues. I feel like I'm exercising my brain. Disney Time for #35? (A very Halloween-appropriate picture.)

Minnie Timperley.

vg+

Alicia - no, I'm sorry :( Not a single vote for Disney Time..

Mark G's got it. :D

I knew that one!

I'm amazing myself here.

Underrated song imo. Well, I guess any good song on We Love Life feels underrated to me.

#35 - THE NIGHT THAT MINNIE TEMPERLEY DIED - 6 votes, 124 points

TIED WITH

#34

http://i43.tinypic.com/1zyh7xw.jpg

As I say, I thought the whole of "We love life" is 1) Underrated 2) possibly the one album I played the most.

COUNTDOWN!

Oh, I completely forgot about Minnie Timperley! I can't remember if I voted for it, but I'm glad it made it. One of my favorite tracks from that album.

#34 - COUNTDOWN - 6 votes, 124 points (exact tie with Minnie Temperley!)

#33 will be up for a while as Lex goes to get some lunch

http://i42.tinypic.com/2rniuy0.jpg

Joyriders.

Love both of 'em!

This Lex/FFM thing is confusing me.. :-)

alright, since I didn't actually make it for lunch yet -

#33 - JOYRIDERS - 6 votes, 138 points

(Sorry! My name is Lex! I'm the female one.)

#32

http://i41.tinypic.com/1znlpgn.jpghttp://i41.tinypic.com/1znlpgn.jpg

Ha! Had no idea :-)

I was going to guess "death goes to the disco" but there's no disco.

I'm cool with being called FFM, I just think of myself as Lex! :)

Ha, this one has to be Death II. My #1!

Everyone YouTube that whilst I get some lunch. You need to hear it!!

For convenience :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0--K7PBC9E

"Separations" is my least favourite Pulp album. "Love Is Blind" sounds inspired, the rest of side one is for the most part brutal. Side two is OK if you crave the novelty factor of hearing Pulp doing dance music.

#32 - DEATH II - 6 votes, 1 #1, 143 points.

#31

http://i39.tinypic.com/10rljer.jpg

sorry for lol hueg

Lex would it be possible for you to post the results in bold, as I‘m checking them on my phone and it would be easier.

no problem!

Thanking you!

A lot of Pulp songs seem pretty dance-y to me, so I guess it's hard for me to think of side two of Separations as a novelty. I've always thought of Death II as the older brother to Death Goes to the Disco and She's A Lady.

I think Separations was the next one I was able to pick up after Different Class, so it also feels pretty "normal" to me. It's actually my favourite! I think I like it because it wasn't as polished..

Yeah, I like that too. It's a little dirtier and darker. I actually didn't hear it until ten years after it came out! I realized what I'd been missing right away.

yeah! I never did unpack my CDs to burn that one, I'm missing out (thank God for Youtube!). Too cheap to buy it again on iTunes, heh..

is everyone gone for lunch or is this image too horrifying to consider?

#31

http://i39.tinypic.com/10rljer.jpg

I think I like it because it wasn't as polished..

When I'm in the mood for "unpolished" Pulp, I listen to "Freaks".

"Separations" was their "return" album after being on hiatus for a few years, so you'd think it'd be a perfect chance to revamp their style and do something new ... which turned out to be a side-length flirtation with post-acid house dance music (a couple of years after that would have been an interesting or daring move for an indie band to make) and a side of stuff that sounded virtually the same as what they'd been doing in the mid-80's. I don't know, I've never "gotten" "Separations".

hmmm, I should tally up how many votes ended up going to each album - quick glance doesn't show a lot of Freaks, though I voted for at least one track.. as did a few others. Freaks is for when I feel sketchy.. Separations for when I feel frisky.

I'd bet on "Freaks" finishing last!

I'm guessing DC > Hardcore > HnH > WLL > Separations > It > Freaks

(discounting compilations like "Intro")

I aim to publish all results today, so tonight if I get around to it I'll tally it all up for one last blast of Pulp ranking!

a second clue for #31

http://bloomsburybytes.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/krauss2011443.jpg

That ranking is probably pretty accurate, though I like Freaks a great deal more than It. I listen to "I Want You" and "Life Must Be So Wonderful" quite a lot.

I still have no idea about #31!

Bad Cover Version?

Good guess!

I would imagine that HnH would be more popular than Hardcore.

high five, Gukbe!
I couldn't think of a way to post a real 'cover version' without maybe a Youtube, so I hoped Bad Impersonators would suffice.

#31 - BAD COVER VERSION - 8 votes, 150 points

I thought the Madonna was actually Madonna!

whoops! I think it's a dude!

#30

http://i39.tinypic.com/fa7d5x.jpg

Sunrise

haha yes, I deserved that. I really tried to find a subtle sunrise picture, but.. yeah.

#30 - SUNRISE - 9 votes, 161 points

#29

http://i41.tinypic.com/qoa790.jpg

I would have gone with this for "Sunrise":

http://www.howwedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sunrise_1.jpg

The visual hints are a cool twist on the usual results thread, FFM.

coming fast now. #29 is "Wickerman"?

Already 6 songs I voted for have placed - I really thought I was veering far from the most liked/popular....

I split my votes fairly evenly across the 7 albums

Is that from a movie, Gukbe? I don't know it :(

Wickerman indeed.. being Canadian, is it sort of like a Burning Man thing? Never heard of it 'til I image-searched, to be honest!

#29 - WICKERMAN - Seven votes, one #1, 161 points

#28

http://i40.tinypic.com/33jih3k.jpg

Sunrise the first of mine to place and I'm pretty sure most of them will.

Really didn't get into WLL until hearing them play a few tracks from it this summer. Probably prefer it to HnH at the moment though.

My choices are all pretty obvious.

Alexis (there's one way to solve your name confusion!) Wickerman is a movie!

Oh and also apparently: A wicker man was a large wicker statue of a human used by the ancient Druids (priests of Celtic paganism) for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic War).[1][2] In modern times the figure has been adopted for festivals as part of some neopagan-themed ceremonies, notably without the human sacrifice element.[3]

^^^ learned

Yeah! It was quick googling so I thought maybe there is a Wickerman festival like there is a Burning Man one.. I have a headache, no learnin' for me! I did see a few movie stills too.

(Good call on the Alexis thing! It's just so formal.. I prefer to fuck with everyone's minds)

do we need a new clue?

y

How about Cucumber? ;p

Total aside but in line with the last post - when you designed my DLand page you had changed the pw to Alexis and when you sent it back to me I never bothered changing it. Eventually, because I was so used to typing it for DLand your name became my default password for email and several other accounts for years afterwards. Hmmmm. That's not as creepy as it might sound. OK back to Pulp - sorry!

hahahahaha! No, that is awesome! I forgot that I used to do that. Man.. so many accounts could have been breached if anyone thought to try "their" password on other sites I designed!

New clue for #28

http://fromstein.com/issy05/pics/images/Dogs%20Humping.jpg

so glad that's in my permanent GIS history btw

Well that could be *any* Pulp track.

hahahahahahahaha. Touche! This song lends itself either to REALLY obvious or really obscure. So I'm gonna go obscure.

"Mis-Shapes"? lol

okay I think I found *the clue*

#28

http://thenewsjournal.net/userfiles/image/Tobacco%20shack%20fire.jpg?imgmax=800?imgmax=800

Not "Dogs are everywhere" then.

Nope. Three clues to consider now! These are pictoral representations of lyrics, as the song title is too specific IMO

Sheffield: Sex City!

YES! I was just about to post a picture *of* Sheffield! phew.

#28 - SHEFFIELD: SEX CITY - 8 votes, 166 points

coupla easier ones coming up

#27
http://i42.tinypic.com/29bzr01.jpg

Delivered me from his 'n' herrrrrrrs!

If I were GISing at home that would've been a picture of people doing it again.... sideways.

#27 - HIS N HERS - 7 votes, one #1, 173 points

#26

http://www.haikutimes.com/ht_143_040.jpg

I feel like a dead bird on pavement could be any number of Pulp classics, but I'm going to guess "Trees"

Hah! Well, you guessed correctly. Never got into this song. :(

#26 - THE TREES - Seven votes, one #1, 174 points (edged His n Hers by ONE POINT!)

#25

http://i43.tinypic.com/e0mzap.jpg

The Trees was my NUMBER ONE <3

Shame I was the only one :-/

It's a great one! Even when I've tired of Pulp for periods, I've always enjoyed having "Trees" on a playlist.

Yeah I'm stumped.

Can it be blue girls?

That was #36

Okay I am aiming to get to #20 today and then leave the rest for tomorrow. I'll give a few more minutes of suspense here..

I give another clue for #25

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_514/1277162367t1FswQ.jpg

Is it O.U ?

"She's at the station because she's leaving town"

nailed it!

#25 - O.U. (GONE, GONE) - Eight votes, one #1, 189 points

I think that this was my #1 but as I said, I stupidly typed my list right into the spreadsheet and thus lost my own rankings forever once I'd sorted it :P

Does anyone know what the title means? O.U.? I don't think I ever figured that out.

#24

http://i40.tinypic.com/29zv31l.jpg

I'm just going to guess every one is "Seductive Barry" from here on out

Hah! Yes.. Seductive Barry placing so many times really shocked me.

Your Sister's Clothes?

Alicia knows!

#24 - YOUR SISTER'S CLOTHES - 9 votes, 196 points

#23

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/uploads/article_images/jarviscocker12.jpg

"Ulysses in just one sentence? No prob. Tell me when you're rolling"

meaning: I have no idea

I'm really happy to see it looks like the whole of the Sisters ep will place now.

Just looking at my list, I only had O.U. at number 11, really wish I'd put it higher.

lol my "Seductive Barry" gambit is already paying dividends

co-clue for #23

http://i43.tinypic.com/10ppxrl.jpg

that's the bearded, messy-haired face of seduction, right up there

It's a bit of a long shot but is it Happy Endings?

No, but I can definitely see how you could guess that!

#23 clue #3

http://www.kleenezeshop.com/images/thumbs/0003952_380.jpeg

Probably a Jarvis solo track. Other than that I'm lost.

#24 clue #4

http://i40.tinypic.com/2dhiw7l.jpg

The Dishes!

is it?

sure is!
First picture was, ideally, Jarvis reading you a story (if it would help you sleep at night).

#23 - DISHES - 8 votes, one #1, 197 points

Shameful as I'm pretty sure that was my #2

oh, my number 3, rather.

I thought it was the JC reference at the beginning of the song.

xxpost

That's what came into my head, but the bedtime story thing threw me. Great song. My favourite off that album - and has been since first listen.

man I don't get Pulp at all, I hate "Dishes" so much

xp to Gukbe hehe, whoops! It was either really literal photos (Dishes, water becoming wine) or something obscure - wanted to keep it interesting :)

I figured the picture of Jarvis would be helpful in the JC vein too, daavid - you got it!

IMO I don't really like Dishes either. Why you not being dirty, Jarvis?

#22

http://czechingin.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/friends11.jpg

err Like a Friend?

Nicely done, E!

#22 - LIKE A FRIEND - 9 votes, one #1, 211 points

Schwimmer is doing his best "seductive Barry" pose in that picture

Please continue to apply S.B. to all these images, why because it look intersting

#21

http://www.s9.com/images/portraits/7825_Diana.jpg

lololololololol

xps

Yeah, not a dishes fan - generally find TIH's post-fame trauma vibe unengaging & Dishes just a bit of a plod musically, and clumsy lyrically. Jumped out at me on first hearing, & I thought I'd come to love it, but it never took me.

She's a Lady?

beat me to that guess

Move over Alexis, 'cuz ERICAISONFIRE!

my headache is making my jokes terrible. Yes. I blame the headache. :(

#21 - SHE'S A LADY - 11 votes, 222 points

p.s. when you GIS 'lady' you will only get pages upon pages of Gaga pictures anymore

"Like a Friend"!

too slow!

wasn't guessing! was excited it placed!

ah, haha! yeah - that's a good placing for a relatively low-key song!

gonna have to try and make this tougher for you guys!

#20

http://alvinslaughter.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/DancingSoloBeachSunlight.jpg

<3 Like a Friend. Was one of my top five, I think.

Sunrise

Sunrise already placed.

No - Sunrise placed #30! :)
argh I was too slow

Dammit.

Barry on a beach, dancing seductively

Sorted out for E's and Whizz?

lol

David's Last Summer?

Daavid for the win! That poor fellow has lost his friends and has to dance alone.

#20 - SORTED FOR E'S & WHIZZ - 10 votes, 225 points

Haha, I love Schwimmer's "Seductive Barry" face.

that is not a field in hampshire :(

I'm sorry woof - I couldn't find a dude dancing solo in a field :(

Gonna do a few more since I'm here til 5 anyway!

#19

http://151chan.org/ditto/src/126993642515.jpg

Help the Aged

The fear?

That's the one!

I love the lyrics. I didn't vote for it, glad it placed so high.

#19 - THE FEAR - 10 votes, one #1, 229 points

#18

http://i40.tinypic.com/2uhyi4j.jpg

I love Sorted, maybe more than it deserves. But I am down with JC being sniffy about nice one/geezer e conversations.

The Fear I heard on the radio recently & really enjoyed - think it had suffered from my TIH scepticism, hadn't listened in an age.

I don't know what the song is, but she seems to have ignored Jarvis' comments about reaching for the stars in "Dishes"

I should have chimed in with every entry being "Seductive Barry" much, much earlier

bahahaha. I thought about that Dishes line while I was GISing this song.

the great thing about Pulp is I honestly don't know if I should be concentrating on her leaping up towards the sky or the pervy upskirt view

^otm

Both, natch!

Ha, if it's the latter, maybe this one is I Spy?

clue #2 for #18

http://theunemployedbride.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/crying-tears.jpg

F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E

nope! and nope re: I Spy!

My Legendary Girlfriend?

Man.. just when I sought out & uploaded
http://i43.tinypic.com/n2hi4p.jpg

Fun fact: if you search for man awake, woman asleep.. all you will find is the opposite.. >:|

#18 - MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND - 11 votes, one #1, 233 points

nicely done Gukbe! Alright.. time for me to go home..

should have done better with that. my friend was in a bad called My Legendary Girlfriend for a number of years, and I saw them far too many times.

(If people want me to finish it all off today, let me know! I'm home tonight.. might be nice to open live results to a different crowd?)

I'm up for that, but I lack patience with almost everything.

A recap of what's gone on so far:

#41 - LIVE BED SHOW - 5 votes, 96 points
#40 - DON'T LET HIM WASTE YOUR TIME - 6 VOTES, 97 POINTS
#39 - GLORY DAYS - 5 votes, 101 points
#38 - INSIDE SUSAN - 5 votes, 107 points
#37 - MILE END - 6 votes, 114 points
#36 - BLUE GIRLS - 4 votes, 116 points
#35 - THE NIGHT THAT MINNIE TEMPERLEY DIED - 6 votes, 124 points
#34 - COUNTDOWN - 6 votes, 124 points
#33 - JOYRIDERS - 6 votes, 138 points
#32 - DEATH II - 6 votes, 1 #1, 143 points.
#31 - BAD COVER VERSION - 8 votes, 150 points
#30 - SUNRISE - 9 votes, 161 points
#29 - WICKERMAN - Seven votes, one #1, 161 points
#28 - SHEFFIELD: SEX CITY - 8 votes, 166 points
#27 - HIS N HERS - 7 votes, one #1, 173 points
#26 - THE TREES - Seven votes, one #1, 174 points
#25 - O.U. (GONE, GONE) - Eight votes, one #1, 189 points
#24 - YOUR SISTER'S CLOTHES - 9 votes, 196 points
#23 - DISHES - 8 votes, one #1, 197 points
#22 - LIKE A FRIEND - 9 votes, one #1, 211 points
#21 - SHE'S A LADY - 11 votes, 222 points
#20 - SORTED FOR E'S & WHIZZ - 10 votes, 225 points
#19 - THE FEAR - 10 votes, one #1, 229 points
#18 - MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND - 11 votes, one #1, 233 points

Only four of mine on there. Pretty sure all of them will place tho.

took me a little longer to get here than expected! Thanks for logging that stuff, Gukbe :D

#17

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WROfxMrgQyA/TZVnp3_OFmI/AAAAAAAABJw/VzO7oFLGgXI/s1600/03-stevie-wonder-450pk050710.jpg

Have You Seen Her Lately? (?)

Love is Blind?

oh man. good guesses! but no.

clue #2 for #17

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2007/07/BIG%20MAN%20LITTLE%20MAN1.JPG

drop off the internet for an hour and lose the momentum, alas. I might just pick up tomorrow.

i'm finishing up something but I was gonna start in earnest in 10 minutes or so. But if everyone is gone - which makes sense because it's close to 11pm in the UK - then I guess it might be for the best.

oh wow yes, I guess it is pretty late over there! Well, perhaps tomorrow would be good.. but I'll leave you with only these two clues to guess the song with :)

A Little Soul

Glad to see it made it so high!

Didn't vote for lots of these but they are all obv amazing. "She's A Lady" was at least my 21st choice tho.

And happy to see "Death II" make it.

Nicely done!

let's do one more so that we can run through the top 15 tomorrow:

http://zlotto.com/wp-content/uploads/lottery-algorithm.jpg

^^ clue for #16

Mis-shapes?

Yeah, there was no way to make that a hard clue. Very few lyrics that can be represented pictorally!

#17 - A LITTLE SOUL - 11 votes, 241 points

#16 - MIS-SHAPES - 11 votes, 242 points

how did you not call this "a little poll" ??

It was between that, this, and Common PeoPOLL

#16 could have been "I Love Life"....

xp (But my images thing is an homage to the first poll - the Blur one - you see?)

very true!

I was the #1 vote for "Like A Friend" -- wish it was higher obv

frickin 'ell I just realized I somehow left "...First Time" off my ballot and that's one of my fave Pulp songs. I should be barred from participating in future polls due to incompetence....

It placed somewhere in the top 100 :)

So, where is rest of "Guess the Pulp track" game?

Yes, let's do this! Sorry - had a meeting this morning - apparently for Movember we're having the one scruffy guy shave everything instead.

#15

http://emoboy.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cute-emo-boy-330x496.jpg

#15 #2

http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/71/originals/71299_video-269888-meet-real-life-gossip-girl-tinsley-mortimer.jpg

Barry looks quite fetching in pic #2

He's working overtime, for sure.

um, Disco2000?

clue #3

http://us.cdn4.123rf.com/168nwm/phildkeen/phildkeen1110/phildkeen111000001/10778534-a-glass-of-brandy-and-a-wooden-ashtray-with-a-cigarette-in-the-background-of-brown-suede.jpg

I Spy?

there it is!

#15 - I SPY - 12 votes, one #1, 247 points

#14

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1606/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1606-21159.jpg

lol

Babies!

That was my #2, I think. <3 <3 <3

my number 1.

well you're both WRONG! hah! Trick clue!

oh you suck

Are those children SISTERS?

bwahahahahaha }:D

I don't think they are.

clue #2

http://i44.tinypic.com/wloev4.jpg

I'm at a loss. babies to fully grown has got me to "Disco 2000"?

Awww, good guess but it's not really about the people in the pictures!

https://hnmgtg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1msXhm6E8IJQ1iFxJz-cwdP4kZIi5KmP-durUEBMwdSc-_1NAC5z1iB1CYNUjHeLWXFO4eFNToxgDLreKnuIQ_8p41Pr_13Dko0B1_gp6BAcQGSRXTBmruIOl3fhox_BvIhJgMUwaKVDAZiiHJWTTeyg/CATERING20200620TEA20SANDWICHES.jpg

^^ clue #3

wahhhhhhhhhhht?

Barry puts on a good spread

Acrylic Afternoons!

I fell asleep on your sofa and had a dream about a small child in dungarees ... You were there dressed in green, saying something obscene.
But that's why I came here in the first place, Oh well that and the tea.

dammit i just worked it out!

a ha!

Glad AA is high, it was my #2 I think.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh of course.

My #2.

soft furnishings, afternoon sex, haunted regressive erotic vibe. Really, the most extraordinary thing.

Nicely done, NTBT! Technically the small child in dungarees was (a) solo and (b) stuck with his hands in the Paris metro but I hoped you guys would allow the slightly less specific image. Plus of course, the Babies tease!

#14 - ACRYLIC AFTERNOONS - 12 votes, 257 points

IMO this song is just pure sex. God, but those squeals.. (can you tell I got His n Hers BEFORE I'd ever had sex?)

Great song, but one that didn't age so gracefully IMO ... partly because Jarvis wrote much better pervy illicit affair songs later on (e.g. I Spy, Seductive B****)

No, Acrylic Afternoons is the best because he didn't outcreep himself - you can imagine that stuff happening everyday, everywhere.

#13

http://image1.masterfile.com/em_w/00/93/39/600-00933955w.jpg

that image isn't working for me.

yeah, AA beats I Spy for me - I've never been sold on the class war stuff in the latter - AA a much stranger piece of work, with the net curtain/eiderdown world around him, lying under the table - it's like the affair's super-sexual yet taking place in childhood memoryland.

xp oh, hopefully this will, then

http://static6.depositphotos.com/1008768/601/i/450/dep_6012588-Amazon-frog-a-beautiful-rain-forest-animal-at-night.jpg

It's like the This Is Hardcore cover, but green.

hahahaha. Sure!

this image fucks me up but

clue #2

http://irwellvalephotographyclub.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/ledge-with-a-view.jpg

it's like the affair's super-sexual yet taking place in childhood memoryland

This is true, the imagery in AA is great, but I Spy is a better song. The keyboard hook in AA has always annoyed me a bit and the chorus is somewhat drab, the magic is nearly 100% in the lyrics and Jarvis' delivery. I Spy is a much richer song (the strings, the way it builds as it goes along), and I've always loved Evil Conniving Jarvis (so says the guy who loves "Freaks").

i see - for me the chorus of AA is killer - the way the melody unwinds & almost overstretches through that odd little vision of all the children's mothers finishing with lovers. I guess i can see I Spy is the stronger song in almost all regards - ambition, arrangement (especially), doing a lot of big things at once with the lyrics (it's prob his ultimate sex, class, resentment, ambivalent self-dramatisation moment) - and I did vote for it, but out of admiration rather than current love.

I really don't know Pulp lyrics very well, it turns out.

Totally stuck. First Man in Space?

F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E

Missed most of this day two roll-out due to work, and working again later, but here for the fun right now. Bring it on!

There we go, Daavid! I took a brief break for lunch and was about to come back and drop some more clues. I should apologize - my first image was an opposum (a small animal that -might- only come out at night) but then my second image was a lizard, which is not an animal, SCIENCE FAIL. :(

#13 - F.E.E.L.I.N.G. C.A.L.L.E.D. L.O.V.E. - 11 votes, 264 points

Wait, lizard is not an animal?

isn't it a reptile? maybe I was right all along. I'm stupid with those things - my head only had room for pop culture trivia.

#12
http://content5.videojug.com/96/9648e557-0f7d-1efe-09b0-ff0008c9799c/how-to-cover-grey-hair.WidePlayer.jpg

Reptiles are animals, no?

wasn't that second image a tree frog, which is an amphibian?

ooh, i know this one. "Cut Your Hair" by Pavement

well now I've learned something new. I guess I was thinking of mammals :)

haha jesus

"Help the Aged"

you can dye your hair but it's the one thing you can change can't run away from yourself yourself your-s-s-s-etc.

BUNCHA NITPICKERS

yes, there are virtually no lyrics in the song that wouldn't have led to an immediate giveaway. I tried!

A little shocked this placed so high tbh!

12 - HELP THE AGED - 14 votes, 270 points

Shoulda gone with 'sniffing glue' image

<3

"Help The Aged" is a bad-ass song

#11

http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/2x3518899/shirtless_man_walking_up_stairs_with_breakfast_pe0014827.jpg

guess who THAT is, DJP!

this one?

http://www.keithmorrisphoto.co.uk/images/uploads/mark-p.jpg

ach, too late.

Interesting, or not, to note that Pulp only played Help The Aged once this summer, in Athens.

Seductive Barry?

"SEDUCTIVE BARRY"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(It's not really Seductive Barry.)

aw

But that would be a great image for it AMIRITE? Sorry.

hehe aw

I was going to get really excited, like my ESP evangelizing had made ppl suddenly fall madly in love with that song

You should've worked a bit harder the week the balloting was open! Or did you need to? We'll find out!

Is it an "Underwear" reference?

He's coming up the stairs.. isn't he? Another song with few pictures to choose from imo!

#11 - UNDERWEAR - 14 votes, 296 points

but the whole point was to just visualize everyone voting "Seductive Barry", like having a vision board

(I suspect the guy in Underwear wouldn't be bringing her breakfast.. but I have to throw you guys off the scent SOMEWHAT)

"The whole message board voted in unison at 4:13 AM.."

Well, if she's getting breakfast, she's not going anywhere just yet.

true!

okay... TOP TEN DUDES!

#10

http://www.color-coded.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/iStock_000012639416XSmall.jpg

Funnily enough - I have that purse!

Has she lost her lip gloss?

I think she has, poor thing.

#10 - LIPGLOSS - 16 votes, 309 points

"The whole message board voted in unison at 4:13 AM.."

It was like they were underneath the stars in a dream. The only one who knew the reasons why was a freakshow whose sirensong lured the real Snow White ever closer to the hungry ghost. At the last minute, a switch turned on, revealing this here and now. "With you?" cried Snow White, eying the leering spectre. "I'll embrace this endless sleep when I'm dead!" She turned to run but it was too late, the scream cut off abruptly and, with a satiated "It's over," the ghost and freakshow retreated to their lair.

</curebomb>

Is "Common People" the inevitable #1? Is this the elephant in the room that nobody is bothering to talk about because it's so obvious?

You say that, but the only way we'd 'get' the picture reference is , um, because there's no other Pulp tracks left!

next song has my all-time favourite lyric

#9
http://i40.tinypic.com/2lgmv.jpg

Mark G: good point! hey, there are at least 9 other awesome songs left.. every one of these is a rightful top 10. But many that ranked 50 or lower deserved it too IMO!

Something Changed?

No - but good guess. I get very singular when GISing and do not stop to think how the image may otherwise be interpreted!

E! - I summon you to Pulp top ten 0_o

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, November 1, 2011 1:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I'm here!!!

I don't have any idea what this one is though :(

okay one more minute then a new clue coming up!

http://images.inmagine.com/img/aspireimages/pcrf042/pcrf042568.jpg

one thing I've been trying to do is not skip around the lyrics too often - so first image is from first part of song, next image is from a line that comes after that, etc..

(not the NEXT line necessarily)

:(

Anticp . . . pation

Yeah I'm only seeing "Something Changed" now. "I wrote this song two hours before we met" ... "so give us a kiss to celebrate you today"

shit, sorry guys!

http://o5.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sad-woman-eating-chocolate.jpg

woman with a dandelion may have been the way to go with clue #2

Razzmatazz?

Razzmatazz.

So the first clue is "If you want, I can write it down"?

Nicely done!

Favourite line: Am I talking too fast, or are you just playing dumb? If you want, I can write it down."

#9 - RAZZMATAZZ - 156 votes, 319 points

xp yes!

Which line does the second clue relate to?

that was her blowing it - my mistake to use a picture where a woman was blowing a kiss :(

#8

http://images.arcadja.com/orlay_petrich_soma-boy_before_going_to_bed~300~10388_19981211_6_162.jpg

http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/2x4831828/caucasian_man_watching_movie_in_theater_bld082232.jpg

:[ Have fun, folks. I have to go to a 2 hr meeting that has nothing to do with me. AWESOME!

Okay this is Something Changed.

"I could have gone to see a film instead"

This *is* Something Changed. Awww. Bye E!

#8 - SOMETHING CHANGED - 13 votes, one #1, 326 points

(He also could have stayed at home and gone to bed..)

this my #1 <3

Didn't vote for this but glad it's so high. One of their best and most moving lyrics.

kinda love the way it can be a song about fate or pure chance or neither or both. plus the bit where it gets really BIG towards the end.

Actually this is the first song I really regret not voting for.

yeah, tbh I forgot to vote for it too. Was pleased to see it place so high. Trying to find a good image for the next clue..

Feel more ambivalent about the lyrics to Razzmatazz than I used to - they feel comparatively mean-spirited to me (as against Lipgloss say), & I'm less comfortable with vengeance & spite than I was. But then it was my #3 so y'know not that uncomfortable with vengeance, spite.

#7

http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/webimage/pd3691500_toddler_stroking_1_1854469!image/1244174747.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_595/1244174747.jpg

Disco 2000?

Nope..

xp I think that though I try to be more uplifting and positive, there's still a little room in my heart for "nyah nyah" moments & that lyric is so perfectly bitchy, in an eloquent way..

SEDUCTIVE BARRY AT LAST

LOL

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-69M4quF4pa8/TdEa0dBOnwI/AAAAAAAADOM/vDcLj98fJF8/s1600/Night+time+rain+weather+girl+umbrella+mobile+wallpapers.jpg

Is this Seconds?

if you loosely interpret that first picture to be something about birthdays you could use these pics to be "MacArthur Park"

Babies

Hit the nail on the head, DJP - I could not believe so many people voted for that little-known Pulp cover!

It is *VERY* hard to find a piture of a pregnant woman with a toddler who looks sad - all stock images in this world are happy ones.

#7 - SECONDS - 13 votes, two #1s, 327 points. First to get more than one #1 vote!

I need to get that EP. RIP Ansaphone. :(

Really happy to see Seconds so high, it was my number two.

#6

http://multimedia.collectorsquest.com/image/420x1000/trimline-teen-age-bra-style-22t-5829.jpg?1266867256

Disco 2000

"Seductive Barry"? "This Is Hardcore"?

(Not much I'm going to be able to do to trick you guys from here on out but I WILL TRY)

#6 - DISCO 2000 - 13 votes, two #1s, 365 points

hey hugh grant is doing stock image photography? times are tough!

#5
http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/2x3228122/man_holding_heart-shaped_box_600-01111233.jpg

http://image1.masterfile.com/em_w/00/05/44/600-00054452w.jpg

if this isn't Seductive Barry, I don't know who is

aw, can't see that one

it's a dude holding a dog, both dressed in leather jackets. hehe

Song not givimg me much to work with.

http://www.veryhappypig.com/page/pink_fluff.jpg

Pink Glove?

:)

He's got your heart.. he dresses you up in leather.. synthetic fluff

#5 - PINK GLOVE - 17 votes, three #1s, 474 points

Oh that's a tie - Excel sorting let me down. Pink Glove actually placed at #4 due to all those #1s!
I will now give clues for the real #5 -

http://www.celebcosmo.com/wp-content/media/2011/07/David-Beckham-Victoria-Beckham-Baby-Girl.jpg

THE FEAR

lol no

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wcjPZ-qJFvE/SLLlbGqoFUI/AAAAAAAADMY/9mvFiSNvU70/s400/wildthings.jpg

David's Last Summer?

David's Last Summer mashed up with This Is Hardcore?

nope! But you got my first clue .. clue #2 has one erroneous detail that hopefully will not distract you from the larger clue at hand.

Babies

YAY! Just when I was GISing for the most subtle bedroom door picture ever.

#5 - BABIES - 17 votes, two #1s, 474 points
#4 - PINK GLOVE - 17 votes, three #1s, 474 points

(Tried to find a picture of Victoria Beckham with Neve Campbell, but no dice. Woulda been SO GOOD!)

Ah--"With some kid named David." I'm kind of slow today.

you've done well :)

I feel like the top 5's lyrics have all been more difficult for me to find good images for, gah!

#3

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01268/bored-woman-bed_1268785cl-8.jpg

"Computer Love"?

Seconds at #7 is the biggest surprise of the poll by far.

Pink Glove was my #1. The lyric kills me every time, I think I feel that one more personally, in my gut, than any other Pulp song. It's not even because the story in the song has happened to me IRL, but it just *feels so real* to me. I mean, who hasn't gone halfway crazy over loving someone who didn't love you back? If that feeling has been expressed in a song better than in "Pink Glove", I have yet to hear it.

Heh, no - not Computer Love.

I think of Pink Glove & She's A Lady as songs that go, er, hand in hand, so was very surprised to see one rate so much higher than another! I was also pretty surprised about Seconds - not that it isn't good - just that it's never one that pops into my head as something I want to put on.

http://factoidz.com/images/user/basic_html_tags.gif

Do You Remember the First Time?

"I know you're gonna let him bore your pants off again"

#3 - DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME? - 21 votes, 477 points (Notably, no #1s.. but people seem to like it a lot anyway!)

Do the right thing, ILM

#2

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1841/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1841-18948.jpg

is that a "That goes in there" reference?

This is hardcore!
Put your money where your mouth is…

oh it could be that, too (lol)

haha, no it isn't. but woof's got it!

#2 - THIS IS HARDCORE - 25 votes, two #1s, 559 votes (very large point jump!)

lol

lol right song, wrong lyric

btw congratulations everyone for voting "Seductive Barry" #1, I couldn't be prouder

#1

http://img1.tvloop.com/img/showpics/bf/3b/l353958ff0000_1_17145.jpg

Here...in the night. Seductive Barry....takes the Poll.

a truly happy moment for you, DJP

If there's ever a poll where one song might appear on 100% of the ballots, it's this one.

It didn't!

It wouldn't have appeared on my ballot had it not been for the "Common People Lyrics" thread. I was sick of the song for years and never bothered listening to it until that thread. I put it on one day when walking and it was really, really awesome.

I inexplicably forgot to include "First Time" on my ballot, where it would have placed around, well, #3. Relieved that it didnt affect the rankings.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW63vnU7yPI

I don't think I realized "This Is Hardcore" was so beloved; I had the impression it was just me!

I *adore* TIH, personally. I've no time for Common People, having heard it a thousand times. It's great, yes - but not anymore, to me.

#1 - COMMON PEOPLE - 21 votes, five #1s, 641 points

I didn't vote for it. Brilliant lyric, but I'm sick of everything else. This Is Hardcore was my #1 - I'd hoped it might just pip it.

Actually kind of surprised at how well that did.

Common People, that is.

Here's the full list!

Rank Row Labels # 1 Votes Sum of Score
115 I Never Said I Was Deep 0 11
114 Grandfather's Nursery 0 11
113 Don't You Want Me Anymore? 0 11
112 Angela 0 11
111 Weeds II 0 12
110 Further Complications 0 12
109 Blue Glow 0 12
108 Aborigine 0 12
107 We Can Dance Again 0 13
106 Being Followed Home 0 13
105 Fairground 0 15
104 Heavy Weather 0 16
103 Billy Jack 0 16
102 Two Little Boys 0 17
101 Last Day of the Miners' Strike 0 18
100 97 Lovers 0 18
99 You're In My Eyes (Discosong) 0 20
98 We Are the Boyz 0 20
97 tv movie 0 20
96 Last Man in Space 0 20
95 Fuckingsong 0 20
94 We Love Life 0 21
93 They Suffocate At Night 0 21
92 The 1st Man In Space 0 21
91 Morning Dew (cover) 0 22
90 PTA 0 23
89 Maureen 0 24
88 Don't You Know 0 24
87 Deep Fried in Kelvin 0 24
86 You're A Nightmare 0 25
85 Separations 0 25
84 Someone Like The Moon 0 27
83 Birds in Your Garden 0 29
82 Everybody's Problem 0 30
81 The Birds in Your Garden 0 31
80 Roadkill 0 31
79 My Lighthouse 0 33
78 Cocaine Socialism 0 35
77 The Facts Of Life (The Chocolate Layers Remix) 0 36
76 I Love Life 0 36
75 Happy Endings 0 38
74 The Babysitter 0 39
73 Love Love 0 40
72 I Will Kill Again 1 40
71 Death Goes to the Disco 0 42
70 Sylvia 0 45
69 I'm A Man 0 46
68 First Man in Space 0 48
67 Dogs are Everywhere 0 50
66 David's Last Summer 1 51
65 Street Lites 0 52
64 Stacks 0 52
63 She's Dead 0 52
62 Big Julie 0 54
61 The Day After The Revolution 0 55
60 Wishful Thinking 0 56
59 Seductive Barry 0 58
58 Ciao! 0 59
57 Walk like a Panther 0 62
56 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis 0 63
55 Synchronize 1 65
54 Have You Seen Her Lately? 0 67
53 Sliding Through Life On Charm 0 72
52 Monday Morning 0 74
51 Weeds 0 76
50 Love is Blind 0 77
49 Ansaphone 0 77
48 Styloroc (Nights of Suburbia) 0 85
47 Little Girl (with Blue Eyes) 0 88
46 Bar Italia 0 88
45 Running the World 0 91
44 I Want You 0 91
43 Pencil Skirt 0 96
42 Party Hard 0 96
41 Live Bed Show 0 96
40 Don't Let Him Waste Your Time 0 97
39 Glory Days 0 101
38 Inside Susan 0 107
37 Mile End 0 114
36 Blue Girls 0 116
35 The Night that Minnie Temperley Died 0 124
34 Countdown 0 124
33 Joyriders 0 138
32 Death II 1 143
31 Bad Cover Version 0 150
30 Sunrise 0 161
29 Wickerman 1 163
28 Sheffield: Sex City 0 166
27 His 'n' Hers 1 173
26 The Trees 1 174
25 O.U. (Gone Gone) 1 189
24 Your Sister's Clothes 0 196
23 Dishes 1 197
22 Like A Friend 1 211
21 She's A Lady 0 222
20 Sorted for E's & Wizz 0 225
19 The Fear 1 229
18 My Legendary Girlfriend 1 233
17 A Little Soul 0 241
16 Mis-Shapes 0 242
15 I Spy 1 247
14 Acrylic Afternoons 0 257
13 F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. 0 264
12 Help The Aged 0 279
11 Underwear 0 296
10 Lipgloss 0 309
9 Razzmatazz 0 319
8 Something Changed 1 326
7 Seconds 2 327
6 Disco 2000 2 365
5 Babies 2 474
4 Pink Glove 3 474
3 Do You Remember The First Time? 0 477
2 This Is Hardcore 2 559
1 Common People 5 641

Ha, that was a great clue photo. Common People wasn't on my ballot. I still like it after all these years, but I've just heard it too many times, and I think Pulp have plenty of songs that are just as good or better.

Ironically - Seductive Barry and Ciao!, which I was manically pulling for, in with a bullet at ...59 and 58.

"Ansaphone" and "Running the World" were top 50. That's pretty good.

oh dammit, if I'd voted I MIGHT have been able to get "Seductive Barry" onto the countdown

Thanks Alicia! I was feeling inspired :)

Bar Italia is one I definitely thought would place higher.

Great poll, thanks for running it!

Yes, Cheers Lex!!!

Yeah, this was fun!

Yeah thanks for putting this together, the clues were a lot of fun.

Thanks for playing along! I had fun watching the guesses roll in!

Thanks Lex!

I've gone through plenty of love/hate/bored cycles with Common People, but I couldn't imagine not voting for it.

I've gone through plenty of love/hate/bored cycles with Common People, but I couldn't imagine not voting for it.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, November 1, 2011 3:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Same minus the hate. I always always love it but do get bored of it sometimes. That said, if I'd chosen anything else as my #1 I would have been lying to myself and the world.

Gukbe otm upthread, the lyrics to CP thread woke me up to it again after years where it had felt played out & you know an event to be dreaded when heard in a room full of ppl liable to sing along. The 'who is this narrator anyway? What's he so angry abt?' questions made CP & other things breathe a bit - I think I'd once just enjoyed triumph-of-the-loser identification that he invites, but some of JC's best years' songwriting nods at the latent cockfarmer: spiteful, posturing, narcissistic, resentful – the way losers triumphant can be.

& yes THANK YOU Lex. That really enlivened a couple of long, hopeless days at work.

I'm sad now! I missed that Common People thread.

Here are just the #1s, for reference. I can see E's point about lying to yourself if it's not your #1 - that's definitely how I *found* Pulp, but it's not one I ever put on anymore. That said, I rarely change it if it does come on.

Rank Row Labels # 1 Sum of Score
72 I Will Kill Again 1 40
66 David's Last Summer 1 51
55 Synchronize 1 65
32 Death II 1 143
29 Wickerman 1 163
27 His 'n' Hers 1 173
26 The Trees 1 174
25 O.U. (Gone Gone) 1 189
23 Dishes 1 197
22 Like A Friend 1 211
19 The Fear 1 229
18 My Legendary Girlfriend 1 233
15 I Spy 1 247
8 Something Changed 1 326
7 Seconds 2 327
6 Disco 2000 2 365
4 Pink Glove 3 474
5 Babies 2 474
2 This Is Hardcore 2 559
1 Common People 5 641

Oh. I don't know if there's been talk about this elsewhere, but seems sensible to ask here - anyone read Owen Hatherley's recent book on Pulp? Any good?

I really want to, but I haven't yet. I need to order that at some point.

encarta, wow

That Common People Lyrics/Discussion Thread

I found Pulp pretty late to the game because it was either 1997 or 8 when I first heard them. A boy in my writing class took me to a brit pop night on the top floor of a a long since closed down rock club on St. Marks Pl. in NYC. It was very late and near closing when the DJ played "Do You Remember the First Time" and I pretty much thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. I pulled him close and yelled in his ear over the music "Who is this?! I LOVE it!". I still remember exactly how awesome and happy I felt dancing to that song in that moment. The next day I went out and bought everything I could find.

I got into them around that time a well, in 1998 when I saw the video for "This is Hardcore" on 120 Minutes. Around that time my parents had divorced and my father bought a mustang convertible and got a 26 year old girlfriend and I was all "lol Help the Aged" so I got him the album for Christmas.

Then I got Different Class and to my teenage brain that was some sexy shit

haha.. reading that CP thread now. Kinda happy I missed it the first time it seems! (I grew up poor; I would surely have ended up butting heads against KDT)

My Pulp story is that my whole class adored Common People when it came out, and I was all "pfft, I hate popular music." Then the hype faded and I heard Disco 2000 and thought wait, maybe these guys are for me. So I got Different Class and the next thing I was able to find was the DYRTFT? single (with Street Lights, the Babysitter). God, the pre-mp3s days in Canada were so dismal - I must've spent $20 on those three songs alone. I scoured Toronto and eventually got everything except It - still don't have it! But I did find mp3s or something along the way. Then one day Ned sent me a CD-R of live songs and rarities and whatnot, and made my life!!

(Class was not a pun - it was my grade eight class!)

A whole class full of kids liked "Common People" in Canada? You guys had it all sorted out there. I was scowering malls for import singles in Alabama.

Well, we were Gifted.. so we were the Mis-Shapes of the school. I remember we used to bring a TV into our classroom during lunches and watch music videos that people had taped off of Much Music, and that was a big hit.

Yeah, "hate" is too strong a word, I never hated CP but I bored of it to the point that I started resenting it (as silly as this may sound) for getting all the attention when it was only the 7th or 8th best song on DC. I still prefer "Disco 2000" or "Something Changed" on most days but CP is the essence of DC and I realized I'd be kidding myself if I tried to argue that they wrote any more than a small handful of better songs.

"Babies" would have been my #1 if I'd voted, now wish I had!

I was one of the two who put "Seconds" at #1. I first heard and liked "Do You Remember The First Time?" when I saw the video, about a year later "Common People" was everywhere and a girl I knew lent me a taped copy of it at a party where I got drunk for the first time, rode an inflatable whale down a flight of stairs and jumped in a pool fully clothed and had my first kiss to boot. Took the tape home, realised that 10 of the other 11 songs were JUST AS GOOD (Never liked "Pencil Skirt" as much as the others though), gave it back, and was fortunate enough to grab a copy of "Different Class" with the Second Class B-sides CD.

"Seconds" was the one that completely slayed me and told me to buy all their records.

Nice work Lex!

I guess "Babies" was my "Common People" then. The former was the first Pulp track I ever knowingly heard (it, and then "Do You Remember..." were their first tracks to get major airplay here) and I'd be lying to myself if I'd not voted it #1.

Pleased to see that the only other track I could have honestly put at #1, "Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)", was not all that far out of contention.

Nice poll with unpredictable results. Thanks Lex.

"Mis-Shapes" seems really shockingly low to me!

i mean fun poll, obv, thank you for doing it -- that's just the first thing i thought looking at the final lineup

Meaning you thought it would do better, right? Me too

I had a lot of fun bringing a little "Seductive Barry" boosterism to the results!

it was in my top 10!

x-post - My ballot is on my work computer but I'm nearly certain it was in mine too.

Lex, thanks so much for doing this in such an enthused way. I was smiling all the way to number 1, thanks a lot! :)

This may be true of others as well, but I noticed that E's ballot had all top five songs in the top five-she just switched around the order of do you remember the first time and babies IIRC. Nicely done!!

And you are almost definitely welcome. I had so much fun doing this!

*all most not almost lol

lol

I said I knew my choices were obvious!

A little shocked this placed so high tbh!
12 - HELP THE AGED - 14 votes, 270 points

It was the first "new" single after they blew up, probably made a big impact on ppl that way

Last Man in Space 0 20
The 1st Man In Space 0 21
First Man in Space 0 48

by my count this puts 1st Man In Space at #49?

Shit - I went over it several times! My apologies. :(

Heh, I can't believe I didn't catch at least one of those - a few other songs, especially F.C.L., had a ton of variations.

This poll was great fun! I noticed a couple more duplicates-

-We Love Life @ #94
-I Love Life @ #76

-The Birds in... @ #81
-Birds in... @ 83

it's weird to think of "Pencil Skirt" and "Monday Morning" missing the top 40, those are totally key Different Class songs imo

I thought "Weeds" would place higher than #51. But I was pleasantly surprised by how high "This is Hardcore", "Pink Glove", "Underwear", and "Something Changed" placed. The highest ranked song that I don't really like is "Do You Remember the First Time?" at #3. The person who introduced me to Pulp loves that song, but somehow it never quite clicked with me.

the past couple weeks listening to a lot of pulp "first time" kept coming up and sounding really amazing. i put it at #7 but it easily could've been much higher.

brilliant poll! kinda surprised at Roadkill being so low; bloody heartbreaking track that.

ehh, fuck me with the duplicates! Very sorry about that guys. All the same, very enjoyable. We should have a thread where people just post clues and we guess the song(s)! Because now I want to play!

btw Pulp ppl, it seems there is now actually a band called Blouse - they even have a vaguely Pulp-like cover for their album. They don't sound much like Pulp though.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RwFnbvSgL._SS500_.jpg

"So pogo on that, you twat".

LOL!

hahahaha I have never heard of any of this and the video looks funny! Will have to check it out. That cover IS very Pulp-like.

The video is from a UK show called Brass Eye which is pretty much all comedy gold. They also did a Pixies parody called "Motherbanger" which is A++.

Are we posting ballots?

Anyway, here's mine which I literally threw together in about 10 minutes but I don't know that much would have changed had I given it more thought.

1. Common people
2. Pink glove
3. Babies
4. Seconds
5. Do you remember the first time?
6. Like a friend
7. Mis-Shapes
8. Mile End
9. Sorted For E's & Wizz
10. She’s a Lady
11. Lipgloss
12. Disco 2000
13. Acrylic Afternoons
14. Something Changed
15. Help the Aged
16. Party Hard
17. Razzmatazz
18. Monday Morning
19. Further Complications
20. Underwear

This Is Hardcore
Acrylic Afternoons
Styloroc
Feeling Called Love
Countdown
Sheffield: Sex City
She's A Lady
Razzmatazz
Pink Glove
Pencil Skirt
Death II
Joyriders
Wishful Thinking
I Spy
Do You Remember The First Time?
Seductive Barry
Lipgloss
Sunrise
A Little Soul
Wickerman

enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNyyZpP3GM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTZ0hYlto7Q

and for extra goodness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sxZ4tsp8gc&feature=related

:D

These will serve my lunch break well. Thanks!

The video is from a UK show called Brass Eye which is pretty much all comedy gold. They also did a Pixies parody called "Motherbanger" which is A++.

Motherbanger was Morris solo on a Select flexi six or seven years before Brass Eye.

ok, five years

details, details ;p

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/wiki/_media/music:chris_morris_parodies:select.jpg

Wish I still had that flexidisc.

pleased to see This Is Hardcore placing so highly as it was the first Pulp song I ever really loved, possibly influenced by the embarrassing fact that I was only convinced to listen to it by a friend telling me that it was produced by RZA! This turned out to be a lie. Maybe.

Hahaha - I can just about see it!

This Is Hardcore is the song that really got me into them, too. I'd heard and liked a few Different Class songs (I was a teenager in Wisconsin, so I didn't have a lot of exposure to Pulp), but then I saw the This Is Hardcore video, by chance (maybe on 120 Minutes, like Gukbe?), and was completely blown away.

as a proud listener of only "Hits" (and Different Class) I offer a top 5

1. Babies
2. Razzmatazz
3. Something Changed
4. Common People
5. Help The Aged

Seconds is a major discovery. thanks!

That video *is* incredible, I was pleased to see it in a 'top 20 videos ever' for Time or Rolling Stone or something like that recently. The whole package, though, it jumped out as clearly the best thing they ever did when I went relistening - it takes guts to take an idea so far. I thought it might sneak #1, so I'm slightly disappointed.

"This Is Hardcore" was also my introduction to Pulp. It is a fucking incredible song.

I think I'm the only person who doesn't completely love that song. The video is pretty great though.

that piano line is one of the greatest things ever recorded

haha add me to the list of (surely all american) people who got into Pulp via the "This Is Hardcore" video. i think 120 Minutes played that, "Like A Friend" and "Help The Aged" in the space of a few weeks and really sold me on the band.

My ballot:

1. The Trees
2. Blue Girls
3. This Is Hardcore
4. Disco 2000
5. Common People
6. Do You Remember The First Time
7. A Little Soul
8. Acrylic Afternoons
9. Sylvia
10. The Night That Minnie Temperley Died
11. Love Love
12. Inside Susan
13. Mis-Shapes
14. The Fear
15. Love is blind
16. She´s A Lady
17. Don't you want me anymore
18. Help The Aged
19. Wishful thinking
20. Underwear

my shamelessly new school ballot (stuff from both Jarvis solo albums, not a lot from His N Hers and nothing from before it):

1. Like A Friend
2. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
3. Big Julie
4. Mis-Shapes
5. This Is Hardcore
6. Disco 2000
7. Do You Remember The First Time?
6. Common People
9. The Night That Minnie Temperley Died
10. Seductive Barry
11. You're In My Eyes (Discosong)
12. Monday Morning
13. Acryllic Afternoons
14. Weeds
15. A Little Soul
16. Babies
17. I Love Life
18. Party Hard
19. Help The Aged
20. Pencil Skirt

man i forgot how much i like "Sylvia" when i was figuring out which TIH tracks to vote for, wish i'd included it

mine. an honest representation of what i would choose to listen to these days, before somebody has a go at me for not including any of the hits

1. pink glove
2. o.u.
3. your sister's clothes
4. lipgloss
5. seconds
6. stacks
7. styloroc (nights of suburbia)
8. like a friend
9. a little soul
10. barry adamson / jarvis cocker - set the controls for the heart of the pelvis
11. the all seeing i - last man in space
12. joyriders
13. my legendary girlfriend
14. the night that minnie timperley died
15. relaxed muscle - billy jack
16. sheffield sex city
17. this is hardcore
18. we can dance again
19. she's a lady
20. sunrise

The middle part of TIH drags; it keeps me from thinking of it as anything but a misfire.

Classic CD-era bloat.

ha just noticed my typo for the all seeing i track, i probably contributed to some of the poll confusion xpost

TIH is definitely overlong and inconsistent (although i'd disagree about the middle being the problem -- "A Little Soul" is right in the middle!), but the highs are far too high for me to think of it as a misfire. possibly the only 'dark reflection on fame' album i'll ever love.

really the pileup of bombastic power ballads at the end is what hurts the album most for me -- if it just stopped at "Sylvia" and left the last two off it'd be pretty solid.

We can trade opinions. For me it drops off after the title track (for which I really must be in the mood, i.e. never) or whatever track follows, but enjoy "Like a Friend."

"TV Movie" follows the title track and is easily my least favorite track on the album, so yeah i think that exacerbates the feeling of it being frontloaded. "Like A Friend" was my #1 so no disagreements on that count.

jim putting Stacks separately also brings Inside Susan up to #31 overall

That's not quite the same, given that surely votes for "Inside Susan" were for the song "Inside Susan", not the related songs that make up the story (which also includes "The Babysitter").

xxxp I kind of know what you mean re: the final tracks- When I listen to the album straight through, I'm pretty much done with it by then. The album starts strong, peaks massively, hits a little turbulence at "TV Movie", and then by "Sylvia" I'm starting to feel filthy and nauseous. The last thing I need at that point is more songs. But "Glory Days" and "The Day After the Revolution" are so great (especially "Glory Days")! It just took me a while to realize it. Actually, now that I think of it, I like "TV Movie" too. That incongruous, tuneless whistle halfway through makes me lol every time, and I like the way he spits out, "Why pre-TTTEND any longer?" There's really no duds on this album, in my opinion. I guess the one I'm most likely to skip is "Seductive Barry".

BLASPHEMY

lol I know, I was waiting for that

the songs at the end aren't bad per se, i just feel they're done a disservice by the sequencing (although i do prefer "Cocaine Socialism" to "Glory Days")

That's not quite the same, given that surely votes for "Inside Susan" were for the song "Inside Susan", not the related songs that make up the story (which also includes "The Babysitter").

a) if I'd thought my vote wasn't for the three-song-suite, I would have voted for Stacks instead

b) there's no separation on the list for Jarvis vs Nancy versions of Don't Let Him Waste Your Time so

yeah i specifically voted for stacks, not that into '59' and wouldn't have rated the titular song that highly tbqh

a[ii]) I just checked and my ballot specifically says 05. Inside Susan: A Story in 3 Parts

IIRC there was only one Nancy vote, but I should have clarified Stacks :(

ppl may have been happily allowing their Don't Let Him votes to go to either. I assumed mine (for Nancy) would be combined with specific Jarvis and nonspecific votes the way remixes are on other tracks polls, and the division merely footnoted. (which I guess happened, just without the footnoting?)

I would have liked to contribute to this earlier, but my home state of New Jersey has fallen victim to a crazy October blizzard which has incapacitated the entire state. I've been without power for five days. People let me tell you, leaves + snow = catastrophe

Anyway, here is my ballot

Common People
Pink Glove
A Little Soul
I’m A Man
Party Hard
Something Changed
Disco 2000
Do You Remember The First Time
Help The Aged
Dishes
Mis-Shapes
Glory Days
Underwear
The Day After The Revolution
Pencil Skirt
This is Hardcore
Sunrise
Roadkill
Lipgloss
Angela

Nancy's "Don't Let It Waste Your Time" > Jarvis's
Jarvis's "Baby's Coming Back To Me" > Nancy's though

With all errors fixed since full results posted, as well as artist names differentiated.. I also changed the vote for Inside Susan: ASITP to Stacks as Sic said he would've voted for that one in particular if he had to? My Inside Susan vote was for that song, in particular - if others who only put Inside Susan meant the trilogy we can hash it out further!

For ties I used any number one votes as a tiebreaker, if there wasn't one I used how many people voted, when that was no different either they become, e.g., 31.1 and 31.2 which I think ended up alphabetically.

1 - Common People - Pulp - 641 points - 21 votes, 5 number ones
2 - This Is Hardcore - Pulp - 559 points - 25 votes, 2 number ones
3 - Do You Remember The First Time? - Pulp - 477 points - 21 votes, 0 number ones
4 - Pink Glove - Pulp - 474 points - 17 votes, 3 number ones
5 - Babies - Pulp - 474 points - 17 votes, 2 number ones
6 - Disco 2000 - Pulp - 365 points - 13 votes, 2 number ones
7 - Seconds - Pulp - 327 points - 13 votes, 2 number ones
8 - Something changed - Pulp - 326 points - 13 votes, 1 number ones
9 - Razzmatazz - Pulp - 319 points - 15 votes, 0 number ones
10 - Lipgloss - Pulp - 309 points - 16 votes, 0 number ones
11 - Underwear - Pulp - 296 points - 14 votes, 0 number ones
12 - Help the Aged - Pulp - 279 points - 14 votes, 0 number ones
13 - F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. - Pulp - 264 points - 11 votes, 0 number ones
14 - Acrylic Afternoons - Pulp - 257 points - 12 votes, 0 number ones
15 - I Spy - Pulp - 247 points - 12 votes, 1 number ones
16 - Mis-shapes - Pulp - 242 points - 11 votes, 0 number ones
17 - A Little Soul - Pulp - 241 points - 11 votes, 0 number ones
18 - My Legendary Girlfriend - Pulp - 233 points - 11 votes, 1 number ones
19 - The Fear - Pulp - 229 points - 10 votes, 1 number ones
20 - Sorted for E's & Wizz - Pulp - 225 points - 10 votes, 0 number ones
21 - She's A Lady - Pulp - 222 points - 11 votes, 0 number ones
22 - Like A Friend - Pulp - 211 points - 9 votes, 1 number ones
23 - Dishes - Pulp - 197 points - 8 votes, 1 number ones
24 - Your Sister's Clothes - Pulp - 196 points - 9 votes, 0 number ones
25 - O.U. (Gone Gone) - Pulp - 189 points - 8 votes, 1 number ones
26 - The Trees - Pulp - 174 points - 7 votes, 1 number ones
27 - His 'n' Hers - Pulp - 173 points - 7 votes, 1 number ones
28 - Sheffield: Sex City - Pulp - 166 points - 8 votes, 0 number ones
29 - Wickerman - Pulp - 163 points - 7 votes, 1 number ones
30 - Sunrise - Pulp - 161 points - 9 votes, 0 number ones
31 - Bad Cover Version - Pulp - 150 points - 8 votes, 0 number ones
32 - Death II - Pulp - 143 points - 6 votes, 1 number ones
33 - Joyriders - Pulp - 138 points - 6 votes, 0 number ones
34.1 - Countdown - Pulp - 124 points - 6 votes, 0 number ones
34.2 - The Night that Minnie Temperley Died - Pulp - 124 points - 6 votes, 0 number ones
35 - Blue Girls - Pulp - 116 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
36 - Mile End - Pulp - 114 points - 6 votes, 0 number ones
37 - Glory Days - Pulp - 101 points - 5 votes, 0 number ones
38 - Pencil Skirt - Pulp - 96 points - 6 votes, 0 number ones
39.1 - Live Bed Show - Pulp - 96 points - 5 votes, 0 number ones
39.2 - Party Hard - Pulp - 96 points - 5 votes, 0 number ones
40.1 - I Want You - Pulp - 91 points - 5 votes, 0 number ones
40.2 - Running the World - Jarvis Cocker - 91 points - 5 votes, 0 number ones
41 - Bar Italia - Pulp - 88 points - 6 votes, 0 number ones
42 - Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) - Pulp - 88 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
43 - Styloroc (Nites of Suburbia) - Pulp - 85 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
44 - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - Jarvis Cocker - 84 points - 5 votes, 0 number ones
45 - Inside Susan - Pulp - 80 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
46 - Stacks - Pulp - 79 points - 3 votes, 0 number ones
47 - Love is Blind - Pulp - 77 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
48 - Ansaphone - Pulp - 77 points - 3 votes, 0 number ones
49 - Weeds - Pulp - 76 points - 5 votes, 0 number ones
50 - Monday Morning - Pulp - 74 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
51 - Sliding Through Life On Charm - Marianne Faithfull - 72 points - 3 votes, 0 number ones
52 - First Man in Space - All Seeing I - 69 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
53 - Have You Seen Her Lately? - Pulp - 67 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
54 - Synchronize - Jarvis Cocker w/Discodeine - 65 points - 3 votes, 1 number ones
55 - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis - Barry Adamson - 63 points - 3 votes, 0 number ones
56 - Walk like a Panther - All Seeing I - 62 points - 3 votes, 0 number ones
57 - The Birds in Your Garden - Pulp - 60 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
58 - Ciao! - Lush - 59 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
59 - Seductive Barry - Pulp - 58 points - 3 votes, 0 number ones
60 - Wishful Thinking - Pulp - 56 points - 4 votes, 0 number ones
61 - The Day After The Revolution - Pulp - 55 points - 3 votes, 0 number ones
62 - Big Julie - Jarvis Cocker - 54 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
63 - Street Lites - Pulp - 52 points - 3 votes, 0 number ones
64 - She's Dead - Pulp - 52 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
65 - David's Last Summer - Pulp - 51 points - 2 votes, 1 number ones
66 - Dogs are Everywhere - Pulp - 50 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
67 - I'm A Man - Pulp - 46 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
68 - Sylvia - Pulp - 45 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
69 - Death Goes to the Disco - Pulp - 42 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
70 - Love Love - Pulp - 40 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
71 - I Will Kill Again - Jarvis Cocker - 40 points - 1 votes, 1 number ones
72 - The Babysitter - Pulp - 39 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
73 - Happy Endings - Pulp - 38 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
74 - I Love Life - Pulp - 36 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
75 - The Facts Of Life (The Chocolate Layers Remix) - Black Box Recorder - 36 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
76 - Cocaine Socialism - Pulp - 35 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
77 - My Lighthouse - Pulp - 33 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
78 - Roadkill - Pulp - 31 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
79 - Everybody's Problem - Pulp - 30 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
80 - Someone Like The Moon - Pulp - 27 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
81 - You're A Nightmare - Pulp - 25 points - 2 votes, 0 number ones
82 - Separations - Pulp - 25 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
83.1 - Deep Fried in Kelvin - Pulp - 24 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
83.2 - Don't You Know - Pulp - 24 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
83.3 - Maureen - Pulp - 24 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
84 - PTA - Pulp - 23 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
85 - Morning Dew (cover) - Pulp - 22 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
86.1 - They Suffocate At Night - Pulp - 21 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
86.2 - We Love Life - Pulp - 21 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
87 - Fuckingsong - Jarvis Cocker - 20 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
88.1 - Last Man in Space - All Seeing I - 20 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
88.2 - TV Movie - Pulp - 20 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
88.3 - We Are the Boyz - Pulp - 20 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
88.4 - You're In My Eyes (Discosong) - Jarvis Cocker - 20 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
89.1 - 97 Lovers - Pulp - 18 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
89.2 - Last Day of the Miners' Strike - Pulp - 18 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
90 - Two Little Boys - Rolf Harris (Jarvis Cocker) - 17 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
91.1 - Billy Jack - Relaxed Muscle - 16 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
91.2 - Heavy Weather - Jarvis Cocker - 16 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
92 - Fairground - Pulp - 15 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
93.1 - Being Followed Home - Pulp - 13 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
93.2 - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - Nancy Sinatra - 13 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
93.3 - We Can Dance Again - Pulp - 13 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
94.1 - Aborigine - Pulp - 12 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
94.2 - Blue Glow - Pulp - 12 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
94.3 - Further Complications - Jarvis Cocker - 12 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
94.4 - Weeds II - Pulp - 12 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
95.1 - Angela - Jarvis Cocker - 11 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
95.2 - Don't You Want Me Anymore? - Pulp - 11 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
95.3 - Grandfather's Nursery - Pulp - 11 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones
95.4 - I Never Said I Was Deep - Jarvis Cocker - 11 points - 1 votes, 0 number ones

So vote-splitting means the conservatives won Inside Susan got knocked out of contention! But Stacks placed higher! :)

Here's my ballot. Very Intro/H'n'H heavy.

1 David's Last Summer
2 Acrylic afternoons
3 Razzamatazz
4 Pink Glove
5 Stacks
6 Inside Susan
7 Common People
8 Sorted for Es and Wizz
9 Do you remember the first time?
10 Joyriders
11 OU
12 Help the aged
13 Lipgloss
14 Seconds
15 I Spy
16 Running the World (Jarvis Cocker)
17 Cocaine Socialism
18 First Man in space (All Seeing I)
19 Your Sister's Clothes
20 Sheffield: Sex City

1. Pink Glove
2. Disco 2000
3. Common People
4. Something Changed
5. Joyriders
6. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
7. Happy Endings
8. Sylvia
9. Lipgloss
10. I Spy
11. I Want You
12. This is Hardcore
13. Glory Days
14. The Birds in Your Garden
15. A Little Soul
16. Your Sister's Clothes
17. Dogs are Everywhere
18. She's a Lady
19. Weeds II
20. Sunrise

The album starts strong, peaks massively, hits a little turbulence at "TV Movie", and then by "Sylvia" I'm starting to feel filthy and nauseous. The last thing I need at that point is more songs. But "Glory Days" and "The Day After the Revolution" are so great (especially "Glory Days")! It just took me a while to realize it. Actually, now that I think of it, I like "TV Movie" too. That incongruous, tuneless whistle halfway through makes me lol every time, and I like the way he spits out, "Why pre-TTTEND any longer?" There's really no duds on this album, in my opinion. I guess the one I'm most likely to skip is "Seductive Barry".

I agree with nearly all of this ... when I finally got into "Glory Days" and "The Day After the Revolution", TIH went from being the "difficult follow-up to DC" to "maybe the best Pulp album?" for me. The weak links are "TV Movie" (although it works well as a sort-of intermission to the album), "Party Hard", and "Seductive Barry" (Pulp could never do epics and should have never recorded a song longer than seven minutes).

My #1, "My Legendary Girlfriend" is a sentimental favorite for me since it was the first Pulp song I heard, and Separations was the first album I bought - and only one I had for a long time. Pulp was never popular in the US (none of their singles charted here, and Hardcore was the only album that even made the top 200), so I had no idea until many years later that they'd become huge in their home country and elsewhere. I still wasn't aware "Common People" was their smash hit or signature song - I've never heard it on the radio.

I decided to make things easier on myself by considering only Pulp songs - no JC solo, collaborations, or guest appearances (although I would have loved to include "Fuckingsong"). I somehow forgot to include "...First Time" on my ballot, but am relieved to see that didn't affect its placement; indeed I would have probably put it at #3. My ballot:

1. My Legendary Girlfriend
2. The Fear
3. Blue Girls
4. Ansaphone
5. Babies
6. Separations
7. Acrylic Afternoons
8. Underwear
9. Morning Dew
10. O.U.
11. Love Love
12. This Is Hardcore
13. 97 Lovers
14. Live Bed Show
15. I Want You
16. Glory Days
17 .My Lighthouse
18. Being Followed Home
19. Weeds
20. Sunrise

- 11 songs that placed in the top 41
- 4 songs that nobody else voted for

I wish you had voted for Fuckingsong! I did. It probably still wouldn't have placed but at least I'd get to think about it twice. In fact, I think I'll put that on right now.. :)

That song pretty much sums up Jarvis's ethos for me

It's sort of the less-creepy PTA, no? Or at least - PTA might not have grossed me out as much if he wrote about it as if "it's just a fucking song." N.B. I'm fine being grossed out by him.

I never made that connection, but yes P.T.A. is creepy. FS is more like JC's message to groupies that IRL he can't live up to their image of him, so they're best off just listening to their favorite records since they'll always live up to your expectations. Or something like that....

That interpretation makes sense.. I had just thought of it as "the perfect girl" or somesuch with his allusions to how in real life he's late, messy, etc. Hey, the teenage girl inside me is satisfied! ;)

I just stumbled across http://www.jarviscocker.net/ which I had never visited before and am having great fun watching him eat an apple, read a book, etc in the header. Teehee!

The weak links are "TV Movie" (although it works well as a sort-of intermission to the album), "Party Hard", and "Seductive Barry" (Pulp could never do epics and should have never recorded a song longer than seven minutes).

i disagree with this so much! "Seductive Barry" and "You're In My Eyes (Discosong)" off the last Jarvis solo album were both on my ballot because i think he's GREAT at the 8-minute slow burn (and i probably wouldn't mind if the 6-minute slow burns like "F.E.E.L.I.N.G." and "This Is Hardcore" were a bit longer). those songs are really just masterful achievements in pacing and mood.

Told my husband to guess which song placed #1 and he guessed Song 2 ;_; He's more of a soul man. But still. Sob!

I also tried to seduce him with Fuckingsong and he laughed at me :P

Told my husband to guess which song placed #1 and he guessed Song 2

this is fantastic

Song 2 haha aww he's trying

awwww

PULP, PLUP, BLUR... hey it is almost an anagram if you add a few pen strokes....

To be fair, he knows I am (was) a massive Blur fan too.. so I guess he blanked a bit, since he doesn't post to ILX or anything. He gets partial points. :)

Has anyone ever noticed that Pulp always uses "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" as filler but Blur's always on the "La la la"? Not 100% of the time but I once told him that's an easy way to guess if I'm playing a Pulp or a Blur song, heh. And Song 2 does end with "Awwwww... yeah."

I always thought it ended with an S bomb

Maybe it does!

Just throwing this out there, but I'd be totally down with taking part in an ILM This is Hardcore tribute album, where we recast the songs into different genres (e.g. "The Fear" as a dance track, "Party Hard" as a country song, "This is Hardcore" as industrial, etc. etc.)

Aww, yeah you guys should do it. I've no musical ability whatsoever however.

That could be an asset, not a liability! You could do an a capella track, or a kazoo track, or a minimalist lo-fi casio track!

Listening to Pulp to prepare for the show, I've come across a few songs that should have ranked higher or at all:

Separations - I forgot about the actual song! "Let's Do It.."
the Mark of the Devil

http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/images/rc4.jpg

Oh the 80s!

I have decided: I have a new favorite Pulp albm.

I agree!

Yep: always thought so.