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The most consistently brilliant band in history - pick your ten essentials right here...

*Babies
*This is Hardcore
*The Fear
*The Birds in Your Garden
*Common People
*Sunrise
*Do You Remember the First Time?
*Pink Glove
*I Want You
*Razzmatazz

Bubbling Under (I'm going for another 10)

*TV Movie
*A Little Soul
*Underwear
*Sorted for Es and Whizz
*Ansaphone
*Laughing Boy
*The Trees
*They Suffocate at Night
*Glory Days
*She's Dead

― Calum, Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Razzmatazz
Babies
Lipgloss
Do You Remember the First Time?
David's Last Summer
Common People
Sorted for Es and Whizz
F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
Dishes
This is Hardcore

― Scott Warner (thream), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be hard put to list ten Pulp songs I dislike.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenan OTM

Common People
Ansaphone
Seconds
Like a Friend
Babies
Razzmatazz
Pink Glove
This is Hardcore
Countdown
The Professional

Honorary solo mention would be Jarvis's collaboration with Barry Adamson, "Set The Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis", which is proven by science to be the greatest song in history.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 3 May 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Love Life"
"The Night That Minnie Timperley Died"
"Bar Italia"
"Common People"
"Underwear"
"Babies"
"TV Movie"
"This Is Hardcore"
"Laughing Boy"
"I Want You"

very very close: "Sorted For E's And Wizz," "I'm A Man," "Lipgloss," "A Little Soul," "The Professional."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 3 May 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
This Is Hardcore
Mis-Shapes
Disco 2000
Like A Friend
Sunrise
Common People
Seductive Barry
Weeds
Dishes

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 3 May 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

She's Dead
Wickerman
Razzmatazz
Live Bed Show
Mis-Shapes
Being Followed Home
Death II
She's A Lady
You're A Nightmare
O.U.

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 3 May 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Fairground
My Lighthouse
I Want you
Mis-shapes
Do you remember the first time
Ladies man
This is hardcore
Razzmatazz
Little girl (with blue eyes)
Help the aged (ft ali g)

― Jens (brighter), Saturday, 3 May 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

This Is Hardcore
Being Followed Home
Separations
Love Is Blind
Acrylic Afternoons
Someone Like The Moon
Babies
I Spy
Wickerman
Sunrise

― Tijn, Saturday, 3 May 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be hard put to list ten Pulp songs I like.

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 3 May 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Sickly Grin
There Was
Maureen
Blue Glow
Death Comes to Town
We Can Dance Again
The Babysitter
P.T.A.
cover of The Night
Cuckoo

I could never get below 20 if I picked from the album tracks (or even from the well-known B sides).

― kieran, Saturday, 3 May 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Am reading the excellent 'Truth and Beauty' at the moment so thought I'd revive this. Note the shocking lack of any 'Different Class'-era material:

Sheffield: Sex City
His 'N' Hers
Joyriders
Acrylic Afternoons
Pink Glove
This Is Hardcore
Seductive Barry
We Are The Boys
Cocaine Socialism
Like A Friend

No-one else would include 'Seductive Barry', but at the Bournemouth leg of the post-'This Is Hardcore' tour I remember Jarvis Cocker strapping some kind of noise-box around his middle and triggering samples during the song SOLELY BY THRUSTING HIS CROTCH ABOUT in time to the music. Hence, I love this song.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Gotta add "Truth and Beauty" to the reading list. Thanks, I didn't even know about it until now.

Pink Glove
Glory Days
Little Girl With Blue Eyes
I Want You
Birds In Your Garden
Disco 2000
Your Sisters Clothes
She's a Lady
This is Hardcore
Happy Endings

Not fair. I could name another thirty.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

'Babies' & 'Sorted for E's & Wizz' are ultimate, the rest can revolve around depending on my moods.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Countdown
Babies
Do You Remember the First Time?
Common People
I Spy
Disco 2000 (7" Mix)
Underwear
Something Changed
This is Hardcore
The Trees

― abegrand, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, Seductive Barry was in my POX upthread! although since then I finally got His'n'Hers, so I'd probably switch out a couple for Acrylic Afternoons and Babies.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

No-one else would include 'Seductive Barry'

OH YOU WOULD BE SO WRONG. It sounds like Shriekback (before they went batshit bad) = IT IS FANTASTIC.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Common people
Disco 2000
This is hardcore
Razzmatazz
Babies
The trees
Bad cover version
F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
Something changed
The birds in your garden

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

disco 2000 (i am surprised at how little love this one is getting)
pink glove
this is hardcore
common people
party hard
a little soul
happy endings
have you seen her lately?
bad cover version
weeds

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

This is Hardcore
Help the Aged
Pink Glove
Razzmatazz
Common People
Trees
Babies
Do You Remember the First Time
Mis-Shapes
Underwear

I think.

― danh (danh), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice way to pass the time longing for a rareties compilation. Here's one go at the impossible:

Trees
Live On
Seconds
Do You Remember the First Time?
Common People
This is Hardcore
OU
Inside Susan
Help the Aged
Wickerman

― David B, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Trying to do a CD80 of Pulp 'epics'. You know, the (usually) long ones that are often slowish and where it's mostly just Jarvis talking. Here's my list so far, am I missing anything?

My Legendary Girlfriend
Space
Sheffield: Sex City
Inside Susan
David's Last Summer
Feeling Called Love
Deep Fried in Kelvin
Seductive Barry
Weeds II (Origin of The Species)
Wickerman

still have enough room for one and maybe two more.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I Spy!

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

That's my favorite Pulp song, but it's more "song" if you follow me.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't see how "I Spy" is more "song" than "Wickerman" ...

What about "Being Followed Home"?
"Acrylic Afternoons" might be stretching it, and it's not really an epic (except when played live).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

"I Spy" is just so focused. Epic yes. Maybe I'm just looking for things that are more rambling.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Spencer, you forgot "Street Lites". (b-side of "Do You Remember the First Time)

― D. Bachyrycz, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Maybe "The Professional" as well. Backing track wise it's not exactly epic (it cries out for a proper string arrangement), but it certainly should fill your "longish and rambling" criterion.

― D. Bachyrycz, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, that one is very drastically song then not-song. I may add it and "I Spy" after all...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

xpost, the rap on that one has always kind of put me off. But I will listen to it again...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the tips guys!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

1. Disco 2000
2. This Is Hardcore
3. Sylvia
4. Razzmatazz
5. Mis Shapes
6. The Fear
7. The Trees
8. Sorted For Es And Whizz
9. I Spy
10.Help The Aged

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Definately have to add on "Street Lites", Spencer! I've always thought of "My Legendary Girlfriend", "Sheffield: Sex City", and "Street Lites" as some kind of trilogy.

And getting away from largely spoken word epics for the moment, am I the only one who thinks it's crazy that "Live On" was never given a proper release?

― D. Bachyrycz, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I am definitely adding "Street Lites." I think the reason I don't want to add "I Spy" because I listen to it so much already on my 'portable' hits disc. I actually listen to it a lot before going out, which is probably a little sick.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

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