POX: Pulp B-Sides/Non-Album tracks

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As pointed out on the Pulp remasters thread, ILM hasn't had a Pulp b-sides thread. So here we are! My POX:

1. Seconds, Sisters Ep
2. Inside Susan, Razzamatazz single
3. Street Lites, Do You Remember the First Time? single
4. Mile End, Something Changed single
5. P.T.A., Mis-Shapes single
6. The Professional, This is Hardcore single
7. Sheffield: Sex City, Babies single
8. His 'n' Hers, Sisters Ep single
9. Le Rois des Formis, Hommage a Polnareff tribute album
10. There Was, Everybody's Problem single

The last one is admittedly a bit obscure and I don't usually go for pre-Separations Pulp besides the odd track here and there (e.g., "Little Girl with Blue Eyes"), but "There Was" is a lovely wistful ballad without the usual defects of 80s Pulp (spotty, amateurish production, overbearing or off key singing, etc.) Reminiscent of some of the slowies off Cope's Fried album.

― David Bachyrycz (David Bachyrycz), Monday, 29 May 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

1. Seconds
2. Death Goes To The Disco (Countdown single)
3. Cocaine Socialism (A Little Soul single)
4. You're A Nightmare (Lipgloss single)
5. Laughing Boy (Help The Aged single)
6. Your Sister's Clothes
7. Ansaphone (Disco 2000 single)
8. Forever In My Dreams (Bad Cover Version single)
9. The Professional
10.Like A Friend (A Little Soul single)

"There Was" is very pretty, yes. The only flat-out bad song Pulp ever did post-Separations is "That Boy's Evil".

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 29 May 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

1. Street Lites (Do you Remember the first time? single)
2. P.T.A. (Mis-Shapes single)
3. Inside Susan (Razzmatazz single)
4. Seconds (Seconds EP)
5. You're a Nightmare (Lipgloss single)
6. We are the Boyz (Velvet Goldmine)
7. Cocaine Socialism (A Little Soul single)
8. Mile End (Trainspotting)
9. Ansaphone (Disco 2000 single)
10. Your Sister's Clothes (Seconds ep)

Special bonus mention for the live version of Common People from Glastonbury 1995 on the Mis-Shapes single. A great souvenir of what remains one of the most amazing gigs I've ever seen. What a sing-along! Still sends shivers down the spine...

― Dave Poole, Monday, 29 May 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the thread, David!

1. Ansaphone
2. Mile End
3. PTA
4. Laughing Boy
5. Common People (live at Glastonbury)
6. Disco 2000 (Motiv8 Discoid mix)
7. Cocaine Socialism
8. We are the Boyz
9. Tomorrow Never Lies (Help the Aged single)
10. The Professionals

I remember dancing to that Disco 2000 remix at the awful cheesy provincial discos that I went to as a teenager, and thinking "wow, Pulp are being played here!". Tomorrow Never Lies was being mooted as the theme to the Bond movie of the similar name.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Cocaine Socialism- best song title of the 90s?

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

All of the songs above are awesome (apart from the one or two I don't know) but I just want to give a big, massive shout for the fantastic "Swedish Erotica" mix of "This Is Hardcore" (by Tipsy).

― everything, Monday, 29 May 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Was their cover of The Night ever released? I downloaded something called The Black Sessions from '92 which has it on...I'm becoming a little in love with it.

― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

a remix for This Is Hardcore that was never used was recently released:
http://jamiesrunoutgroove.blogspot.com/2006/05/mp3-pulp-this-is-hardcore-permanent.html

― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

d/l-ed one of the Bad Cover Version B-sides which purports to be Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds doing Disco 2000. Turns it into a languid waltz and is rather lovely. But I'm pretty sure it's just the band and Jarv doing a brilliant impression.

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

So I should add: can anyone confirm either way? I don't have the original single to check.

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh balls, it is Cave after all. It's just he sounds a bit like Jarvis in the chorus...

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the same at the time, but felt sure someone would have shouted by now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 August 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, if someone was trying to sound like Nick, they'd sound more like him. If you see what I mean...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Disco 2000 (Motiv8 Discoid mix)

I saw a stripper strip to this once.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

jarvis and nick do the chorus of the "pub rock version" of "disco 2000" together afaik. cavey sings the waltzy one on his own though.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

pub rock version?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

it's on the imminent Different Class redux (which is BLUDDY GRATE, ahem).

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, bah. I was just going to stick to the "Hardcore" one, already having got a "Different/Second class" 2CD set.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

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