Is Pulp's "Common People" the greatest song ever?

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Please tell.

― Grand (grand), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

No.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

We've done this havent we?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Apparently not.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

greatest song of the 90s according to ILM class of '04.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

'NOT IN MY NAME' etc.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure this came up about the time Tom did that top 100 singles of the 90s list.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe he was asking "ever" as opposed to "of the 90s."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think my statement was particularly ambiguous, Marcello; about the time Tom did/ran that Freaky Trigger feature, I remember people saying that "Common People" was the greatest song ever.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Common People is better than Country House - but how?

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe he was asking "ever" as opposed to "of the 90s."

Yes.

― Grand (grand), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps, if you're dumb enough to believe in the idea of there being a fixed 'greatest song ever' for an extended period of time (i.e. not changing from second to second), then 'Common People' might as well be it.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

It was fine for its time.
Today it sounds like a 1980 Boomtown Rats B-side.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread ended at No!

And Konal OTM.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link

the correct answer is "Emu"

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

hahahaha OTM?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Heh, that's not even at all obscure.

Try again, lil' noob.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

whenever I hear it, i think the answer's Yes.
(but sometimes, when I hear other songs, I think the same thing)

― davelus (davelus), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

No, The Bare Necessities is.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.reelingreviews.com/thejunglebook2pic.jpg

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

love the song, but what's the point?

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

No, but it is the only Pulp song worth a damn. ("Cocaine Socialism" worth half a damn.)

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Who cares? Can't someone just like a song and have that be the end of it? Why does it need to be RANKED in some imaginary chart of loserdom?

No Pulp song is the "greatest song ever". That title indubitably belongs to a Smashing Pumpkins song. Which song has yet to be decided by me and everyone who will be enraged that I just said that.

― Patrik Sandberg (cobaininacoma), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Are you still posting?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm a postitute.

― Saint Patrik (cobaininacoma), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not even the greatest song on that album.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

lets start a new thread where we rank every song ever, should be easy to get consensus. for me "the final countdown" is definitely #47635 on the list...

― winter testing (winter testing), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

{some stuff} I Spy > Common People > Disco 2000 > Something Changed > (rest of different class) > {99.2% of all other songs, ever}

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

God only knows...

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Monday, 3 July 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

The Final Countdown >>>1/2> God Only Knows >> Common People >>>>>>>> Sloop John B

― mind my rewind (mattmc387), Monday, 3 July 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

The Final Countdown > Pour Some Sugar On Me > Common People > Sloop John B

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 3 July 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Bombastic Plastic>The Final Countdown>all the other stuff in the list

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Bear Necessities>Master of Puppets>Life On Mars>Ghost Town>>>The Final Countdown>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Common People (still quite good, mind).

And that is the true order of the universe, unless I've missed some stuff out.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

You missed out "Mirror In The Bathroom", "The Gambler", and "Kids In America", but other than that not bad.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Good call on Mirror in the Bathroom.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not bad for a Paul Young cover.

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

When it's on, it's hard to imagine something better, but only in certain places.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Butterfly.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I've just realised I missed out Out of Space and Sinner Man. Insert them where you see fit.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, and Sweet Harmony by Liquid! This game is hard.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Is Pulp's "Common People" the greatest song ever?

Yes.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Atomic_blast.jpg/200px-Atomic_blast.jpg

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Was that after Paul Young released his cover version of "Common People"?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I love the video. The song is about 3 minutes too long to be greatest ever.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:05 (eighteen years ago) link

As mentioned above, it's not even the best song on that album (witness my lonely vote for "Live Bed Show").

Trouble is, in The Wider World, that song is all Pulp are likely to be remembered for in the fullness of time, which is a shame.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno, I hear "Disco 2000" more on the radio and at weddings.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWEM4gZhg4

― and what, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link

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