Contacting Jarvis Cocker - (a myspace link)

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A new song now called "Running the world" but still has the Parental Guidance lyrics...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Almost enough to get me to join myspace to be jarv's friend... but not quite.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I read this is "Contracting Jarvis Cocker"

― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

And I keep seeing the address as "pervspace"

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jarvis speaks the truth.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I thought he was supposed to be a handsome pretty-boy adn all the girls had huge crushes on him! He looks ugly. What's with the glasses?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Go read wikipedia or something before asking such a stupid question. He's worn glasses for more than 10 years.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

How perfectly splendid!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

topical, truthful and perfectly bilious - hey Jarvis, aren't you supposed to be getting all AOR on us by now?

stay angry, it really suits you.

― beeble (beeble), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Viral Marketing! Number one by September!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Has Scott Walker signed up as a friend of Jarvis yet?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

someone on here knows how to save a file off a Myspace. I want to do this. Best pop star ever + swearing = this SHOULD be a Number One.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Not strictly speaking "ever."
It won't be number one for as we all know only floozies with tits are allowed to have number ones now.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Cee-Lo's tits aren't that big.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

Who do you think you are, Geir Hongro?

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

I can't hear some of the words. What's that line before the first bridge? After the bits about cream rising to the top, he goes "well, I say"...what? Sounds like "shit flows".

Can't make out the last line of that bridge either. "Buckley plucked, in the fewest of 'urts"?

I think it's great apart from that though. Nice to hear him go a little bit electronic.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

As opposed to fully electronic, as he was with Relaxed Muscle.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

I can't hear some of the words. What's that line before the first bridge? After the bits about cream rising to the top, he goes "well, I say"...what? Sounds like "shit flows".

Shit floats, innit.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Charming.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ah ok, that makes more sense. Except it doesn't, cos ok, some shit floats, but most doesn't, and if Jarvis is producing consistent floaters then perhaps he should think about adjusting his diet.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

(Christ, sorry, I seem to have turned into Gillian fucking McKeith).

How about that other line?

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought he was supposed to be a handsome pretty-boy adn all the girls had huge crushes on him! He looks ugly. What's with the glasses?

b-b-b-but jarvis was one of the reasons all us poor four-eyed losers started gaining some self-esteem back in the mid-90's!

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

edward o, you should have check your mail.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

floaters means your diet *is* good

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is quickly becoming a floater

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

That was ace. It should be released as a single right away, to give it a chance to be number one when the final Top Of The Pops goes out on the 30th! How fucking great would that be?

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

I do like how he's made some guinea stalker of him his #1 friend.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Finally heard this and, of course, love it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

This is great! Yay Jarvis.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 15 July 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot how much I love Jarvis. I hope the title though is "Cunts are Still Running the World" - "Running the World" seems a bit of a cop out, very un-Jarvis.

― that liz kid (that liz kid), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Song now available on iTunes (at least in the UK but hopefully here too).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

The song's now on Bleep for Americans and DRM h8rz. Still good also.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

how did i manage to miss this for so long? really, i don't pay enough attention.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Here's the tracklisting for the album. (NB: The album does not include "Running the World," but does somewhat surprisingly include the two tracks Jarvis wrote for the recent Nancy Sinatra album, "Don't Let Him Waste Your Time" and "Baby's Coming Back to Me.")

1. Loss Adjuster (Excerpt Part 1)
2. Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
3. Black Magic
4. Heavy Weather
5. I Will Kill Again
6. Baby's Coming Back To Me
7. Fat Children
8. From A to I
9. Disney Time
10. Tonite
11. Big Julie
12. Loss Adjuster (Excerpt Part 2)
13. Quantum Theory

A small picture of the album cover can be found here: http://www4.cd-wow.com/detail_results.php?product_code=1043450

― David Bachyrycz (David Bachyrycz), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting, no "Running the World."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

i like how spencer chow is in jarvis's top 8

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

That suave man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

FWIW Running The World is used to heartening effect, soundtracking the very (very) end credits of Children Of Men.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

i can assure you that 'running the world' is on the album...somewhere.

initial thoughts on the boy's solo debut? bit underwhelmed, to be honest. maybe i'd built it up too much - there is a feeling in some quarters that he's Here To Save Us, and that ain't gonna happen - but there are some splendid monents.

I too was surprised at his re-recordings of the Sinatra tracks - bit of a cop-out in 2006, although no doubt a nod to the '60s obsession with doing same - but anyway, stand-out tracks for me are "Fat Children" (about being mugged for his phone), "I Will Kill Again", "From A To I" (Ashford to Ipswich, as I recall!) and "Black Magic" which rocks.

The "Loss Adjuster" fragments sound very like something of "We Love Life" that I can't pin down (since I can't get my hands on my copy right now). In fact, a lot of the record, inevitably, has a similar feel to late Pulp, and some of the more reflective stuff from H&H DC-era like Ansafone and The Babysitter.

His lyrics, surprisingly, aren't all that, but there are some great "zing!" moments.

Your thoughts, oh ILM?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

so 'running the world' turns out to be the hidden track, which comes in 25 minutes after 'quantum theory', the listed closer.

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

yep...pity how the thing, on the whole, is utterly yawn inducing.

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Not surprising though. Jarv lost it ages ago. Still love him though.

― everything (everything), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Weird, I always found Pulp mostly yawn inducing but I'm liking Jarvis a whole hell of a lot.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 28 October 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

I loved "We love life", never got to hear "Relaxed Muscle"...

So, the "lost it" brigade basically centred around the "tribute" albums and/or guest appearances, right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

He reminds me of Lennon in the late 70's. "We Love Life" (now 5 years old) is okay but what a huge comedown from the previous 3 albums. And Relaxed Muscle was awful. Now he just coasts along doing half-assed celebrity schtick a couple of times a year("Stars In Their Eyes", "The Trip", the Guardian issue, etc) with all that "man of the people" nonsense that is supposed to give credibility to a career that is no more promising than his has-been peers from the mid-90s.

― everything (everything), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm liking it a lot 5 songs in. Was always a Pulp fan but with this and the re-issues i've been revisiting them recently and finding it's mostly held up well.

It's very much late period Pulp with a touch of Richard Hawley.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

he's just been on "newsnight review" doing a song called "fat children". it was skeletal garage pulp (it seemed to have both steve mackey and candida doyle in there too) and it fucking ruled. if the album's fundamentally that good i need to buy it NOW.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

is this the only thread on this record?

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

The songs sound great. I feel like maybe he misses having a backing band, as the backing tracks sound a bit too slick and uninspired at times, but the songs do seem to work like in the old Pulp days.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

I've only had about two and a half listens but have enjoyed it muchly. Check the production credits!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 19 November 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

Good record, like the timeless production of it.

― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

There's a few nothing-y sounding songs on there at first lesson, but the strong bits are plenty good.

― Through a twenty deep screen of humourists (noodle vague), Sunday, 19 November 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

new jarvis track = tonite - sounds like 80s band Felt

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 23 November 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Fat Children is great. I missed this somehow when it came out.

― pisces, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I just watched the Oscar-worthy(?) film 'Children of Men' over the weekend and heard Jarvis' song "Cunts Are Still Running the World" over the end credits. Surprising!

― stephen, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

He says he’s always been a bit naive, and it was hardly the first time he had been pulled up short from his dreams. “I’m always going through these false dawns. It was the same the first time I went to a rave. I thought, this is fantastic, people are dancing all night, they’re all being friendly to each other, they’re not really drinking, it’s not about pulling birds or having a fight. And I thought, that’s got to have an impact on society. When they go home after being all loved up and talking to everybody and being really inclusive, how can that not have some knock-on effect in normal life? And yet it didn’t.” He smiles, baffled. “That was the last spontaneous youth thing. I can’t think of anything that’s not been stage managed since then.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/24/jarvis-cocker-pulp-pop-music

― James Mitchell, Monday, 24 November 2008 09:20 (sixteen years ago)

He still talkin' about that?

― Mark G, Monday, 24 November 2008 09:27 (sixteen years ago)

^^^ TRUTH NUKE

― Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 November 2008 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

Angela

― James Mitchell, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

Because his own website is so flash-heavy it keeps crashing my Firefox.

― James Mitchell, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)

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