What's the best track on "This Is Hardcore"?

Voted "Sylvia". The title track may be better, but will probably have lots of votes anyway.

Naah, it won't win.

it's got mine, certainly. probably the best song they ever did. and probably their best album.

after that ... "glory days", probably. or one of the last two.

"Seductive Barry" -- I'm a sucker for those Jarvis spoken word pieces.

like a friend doesn't count, otherwise it's by far the best track here. i choose a little (arse) soul

"Dishes".

Last two are indeed good, and This Is Hardcore shines, but c'mon, Seductive Barry is a fucking sexscape. I coined that word a few years ago with specific reference to this song, but haven't really found much else it could apply to, with the curious, and entirely relevant, exception of Barry Adamson, who collaborated with Jarvis Cocker and who is almost certainly the titular figure. Most reviewers think it's a Barry White reference. They're wrong.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190782/

"Party Hard" has nearly literally been a soundtrack to my life, these last six months. Gets my vote.

There's a thread here for "Party Hard", and my contribution to it is worthy, I think. I'm not digging it up, though.

once again: i really would urge anyone who hasn't got it already to get hold of that two-disc peel sessions and live shit thing that came out earlier this year (or was it late last year?) 'cos the live version of the title track is glorious, and has possibly jarv's most intense vocal performance evah.

ok, I resurrected that word.

Many great songs. But the best thing about TIH has to be the cover (& arwork).

THE LAST ONE, BECAUSE THEN IT IS OVER.

it takes a while, but yes, I guess you're right

I'll have to listen to this before voting but will probably go with Dishes.

Where's the love for Help the Aged?

A Little Soul

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yay

Naah, it won't win.

It did, apparently....

to all the lurkers who voted for 'help the aged', which is a decent song but nothing special, please get your ears syringed.

also, further proof that 'i'm a man' is the most pointless song pulp ever recorded.

"Help The Aged" is OK. No my fave song off the album, but still a nice song with a great chorus.

Top 4 songs OTM.

Fuck "Dishes" tho.

The top 5 are probably my own top 5, but in the wrong order. 'Help The Aged' DOES have an awesome chorus, yeah, but it's nowhere near as sublime an experience as Seductive Barry, This Is Hardcore, or even The Fear.

'A Little Soul' is the most overrated Pulp song, period. Ugh. The band are ALWAYS better when they're innovating.

pulp and innovation aren't exactly getting mad rutty with any regularity

that's what i call a result.

xpost: yeah, but 'a little soul' doesn't even try.

I just heard Earl Brutus' 'Come Taste My Mind' for the first time and GUESS WHAT 'PARTY HARD' IS AN INFERIOR RIP-OFF OF?

oh wait i think 'Party Hard' may have come out a couple of months beforehand *gulps*

really? i thought earl brutus were long gone by then

seems not. still releasing new stuff as late as '99 apparently.

I just heard Earl Brutus' 'Come Taste My Mind' for the first time

WELCOME TO THE BROTHERHOOD, LOUIS.

just doing our annual stock-check at the radio station and i took the opportunity to copy a few of their singles (plus a load of other stuff), knowing how well-loved they are on ilx. the whole 'come taste my mind' ep is wonderful, and 'life's too long' + 'SAS and the glam...' ain't bad either.

ho, fucking hell, dude, i'm missing a load of the EP tracks. i've never even heard some of them. any chance you can hook me up with whatever you've swiped?

full tracklists:

come taste my mind
superstar
nice man in a bubble
william, taste my mind

life's too long
life's too long (extended remix)

sas and the glam that goes with it
midland red
the scottish

anything you want, i'll send as an email attachment. :D

is it true they gigged with two guys at the front of the stage, doing nothing except drinking? if so, amazing.

one guy, but yes: absolutely true. better than that were the revolving petrol-station signs: the one reading PISS and OFF was replaced with something nicer at later gigs.

they were ... just awesome. first time i saw them was at the edinburgh venue in 1996 (i think), with my mates' band supporting: they pretty much cleared the place. by the end there was just me and my mate newcastle andy standing there going WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS AWESOMENESS? i love and adore them.

is it okay to bung me the whole lot? i've just sent you an e-mail through the webmail thingy with my address.

official ILX earl brutus thread, as it were

if you ever come across the "universal plan" single, be checking out the B-side ("gypsy camp battle") 'cos it's one of the scariest pieces of synthpop ever made.

whoa, nice! they seem like the kind of literate, brash, OTT rock experience you sadly see too little of nowadays.

i have a feeling that 'superstar', 'william, taste my mind' and 'the scottish' will send you into raptures.

:)

yeh: they managed to combine swaggering gang mentality with fuck-you intellectual superiority; a jaw-dropping understanding of the seventies aesthetic with glorious pop suss; and unashamed ugliness with a passionate sense of what was truly beautiful (and no, i'm really not exaggerating -- that's precisely what they were like).

there's a video for CTMM on youtube somewhere; or at least there was.

gonna go to bed but will get up tomorrow with GLEE ALL OVER MY PANTS face. you rule. thank you.

hurrah!

in case you don't know, grimly: William Taste My Mind is a re-recording with William Reid

[mops up glee]

yeh, i've always wanted to hear it! hurrah. louis: you absolutely rule. thank you.