So, should I buy Pulp's Different Class?

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I haven't heard anything on it, and have heard very little by the group. Where do I start?

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yes buy it

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

start there, itz uh "classik"

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, buy it indeed. Love it. Don't necessarily live it.

(It's easily and understandably them at their more popular/populist *as well as* being 'themselves,' in a sense that wasn't incompatible with what went beforehand. A very hard trick to manage sometimes.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

common people, i spy, disco 2000

one of the greatest segues in music history

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Might help here to know, though -- what HAVE you heard by the group?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

actually not my fave pulp record by a long shot, but the singles on it are by far the best. i'm also not much of a fan of the stuff prior to the Gift singles (just before His n Hers). I like Dogs are Everywhere and Little Girl with Blue Eyes, but the rest if mostly lost on me from the Fire years, etc.

i'd suggest to start with the "Hits" compilation for an overview and go from there, or start with "PulpIntro" and follow them chronologically. either way you're bound to love them.

but i'm sure lots of people will disagree with me on this advice

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

what is your favorite pulp album, then, if not this and not the earlier stuff? the last one?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

nah i wouldn't bother with the hits comp. start with their best, most accurate-reflection album first (i.e. 'different class'), then either their earlier or later classics ('his and hers' or 'this is hardcore', respectively). if you dig those, you can pick up their debut 'it' fairly easily.. though the 'countdown' comp gives a nice summation of their pre-'his and hers' albums.
'we love life' was their mature, not gonna rock any more swan-song, and a fine, if not totally winning album

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless you dig overwraught cabaret, I'd stick with the hits comp.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally would have bought the hits comp if I didn't already have His'n'Hers, Different Class and This Is Hardcore. Learned my lesson.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

His'N'Hers is my fave by a long shot, followed by Hardcore, then Different Class.

Intro would figure inbetween HisNHers and hardcore if it were a proper album, but as a collection of singles I guess it's not fair to include it

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless you dig overwraught cabaret

You think THAT'S overwrought cabaret? Remind me to play you some third album Soft Cell sometime.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Separations" is half house-y, if you have dance considerations.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

overwrought erotic cabaret

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

All I've heard is "This Is Hardcore", and that was a while ago, so I don't have an opinion on it.

I can't see myself buying a greatest hits comp before buying an album - I'd be afraid it would spoil the album.

You all have pretty much answered this question, but what I want to know is - Is this album still good, or was it more of a nostalgic 90's thing? Someone in the 90's poll thread gave me the idea that they thought the reason "Common People" was so good was because they listened to it growing up in the UK.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it stands up. I didn't catch it til after the fact. You'd have the force of zeitgeist behind you in the UK, but there's enough "sexy city" angst to make it more universal.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

different class is still great, i definitely prefer we love life though.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Different Class" = "Blonde on Blonde"
"We Love Life" = "New Morning"
???

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

'Different Class' is still amazing. I've just heard it too much. But I can totally imagine people falling in love with it for the first time in 2004, no less than in 1995, really.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

haha between lstd and that new dylan book i apprently need to check out new morning!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it's his "married, happy" log cabin record!

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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