― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Donkey Rhubarb? You're kidding me.. he didn't really do that, did he? That's like the best video ever. Jarvis also did that Polyphonic Spree video. The band, or members thereof, directed all their earlier videos, and Jarvis co-directed Razzmatazz, Lipgloss and Bad Cover Version.
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Apologies. I think he actually did Aphex's "On" - the stop-motion one on the beach.
NB the "Disco 2000" Video was filmed at Eve's Club on London's trendy Regent St - the cool multi-coloured dancefloor's still there I believe.
― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 22 November 2002 04:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
Years and years ago I met him for a coffee and he described to me these amazing short films he'd made, one all about finding a secret something in Mile End.
I still love Pulp (I consider them more contemporary with St Etienne rather than Oasis/Blur etc. due to going to see every show in London they did between '91 and '90-something) and am going to Auto, their perverse Sonar in Sheffield in winter-type festival.
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
P.S Is the new Beck album worth buying?
― john-denver, Friday, 22 November 2002 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
I doubt Blur stopped producing chirpy hits due to their integrity.
As for Pulp...I love all of their albums, I'm an unabashed fan, yet I probably wouldn't buy the hits compilation. In the age of file sharing, one has to be stupid rather than cynical to expect the die-hard fans to re-purchase all the stuff they already have just for a chance to hear one new song.
I always thought of Pulp's success as flukey and odd, so I don't find their lack of success now all that surprising.
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 22 November 2002 11:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
we (laura & i) loved them anyway, had done since the days of "my lighthouse" back in '83 or whenever it was. the gigs at drury lane (just before they became massive) and shep bush empire (when they were at their peak) were wonderful nights.
we had tickets to see them at brixton academy last october :-( couldn't face going there on my own
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 November 2002 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 22 November 2002 12:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
An extra CD of bonus remixes or whatever may also sway the diehard fan who wouldn't purcahse it for the one new song.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 22 November 2002 12:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 22 November 2002 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hits has tremendous sleevenotes, though. And I like the cover very much, even if others don't. And not buying it would have left a gaping hole in my CD collection that I was all-too-conscious of. These are my excuses, if I need any.
― alexfack (alexfack), Saturday, 23 November 2002 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alexfack (alexfack), Sunday, 24 November 2002 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 24 November 2002 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
(if you've not had the pleasure, it goes - and you'll be shocked by this - "we are raving, we are raving" etc.)
it was actually less good than this suggests.
― adam b (adam b), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 25 November 2002 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― B.Rad (Brad), Monday, 25 November 2002 12:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 November 2002 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kicken, Monday, 25 November 2002 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
'on a pink quilted eiderdown i'm gonna...(deep breath)pull y' knickers down...net curtains blowing slightly in the breeze,lemonade light filters through the trees and it's so softand it's warm just another cup of tea please...'
― piscesboy, Monday, 25 November 2002 19:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
What's on the Pulp one then? Mind you I pretty much agree with you about the Manics' one, I mean fucking hell I now own not one but two CDs that include the song "Tsunami". I have come to quite enjoy If You Tolerate This... though.
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Because from within my grime, crunk, and general beatheadfuckery haze, I suddenly felt the urge to listen to "59 Lyndhurst Grove" and wow, this band could be really good sometimes, couldn't they? His N Hers sticks out as particularly great, but I particularly like all of the second half of Intro - where else can I find the good, weird stuff? I used to have that album with the green cover that preceded Intro, can't remember the title...
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago) link
― X RATED TYRONE, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 06:13 (twenty years ago) link
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― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link
Anyhow, does Beck at #1 and Pulp at #10 really represent, any longer, a true consensus of American rock critics? I doubt it...The result is a poll that's entirely predictable: I told Schumacher-Rasmussen weeks ago that Beck would win; I would not have predicted that Pulp would muster enough support to make the Top Ten but that's because it's hard to imagine the degree to which weenie critics remain devoted to their Anglophilia, no matter how many bullets Britpop shoots into its own brain.
This is at http://www.addict.com/html/lofi/Columns/American_Grandstand/303/index.html -- go to archive.org for the full text.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
-- El Diablo Robotico (nicolew1...) (webmail), March 2nd, 2004 5:19 PM. (Nicole) (link)------------------------------------------------------------------------
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― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago) link
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― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago) link
Cocker added: "I've been doing Pulp since I was 15 years old and I'm now a 41-year-old man. Even though we've never released that many records I was always doing it and I just thought, 'I'll try summat else."
"I've been writing some songs. When I've got enough ones that I think are fit for human consumption then I'll try and decide what to do with them."
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link