wow, just realised all these years I've been hearing this great line " the tube station grease will come out in the bath." which actually erm sort of isn't in the song.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
this is a really great song
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 July 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
this thread's so bizarre. had no idea there were ppl out there who were actually offended by this song.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 24 July 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
As good a place as any to ask:
Like a dog lying in a corner,they'll bite you and never warn you.Look out.They'll tear your insides out.
Does anyone know what the backing vocals are here?
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 18 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/AskDrPulp
Jan/Feb 96
Steve Bayliss is from Widnes and he's interested to find out just what Jarvis is going on about in Common People in the "Dog lying in a corner" bit. Is it too obscene to publish, he asks?
The Doc says, whilst recording the acoustic guitar track, Jarvis' headphone level was too loud, and he was asking for it to be turned down. The "Dog lying in the corner" bit is Jarvis wittering on as only he can, while the levels were corrected. The group thought it sounded good anyway and kept it.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 19 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Thank you!
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/07/pulp-common-people-greek-girl-identity/
Please let this turn out to be the right person it would just be too perfect a punchline.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 May 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
Excellent.
― Cram Session in Goniometry (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/12/greek-finance-minister-responds-claim-wife-inspiration-pulp-common-people
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 08:02 (eight years ago) link
good song
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Monday, 25 May 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
Hour-long BBC 10th anniversary doc The Story Of Common People, from 2006 is now on the iPlayer. Hasn't been shown much in the last decade. It's really good.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074fbj#credits
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 October 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
nice, thanks
― niels, Friday, 12 October 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link