Why are Pulp so unpopular now?

I admit I wanted to do this as well. I just limited myself with the second part of the equation.

Oh blimey, obv. my opinion would be totally diff if I knew that factoid prior.

Hahah...oh wait.

Actually never seen the "Disco 2000" video since it's not on Sorted for Es and Vids.

incl. "Disco 2000" obv.
(it's the video that most closely follows their "Different Class" style guide)

Maybe I'll bring a VCR to the LA/OC FAP if it ever happens!

Of Pulp's own vids, Jarvis only directed the original "Babies" and the "Do You Remember The First Time" doco as I recall. He also did Tindersticks' "City Sickness" and, I think, Aphex's "Donkey Rhubarb"!

is the video filmed in sheffield city hall? (or was that misshapes?)

!!!!

We need to talk tape trade. Or SOMETHING.

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.

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.

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.

P.S Is the new Beck album worth buying?

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.

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

An extra CD of bonus remixes or whatever may also sway the diehard fan who wouldn't purcahse it for the one new song.

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.

(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.

'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 soft
and it's warm just another cup of tea please...'

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.

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...

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.

-- El Diablo Robotico (nicolew1...) (webmail), March 2nd, 2004 5:19 PM. (Nicole) (link)
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