pulp "party hard" classic or dud?

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i really don't know what to make of this song, except that jarvis is doing a pretty good scott walker impression

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i also hear: disco, new romantics, queen

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody who says classic better not hate on "Discotheque."

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

classic... i guess!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

what lies between classic and dud?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

meh

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

cluddic

what do you think of those backing vocals (doo-oo-bah)?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody who says classic better not hate on "Discotheque."

Stop me, Miccio! Absolutely classic, obviously, and not even in the top 50% of songs off the album. Great video, despite the single edit being a bit rubbish, too.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 26 September 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic. Louche, hungover, misanthropic, standing-on-your-own-at-the-school-disco-having-just-failed-to-pull. And, y'know, "Discotheque"'s great too, but Jarvis does this snidey outsider schtick better than anybody.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 September 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

k-classic. does bowie better than bowie. guitars worthy of being on a linkin park track. does james chance better than james white.

― etc, Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually it took me a long time to realize, but it's a definite CLASSIC.

― strom (strom), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of the corp rockness of it threw for a while, but then I settled into it. It's easy to hate on "Discotheque" still, Anthony, when the difference is between Jarvis and Bono.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 September 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hey I prefer the post-feminist Bryan Ferry to Satan too, but these songs are pretty identical and I'd argue Bono gives a better vocal performance (Jarvis is kinda muffled on this one). Preferring "Party Hard" is fine, but pretending one is great and one is horrible is based solely on qualities not audible on the track itself.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

for a split second i thought this was the reciprocal version of my "andrew wk covers 'common people'" idea.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha! I'm trying to imagine the Jarvis-directed video.

*JC sidles up, the pace is about half as slow*

"Let's...get this party started. Party hard."

Genius, and I could finally stand the song. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They could just use the same video, it's the one with the cheerleaders isn't it?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic track, but there's a bassline riff right after the first "Baby, you're driving me crazy" chorus that they should have revolved the whole song around. It's very Duran Duran.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Like etc. wrote, he's totally channelling Bowie during the verses. It took me a while to get into this song, in fact, it may be my least favourite on the album. It's certainly my least favourite post-1992 Pulp single, and maybe my least favourite of theirs, period.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't understand anyone hating this - it's so damn funky and hard and dirty and danceable. They never fucked up as far as I'm concerned.

― Neil Kulkarni, Monday, 27 September 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

classic, better than 'a little soul'

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

great song - roxy music very much the most obvious reference point. jarvis' deep, warbly vocal on this is very ferry. i remember my brother saying how roxy-esque pulp sounded on "different class" but i wasn't strongly feeling it, when i heard this song i was convinced.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Classic. I'm happy that there's a thread solely devoted to this song. One of Pulp's best, IMO. This has been my theme song for the last couple of weeks.

I love the mental images this song puts in my head. I imagine a coked-up Jarvis sitting in a throne, wearing a robe and a crown and sunglasses, with a scepter. He's in the middle of a nearly pitch black room. He thrusts his scepter down at somebody when the line "Now get on the floor, and show me what you're made of..." comes. And, he's just having an old "wail of a time" until "Uncle Psychosis" arrives.

When the vocoder part comes, I imagine it's this guy doing the vocals for a minute.

I imagine those silly, corny orchestra hits being totally real, and not the keyboard or whatever really makes that sound in the song.

Quite a piece of work, this song. I have to put it on, now.

― andi, Saturday, 19 May 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

but there's a bassline riff right after the first "Baby, you're driving me crazy" chorus that they should have revolved the whole song around

This is a very astute comment.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 19 May 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

There are some great songs on that album, but I don't find that "Party Hard" is among them. There isn't really anything I remember in particular about that track other than the vocoded "Baby, you're driving me crazy" and that isn't enough to call it classic.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 19 May 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason, I never got this one. In fact, out of the opening five tracks I'd say it's the weakest. Maybe I'm due another listen.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 19 May 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

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