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The video for “Further Complications,” the title track from the second solo album by Jarvis Cocker, is a hybrid of Madonna’s boxed-in clip for “Human Nature” and Mad’s long-beloved Fold-In, with the dapper singer dancing like a spaz and being manipulated into . (NB: He is wearing a blazer, not the bondage gear Madge wore in that 1994 video—I guess that sort of getup would be more appropriate for a Relaxed Muscle clip.) After the jump, Jarvis in all his pixelated glory! More »
Posts Tagged ‘Jarvis Cocker’
Parsing The Pulp, Part II: No, The Band Is Not Getting Back Together At Glastonbury
Tue Oct 27 2009 by Maura
Yesterday’s cheeky Jarvis Cocker soundbite about the possibility of Pulp reforming for next year’s Glastonbury Festival sounded pretty much like a “we’re not playing” blow-off to these ears, but apparently other people didn’t pick up the nuance, running with “OMG PULP REUNION” stories as fast as their content-management systems would let them. So Jarvis has released a statement denying and decrying those rumors, and this time, he’s playing it 100% straightforward: More »
Parsing The Pulp: Is Jarvis Cocker Really Getting The Band Back Together For Glastonbury?
Mon Oct 26 2009 by Maura
File this under quotes that I wish had more detail about their inflection: Jarvis Cocker gave the following soundbite to the UK celebrity rag People: “Glastonbury means an awful lot to me, I would love to play there again. We’ve talked about it, there we go, there’ll be a band reunion.” Now, uh, not to rain on parades here, but I have many questions about this quote! For starters, who is the “we” that had this conversation? Is Jarvis referring to the members of the band, or himself and the reporter? And as a follow-up, is that “there we go, there’ll be a band reunion” a revelation that the Glastonbury organizers have already done their cash-waving in the general direction of the split-up Britpop superstars, or a cheeky acknowledgement of how the UK’s gossip-page sausage gets made? I know what side my suspicions reside on… and hey, the NME’s lede reworks Jarvis’ quote into “Jarvis Cocker has said that Pulp are ‘coming back,’ ” even though those two words appear nowhere in the 26 words quoted by People. Oh well, at least now I have an excuse to post a video, right? Let’s all meet up in the year 2000 (and ten), after the jump! More »
The Cutout Bin: Chilli Pipers, Autotune Lives, All Points West Gets Wet
Fri Jul 31 2009 by Maura
Some things to read while lamenting the fact that you didn’t get tickets to Al Fest…
• The Red Hot Chilli Pipers. I guess the extra “l” is for extra lawsuit protection—pity they couldn’t take a similar tack with peoples’ ears. [Official site; HT (?) Ned Raggett]
• Jay-Z’s hatred of Autotune has been great for business, says Antares Audio Technologies VP of marketing Marco Alpert. “We make no value judgments on how people use our product… it’s a tool to be used by the people who buy it, and we’re happy when consumers find new uses for it.” That includes blowing it up in music videos, FYI. [Bits] More »
Jarvis Cocker Invades Your Home Screen
Thu Jun 4 2009 by Maura
Pitchfork has posted the entirety of Jarvis Cocker’s set from last year’s Pitchfork Music Festival, and if you have an hour or so to carve out from today I suggest you spend it watching this; it includes early versions of tracks that made their way to Further Complications and his ferocious cover of Master C & J’s Chicago house classic “Face It.” Above, my favorite part of the show: Jarvis showing off his knowledge of the festival’s home city of Chicago by reminding the crowd of just who Wikipedia thinks the city’s most famous natives are. (There’s even a throwaway Karate Kid Part II reference!) [Pitchfork] More »
Jarvis Cocker Shakes Off The Complications
Mon May 18 2009 by Maura
Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Further Complications, the second solo album by Jarvis Cocker: More »
Jarvis Cocker Gives Us Another Taste Of What We Were Missing By Not Being In Paris Last Week
Thu May 14 2009 by Maura
Jarvis Cocker Wants You
Fri May 1 2009 by Maura
In preparation for some upcoming live dates, Jarvis Cocker and his band are going into rehearsal; as a way of experimenting with the music business’ adaptation to, as he says, “the post-capitalist society we now find ourselves living in” the ever-charming Cocker has decided to throw open the doors to a week of his band’s rehearsals, starting next Tuesday. Unfortunately for me those “doors” lead to a gallery in Paris, but perhaps you have the time/funds to head out there. (Those of us who are chained to our desks can follow along online.) There will be yoga, and guest performances, and a sampling of what a Jarvis Cocker day care facility would look like, as well as multiple chances for any old schlub to bring an instrument and jam. (I would advise lining up now, because I am sure that people started heading over there immediately after this press release was issued.) Stifle your jealousy along with me as you peruse the full schedule of events after the jump. More »
My Own Private 2008: Hey, There Were Actually Some Really Good Parts!
Wed Dec 31 2008 by Maura
When 2008 started, I was sure it was going to be awesome. “It’s going to be two-thousand-great,” I told anyone who would listen, ignoring the various signs (MTV ringing in the New Year with Tila Tequila, hints of economic collapse, etc.) that things wouldn’t exactly go as planned. Or even be much good at all. But at least there was music to help the seemingly endless parade of bad news plod along a bit more jauntily, right?
THE GOOD: Getting back into R & B full-throttle thanks to Ne-Yo, Erykah Badu, Estelle, and Solange; Ida Maria’s twitchy “Oh My God,” which I am going to try and have every person I know hear at least once over the course of the coming months; Prince and Jarvis Cocker owning gigantic open spaces; Ne-Yo turning girls into goo.
THE BAD: You don’t want to hear about the bad aspects of my 2008. (And honestly, typing a blow-by-blow out would just depress me all over again.) So instead I’ll note that I often hate making lists because even though they’re supposed to be overviews, they’re inevitably of the specific moment at which the list was made, which means that completely worthy entrants will get slighted, or pushed out by space limitations, etc. Here’s a “sorry” to Black Mountain’s In The Future, the Air Miami demos that were reissued by Teen Beat, Panic At The Disco’s Pretty. Odd., Deastro’s “The Shaded Forests,” The Academy Is…’s Fast Times At Barrington High, Jazmine Sullivan’s “Bust Your Windows,” and the Robin Thicke record that was mysteriously forgotten about by everyone.
THE WHAAAA? Before August, if you had said that I would have put Billy Joel on any list that didn’t count down the reasons my ninth-grade social studies class was completely absurd (hi there, three-day lesson on “We Didn’t Start The Fire”), I would have laughed so, so hard. And yet, his show at Shea Stadium was totally solid, not only because of his undeniable showmanship but for the ways it stoked my nostalgia about growing up on Long Island.
