The man who kindly asked listeners to not read the lyric booklet while listening to his band's masterpiece Different Class—perhaps because he was drunk while writing 90% of said words, and nursing a hell of a hangover whle penning the remaining 10%—may seem like an odd choice for a symposium on the art of the lyric, but let's face it: I'd listen to Jarvis Cocker ruminate on the art of display-ad placement in phone books if I could. On May 23 he'll hold a talk (complete with PowerPoint slides!) called "Saying the Unsayable" at the Brighton Festival in the UK, and it'll apparently touch on the lyrics to "Louie Louie" as well as the words sung by the likes of Pete Doherty and Hot Chocolate frontman Errol Brown. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the talk's already sold out, but surely someone reading can sneak their way in and give us a report? Please? [Brighton Festival via Guardian]
The are many witty/goofy sites out there right now offering various détournements of classic comic strips/books, but it's going to take effort to top the cast of Archie doing a dramatic reading of the lyrics to Pulp's "Common People." And like the commenters here, I just hope can someone do this for the whole Pulp catalog. Like maybe Mr. Weatherbee and Miss Grundy taking a duet on "Help The Aged" or Big Ethel singing "Birds In Your Garden" to Jughead? (Moose singing it to Dilton? I'm not partial.) [Chris's Invincible Super Blog via Circle The Globe]
From today's "it's hardly new, but I kinda needed to post it" files: There's not a Pulp record from His 'N Hers onward that you shouldn't have near your nightstand for when one of those late-night, blackly sardonic moods hits, but the way-way-way (way) underrated We Love Life might be my favorite in the final tally, moving past the jaundiced/wounded portraits of Different Class or the nihilist navel-gazing of This Is Hardcore, as Jarvis Cocker proves that it's okay to A.) be emo as fuck about romance/heartbreak and B.) hate (or at least be deeply suspicious of) humanity if C.) you have a humanist heart o' gold beating under your snappy tailored suits and D.) don't let your snark slip too much in favor of bitterness or mawkishness. (It's kind of a complex equation to juggle. Even for a British guy.) Sadly YouTube doesn't have the album's title track—No. 1 life-affirming song of this decade, which I've been playing the hell out of lately—so here's "The Trees," a great single (if not a particularly superb video) in the grand, old-school mixtape tradition of letting a shamefully charismatic man talk about love with a wit that you're not able to muster yourself.
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is that a horrible thing to say?
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Arrrgh! It was bad enough that the New York city DJ crew MisShapes had to MisAppropriate one of our favorite Pulp songs; now, they're even starting to crib their fashion, too. Why hasn't Jarvis done anything about this/ Is he out shopping for oversized novelty spectacles again?
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Former Pulp lead singer Jarvis Cocker's new album, Jarvis, comes out in the UK on Nov. 13; we haven't heard anything about a US release date, but if the shoddy treatment received by Pulp's final album is any indication, some Stateside label will probably wait six months or so before figuring out that Jarvis is a pretty excellent album, packed with world-weariness and clever asides. We especially like "Fat Children," which sounds like a sequel to Pulp's sublime "Monday Morning," only with a beyond-the-grave lyrical take.
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It's on OINK now, so sit tight -- it should hit the rest of the P2P world soon, I would imagine. But you totally didn't hear that from me. more »
Last night, we were listening to a copy of Pulp's recently remastered Different Class album—it's an import, though you can get it super cheap at CD-WOW—and when the first song came on, we immediately cringed. Why? Because it's "Mis-Shapes," and whenever we hear it, instead of thinking about Jarvis Cocker strutting around the stage of the Reading Festival, we think of a bunch of sweaty lil' brats throwing up on each other. In America, the popularity of MisShapes (the obnoxious party-slash-DJ collective) has forever ruined "Mis-Shapes" (the song).
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The man who kindly asked listeners to not read the lyric booklet while listening to his band's masterpiece Different Class—perhaps because he was drunk while writing 90% of said words, and nursing a hell of a hangover whle penning the remaining 10%—may seem like an odd choice for a symposium on the art of the lyric, but let's face it: I'd listen to Jarvis Cocker ruminate on the art of display-ad placement in phone books if I could. On May 23 he'll hold a talk (complete with PowerPoint slides!) called "Saying the Unsayable" at the Brighton Festival in the UK, and it'll apparently touch on the lyrics to "Louie Louie" as well as the words sung by the likes of Pete Doherty and Hot Chocolate frontman Errol Brown. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the talk's already sold out, but surely someone reading can sneak their way in and give us a report? Please? [Brighton Festival via Guardian]
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Last night, we were listening to a copy of Pulp's recently remastered Different Class album—it's an import, though you can get it super cheap at 