has it come to this?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

finally have an afternoon free at home so spent it listening to martinskidmore's poptops o'2006 --- and find i am v.conflicted on J.COCKER esq.: i kind of think "(cvnts are still) running the world" is a really AWFUL song, dreary and ploddy in sound certainly, and the sentiment, well, this is a perfect case of "why are the ppl who voice my approximate feelings such tw@ts sometimes?"

i used to LOVE "common people" and then i kind of suddenly went off it hugely, and i'm not sure if i've ever liked another pulp song -- JC just seems a moany old git

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Something bad happened to his voice between Different Class and now - not sure quite when (though it was kind of horrible at the time of the last Pulp album). Or maybe it's how he uses his voice - a wretched strained non-croon on the ballads.

(Not heard cvnts.)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I like his voice on the last album! Actually maybe I just like the album, and have given up on his voice. A lot of the best stuff has always practically been spoken-word anyway.

It's one of the things I was thinking about as regards Long Blondes is that I do think they're in the same territory and roughly the same skill lyricwise, but the first time I heard a Pulp song (Lipgloss), I was perky-eared well before he started singing ftb it's a great pop track even just musically.