The Friday Canon: PULP

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No, I can't believe we haven't done them yet either. With just 12 UK Top 40 hits, you get FOUR ticks below. However because I'm feeling generous, for one! canon! only! you are allowed an EXTRA text-box vote for a song that's missing - if a song gets enough votes it will be included in the canon proper.

[Poll #1070087]
Duran Duran: (link)
1. Rio
2. Hungry Like The Wolf
=3. Girls On Film
=3. The Reflex
5. Save A Prayer
6. Wild Boys
7. Planet Earth
=8. A View To A Kill
=8. Is There Something I Should Know
=8. Ordinary World

Carter USM/Wonder Stuff/Pop Will Eat Itself: (link)
1. Carter USM - The Only Living Boy In New Cross
2. Carter USM - Sheriff Fatman
3. Pop Will Eat Itself - Can U Dig It
4. Carter USM - After The Watershed
5. Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
6. Pop Will Eat Itself - Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!
7. Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow
=8. Wonder Stuff [w/ Vic Reeves] - Dizzy
=8. Carter USM - Rubbish
=8. Wonder Stuff - Don't Let Me Down Gently

Comments

My Four, and why

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Do You Remember The First Time - this was sort of marginal, it just reminds me of being into them at University and everyone being 20 and vibing off the same stuff :(

Sisters EP - last hurrah for the old claustrophobic voyeur Pulp, and has the amazing "I only went with her cos she looks like you MAHGOD" bit.

This Is Hardcore - old claustrophobic voyeur Pulp rises from grave as horrifying cokehead zombie. Extremely nasty.

Sunrise/The Trees - PROGTASTIC. Entirely for redemptive powers of "Sunrise".

If I was picking my favourite four Pulp singles, as opposed to top 40 hits, only TIH would make it - others wd be Razzmatazz, My Legendary GF, and either Countdown or Lipgloss.

What exactly are you gonna do for an encore?

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

This Is Hardcore - old claustrophobic voyeur Pulp rises from grave as horrifying cokehead zombie. Extremely nasty.

Possibly the best thing they ever did.

Re: What exactly are you gonna do for an encore?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It transports me instantly to sitting in on the windowsill of my room in halls in my fresher's term, 2 in the morning, chain smoking out of the window so as not to set the fire alarm off and feeling absolutely and truly miserable. I've cheered up quite a lot since then.

That goes in there

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

The most miserable song since The Smiths? Discuss!

Re: That goes in there

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think Radiohead would have contenders.

This Is Hardcore isn't miserable, anyway.

Re: That goes in there

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

And nor are the Smiths!! (Well OK they are sometimes)

Re: My Four, and why

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, my fifth song from the above list would have been 'Babies' which is a better version of 'Do You Remember The First Time' IMHO, but if we're not restricted to the chart-eligible singles, 'F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.' off of 'Different Class' is a quality tune.

It's odd, I've never thought of myself as a massive Pulp fan, and yet I can reel off pretty much four albums' worth of material, and there's very little there that I dislike. There's plenty I'm indifferent to though, perhaps that's why I never figured myself to be a big Pulp fan!