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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's only really doing this poll and thread that's made me realise how Pulp were the defining band of me being at University. I'm in danger of being too poleaxed by nostalgia to say anything (or maybe in danger of making a million useless posts!)

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Snap. Actually, Pulp were the defining band of being at University twice (the first person I spoke to on my MA sat down next to me coz she was a huge Pulp fan and I was reading an article about them) and the soundtrack to about 7 years of my life.

others wd be Razzmatazz, My Legendary GF, and either Countdown or Lipgloss.

This would pretty much be me too, although it might be Babies, or Seductive Barry, or The Fear. Basically, bits of the early stuff, His 'n Hers and This Is Hardcore are where it's at for me. Although I do think 'We Love Life' is very underrated.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

We Love Life is GREAT. /That is all.

We love LIVE

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

It is, although it didn't really catch fire for me until I saw them do most of it live on that open-air tour they did. I'd been mildly enjoying it (and I'm a rabid Pulp fan, so being so mild about it was odd) but as with alot of Pulp, the live performance brought it utterly to life.

Pulp were marvellous live, I have several experience of dragging serious muso friends to see them, only to have them grudgingly admit that they were 'alright, actually' (high praise for a pop band from a serious music)

Re: We love LIVE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The only time I saw them was at the 'gig' Mark Webber organised for La Monte Young at the South Bank - they did a three-song set with full orchestra and premiered "This Is Hardcore" which was probably the single most amazing thing I have ever heard at a concert in my life (can't remember what the other two songs were).

Re: We love LIVE

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I bet that was astonishing. I saw them at glastonbury both times, and they were incredible, and a show from about 97 at the Brixton academy was a real stand-out.