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

Pulp = sex

[celentari.livejournal.com]

Pulp songs frequently work like sex musically (I'm sure I'm not the first person to point that out), whether that be a foreplay build into a long slow screw with multiple climaxes, a quick dirty shag up against the bike shed or a thwarted might have been. Lyrically, Jarv is terribly accurate on sex and relationships (IMHO) and particularly on acknowledging that both sordidness and everydayness are all part of the charm of fucking, where other lyricists try to make things either full-on dirty or ridiculously pure. JC gets under the skin of all kinds of misplaced passions and realises that just because something is rooted in voyeurism/promiscuity/infidelity/error doesn't mean it can't have an ecstasy all its own, which comes out well in his voice - that kind of patented "in this moment, this is amazing, but lurking in the background are the problems that surround it" moan/scream you hear on something like F.E.E.L.I.N.G C.A.L.L.E.D L.O.V.E, Do You Remember The First Time?, or Pink Glove. Or alternatively, there's that panting progression narrative you hear on a few songs which begins with a scenario with attendant boring real life concerns, but builds to a place of total abandonment. You know, like sex does.

Re: Pulp = sex

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The great thing about them is that they're one of the few bands to write about sex who make equal sense when you're getting any and when you're not.

Re: Pulp = sex

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

YES YES YES

Re: Pulp = sex

[celentari.livejournal.com]

Ha, hadn't thought of that, but you're exactly right!