19 years old today. When Pulp’s “This is Hardcore” hit the record stores, I was already 5 years smitten with front-man Jarvis Cocker, but this was the noise that bit me hard, and I got hooked. In fact, YGIM fell in so much love with the title track it made me realize no boy could […]
Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Not quite rockumentary, never just a concert film, Pistachio Pictures Pulp film directed by Florian Habicht somehow manages to rate as one of the very best rockumentaries we’ve seen, and a whole new approach to the stale cliche that is the concert film. When Bono started floating across screens in 3D and the Stones were lazily […]
Brit-Pop Ate Itself
Oasis and Blur may mark the official beginning of Britpop with the twin classics of Definitely Maybe and Parklife, respectively, but some people — particularly, seemingly, in music-writer circles — claim Pulp’s Different Class as the genre’s pinnacle. It’s the smartest of the bunch, as intricate and sprawling as Parklife, and armed with just a […]
the ‘Breakup by Mixtape’ playlist
High Fidelity – Side A(n exposition of sorts to a kinda-love story) -Hi, ¡¿Fidelity?! – Side B(reaking up is actually much easier to do than most 1950s teen pop songs insist)