Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time?

[@Waverathon]

Pulp, Suede, Blur, Cast, Ocean Colour Scene, Placebo, Manic Street Preachers, Oasis, The Verve, Longpigs, Embrace, Kula Shaker, Paul Weller, Sleeper, Mansun, Radiohead, Echobelly, Saint Ettiene.. What a time to be alive, God I miss the mid 90s..

[@JohnSmith-oe4ci]

Mansun. Manston's an airport !

[@Waverathon]

@@JohnSmith-oe4ci lol.. I live near Manston, predictive text strikes again..

[@leonskum.5682]

Supergrass.

[@イケダユウスケ-m4g]

Elastica,Gene...helped me a lot when I was in mid 90s.. Cheers❤️ from Japan.🙂

[@Gregg-eo2le]

Fab times the mid 90s ❤

[@mickd6942]

When my daughter moved to South Yorkshire from down south she saw Jarvis at Sheffield station and being a typical teenager she went across to ask if it was indeed Jarvis , she expected to be told to get lost , it was indeed Jarvis and he had a good chat with her , absolutely made her day , Jarvis was an absolute gent , some so called stars could learn a lot from Jarvis

[@MARKINAU8]

HE LOOKS LIKE A WELL EDUCATED MAN

[@MELLYBOY58]

Try the holy father that is Richard Ashcroft ✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Wigglypops]

He held the toilet door open for me in a pub in Shoreditch in 1999

[@bavar11an]

@@MELLYBOY58 Richard Ashcroft man! 💚

[@MELLYBOY58]

@@bavar11an Cool as they come ...big up ✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@gazzcad]

Was 19 ( now 44 ) and this song takes me right back to an absolutely amazing place in my life ❤

[@valentinag7481]

Was 18 (now45) and this song takes me back to the exact same place ❤️

[@inessa5923]

Wasn't born yet, but I'm 17 right now and I look forward to this song bringing me back here in the future.

[@Drive_Camp_Ride]

Did you get fingered by a bloke called Dave, the local butcher, at the bus stop?

[@shanthicleckler7060]

Same here!!!!

[@rupert-j8f]

i was 20. great times.

[@TheDisKit]

Jarvis is great when it comes to lyrics. He can put a whole era into a song.

[@ryoichiwatanabe648]

Indeed, heck im a third world citizens and i can relate to many of his genius lyrics

[@fei_073]

Sir, do we actually have an identical profile picture? lol

[@fairytaleforest]

This song makes me happy and sad at the same time. If any piece of music takes me straight back in time to the 90s, this is it.

[@hibeeshibees1755]

Mines is cast- fine time

[@Burnryder]

Mines is end of the century

[@ZeldaFitz]

The word your looking for is ‘Pathos’

[@vronica84]

Me too. The verses feel sad, but the chorus is happy.

[@nickunderwood6175]

❤🎉

[@markgulvin9987]

RIP Steve Mackey, this track got me into Pulp. Thanks for the music.🎶🎵

[@shaunwest3612]

Very sad😢

[@karina00143]

on the show they did like 2 weeks ago here in chile they paid homage to steve before playing this song and HOLY SHIT, i'm getting goosebumps just remembering and typing this

[@sdriza]

Steve was a swell fellow

[@islabyford4789]

Rest in peace. Legend . It's so sad that he passed. I would have loved to have the privilege to have seen him play live.

[@Robin-MagicJin]

omg yes RIP my fav pulp member

[@Picnicl]

Pulp are mid 90s Britpop encapsulated. Its sardonicness, its sexiness, its optimism, its despondencies, its examples of the middle class enjoying being rather working class.

[@hollyblue28]

I think it was more that a lot of the lower middle class were only just out of being working class...economically maybe but not psychologically. Alot of wounds carried across from the baby boomer generation that became middle class.

[@edwardhoward-williams1692]

Brit pop was shite. This was good. See the difference. XO

[@davecooper8505]

JAVIS COCKER Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s.[1] Following Pulp's hiatus, Cocker has led a successful solo career, and currently presents his own radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music, WHAT A GREAT BLOKE ! VERY RESPECTED !

[@lyraavdeeva5819]

i'm nineteen and this song embodies that feeling of restlessness that you sometimes get when you're that young... pulp really just have that air of freedom around them. i get the similar feeling when i listen to the libertines. love them both very much

[@hollyblue28]

Yeah they both definitel have that quality.

[@farpointstation]

Come back in 10 years and see if it means the same, then another 10 years and listen again. The great songs are ones that you can derive meaning from in different ways at the different points in your life

[@britischenadligen3760]

yeah... restlessness and anger

[@Poppaea-Sabina]

Damon and Jarvis both adorable with that blue eyed hairless chest boyish British look.

[@claytsummer76]

Hit the nail on the head with this comment

[@paulph12002]

This was always my favourite Pulp song. There's something quite emotional and wistful about it, I thought it was great when it came out in '94 and still do.

[@laurenpaterson3475]

paulph12002 I agree so soulful and can relate so o this

[@roberthardy2517]

The cinematography is fantastic

[@Wolfcubware]

@@inessa5923 Smh, cinematography is one of the film analysis basics not a word used to impress

[@Drive_Camp_Ride]

I thought it was annoying and childish !

[@optigana]

Jarvis said he got the inspiration for this video from the 1984 documentary Downside Up by Tony Hill. Here it is kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHrMdqeBpLKoe7s

[@hugosophy]

Jarvis talks bout how he shamelessly ripped off another director who directed a video with camera movements exactly that he saw at film school in st Martin’s

[@ChrisH78]

46yrs old. Every Pulp song teleports me to a moment of my youth. A bittersweet swoop of emotions ranging from joy to despair. Every moment beautiful and poignant. A chord, a chorus, a corresponding thought. I love them.

[@VEHICLEFAN5500]

Track is a reflection on nostalgia, friendship, and a fractured relationship. It tells the story of two people whose relationship has changed over time; the singer is bemoaning the current state of the affair but fondly remembering the "first time" they were together. He acknowledges that she may choose to continue with her current partner, and he is okay with that as long as she still holds a place for him in her heart. The song speaks to the endless cycle of time and how despite change, love can endure.

[@tieraw]

i’m 18 years old today, i’ve known this song word for word since i was about 8. my step dad often questions how i know all the words to Pulp’s music, to which my mother replies “i’ve brought her up listening to good music that’s why” you have mother, you have.

[@alan-sk7ky]

Yeah, my boys too, ELO, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Wilburys, Pulp... 😉

[@thesourceenforcer]

Eighteen years old. The whole of my life ahead of me and this song embodied that feeling of youthful optimism. Now I listen to this and feel slightly depressed at how fast the last twenty years has passed and all the wasted opportunities.

[@Popmetalj]

I hear ya...

[@alioe14]

and I read it 5 years later wow. touching comment I've ever read I guess.

[@sharonhousden605]

Start from now.

[@ZeldaFitz]

I was 24 and felt the same

[@PedroAlves-kb2rq]

When highschool was about to end i had the same feeling and I enjoyed every last second with that taste that it will end very soon and somehow me and girl fell in love with each other in our last night as highschool's students

[@kathleenpingelton870]

Just saw Pulp last night in Chicago. It was incredible & Jarvis was on 🔥 🔥 🔥. He still has it! ❤

[@HenryNooney]

I was at that show too. Jarvis was incredible!

[@phoenixgirl70]

Omg I’m so jealous! I can just imagine. Jarvis just has natural charisma. You don’t lose that!❤

[@nadiak2657]

A masterpiece..... still....after all these years.... i am 50 now but i remember this song and how it gave ( and still gives) me the shivers😊❤

[@Liam123-r8o]

Shivers😌

[@digitalabilia]

There was in MTV Brazil a show called "Lado B" (literally, "B side"). Every Wednesday, 12:00 AM. I was 16,17 years old, awake, waiting for it. I did enjoy all Pulp videos I saw!

[@islabyford4789]

This tune is addicting, and the music video is iconic

[@Liam123-r8o]

Mozza, you are right😌

[@MJeeEm-fg8md]

Pulp always meant more to me than the other bands of the era. The lyrics are phenomenal, the instrumentation isn't obvious, but it has all the flavours of that time. Any teenager getting drunk in a park and trying to chat people up can relate to Pulp songs.

[@KINGMONKEY1989]

People say Oasis and Blur epitomised the Britpop era but for me Pulp had already been going since the 80's and when guitar bands got even more popular Pulp where at the right place and time.

[@Feamelwen]

This song in their come back concerts in particular is very nostalgic. It is always played first. So the very first sentence you get from the band is "you say you gotta go home". From then on, it is a waking dream for an hour and some, and then you go home and you cry.

[@probrogamer9862]

I'm listening to this because in the car to college today my dad was telling me how much he loves this song and how it takes him back, he's 55

[@Ivan-ig6ii]

My god, Jarvis always sounds so familiar when it comes to love, he’s just like your old best friend who tell all your feelings just by looking in your eyes

[@shanthicleckler7060]

Beautiful!

[@LPJack02]

RIP Steve Mackey (November 10, 1966 - March 2, 2023), aged 56 You will be remembered as a legend.

[@shaunwest3612]

😢

[@morningstar9233]

I remember at the time there was that big stand off over who was the greater band Blur or Oasis? The answer was Pulp.

[@geeksworkshop]

so underrated

[@michaellynch9140]

morningstar is the correct answer

[@Lee-cn4df]

Yas

[@stevenfleck1584]

blur. also better than oasis.

[@caityamber2285]

Pulps good, but blur all the way

[@dustmouse]

For an 80s/90s kid, this song is haunting now in the most wonderful, depressing way.

[@cacti-goon2995]

God I love Pulp and Blur❤️

[@trthea]

Cacti-goon me too! 😍

[@raphaellk2]

and OASIS ;)

[@brunorodriguez8496]

Blur, Pulp anda Suede!!

[@alithmm6699]

@@brunorodriguez8496 Suede, Pulp & Blur 👌

[@andyisdead]

and Verve

[@pauldunn5978]

Pulp did some great tunes but this stands head and shoulders above the rest.

[@alanharvey8385]

I love the nod to Cabaret Voltaire’s Sensoria video. Sheffield seems like a great place where they respect and care for their own.

[@richardhall485]

every time i hear this song, I'm transported to a smokey Leadmill in Sheffield in the late 90's, half cut on the dance floor at about 1.30 am

[@10fcull44]

Richard Hall the Leadmill... fuck yes!!!

[@speleokeir]

Yeah I used to go all the time during my student years in the mid nineties. One of my housemates worked behind the bar, another went out with one of the bouncers and her sister went out with the head of security. They were always round our shared house so I never had to queue to get in and always got served straight away at the bar. Happy days!

[@78Showboat]

I think we may have bumped into each other. More than once.

[@highgreen6452]

Leadmill turned Madonna down just as she was about to become famous.. fantastic club very sweaty brilliant atmosphere

[@kittehhatetube]

Yup. Yup. Sheffield resident since '98. I can totally relate :D A dance floor so sticky you had to keep moving or you'd be glued to the spot in no time :D

[@Whistfulthinking]

If you're thinking, it wasn't the era, it wasn't the music, it was the magic of being a teen/twenty something. Well I was 7 when this came out, and my life becamely irreversibly awful around 2000. The 90s were pure magic

[@ExplorewithSarahlouise]

Yeah to be fair I’m 42 and happier now than when I was younger I’m one of those ppl that life got better for rly I hated been a teenager. I feel the magic now when I listen to this ironically I didn’t even know about this song back then it was a more recent find for me a few years ago and I love it

[@sdriza]

hope not irreversible - get outside and make bettar

[@phoenixgirl70]

But it was the music. The 90’s were a magic time for music. I know ppl are nostalgic for their teens or 20’s but they weren’t easy times for everyone. But you could put this on, and feel something incredibly beautiful.

[@Whistfulthinking]

@@phoenixgirl70 Yeah that's exactly my point. I think I wrote it wrong haha. I'm saying everything about the 90s (including the music) was awesome. It was the era, not just your age

[@phoenixgirl70]

@@Whistfulthinking Agreed!

[@Scotttyist]

The riff that never quits and Candida's spooky keyboard in the chorus. Just two reasons to love this song out of the many others.

[@JorgeSilvaP]

That British Sound... Love it!

[@Ivan-ig6ii]

The song is so beautiful and depressive at the same time, always reminds me of the time with the girl whose love I lost forever

[@janismorrissey]

"Do you remember the first time? I can't remember a worse time" Simple words, a million of bad memories.

[@ewennicolson4342]

It's "I can't remember the WORST time"

[@kirrarobledo4164]

Pulp is such an awesome band I love them!

[@martinotoole9959]

Fuck me Janice! Looking like you you could have anyone, I would give my soul to be one of your bad memories angel. But I think I would have tried my best so I could see you another day. But that is that. Oh well.

[@coreygrange915]

​@@ewennicolson4342 no it's not

[@thatrunningirl]

i listened to this when i was 14 and i loved it. now i'm 32 and it makes so much more sense. in a really sad way that i would have never understood when i was young.

[@ЛенаМухина-ж1ъ]

When I started to listen to pulp in 15 but now I truly understood what he was singing about. I'm 31 years now and relationships are ...

[@mollym2183]

this song still makes my heart swell no matter how many times i listen to it... jarvis' genius is still affecting teenagers decades after the song came out!

[@whatamalike]

This song is 20 years old...TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO!!!!

[@1974palu]

I know!

[@irsanpratama6095]

proud to be 90s. hahha

[@nicholasdickens2801]

And it's still brilliant and better than the dross they put out now. Justin Bieber... Boy that's progress.

[@petervanderhout2698]

madcapoperator and what IS STILL GOOD ISEN IT

[@niniwitch]

22 )

[@andrewturvill7145]

Really starting to realise these guys were better than Oasis and Blur. These are such heart felt songs, amazingly well constructed and soaring guitars. I just wish I had appreciated them back in the day, the nostalgia of top 40s, as an early teen back in the 90s, is strong.

[@inessa5923]

I'll never understand why Blur and Oasis were the big boys on the Britpop stage. Pulp deserved the spotlight!

[@dazediss6629]

@@inessa5923I can understand why oasis were huge but not really Blur. Song 2 was a decent Little Rock track & Girls & Boys was iconic. Charmless man was ok, Parklife was a bit shit but got massive appeal due to the video & Phil Daniels cameo. Country House was awful & if anyone else had released it, wouldn’t have sold at all. Coffee & Tv was average. Oasis on the other hand dropped a good 20-30 absolute bangers. Pulp, Suede & Feeder were massively underrated in this era.

[@richardenglish2195]

Took you long enough! ;)

[@c.samuels87]

One of the greatest bands of all time. Not many bands combine goosebumps with just..... Hold up, I really don't know how to put my love for this band into words. Just thanks for the music!!!!!! 😍

[@68munki]

Greatest record of the Brit pop era.. incredible

[@victoriahayward3923]

Saw them live in 95 when I was 14. Necking some cans in an alley before we got in and dancing to this like we would never have a care in the world. The best days :)

[@Colatron]

God-tier '90s gold. Literally top of the class material

[@jb8280]

That hook. Had this the day it came out(‘lifted from a Soundwarehouse in OKC) in 1994. To this day this song stands out to me. It builds and builds all into this release of perfect guitar riff. Jarvis and company released an album so out of sync with the times that it remains timeless to this day.

[@johnjoe9208]

When I look back, I realise these were a gem of a band. The greatest music period of my life 90 - 96 didn't listen to music properly really till 94 and it was oasis but pulp and those bands I remember as such golden times I'll never forget.

[@isagomez5112]

Esta cancion es, no sé como decirlo siempre vuelvo a ella, tiene un dejo de nostalgia, melancolía, es fantástica.👍🎶👌🥰😍 Viva el britpop!!!👏

[@felixoupopote]

God, I love that bouncy high guitar figure in this song. It might be a depressing song but that melody always gives me an irony-poisoned little kick.

[@andrewbrown6144]

I have said this before but when the stone Roses didnt play Glastonbury , pulp played, the best gig I have ever seen they were awesome

[@steveyoung5920]

Takes me back to the days when I lived in England in the 90's, I wish I could have been at a festival to see them play this song live, it would have been amazing, playing it full blast in my headphones is amazing, I can feel the magic energy, makes me feel like I'm there! Come to Transmit in Glasgow please Pulp!

[@ezekielblackstar]

magic guitar...this is perfect ..classic !

[@paralleleagle7293]

What an absolute classic song long live pulp 🇬🇧

[@drunker2724]

Love this song, pulp never gets boring.

[@MarcusGalligan-j1r]

I love this rendition of this beautiful hymn. My grandmother who was an SOE operative in WWII who spoke French, German, Arabic and Hebrew lived in Haifa and Cairo as a young girl when Britain was administering most of the middle East. She always joked about the "beside the Syrian Sea" part and my grandfather who was Royal Naval Officer first saw her there! They played this at her funeral and I carried her in with my family. RIP DPM and PJM x stupid youtube dropped this on PULP and not Neil from Divine Comedy doing Dear Lord and saviour of mankind xx

[@walton1875]

We live on memories! It’s 2020! Takes me back! God bless us all! KRO

[@mtvpunk7225]

i remember the first time i listened to pulp

[@DJTCify]

Rest in Peace Steve Mackey ❤

[@ES-aussie68]

This song randomly popped into my head a few days ago, haven't heard it for years, still good.

[@jakeboromfc4375]

You say you've got to go home 'Cos he's sitting on his own again this evening And I know you're gonna let him bore your pants off again Oh, now it's half past eight, you'll be late Oh, but you say you're not sure Though it makes good sense for you to live together Still you bought a toy that can reach the places he never goes And now it's getting late, he's so straight Do you remember the first time? I can't remember a worse time Oh, but you know that we've changed so much since then Oh yeah, we've grown Now, I don't care what you're doing No, I don't care if you screw him Oh, just as long as you save a piece for me, oh yeah, now Ooh You wanna go home Well, at least there's someone there that you can talk to And you never have to face up to the night on your own Jesus, it must be great to be straight Do you remember the first time? I can't remember a worse time Oh, but you know that we've changed so much since then Oh yeah, we've grown Now, I don't care what you're doing No, I don't care if you screw him Oh, just as long as you save a piece for me, oh yeah, now Ooh You wanna go home Oh yeah, you wanna go home Oh yeah, you wanna go home You wanna go home Do you remember the first time? I can't remember a worse time But you know that we've changed so much since then Oh yeah, we've grown Now, I don't care what you're doing No, I don't care if you screw him Oh, just as long as you save a piece for me, oh yeah, now Do you remember the first time? I can't remember a worse time Oh, but you know that we've changed so much since then Oh yeah, we've grown Now, I don't care what you're doing No, I don't care if you screw him Oh, just as long as you save a piece for me, oh yeah, now Ooh, you wanna go home

[@headfuzz217]

One of the finest shot videos with the 90s era… the style and dress sense! 👌🏻

[@Escapetheratrace-ji6rx]

Absolutely loved Pulp and Jarvis...nothing like them since. Bring back my teen years 90s forever

[@danielareyes5677]

I will always remember you, mi little pineapple and mouse. This song theme always be for us ♡

[@edcasepro]

Never was into him before but in my old age..it hits home...this and common people..what a talent.songs you feel and not just hear

[@ExplorewithSarahlouise]

This is one of my all time fave indie songs

[@jaimetabilo2005]

One of the best songs of the last 30 years

[@stephanieaddington3199]

RIP Steve. Thanks for the music.

[@gogovicvic6327]

Damn this song is so perfect, the whole H n' H album is amazing.

[@GEMININFJ]

and Pulp here, showing quintessential class

[@jmc0075]

Jarvis a lyrical genius. In the day. Shame we get old.

[@James-AlexanderJohnson]

The most exhilarating last 90 seconds of a '90s tune.

[@tvgcmma9215]

First saw in 95 when verve guitarist broke hand and had to pull out of supporting oasis in shef and as before internet had no idea that pulp had replaced them till came onstage - what a gig

[@Psilocybin77]

Thought it was the Stone Roses?

[@omahaperez7216]

@Psilocybin77 you're thinking of Glastonbury, I believe. The Roses were supposed to headline but had fallen apart. Pulp stepped up for top billing.

[@shaunwest3612]

Rip Steve,never be forgotten ❤️

[@kneisjineust2798]

that guitar riff is so addictive

[@MaryKi]

This is an Era anthem. 90´s anthem. I can´t avoid to feel some melancholic... when and where the good music gone? Pulp was the best band, it was not an indie-alternative-brit band. It was an Era band, glory days. And Jarvis was the most handsome-beautiful one.

[@mimiluluXx]

the camerawork in this video is amazing!!

[@warrenphillips69]

Epic guitar sound.

[@calebrush3833]

This song shimmers with electric ,the frustration in his voice is tangible ,wanting something you can't get .

[@theculturedthug6609]

Great song the guitar riff absolutely make it.

[@DimitarGeorgiev75]

'90 the best 10-15 years for music,new Genres,amazing bands and solo musicians.I love '90 and music belongs to them❤

[@fernandoservanti645]

Siempre recordamos lo que amamos. Siempre recordaré este tema ❤️

[@tomlavin9865]

Listening to this at Donny train station on way back to sheffield to see then for the first time in 24 years. I do remember the first time!

[@beepst]

I love the dreamy nature of this song.

[@GunslingerXYZ]

Changing "screw" to "knew" robs the song of a certain vicious bite... Still a Britpop classic, though! Forever.

[@fourcandles4me]

just watched sophie ellis bexter perform a cover of this on the bbc maida vale brit pop season> both really good !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jonnymills2667]

I've seen Pulp Live 4 times, Glastonbury 95 and 98, Wembley Arena, Reading and they always deliver a fresh performance, they seem to be enjoying themselves, no Shoe Gazing. And "This is Hardcore" is a masterpiece as an Album Noir. I struggled with, We Love Life but I was going through a break up when it was released so I may not have been in the right frame of mind.

[@Cherrytarnishedskull]

The most attractive man ever

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

I think this band started out around 1978. This was the kind of mid 1990s music that gave the 1980s generation of college rock a definite competitor and run for their money.

[@mariajosehadad7569]

Forever Pulp 🖤

[@bryngriffiths5186]

Soo underrated!! Quality British music 🎉😎👏🏻love pulp still at 47

[@jorgeromani3725]

Nostalgia por la buena música!!😢

[@Sub20-xx4zy]

The song. The whole album. Absolutely fantastic. I'm 50 more

[@dragonladysoul]

I miss this band :(

[@brianmah13]

Timeless angst and amazing articulation

[@pelaofic]

Timeless, iconic, a real anthem for a generation, pure greatness

[@HoratioNelson78]

Sweet Lord…. What I’d give to go back to those years…. The best ever ❤️

[@ChainNonSmoker]

Must be one of them best songs of like... ever ?

[@andrewazur2186]

It’s always pulp absolutely brilliant

[@blauvampyroski]

Breathtaking and heartaching.. especially for the nostalgia of yoof and dayze long gone byyyyy ,( PerfeKt

[@maxconstar7731]

The Guitar (or is a synth??) in the chorus sounds cool asf

[@suburbia2050]

Guitar