The Story of Pulp and COMMON PEOPLE | New British Canon

[@TrashTheory]

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[@teethgrinder83]

Any chance of a vid on "post rock" (awkward genre definition, I know that a few bands don't like that definition) in the vein of Mogwai, Slint, Godspeed you! black emperor and Tortoise? Or maybe bands from the "cool Cymru" scene in Wales like Super Furry Animals, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Manic Street Preachers etc...

[@christiangasior4244]

Trash Theory, have you ever dived into the band Sparklehorse? I’ve watched your videos and it seems right up your alley. There were recurring band members, but mostly Sparklehorse is the moniker for bandleader Mark Linkous, who wrote all the songs and played guitar and many other music on all of their albums, especially the first 2, which he produced himself. Linkous took his life in 2010 and I while he is critically acclaimed and has a decent fanbase, I feel like he belongs up there with the other singer-songwriter types whose fame has grown since their death, usually via suicide, like Nick Drake, Ian Curtis, Kurt Cobain, and Elliott Smith. I would listen to his albums in chronological order if I were you. You could even make a video about them/him maybe if you enjoy it enough. Thanks for listening to me. Maybe we can spread the good work :). I can write the script or help even.

[@rangoononline]

"Falling out of a window trying to impress girl". Really sums up this band for me. Love this song.

[@gregorysoap5673]

It was on Division Street in Sheffield, there’s a mock blue plaque commemorating it

[@johnleary1356]

The actress is Chloe Sevigny. For anyone who's interested lol

[@avedic]

Ha! Well put! I'd add.... "Staring longingly out a window at a girl...in the aching hope she won't notice you." = The Smiths Btw....how the fuck did Jarvis look _younger_ in the mid 90s.....than he did in the early 80s? Skinny guy with good genetics I guess? I remember when I first saw the video for Common People, I simply assumed the lead singer was in his early 20s.

[@doradotrueno]

And then you have him crawling through the stage when performing, well that wheelchair would give it the touch

[@Error_4x5]

@@johnleary1356 I would have fell out a window for her back in the 90's

[@kian9783]

This is THE Britpop anthem. Parklife and Don’t look back in anger are great anthems but Common People is the definitive Britpop song

[@lakrids-pibe]

It was definitely my favorite.

[@JeeGee114]

Nope. Leave them all behind from Ride is the Britpop anthem.

[@andyisdead]

@@JeeGee114 not britpop

[@lakrids-pibe]

No! I'm Spartacus.

[@Broken-Silencer]

'Brit Pop' was a term invented by radio DJ's. None of the bands of the time subscribed to such a 'movement'. I happen to know, and you're welcome to ask any of them.

[@dmrsk1899]

"If Pulp are only ever remembered for this song, I don't care, it's a good song." (Jarvis Cocker, 2011) And yeah, a lot of their other brilliant tracks are often overlooked.

[@samhainkid]

seriously. no one ever mentions Razzmatazz, Something Changed, The Fear, and loads of others.

[@tegarachsendo9730]

... you know, Black Lace are only remembered for Agadoo... see, it could be a lot worse.

[@jamiewindsor]

"And those chip stains and grease will come out in the bath" It's an uncharacteristically sophisticated song for the anthem it became. A comment on the ignorance of privilege and fetishisation of poverty. As a teenager, this album resonated with me in a way that others didn't. I bought it on tape and wore it out by listening to it so much. I saved up and bought it again.

[@tipi5586]

It's easily the best line in the song, for me. And I literally have a rich ex from Greece that I met at art college. I'm not kidding.

[@calvinbaII]

"A comment on the ignorance of privilege and fetishisation of poverty" This is very prevalent in TV and showbiz as well. Very few programs or movies that try to depict working class people actually do it right. The big reason for this is that the vast majority of writers came from upper-middle or upper class families. They had the resources to pursue writing because it's hard to crack, it doesn't pay well; those working class writers hardly get a chance and so wealthy people try to depict working class based off stereotypes rather than what working class people actually are.

[@Vitriden]

Jarvis Cocker was and is one of my greatest musical heroes. Growing up in Belgrade, Serbia, in the 90s, with the dictatorship, country disintegration, war and hyperinflation, I've often found myself submerging into the music as a sort of a personal sanctuary. It was all about rock and roll, but striclty from former Yugoslavia (I was 14 and didn't know English that well). Haustor, Azra, EKV and some other new wave bands you've never heard about but were HUGE all over former Yugoslavia, were my idols. I knew nothing about foreign music. There were many radio stations playing British or American music, but I just couldn't relate to that. Then, it happened. I remember watching some obscure music TV show before school, and among some other bands I didn't care about, all of a sudden, I was completely taken away by what I've heard. I didn't understand anything, yet I've felt it all. It was a religious-type experience. A sort of an initiation. That same day, after school, I bought a pirate copy of "Different Class" cassette. The following months, I've been listening to almost nothing else. And it shaped my musical taste for good. Pulp remained the staple of my musical taste and what I consider true, sincere and masterfully created music. I've seen Pulp once, at Exit festival in 2011. For more than an hour, I haven't moved. I just wanted that moment to last forever. That has to be the best concert experience of my entire life. Now, I'm almost 38. I'm not gonna lie, Pulp isn't the only band that influenced me, but is definitely the most important one outside former Yugoslavia, which, for me, is quite an achievement. And, after all these years, today I have my own band. I've formed it when I was 30. And we are currently, in the middle of a pandemic, recording our first album. And I believe it will come up great. Because, if Jarvis Cocker taught me anything, it's persistence and not giving up. We'll pull it through, no matter what. All in all, were it not for Jarvis Cocker and Pulp, my life would have been much emptier. And I can never thank him enough for that. That's what I've been trying to say. That's all.

[@mouse6809]

what's the name of your band? i'd love to give your album a listen once you release it

[@Vitriden]

@@mouse6809 Thanks, it should be released in autumn, but who knows these days. The band is called ZZZZZ (short for Zimbabveanski zavod za zaštitu zverova... it's hard to pronounce and even harder to explain its meaning), and we have some demos such as this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnrLkpKFYsyXbNE The album should be much better, at least we hope so. Greetings, all the best!

[@shimblywimbles158]

@@Vitriden Just had a listen and I really like what you're doing. You can hear the influences, but it doesn't sound like anything else that's happening, it's got its own identity. Liked and subbed, and I'll be keeping an eye out for that album. Best of luck!

[@milicakrunic4898]

Lepo je videti još nekog sa naših prostora u komentarima (ja sam takođe iz Beograda). Nažalost ili na sreću ja se jos nisam bila ni rodila '90ih ali sam se tokom života naslusala priča o sjajnoj muzici i cd-ovima sa crnog tržišta. U svakom slučaju, srećno sa bendom, čekaću vaš album!

[@milicakrunic4898]

I svaka čast ko god da je smislio ime! :)

[@robotjack2193]

Common People is the single best pop song of the 90's. I've never heard the radio edit. I can't believe they would cut off the most important part of the whole damn song. That part of the song is cathartic and necessary. It makes me feel less like some poor underclass sucker and, instead, like an actual human being. I might live in a small town in a poor southern American state. But I still feel everything this song puts forward about the rich. I have felt it in my life in one form or another over and over. Common People is the only song that has ever clicked for me, that has echoed my experience, even though it was written about his experience in London. It's all definitely here, in small town Arkansas.

[@yirdasellsavon5045]

Bla bla bla. You're making a comment about a version you've never heard? Big senator bill pumped the verse right oot it.

[@sayastra]

If you've ever seen the video, you've heard that edit.

[@flukeDC4]

I'm in the same boat Robot Jack, working-class Midwesterner that needed music that bonds with others that felt the struggle of life and being broke, but without the busted pickups, dead dogs, Jesus and effing "twang" that Country scoops out.

[@tonybates7870]

Cutting Common People in half is utter stupidity. You cannot get the point of it unless you hear the lot.

[@samhainkid]

I don't know for sure, but it was probably the music industry and their shitty assumption that a great pop song shouldn't be over 3 and a half minutes long, lest the public get bored with it. I know people's attention spans aren't what they used to be, but can you imagine Bohemian Rhapsody getting cut in half? The full length version of Common people is always the best way to go.

[@carlrayson3104]

"Everybody hates a tourist" is one of the greatest lyrics of all time.

[@jamnit23]

What does that mean?

[@carlrayson3104]

@@jamnit23 that some people aren't totally committed to a cause or a trend. When I was a full on punk in the late '70s and lived in the inner city we used to call people who lived in their parents' houses out in the suburbs and just turned up on Friday and Saturday nights tourists.

[@jamnit23]

@@carlrayson3104 Awesome thanks!

[@carlrayson3104]

@@jamnit23 no problem.

[@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73]

@@carlrayson3104 because God forbid people you don't like like the same music you do

[@TheHIGHSTREET]

Being a 20 year old from the US, its really cool to learn about British groups who never really cracked the US but are well received in the UK. Thanks for the uploads!

[@blahdelablah]

There are so many great British bands that never really made it big in the US. You know how some music really captures the feeling of a certain time and place? For me, the first Stone Roses album captures something indescribable about living in Britain in the 90s, somehow putting its finger on the pulse of an unspoken feeling that was beneath the surface of daily life here at the time. Whilst the songs on that album are great tunes, it doesn't surprise me that it didn't travel well. If you'd like to give it a try I'd suggest checking out Waterfall (if you like that, I can highly recommend the whole album).

[@nicholasromig5506]

I was already almost 30 when I heard Pulp for the first time. it was a great thing to be introduced to, I lived through the 90s and completely missed them because I was from the States.

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

I got to listen to Pulp in the late 90s. Now I wish I would have been aware of Brit Pop besides Oasis. US rock after Kurt Cobain died in the 90s really got terrible with post-grunge and nu metal. In the 2000s I am glad the Strokes and the White Stripes appeared.

[@aidy6000]

Simply too many to mention!!

[@kongobongo4562]

"If a lanky git like me can do it, and us lot yeah - you can do it too, alright?" Words to live by.

[@GioisDio]

KongoBongo Lanky git with talents*

[@tipi5586]

*this lot 'ere

[@pandaeyes42]

Reading Festival 2000. When Pulp did this live, the crowd quite literally threw their arms around each other's shoulders and sung every word in perfect harmony. A truly unforgettable experience.

[@grahamesoden6510]

I'm 73 and play this track all the time - it is stunning. The 60s were aspirational but we slowly learned that most of us were just common people.

[@beef1000]

pulp are probably my favorite band to love; by that I mean I've learned so much by loving them - the musical and lyrical references, how jarvis is always willing to welcome fans (and outsiders) into his world of interests - by all accounts, they should be inaccessible like so many other indie acts from around the time, but there's always been something warm and inviting about their vibe, and they've certainly backed that up by making their back catalogue readily available on streaming, and jarvis constantly making radio, etc. appearances doing nothing but expressing himself and sharing the sort of stuff he loves. I just think they're neat!

[@robotcowhand1276]

As someone in their early teens when Pulp landed, their songs were like an older brother for me. Jarvis has kept that status, of an older family member, giving me advice and perspective ever since. Lifelong fan

[@mardzipan]

I've been binging your entire "new british canon" for the past week. I'm so so glad you're creating a series like this.

[@comeonman5300]

I always loved the Jarvis quote from the Q magazine interview about the noble savage. "If you walk around a council estate there is plenty of savagery and not much nobility".

[@josemaria8177]

FINALLY! Pulp is one of my favourite bands and it is being covered by one of my favourite channels

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

A few years ago, having a pint in Camden (remember those days?) I got chatting to some random guy and he worked out I was at Uni during Britpop and he asked me "So, Blur or Oasis", I fixed him with one of these looks and say "Pulp, always Pulp", even though I was more a Grebo-goth (Ministry, PWEI etc) at the time, "Lipgloss" and "Do you remember the first time" had already convinced me that Pulp, were something special.

[@stalfithrildi5366]

Suede are the correct answer for fans of the Britpop sound. Pulp the correct answer for every outsider.

[@violet7124]

We were a Pulp household during the Britpop era. My younger sister had their album, and we all liked them (still do).

[@marccas10]

Correct! Oasis were for lads who didn't like music and Blur were great but not pulp.

[@sarinamaloy]

this song is definitely one of the best ever written - I’ll love it always

[@gtesorieri]

It's amazing that in 2019, in Chile, a little country in the southern tip of South America, this song was an anthem to that young people in the middle class, whom are broke by students loans, live under credit cards bills to raise and say that they are protest because the goverment never care about the common people

[@nomchowski8297]

*rise

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Chile little? 600000km2 is little now?

[@finncullimore9823]

@@kostajovanovic3711 I imagine they meant economically little

[@dockerdave]

I may be Australian, but the New British Canon is so relevant to my life

[@73Goodfellow]

Same here, but I’m Canadian.

[@calindamc3201]

same all the music I grew up on :>

[@SaulKopfenjager]

It was big in Oz, especially the indie screen... I was there!

[@kooltom4]

It's from 200 years plus of living under the colonial jackboot, mate.

[@annelisasherry5435]

@@73Goodfellow same here as a Canadian

[@dansimpson9214]

Can you do PJ Harvey next. She is so important for British Music. Two Mercury prizes and fans from Kurt Cobain to Jenny Beth from Savages. She is so creative and very underrated. Thank you love your vids

[@donweatherwax9318]

This. Yeah. What he said.

[@AGrrrlsTwoSoundCents]

YES, PLEASEEEE

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

I'm also a fan, but I'm not famous, but I do love Polly.

[@jimmyvollman7596]

Why not just cut straight to Savages?

[@bradwalshem3663]

Yes, please! And on that note, why not NIck Cave? :)

[@tonybates7870]

Jarvis Cocker's one of the greatest pop lyricists ever. Edit: not only is he one of the greatest lyricists, but most of the world, and I mean the US, don't know who he is, and that's a tragedy. The fact that his stuff is quintessentially British doesn't mean much - Morrissey's is too and he has a huge following in the US.

[@ZeldaFitz]

I was 25 when this song came out, it blew my socks off upon first hearing it on the radio. 1995 was such a wonderful year.

[@RicArmstrong]

Common People takes me back to when I was seeing a rich Chinese girl who was 5 years older than me here in the US. It seemed to resonate with my situation with her. Every time I hear it it takes me back to my early 20's.

[@RicArmstrong]

@Luke Dude she was unbelievable. Way way out of my league if I'm honest.

[@D_isco_D_ancer]

*Jarvis and Pulp granted a space in music history with this theme. I love it. I love that the depth and reality of the social commentary is embedded in a pop tune.*

[@cgg2621]

It's always hilarious and surprising to hear that all these iconic britpop tracks wee beaten by the likes of Simply Red and Robson and Jerome at the time. Shows that even critically acclaimed music that is popular usually still isn't the MOST popular in terms of sales

[@CadePlaysGames]

"the public want what the public get"

[@premabaul7570]

It's like that. Me and another girl were the only ones who loved The Cure and The Smiths. Everyone else loved Wet Wet Wet. Who is remembered? Young people probably think Smiths were loved by all..no..they were underground.

[@misterthegeoff9767]

To me Mis-shapes was the Pulp song that spoke to me the most (I was a lower middle class teenage misfit in 1995 not a working class one) but Common People is still an anthem and an absolute timeless banger.

[@johnennis4586]

Misfits and broken biscuits

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

WAY underrated and virtually non-existent here in the States but I love them to this day! The lyrics AND the music are great!

[@mattleuty5285]

I saw Pulp at either Glastonbury or Phoenix festival in 96 and it was one of the best gigs I've seen!! Jarvis is a fantastic front man and really interacts with the crowd.

[@itisjustacomment]

It was Phoenix I think. They played a lot of festivals back then.. I was there, 4 days fest. The thing I remember the most about it was the milkman driving around the campsite :)

[@supercanardo]

I remember Time Out giving a rather bad review of it in their "singles of the week" pages. I was living in Walthanstow, London E17 at the time (and it was a, pretty dodgy area then), in a flatshare with students from St Martins, not all foreigners but all very full of themselves. So I wrote to Time Out to tell them how they had completerly missed the point of this song and that those people did exist. And in some form of fairness, Time Out published my letter in the following issue. After too many clashes with my flatmates, I got kicked out of the house not long after. I left a farewell note on the kitchen table... written on a photocopy of my letter to Time Out.

[@AM19925]

i wish there were more/more successful working class uk bands these days. great video!

[@dannork1240]

I absolutely love these guys... one of the greatest disappointments of my life is Pulp actually playing live near my backwater Midwestern town, and me being trapped 4 hours away with a broken car, unable to get to the show...😭 I love all these videos, giving what could be dismissed as “just pop songs” (or where I live, “obscure English pop songs”) the gravity and scholarly merit they deserve. Thank you for posting these!

[@figglebop]

Love common people, but let's hear some noise for DISCO 2000!

[@josemaria8177]

And for This is Hardcore

[@figglebop]

Oh yeah! And while we're at it... Underwear, Sorted for E's and Wizz, and Do you Remember the First Time

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Definitely. Also, their much overlooked follow up album "This Is Hardcore". Easily one of the best albums of the whole britpop sheboom.

[@whedonobsessed]

Disco 2000 is my fave... what a track.

[@KawaiiGlitterful]

disco 2000, like a friend, death comes to town, this is hardcore, underwear, pink glove, im a man, and bar italia are sooo good

[@AlexanderGreensmith]

Jarvis' new album is brilliant too and he seems a really nice guy.

[@baarrbarella]

Thank you for this!! I'm a latina in my 20s and I just found out about Pulp a couple of years ago and since then I've been obsessed with the band ❤️This song really resonated with me during my university years🎓

[@Carlos_de_Amesquita]

Bueno si common people ha resonado contigo debe ser que la copiaron de Mecano y la habias escuchado antes, no? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnLHfq1ractpp5o

[@jaschul]

I barely know Pulp's output (I'm American, forgive me), but I always thought this song was a work of genius.

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Just my opinion but "His'n'Hers" is a great album of it's time, "Different Class" however, is an all time classic.

[@Tom-uv7ry]

The songs babies and underwear are great

[@deannilvalli6579]

That's a great point about Common People starting at 90 and ending up at 160bpm. Many song may "feel" like they get faster, but almost none actually change the tempo, outside of classical music. This one actually does change tempo.

[@eoghan.5003]

You will never understand how it feels to live your life with no meaning or control and with nowhere left to go, you are amazed that they exist and they burn so bright while you can only wonder why. You'll never live like common people, never do whatever common people do, never fail like common people, never watch your life slide out of view and dance and drink and screw because there's nothing else to do.

[@jos9116]

Put this on really casually while I was doing the washing up, and I was honestly nearly in tears by the end of it!!

[@nimbe0]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is one of my favorites brit pop bands of all time. I had the opportunity to go to one of their concerts and It was just great and fun and full of nostalgia. They had never come to México and I think they were very happy with the audience. Jarvis Is the best.

[@edonslow1456]

Such an exceptional song. I love writers that are able to match the intonation of what they're saying in their lyrics to the melody and structure of the music. Sentences, paragraphs, the background, the explanation, the point, all punctuated by changes in the music. The Beatles were great at this. Pulp were great at this. I can't think of any better examples.

[@doradotrueno]

I just love them and had the luckiest chance to see them live in Buenos Aires in 2012. Some of the lyrics about class and lifestyle are beyond frontiers and meets in the imaginary of any country and the stories of lower towns.

[@quarryhymns]

hey just wanted to comment for pulp fans, jarvis released a new album like 2 weeks ago called “Beyond the Pale”. I highly recommend it, his lyrics are wittier than ever and he only gets better with age.

[@teresarivasugaz2313]

I've already liked the video even before watching, we all know it'll be great as usual :)

[@Apenzuur]

Amen

[@johnpresnell]

Double amen.

[@punkfacexo6066]

Thanks for doing this! I'm the only person I know in real life who LOVES Pulp. I feel less lonely now :)

[@perchayweas]

i love pulp, the cure, blur and depeche mode, i think depeche mode will be a grat video, all your videos are great. :)

[@noursarhan8695]

Yes! Either them or Tears For Fears

[@johnreed3576]

This is rapidly becoming my fav KZbin channel! As always late to the party but keep em coming! Always preferred Suede and Pulp to Oasis and blur, good memories of this time in the 90’s as singles changed from vinyl to cassette

[@johnpresnell]

As always, another great video. I love Pulp, and like a number of great bands, they mark a certain time in pop history, probably never to be repeated. I’d even venture that there will be a reaction to create the opposite of their aesthetic, if it isn’t already happening in Britain and America. Anyway, you ask for a suggestion for a future video, and I’d like to see one on Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Making a huge international splash and then disappearing just as fast has to have a great story behind it. Besides, their first album must certainly qualify as “new British canon.”

[@Garybibb2487]

Saw Pulp in Amsterdam last week. My god they've still got it. Absolutely incredible band - even today

[@eskarinablack4830]

Fun unchecked and rumored fact: Common People's girl in the lyrics refers to Danai Stratou, Greek heiress, artist and Yanis Varoufakis wife.

[@kevinpwright]

When I first heard this song I thought it was fun and funny. When I listen too it now it sounds profound and tragic. Amazing song

[@roxanacardenas5284]

Pulp are one my all time favourite bands despite being a bit obscure in comparison to other bands of the era, their songwriting was something else💕

[@NellaCuriosity]

I love your New British Canon series! You go so in depth while expertly telling a story that draws me in even when I don't know the song.

[@joesullivan5335]

I wanna give a huge shout out to the filmers and shop owners of Coliseum skateboard superstore. They single handedly introduced pulp to a generation of skateboarders. I was one of those kids,singing common people or like a friend as I skated trying to emulate a then upcoming pro skateboarder.

[@aeschafer1]

God I miss Pulp. Different Class was the record I first heard, and I know that's the one that really spoke to the British soul, but This is Hardcore was, and remains, one of my very favourite records ever made.

[@Renanaguilar]

Yes this song rocks still, I love it.

[@thomaschristopher1513]

Common People is a song that never gets old for me. Thank you for making this video, it's particularly gratifying to see the excised verse get the attention it deserves, some much anger and fury at the British class system packed into just a few somewhat abstract lines, the song is quite a lot more lightweight, almost silly, without it.

[@AmITalkingTooFast]

Track at 1:45 is "Wishful Thinking", not "Please Don't Worry". Love this track, appeared on their first album.

[@gardenboydon]

I love your documentary style! For a viewer that is unknown to Pulp, you give a perspective on there importance to their respective genre with ease & clarity. Thank you for your videos 🙏

[@NANA-dn7cq]

You know just how much you love a band when only five minutes into watching a short about them you have to pause it and listen to your favorite song, A Little Soul.

[@jimpaek]

God I like Pulp and Jarvis. Thank you for that

[@nicholasromig5506]

his new band Jarv Is just put out a super weird new album

[@gsly6081]

@@nicholasromig5506 His band cock?

[@camiller.3230]

I love this channel so freakin' much the way you document each one of your subject is amazing thank you so much from France ♥️

[@Menstral]

Motiv8 mix - This song would have gone nowhere without it. Steve Rodway (born in Cambridgeshire) is known by the alias Motiv8 and is a British Electronic dance music songwriter & remixer. Rodway's distinctive style of crossover remixes soon became in demand and his talents came to the attention of Jarvis Cocker of the group Pulp. Cocker and bassist Steve Mackey personally met with Rodway requesting a complete overhaul of "Common People" in the Motiv8 style; the resulting classic remix went on to replace the original version on BBC Radio 1's playlist. Following the success of "Common People", Rodway also remixed "Disco 2000".

[@bbomg02]

May have been big for the British, but even as an American much of it rings true with the class divide.

[@yokaiclock9337]

I've been waiting for this one!!! Thank you!!

[@greenbean5052]

My favorite britpop song is Live Forever by Oasis, but Common People is the absolute britpop anthem.

[@apanapandottir205]

14:57 Is the greatest combination of words I've ever heard.

[@anafindlay1696]

I'm probably dating myself but I was at Glastonbury when Pulp took the stage!!! OMG what an amazing year for music❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@shernfrr6163]

Finally a video essay on pulp

[@Eduard000F]

Pulp will always be my favourite band of all time...

[@reijerlincoln]

"Akwardly charismatic". Lol

[@seanerboner630]

He is though ha

[@punkfacexo6066]

could add "eerily attractive" 😂😂😂

[@evapalma9899]

Awkwardly charismatic and sexy...

[@kcjade5221]

@@evapalma9899 this ^^ ahag

[@catriona_drummond]

I think charismatically awkward suits him better. :)

[@josemaria8177]

Jarvis Cocker just released a new album with his new group JARV IS. It's amazing. He still makes excellent music

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

Glasto 95, I was there. A transcendent end to the set. Magic.

[@theunifiedfield.]

When other bands in the 90s were referencing Bowie or the Beatles, they were a complete one-off and sounded like no one else.

[@nicholasromig5506]

this is probably my favourite song you've done on New British Canon. i was lucky enough to see pulp in 2012 at Radio City Music Hall. They were INCREDIBLE. you wouldn't guess jarv was almost 50. this is one of the great english rock songs of the 90s, and probably the best Britpop single. but my favourite pulp song is either I Spy or This Is Hardcore. as far as a non-pulp britpop track, maybe We Are The Pigs by Suede?

[@plushy9849]

I usually just watch the videos with subjects that I'm really interested in, but I find myself watching all of your videos as they're always fascinating. I was never a huge fan of Pulp, but I like the sound of their earlier stuff, so will investigate. Thrilled about the mention of Comsat Angels - there's a band more people need to know about (along with The Sound and The Chameleons - my holy trinity)!

[@avedic]

This channel is excellent. Every video is so well done!

[@Mina-fl6us]

different class is one of my favorite albums of all time. thank you for this!

[@FredQuijada]

Fantastic video. This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Thanks for all this glorious background of it. I had no idea about most of the history of the band either.

[@kath1017]

I wasn't really familiar with Pulps music. I heard Jarvis Crocker's solo stuff and loved it.

[@borntolose_livetowin]

interesting point about the social situation of 'common people' 30-40 years ago. Actually, this kind of behaviour did stamp into the minds of people from other countries. Suddenly it became 'cool' - but as I understand, it was not for the people in Britain. Maybe you can make a video about how the British working class influenced a couple of bands and ended in the Britpop-era?

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Most of the bands covered seem to be working class, a few lower middle class, those that did get to university/Art College almost universally were the very first of their family to get such an education.

[@73Goodfellow]

Doc Martens and thrift shop clothing, for instance.

[@Bigtimecharlie1349]

I seen them in 95. Edwin Collins supporting one of the best gigs of my life 😊

[@808v1]

great song, not overplayed as a 'retro pop hit' yet still appreciated by almost everyone, even if they've never thought about the lyrics...still love singing along with this today :)

[@FetishonyoutubeURL]

One of the best success stories i have seen so far.

[@hildalilja6649]

PULP

[@smilingontime]

Magnificent memories... so happy i was there!!!

[@beaulear7202]

Although oasis is my favourite band I have really come to love pulp and cockers lyricism. It's so oddly specific but so clever it's impossible to describe and impossible to replicate. I also think the thing that makes the band so cool is how lame they are, they look like a group of misfits but they couldn't be cooler looking like that.

[@edwardduarte7393]

I was reading NME and Sir Elton John said this album was in his top 10 that year. I listen to this album everyday for about a year... Glastonbury show is incredible.

[@troybrooks698]

(Another) Great video! Thank you for introducing me to this band, they escaped my radar here in the states, but I'm a big Los Campesinos! fan and it's clear they were greatly inspired by Pulp. I would die if you ever covered LC!s career in a New British Cannon essay!

[@Berethoris]

@Trash Theory, I hope this will not get lost in the comments, but I think the Greek girl is Danae Stratou, the current wife of Varoufakis. When he used to be the finance minister a reporter asked him about the rumor and he replied: "Well, I wouldn’t have known her back then. But I do know that she was the only Greek student of sculpture at Saint Martins College at that time, and that she is a fascinating person!"

[@Berethoris]

Yea lost

[@Pseudonymonic]

Thank you. A narrative about Common People that INCLUDES Mark Webber as part of the band. I know he wasnt made a full time member of the band until 1995, after Common People AND Glastonbury, but his history with Pulp goes back to being a 15 year old fanzine writer in 1986. I was so disappointed when for some reason he wasn't included in the BBC documentary.

[@danielarthur6146]

Another brilliant episode! Well done!

[@debbzev]

I saw Pulp in 1995 at Heineken leeds free festival Round hay park. Jarvis Cocker forgot the chords of common people then on the guitar and had to be reminded. I wasn't that bothered seeing them but they were amazing and have been a go to on my playlists ever since. Bring back free festivals for drinking beer!

[@MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa]

Jarvis is unique, I love him.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

I love how Pulp never reached higher than #2. It makes them even better!

[@roelfkromhout]

Goosebumps. Well done.

[@MrBlobbysLover]

Omg I nearly DIED hearing the Art Brut/Eddie Argos reference!! Honestly one of my FAVE bands and criminally underrated!!

[@alexaacuna7007]

my friend told me common people sound like " los amantes" of spanish band " Mecano" 6:48 now i get it

[@georgieroberts2999]

id love to see a video about suede as well, pulp and suede are my two favourite bands