![]() As a parting artistic statement, the band’s seventh album is but a curiosity coda in the grand scheme of their storied evolution.Īfter the party, someone has to clean up. The sad fact remains though that success took its sweet time coming around for the Sheffield gang, but in half that time since, they were creatively spent (on record at least). And Bad Cover Version is arguably one of the finer moments in the band’s entire catalogue, with a pop star 'lookalikes' video that's genuinely laugh out loud funny. There’s grandiosity and a baroque sensibility at play (the album is produced by the legendary Scott Walker, after all) while the lyrical symbolism still has a lot of sex and society in its crosshairs. That’s not to say there isn’t much to admire within the band’s root and branch reinvention. Throwing out much of the acerbic wit of old in favour of a much more pastoral perspective that on the surface substitutes sordid subject matter for ruminations on the wonders of nature (yes, really), We Love Life is probably the Pulp album most unlike the others. ![]() To sort through it, we’ve ranked the records from worst to best. With seven studio albums to their name across a long and illustrious career, theirs is a story of slow-burn evolution. At the height of that success came the spoils of Glastonbury headline slots, chart-topping hits, Mercury Prizes, and even the slings and arrows of tabloid scrutiny. It meant that when they did arrive however, they were fully formed, and in their uniquely sardonic frontman a most unlikely star was born. Long before he was escorted offstage for heroically mooning the pomposity of Michael Jackson’s 1996 BRITs performance, Jarvis just couldn’t get arrested. So synonymous are Pulp with the heyday of 1990s Britpop, it’s almost jarring to think that they were at the coalface for so much longer than their apparent overnight success would suggest. ![]() It’s a story that perhaps provides some context as to why it took the Sheffield indie darlings 16 years to find the fame and fortune they so dearly craved. In the early days of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker had to play some shows in a wheelchair after he fell out of a third-story window while doing a Spider-Man impression an ill-fated attempt to impress a girl.
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