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i love pulp!
c'mon people!
I absolutely adore Pulp. Seems they're now sort of unofficially broken up, though.
Jarvis Cocker has a new side project, "Relaxed Muscle." A joke, but an interesting and fairly funny one, with some good tunes. Anyone heard it/of it?
I really, really loved the last Pulp album and credit it for getting me into Scott Walker. If that was the way they had to go out, there were worse ways to go. Especially "Wickerman"- an epic encapsulating the entire Pulp vision into eight minutes of beautiful, witty, wry melodies and lyrics. Transporting.
Quote from: godardianJarvis Cocker has a new side project, "Relaxed Muscle." A joke, but an interesting and fairly funny one, with some good tunes. Anyone heard it/of it?
i don't get it.
Quote from: PQuote from: godardianJarvis Cocker has a new side project, "Relaxed Muscle." A joke, but an interesting and fairly funny one, with some good tunes. Anyone heard it/of it?
i don't get it.
Me getting slash-happy... I meant, has anyone either heard the record, or if not, have they at least heard
of it... By joke, I meant the concept of this two-person "band" and the purposefully disposable sound and hilariously lascivious/overblown/"dirty"/pun-heavy lyrics are meant to be a joke... like a parody of those horrible yet hilarious Wax Trax! bands of yore.
oh, right then. i'l check it out post haste.
pulps good, and jarvis was on the last ever Ali G so that's cool too.
Quote from: Ppulps good, and jarvis was on the last ever Ali G so that's cool too.
"help the aged"
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"elp da mothafukkin' aged"
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that's not the last ali g show, there's a new show with him as ali where he's in america and shit. it's not as funny because there's no studio audience/laughing track.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367274
cool, yeah, i stopped watching after that episode.
Jarvis has the most unexpected across-the-board appeal. I find that he and Luke Haines (and, for a while, Brett Anderson) were the great pop artists of the nineties, but Haines has that tiny/devout following thing going, where Cocker was like, "our droll, bookish, sardonic underdog idol" AND "da FUCKIN' MAN!!!" simultaneously. Which is really, really unique. I know of more people who find him sexy... not me, though. I just think he's brilliant. I don't want to HAVE him, I want to BE him.
Jarvis is a truly excellent songwriter and one of the underground's most important figures. Pulp are currently on hiatus, but I for one hope they'll be back. I've got the Relaxed Muscle stuff and even when he is obviously playing for laughs he cannot help but write some genius lyrics.
I saw him at a gig here in Sheffield late last year alongside Richard Hawley (who is also in Relaxed Muscle). He did a version of Rock On by David Essex and it was perhaps the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. As for Hawley, well he plays onstage with Pulp and he's absolutely fucking brilliant...check out his solo stuff you won't regret it. He and Jarv have just come back from NY after working with Nancy Sinatra and I know they're planning to work with Lee Hazlewood again. Hawley has also been asked to co-write Brett Anderson's first solo album. He's also available for bar-mitvahs and opening your local supermarket.
Richard Hawley website (http://www.richardhawley.co.uk)
In fact, if you go to the Hawley site and register on the message board Hawley regularly writes on there...so join up and ask a real live member of Pulp what's going on!
Quote from: SheffieldSeanJarvis is a truly excellent songwriter and one of the underground's most important figures. Pulp are currently on hiatus, but I for one hope they'll be back. I've got the Relaxed Muscle stuff and even when he is obviously playing for laughs he cannot help but write some genius lyrics.
I saw him at a gig here in Sheffield late last year alongside Richard Hawley (who is also in Relaxed Muscle). He did a version of Rock On by David Essex and it was perhaps the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. As for Hawley, well he plays onstage with Pulp and he's absolutely fucking brilliant...check out his solo stuff you won't regret it. He and Jarv have just come back from NY after working with Nancy Sinatra and I know they're planning to work with Lee Hazlewood again. Hawley has also been asked to co-write Brett Anderson's first solo album. He's also available for bar-mitvahs and opening your local supermarket.
Richard Hawley website (http://www.richardhawley.co.uk)
Cool, cool, cool!!! I hope that Nancy Sinatra project sees the light of day soon. Morrissey wrote a song for it that sounds brilliant (well, I'm biased).
I loved Jarvis's song on Marianne Faithfull's
Kissin' Time. Best of the batch, I thought.
Does anyone else have/heard of this album:
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...it's my favorite Lush album and has a duet with Jarvis, an anti-love song called "Ciao!" that's really funny and kind of biting and mean, too. My favorite! :)
Another spot o' Jarvis trivia: In addition to contributing "We Are the Boyz" to the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, he was considered to play the "Jack Fairy" role, but they went with the other guy instead. Who did a really fine job and had the whole look and body language perfect, but still... it would've been cool if Jarvis had done it.
Quote from: godardianI absolutely adore Pulp
Yeah they are really cool. If just the english people cold have forgotten Oasis and Blur for a while, (back in the 90's) and insted devoded their time for the geniuses in PULP.
I fucking hate Blur and Oasis, they stinck when you first discover PULP.
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Yeah they are really cool. If just the english people cold have forgotten Oasis and Blur for a while, (back in the 90's) and insted devoded their time for the geniuses in PULP.
I fucking hate Blur and Oasis, they stinck when you first discover PULP.
I like a fair number of the tunes created by both Blur and Oasis, some of which are very good, but no, they don't hold up as well as Pulp simply because neither Damon nor the unibrowed brothers had anywhere near the vision, wit, or style of Jarvis and Co.
Sadly, the only songs I know were singles- The Trees and Bad Cover Version. I remember seeing the music video for The Trees on 120minutes. I'm thinking that had to be a year ago.
I dig 'em though.
Quote from: godardianQuote from: Dr. StrangeloveQuote from: godardianI absolutely adore Pulp
Yeah they are really cool. If just the english people cold have forgotten Oasis and Blur for a while, (back in the 90's) and insted devoded their time for the geniuses in PULP.
I fucking hate Blur and Oasis, they stinck when you first discover PULP.
I like a fair number of the tunes created by both Blur and Oasis, some of which are very good, but no, they don't hold up as well as Pulp simply because neither Damon nor the unibrowed brothers had anywhere near the vision, wit, or style of Jarvis and Co.
Yeah, your right there is a couple of good song which are written by Blur, an eksample could be COFFE AND Milk, but that doesn't mean shit compared to the fantastic univers of PULP.
I don't like anything THE UNIBROWED BROTHERS have made, especilly Wonderwal, but in fact is it not so much because their songs stincs, but the fact that they had the effect that nearly nobody heard PULP, PORTISHEAD & MASSIV ATTACK, Who in fact was the greatest bands in UK, around the 90's
You should have told me about this earlier. This is fucking awesome.