Tag: Jarvis Cocker
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Gotta Get Out Of The Ghetto
Hip hop is about voice, not the actually speech itself so much but the reality, the truth spoken, concise, cold water to the face. Same goes for poetry, it resonates like a sounding board when done well. It’s why hip hop came from poetry (Last Poets et al) and they go hand in hand. I…
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An old-fashioned Chart Ding Dong
Well the whole saga of That Woman’s Funeral continues, with not only Glenda the Good Witch speaking and poking the hagiographic bubble, but 8 million for her funeral in the midst of austerity? When the likes of Atlee and Bevan (invented that NHS thing, you might not have heard of it?) never had a funeral…
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Unofficial Anthems 3: Common People
Cos everybody hates a tourist Especially one that thinks it’s all such a laugh… This wasn’t my suggestion, it comes from Dean Whitbread, but it is perfect. Not only for that line, but the fact this song was a watershed moment not only in Jarvis Cocker and Pulp’s career, but I’d argue music as Pulp…
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A little bit of Razzamatazz…oh!
Never knew Pulp’s Razzamatazz had a video…a little look into Pulp before Lipgloss (which is where in Sheffield I jumped on), before Different Class, before that Glasto performance…the video is almost a prequel to Common People.
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Reborn Identity – Pulp vs Fenech-Soler
https://vimeo.com/40896944 I can count the amount of Pulp mashups on one hand, and can count the good ones on one finger, this one by Reborn Identity basically. Many have tried and failed, but I think this one hits it out of the park. It’s part of The 4th Point of Procastination, an Envision Mashed Productions…
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The bigger the bull
Somehow despite growing up around english folk and jazz I’ve never heard of Jake Thackray…apparently Wild Beasts, Arctic Monkeys and Jarvis Cocker are fans, and I can hear why. And like a lot of the 1970’s and 1950’s acerbic songs, from Paddy Roberts to Tom Lehrer to this you can hear a dark serious undercurrent…