This Is Hardcore

Nope. Not for me. This album seems like it searching for its sound… and doesn’t find it. Sounds like a Bowie cover band.

Post New Wave The Cure? This is like if The Cure and The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed had a baby. Every song reminds me of some other band, Urge Overkill is coming to mind. Nine Inch Nails Light? Bowie, U2, maybe I'm not listening closely enough. It's not super compelling but it is also listenable. Ten minutes of fade noise with Jarvis Cocker saying "bye-bye" in the middle on the last song is inexcusable artiness with no real payoff.

Horrible. Jarvis Cocker's unmusical warbling had me, at times, wondering as to whether this was a parody album. This Is Hardcore feels like a lengthy joke meandering towards a non-existent punchline.

on different class there was some interesting stuff going on sonically in spite of Cocker's massively unlistenable voice. here, the music is boring and his voice still sounds like he's auditioning for the part of a carefree and lively tree on a nicktoons animated series

Pretty grungy Brit rock. Some of the songs sound like something Cake would do. I feel like there are bands before, and after pulp that do this sound better. I find the writing to be underwhelming.

Not my thing either.

This ... is ... crap.

This is not hardcore.

New to Pulp from this list. I can now confirm I don't like this band. Will I listen to again: 0%

How many Pulp albums are on this list? So annoying and pretentious that I can’t even get through one song. This band is wildly overrated.

not my thing

Quiet, whisper rock that did nothing for me.

No me ha gustado. Muy típicas las canciones y además insoportables

Not good

Guitars are rad but vocals are neither captivating or insightful. Shitty David Bowie.

Still don't care for Pulp. And it's definitely not hardcore.

Echt een stom album, een soortcslap aftreksel van david bowies muziek. Niet mijn smaak.

Boring

1. the fear - 1 2. dizhez - 1 3. party hard - 1 4. help the aged - 1 5. thiz iz hardcore - 1 6. tv movie - 1 7. a little zoul - 1 8. im a man - 1 9. zeductive barry - 1 10. zeductive zylbvia - 1 11. glory dayz - 1 12. the day after the revolution - 1

Don’t see how this makes it into this sort of list, very forgettable pop music, I couldn’t find anything to like

If you close your eyes, you can believe this album is Dracula: the musical. Not as cool as the album cover would lead you to believe.

I don’t know what this is supposed to be.

Nee, das ist an einigen, wenigen Stellen bestenfalls mittelmäßig. Wer soll sich DAS denn über 70 Minuten anhören? Was für eine absolute Frechheit. Überschätztes Album einer maßlos überschätzten Band.

Good god this was AWFUL. WAYY too long. too boring. voice bad. music bad. NO GOOD.

it most definitely is not hardcore and I was upset about it the whole time. rather boring record, small moments of intrigue here and there but it’s just not doing it for me.

150 dagenssia sitten.. annettiin kyseiselle bändille viiden tähden petkutuksen.. ainoa indie albumi kerhossa...SUURIN VIRHEENI KOSKAAN.. tänään tapahtuu niin sanottu korjausliike heh... kaksi subjektiivista = objektiivinen...heh... double negative... ensimmäistä biisiä viedään ja PÄÄTÖS JO TEHTY...kymmenetttä biisiä viedään ja on aika heikkoa kyl paria humpakkia lukuun ottamatta this is hardcore

No

Booooring. Strictly mid. Doesnt belong on the list. 1/5

Didnt enjoy this one

Mahhh. Blahhh. British Pop Rock Blahh. Not my style at all.

Couldn’t make it through the first song. Rolling Stone is a joke. Can we get a better curator?

Not my thing

Between the cringy lyrics and the sex doll looking woman on the cover, this might be the ultimate incel album. Well, at least my skip button got plenty of action.

Great album art, but the music inside is rather flaccid and weak. This is Not Hardcore is more LIMPcore if 'core at all. I'd rather liken this to eating dinner on the couch in a dark flat while watching reruns of Benny Hill - whereas 'dinner' consists of McVitie's Chocolate Digestives, Jaffa Cakes and Kool-Aid. That is, I would rather listen to much anything Morrissey has to say about animal rights and gender identity than replay this drivel again. Hmm, actually that's too harsh, I'm sorry, Pulp, I take that back. But my point is that this album is really sad, and despite the cover art, disappointingly uninspired.

Further proof that Pulp is entirely overrated and Jarvis Cocker in particular is an overrated lyricist. His lousy lyrics are only rivaled by his annoying voice. Jarvis, we know you’re not Jesus - you don’t need to tell us. “This is Hardcore” is not hardcore at all, and seals the deal on orange juice-related band names. Cranberry juice never has pulp. And The Cranberries are more than deserving of at least one of the three spots taken up by Pulp and Orange Juice. The Cranberries “No Need To Argue” stood out amongst a 1994 filled with amazing albums, and filled a unique spot in mid-90s alternative rock. In a year of terrific music, “Zombie” is one of the most iconic, impactful, and long-lasting hits. Strain out the ⭐️ Pulp and replace it with the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cranberries.

The album is 65 minutes of utterly, irredeemable shite! And 5 minutes of somewhat interesting guitar work (Glory Days) ruined by terrible vocals. This is yet another less than mediocre band with a singer that can’t sing who tries to sing and miserably failed. To be consistent with other rankings I should give this a 2 based on not being overly offended by the music. But I am overly annoyed. Music is boring. Vocals are awful. And it drags on for 70 minutes! -1 star for the extra suffering. NME ranked this the 166th greatest album of all time. Holy fuck that’s offensive. Finery put in the 1001 list. Bollocks! Is everyone fucking insane?

The name of this album is misleading, there is nothing hardcore about this album. This is the soundtrack of being trapped in a bad 90's teen movie. I feel like I'm stuck at some open campus high school in Southern California, desperately trying to exit the campus but am met with a barrage of kids wearing leather jackets over flannel shirts. This is not good. It fails at being angsty or hardcore. Please get me out.

No thanks. Not just one starring racy covers, either.

I wish this was a hardcore album. While I doubt Pulp would've put out a punk classic the running time would've been much shorter. Instead we get some Bowie worship that just isn't that appealing to me. It would've been a 2 star but it met the 1 star criteria: I couldn't wait for it to end and had to listen to something I liked afterward to get the "stank" out. I don't like Pulp in my o.j. and I don't seem to like it in my music library

Pf

I have tried many times but just can't quite get into Pulp. Really the most disappointing of the Britpop elite. This album is no different. Nothing really struck me as worth listening to again and I was looking forward to it ending. 1.5/5

What an awful album. Just sad, mediocre singing and uninspiring music. Yeesh. 2/10.

eeh

I was not even able to finish this one, the union between the music and the vocals seems unfinished, the lyrics are good but this seemed like such a boring album for me, and I’m really into 90s bands

It's pretty repetitive for an art rock album. The singer's voice gets pretty annoying after a while as it's super breathy and screamy. The backing guitar sound like a rip-off of other band's sounds, and the whole ensemble feels unoriginal and uninteresting. The second half of the album is worse than the first, but that's not to say the first is any good.

Some of the lyrics are interesting but that is about all I can take from this. This album is not for me.

Erg slappe hap, totaal niet mijn ding

Wat een swing - doet meteen denk aan de Buena vista social club. Verder niet echt mijn smaak, maar wel leuk als afwisseling.