Reviews (page 11 of 13)
Not bad, just kind of forgettable.
British men, go to horny jail
Gut hörbar!
Nicht schlecht und ziemlich populär
Another British group making what is an influential sound for future British alternative efforts. You can see the Blur, Bloc Party and more taking inspiration from this album, and with catchier hooks, it's easy to see why.
Hit or miss, but the misses were close and the hits were soft. Very middle of the road for me, but overall "nice"
Inspired from Roxy Music. Good English electronic beats, earnest lyrics delivered well. 7/10
Not bad. Nothing I feel I need to own, though. Decent power pop.
Nice sound, like the glam/synth combination
Not bad.
Great, really evocative and varied
It was okay - feel good album but not my thing
That was sensual
Some really catchy tunes. I also didn't understand how you got there semi-naked in someone else's room.
OK
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mm.. tuttuja biisejä mutta ei oikein mun juttu
Has the vibe of a melancholy, but charming indie movie.
A couple odd but great songs on this one
Not bad. Inspired by Bowie. Felt like a lighter Third Eye Blind self titled in terms of the reflections made in the songs.
Not something I’d listen to again as a whole album. There’s maybe a song I’d listen to again but probably not. I didn’t hate my life while listening to this though
Pretty generic old punk. Probably a big inspiration for some band i love but doesnt strike me as interesting
common people. what a song!
It’s fine, not a lot to say
Progenitor to the kind of stuff I find myself defaulting to, like Spoon. Heavy on the social commentary, and medium on the everything else. I'll probably dig through it again later, although I already know which way this band leans.
Common people, what a song.
Worth listening to again. Reminds of 50cc
Something I don't think I ever came across before, although some of the songs seemed strangely familiar. Interesting.
I know of "Common People" and "Disco 2000". Common people is probably their most popular song, it's a great class-warfare anthem. I Spy has a fun instrumental. I'm not sure how I feel about the whispery-vocals. 3.5 down to 3. Probably their best album. I think I would like the band better with a different singer though. :/
Album started off sounding like the Beatles a little. Some of the songs have interesting rhythms. Very poppy and bass heavy.
gostei bem mais do finalzinho
An album that simultaneously sounded like a throwback and way ahead of its time. Not bad.
false
No words
I still don't think I *get* Pulp but this is pretty good.
average . nothing pops out . common people is somewhat good
David Bowie + Damon Albarn Lots of sex, sadness and missing ones lover
Was good but not what I’m here for. Only listened to first few songs on the album. 90s British rock
trevligt album faktiskt.
Good record. Listened to the deluxe version tonight, and I really love the demo versions on it.
1995. Key Songs: Common People, Mis-Shapes, Mile End
Nothing bad, but its generally pretty borring and I find the lyircs kinda cringey and immature. Closer to a 2.5, but its not offensively bad enough to justify rating it a 2
noise core
Common People and Disco 2000 are classics but that's about where my enjoyment of this ends. The instrumentals are pretty much all very catchy and well put together but the vocals do not work for me at all. Sometimes it sounds like he's singing without ever actually hearing the music he's singing over. I know the whisper singing is a stylistic choice but I just do not get on with it. Some of the lyrics are also cringe worthy to me. Maybe I'll like this a bit more on a second listen but as a first go round I am not a fan.
I am as big of a teaboo as any Yank you'll ever meet but nothing here appeals to me.
This is just not for me. Never been a fan, never will be a fan. Anemic, boring, annoying. Meh.
Lowkey wanted to skip a lot of songs. Great storytelling but the vocals are lacking for me. It really took away from the overall experience because there’s some good stuff on here as well. Torn.
I didn't hate it but very tempting to skip a lot of the songs. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for it today.
It feels like an interesting record within a genre that is not always the most interesting out there. It is a joyful record which contains some decent highlights. 7/10 [KEEP]
Listening to this record felt a lot like watching "Repo! The Genetic Opera"; if you like this record, you'll probably enjoy that movie. 1995 feels like an unpopular time to make an operatic goth record. I know goth new wave had it's moment in the 80s (The Cure, Depeche Mode, etc.) and again around 2000 (Deadsy, Orgy, Powerman 5000, etc.) but it doesn't seem like this was the thing in 1995. Just like the The Darkness album I got yesterday, that out-of-placeness makes me inclined to down-rate this. I'm not sure how influential it is if it didn't really drive a movement. Also, I'm not really a lyrics guy, but that whole "I really love it when you tell me to stop, Oh it's turning me on" thing was weird.
To me this was a whole bunch of not that much. Didn't interest me. I kinda felt like id heard all before, mabye I'm just not into it. His voice reminded me a little of David Bowie. I didnt struggle to get through this one, but it didnt interest me too much. I did however quite like Feeling Called Love (im not typing all that), there was something about that one that I liked, the rest not as much.
Unfortunately I didn’t jam with this. There were some good moments, but 85% of the time I felt flat. Most of the lyrics were pretty odd. Felt like background music, but not in a good way.
Okay I have some time to update this I like dance 2000 I need it listen to this really hard. Okay update I have listened and it’s just okay it’s Brit pop doesn’t go anywhere. Some good songs and bar Italia played as I walked into an Italian bar
2/5
Ok sound
2 stars
Bom, um rock antigo aconchegante apesar de não fazer tanto meu gosto musical.
Common people is a terrific track. No other track really grabbed me like that one did.
Didn’t expect to dislike this as much as I did. Heard the album back in the day of course and it never moved me (including seeing them live in the UK at their height), but I didn’t judge beyond that. Listening now, the primary reaction I have is that Jarvis Cocker, besides a certain sleazy theatricality that’s mildly entertaining, is not a good vocalist. His upper register in particular is painful to listen to. The instrumentals are largely without character- blocky, rigid and without a hair out of place. The songs are also pretty basic, expressing unsophisticated and blasé sentiments as if they were earth-shaking statements.
I'm not sure what other people are hearing here that im not. The whole album is SO HORNY, and I cannot stand the like sultry talking that the lead singer does. The actual music is fine, nothing to write home about, so im not gonna give it a one, but I did not enjoy listening to this.
Saturday May 23rd, 2026. I didn't enjoy this album. It had lots of cool effects that made it sound nice, but the lyrics were so very strange. 4/10.
A friend put 'Common People' on a mix CD for me a million years ago so I had high hopes for this album (despite disliking This is Hard Core.) But I definitely now get why that was the only song my friend bothered insisting I hear. 'Common People' remains an absolutely spot on, incisive take-down of how mainstream culture elevates marginalized experiences while actually wanting nothing to do with the reality of being a marginalized person (relevant for race, queerness as well as class)--while also being totally catchy. The rest of the album doesn't come close to how great that song is. Sure, you can try to say this is all a bit tongue in cheek, taking the piss in a way that maybe you have to be British to understand, but very little of the rest of the album comes close to the incisive observations of that track (maaaaybe 'Mis-Shapes.') Instead, it's weird reflections on childhood crushes, women's underwear, lounge-y spoken word tracks, and crooning about being the other man in a love triangle--all while making a lot of references to breasts and naked women's bodies in ways that feel more creepy & juvenile than funny. For all of Jarvis Cocker insisting he's so different from those laddish blokes who bullied him in Sheffield clubs, he doesn't actually come across all that different from them at the end of the day.
Partially known. Fine.
Too distracted by the William Shatner cover of Common People to finish the album.
This was meh. There are a couple of standout tracks, but most of the record kinda sounded bland. Favourite Track(s): Bar Italia Least Favourite Track(s): Something Changed, Pencil Skirt
very british
Tråkigt
Álbum que sale en pleno auge del britpop. No me aburrió pero tampoco me encantó. No creo que lo vuelva a escuchar, pero esta bueno para poner como música de fondo (aunque prefiero el silencio en tal caso).
Album 178. Different Class (https://open.spotify.com/album/3ly9T2L4pqTZijFgQssd3x?si=n_twd1aWQcKNxDOOpaA-bw) — Pulp (1995) I don't know what to write about this except to put a quote from The Sopranos — This says “with pulp" — You like it with pulp — Not this much. I like the one that says "some pulp" *Throws phone at Tony in response* Well, quite mediocre britpop from the 90s that hits as hard as throwing a telephone 2/5 No liked songs
It's ok. Pretty bland overall, but some songs worth paying attention to. I think I'm just getting tired of all the British alt bands with dry humour (see that) that have mid instrumentation.
This wasn't bad, but it didn't impress me either. It was just fine. I will forget I listened to this album, and I won't ever listen to it again.
This was interesting. Kind of nostalgic in a Cure kind of way. For some songs, at least.
Sounds fine, not my cup of tea. I like rock just not (sad) rock if you get me. good background music I guess
It was fine. Some Brit pop that I like but most of it I didn’t.
i did not enjoy this
i got the ick and couldn't recover
Didnt really feel it
The lyrics are too abrasive for me.
I want my 52 minutes back. Only appeal seems to be for people who lived in Britain and were teenagers in the 90s.
This feels like an attempt to hit the peak of British Invasion about 20 years too late. I find his voice somewhat grating. The instrument accompaniment is solid, but the overall effect is damaged by the singer creepily whispering in my ears. Not to mention how problematic some of the lyrics are. I’ll give it a 2 due to the instruments alone, but the rest I was not a fan of.
Common People is good. The rest is not great. Especially the whispering parts. Not a fan.
Unique sounds but not my cup of tea. One track caught my ear but that was about it.
Never heard of album or band. Apple describes it as Brit pop which I usually hate so we’ll see. Good songwriting on mis-shapes but the singers voice kinda sucks. Def more pop than rock but the guitar is really good. Good background track on pencil skirt. Pretty good song, very 90s. I absolutely hate the vocals on common people. I just don’t like the singers voice. It’s pretty good writing the voice just ruins it. I think the message of the song is really stupid too. Like this guy isn’t a common person I don’t get it. Vocals work a lot better on I spy. This is just overall a better written song. Very poppy background track as is the theme. Cool strings. Disco 2000 is just generic Brit pop. Fine song. Nothing special. Many bands do the same style much better. The singer is rhyming a lot but there doesn’t seem to be a ton of substance in the lyrics. Same deal with live bed show. I like it better but it’s still nothing special per se. Just a generic British pop song. Good strings and solo on something changed, everything else is fine. I actually think sorted E is a lot better. Actual good substantial lyrics. Really cool sounds/production too. Mic needed change of pace on the feeling called love. At least the first part. Mic catchier chorus. This song is fun. Back to generic Brit pop with underwear. Goofy lyrics. Good guitar on Monday morning. Good production all around and I think the vocals are better on this one. Good song. Bar italia is fine. More of the same. This and 6 other songs sound exactly the same imo which is why I put this in the JAA category. A couple good songs, a couple songs I hate. Straight up average listening experience. Jus so many albums of the same genre/time frame that are WAY better. 2.3 stars.
I must say that as an Indie fan in the 90s I am surprised I have never heard of this band but after listening I am surprised that they have lasted as long as they have. If this is their best album I am not impressed. The music is quite simple and the lyrics a bit childish for a band that started in the late 70s and put this out in 1995. Not quite a 1 but barely a 2 in my estimation.
Top shelf fart rock, that one hit song is ok but the rest reeks because it drags and has miserable sounding lyrics
tienen un tema los britanicos con pronunciar
It's not objectively bad just not for me. A lot of moments throughout this album I would consider cringe.
Ass. Half the songs are sexually based, yeah fine but the singer just decides to sing it in a low sultry voice like cmon man. Recognisable songs such as common people and disco 2000 are not even that good. I don't like the singers voice and I don't like their style of music. Sorry pulp fans but this album is ass.
5/10 some good parts but a lot of boring drawn on inbetween
if i was a teenager in england in the 90s when i listened to this maybe i would have fucked with it but ehhhhhhh didn’t love this
Nah not feeling this one
Who does does this guy think he is
Pretty bog standard Brit Pop. Common People is a banger and Disco 2000 is pretty fun, but didn't do much for me otherwise.
I turned the volume way down and it become listenable
Not very memorable
not for me
Nothing special here, but I listened to the entire album -- so that says something.
2.5 Fine, just made me wanna listen to David Bowie
The music, the voice, the lyrics - I never really like Pulp Thirty years later, opinion has not changed
His voice is Leonard Cohen ish cool not obsessed
Hmmp these guys are from Sheffield. Wonder if they are “Blades” or “Owls”? Either way not crazy about them.
I personally think Pulp, as a britpop band, cant compete with oasis or blur. Some of these songs barely even sound like britpop. The singing, the lyrics, the soungs in general... not really my cup of tea.
This is just painfully boring to me. I guess I really don't like britpop
When I was younger, I might have found these lyrics edgy or funny even. Now, I just find them really creepy. There's a self-hatred and self-importance simultaneously oozing out, which really rubs me the wrong way. Shame, because I do really like the music! That has a sparkle, diversity and coherence I really enjoy. This dichotomy makes this album really hard to rate for me. But I think the vocals and lyrics irk me so much that the music itself can't make up for it enough.
They wish so bad they were David Bowie. And it hurts to even mention his name when talking about them because they are so far beneath him. They learned one of his songs and then made a whole album to sound just like that one song and it got old real fast.
Pulp is a less-talented, sex-pest version of David Bowie.
It was pretty meh, chamber punk music I guess? Event their most played songs were unfamiliar to me and didn't quite click.
I heard from many reviews that this album has creepy lyrics in addition to being Britpop. They were correct- the song "Pencil Skirt" is very gross with its perverted fantasies. The vocals aren't very good at anything other than being upsetting, and the lyrics on all songs give the vibe of a certain highly undesirable kind of person. Track 4 is literally a Peeping Tom anthem on par with the Police's "Every Breath You Take", but somehow even creepier. It improves somewhat towards the middle of the album, but I'm still not sold on it being a good album. And then it goes right back to being gross with "Underwear"... I don't think this is a good album. I don't want to give it 1 star, but it grossed me out too much to be higher than a 2. So a 2 it is.
pretentious pulp aber atomic und so...c
yeah what the hell were those lyrics?? unfortunately did like some of the actual music
The may be the most horny, yet least sexy album of all time. I didn’t really care for it.
I don't have much to say about this album. Similar to Liz Phair I found it to be too overly sexual for my liking at some points. There were some redeeming qualities about the music, but nothing to write home about. 4/10
I'm sure this album has something to say, but I can't pick it up on the first listen. I also weigh my judgement of music much more heavily on the immediate sound than on lyrical content and this sounds... ok
He wants to be Morrissey but he isn’t
Nothing was particularly interesting
Es un poco raro el álbum. No me parece que este mal pero no me gusta de todas formas.
Aggressively British
Kinky, weird, felt a little gross after listening.
Okay
Biške icky toks.
This is a rough project, and that's coming from a big 90s guy. Pencils Skirt is shameless in a shameful way, Common People sounds like a terrible Arcade Fire song, and the rest of the songs sound like a band named Pulp. 2/5
different album by kate
Fine music, but the lyrics send me in a bad way (pencil skirt wtf wtf). Not as annoying as most britpop but this is not that memorable to me. Has some vintage percussion styling that I don't like (too busy). Where this really falls down is the lyrics though- sometimes they are misogynistic and kinda nasty and just crude, so obsessed with sex it makes me want to take a fucking shower and not in a good way. Kinda gross
Tight engineering, but not for me.
It was alright, i don't think i was in the right mood for it.
I found it kinda boring
Too ideological and nothing exceptional to justify it.
Great story telling diverse sound . His vocals remind me of Bowie
La britpop, c'est chiant.
favs: common people live bed show F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. bar italia rating 2/5
Not my thing. Do not enjoy the singers voice or inflection.
Disco 2000!! Good but not my fave album.. I definitely would relisten to individual songs but probably not the entire project as a whole
Didn’t do it for me today. Almost too apathetic.
Whispery lyrics not for me. Music is ok, I wouldn't complain if it was on
I'm sure this album is for someone. But it's not for me.
Theatrical scathing Britpop, touch of glammy flamboyance. A bit eclectic musically. Clever songs about sex and class and being an outsider that are well developed and arranged. Unfortunately, Cocker’s delivery and lyrics too often give a creepy, horny, prick vibe. There’s a self-importance that turns me off to a lot of it. There’s some songs that I quite enjoy musically, and Common People is great (along with a few other solid tracks), but something about Cocker is just offputting to me. Can certainly hear their influence in many bands, including The Libertines who I love.
Not really my thing. The singles made me think of indie night clubs - it was just about impossible to listen with fresh ears. Overall I think there might be some interesting lyrical themes, but I just found the overall musical content and presentation quite uninteresting
The singer sounds like David Bowie. The lyrics sound like Jimmy Savile. Creepy as fuck. The music is alright, nothing groundbreaking. People who are saying this is the best album of the 90’s really didn’t listen to the early 90’s grunge bands. Hell, even Radiohead OK Computer is a masterpiece. This aged like milk.
Meh
Different music taste I guess. 2/5
Not my style. Some of it sounded creepy to me to be honest.
Interessantes Album, kannte die ersten Songs gar nicht, aber natürlich Disco2000 sofort erkannt :D Feeling called Love war aber super weird und hat n komischen Abschluss zum Album eingeläutet:-S
Call me prude, but I was not a fan of many of these tracks. I found myself thinking “ok, I get it. You have sex so much that you feel inclined to write a dozen songs about it. would’ve been better as an instrumental album. 1.5 rounded up
I thought for a split second this was a pup album, too bad for me. I was out by song three, just annoying as hell lyrically. Pencil skirt is an uncomfortable, bad song, common people is fine once it gets to the chorus, why wait so long in that verse the chorus is so good. And then followed up by mouth sounds the song. I really don’t like this dudes spoken vocals. When he sings it’s wonderful though. Something changed rules. Maybe they’re just the best chorus writers ever and the skill set wains from there. Underwear is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard how did that get through the whole band, label, and friends. Awful song. This is the most I’ve struggled to get through an album in a month or so, pulp’s higher class is not my friend. Had a little back and forth with Liam about this one, going to come back to it with a clearer head but I have to give it a 2 today. Dropping my review for ASAP Rocky’s new album that came out today here too. This thing is crazy. So good. The single (punk rocky) was so strange and felt weak but it fits nicely into the album as a whole and then the whole album around it is like 15 times better. I haven’t been waiting anxious for this one like a lot of others but if this is what 8 years of work amounts to I’ll take it. He is fusing so many styles together so well and the instrumentals are so tight. I know it’s day one but this is likely his best album ever, first rap album in a while that I’ve enjoyed the whole way through and want to listen to again and again. 5/5.
Some bangers on here but aside from the hits, it’s a 2/5 for me.
#241/1001. Different Class wants to dress itself up as a chronicle of ordinary lives, but the result often feels like mis-shapes parading in borrowed irony, a pencil skirt of ideas stretched thin while claiming allegiance to common people; Jarvis peers outward with an I Spy squint, past a Disco 2000 nostalgia haze into a Live Bed Show of Britpop manners where something changed yet not quite enough, slogans getting sorted for E’s & Wizz slickness rather than substance, in the search of a F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E, spelled out so carefully it forgets to be felt, glimpses of underwear-level intimacy arriving on a Monday Morning only to drift away to Bar Italia cool, leaving an album that talks loudly about class and connection but settles for observation over empathy, more posture than pulse, competent and catchy yet curiously distant from the lives it insists on narrating. Basic Pulp.
Music is alright but the vocalist makes the whole thing weird! There are times I think he just wrote down what he was doing to get the line going. Not to mention the somewhat creepy verses and choruses but could just be my interpretation. 1.4/5.0
bland, terrible listen - not much to go off of besides the all-time classic "common people"
Nothing for me on this one.
ну такое себе
Not the best imo
Opener's decent. Good singing, mixing, riffs, playing, sounds kinda like Arctic Monkeys at the start and Franz Ferdinand at the end. 7/10 Next track is a considerable downgrade. Boring and repetitive, badly mixed. The guitar solo really was not necessary, or good. Vocals seem kinda just emotionless, and the outro on a major just is kinda a bad choice. 4/10 Same problems as the first track, but is still a step up. Not really much to say about it musically, as with all the other songs. 5/10. This album is really just unlistenable so I'm cutting this short. 5/10.
If the app didn’t give me the year of this album up front, I would have guessed it was released in 1981 or something. 90% of the tracks are early-80s power pop that sound like they belong in a John Hughes movie. The few songs that didn’t fit the stereotype were just okay 90s Britpop that bands like Oasis and The Verve were doing much better at the time. Did not enjoy this album and it’s another one where I question its inclusion. 2/5
Meh
It's not that there's anything terribly wrong with this record. I just can't stand that wall of crunchy, boring guitar sound with a tired voice over it. I found nothing interesting in 'Different Class', therefore it just wasn't for me.
britpop 2
Basic Britpop that doesn’t keep me coming back.
Only knew one song: Disco 2000, and I recognized it because the radio station my mom listens to plays it all the time. Overall not really my groove tho
I think this album is okay sonically, but boy do I dislike the lyrics. Every song is so vindictive, and I think "breast" was said like four times. Vocally, I get sick of the grungy, spoken word, annoyingly strong British accent schtick by track four. In summary, I was not a fan of this album. Two stars. (Favorite track: Common People.)
Off the bat this really reminds me of David Bowie. The highlight of this album is the storytelling behind some of these songs. Halfway through, Common People and Live Bed Show do a great job in this aspect. The instrumental part of Something Changed also sounds great. Feeling Called Love is weird I am not a fan.
A wee bit boring, innit?
"In 2013, NME ranked the album at number six in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time." wtf
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As the list trudges on, I get more and more impatient with recycled music. This guy is really trying to sound like Bowie, but I have news for you ... you're not Bowie. Then as then album drug on, it just started to sound like the Flight of the Conchords doing a parody of Bowie.
It was fine, no takeaways for me and something I wouldn't listen to again
David Bowie vibes. I think Lana has listened and been influenced by this. I hate it. I don’t like his brand of wispy sensuality and I think some of the songs had a very weird tone to them. Sonically well produced but that doesn’t mean much if you can’t connect with it vocally
Good flow
I just can't get behind this idk man
Common people is obviously well known and reasonably catchy but the rest is kind of a snooze for me
Can't quite put my finger on why I'm not enjoying this, but it's not doing it for me.
Mid
This is an important and influential album but it's also deeply unpleasant to listen to. It's mostly well-executed. I'm glad they inspired other (better) bands. I just can't stand listening to this smug nerd moaning into the mic for an hour.
3/10 Top track: Disco 2000
This album was okay. Not my favorite but it has a nice coming of age feeling. My favorite track was probably Common people. 5/10
It wasn’t for me but my therapist was sad I didn’t like it
Noise
If The Cure were uninspired, unimaginative, on sedatives and forced to create an album for contractual obligations under a pseudonym that distances them from the garbage music they turned out, it'd sound a lot like this. It wasn't offensive, but there's also no compelling reason for me to listen again ⭐⭐.5
Kind of annoying, not my vibe. There’s a few ok songs. 2 stars
not my style but I can see why it was popular.
What the hell are they singing about? The lyrics causes minus one star
2.44
If fashion is your trade, then when you're naked, I guess you must be unemployed. Honestly, not the huge fan of the album itself, but I really did like Underwear and Common People. It had some good riff's here and there like on Monday Morning, but none of the songs really hit me like I'd hoped they would.
Had not listened tho this album in full. I like the popular songs and didn’t really like the rest.
i dont like british people. also they’re too horny it makes me uncomfortable. did not finish it
Ugh
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i don't believe i've ever even heard of this band before? mis-shapes is like an anthem for the 2025 "all other gens vs the boomers" situation pencil skirt - the instrumental break around the midpoint of the song is pretty and pleasant i spy - best of album for me, aspects of it remind me of lullaby by the cure disco 2000 - also one of my preferred tracks...the shaky/dramatic inhales are what remind me robert smith monday morning has a pleasant melody, i like the guitar line overall, not as bad as my first album, but no tracks i'd choose to listen to again. however, spotify moved onto another pulp album after this one and it's better!
How very British. This album is full to the brink with Britpop. Lyrics are very horny, which is kind of off-putting. However towards the end of the album my attention quickly faded, hardly noticing when the album was over. Not a lot of really bad stuff, but not very enjoyable either. 2/5
I hated it. Then it grew on me. Then it lost me again. This was a pretty fun listen - there's almost a sort of wack-a-doo Rocky Horror vibe going on here that can be pretty interesting, and at times it's just straight up hilarious. But at the end of the day, it's plain weird, man. Weird fuckin album. Fave tracks: - Common People - I Spy - Disco 2000 - Live Bed Show - Something Changed - F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. Edit: I have actually never once had the desire to revisit this album. Dropping a star. Man it's weird.
4/10
Sure okay
Completely forgettable and a blur of an album to me, unfortunately. 2 stars instead of 1 because sonically I enjoyed the general aesthetic and instrumental elements of it. They just came together in a way that felt like unbuttered toast.
This might have gotten the British boost from Robert Dimery. I did not enjoy listening to this. It has some single worthy stuff on here but nothing really stood out musically. The singers kind of pervert perspective as far as lyrics and delivery were so offputting to me. I wasn't sure if it was tongue in cheek or earnest and honestly I don't really care as the listener I just hated it regardless.
Just another non-descript brit-pop album. It's not bad, just indistinguishable from any other 90s Brit pop album from any other Brit pop group.
Would you like some music with your Brit Pop?
I can't stand this band and I can't really explain why. I'm sorry.
Were it not for Brian Eno, David Bowie, Aphex Twin, Robert Fripp, Gang of Four, Autechre, Massive Attack, Portishead, Radiohead, Wire, Tricky, and many others, this album would give me ample reason to declare all British people insane just for buying this rubbish that borders on campy Eurotrash pop for considerable stretches of its playing time.
Perfekt album där jag fattar varför folk gillar det, snygga arr, snygga harmonier, roliga texter, men det är bara inte min stil? Gillar liksom inte de flesta av texterna (även om de är väldigt horny) och musiken talar inte till mig)
Decent listen, not really for me
Not really my type of music
Not my cup of tea. Bland
Hot Garbage.
Lyrically there are some very intereting songs on here. E.g. common people hits home with me. Musically i found this record a little boring tho. I feels like this britpop/rock record is trapped in between eras and does not manage to bridge the gap well. The cure or the smiths just did the pop part better. Oasis, blur, supergrass all rock more. So this feels very meh to me.
No idea what the David Bowie x The Smiths band does nothing for me - but they don’t!
This wasn't it for me. It sounded kinda like a bunch of different bands I like but without the parts I enjoyed. Hard to put into words. I fee like if you were a gen xer in the UK this is your holy grail but otherwise not so much. "Sorted For E's & Wizz" was about the only song I enjoyed on here.
"Common People" was a decent jam and it kind of made me laugh when he said he was working on kissing my dad. But that was the second song and most of the rest seemed overly camp, straight cheese. Probably the intent but doesn't mean I have to like it.
The only song I liked was “Common People”.
A generous 2 stars. Some songs were okay. Others were gross.
Meh
Most of the songs here are borderline kitsch. ‘Common People’ and ‘Monday Morning’ are relative standouts but even they are a bit too melodramatic. The whole thing sounds insufferable, mainly because the inherent social critique doesn’t come across as genuine.
Pretty much standard Brit pop/rock. A manly voice whispering then shouting, piano/organ and some chimes and bells here and there. Not sure I heard something different or interesting here than a mix of a decade of soft rock/pop bands that are more significant.
When I owned this album on CD when it first came out I must have listened to the full thing at least once however it quickly became just listening to the hit “Common people”. That single is still a fun pop song but does not make up for the rest of the album.
Really generic sounding. Maybe a bad day for me? I see all these glowing reviews but just dont hear it in the album
Pretty decent but the rapey lyrics are ROUGH
Kinda sounds like David Bowie but not as good. 5/10
All over the place - messy and not fun,
not full
i never listened to or even heard of this band. it sorta reminded me of elvis costello. I liked Common People, but then it started to all sound the same. The best bits were the driving beats and some of the choruses. i'm not a huge fan of the breathy talking bits. Pencil Skirt was pretty creepy with the lyrics
Overall pretty forgettable musically. Please stop whispering in my ear.
First time sitting down and listening to a Pulp album. Whole there’s some cool things happening it’s just not my vibe. Stand out tracks are Live Bed Show, Feeling Called Love, Underwear. The second half of the record has some cool moments.
Не люблю цей гурт і ніколи не розумів їх.
4.5/10
This album sucks. The lyrics are weird. Please make it stop.
At multiple points whilst listening to this, I asked myself; “what the fuck am I doing, listening to Pulp?” The answer to that is of course the often rewarding and evidently often monotonous 1001 albums list, but the question still gets asked regardless. It’s rhetorical, innit. Despite being British myself, Britpop is one of the musical genres I least enjoy. Between Oasis and Blur, I’ll choose the Verve, just because of The Rolling People. That’s about it. It represents the mainstream of the part of my country’s musical history that makes me feel the least proud: hedonistic 1990s/2000s ‘lads’ culture. Which is what Britpop is mostly comprised of, to my ears and mind anyway. It’s such a long way from the great heights of Liege & Lief or other such British albums that come closest to a feeling of patriotism for me. This, though? This is not what I want adorned with the “Brit” wordmark. Specifics, then. And Different Class is predominantly the same class as its similar-sounding contemporaries. Even with the omnipotent Common People, which itself is eclipsed immediately by I Spy and Disco 2000, even if the former is marred by yet more hedonism masked as ‘romanticism’. Don’t even get me started on the immensely uncomfortable listen of Pencil Skirt. I could get properly poncy and pretentious by way of supposed ‘romanticism’ and say Jarvis Cocker is no William Blake, but I know that’s a stupid comparison unfit even for an aggressive album review, and I don’t really give a toss anyway. He seems like a nice bloke I suppose. I just wish I wasn’t subjected to his overly-intimate songwriting. I feel like I can feel his scruffy hair and glasses looming over me. Fuck off, Jarvis.
Not my jam
I listened to this album dozens upon dozens of times when it first came out. It wasn't because I enjoyed the album so much, more the headspace I was in at that time. This is definitely an album that has been on my list to not listen to again for many years. Having listened from start to finish for the first time in over twenty years, I have mixed feelings. Some of the songs are quite well put together, sounding like a mashup between The Beatles and Arctic Monkeys. However, the lyrics are downright nasty, sick and twisted from start to finish. It's a warped world view that makes me consider that Mr Cocker probably has some mental illness. It's so extremely unpleasant in parts (rape fantasies are probably the low point) that it leaves me feeling a little bit sick. Many of these songs attempt to turn things I enjoyed around this time, like illegal raves, and dwell entirely on the negative aspects. The whole experience leaves me feeling tainted. There's no bright points in this listening experience. Finally, I think what I hate most about this entire album is the entirely fake "class" part of the title. There's nothing revolutionary about the theme, it reduces the class struggle to "us versus them", with "them" not being the people who actually deserve bringing down. Instead, it's a petty attack on people who are only slightly higher up the ladder. I think the constant theme is one of jealousy and revenge, often leading to degradation of women and sexual abuse, which is really just abhorrent. I can imagine Mr Cocker listened to people talking about class struggle and totally misunderstood the entire concept, seeing it as simply debased "common" people versus clueless "posh" people. Four stars for the music, bumped down to two because of how depressing it is to listen to the lyrics. I won't be listening to this again I feel.
Very sexually charged, the sentiment seems to be angry with the world and seeking revenge.
I just couldn’t connect with the content of the songs. They have a good sound but I struggled to care what the songs were about and then just couldn’t continue.
Britpop sing in a nasally up-tone or whisper/speak. I'm sure there are a lot of people that like this... it truly isn't in my wheelhouse in the least. The hit, "Common People" is an interesting synth-pop song. The most interesting thing is the cover photo and the story behind it.
More Brit rock. Maybe some elvis Costello influence. Forgettable.
Brit pop was kinda dumb and not very good
The worst britpop band of the bunch
It was groovy but overly sexual. And all about high school relationships. Felt kinda creepy tbh
Questionable lyrics, equally questionable "singing" and music you will have forgotten even before the track has ended. What's not to like? Well this album clearly.
I like that there are some differences here from much of the other Britpop bands.
Meh, it's ok. Common People is the only memorable song.
Not bad but I didn't like lyrics most of the time
1.6/not a fan.
The volume of dad rock on this list is only outdone by the amount of 90's Britpop.
A Bowie tribute band that sounds better than their honoree.
I struggle to tell in detail why I don't like this album. It's just whack. Not overwhelmingly whack, but forgettably whack. Kind of like the 80s throwback nobody wanted in 1995. 2/5
Not a bad record, just one that bored me to death
Some decent britpop but some of it just came off as perverted. Pencil skirt is an atrocity to mankind. The writing can be clever at some points but it’s just kind of vile overall. The whisper style vocals don’t do it for me at all
Посредственный рок
It twas aight
interesting but quite bad britpop
I see why people like this. Its not bad by any means, Im not going to get up and turn it off as soon as it comes on. That being said I wont ever get up and put it on either. Its the very definition of "well this exists".
Musically this was fine, I guess, but why does he have to spund like such a creep?
very boring album that feels like it missed the boat on this sound. don’t get why it’s on the list tbh
I dunno about this one. “Common People” is a classic, but I don’t vibe with the overall sound of the album. Much of the sound reminds me of New Wave, with a slightly updated poppier feel. Though the sound doesn't work for me, I do appreciate the themes and lyrics of the songs; there's a strong current of pushing up from below, straining against a world built for the wealthy.
Had some scattered thoughts while listening to this one. First, I was surprised it came out in 1995, as it had a more 80s-sound to me. But it also kinda had a Blur sound, and even a more modern sound at times. So I guess that makes sense. Certain points I thought it was a parody/satire effort. Others, it actually was pretty sincere. To keep it short, I wasn't particularly impressed. The whispering parts were weird, and the lyrical content felt like a mediocre attempt to recreate a Velvet Underground vibe. The music was mostly poppy rock, and didn't do much interesting to me. There were some fun parts, but not enough for me to say it was particularly enjoyable. Every time I thought it was starting to go somewhere better, it just reverted back to the same bland sound. The album wasn't necessarily bad, but I didn't think it was all that good. I'm not sure why it's an album I need to hear. I think that's the biggest flaw with this project- there have to be 1,001 albums. Not all of them can be winners. Grading this album against the rest on the list gives it some pretty tough competition. It's another one I won't remember after getting through a few others, and I don't see myself listening to it again. Overall: 2.4/5
Bowie but missing something
Never understood pulp….still don’t
Boring British soft rock, was it Bowie, was it Oasis. Not my jam at all
At times, difficult to listen to when the lead singer insists on whispering. The couple of tracks that were released as singles stand out a mile
I'm sorry but listening to this I got a massive headache and it almost prevented me from finishing because it just kept getting worse and worse as the album went on and I was suddenly so very acutely aware of how I need to brush my teeth and I am NOWHERE near a hater of 90s britpop but something about this is just so disturbing and unappealing I'm really not sure how people could have grown up listening to this and consider it massively important to their personality and identity when its just the same song about this skinny fucker committing adultery over and over like who gives a shit But in all seriousness I cannot find one thing in this that I wouldn't find executed more successfully in a different English group.
I really can't stand his voice so this one's a non starter
Groupe connu de nom uniquement. Pop générique sans aucune originalité, pas désagréable (+1) mais avec vraiment aucun morceau remarquable. Je ne l'écouterais pas une seconde fois. =>2/5
It was ok
Blah 90’s
Meh, 2 star
I mistakenly bought This is Hardcore from Columbia record club because I thought Common People was on that album. That song is worth a listen, but Jarvis Cocker is uncomfortably horny or just okay for the rest of the album. 3 for Common People, 2 for the album.
I felt absolutely nothing Fav song: Disco 2000 or Bar Italia
Interesting guitarwork, strange lyrics
Lovely. More britpop. No thank you. It felt like he wanted to expose how alienated he felt having to be in British social strata but not feeling like being part of it, but he also felt like he needed to apologize to the rest of proper British society for exposing the flaws. Just be angry and expose the cracks and tell us how much you think the whole business is bullshit. No. Do Better.
finally a name to some of the radio songs lingering in my past. still sounds fresh, but it doesn't touch me that much.
One good song
Bad sexy
A couple of good songs aren’t enough to cover the creepy overly edgy tones. To much whispering
A few good songs, some troublesome lyrics.
Not a big fan of the old Pulp. As far as britpop bands go, I put them squarely under Blur and somewhat under Oasis and Supergrass (don't know enough Suede to add them to the rankings - why do all Britpop bands have one word names?) I will admit that common people is an incredible song and maybe the Britpop anthem. Something about Jarvis Cocker and his Robert Smith-esque, whiny and precious delivery, really grates on me though. Some pretty cringy lyrics too. Outside of common people, disco 2000, and the last track, not one I care too much for
sounds like david bowie voice, but like really accentuating the accent which is kinda annoying me. hated the song i spy. too fucking weird man.
I enjoy the music as long as I don't pay attention to the lyrics that are all about sex with definite nods to nonconsensual sex.
this dude's voice is ANNOYING
Jest to początek mojej przygody z oceną albumów i jako wyznacznik dla tej przygody album oceniam na 2. Po odsłuchaniu pierwszej piosenki na albumie zanosiło się na lepszą ocenę.
Underneath the lyrics and the attitude of the singer, I just found this one musically uninteresting. The songwriting didn't impress me at all. Maybe I'll have to re-evaluate some day
I tried. Common People is catchy as hell. Check out William Shatner’s cover! From what I heard it sounds like they can’t decide on who to sound like. I was picking up Bowie and Roxy Music vibes from time to time.
Cringy, boring britpop. Get out of here.
Clearly influenced Jason Segal’s rock opera about Dracula. But segal knew it was a joke
Eh it's fine. It feels like a lot of the albums I've listened to so far as part of this whole thing. Solidly fine and generic. 2.5/5 stars.
Took me back up Uni days. Fun for a couple of songs then really monotonous.
no idea how this album is so high up on so many lists. kinda sounds like an older oasis. maybe it strikes that nostalgia bone for a lot of folks, but i couldn't get into this album.
I was pretty excited when I initially read the Wikipedia blurb and saw the praise this album had gotten but boy was I let down. Some solid tracks but overall it left a lot of things to be desired. Not as much of the 90s/post-grunge sound I was hoping to hear and unnecessarily sexual topics in places. Never really caught my attention, and for that, it gets a two.
I don't know, I didn't really enjoy this album, despite all the praise it gets by others online. Maybe I'll have to revisit Different Class in the future and give it another chance.
Decent album.
Britpop isn't really my cup of tea, but I do love the tone and themes of album. Even if I probably won't listen to many of these songs again, I appreciate its significance and its probably one of my favorites of a genre I don't like.
It was okay, I knew one song from the radio.
Vocals not for me
Not bad, but unremarkable.
Saai
Meh. It's kind of broody.
I liked the year just to slow for me
It was okay. The highlights of the album are "Common People" and "Sorted for E’s & Wizz". The lyrics in "I Spy" really didn't work for me. 2/5
Feels like a band who looked around at Muse and Radiohead and were like "crap, wish that were us". Sort of that dated UK pop stuff that doesn't translate overseas. Still there is good musicianship and a couple good songs. But nothing to write home about.
Very 80s; eh.
Did NOT like it. Corny as fuck all songs sounded the same and the lirycs were boring. I get how this album would be in this list, like the genesis of all similar boring ass 90's alternative poprock.
It doesn't really stand out in my opinion, feels as if I've heard it countless times before.
Not really my kind of music unfortunately, maybe it's just a bit slow and not engaging enough for me. I liked Disco 2000 but all of the songs have quite a weird undertone on first listen, don't know whether I misunderstood the meanings but it's just a bit creepy?
David bowieesque with preteen angsty sexual lyrics. 4/10
British Bruce Springsteen with even more questionable lyrics