I tend to believe that the late 1980s phase was a transition period of music and most of the music that comes out of it is a slog. But by the time you get to the 90s there's a rebirth of exceptional music similar to the late 60s and 70's with layers of emotion and sounds. Whereas most of the artists emerging in the mid and late 80's were aware the just needed to embrace the suck, there were artists that were influenced by this 80's suck, stacked with nylon synth and syrup-y self-indulgent love ballads. Every Pulp album I've listened to leads me to believe that they were one of those bands and this album 'Different Class' indicates they are trying to revive the dregs of the 80's. Clearly, everyone has moved on except for Pulp, clearly, they are a different class.