His 'n' Hers is the fourth studio album by English rock band Pulp, released on 18 April 1994 by Island Records. It proved to be the band's breakthrough album, reaching number nine on the UK Albums Chart, and was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the seventieth greatest album of all time, while it was placed at number 110 in the book Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums.
Lyrically, the album encompasses subjects for which Pulp were to become well known, including sexual encounters, social class and voyeurism.
Robyn Strachan retrospectively describes the opener "Joyriders" as setting the tone for the album with "acerbic observation and lurking seediness and decay".
"She's a Lady" takes much of its musical inspiration from Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive".
The album closer, "David's Last Summer", is notable as being one of Pulp's most narrative songs, delivered entirely in spoken word apart from the chorus despite being an uptempo track.
I really enjoy this album! Lipgloss is a fantastic track, I already knew and loved Babies, and the rest of this album was sleek and interesting. Great!
This is terrific, at times rising to Bowie-levels of brilliance. I discovered Pulp many years ago in a strange way, when I learned that they were the original writers of the song Common People. I had come to love the William Shatner/Joe Jackson version of that song. Really an underrated band that I should listen to more often. 4 stars.
There are 2 Pulp albums on the official list and they are both so incredibly forgettable that both times I thought "Never heard of this band before".
Today I loaded up His N Hers and thought "wow I've never heard of this band before".
If you asked AI to make a Britpop album this is what you'd get.
Because the main list was so lacking in Britpop! The original 1001 has two Pulp albums already, we certainly didn’t need more whiny (squeaky?) vocals and tired pop instrumentals. Big pet peeve when artists with multiple albums on the 1001 get featured here, even when they’re actually good. Plenty of music in the world to listen to and feature here that isn’t this slop.
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