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 have never been a big fan of Pulp. The songs are just not that great. Jarvis Cocker is just too much an act and not a real personality. And the main problem is the competition of Pulp at the time of a lot of greater brit pop bands. I think with "Different Class" and "This Is Hardcore" there is more than enough of their music represented. More albums (like this one) only show that there are not that many important songs beside on the former two albums and we are left with tracks that sound like leftovers.
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.
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.
I don’t think I ever appreciated how poetic Pulp’s lyrics are.
I didn’t quite get them when they were at their height. I liked them but they were not as easy to listen to as Blur or Oasis.
Pulp is just not the band for me. I feel if I was in my late teens to 30 when pulp was reading music this would have been a solid band to listen to. They have some of that edgy lyricism while being poppy and punk. They aren’t bad and this album is pretty on par with different class just being a good pop rock album. It’s good just not my cup of tea. 6.1/10
I didn't get much our of His 'n' Hers, it was a lot more art pop than Britpop to me and their best work a) came after this and b) has already been represented on the list. Was mostly a boring 2/5.
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