His 'N' Hers

Pulp

1994

3.3

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Genres: Rock Styles: Alternative Rock, Britpop

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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.

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Mar 21 2026 Author

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.

Mar 25 2026 Author

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!

Apr 08 2026 Author

This is a good album. Not a great album. There are a couple of genuinely great tracks on this album - notably Babies and Do You Remember The First Time? - but overall it doesn't have the same punch as A Different Class. It definitely shows an evolution of Pulp from a local scene-band in Sheffield to a national-level affair. What I do quite like, listening to it again after probably far too many years, is some of the thematic links between some of the tracks. Pink Glove and David's Last Summer hit better for me now than they did last time I listened to this through - and I quite like that the latter reminded me quite a bit of William Onyeabor, being a teensie tiny bit afro-funk.

Apr 08 2026 Author

Pulp are one of my top bands. And most of their stuff is amazing. Great album.

Mar 29 2026 Author

This feels like a poorer version of different class, and not different enough as this is hardcore. But still a good enough album for the list.

Mar 31 2026 Author

I enjoyed this but most of it is very dated. Some very idiosyncratic lyric/vocal choices which were generally good wierd fun.

Apr 02 2026 Author

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.

Mar 22 2026 Author

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.

Apr 15 2026 Author

A stone cold Brit-pop classic, which would probably have to replace something similar if it was going to be in the book - unless we just accept that it is "1,001 British albums you must hear..."!

Mar 20 2026 Author

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Lipgloss, Acrylic afternoons, Do you remember the first time?

Mar 21 2026 Author

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.

Apr 05 2026 Author

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.

Apr 12 2026 Author

Not first listen! C’mon it’s Pulp what’s not to love Songs I singled out from last listen: “Lipgloss”, “Someone Like the Moon” Other HL: "Have You Seen Her Lately?", "Happy Endings", "Do You Remember the First Time?"

Apr 12 2026 Author

Great to hear, as is all their material basically. Though this isn't their best in one's views, it's great and represents a major step forward from first two record. "Babies" is deliciously bouncy and arch, "First Time" nearly bitingly/bitterly nostalgic. "She's a Lady" is dark disco, a strobing bad trip thru a long night at a club, nearly goth in its twisted and lurid intensity. "Happy Endings" veers toward grandiosity – like Liberace in the music hall, like Tom Jones masquerading as a post-irony, metrosexualized indie rocker. The closer serves as a likably (and thematically consistent) elegant exit. A cynic might say they're the Pet Shop Boys for straight dudes. There may not be a Pulp record that wouldn't benefit the list (by replacing any record by the criminally overrated Blur, basically). Even the strange and uneven debut has its merits. And don't sleep on the new record – it's excellent and full-on Pulp-y, even if JC sounds like he's had a headcold for at least the last decade.

Mar 21 2026 Author

Britpop at its Britpoppest

Mar 23 2026 Author

Sounds like pulp, is pulp. Job done

Mar 25 2026 Author

Britpop. Ni fu ni fa.

Mar 30 2026 Author

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

Mar 20 2026 Author

Never in a million years could I told you I've ever heard this band before (and this album was from the mid 90s), but I was shocked they were in the actual 1001 book! Britpop is probably one of my least favorite genres, but I seemed to rate "Different Class" highly like 4 years ago when I was early in the book. I did not like this album near enough as that. This does not sound like 1994 at all. Just not for me. Maybe I'll spin Different Class again to see if 1,000 albums later, I still like it as much.

Apr 05 2026 Author

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.

Apr 09 2026 Author

I can see how this could be someone’s fav. It’s very early 90’s alternative. I’m getting Echo and the Bunnymen & The Church vibes off it. Although nothing really jumped out at me in the first listen.

Apr 16 2026 Author

An "Empire Records" -type Brit band