Different Class
Editorial Reviews
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Like the Boomtown Rats fronted by Martin Amis. Classic Britpop. --Jeff Bateman --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Different Class, Music, Pulp, Alternative Pop/Rock, Britpop, England, Pop, Rock
Average customer rating:
- I missed out on this years ago...
- One of the best albums of all time
- An essential recording.
- All around great stuff
- Simply one of the finest albums you'll ever encounter
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Different Class
Pulp
Manufacturer: Island
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000001E8P
Release Date: 1996-02-27 |
Tracks:
- Mis-shapes
- Pencil Skirt
- Common People
- I Spy
- Disco 2000
- Live Bed Show
- Something Changed
- Sorted For E's & Wizz
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
- Underwear
- Monday Morning
- Bar Italia
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Like the Boomtown Rats fronted by Martin Amis. Classic Britpop. --Jeff Bateman
Customer Reviews:
I missed out on this years ago..........2007-04-20
Back in the mid 90's, I dismissed Pulp as just another BritPop band. Come to find out, I was wrong. A good friend gave this to me as a CD exchange and I have to say that I'm thoroughly impressed.
The standout tracks are clearly (IMO) "Mis-Shapes", "Common People" and "I Spy". The music is rather jangly and at times has a distinctly dance-able beat. What won me over though were the lyrics. Jarvis Cocker manages to create a fantastic mental image to go along with his lyrics, which are alternately humorous and serious, occassionally silly ("Sorted for E's and Wizz") and vaguely malevolent ("I Spy"). Cocker's delivery is very basic - he doesn't have a lot of range, but he makes good use of his voice and some of the spoken parts of the songs send chills up my spine.
All in all, this is a great album. I wish that I'd given it a chance back in 1995.
One of the best albums of all time.......2006-12-08
Ten years later, "Different Class" remains one of the best albums of all time. I have heard the songs hundreds of times and never get tired. There are six standout tracks: Common People, Disco 2000, Something Changed, Feeling Called Love, Underwear & Monday Morning.
I recently requested "Common People" at a club...and it remains an anthem of angst, brit pop, glam rock and a brillant screw-the-world perspective.
Alas, Pulp's follow-up albums were not able to come close to "Different Class". So disappointing. But it's not called a Magnum Opus for nothing. I hope frontman Jarvis Cocker's new solo album will provide some solace.
An essential recording........2006-10-24
Released 11 years ago, this was a hit in the UK. I didn't know that until last year.
I was looking for some music from the britpop era, (being a huge fan of Oasis, Blur, Coldplay, The Verve, etc) and a stumbled upon their greatest hits CD. I must say that the only track I really got into was "Disco 2000", the rest were OK, not great. Then, after a couple of spins of that CD (and listening to the lyrics) I started lo like them.
I got His N' Hers (I played it to death) and then this one... wow... I played three times in a row, it was an amazing experience. Jarvis Cocker knows how to create an atmosphere with each song.
Every song could have been a single, amazing lyrics (to me, this guy is one of the best lyricists in britain nowadays). The stories of typical day-life on working-class people from the UK is something that the casual listener can relate to.
I recommend this CD to everybody. It came out during the so-called britpop era (I love that genre, even though most of the bands are now defunct). I won't mention any particular track.
Get it right now, it's a piece of Britain's music history.
All around great stuff.......2006-09-14
Considering most of the crap music that the 90's produced, this was a brilliant masterpiece. Not a bad song among the bunch, I can never get tired of listening to Common People and Something Changed.
Simply one of the finest albums you'll ever encounter.......2006-06-24
It is almost impossible for any album on Amazon to receive nearly a hundred reviews and still get an overall 5 star rating, yet DIFFERENT CLASS has managed to do just that. Although Pulp has several really good albums, this is their best in my opinion. It isn't just that the songs are musically compelling; lyrically the songs are frequently and unexpectedly complex. When this album was first released in England it was one of the rare times when an album achieved simultaneously intense critical and popular acclamation. Critics declared it a masterpiece, and fans bought it in astonishing numbers. The album also is deceptively political, in that it features class difference in a large number of songs.
There are many musical highlights on the album, but what I find most remarkable is that there are several songs so good it makes the other songs seem bad in comparison, while one song in particular makes even the other great songs suffer in contrast. Fans will always differ on their favorites, but few will question that the album starts off strongly with "Mis-Shapes." "I Spy" is one of my favorites on the album along with "Disco 2000," which follows it. "Sorted for E's and Wizz" is another stunner. But seriously, all the songs on the disc are at least good, most are very good, and two or three are great. But the best of the bunch is unquestionably "Common People."
"Common People" is simply a great song on multiple levels. Musically it is incredibly compelling, one of those tunes that once you hear it you can't get it out of your head, with an upbeat tempo that makes you want to get up and dance around. But this would merely make it a good song; what makes it great is the story the song tells. An art school student is noticed by a fellow student, a rich girl from Greece, who declares to him that she wants to learn about what it is like to live as one of the common people. There is a definite sexual come on, as she says that she wants "to sleep with common people, like you." At this point you think you know where the song is going, to a nice if somewhat standard narrative of two people from different classes who have a romance despite it all. But the song instantly takes you in a different tangent. What follows is as extraordinary as it is unexpected. Our hero takes the girl to a supermarket and asks her to imagine being there with no money, a notion she laughs at. At this point the song turns very serious and dark, as he tears into her for her calloused desire to slum and make a game out of taking on a mode of life that is for others a fairly desperate affair. He tells her that if she is laying in a bed watching roaches on the wall she can just call her dad and her problems would be over, but to truly find out what it would be like to live like "common people" would mean learning what it means to have no choices, no outs, no control. He sings:
You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
So instead of the song of romance and love that we think we are getting at the beginning, we get an impassioned condemnation of anyone who would make light of the struggles of those who are less well off. I know of no other song like it. Pulp has done a number of really fine albums and a host of great songs, but this song has to go down as one of my all time favorites. It definitely goes onto my all time Top 40.
There are four Pulp albums that I think any serious music fan should own: HIS 'N' HERS, DIFFERENT CLASS, THIS IS HARDCORE, and WE LOVE LIFE. If one were bound and determined to own only one Pulp album, one might go with HITS, but this DIFFERENT CLASS is so good that I just can't imagine anyone not wanting this and others as well. Trust me: if you don't own this album you need to get it today. Your ears will thank you.
Average customer rating:
- if you're really into the album, pop for the upgrade if you can afford it
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Different Class
Pulp
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
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ASIN: B000GQLR4Q
Release Date: 2006-10-09 |
Tracks:
- Mis-Shapes
- Pencil Skirt
- Common People
- I Spy
- Disco 2000
- Live Bed Show
- Something Changed
- Sorted for E's & Wizz
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
- Underwear
- Monday Morning
- Bar Italia
Tracks:
- Common People [At Glastonbury 1995][*]
- Mile End [*]
- PTA [*]
- Ansaphone [#][*][Demo Version]
- Paula [#][*][Demo Version]
- Catcliffe Shakedown [#][*][Demo Version]
- We Can Dance Again [#][*][Demo Version]
- Don't Lose It [#][*][Demo Version]
- Whiskey in the Jar [#][*]
- Disco 2000 [Nick Cave Pub Rock Version][#][*]
- Common People [Vocoda Mix][#][*]
Album Description
UK digitally remastered two CD set features their ace 1995 album which includes the hit singles 'Mis Shapes', 'Common People', 'Disco 2000' and 'Sorted For E's & Wizz' plus a bonus disc which brings together a collection of bonus material (personally selected by leader Jarvis Cocker) which features single b-sides, four previously unreleased recordings and 'Whisky in the Jar' (previously only released in France.) Other highlights on the bonus disc include Nick Cave's version of 'Disco 2000' (Pub Rock Version), 'Common People' (Live at Glastonbury) and more. The package comes complete with a picture booklet containing previously unreleased photos and extensive sleevenotes written by Jarvis! Universal. 2006.
Album Details
Different Class is a Defining Album - Not Only of Pulp but of the 90s. Following a Barnstorming Headline Set at Glastonbury, Where They were Last Minute Stand-ins for the Injured Stone Roses, They Captured the Mood of the 90s and Encapsulated it in Some of the Finest Songs of a Generation, Including the Modern Classic 'common People'. The Album Served as a Manifesto as Jarvis and Co Rallied the Nation's Disaffected Youth and Went on to Top Many End-of-year Polls in 1995, Selling Over Two Million Albums Worldwide on Its Way. This Deluxe Edition is a Double CD Set. The First Disc is the Original Album in Its Full Glory, featuring the Classics 'common People', 'disco 2000', 'mis-shapes' and 'sorted for Es and Wizz'. The Second Disc of Bonus Material Has Been Personally Chosen by Jarvis Cocker, featuring B-sides, and Three Previously Unreleased Tracks and One Track, 'whisky in the Jar', Available in the UK for the First Time. This Luxuriously Packaged Set Comes Complete with a 32 Page Booklet.
Customer Reviews:
if you're really into the album, pop for the upgrade if you can afford it.......2007-02-26
First off, i'm of the opinion that "Different Class" is easily in the top 10 Britpop albums of the 1990's, if not in the top 2 or 3 (and i could make a case that it's one of the top 10 rock albums of the decade), so if you haven't heard it, you really owe it to yourself to hear it (NOTE: Different Class, as an album, is unquestionably a five-star classic; see below why i rate this edition as 4 stars). Very tuneful, with biting commentary, 'humour' and sarcasm on lust, youthful foolishness, class warfare and capturing the zeitgeist of what was going on in the UK around the mid-90's - it's very much of its time, yet I suspect will ultimately be considered timeless. Virtually all of the tracks are pure ear candy - this album really holds up thruout. This edition is beautifully presented -nice thick glossy digipak packaging with Universal's usual clear slipcase; generous booklet and comments, and great sound. If you've read this far, you'll probably want to pop for this in order to get the extras disc - demo's, b-sides, live cuts. They're nice, but i don't know if i'd call them indispensible - i rated it 4 stars because of the cost involved to get the extras. if you have an inkling you'll like this album, and can afford it, this is a good edition to get if you can score one for under like $25; otherwise, for most, the 1-cd will suffice and is heartily recommended. But if you're really into Pulp, i'd imagine you'll want this edition.
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- Criminally Overlooked Band
- Jook! Wow!
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Different Class
The Jook
Manufacturer: Rpm Records UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0007XTPW4
Release Date: 2005-05-02 |
Tracks:
- Different Class [#]
- Aggravation Place
- Watch Your Step
- Bish Bash Bosh
- Oo-Oo-Rudi
- King Kapp
- Alright with Me
- Everything I Do
- Rumble
- Cooch [#]
- L.A. Girl
- Do What You Can
- That's Fine [#]
- Mohair Sam [#]
- Movin' in the Right Direction
- Crazy Kids
- City and Suburban Blues
- Hey Doll [#]
- Shame Shame Shame
- Jook's on You
- Everything I Do [Ian Kimmet Demo][#][*]
- Aggravation Place [Ian Kimmet Demo][#][*]
Album Details
A First Ever Collection of all the Singles and Unreleased Studio Recordings by this Seminal UK Pop Punk Outfit with Close Links to Sparks, Whose Track "Aggravation" Place is One of the Highlights of the Glitterbest Set. This Collection Has Had the Full Input from the Band Members, Including Loan of Archives and Leader Ian Kimmett Digging Up his Original Album Songwriter Demos as a Special Bonus. The 'lads' have Recently all Met Up Again and There is Even Talk of a Couple of Live Spots on a Future Sparks Tour.
Customer Reviews:
Criminally Overlooked Band.......2006-08-20
Criminally overlooked glam-era UK rockers that are one of the missing links between British Invasion/60's Garage and the Punk/New Wave to come. Songs move from raw Who inspired rockers to elements of The Raspberries on "Everything I Do" and "Aggrivation Place" reminds me of The Clash. Recordings span from 1972-76 with a few demos from '78. Excellent liner notes with photos and full track info. I found Jook on the Glitterbest compilation and went from there.
Jook! Wow!.......2005-07-05
THIS MUST SURELY HAVE BEEN THE CROSSOVER BETWEEN THE WHO,AND WHAT FOLLOWED. THIS IS BRIT ROCK AT ITS BEST. SEMINAL IS A MUCH ABUSED TERM THESE DAYS, BUT IT APPLIES HERE! JOHNNY ROTTEN? LEARN FROM THIS!
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- Brilliant Satiric Britpop
- Special edition... GREAT!
- Brilliant satiric britpop
- If you can find this set, get it
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Different Class
Pulp
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
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Britpop
| British Alternative
| Alternative Rock
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ASIN: B00000733Z
Release Date: 1999-12-28 |
Tracks:
- Mis-Shapes
- Pencil Skirt
- Common People
- I Spy
- Disco 2000
- Live Bed Show
- Something Changed
- Sorted for E's and Wizz
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E
- Underwear
- Monday Morning
- Bar Italia
- P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association) [*]
- Common People [Motiv 8 Club Mix][*]
Tracks:
- Mile End
- Ansaphone
- Live Bed Show [Extended]
- Your Sister's Clothes
- Seconds
- Deep Fried in Kelvin
- Babysitter
- Street Lites
- Common People '96 [7" Edit][Edit][*]
Album Description
Japanese edition of Pulp's hit 1996 album with 11bonus tracks: 2 on the full length CD album and the 9 trackbonus CD 'Second Class'. 23 tracks total. 11 bonus tracks:'P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association)', 'Common People' (Mot-iv 8 Club Mix), 'Mile End', '
Customer Reviews:
Brilliant Satiric Britpop.......2001-01-21
If you can get hold of the box set of »Different Class«, do it! The other CD in the box »Second Class« is even better than the main CD.
And this IS good stuff. The happy way in which Pulp sings about tragic comic situations of everyday life makes you join in singing, but it also makes you think. After all, life's worth living.
Special edition... GREAT!.......2000-11-16
Forget other Brit pop groups, Pulp were the true stars to come out of the 'Brit Pop' scene in my opinion. Different Class is one of the best CDs I own, there is not a track I dont like on it, specilly in this japanesse version where the 11 bonus tracks will leave extremely surprise and delighted. What really makes this great is the quality of the songs writen by Jarvis Cocker, each one tells a great story from 'Common People' about a rich student who wants to pretend to be poor because she thinks it is cool, to 'Sorted for e's and wizz' about the rave parties in the early 90's. I could go on about every track but I won't. I cant belive this came out 5 years ago, it still sounds so fresh and I play it all the time. If you liked common people and disco 2000 (the main singles) you will like the rest because the quality is consistent through all the tracks, and if u already own a common people "common edition" forget about it, give it to your sister and BUY this edition. BUY IT! You'll not regreat!
Brilliant satiric britpop.......2000-01-02
If you can get hold of the box set of »Different Class«, do it! The other CD in the box »Second Class« is even better than the main CD.
And this IS good stuff. The happy way in which Pulp sings about tragic comic situations of everyday life makes you join in singing, but it also makes you think. After all, life's worth living.
For a long time, I used a part of the track »Ansaphone« on my ansaphone.
If you can find this set, get it.......1999-05-24
Different Class is what unleashed Pulp onto the world, and secured them a place in any good record collection. That is a masterpiece. This is the "Different Class / Second Class" 2 CD set, only available on import in most places. On the Different Class CD, there are two additional songs, "PTA", and cute little song, and an 8 minute dance club remix of "Common People". Not bad.
The second CD is the B-sides, the only Pulp B-sides compilation available. These are the B-sides from all the Different Class, His 'n' Hers, and the earlier Island singles like "Sisters EP". For the most part, they are very good. "Ansaphone", "Your Sister's Clothes", and "Deep Fried In Kelvin" (which was used, but not on the soundtrack, for "The Full Monty") are brilliant songs. Others, like "The Babysitter" and "Street Lites" are more bizarre. Other little goodies included here are an extended version of "Live Bed Show" (which was on the first "Disco 2000" single) and "Common People 96", which is simply an edited version of the same song.
Worth getting for the obsessed Pulp fan.
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Different Class Harmonica
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000050LAB
Release Date: 2006-08-15 |
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Different Class
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000A7ZIHS
Release Date: 2005-08-23 |
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Playalicous
Rob-B Da Playa
Manufacturer: True Hustling Entertainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000CA8JY2
Release Date: 2005-06-21 |
Tracks:
- Make That Thang Roll
- Summertime Maddness
- U Got What I Want
- Behind Da Sceen
- Way I Work It
- It's Been a Long Time
- I Like Da Way
- Pop It
- Playalicous Funk
- Summertime Maddness(remix)
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- The best brit... ever!!!
- The greatest PULP Cd made!
- common people
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Different Class
Pulp
Manufacturer: Universal Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
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Britpop
| British Alternative
| Alternative Rock
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ASIN: B000006ZWM
Release Date: 2000-05-16 |
Tracks:
- Mis-Shapes
- Pencil Skirt
- Common People
- I Spy
- Disco 2000
- Live Bed Show
- Something Changed
- Sorted for E's & Wizz
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
- Underwear
- Monday Morning
- Bar Italia
- P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association) [*]
- Common People [Motiv 8 Club Mix]
Customer Reviews:
The best brit... ever!!!.......2002-05-31
There's only one thing that can be said: Common People is the best britpop song ever written!!! It contains all the elements every great britpop song must have: catchy, smart british mid-class theme lyrics, great guitars (that makes you "air guitar" every time you listen to it), passion, guts, rythm... it will stick in your head all your life!!! If you haven't listen to it... it's a shame... I really mean it when I say it's the best brit... ever!!!
The greatest PULP Cd made!.......2000-09-25
Who can get over the seductive lyrics of "underwear" or the upbeat tune of "bar italia". This was my first and favorite pilp album. and I fell in love with Jarvis from the beginning. I recommend this version with extra tracks to anyone. You'll never believe a young man from sheffield could ever be such a god!
common people.......2000-03-03
well, I am new in this kind of music, but I can say that it really transports my self without saying hi. I like it.
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Different Class/Second Class
Pulp
Manufacturer: CIDX
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
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Britpop
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ASIN: B000007340
Release Date: 1996-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Mis-Shapes
- Pencil Skirt
- Common People
- I Spy
- Disco 2000
- Live Bed Show
- Something Changed
- Sorted for E's & Wizz
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E
- Underwear
- Monday Morning
- Bar Italia
Tracks:
- Mile End
- Ansaphone
- P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association)
- Live Bed Show [Extended]
- Your Sister's Clothes
- Seconds
- Deep Fried in Kelvin
- Babysitter
- Street Lites
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Silhouette of Me
Manufacturer: CCP Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000CAKA1W
Release Date: 2004-03-30 |
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