What do y'all think of the British band Pulp/Jarvis Cocker? And the whole Britpop 90s scene?

I liked a few bits from Britpop - mostly Blur, Echobelly, Lush. Pulp was fun but a little of their vibe went a long way. I thought Jarvis was kinda hot in a way.

Jarvis seems like an absolute lovely man. His new music is very different and experimental.

Damon of Blur is fun, but Graham apparently has been exposed as being a dipshit. But Damon still cool. Gorillaz are FAB!!!!

R1 Jarvis was and still is. When he shaves that beard off he looks 20 years younger!!!! I loved Lush but wasn't too into Echobelly. Suede is great but Brett annoys me. 😂 Pulp took over a decade to hit it big. They were persistent and it paid off. Their "We Love Life" album is possibly my favorite album of theirs. Tie between that and "His n Hers" which is phenomenal. Very underrated.

Jarv 💙

I remember getting high and having an amazing fuck session with a hot Canadian guy listening to this

One of the greatest songs, and movies of all time.

Sexy duet

R7 dark therapy rocks!

R5 Elastica were so badass.

Cocker is badass.

What about Cocker's cock?

Britpop seemed to blow the dust off, or inspire, a few older bands too. EBTG in particular seemed to fit nicely in it and made a new generation of fans.

Paul Weller solo also hit his stride beautifully and really fit in that scene

One of my all time Britpop favorites.

FLAWLESS song. Where it goes at the end makes me tear up a little.

^^ sound's a little muddy on that one, here's another

Cocker is nothing compared to Mahmood

Adore Pulp, brings back alot of happy memories listening to their music!

🎸 Love them.

I adore Jarvy!!!!

R14 EBTG were magical.

Jarvis and all of Pulp are the nicest folk. Just normal folk. Jarvis had his breakdown in 98-02 but is fine now.

I wonder if they will ever do another reunion?

Producer Ed Buller talks about his time working with them all. New interview that just came out, actually.

Common People was best single of the 1990s, and maybe since.

I’ve heard here and there that Jarvis can be ‘difficult’. I hope it’s not true. Loved his BBC6 radio show Sunday Service.

All this happened when I first moved to London. i was very into Britpop - but none of them could fill an album to save their lives. It was a singles era.

il liked so many and we used to see them on great TV shows such as The Word. I'd forgotten all about this era. I especially I liked The Farm.

I wanted Damon Albarn in me quite deeply.

And Paul Weller.

And Bernard Butler.

And Ben Watt.

And the other members of Blur.

And Jarvis.

and THIS >

The band/single widely seen as the point where Britpop became formulaic and/or started to collapse on itself.

Menswear did very little other than this, although now-hot daddy Matt Everitt is hot on BBC 6 Music.

R28, you're such a whore, I'm truly disgusted!

LOL R31.

I mean, the Gallaghers were hot then too in their own drunken chav sort of way. I just couldn't fucking stand a note of their music. (Well, I liked a little but it got so overplayed.)

EMF was slightly pre-Britpop but they were maybe the earliest wave, along with Happy Mondays, for sure.

The Happy Mondays were INSANE!!!!!! Shaun, Bez, Rowetta. They're still doing stuff together. Rowetta is also very active on her social medias.

The Bez Dance is forever classic.

Oasis sucks, btw. Noel is talented, though.

Loved Happy Mondays, Pulp and Paul Weller solo stuff but was really more into acid jazz (Massive Attack and Portishead)

Didn't have much time for Oasis but the title track to Morning Glory is a great rock song. All the other stuff released as singles from that album is too slow and soppy. Fucking hate Wonderwall.

Sleeper were my favourite group from that era - What Do I Do Now, Sale Of The Century and Nice Guy Eddie were all classics.

I think it was Nice Guy Eddie that indoctrinated a 20 year old me into the benefits of fucking older men for treats.

Here's my favorite Pulp song. I will always adore Jarvis for mooning Michael Jackson at the Brits in '95 or '96. Deadset legend

Love this one:

R2 NEVER chat shit about Gra Coxon where I can hear it!!! He means the world!!!

"This is Hardcore" is a fucking masterpiece.

Link

Not sure about Graham Coxon but Alex James is a mensch.

A great era of music. I was in college in the Midwest at the time, and it was great fun to buy the import music magazines and look at the cute boys being cheeky. And they actually crossed the pond to play my dinky college town!

Blur, Pulp, Elastica, Echobelly, Oasis, Gene, Kula Shaker ... what a time to be alive and an angsty young man who could wear tight polyester pants.

I especially loved Echobelly, who were brilliant ... until they weren't.

And oh fuck, I loved Supergrass too.

This was the theme song for my 21st birthday.

The Wikipedia page for Britpop has Shampoo amongst the acts who fall under the umbrella.

Shampoo!!!

They also include The Lightning Seeds. Jollification was an amazing album but like Everything But The Girl they established themselves in the 80s.

And oh my days the article on Cool Cymru is hilarious!

Yes, the Manics, Catatonia and Stereophonics were huge in the late 90s in the way a load of Scottish bands were huge in the late 80s.

And they've got the wrong Sian Lloyd - the weather presenter was quite famous for shagging a politician and being a generic Welsh celebrity wannabe. During live coverage of the Welsh devolution referendum Cerys was asked about the result and asked who was going to be shagging Lloyd that night.

I always thought Space's The Female Of The Species was a huge hit but it didn't make the top 10 in the UK.

It got a new lease of life through a very popular advert.

Reef

I love Oasis, but I fucking hate Wonderwall. Totally overplayed tune. Ugh.

“I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials.”

Never hear much on Jarvis. He a good'un?

Is it just me or did he really look like David Tennant in the early days and the guy from Black Books like around the time of Hardcore?

Stone Roses, anybody?

Damon Albarn was a middle class twat who appropriate working class culture. The Pulp song Common People is an indictment on him as much as anybody.

I agree R16 (and 17), ‘Yes’ is a fabulous song.

[quote]Damon Albarn was a middle class twat who appropriate working class culture. The Pulp song Common People is an indictment on him as much as anybody.

I can't listen to Common People now without thinking of wannabe political commentator Grace Blakeley, who is thankfully rarely on TV now the far left Corbynism project is in ruins.

Disco 2000 is a superior song to Common People.

Love the Britpop era.

Blur was my favorite band to come out of that movement.

Artsy boyfriend put Pulp's Hardcore on a CD for me. My mom found it and decided it was her favorite song.

I still can't figure out if she was messing with me.

Jarvis Cocker fans might appreciate Charlotte Gainsbourg's 5:55 album where wrote the lyrics for the songs with Air.

A couple of songs were co-written with The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, including The Songs That We Sing.

Jarvis wrote this for Marianne.

"Everybody wants to kiss my snatch."

Very Jarvis. Very Marianne.

and of course.....maybe his finest song ever

CUNTS are still running the world....

I miss the 90s. They were the best years of my life. I loved Pulp, but Suede was my favourite.

oooh R61 loved that one

R51 - I don’t see David Tennant but agree with you about Dylan Moran from Black Books lol.

R61 yes, Suede is so underrated.

Pulp vs Blur Soccer 😂

Jarvis was so cute in this. He and Damon are lovely.

I hate Damon.

R67 why? he's not for everyone, i know. He has moments.

Alex owns his own cheese company. Actual cheese.

R68 Did you see R67's signature? Did you see this news story? I'm guessing no on one or both counts, or you might have recognized the joke.

R69

Oh wow, I didn't notice the sig ! Haha!!! Yes, I know about the Damon vs Swift. I think its absolutely hilarious. He also pissed Adele off for stating the facts on her asstyude lol.

My sister met Jarvis Cocker and said he was a total cunt. I always thought he had a pretentious self-important air to him anyway.

R71 When was this? What did he do? He went thru a weird phase in the very late 90s when he was dating Chloe Svegny, or however its spelled...where she got him hooked on some kinda of drugs, supposedly, and was when he was having his mental breakdown that he wrote and talked about a lot. That's primarily what the This is Hardcore album is about.

Most people I've known who have met him say he's super down to earth and polite. Some others say he's aloof...spacey..but polite. But any negative stories I might've heard were taking place around that era.

R71 How so?

Give The Charlatans some love, too. And they still make (occasionally) decent music.

Greatest song of that decade.

LG and Damon

R71/72 good question…It was probably between 2002-04. She was working in San Francisco (but is British, like me). She smiled and said how great it was to meet him and he just shot her down with a “why don’t you just die” kind of glance. My sis is one of the warmest, most genuine people I know, not someone who would be overbearing or over the top. I get being famous can be a drag. Although I imagine he probably wouldn’t be recognised much, if ever, in the States. A polite acknowledgment or just “thanks” wouldn’t have cost anything. I guess we all have bad days. Although even on my worst I’m civil to other human beings. But, whatever. Maybe he was in a bad place

I'd love to watch Liam and Damon having it off.

I was growing up at the time but was never really into Britpop. It’s a matter of personal taste. There were some good tunes, but the aggressive, in-your-faceness of it wasn’t my thing. I was into weirder, more esoteric stuff like Cocteau Twins. Kula Shaker was just about esoteric enough for me though. Earlier I just remembered what probably constitutes my favourite britpop song, if it qualifies: Wide Open Space by Mansun.

There’s a certain energy and desperation that somehow appeals to me. Cute guy in the vid too.

Pulp were fucking genius.

Shocked no one posted this one. Sublime

And this...

R78 Same

Love Dodgy's Staying Out for the Summer which is included in the gay coming out movie Get Real soundtrack.

Yes, absolutely, [R51] and [R63]. A cast member doing commentary for Black Books even mentioned that Dylan reminded her of Jarvis Cocker. Don't know about Jarvis, but in my eyes, Dylan Moran is a fucking God!!!!

Has anyone seen this? Quite a few more vids on youtube.

Would love to hear any stories of anyone who have met Jarvis or Damon.

R85 Dylan Moran is indeed a God. You got that right.

[R24] Have you ever met them? They sure do seem really nice and normal.

[R26] Where/what have you heard about him being "difficult"? In what way? Just curious.

R26 Difficult how?

Blouse

The Pulp reunion was this opening weekend and they played Weekender fest yesterday, and I honestly think it was the best show I have ever seen. That was bloody hot.

The previous nights concert is in full on YouTube now. But they definitely ramped it up 100 notches at yesterday's.

R26 He is difficult? Like what, drama queen or diva?

The Blur reunion would be perfect if they got rid of Dave. One does not disrespect Nardwuar the way he did.

Pulp were brilliant Friday night in Dublin, made me very nostalgic for the 90s

I love Pulp and Jarvis cocker. I used to love Blur too but they haven’t aged as well as Pulp. Pulp have been in constant rotation for me for the past 28 years. Jarvis is very sexy too.

Britpop sucks and madchester should have taken off

The Verve was cool