Common People CD1

Release: 22 May 1995
Number: CID 613
Format: CD (Day-time)
Sleeve: Designers Republic, Photography - Donald Milne

  1. Common People (Full Length Version)
  2. Underwear
  3. Common People (7" Edit)


Common People CD2

Release: 29 May 1995
Number: CIDX 613
Formats: CD (Night-time)
Sleeve: Designers Republic, Photography - Donald Milne

  1. Common People (Full Length Version)
  2. Razzmatazz (Acoustic Version)
  3. Dogs Are Everywhere (Acoustic Version)
  4. Joyriders (Acoustic Version)



* Click here to see the free sticker that came with CD2.

* The Common People CD was released both as a 'day-time CD' (with the sleeve of the CD showing the day-time cafe picture), and as a 'night-time CD' (with the sleeve of the CD showing the night-time cafe picture).

* During 2001, copies of the daytime CD appeared without the silver Pulp logo embossed on the sleeve. Click here to view.

* The Cassette release (CIS 613) has the same track listing as the day-time CD.

* The single was released on 7" yellow vinyl (IS 613) on 20 November 1996 with the 'day-time' cover containing A) Common People (Full Length Version) and B) Underwear

* The single was also released on 12" vinyl (12IS 613) on 20 November 1996 with the 'night-time' cover containing A1) Common People (Full Length Version), A2) Underwear, B1) Common People (Motiv8 mix) and B2) Common People (Vocoda Mix).

* Click here to see the advert for the Common People 'nitetime' CD.

* Highest Chart Position: 2

* BPI UK Sales Awards:
Silver (200,000 units), 1 July 1995

Sleevenotes:
CD1: There is a war in progress - don't be a casual(ty). The time to decide whose side you're on is here. Choose wisely. Stay alive in '95.

Mis-Shapes / Sorted For E's & Wizz

Release: 25 September 1995
Numbers: CIS 620 / CID 620
Formats: Cassette / CD
Sleeve: Blue Source, Photography - Rankin, Illustration - Dave Jukes

  1. Mis-Shapes
  2. Sorted For E's & Wizz
  3. P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association)
  4. Common People (Live at Glastonbury 1995)


Sorted For E's & Wizz / Mis-Shapes

Release: 25 September 1995
Number: CIDX 620
Format: CD
Sleeve: Blue Source, Photography - Amber Rowlands & Donald Milne

  1. Sorted For E's & Wizz
  2. Mis-Shapes
  3. Common People (Motiv8 club mix)
  4. Common People (Vocoda club mix)



* The Cassette release only includes 'Mis-Shapes' and 'Sorted For E's & Wizz'.

* Sorted For E's & Wizz / Mis-Shapes was released on 7" blue vinyl (IS 620) on 20 November 1996 containing A) Sorted For E's & Wizz and B) Mis-Shapes.

* Mis-Shapes / Sorted For E's & Wizz was released on 12" vinyl (12IS 620) on 20 November 1996 containing A1) Mis-Shapes, A2) Sorted For E's & Wizz, B1) P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association) and B2) Common People (Live at Glastonbury 1995)

* Highest Chart Position: 2

* BPI UK Sales Awards:
Silver (200,000 units), 1 September 1995

Sleevenotes:
Mis-Shapes CD: We shall fight them in "The Beaches" - and "The Stag" and "The King's Head" if it comes to that. You know the score - ten blokes with 'taches in short-sleeved shirts telling you that you're the weirdo. Fear not brothers and sisters - we shall prevail. Live on.
Sorted CD: The summer of '89: Centreforce FM, Santa Pod, Sunrise 5000, "Ecstacy Airport", ride the white horse, the strings of life, dancing at motorway service stations, falling asleep at the wheel on the way home. There's so many people - it's got to mean something, it needs to mean something, surely it must mean something. IT DIDN'T MEAN NOTHING.

Different Class LP

Release: 30 October 1995
Numbers: ILPS 8041 / ICT 8041 / CID 8041
Formats: Vinyl LP / Cassette / CD
Sleeve: Blue Source, Photography - Donald Milne & Rankin
Highest Chart Position: 1

  1. Mis-shapes
  2. Pencil Skirt
  3. Common People
  4. I Spy
  5. Disco 2000
  6. Live Bed Show
  7. Something Changed
  8. Sorted For E's & Wizz
  9. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E
  10. Underwear
  11. Monday Morning
  12. Bar Italia


* Initial pressings of the vinyl LP and the CD had twelve (six double-sided) interchangeable covers and had silver-embossing on their sleeves. Initial copies of the cassette had the silver embossing too. Subsequent pressings display the conventional 'wedding' sleeve without the silver embossing.

* 250 copies of the vinyl LP were issued as limited edition 'press kits'. They included an additional 12 inserts featuring reproductions of music press reviews. See the Promo Discography for further details.

* A special pressing of the vinyl LP, limited to 2,000 copies, was released on the Simply Vinyl label in January 2000 (SVLP 166). The heavy duty disc (180-gram) came in a reproduction sleeve and outer PVC wallet. It was subsequently re-pressed during 2003.

* During 2004, Universal Music re-issued the vinyl LP with the interchangeable covers but without the silver embossing and with some minor changes to the sleeve.

* The vinyl LP was again reissued as a 180-gram pressing on the Music On Vinyl label (MOVLP404) on 26 September 2011.

* Click here to see the cassette sleeve.

* BPI UK Sales Awards:
Silver (60,000 units), 1 October 1995
Gold (100,000 units), 1 October 1995
Platinum (300,000 units), 1 November 1995
2x Platinum (600,000 units), 1 December 1995
3x Platinum (900,000 units), 1 March 1996
4x Platinum (1,200,000 units), 17 April 1998

Sleevenotes:
Please understand. We don't want no trouble. We just want the right to be different. That's all.


Different Class LP - Reissued Deluxe Edition

Release: 11 September 2006
Number: 9840051
Format: Double CD

CD1: Remastered Different Class LP. Tracklisting as per original release.
CD2:
  1. Common People (Live At Glastonbury 1995)
  2. Mile End
  3. P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association)
  4. Ansaphone (Demo)
  5. Paula (Demo)
  6. Catcliffe Shakedown (Demo)
  7. We Can Dance Again (Demo)
  8. Don't Lose It (Demo)
  9. Whiskey In The Jar (Radio France Black Session)
  10. Disco 2000 (Nick Cave Pub Rock Version)
  11. Common People (Vocoda Mix)

* Tracks 4-8 and 10 of CD2 were previously unavailable.

Sleevenotes:
Ah yes, Different Class... Well, to tell the story of this album you really have to start with the song Common People: Common People had been written just before we performed at the Reading festival in the summer of 1994 and from the reaction it got there we recognised we had a potential hit on our hands. To realise this potential we decided we needed to work with a producer who could nurture the song's vaguely anthemic leanings without taking us into Simple Minds - circa 'Belfast Child' territory (actually, that track probably sounds quite good now). We decided that that producer was Chris Thomas.

We went into the Town House Studios on Goldhawk Road in London and had finished Common People (and it's b-side Underwear) by Christmas 1994. Everybody was so pleased with the results that we asked Chris to produce the whole album. The only problem was - we didn't have any more songs. (This was probably my fault as I had become convinced, whilst walking down Portobello Road one day, that Common People was somehow miraculously in tune with the mood of the times and had to be released as soon as possible; Thus we had gone into the studio with only two songs.) Anyway, we weren't too bothered cos at least the two songs we had were great so we went back up to the pottery warehouse in Catcliffe to write some more. My memory gets a bit hazy now - the next big event I recall is the release of Common People in May 1995; the single's quite startling success really shook everything up and Island starting politely enquiring as to the whereabouts of the rest of the album. This marked the beginning of a period of extremely frenzied activity (which, after 10 years of moving at a snail's pace, was quite a shock to our delicate systems, I can tell you). I remember us writing stuff in some room in Waterloo, London, surrounded by multi-coloured cereal boxes with 'Pulp' written on them cos we were performing on Top of the Pops the next night. By June we thought we had enough good material and went back up to Sheffield to demo it all. We went into Axis recording studios and recorded 12 songs. Next problem - I hadn't written any words for them. The only solution was to sit in my sister's kitchen one night with a bottle of cheap Spanish brandy and write until I lost consciousness - in the morning I had completed 10 and I finished the other 2 off on the way to the studio (I have tried this method of working since with no result other than a hangover). The cassette I have of those sessions is dated the 13th of June 1995, which means that songs such as 'Sorted For E's & Wizz' were performed at Glastonbury barely a week after we'd first recorded them. Heady days.

Our sudden addition to the Glastonbury bill (after John Squire of the Stone Roses had a mountain bike accident) meant that we had to use the Town House Studios as a rehearsal room for a bit (must be our most expensive rehearsals ever) and we went straight back to the studio with the sound of the crowd still ringing in our ears. Given the warmth of our reception at Glastonbury we were probably the most confident we had ever been - I don't think we could have pulled off a song such as 'Mis-Shapes' if we didn't know that now, finally, we had a mass audience. Can't remember much about finishing the record except I guess it must've been late cos we already had a tour booked and the album ended up coming out on the very last day of it (music biz note: you usually release a record and then tour it to 'capitalise' on the public interest). I remember coming out of a club on Oxford Street around that time and seeing all the cardboard cut-outs of us in the window of HMV and going to stand next to them and some girls screamed: It's probably the purest Pop-Star moment I've ever had.

If only we'd have known what was just around the corner...

Disco 2000 Part 1

Released: 27 November 1995
Number: CID 623
Format: CD
Sleeve: Blue Source, Photography - Donald Milne

  1. Disco 2000 (seven inch mix)
  2. Disco 2000
  3. Ansaphone
  4. Live Bed Show (extended)


Disco 2000 Part 2

Release: 27 November 1995
Number: CIDX 623
Format: CD
Sleeve: Blue Source, Photography - Donald Milne

  1. Disco 2000 (album version)
  2. Disco 2000 (seven inch mix)
  3. Disco 2000 (Motiv8 discoid mix)
  4. Disco 2000 (Motiv8 gimp dub)



* The Cassette release (CIS623) only includes Disco 2000 (7" mix) and 'Disco 2000 (Motiv8 discoid mix).

* The single was released on 7" orange vinyl (IS 623) on 20 November 1996 with the 'part two' sleeve containing A) Disco 2000 (7" mix) and B) Ansaphone.

* The single was also released on 12" vinyl (12IS 623) on 20 November 1996 with the 'part one' sleeve containing A1) Disco 2000 (7" Mix), A2) Ansaphone, B1) Disco 2000 (Motiv8 Gimp Dub), B2) Disco 2000 (Motiv8 Discoid Mix).

* The CD2 single was re-issued on 6 December 1999, ready for the millennium celebrations.

* Highest Chart Position: 7

* BPI UK Sales Awards:
Silver (200,000 units), 1 January 1996

Something Changed Girl CD

Release: 25 March 1996
Number: CID 632
Format: CD
Sleeve: Blue Source, Photography - Rankin

  1. Something Changed
  2. Mile End
  3. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E (Moloko Mix)
  4. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E (Live at the Brixon Academy)


Something Changed Boy CD

Release: 25 March 1996
Number: CIDX 632
Format: CD
Sleeve: Blue Source, Photography - Rankin

  1. Something Changed
  2. Mile End
  3. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E (Moloko Mix)
  4. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E (Live at the Brixon Academy)



* Track 4 was recorded on 21 December 1995 and later appeared on the F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.I.V.E tour video.

* The Cassette release (CIS 632) has a double sided boy and girl sleeves and includes Something Changed and Mile End.

* The single was released on 7" vinyl (IS 632) on 20 November 1996 with the 'boy' sleeve containing A) Something Changed and B) Mile End

* The single was also released on 12" vinyl (12IS 632) on 20 November 1996 with the 'girl' sleeve containing A1) Something Changed, A2) Mile End, B1) F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E (Moloko Mix) and B2) F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E (Live at the Brixton Academy)

* Highest Chart Position: 10

Help The Aged

Release: 10 November 1997
Numbers: IS 679 / CIS 679 / CID 679
Formats: 7" vinyl / Cassette / CD
Sleeve: Blue Source, Photography - Rankin
Highest Chart Position: 8

  1. Help The Aged
  2. Tomorrow Never Lies
  3. Laughing Boy


* The Cassette and 7" vinyl have the same tracklisting as the CD

Sleevenotes:
So do you expect us to start drinking port and lemon all of a sudden? The rave is on. Leave your wheelchair outside.

This Is Hardcore CD1

Release: 16 March 1998
Number: CID 695
Format: CD
Sleeve: The Apartment (Wakefield & Hetherington), Art Direction: John Currin, Photography: Horst Diekgerdes, Effects: Peter Saville.

  1. This Is Hardcore (original version)
  2. Ladies' Man
  3. The Professional
  4. This Is Hardcore (Pulp's End Of The Line Remix)

This Is Hardcore CD2

Release: 16 March 1998
Number: CIDX 695
Format: CD
Sleeve: As CD1

  1. This Is Hardcore (original version)
  2. This Is Hardcore (4 Hero Remix)
  3. This Is Hardcore (Swedish Erotica Remix)
  4. This Is Hardcore (Stock Hausen & Walkman Remix)


* The Cassette release (CIS 695) includes 'This Is Hardcore' and 'Ladies' Man'.

* Highest Chart Position:12

Sleevenotes:
CD1: Taking it all the way down to the marrowbone. Hold tight.
CD2: Now is the time of the quickening. By the way - that goes in there.

This Is Hardcore LP

Release: 30 March 1998
Numbers: ILPSD 8066 / ICT 8066 / CID 8066
Formats: Gatefold Double Vinyl LP / Cassette / CD
Sleeve: The Apartment (Wakefield & Hetherington), Art Direction: John Currin, Photography: Horst Diekgerdes, Effects: Peter Saville.
Highest Chart Position: 1

  1. The Fear
  2. Dishes
  3. Party Hard
  4. Help The Aged
  5. This Is Hardcore
  6. TV Movie
  7. A Little Soul
  8. I'm A Man
  9. Seductive Barry
  10. Sylvia
  11. Glory Days
  12. The Day After The Revolution


* The Double Vinyl LP includes 4 additional tracks, D1) Tomorrow Never Lies, D2) Laughing Boy, D3) The Professional, D4) This Is Hardcore (End Of The Line Remix).

* The Double Vinyl LP was re-issued on heavy weight 180-gram vinyl in 2009 by Plain Recordings of San Francisco (Cat# Plain131).

* Click here to see the cassette sleeve.

* The US import of the CD contains 'Like A Friend' as a bonus track

* The Japanese import of the CD contains 'Like A Friend' and 'Tomorrow Never Lies' as bonus tracks.

* BPI UK Sales Awards:
Silver (60,000 units), 17 April 1998
Gold (100,000 units), 17 April 1998

Sleevenotes:
It's ok to grow up - just as long as you don't grow old. Face it... you are young.


This Is Hardcore LP - Reissued Deluxe Edition

Release: 11 September 2006
Number: 9840048
Format: Double CD

CD1: Remastered This Is Hardcore LP. Tracklisting as per original release.
CD2:
  1. Cocaine Socialism (Proper Version)
  2. It's A Dirty World (Recording Session Outtake)
  3. Like A Friend
  4. The Professional
  5. Ladies' Man
  6. Laughing Boy
  7. We Are The Boyz
  8. Tomorrow Never Dies (Rough Mix)
  9. Can I Have My Balls Back, Please? (Demo)
  10. Modern Marriage (Demo)
  11. My Erection (Demo)
  12. You Are The One (Demo)
  13. Street Operator (Demo)
  14. This Is Hardcore (Pulp's End Of The Line Remix)

* Tracks 1-2 and 8-13 of CD2 were previously unavailable.

A Little Soul CD1

Release: 8 June 1998
Number: CID 705
Format: CD
Sleeve: As This Is Hardcore LP

  1. A Little Soul (Original Version)
  2. Cocaine Socialism
  3. Like A Friend


A Little Soul CD2

Release: 8 June 1998
Number: CIDX 705
Format: CD
Sleeve: As This Is Hardcore LP

  1. A Little Soul (Alternative Version)
  2. A Little Soul (Lafayette Velvet Revisited Mix)
  3. That Boy's Evil


* The Cassette release (CIS 705) includes 'A Little Soul' (original version) and 'Cocaine Socialism'.

* The 'Alternative Version' is also known as the 'Jonny Dollar Remix' and the 'Original Version' is also known as the 'Album Version'.

* Cocaine Socialism was originally titled 'Northern Souls' which was preferred by the band, however it had to be renamed so as not to cause confusion with 'A Little Soul'.

* That Boy's Evil was originally titled 'In With The P - Crowd'.

* The spine of CD2 incorrectly states that the version of 'A Little Soul' is the Original Version.

* The version of 'Like A Friend' on CD1 is the 'Film Version' which is lengthier than the 'Album Version' found on the Great Expectations Soundtrack CD. The 'Film Version' is also found as a bonus track on the US and Japanese 'This Is Hardcore' albums.

* Highest Chart Position: 22

Party Hard CD1

Release: 7 September 1998
Number: CID 719
Sleeve: As This Is Hardcore LP

  1. Party Hard
  2. We Are The Boyz
  3. The Fear (The Complete And Utter Breakdown Version)


Party Hard CD2

Release: 7 September 1998
Number: CIDX 719
Sleeve: As This Is Hardcore LP

  1. Party Hard
  2. Party Hard (Stretch 'n' Verns Michel Lombert Remix)
  3. Party Hard (I Hardly Part Mix)


* The Cassette release (CIS 719) includes 'Party Hard' and 'Party Hard (Stretch 'n' Verns Michel Lombert Remix)'.

* On all formats, the version of Party Hard has been slightly remixed and is a little faster than the original album version.

* The version of 'The Fear' on CD1 is an extended version (7:12) of the same album track and most closely resembles the way Pulp play this song live.

* Click here to see a Party Hard advert.

* Highest Chart Position: 29

Sleevenotes:
CD1: Uncle Psychosis Sez IF YOU DIDN'T COME TO PARTY WHY DID YOU COME HERE?
CD2: Uncle Psychosis sez PARTY HARDER (IS THAT POSSIBLE?).

This Is Glastonbury

Release: 14 September 1998 (Mail Order Only)
Format: CD
Number: 524 592-2
Sleeve: As This Is Hardcore LP

  1. The Fear (Live)
  2. Live Bed Show (Live)
  3. TV Movie (Live)
  4. A Little Soul (Live)
  5. Party Hard (Live)
  6. Help the Aged (Live)
  7. Seductive Barry (Live)


* All tracks are live recordings from the Glastonbury Festival, 28 June 1998

* The CD was also given away with copies of the This Is Hardcore Album which was rereleased as a 2 CD package with wrap around cardboard packaging on the same date (CIDD 8066). The Japanese import of this 2 CD package also includes 'This Is Hardcore' and 'Glory Days/Common People' as additional tracks on the live CD in addition to the two usual bonus tracks on the Japanese album.

Sunrise / The Trees CD1

Release: 8 October 2001
Number: CID 786
Format: CD (Sunrise Sleeve)
Sleeve: Peter Saville Studio

  1. Sunrise
  2. The Trees
  3. Sunrise (Fat Truckers / Scott Free Mix)


The Trees / Sunrise CD2

Release: 8 October 2001
Number: CIDX 786
Format: CD (Sunset Sleeve)
Sleeve: Peter Saville Studio

  1. The Trees
  2. Sunrise
  3. The Trees (Felled By I Monster)


Sunrise / The Trees 12"

Release: 15 October 2001
Number: 12IS 786
Format: 12" vinyl
Sleeve: Peter Saville Studio

    A1. Sunrise (All Seeing I - Middle Of The Road Mix)
    B1. The Trees (Felled By I Monster)
    B2. The Trees (Lovejoy The No Jazz Mix)


* Highest Chart Position: 23 (wk.1), 58 (wk.2)

* Click here to read the Press Release for The Trees/Sunrise

Sleevenotes:
CD1: You've been awake all night, so why should you crash out at dawn?
CD2 and 12": Go and tell it to the trees

We Love Life LP

Release: 22 October 2001
Numbers: CID 8110 / ILPS 8110
Formats: CD / Vinyl LP
Art Direction: Jarvis Cocker & Peter Saville
Design: Howard Wakefield & Marcus Werner Hed
Highest Chart Position: 6

  1. Weeds
  2. Weeds II (The Origin Of The Species)
  3. The Night That Minnie Timperley Died
  4. The Trees
  5. Wickerman
  6. I Love Life
  7. The Birds In Your Garden
  8. Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)
  9. Bad Cover Version
  10. Roadkill
  11. Sunrise


* The decorated letters on the album sleeve were designed by Alan Fletcher and are from a collection of 23 alphabets engraved on wood, circa 1820, for the London Typefounder Louis John Pouchée. They were designed for use on contemporary posters and the original alphabets, published in ornamental types in 1990, are in the collection of the St. Bride Printing Library, London.

* The sleeves of the non-UK releases of We Love Life (CIDX 8110) have orange, tan and yellow PULP letters, as opposed to the green ones on the UK sleeve. This was possibly an attempt by the record company to discourage UK consumers from buying lower-priced import copies.

* This RSPB booklet from 1972 is thought to have inspired the title of The Birds In Your Garden

* Click here to read an interview with Jarvis where he explains what each of the album tracks are about.

* BPI UK Sales Awards:
Silver (60,000 units), 19 October 2001

Sleevenotes:
You've got to fight to the death for the right to live your life.

Bad Cover Version CD1

Release: 15 April 2002
Number: CID 794
Format: CD
Sleeve: Peter Saville Studio

  1. Bad Cover Version
  2. Yesterday
  3. Forever In My Dreams


Bad Cover Version CD2

Release: 15 April 2002
Number: CIDX 794
Format: CD
Sleeve: Peter Saville Studio

  1. Bad Cover Version (Video Mix)
  2. Disco 2000 (By Nick Cave)
  3. Sorted For E's & Wizz (By Roisin Murphy)


Bad Cover Version DVD

Release: 15 April 2002
Number: CIDV 794
Format: DVD
Sleeve: Peter Saville Studio

  1. Bad Cover Version (Audio)
  2. Bad Cover Version (Video)
  3. Making The Video


* Highest Chart Position: 27

* Click here to see an advert for the single.

* 2,500 Slipcases were made to hold all three singles and were given away to people on the fanbase mailing list.

* The artwork for CD1 & 2 shows a young Mark Webber posing outside 21 Heddon St, London, recreating the original sleeve of David Bowie's 1972 LP 'Ziggy Stardust'.

Sleevenotes: None!

Pulp After You 2013 Download Pulp After You 2012 DownloadAfter You

Release: 25 December 2012 and 28 January 2013
Number: No number
Format: Digital Download

  1. After You

* Christmas cards with download codes were given out at Pulp's Sheffield Arena show on 8 December 2012. Just after midnight on Christmas Day the website pulpxmasgift.co.uk was activated and the download codes linked to an MP3 file of After You. The link was deactivated after Christmas Day and the song was given an official release on 28 January 2013 (with revised black and pink artwork). Although the song dates from 1999, this version was recorded in November 2012 and was completed in December 2012 with the help of James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem.

Pulp After You Soulwax Remix After You (Soulwax Remix)

Release: 20 April 2013
Number: RTRADST699
Format: 12" vinyl (5,000 copies)

    A1. After You (Soulwax remix)
    B1. After You
    B2. After You (The 4AM Desperation Disco To Disco Dub Version)

* This was a special release for Record Store Day 2013.

* Click here to see the a-side record label.



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