Hits - Pulp

Advantages: The best band ever
Disadvantages: You'll want to dance to Common People

Well...this is the CD that started it all, or should I say continued it? I remember as a wee child, sat in my car, listening to "Disco 2000" on the radio. Such good times. It was a song, that even as a mindless child, said to me "This is how music should sound". So, late summer '06 sometime, I saw the Video to that memory stirring song on something like "Q", or "The Vault" on sky, and my heart literally stopped. A couple of weeks later, I saw the ...
...mind to go straight to Virgin Megastores and pick up my copy of some form of Pulp's Greatest Hits, and so came across "Hits". It shows how Pulp changed and differed through their time at large, from the early 90's to the early 00's. Songs like "Babies", "Razzmataz", and "Lipgloss" all ooze with dark, perverted, but none the less incredibly witty innuendo, about spying on your friend's sister, incest, and sleeping around. Its the kind of stuff that ... Read review

Advantages: music is brilliant. if you like music you should like Pulp....
Disadvantages: non

Pulp were a band that spanned 20 years. 10 of those years were wasted on failure. Despit the albums being brilliant. In the 90s they came to fame! This compilation is of every Pulp single of there successfull period and includes a bunus track: "Last Day Of The Minors Strike". The odvious songs are there. The "His N Hers" stuff. All of the "Different Class, "Hardcore" and "We Love Life" singles. The abum art is funky and there is a choice to select ... Read review

Advantages: It's got all songs that a non- pulp fan would need
Disadvantages: It's missing nearlly every good track they've done

Pulp, the best band in the world if you ask me. They've influnced so many people and bands over the past 20 years that they should receive an award. Cocker is the best front man this country has seen in years and even thogh Pulp are now disbanded, he still lives strong in the world of music. Hit's does exactly what it says on the tin- a collection of all their hits. Hit's includes some of the earlier works that were never on any of the bigger pulp ... Read review

Advantages: Most of Pulp's Singles on ONE CD
Disadvantages: One single missing, which is a shame.

...bands finally realeased a greatest hits album and nobody noticed. Only reaching number Seventy One in the charts. This cd has fiftteen classic singles, one B-side and one new track. As it seems this is Pulp's final album what better way for someone who has never bought a Pulp album than by buying this. I highly recommend it. You'll no doubt recognise songs such as: Common People, Disco 2000, Help The Aged, Do You Remember The First Time? ... Read review

Advantages: A superb album
Disadvantages: None really

...When Pulp had the string of hits a few years back including Disco 2000, and Common People, it took a while to talk myself into buying the album, Different Class. However, once bought I never looked back, as it is a true gem! The album is slightly short with 12 tracks, and includes obviously the above 2 hits, and also Sorted For E's & Whizz, and Something Changed. But I've found that other unknown songs are actually as good if not better than the singles they released! My favourtie song from the album is Underwear which has excellent lyrics and a superb melody which incorporates lots of emotion. Mis-Shapes is also another songs that I love and the way Jarvis brings the song from a low ebb upto a high and then slopes it back off for the finish is genius. The album overall is one of pure genius, and it's a shame that more wasn... Read review

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Advantages: moving, insightful and beautiful songs. It's Captain Kirk
Disadvantages: Not everyone's up of tea

...version of Mr Tamborine Man is legendary with Shatner literally screaming like a crazed maniac by the end. Not quite the version The Byrd's did. Released in 2004, this CD got a surprising amount of critical acclaim but didn't really enter most people's radars. A pity as it truly is a one of a kind and has much to offer. Produced by Ben Folds of the Ben Folds Five and featuring a dizzying array of other talent such as Joe Jackson, Adrian Belew, Henry Rollins and more, Has Been is a collection of thoughtful, inspiring and downright strange, often self-deprecating songs that firmly lay to rest the idea of Shatner being a bit stuck up his own fundement. I'm just sad he hasn't released anything since. Tracks A fairly sensible start with "Common People", a cover of the Pulp hit from a few years back. Pretty much like the original except... Read review

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Advantages: Great return to the pop charts
Disadvantages: Sometimes forays into cheesiness

...After the dismal failure of her previous album Impossible Princess, it was vital that Kylie should take a step away from the music scene and come back with something that would initially restore some of her success. Light Years proved to be the album that got the ball rolling. Starting off with a hidden track called Password, the album starts out as it means to go on. Its well known with Kylie's fans that hidden tracks, b sides and unreleased material has proven to be some of her finest work, this song proves to be no different, with a great little beat going on that would be more evident on her current album Body Language. Then its time for the Kylie revival with her hit number one Spinning Around. There are some classic disco tracks that follow with musical references to Diana Ross, Pulp, Barry Manilow, among many others. In... Read review

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