'don't let him waste your time,' by jarvis cocker
during the last 20 years there is perhaps no other front man in british music more iconic than jarvis cocker [except the mozfather, of course]. with his black-rimmed coke-bottle glasses, foppish hair and biting wit, jarvis was the perfect anti-hero, the pied piper of mis-shapes, mistakes and misfits, the voice of the disillusions, disheartened and disenfrachised. and, of course, there was the incident at the 1996 brits. [anyone who moons the king of pop is a-ok in my book]. man, i love jarvis.
sadly, we haven't heard any new pulp for several years now. i sincerely hope we haven't seen the last of them. i never got to see them live and that's my biggest concert regret. ever. so in lieu of a proper pulp album, jarvis released an excellent solo album last year in the UK and this year in the US. though age seems to have mellowed the man just a tad, he's lost none of his wit. with song titles 'fat children,' 'disney time,' and 'i will kill again,' jarvis shows that nothing is off-limits. if you haven't heard pulp or jarvis yet, you've got quite a back catalogue to dive into. here's a taste.
→ jarvis cocker: don't let him waste your time / video [and what a video!]
→ richard x featuring jarvis cocker: into you [mazzy star 'cover'/'mashup']
→ william shatner: common people [pulp cover]
SONG OF THE DAY (#201)
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 | Posted by matt lohrke at 8:24 AM
Labels: mp3, song of the day
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Not familiar with the Pulp, but I'd like to be. Do you recommend a starting off point, dear sir?
definitely start with 'different class.' (1995).
but really, you can't go wrong with 'his n' hers' (1993), 'this is hardcore (1998), and the scott walker-produced 'we love life' (2001).
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