Pulp- Common People REACTION AND REVIEW

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  • Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025

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  • @BenjaminMitrofan-Norris-hi7bj
    @BenjaminMitrofan-Norris-hi7bj День назад +44

    In the war between Blur and Oasis, the winners were Pulp and Suede.

  • @jeremyb5640
    @jeremyb5640 День назад +16

    Jarvis was such a keen observer of the British class system and the lives of ordinary people. One of the defining songs of the Britpop era. Brilliant writing.

  • @GareksApprentice
    @GareksApprentice День назад +29

    Now that you've heard the OG, you have to react to the William Shatner cover. It's actually pretty good and even Jarvis Cocker loved it. Go in blind! There's a fun surprise on it that I don't want spoiled for you

    • @anarchestra9486
      @anarchestra9486 23 часа назад +2

      Joe Jackson and Ben Folds were also involved. Really fun version. That whole Shatner album is great - so many genres and (at times) very heartfelt.

    • @GareksApprentice
      @GareksApprentice 19 часов назад

      ​@anarchestra9486 So much for not wanting it spoiled for him 🫤 🤐 🤫

    • @GeoffCB
      @GeoffCB 15 часов назад +1

      I probably prefer his cover!

    • @tobeski
      @tobeski 2 часа назад

      @@anarchestra9486 Like so many other people I listened to it expecting it to be awful but it's really tremendous

  • @dougoneill7266
    @dougoneill7266 15 часов назад +5

    'kin love this. One of the best poverty safari songs out there.

  • @janinebedfordl
    @janinebedfordl День назад +13

    Chances are high that this was THE best song of the 90s (best indie pop song for sure)

  • @SpaceCattttt
    @SpaceCattttt 23 часа назад +8

    A masterpiece. One of the finest songs of the 90s.

  • @boq780_2.0
    @boq780_2.0 23 часа назад +11

    Great reaction to the song. The lyrics are funny and meaningful, Jarvis is a great observational lyricist, a Ray Davies of a later age.

  • @willardgrant2001
    @willardgrant2001 День назад +10

    a masterpiece!

  • @Azabaxe80
    @Azabaxe80 День назад +10

    Many people think of "Animal Nitrate" or "Park Life" or "Live Forever" when asked about the most iconic Britpop song. I personally think of this song. It's not as sexy as the Suede song, but it's as clever as anything Albarn came up with. And It's catchy as hell.
    Oh, and the video is amazing.
    On a personal note, if you're like me, a person of humble origins who somehow ended up in an institution of higher learning where most people came from a wealthy background, then that "slumming", that anthropological exploration of the "lower classes" is something you saw all the time.

    • @ricardo_miguel13
      @ricardo_miguel13 23 часа назад +1

      I think Pulp songs are rather sexy

    • @group-music
      @group-music 13 часов назад

      I really dislike the video. It omits the last verse entirely and censors the naughty words.

  • @Markhypnosis1
    @Markhypnosis1 22 часа назад +3

    Babies and Do You Remember The First Time are my fav Pulp songs. 👌

  • @Gravel-Idle
    @Gravel-Idle 16 часов назад +4

    Everybody hates a tourist.

  • @frugalseverin2282
    @frugalseverin2282 День назад +4

    This is a brilliant song, sung with passion and charisma with a great hook. It's infectious.

  • @paulparker1565
    @paulparker1565 День назад +6

    A masterpiece of a song and a great reaction Justin. The whole album is amazing and was my favourite album of the nineties.

  • @grahamharley4895
    @grahamharley4895 23 часа назад +3

    Thanks for doing the proper version Justin. This hooked me again in the 90s after a few years of hiatus thinking that popular music post 70s was a dirty word.

  • @andkat
    @andkat 22 часа назад +2

    Forgot how much i love this record.

  • @michaelfrank2266
    @michaelfrank2266 16 часов назад +2

    Wife is hearing this from the other room. She was not impressed. I said, sit here and read the lyrics and I played it again. We agreed. This song is good. We liked it.

  • @murdockreviews
    @murdockreviews 22 часа назад +2

    This was such a classic, combining smart lyrics with a great pop song.

  • @tobeski
    @tobeski 5 часов назад

    Thank you for reacting to the full length album version - so many reactors use the shorter 7" edit which omits the blistering last verse

  • @littlecitygirl
    @littlecitygirl 19 часов назад +2

    Such an epic song. The first time I saw Pulp on TV they were performing Common People on Top of the Pops and Jarvis was like some kind of charismatic alien insect - all elbows and finger flicks and attitude. Check out the live version of this from Glastonbury (1995), it's awesome. Great reaction as always, JP.

  • @josiepkat
    @josiepkat 15 часов назад +1

    Love it!!! DAMN I miss the 90s.

  • @DawnSuttonfabfour
    @DawnSuttonfabfour День назад +6

    JP as a guilty pleasure, listen to William Shatner's version of this, awesome. The album is called Has Been. Brilliant.

    • @GareksApprentice
      @GareksApprentice 19 часов назад +1

      Not a guilty pleasure to my ears. Just a damn good cover

  • @thisworldofwater8017
    @thisworldofwater8017 20 часов назад +2

    You rarely hear a song with this much ANGER.

    • @MrCREWCRUSHIN95
      @MrCREWCRUSHIN95 5 часов назад

      Um, Punk and Industrial are much angrier than pop.

  • @vernonallen3370
    @vernonallen3370 День назад +9

    Have you reacted to Pulp’s This is Hard Core, if not it’s a must listen

  • @markferrett700
    @markferrett700 22 часа назад +4

    Jarvis Cocker....is an underatted genius.

  • @papaquonis
    @papaquonis 15 часов назад +1

    A great song from a magnificent album

  • @sonicart1808
    @sonicart1808 2 часа назад

    Pop masterpiece....thanks JP.

  • @misha-jz4yx
    @misha-jz4yx 16 часов назад +2

    Brilliant, really interesting reaction. Thank you. For a certain generation this is like an unofficial National Anthem for the UK working class. And glad that you did the long version cos the radio edit lacks some of the intensity of this one. Sing along and it might just get you through.

    • @JustJP
      @JustJP  15 часов назад +1

      Thank Misha! This one was really good!

  • @mchmch6185
    @mchmch6185 17 часов назад +3

    Jarvis is one of the finest lyricists British popular music has ever produced. I guess you'll be on to "I Spy" next, which is a thrill-ride of a class-based bitter revenge fantasy.

  • @outernothingness1177
    @outernothingness1177 17 часов назад

    Hazlewood, Cardiacs, Hitchcock and now this! I don't know what kind of a streak you're on right now, Justin, but you're simply lining up my favourites one by one! :-)
    So glad to see you reacted to the full length version, most people don't (because they react to the video) and they miss some of the best lines of the lyrics. (The whole verse starting "Like a dog lying in a corner" is missing from the edited version.) Sharing the medal with Blur's "Coffee & TV", this was certainly the best thing to ever come out of Brit Pop.

    • @JustJP
      @JustJP  15 часов назад

      That makes me happy to hear that you've been enjoying the channel recently outer :) Ty

  • @NeilMcCarthy-l5j
    @NeilMcCarthy-l5j День назад +4

    A great tune - such a memorable one from the 90’s!
    Should try ‘Something Changed’ off the same album - which catches Jarvis in a more softer, reflective mood about lurvvv

  • @edwardlosty549
    @edwardlosty549 19 часов назад +2

    Musically great, but for me it’s 5% about the song and 95% about the story. They found a way to get an important message in to the mainstream.
    For me it’s summed up by “everybody hates a tourist” at the time “poor is cool” disgusted everyone struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile we had the rich kids on poverty safari while a vast swathe of the country lived Friday pay packet to pay packet.

  • @btj1960
    @btj1960 19 часов назад +1

    Not an explosion of energy, more an explosion of anger

  • @knutfarbu984
    @knutfarbu984 День назад +4

    Always loved this song. For you from the US I guess the British straightforward lyrics can be a bit unusual. Check out The Beautiful South, British popband from the 80’s and 90’s. Honest and bittersweet songs, I recommend the song “ perfect 10”.

    • @mattleppard1970
      @mattleppard1970 22 часа назад

      Yes, loads of great hits imbued with honesty and wry comment.

  • @MorganMontyMcKeown
    @MorganMontyMcKeown 4 часа назад

    The shortened single version dropped the third verse about the dog in the corner.

  • @paulgnsn554
    @paulgnsn554 18 часов назад

    An old friend of mine studied at St Martin's college at the same time Jarvis was there, although Jarvis was older than him. He knew the girl from the song and said she actually studied photography not sculpture😄 I guess photography had too many syllables!

  • @jamesdignanmusic2765
    @jamesdignanmusic2765 8 часов назад

    Brilliant song - justifiably one of the songs of the decade. Absolutely dripping with bitter cynical angry humour, and catchy as hell. This and the gloriously silly rave song "Sorted for Es and Whiz" are Pulp's masterpieces IMO. BTW, as to where the lyrics are coming from, Pulp are from Sheffield, at that time a depressed industrial city, so they knew. I could imagine similar ideas coming out of Pittsburgh or Detroit.

  • @cuchulainx3125
    @cuchulainx3125 7 часов назад

    Chippy Brit heaven. Great reaction to a great song

  • @martinlegg2151
    @martinlegg2151 22 часа назад +1

    Pulp were the best band of the Oasis/Blur wars...if you love pulp,then i would highly recommend listening to The Divine Comedy...some absolute diamonds in their body of work..."Gin Soaked Boy",Something for the Weekend" and "Lady of a certain age" amongst many many others,all of their albums are consistently awesome..

  • @WayneCoston-kj1go
    @WayneCoston-kj1go 11 часов назад

    Amazing album and whilst this is the most popular song, it's Something's Changed which remains my favourite. The single version misses out the section singing about the dog lying in the the corner. After You is a great non album single which is worth checking out. Also Running This World by Jarvis Cocker is amazing.

  • @MrCREWCRUSHIN95
    @MrCREWCRUSHIN95 5 часов назад

    The William Shatner/Joe Jackson/Ben Folds cover version is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @TimvanderLeeuw
    @TimvanderLeeuw День назад +4

    You should watch the video clip for this song too!

    • @kenmack2956
      @kenmack2956 День назад +2

      Jarvis’ dancing is something to behold

    • @ricardo_miguel13
      @ricardo_miguel13 23 часа назад +1

      yes, hilarious and genius

  • @lvtv0197
    @lvtv0197 16 часов назад

    Common people is my favourite Pulp song the video for the song is great and you should check it out. Other Pulp songs Lipgloss, Babies, Disco 2000, Sorted for E’s and whizz and Help the Aged.

  • @Nick-n2s7h
    @Nick-n2s7h 7 часов назад

    The William Shatner cover is surprisingly good - produced by Ben Folds with the help of the great Joe Jackson. I can’t deny the excellence of the original, but damn if I don’t play the Shatner/Jackson version more.

  • @Elvin_Pelvin
    @Elvin_Pelvin 13 часов назад

    fabulous record. In the 1960s and 70s possibly earlier (anyway post WW2) there was at least a sense or pretence of a mixing of the social classes - how true it was is debatable but that changed in the 80s onwards. As an aside Jarvis Cocker and Joe Cocker both of Sheffield checked into their family history but found no connection - it was just a common name.

  • @summertime_blooz
    @summertime_blooz 19 часов назад

    Nice album! Cool track. I bought this CD and 'This Is Hardcore' back then. Jarvis Cocker seemed a decent stand-in for Roxy era Ferry who had become a bore.

  • @AndyClayton-f5x
    @AndyClayton-f5x День назад +1

    It's a great track. Sort of thing Dylan might have come up with, but he would have handled it differently. I've only ever heard the shorter radio version, so it was fun to hear the full length. It's edited quite well, there's nothing vital missing from the shorter version. It just doesn't fly so far.
    Jarvis was a bit of a lad, he once mooned at Michael Jackson at an awards ceremony. Rock and roll.
    Nice to hear it, and your review too.

    • @group-music
      @group-music 13 часов назад

      That's nonsense. The shorter version doesn't have the entire last verse which has the strongest lyrics in the song.

  • @Brian-mu3io
    @Brian-mu3io День назад +2

    Hi JP. I always enjoy when you land on one of these tracks - seemingly from nowhere. Reminds me of how good the album is and the fact I haven't given it a listen for a while. Hoping you might pluck Baby Blue by Badfinger from the ether. 🤞

    • @JustJP
      @JustJP  15 часов назад

      Ty Brian :)

  • @mattleppard1970
    @mattleppard1970 22 часа назад +1

    I’d loved “Babies” as a single, but this album blew me away. Not one mediocre song on it.

  • @ricardo_miguel13
    @ricardo_miguel13 23 часа назад +1

    this albums is a 10/10. Better than Morning Glory, Park Life or Definitely Maybe

  • @floydshambles
    @floydshambles День назад +1

    OJ and Pulp for breakfast.

  • @daremo5284
    @daremo5284 23 часа назад +3

    You should check out the William Shatner ( yes, Captain Kirk) cover of this.

  • @DawnSuttonfabfour
    @DawnSuttonfabfour День назад +1

    Get the Es and whizz.

  • @michaelludesse3400
    @michaelludesse3400 День назад +1

    A bit too silly for my taste - I also prefer the previous album His 'N Hers and what came after, though there's no denying Common People is an absolute masterpiece with amazing lyrics and a brilliant build-up. A song that fully deserves its place in pop history.

    • @group-music
      @group-music 13 часов назад

      what do you mean by "silly". There is absolutely nothing silly about this song.

  • @suzieqzombie2
    @suzieqzombie2 День назад

    Never heard this before. Thought i was listening to David Bowie!

    • @boq780_2.0
      @boq780_2.0 День назад

      If he was from South Yorkshire, rather than South London!

    • @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
      @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering 21 час назад +1

      😮.. really ??? 🤯
      👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @Elvin_Pelvin
      @Elvin_Pelvin 13 часов назад +1

      Jarvis Cocker was a teenager in the 70s - likely a Bowie fan and the LP was produced by Chris Thomas who had produced amongst many others Roxy Music and there are a least a couple of overt Roxy (Eno) references in the mix.

    • @suzieqzombie2
      @suzieqzombie2 10 часов назад

      Interesting. Appreciate your sharing of knowledge.

  • @kickinbacknyc
    @kickinbacknyc 21 час назад +2

    Yes you must listen to the william sharner version.

  • @Rael_486
    @Rael_486 День назад +2

    Yeah, and the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath. 😮

  • @trevorward8496
    @trevorward8496 12 часов назад

    Love Jervis cocker he punched Michael Jackson coz he was dancing with kids on TV........have a listen to william shatners (star trek) version

    • @Jacob_Junge
      @Jacob_Junge 2 часа назад

      He didn't punch Michael Jackson, he rushed the stage during Jackson's performance, pulled down his pants, and mooned the audience.

    • @vladtheinhaler6647
      @vladtheinhaler6647 10 минут назад

      What are you talking about ffs? Do some research before spouting nonsense.

  • @stoneybass5981
    @stoneybass5981 4 часа назад

    Great track. At times he sounds like Ian McCullough.

  • @saturninebear
    @saturninebear День назад +1

    It's a great album, though I infinitely prefer the album that preceded it.

  • @ricardo_miguel13
    @ricardo_miguel13 23 часа назад +1

    you have to check out the music video, its hilarious and genius aswell

  • @wallbangerreactions
    @wallbangerreactions 18 часов назад

    Musically I like it and it was fresh. Lyrically, it feels like a ripoff of The Kinks' "Ordinary People" where a rockstar trades places with a chap named Norman and will even sleep with his wife for the sake of art.

  • @paulcollins5586
    @paulcollins5586 День назад +3

    Never really got into these lot. All i know this was way overplayed. Not fussed.

  • @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
    @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering 21 час назад

    Good lord calm down folks 😅.. yeah it’s an ok britpop choon , but better than Oasis n Blur ??.. get away with ye for goodness sake . That’s the 90’s E’s talking there , mixing up yer memory n emotions 🤣… I forgive you all for talking bollox 🙏
    👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @HippoYnYrEira
    @HippoYnYrEira День назад +4

    whodunnit on steroids. annoying beyond belief. one dimensional comedy dirge

  • @sicko_the_ew
    @sicko_the_ew 23 часа назад

    I was OK with it for about a minute and a half or so, but once he was finished essentially saying people never have awkward good intentions, I was already on my way to the thought it left me with at the end:
    "People in Heaven complaining that the clouds aren't soft enough."
    Offense is more often taken than given. (And that's the point of departure for me, I just realized. The taking offense is offensive to me. The self pity annoys me.)
    There's a sour way of looking at tourism to a place like Malawi, for instance. "Slumming". "Poverty tourism". Something like that. The travellers must have bad intentions. So say the mind readers. Well so says my summary of the essence of what they're reading in these bad minds they can see right through like glass.
    And you know how you "read someone else's mind"? You extrapolate. (Unless there really is a Jesus and you have his fricken phone number, I suppose.) Apart from that, as usual you simply do not know. (Ignorance is fine. Refusing to admit it or allow for itself is a problem.)
    And the song is pretty cruddy, too. Affected when it gets "dramatic" (melodramatic), and otherwise the kind of thing Half Man Half Biscuit would make fun of. Actually I wonder whether Half Man Half Biscuit ever had some fun with this song?
    Quite strange. I spent a fair amount of time going along with being ready to enjoy it. And here I am overthinking why I ended up somewhat disliking it. Oh well, doesn't matter, nê?

    • @mattleppard1970
      @mattleppard1970 22 часа назад

      Nope. Nothing does, really

    • @Jacob_Junge
      @Jacob_Junge Час назад

      _There's a sour way of looking at tourism to a place like Malawi, for instance. "Slumming". "Poverty tourism". Something like that. The travellers must have bad intentions_
      But it's not about that literal kind of tourism, unless you go to Malawi and pretend to be Malawian, while acting like their daily struggles are just fun experiences for you to bring home.
      It's about upper-class twits, who slummed it in student housing and cheap bars for a few years in college, because they thought is was fun and cool, or to briefly rebel against their parents, or maybe, if we're generous, because they thought it would give them insight to a different class of people. Even if they had the best intentions, they'll never really understand what life at the bottom of society is like, because they didn't have to live there - they were just passing through, and their romanticised view of that life can be infuriating for those who have no choice.

    • @sicko_the_ew
      @sicko_the_ew 10 минут назад

      @@Jacob_Junge Firstly, lest I forget, thanks for responding. However I think I disagree, still - hopefully agreeable, but I can sometimes be a bit of a sarcastic arras hole, just by force of habit.
      OK, he has something to say, but relative to the real world it's not a big enough thing to get that upset about.
      Every class of twit visits poor countries (because you're not poor in Malawi even if you are, in a more successful country - you're rich - out and out rich) and sees things through his or her own experience, just like anybody else, anywhere, in any other kind of experience.
      Only in the Malawi case (and others) I've heard some other twits talk as if the rough living you sometimes have to do to get around such a place is a form of "being with the common people" without being with them - in a nasty kind of way. It would appear that the world must send only its perfect human beings there, otherwise it's downright evil and can have fingers wagged at the misbehaviour.
      Analogously, a rich girl who circuitously tells a boy who thinks of himself as downtrodden, "Ya wanna feck?" in what turns out to be what sounds like an awkward joke gone wrong, might be sinning by more than just the wickedness of fornication, but jeez! Is that enough to make a great big song and dance about it? "Toffs need not apply for some roley unless they be perfect beings".
      The interpretation he makes, as he sings his story is that she must have meant simply to demean him. By offering him her unworthy body? Take what she said less literally (whether in reality or fiction doesn't really matter) and one interpretation is that she'd like more, but she'll settle for some sex, if that's all he wants? All of which is an ordinary part of ordinary life, yes. The lines get crossed. She accidentally triggers something he's oversensitive about (we all have things we're oversensitive about? or is it just me?) and instead of a reasonably happy ending, everything blows up out of all proportion.
      But after it's all said and done (or not done, if they didn't get round to the part of their encounter they both had the same idea about) there must have been a few years or months to realize ... simply that this was maybe worthy of a song, yes, but a light, funny song, that lets go of things, not this storm in a teacup.
      I can't sympathize, so I can't enjoy the song. The closest I could get to that would be to remember the times in my own life where I've gotten everything all horribly wrong, and exposed a weakness like this. (It's a weakness to allow oneself to feel like that, if nothing else.) Maybe it just disturbed things I've taken good care to properly forget (as one should) and made me, my own perfect self, overreact to the overreaction (because it's too close to some or other embarrassing overreaction I've had myself.) Maybe not, but that's about as close as I could get to accepting the feelings as being valid enough to make up an entire song, the whole of which I listened to.

  • @SpuddySpud
    @SpuddySpud День назад +3

    Pleased that you played the full album version which has the rant at the end. This one starts funny but ends up quite scathing. Fantastic writing.

    • @group-music
      @group-music 13 часов назад

      Maybe you should be listening to Barbie Girl by Aqua.

    • @SpuddySpud
      @SpuddySpud 6 часов назад

      @group-music why is that, then?