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This exploration of Pulp’s 1998 album was enlightening, setting the album in context of their wider career when for me it had been my entry point to the band, indeed it is really the mainstay of my engagement with Pulp.
Therefore Savidge drawing a clear distinction between what came before and This is Hardcore makes me think again about it as I didn’t really know that much about what went before. I didn’t encounter it as different, as marking a change.
The close reading of the songs also showed how much of the lyrics went over my 17 year old head – the fact that it is about sex and drugs was not entirely lost on me, but the depths of those references certainly were.
I remember someone at Scripture Union camp complaining that they didn’t want to hear Jarvis Cocker panting and moaning on a record – but if I am honest that only made me like the album all the more.
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