This Is Hardcore

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Who knows, maybe 'This Is Hardcore' will run and run. Starlight Express is, after all, now in its 14th year. But it seems more likely that while 'This Is Hardcore' should be praised as a brilliant, unprecedented lyrical statement, it's not actually one you'll want to play that much. Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, variant 1): MPO 0602547852915 B [MPO logo]® 19 136924 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK Pearson, Paul (30 March 2018). "Pulp's This Is Hardcore is still a shattering piece of work after 20 years". Treble . Retrieved 6 October 2022.

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DiCrescenzo, Brent. "Pulp: This Is Hardcore". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 10 February 2008 . Retrieved 30 September 2011.

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Browne, David (13 April 1998). " This Is Hardcore". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017 . Retrieved 30 September 2011. a b Hochman, Steve (5 April 1998). "Pulp 'This Is Hardcore' Island". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016 . Retrieved 2 May 2016. Barker, Emily (25 October 2013). "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 200-101". NME . Retrieved 17 January 2023. Never underestimate the spirit of a man who took 12 years to realise The Dream; he knows, perhaps more than anything, about survival... The cover photo was art directed by Peter Saville and the American painter John Currin who is known for his figurative paintings of exaggerated female forms. The model photographed is Ksenia Zlobina and the images were further digitally manipulated by Howard Wakefield, who also designed the album. [8] Currin was also the art director for the " Help the Aged" video, based on his painting "The Never Ending Story". Advertising posters showing the album's cover that appeared on the London Underground system were defaced by graffiti artists with slogans like "This Offends Women" [9] and "This is Sexist" or "This is Demeaning". [10]

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Matrix / Runout (D-side runout, variant 1): MPO 0602547866509 B [MPO logo]® 20 182562 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK When the unbelievable object meets the unstoppable force", he coos. "There's nothing you can. do about it, no / I will light your cigarette with a star that has fallen from the sky". Blimey, he's practically floating above the bedspread bathed in blue-and-white light like an apparition of the Virgin Mary (or Frankie Valli in Grease depending on what side of town you grew up on). It could also, of course, describe absolute reality. As with the band's previous album, This is Hardcore reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart, but with far fewer sales, [6] and was well received critically, earning Pulp a third successive nomination for the 1998 Mercury Prize. [7] As is the decision to follow such a feat of emotional dramatics with two namby jingle-pop reveries (' TV Movie' and ' A Little Soul' ) before ' Mis-Shapes' makes a reappearance as an anti-Bloke anthem called ' I'm A Man' and, quite suddenly, the seven veils of gloom begin twitching on top of the burnt-out, broken man on the floor who simply gets up and sings four of the most inspired songs in Pulp's 15-year history. ' Seductive Barry' sounds a bit like Joy Division; that BIG and bewitching, a sexual fantasy space-pop sequence featuring Jarvis objectifying himself in the eye of the beholder, which then turns into Madonna's 'Justify My Love'.Welcome to personal disintegration - the West End musical. Welcome to an album that amounts to breakdown on Broadway - a situa­tion that makes the above snatch of dialogue almost eerily appropriate. The theatrical source is relevant enough, but the tone fits 'This Is Hardcore' to a 'T' - a man hitting the bottom but relaying the descent with the kind of thespian relish that says he's savouring every last minute of it.

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Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035. Pulp: This Is Hardcore" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved October 17, 2023. All well and good, but there's no " Common People", right? Wrong yet again. " Glory Days" has it all. It's got that ever-rising tune, Jarvis' hollering voice grabbing for higher and higher stars. It's got the same tirelessly sprinting pace, the same euphoric sense of hope and glory and the same sense of sullied justice as Jarvis sneers: "We were brought up on the space race / Now they expect you to clean toilets". He's putting his foot down and he keeps it there with the closing " The Day After The Revolution", an astonishing reprise of the entire album, over-emotional and over-powering. Over the top. Over the worst. Over and out. An incendiary song to end an incendiary album. But ask yourself: can you really afford it?

Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, variant 3): MPO 0602547852915 B [MPO logo] ® 22 292592 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK This Is Hardcore is the sixth album by English band Pulp. Released in March 1998, it came three years after their breakthrough album, Different Class, and was eagerly anticipated. a b c d Kot, Greg (3 April 1998). "Pulp: This Is Hardcore (Island)". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016 . Retrieved 2 May 2016. Offiziellecharts.de – Pulp – This Is Hardcore" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 January 2017. Dimery, Robert; Lydon, Michael (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.