Different Class

Different Class
Studio album by Pulp
Released	October 30 1995
Recorded	1994 - 1995
Genre	Britpop
Length	52:50
Label	PolyGram, Island Records
Producer	Chris Thomas
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone RS 731 Robert Christgau (A-) link Spin (9/10) 3/96, p.108 Q October 1995
Pulp chronology
His 'n' Hers (1994) Different Class (1995) This Is Hardcore (1998)

Different Class is a 1995 album by Pulp. It was released at the height of Britpop, and led to the band being regarded as a part of that movement. Two of the singles on the album – "Common People" (which reached number 2 in the UK singles chart) and "Disco 2000" (which reached number 7) – were especially notable, and helped propel Pulp to UK-wide fame. A "deluxe edition" of Different Class was released on 11 September 2006. It contains a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities. The album was the winner of the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Different Class the 37th greatest album of all time; a repeat poll in 2006 put it at number 85. In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2004 it was voted number 70 of Channel 4's 100 greatest albums.

Track listing

Different Class from 1995

All songs written by Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle and Mark Webber, except "Common People" and "Underwear" where Webber is not credited.

1. "Mis-Shapes" – 3:46
2. "Pencil Skirt" – 3:11
3. "Common People" (Cocker, Banks, Mackey, Senior, Doyle) – 5:50
4. "I Spy" – 5:55
5. "Disco 2000" – 4:33
6. "Live Bed Show" – 3:29
7. "Something Changed" – 3:18
8. "Sorted for E's & Wizz" – 3:47
9. "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E" – 6:01
10. "Underwear" (Cocker, Banks, Mackey, Senior, Doyle) – 4:06
11. "Monday Morning" – 4:16
12. "Bar Italia" – 3:42
13. "P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association)*"
14. "Common People (Motiv8 Club Mix)*"

• = Bonus tracks on the Japanese Edition (Released under the title Common People in Japan on 16 November 1995)

Second Class from 1995 (limited German/Japanese bonus disc)

1. "Mile End"
2. "Ansaphone"
3. "P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association)"
4. "Live Bed Show (extended)"
5. "Your's Sister's Clothes"
6. "Seconds"
7. "Deep Fried In Kelvin"
8. "The Babysitter"
9. "Street Lites"
10. "Common People '96 (7" Edit)*"

• = Bonus track only on the Japanese Edition

Bonus disc from 2006 deluxe edition

1. "Common People" (live at Glastonbury 1995) – 7:38
2. "Mile End" – 4:30
3. "PTA" – 3:17
4. "Ansaphone" (demo) – 4:09
5. "Paula" (demo) – 3:37
6. "Catcliffe Shakedown" (demo) – 6:43
7. "We Can Dance Again" (demo) – 3:51
8. "Don't Lose It" (demo) – 3:10
9. "Whiskey in the Jar" – 4:48
10. "Disco 2000" (Nick Cave pub rock version) – 4:22
11. "Common People" (Vocoda mix) – 6:18

Personnel

• Jarvis Cocker – vocals, guitar, vocoder, mellotron, synthesizers
• Russell Senior – guitar, violin
• Candida Doyle – synthesizers, grand piano, Rhodes piano
• Steve Mackey – bass guitar
• Mark Webber – guitars, Rhodes piano, synthesizer
• Nick Banks – drums, percussion

In pop culture

"Disco 2000" was featured in Episode 7 of the first series of Life on Mars, where DI Sam Tyler hears it come on the radio in 1973, and mentions to DCI Gene Hunt that he had seen Pulp play the Manchester Nynex in 1996, to Hunt's bemusement.

Trivia

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• Some versions of the album came with 12 different options for cover art.
• "Disco 2000" was covered by Nick Cave as a B-Side for Pulp's single 'Bad Cover Version' from the album We Love Life.