I can't impress on you enough how thoroughly & indelibly this track is imprinted of the psyche of the British Working Class. It's a modern Hymn, right up there with 'Abide With Me' & 'Jerusalem' - God Bless Jarvis Cocker & Pulp.
While everyone else was fighting about Oasis V Blur (Blur, btw, obviously! Apologies to my sister who was in the wrong!), the poor, arty intellectuals were all about Blur, I loved them so much!
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender. Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv. Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
In 1995 the Stone Roses were due to headline Glastonbury on the Saturday night, until the guitarist John Squire broke his arm in a bike accident. Pulp were asked to step in at the last minute and absolutely blew the roof of the place with their performance. Absolutely magical.
Saw Pulp live in my first week at university back in 1991. Seen them many times over the years and managed to get tickets for their 2023 Homecoming concert in Sheffield. Love Pulp!
Pulp were iconic. Jarvis Coker a god in the day. His lyrics were all based on people’s every days experience. If you want more look out their performance at Glastonbury. Unbelievable band.
Great reaction to a great song which was an anthem in the UK when it came out. It's about the class system in Britain and how some of the rich kids seen being poor is cool, probably because there was a lot of working class bands out at the time. The rich girl in the song wanted to live like the working class, but she would never understand the struggle as her father could always bail her out if it got too much.
Pulp has been my favorite band from 1995 when they realeased the best Britpop album ever (in my opinion) with this song that is considered the unofficial Britpop anthem by many people.
Pulp had struggled for years as an underappreciated indie/post punk band. "Britpop" came and they rode that wave and are emblematic of the last hurrah of British rock music. Thanks Jarvis! ( give 'im a knighthood!)
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender. Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv. Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
@@lukebarton5075 ah, fair enough. i do admit i havnt actually watched it since the time and was going off memory. silly me. still my point still stands. jarvis is ace.
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender. Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv. Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
Reminds me of my first time on a plane, I was bought a CASSETTE player and the PULP album, this was playing when we accelerated like nothing I had EVER felt before
You need to read the lyrics because you'll miss some of them. This song define a whole ten year period of British Music (BritPop late 80s to late 90s). This song is ingrained into the british collective subconscious.
Lyrics based on an upper class female student Jarvis knew at his school and her expressed desire to *be* with common people. He actually tried to track her down not many years ago but to no avail.
@@speleokeir or ocean colour scene or feeder or steriophonics or travis or..... oh god it just goes on and on. i didnt know at the time i was living in a golden age of british bands that i would never see again. I thought it would always be like that.
I think in this day and age, celebrities take theirs and their families life in their hands when they venture out, there are so many crazies in the world.
Check out "do you remember the first time", "sorted for e's and whizz" and "disco 2000" for more classic Pulp....one of the best bands to come out of the 90s Britpop scene 💙🙌
Seriously, just let Dei pick all your reactions 😂 everytime I come here for a banger, it’s recommended by Dei 👏 FOTC, Colin Hay, now Pulp. Well played sir.
What they're singing about is 'Slumming'. Slumming in Britain is rich/upper class people coming to working class area's to 'live' like us for a few hours.....and yes it's a real thing.
@@mikeya929 Exactly. I started as a Oasis fan but after the two first albums I lost interest in them. Then for a long time I was a hugh Blur-fan. Loved those albums. Especially the three britpop records (number 2, 3 and 4). I have heard them too much and today I hardly can't listen to them. Pulp has aged the best in my opinion.
@@TheMafrand oasis and blur definitely burned the brightest at the time and I am so glad to have been there and done it! But bands like Pulp and shed Seven have definitely lasted the sands of time much better.
I just remembered Crazy Jarvis busting on stage while Micheal Jackson was sing like he was Christ like Jarvis was having none of that pompous nonsense 😂
In the 90s, British working class music became THE pop music and for a period it was gentrified. The rich wanted to be us. It was a kind of poverty porn. This is that.
Great thing about concerts in the 90s ,not one single person looking at a screen instead of the stage ,great days ,phones should be banned from concerts you paid to see the band .
The British class system in a nutshell. They've got it. We're never going to get it. And it's kind of curious coming from a former art student who, by that alone, probably wouldn't typify the average Brit. You can take the boy out of Sheffield, but you can't take Sheffield out of the boy.
I've got a ginger haired acquittance who's quite big in the public eye, plays the guitar and sings a bit. Even if he's just popping round to his mates place in Suffolk he has to have an entourage of a couple of security guards. Insurance, contracts, blah blah blah Not so much fun being in the public eye.
That's not drinks being thrown LOL. It's the great British pastime of throwing the bottles of pee you have stored up from waiting at the front for so long.
You didn't quite understand all the lyrics but that's fine. The song is objectively fantastic, and Jarvis cocker has more charisma in his pinky toe then whoever is at the top of the Spotify charge these days
7,53 totally misunderstanding the song and magnifying the US obsession with fuckin celebrity .... oh lets all shed a tear for the celebrities ... what a pair of "see you next tuesdays "
Great song….shame this version has been tarred by a couple of wannabes over-reacting with their stupid fake facial expressions. Why do they have to do reactions like this?
This is one of the best anthems of the 90s if not ever. Pulp are criminally underrated.
I can't impress on you enough how thoroughly & indelibly this track is imprinted of the psyche of the British Working Class. It's a modern Hymn, right up there with 'Abide With Me' & 'Jerusalem' - God Bless Jarvis Cocker & Pulp.
While everyone else was fighting about Oasis V Blur (Blur, btw, obviously! Apologies to my sister who was in the wrong!), the poor, arty intellectuals were all about Blur, I loved them so much!
@@Fluttermoth D'ya mean 'arty intellectuals were all about Pulp'?
@@colinmiles27 Well, um... yes, yes I do!
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender.
Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv.
Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
@@NeilLewis77this did not happen 😂
Jarvis Cocker knows how to write about the British working class.The different class album is an outstanding piece of work.
this was the heart beat of the British Indy scene... you cannot underestimate its importance
I watched that in that crowd, and I was 19. One of the best performances of the festival.
The 90's were my 60's. Sensational decade for music. The concerts were amazing. I'd give my left right eye to go back to those days. 💃💃💃
In 1995 the Stone Roses were due to headline Glastonbury on the Saturday night, until the guitarist John Squire broke his arm in a bike accident. Pulp were asked to step in at the last minute and absolutely blew the roof of the place with their performance. Absolutely magical.
Saw Pulp live in my first week at university back in 1991. Seen them many times over the years and managed to get tickets for their 2023 Homecoming concert in Sheffield. Love Pulp!
Pulp were iconic. Jarvis Coker a god in the day. His lyrics were all based on people’s every days experience. If you want more look out their performance at Glastonbury. Unbelievable band.
the hymn of the common people and a generation ...like me, the pulp the best
So many people react to the studio single cut of this which misses out the crucial, blistering final verse. Thank you for doing the full length one.
Great reaction to a great song which was an anthem in the UK when it came out. It's about the class system in Britain and how some of the rich kids seen being poor is cool, probably because there was a lot of working class bands out at the time. The rich girl in the song wanted to live like the working class, but she would never understand the struggle as her father could always bail her out if it got too much.
Bingo 😊
Pulp has been my favorite band from 1995 when they realeased the best Britpop album ever (in my opinion) with this song that is considered the unofficial Britpop anthem by many people.
I was in that crowd. Great gig. To be fair we were quite heavily medicated.
Pulp had struggled for years as an underappreciated indie/post punk band. "Britpop" came and they rode that wave and are emblematic of the last hurrah of British rock music.
Thanks Jarvis! ( give 'im a knighthood!)
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender.
Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv.
Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
@neil
It seems to be said quite a lot in this comments section. He didn’t punch him but put his behind on him.
@@lukebarton5075 ah, fair enough. i do admit i havnt actually watched it since the time and was going off memory. silly me.
still my point still stands.
jarvis is ace.
1979 they started. Took them 17yrs before they made it. Perfect timing for the musical direction to become a firm favourite..
Brilliant agree more PULP 🍻🕺👍🏼
I was huge fan in the 90s. Jarvis is a force and one of the best lyricist. Hugs from Sweden.
The fabulous Jarvis Cocker ❤
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender.
Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv.
Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
I have seen their in 1995 live in Berlin… this Song was live so unbelievable … best Performance.
Yeew,,,,, The music vid to this explains it more. Classic song
Disco 2000
Do You Remember The First Time
Sorted For E's and Wizz
Are 3 other Pulp songs to check out! 🤘
I would add at least 20 more :-D
Saw Pulp at Carling festival in Leeds, around 94.
Jarvis filled the gaps between songs, giving us the background story to each story 'Awesome'❤
Reminds me of my first time on a plane, I was bought a CASSETTE player and the PULP album, this was playing when we accelerated like nothing I had EVER felt before
...its so sweet you think its "drinks" that's flying out of those cups where the crowd has been stood for so long without bathroom facilities 🙂
You need to read the lyrics because you'll miss some of them. This song define a whole ten year period of British Music (BritPop late 80s to late 90s). This song is ingrained into the british collective subconscious.
Lyrics based on an upper class female student Jarvis knew at his school and her expressed desire to *be* with common people.
He actually tried to track her down not many years ago but to no avail.
I saw them twice last year, they still put on an incredible show.
While we are at the 90s, let me mention another great song from then. The Bluetones and "Slight Return", from the superb album, Expecting To Fly.
The lady in the story is real. She was most likely an international student in London at the time.
Hey guys Good to see you back love this video very common . Stay safe Good start . love ya GTO
Love this performance! Suzy looking 🔥
Pulp one of the greatest bands in the uk of all time
There was Oasis , there was Blur and there was PULP !
Easily the best of the Britpop bands .
Don't forget Suede. Or Placebo.
@@speleokeir or ocean colour scene or feeder or steriophonics or travis or..... oh god it just goes on and on.
i didnt know at the time i was living in a golden age of british bands that i would never see again. I thought it would always be like that.
Pulp was the best
@@speleokeir Suede were too cool for school, Placebo were magnificent but Pulp were It!
Brilliant reaction as a massive pulp fan ❤
William Shatner - Common People. Yes that William Shatner has an amazing cover.
Cant recommend this enough.
@@goatslunch6991 Completely agree. That whole 'Has Been' album he did with Ben Folds, is great.
You'll have time is a song I want at my funeral
It is fantastic
British festival crowds,the best 🇬🇧
I think in this day and age, celebrities take theirs and their families life in their hands when they venture out, there are so many crazies in the world.
That crowd 😘
Check out Jarvis Cocker interrupting Michael Jackson's performance at a U.K. award ceremony.
And didn’t he just 😂
I remember that. And then the presenter said" any man that bares his arsehole to Micheal Jackson is a braver man than me!!!" LOL
Common people are just the best ❤
Check out "do you remember the first time", "sorted for e's and whizz" and "disco 2000" for more classic Pulp....one of the best bands to come out of the 90s Britpop scene 💙🙌
Babies!
This is the hymn of working class England in the '90s (me thinks). Great tune.
Yeah it was released in 1995.
the lyrics went right over their heads.
@@SEANBANOG4 British accents are a minefield for most Americans
americans dont get the class thing...
Seriously, just let Dei pick all your reactions 😂 everytime I come here for a banger, it’s recommended by Dei 👏
FOTC, Colin Hay, now Pulp. Well played sir.
Great live
Good job guys ! Love you!🎉
"There WAS! - in 1998!" - nice one.
What they're singing about is 'Slumming'. Slumming in Britain is rich/upper class people coming to working class area's to 'live' like us for a few hours.....and yes it's a real thing.
Blur - The Universal (Live at Hyde Park 2012). 80,000 people belting along in pure joy!
Brilliant Dei ......
I actually met Jarvis at a service place and he was the most down to earth nicest guy I’ve ever met
Pulp won the battle of Britain. Best britpop band
They might not have won the sprint, but they won the marathon by a mile
@@mikeya929 Exactly. I started as a Oasis fan but after the two first albums I lost interest in them. Then for a long time I was a hugh Blur-fan. Loved those albums. Especially the three britpop records (number 2, 3 and 4). I have heard them too much and today I hardly can't listen to them. Pulp has aged the best in my opinion.
@@TheMafrand oasis and blur definitely burned the brightest at the time and I am so glad to have been there and done it! But bands like Pulp and shed Seven have definitely lasted the sands of time much better.
3.22 epic
Yeah. Great live performance. Be nice if you also reacted to Pulp and "Underwear", equally good but in a different way. (live at Brixton Academy 1995)
Gatecrashed the stage while Michael Jackson was performing and mooned the audience. He knew what Jackson was.
Superb
Met Jarvis once, he was with his mum. Lovely Guy!
Love pulp javis is a great frontman
I just remembered Crazy Jarvis busting on stage while Micheal Jackson was sing like he was Christ like Jarvis was having none of that pompous nonsense 😂
I still got the album on cd strangely enough , the rich women never had it so betta.
The weed in tweed!!
Brilliant version. Got al the lyrics that were bleeped out on the record. 🤪
More pulp!!!!!!!!!
Disco 2000 next
If you pause, always rewind a bit!
1 of da biggest BritPop anthems..
In the 90s, British working class music became THE pop music and for a period it was gentrified. The rich wanted to be us. It was a kind of poverty porn. This is that.
Great thing about concerts in the 90s ,not one single person looking at a screen instead of the stage ,great days ,phones should be banned from concerts you paid to see the band .
100%
You should watch the Kinks Celluloid Heroes puts into perspective what you are staying
It's worth reading the lyrics to this, to understand what the song is actually about.
Are you sure that’s drinks flying about. Think about it they’ve been standing in a field for hours, need to go toilet somewhere x
They were drinks once
From this concert try to react to ''Sylvia'' or ''Do You Remember The First Time''
Now do Sunrise by Pulp, the Reading Festival 2011 version! It is amazing!!
The British class system in a nutshell. They've got it. We're never going to get it. And it's kind of curious coming from a former art student who, by that alone, probably wouldn't typify the average Brit. You can take the boy out of Sheffield, but you can't take Sheffield out of the boy.
I was a poor, working class girl who loved reading and art, I was not accepted by either class, it was tough, but we had Pulp!
@@Fluttermoth 1000s have trod that lonely path... I'm right there with yer...
DRINKS ha, your so funny!!!!!!!
people dont realise what a great frontman Jarvis was......
Love Jarvis. Jarvis is God
I've got a ginger haired acquittance who's quite big in the public eye, plays the guitar and sings a bit. Even if he's just popping round to his mates place in Suffolk he has to have an entourage of a couple of security guards. Insurance, contracts, blah blah blah Not so much fun being in the public eye.
Done many great tunes.But... Lipgloss is a just perfect pop..imo..
Their Glastonbury 98 performance was incredible. Also wake up call to rich people and missionaries going to poor nations . Poverty porn is foul.
That's not drinks being thrown in the air. It's bottles of urine.
Don’t feel sorry for those famous people - there’s an easy answer PACK IT UP
Never trust anyone who wears a cap indoors.
You ever done green day at reading in 2013
OFF camera watch lyrics.. they are amazing..
Try Disco 2000.
That's not drinks being thrown LOL. It's the great British pastime of throwing the bottles of pee you have stored up from waiting at the front for so long.
You didn't quite understand all the lyrics but that's fine. The song is objectively fantastic, and Jarvis cocker has more charisma in his pinky toe then whoever is at the top of the Spotify charge these days
Things flying around back then were most likely beakers of pi$$
Look at all those "drinks" flying!... Yeah those are drinks... recycled anyway!
You guys will think it’s such a laugh
Didn't he moony jacko 😂
Newsflash Michael Jackson is not the messiah
Pulp in the mid 90s >>> Oasis/Blur
It's so punk.
Amazing performance of a brilliant song,….. however, the whole meaning of the lyrics completely went over their heads. Embarrassing.
Unofficial British anthem.
two Americans who are obiously are not listening to the lyrics and do not understand what this classic is all about ffs
7,53 totally misunderstanding the song and magnifying the US obsession with fuckin celebrity .... oh lets all shed a tear for the celebrities ... what a pair of "see you next tuesdays "
Great song….shame this version has been tarred by a couple of wannabes over-reacting with their stupid fake facial expressions. Why do they have to do reactions like this?
You clowns, do you understand the lyrics?!?