This Is Hardcore

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Merline, Micheal (23 June 2014). "Revisit: Pulp: This is Hardcore". Spectrum Culture . Retrieved 6 October 2022.

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Barker, Emily (25 October 2013). "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 200-101". NME . Retrieved 17 January 2023. Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, variant 3): MPO 0602547852915 B [MPO logo] ® 22 292592 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK Matrix / Runout (D-side runout, variant 2): MPO 0602547866509 B [MPO logo]® 21216594 GREG @ FINYL TWEEKSuch lyrical wit and empathy is there in the lovely, bittersweet croon of ' Dishes', a song that has Jarvis contemplating turning 33 (the age at which Jesus died) with typical self-deprecation: "I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials, I am the man who stays home and does the dishes." Such subtlety also runs through the gorgeous, Memphis-tinged father-son confessional of ' A Little Soul' and through ' Help The Aged'. The latter is the song that comes closest to the euphoric spirit of the ' Different Class' album. As with the Manics' 'La Tristessa Durera', it turns the youth-fixated world of the pop song on its head by using it to frame the plight of the OAP. Except, typically of Jarvis' lubricious realm, it concludes that the best way to help the infirm is to give them a shag. 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 (D-side runout, variant 1): MPO 0602547866509 B [MPO logo]® 20 182562 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK

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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'.Patterson, Sylvia (21 March 1998). "Pulp – This Is Hardcore". NME. Archived from the original on 2 October 2000 . Retrieved 2 May 2016. Pulp: This Is Hardcore" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved October 17, 2023. The fact that the album ends on an optimistic note with the final flourishing chords of ' The Day After The Revolution' ( "Yeah, we made it... The Fear is over, guilt is over, Bergerac is over...") just tends to con­firm the kind of obvious emotional manipulation you'd more normally expect from Andrew Lloyd Webber. At the same time it has to be admitted that ' After The Revolution' is gen­uinely affecting in its tugging of the heart strings. It could also be argued that the way that 'This Is Hardcore' takes on limelight aesthetics amounts to a powerful pop-art aes­thetic. But even if Jarvis' lyrical vale­diction does assure that "Cholesterol is over... irony is over" it seems likely that, when the dust settles, this is an album that will seem possessed of just a little too much ironic detach­ment - in the music at least. 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.

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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.Never underestimate the spirit of a man who took 12 years to realise The Dream; he knows, perhaps more than anything, about survival... a b Gerard, Chris (4 April 2014). "50 Best Alternative Albums of the '90s". Metro Weekly . Retrieved 12 January 2017.