Welcome to the Disco! October 30, 2007
Posted by Domenico in Music.trackback
Hi dears,
I usually think about what’s normal, common and what’s extraordinary. What can make my day… and what just passes on and on. Most of the times I end up to the conclusion of preferring the small details that everyday is composed of.
According to this question, today we talk about the Pulp.
This band from Scheffield, UK, has been around for a while, since 1978, when the 15-yrs-old vocalist Jarvis Cocker formed it with some of his schoolmates!
By playing their pop music mainly inspired to Bowie, the Beatles and the Kinks, they tried to reach the success so hard by they finally did that only with their 5th album (such a stubborn will!), “Different Class” that contains songs like “Disco 2000″ and also the one that we listen today.
Since the last few years, Jarvis Cocker started many parallel projects, like the one resulting in the solo album “Jarvis”, released last Nov 2006.
Directly connected to the initial speech about where’s the threshold in everyone’s life to become special or not, today we listen to “Common People”:
This is dedicated to my friend Gianni (and I also suggest you to pay a visit to his website www.lapelazzuli.com).
Ich wuensche Ihnen einen gueten Tag! (I wish you a good day!)
Domenico
Since I became a music junkie in the late 70s early 80s, I still have a fondness for British pasty boy pop – which Pulp excels in. Love this song, the lyrics and the delivery of the lyrics is classic. So Modern English!
What I don’t understand is why this oh-so-deep three-chords-if-you’re-lucky song is so superior to the rest of pop that I routinely get blasted about ….. whatever. Gio
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She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin’s College,
that’s where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said “In that case I’ll have a rum and coca-cola.”
She said “Fine.”
and in thirty seconds time she said,
“I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you.”
Well what else could I do -
I said “I’ll see what I can do.”
I took her to a supermarket,
I don’t know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said pretend you’ve got no money,
she just laughed and said,
“Oh you’re so funny.”
I said “yeah?
Well I can’t see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you sure you want to live like common people,
you want to see whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people,
like me.”
But she didn’t understand,
she just smiled and held my hand.
Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you’ll never get it right,
cos when you’re laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.
You’ll never live like common people,
you’ll never do what common people do,
you’ll never fail like common people,
you’ll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there’s nothing else to do.
Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through,
laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they’re laughing at you,
and the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool.
I want to live with common people,
I want to live with common people etc…
Maybe this song is not superior to many others but the Pulp sound and lyrics have the right to pbe put on the top of the pop list.
Moreover I must say that the number of chords has never meant a thing in a quality classification of a song. Remember that music is art, not technics! One of my favourite songs is Heroin by Lou Reed, which has 2 chords…I we are lucky!
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