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Pulp spent years as Sheffield outsiders before anyone noticed. Jarvis Cocker formed the band as a teenager and kept at it through a long, lean stretch of little-heard records until His ’n’ Hers and then Different Class made them one of the defining groups of the Britpop years, standing slightly apart from it all with Cocker's wry, watchful songs about class, sex, and ordinary lives. After the darker turn of This Is Hardcore and the farewell-for-a-while We Love Life, they returned in 2025 with More., their first studio album in nearly a quarter century.
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Different Class (1995). It's the record where everything they'd been working toward came together. "Common People" is the one everyone knows, but "Disco 2000" and "Mis-Shapes" are just as sharp, and the whole album captures Cocker at his best — funny, bitter, and tender all at once.
Biography
Pulp are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. At their critical and commercial peak, the band consisted of Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Russell Senior (guitar, violin), Candida Doyle (keyboards), Nick Banks (drums, percussion), Steve Mackey (bass) and Mark Webber (guitar, keyboards). The band's "kitchen sink drama" lyrics, coupled with its references to British culture, led to Cocker and Pulp becoming reluctant figureheads of the Britpop movement.
The band struggled to find success during the 1980s, but gained UK prominence in the mid-1990s first with His 'n' Hers (1994), which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Its follow-up, Different Class (1995), won the Mercury Prize, reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and spawned four top ten singles, including the number two hits "Common People" and "Mis-Shapes/Sorted for E's & Wizz". The band's sixth album, This Is Hardcore (1998), also debuted at number one in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. At their peak, Pulp headlined the Pyramid Stage of the Glastonbury Festival twice and were regarded among the Britpop "big four", along with Blur, Oasis and Suede.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 2026The Man Comes AroundEP
- 2025More.Album
- 2023Disco 2000 EPEP
- 2023Common PeopleEP
- 2001We Love LifeAlbum
- 1998This Is HardcoreAlbum
- 1995Different ClassAlbum
- 1994His ’n’ HersAlbum
- 1992SeparationsAlbum
- 1992The Sisters EPEP
- 1987Freaks: Ten Stories About Power, Claustrophobia, Suffocation and Holding HandsAlbum
- 1986Dogs Are EverywhereEP
- 1985Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) and Other Pieces…EP
- 1983ItAlbum
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