What I love about Pulp is that their songs are not just songs with a rythmn. Jarvis acts like a storyteller in all of their songs. They're not making music, they're making stories with a soundtrack. They're almost making movies.
I'd even be so bold as to say that this song is pop culture's last moment: a lower form of art pushed to the frontier of the sublime by a band which inherited some of Bowie's genius and eventually buried the genre altogether. After that song, pop was dead and nothing new was ever to come out of it.
This song transcends genres, it's acid jazz, John Bonham thumping drums, Bondesque grandeur, 25 years on I'm still amazed, it's Pulp's Bohemian Rhapsody, it's story telling at its sublime best
Possibly one of the greatest music videos ever produced. The song - on its own - is truly epic, but with this video accompaniment, this song becomes truly transcendent. Of course - being a fan of film noir helps.
Reminds me of that film Kubrick started but never made. Just pieces of it exist. Its star never shone. The colors hereat reminiscent of Douglas Sirk too. Jarvis directed some cool videos, I like "On" for Aphex Twin.
The This is Hardcore album is a collection of masterpieces. Beautiful and yet rough. So real and intimate. It's by far one of the sexiest albums ever made. This track itself is like a foreplay, it's all about the anticipation, the build-up before the actual act. It's sex translated to music.
Yes, but sex as a one-night stand ultimate fantasy you've held for years with nowhere left to go afterward. Much like how Jarvis thought about the music industry after wanting so hard to be in it since 1978 but then the 'Britpop' years and over excess (including cocaine and heroin) getting too much, with him expected to do his "funny little dance" and regurgitate Common People over, and over and over again, "That goes in there, and that goes in there, and that goes in there..and then, it's over.". See 'Party Hard' for similar feelings by him in 1998.
His 'n Hers - the anticipation before the party. Different Class - the party. This Is Hardcore - the hangover. We Love Life - the vacant afternoon visiting your granny after the party.
2:42 looks just like one of the scenes in crash, I am sure there were shots like this before Crash but I've just watched it and now it looks like a very deliberate reference.
@@HandleGF an interview to all people involved in the creating process of the video to understand the movie references. "I went to college, all they found was rocks in my head" is a quote from Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind for instance.
I may be wrong, but with the video at least it suggests that a lot of mainstream entertainment is somewhat pornographic. This, coupled with the lyrics, seem to explain a narrator who is jaded by it all, and wants to take things in a more depraved direction.
god I loved this post Britpop era (97-2000). So many bands releasing follow ups to huge commercial hit albums, all trying to consciously pivot away from the sound that made them successful, and in the process making these weird, slightly self indulgent, amazingly produced gems - Blur by Blur, In It for the Money by Supergrass, and this album. Obviously a little biased as I was about 14/15 then, just starting to discover and develop my taste in music. Feels like a different life!
+Shaun Hensley Then I sincerely advice you to listen to their "Different Class" album. It is the best album of the 90s imho and one of the best musical albums ever produced.
+Shaun Hensley Lucky you and Unlucky you. You missed the glory days but then you didnt miss all. The music remains as brilliant and fresh as ever. Pulp is a different class altogether.
Heaven is this song and sipping your whiskey. Is a bad idea if you have to drive. Might give you a hard time getting up for work! You have been warned.
Love the burlesque dancer section. The sequined clothes and turquoise feather boas and big perfect smiles with Jarvis staggering around, all greasy haired and twitching like some manic insane crooner. This really is an incredible song and a great video. Easily their best work.
This is the potential of Jarvis Cocker. A living musical genius who can write deep and profound songs and then sing them like a smooth story. Classic 10/10
I've been a Pulp fan since about 1994. Never have I seen this video. It's amazing. Shows the bands sense of humour and class. Completely changed the way I understand this track since 97 or whenever it came out. Clever Jarvis.
Gotta love the lyric about “men in stained raincoats”. That one took me aback when I first heard it. Jarvis is always somehow outdoing himself, isn’t he.
It might be my favorite. This song mixed with the pulpy noir along with the David Lynch esque visuals once Jarvis starts his swagger is just god damned marvelous. True vision and emotion on all scales encapsulated in this single video. Brilliant.
The opening lines are from the Douglas Sirk classic 'Written on the Wind' and the entire video looks like a luridly coloured 50's Sirk melodrama. Bloody hell, Pulp have fantastic taste in film!
Pulp finally got a proper budget to make a video... about damn time! What would their videos have been like for their previous albums with a similar budget? Probably their best video ever. Bravo!
I remember how haunting this video was when I first saw it. Very Portishead feel to it. So creepy but good. Such a difference from their britpop roots. Love Pulp
This…. Is the eye of the storm…. This… is the end of the line… Oh ooo oh! What a hell of a show… This album literally marks the end of the Brit pop era. Unsurpassed beautiful melancholy 😪
Their sound is so unique, their songs are so freakin brilliant. Can't understand why they were so underrated, and why they didn't enjoy as much succes as Radiohead for example ... They are only known for "Common People" worldwide, if that ...
Every Pulp video should be at the curriculum of every university that wants to have a Cinematography program...Brilliant, from the images to the core and the meaning of it...Jarvis and the others of course were geniuses!
Pulp's masterpiece, from their best album.. .actually TIH is that good you can place the vinyl next to the very best of Bowie not feeling disconcerted at all
Fun fact: this aired with subtitles on French TV, which literally never happens. Bought the album at the time which became the soundtrack of my 20th year on this earth. So many memories linked to each and every songs. Listening to it nowadays is always significant, and never harmless ...
How underrated was this song at the time? I mean, I lived through Britpop and for some reason this and its namesake album were scene as the end of that era. For me this is one of the very best Pulp songs and surely in anyones top 10 of the Britpop era.
This whole album has so much more to say than Different Class, as much as I like Different Class. Or maybe its because I'm gettin' up there in years meself.
This song is so great. The beginning + main part + finishing successive parts of it are so great, that is real music narrative JC gave us. Perhaps Pulp's Masterpiece.
Jarvis always liked cinema, in fact he went to study cinema before the stardom that was Different Class. The album This is Hardcore was a very risky bet but that's was Pulp wanted: to show the B side of the pop party, the hangover, the ugly part that nobody likes, but it exists. Jarvis is a master who still being one of the best. ( I know they made music from long before, but their work was far from being recognized by the masses)
This song came out while I was in Art School in Australia and I enjoyed it’s sophistication on every level, the lyrics, the use of orchestral music as a reference to a historical time period, the video and of course Jarvis’s swag. According to interviews of Pulp, this song and album was deemed too depressing by Pulps audience and marked the end of the group!
What I love about Pulp is that their songs are not just songs with a rythmn. Jarvis acts like a storyteller in all of their songs. They're not making music, they're making stories with a soundtrack. They're almost making movies.
That's true. Only him and Ray Davies can do that kind of art.
And sparks
2 words: The Kinks.
Chaz and dave
💯
Pulp were the most interesting band of the Brit Pop era.
Pulp and Mansun
Pulp, Blur and Suede
Probably since they started in 1978. :)
Suede are fantastic too
@@cristobalradio Oasis too then
I think this is Pulps finest moment, a work of art.
Todd Robson i dont carw whete they go nectell them al.
agreed
Chris cornell
I agree. One of the best moments of 1990's.
I'd even be so bold as to say that this song is pop culture's last moment: a lower form of art pushed to the frontier of the sublime by a band which inherited some of Bowie's genius and eventually buried the genre altogether. After that song, pop was dead and nothing new was ever to come out of it.
If not their most memorable song, this was Pulp's magnum opus. Rest in Peace Steve Mackey.
The definition of “eargasm”
This song transcends genres, it's acid jazz, John Bonham thumping drums, Bondesque grandeur, 25 years on I'm still amazed, it's Pulp's Bohemian Rhapsody, it's story telling at its sublime best
Possibly one of the greatest music videos ever produced. The song - on its own - is truly epic, but with this video accompaniment, this song becomes truly transcendent. Of course - being a fan of film noir helps.
Reminds me of that film Kubrick started but never made. Just pieces of it exist. Its star never shone. The colors hereat reminiscent of Douglas Sirk too. Jarvis directed some cool videos, I like "On" for Aphex Twin.
What a band. What an album. What a song. What a guitar. What a video.
@@martysouth880 what a band. what an album. what a song. what a guitar. what a video.
And for God's sake, what a voice.
what a singer
I'm a Black Metal fan., but this track is obscenely good.........
Same
Same
@@armanymendoza4117 bless all 3 of you
Hahaaahaa
I have found my people
Same
This was the cultural high water mark of 90's British rock. Timeless. Simply the best.
This is Hardcore is definitely the best Pulp's era. Never gonna get tired of this album. And this song is just great.
The This is Hardcore album is a collection of masterpieces. Beautiful and yet rough. So real and intimate. It's by far one of the sexiest albums ever made. This track itself is like a foreplay, it's all about the anticipation, the build-up before the actual act. It's sex translated to music.
I find it ironic and melancholic, on the contrary.
Correct it is Melancholic. Thats because it's about heroin and nothing to do with foreplay or sex.
@@secretcherio1073 Nothing to do with heroin
Yes, but sex as a one-night stand ultimate fantasy you've held for years with nowhere left to go afterward. Much like how Jarvis thought about the music industry after wanting so hard to be in it since 1978 but then the 'Britpop' years and over excess (including cocaine and heroin) getting too much, with him expected to do his "funny little dance" and regurgitate Common People over, and over and over again, "That goes in there, and that goes in there, and that goes in there..and then, it's over.". See 'Party Hard' for similar feelings by him in 1998.
This is one of the greatest songs written in the last 20 years.
You're wrong. This is one of the greatest songs written in the last 50 years.
Hello Im writing from the future: YOU WERE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT
His 'n Hers - the anticipation before the party. Different Class - the party. This Is Hardcore - the hangover. We Love Life - the vacant afternoon visiting your granny after the party.
Their best song in my opinion. It's great they don't have much of those dark tracks, makes the few there are stand out.
2:42 looks just like one of the scenes in crash, I am sure there were shots like this before Crash but I've just watched it and now it looks like a very deliberate reference.
RIP Steve Mackey (November 10, 1966 - March 2, 2023), aged 56
You will be remembered as a legend.
Absolute perfection, from the composition, song story and lyrics. A huge 1990s artistic highpoint.
I need an oral history of this video where director and musicians discuss all the hidden references and inspiration for the lyrics.
An oral what?
@@HandleGF an interview to all people involved in the creating process of the video to understand the movie references. "I went to college, all they found was rocks in my head" is a quote from Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind for instance.
@@HandleGF and the photojournalist at the beginning could be a reference to Weegee, the photographer of Naked City. I need answers.
OMG yes
I may be wrong, but with the video at least it suggests that a lot of mainstream entertainment is somewhat pornographic. This, coupled with the lyrics, seem to explain a narrator who is jaded by it all, and wants to take things in a more depraved direction.
Happy 21st Birthday to this is Hardcore, Pulp’s little known utter masterpiece
Outstanding comments
Don't think it's that little-known anymore, it's got over 4M views!
god I loved this post Britpop era (97-2000). So many bands releasing follow ups to huge commercial hit albums, all trying to consciously pivot away from the sound that made them successful, and in the process making these weird, slightly self indulgent, amazingly produced gems - Blur by Blur, In It for the Money by Supergrass, and this album. Obviously a little biased as I was about 14/15 then, just starting to discover and develop my taste in music.
Feels like a different life!
Wow, just now discovered this band. So fucking sublime.
You have some catching up to do!!!
+Shaun Hensley Then I sincerely advice you to listen to their "Different Class" album. It is the best album of the 90s imho and one of the best musical albums ever produced.
+Vadim Levin very true, massivley underrated.
+Shaun Hensley Lucky you and Unlucky you. You missed the glory days but then you didnt miss all. The music remains as brilliant and fresh as ever. Pulp is a different class altogether.
Man this video is so fresh. Hard to believe it is 17 years old.
+flamingwoodz I wish I could find a source for "Like a Friend" with similar quality
+JohnnyCagePro me toooooo
+flamingwoodz Never ages. True sublime energy.
holy shit we're the same age
damn i feel too young but old at the same time
I was thinking the exact same thing, but now it's 19 years old.
16 years later, it still being sublime...
So it’s 23 years old now ?
@@felix.mp3639 damn time flies!
@@felix.mp3639 madness the 90’s were boss
I can't think of another band with a lyric as powerful as "This is me on top of you"
I'm amused by the blending of "Pulp" as in the band, "film noir" the movie genre, and "pulp fiction" literature.
I'm 67 years old and I just love this band. They say the best stuff I have heard in a long time
Help the Aged is a great charity anthem for sure.
The "eye of the storm" part of the video was so beautiful I nearly cried.
That part of the song always gets me. I literally cry every time.
@@desoxido saw them last weekend in Brooklyn I almost spontaneously combusted at that part. Mind blowing
This never ages. A song and a video for every generation.
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You know a song is good when it's atemporal and this is hardcore is one of those. So good.
Heaven is this song and sipping your whiskey. Is a bad idea if you have to drive. Might give you a hard time getting up for work! You have been warned.
djbethell destroy Fairfield eben when occupy aws mgs bad hapens to je nd.
By far Pulps best song. I could listen on an endless loop until the end of time.
This is when britpop finished.jarvis signals it with a swipe of his arm.the end was here.amazing song.still gives me goosebumps
"And then it's over"
Love the burlesque dancer section. The sequined clothes and turquoise feather boas and big perfect smiles with Jarvis staggering around, all greasy haired and twitching like some manic insane crooner. This really is an incredible song and a great video. Easily their best work.
This is Pulps Opus...A tribute to a genre of film history that shall never be repeated again.Thank You Doug Nichol...
This is artistic opulence and decadence and beauty and perfection
RIP Steve Mackey - legend.
This is really a beautiful short film
I'm not a huge fan of Pulp... But this song is an absolute masterpiece.
Fino, precioso, con clase, una verdadera pieza de arte.
Verdadera! : )
A shame to think there will never be a band as grand as Pulp ever again
Says who?
This is the potential of Jarvis Cocker. A living musical genius who can write deep and profound songs and then sing them like a smooth story. Classic 10/10
I've been a Pulp fan since about 1994. Never have I seen this video. It's amazing. Shows the bands sense of humour and class. Completely changed the way I understand this track since 97 or whenever it came out. Clever Jarvis.
Gotta love the lyric about “men in stained raincoats”. That one took me aback when I first heard it. Jarvis is always somehow outdoing himself, isn’t he.
is this the best video ever?
fred linne No. It's the best video ever.
+fred linne Without question.
+fred linne Definitely my favorite, everything about it is so intensely sexy and stylish
It might be my favorite. This song mixed with the pulpy noir along with the David Lynch esque visuals once Jarvis starts his swagger is just god damned marvelous. True vision and emotion on all scales encapsulated in this single video. Brilliant.
It's in the top ten for sure
The opening lines are from the Douglas Sirk classic 'Written on the Wind' and the entire video looks like a luridly coloured 50's Sirk melodrama. Bloody hell, Pulp have fantastic taste in film!
Pulp finally got a proper budget to make a video... about damn time! What would their videos have been like for their previous albums with a similar budget? Probably their best video ever. Bravo!
This is a Masterpiece, State of the Art. there's no flaws in this video. 2019 and still rocks...
One of the bests things I've ever listened my whole life.
I remember how haunting this video was when I first saw it. Very Portishead feel to it. So creepy but good. Such a difference from their britpop roots. Love Pulp
This makes me tear up at the end - it's an absolute masterpiece.
"That goes in there,
and that goes in there,
and that goes in there . . . " wow.
I genuinely think this is one of the greatest music videos ever made
Best part "Oh that goes in there, and that goes in there, and that goes in there...ohhoh..and then..it's over"
Everyone knows this track is absolutely perfect right? A rare accomplishment.
Stunning, music, texts, movie, characters, actors, atmosphere .... totally stunning
It's the film noir vibe, couldn't love it more.
Best Pulp song EVER!
This…. Is the eye of the storm….
This… is the end of the line…
Oh ooo oh! What a hell of a show…
This album literally marks the end of the Brit pop era.
Unsurpassed beautiful melancholy 😪
Their sound is so unique, their songs are so freakin brilliant. Can't understand why they were so underrated, and why they didn't enjoy as much succes as Radiohead for example ... They are only known for "Common People" worldwide, if that ...
reminds me of Brian ferry and Roxy music
That being said, Common People _is_ a god-tier song
i think that you need to change your social life and follow more/other music acounts.
And Disco 2000
On the time this CD came out people who knows good music followed it, but is too good for mainstream
Every Pulp video should be at the curriculum of every university that wants to have a Cinematography program...Brilliant, from the images to the core and the meaning of it...Jarvis and the others of course were geniuses!
A bloody masterpiece.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest videos ever made! The "eye of the storm" part just gives me shivers every single time...
Jarvis Cocker blows my mind. Pulp has so much attention to detail with these videos - AMAZING
Pulp's masterpiece, from their best album.. .actually TIH is that good you can place the vinyl next to the very best of Bowie not feeling disconcerted at all
One of the best band in history. Rip Steve
One of the best music videos of all time. Possibly THE best. Every time I come back to it I'm simply blown away.
"This is the eye of the storm.
It's what men in stained raincoats pay for..."
but here it is pure
JoeStunner great line.
Flora Gosling yeah
Honestly wasn't much of a Pulp fan, however, this song coupled with the music video is honestly awe-inspiring.
I feel like this is a song that can't be enjoyed to its full potential without the music video.
It doesn't get more gay than this Tyler.... Prolapse
The song is a amazing but the video is so beautiful. What a treasure.
ずっと好き。ここまで好きになったのは、パルプだけ💘ジャービスみたいな人って他にいないよね💕
Damn sometimes the UA-cam algorithm kicks ass, this is great.
Best video ever? Moody Film Noir, Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk and Busby Berkley all expertly pastiched but integrated perfectly with the mood of the song.
Fun fact: this aired with subtitles on French TV, which literally never happens.
Bought the album at the time which became the soundtrack of my 20th year on this earth. So many memories linked to each and every songs. Listening to it nowadays is always significant, and never harmless ...
my favorite music video of all time!!!
Fantastic video, my favourite pulp song, why wasn't this a huge hit?
My first expérience with the song of Pulp in 1998. Is was a great sensual sensation. Love fromBordeaux. France.
As someone who was only familiar with Pulp's poppier stuff before this, it blew my fucking mind when I first heard it.
PULP ... come back please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How underrated was this song at the time? I mean, I lived through Britpop and for some reason this and its namesake album were scene as the end of that era. For me this is one of the very best Pulp songs and surely in anyones top 10 of the Britpop era.
I only found it because a local, small radio station played underground, alternative singles. And ho boy did it change my life
Masterclass. 100%n Art.
Im stuck: I rewatched this already seven times in two days. This is just beautiful and I cant tear myself away!
5:40 Trumpet is just the icing on the cake.
i like this song better than common people...
This whole album has so much more to say than Different Class, as much as I like Different Class. Or maybe its because I'm gettin' up there in years meself.
yea lol its funny i don't like Oasis's wonderwall, blurs universal or common people, there most hit songs but I like alot of others very much.
+Timothy Gallagher
Blur had way bigger hit songs than _The Universal_, namely _Country House_ in terms of that time period.
@@TheFibtastic ye i think you can appreciate pulps music as you move up the ages with them its what makes them so brilliant.
John Fiebke I believe park life and song 2 were bigger hits.
The acting is really good for a music video
Jarvis Cocker is your national living treasure .
Celebrate him before we give him the french citizenship.
Nice thought, but I somehow doubt he'd be wanting that right now :D
hahaha... brilliant.
This song is so great. The beginning + main part + finishing successive parts of it are so great, that is real music narrative JC gave us.
Perhaps Pulp's Masterpiece.
Jarvis always liked cinema, in fact he went to study cinema before the stardom that was Different Class. The album This is Hardcore was a very risky bet but that's was Pulp wanted: to show the B side of the pop party, the hangover, the ugly part that nobody likes, but it exists. Jarvis is a master who still being one of the best.
(
I know they made music from long before, but their work was far from being recognized by the masses)
this song is cool as hell
I actually love the fact that this song is not THAT popular. It makes every view a special moment for a little number of people. This is hardcore.
A small number of a million people
I used to listen to that track over and over again when the album first came out.
That's it.
@@Alianger maybe out of 7.8 billion?
sure, i can see that
This song came out while I was in Art School in Australia and I enjoyed it’s sophistication on every level, the lyrics, the use of orchestral music as a reference to a historical time period, the video and of course Jarvis’s swag. According to interviews of Pulp, this song and album was deemed too depressing by Pulps audience and marked the end of the group!
How many times did I cried on this song... perfect song to empty your head and move on...
The sets and backdrops are ultra-era like!
Daaaamn I'm really sad that we will never see them playing together again. Imagine this LIVE
OH BOY. This might as well change very soon. PULP IS BACK.
Just saw them the other night, I've never heard this song before and it was so so so amazing.
@@erinmcwilliams234 AHHHHH SOOO COOL. I got my ticket for their mexico concert in november. Years ago I couldn't imagine we'd get at this point.
This video is a masterpiece
i hope they remaster this video too... this masterpiece deserves to be seen in high quality !!!!!!!!!!
All of those funny dances and hand signs the frontman makes (apologies don't know his name just started listening to pulp yesterday) are pretty cool
His name is Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker is his name.
Omg, this song is such a masterpiece. Truly.
Definition of glamour.
I love how the words don’t match the video but the essence of the word makes sense to the video it’s ingenious
timeless masterpiece
This song is 23 years old now!!!!!
Why is Nick Banks weirdly good at acting