THIS MAKES PERFECT SENSE!!! PULP - COMMON PEOPLE (REACTION)
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This is a true British anthem and a poetic masterpiece in my opinion. The line “if you call your dad he could stop it all” is a commentary that sums up the class divide in just one line. Genius song.
Absolutely spot on.
Absolutely. This is the class system dissected poetically and forensically…sheer genius.
She's a class tourist. Thinks "poor is cool," until there's roaches on the wall...
@@Wankshaftsbury Doesn't matter because she can "call her dad and fix it all"
The best bit is missing: "like a dog lying in the corner they will bite and never warn ya, so look out, they'll tear your insides out. Cos everybody hates a tourist, especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh, and the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath. You will never understand how it feels to live your life with no meaning or control and with nowhere left to go; you are amazed that they exist and that they burn so bright while you can only wonder why."
Dylan Thomas never wrote anything better than that.
Fun fact: The lead singer wrote this song based on his real life encounter with a rich girl he met at the same college. She wasn't interested in him (unlike in the song) but her offhand comment about "living like common people" directly inspired
Greeces prime minister leftist dope
This is one of the best songs of the 90s. Hands down. Jarvis is a lyrical genius.
unfortunately this "music video edit" version misses out a whole verse:
"like a dog lying in a corner, they'll bite you and never warn you, look out! They'll tear your insides out. 'Cause everybody hates a tourist, especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh... and the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath... you will *never* understand how it feels to live your life with no meaning or control, and with nowhere left to go, you're amazed that they exist and they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why"
Yes, it's not just censored [drink and screw etc] but edited, to remove the crucial verses about "everybody hates a tourist" and having no shred of control over your life...a predicament we're all in now, having allowed neo-fascist living conditions to be imposed on us supposedly for the sake of public health.
@@Grithron2 The thing with the 'tourist' line is that it's meant in a metaphorical sense. In that they're talking about a rich person slumming it and pretending to be working class. Nothing to do with tourists in the literal sense.
But when you get soulless corporate types who don't understand nuance and sarcasm you end up with the censors swooping in banning things that they don't understand.
agree the shortened version is not the same
Absolutely, the very best lyrics in a really powerful song, sadly missing from this edit
Yes very true
Brilliant song
A vicious attack on snobby tourist students who like to slum it just for kicks, and it's hidden inside happy, bouncy tunes. The contrast between the angry lyrics and the happy tune is fantastic for me.
Sorted for E's and Wizz is another favourite of mine.
yes right on
“She told me that her dad was loaded, I said in that case I’ll have a rum and Coca Cola, she said fine” I love that line so much 🤣
It's perfect and everybody can imagine it happening.
Such great lyrics. I want to sleep with common people like you. “I’ll see what I can do” 😂
@@G02372 right ! It’s brilliant 🤣
@@NickiTwix you must be English 😂 and maybe from London as you said “right “ I’m a Londoner 😂
@@G02372 I’m from Scotland 😁
Great choice! This song is a masterpiece. If there were any justice in the world, this would’ve been a huge hit in the US.
Its very English though I was at school with him, not a friend though just same school
The Americans have a problem with Jarvis Cockers voice though struggling to understand it. 😟
Lol as if Americans could see through the racial veil to see their class-divide
It was a hit song in Canada
@@donnajean3202 yes it was 🙂
This song still gives me chills (goosebumps). It’s great to see some Americans give their thoughts on it. I live in the USA now and I feel like for the most part Americans don’t realize that most white British people are “common people” and have a lot of economic struggles, and constantly deal with classism in society.
Pulp are from Sheffield in England. Absolutely amazing band. One of my favourites. Other songs I love by them are, help the aged, this is hardcore, babies and acrylic afternoons. I had the privilege of seeing them on their last ever tour in their home town. Close to Christmas. They gave everyone a Christmas card with a free song download. Which I thought was sweet.
saw Pulp at Leeds, live, they give you a run for your money. It was the first time they did year 2000 live. But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
now pulp is performing and touring again, THANKFULLY.. privileged to have seen them last week at a festival and he was absolutely unhinged
@@lailadxx5615 I just saw them again in Sheffield. It was amazing. What festival was it?.
Incredible mix of funny and dark in this song. That moment when he says, "pretend you've got no money" and her response was "oh you're so funny" and his rejoinder was "well I can't see anyone else smiling in here" gives a hint of what it must be like to have nothing but be surrounded by plenty. Excellent song that illustrates the modern class divide
Try Seconds. Another amazing song by Pulp. Very simple and catchy melody but serious lyrics.
Thanks guys💚💚💚My favorite band! Sending you my love from Greece
This is the edited single version of the song. The unedited album version is even better.
The missing part from the album is so vital. "They shine so bright that you can only wonder why...."
Definitely!!!!
Absolutely brilliant Band from here in UK, literally everyone in the UK knows and loves this song, it was that big. The reference to St Martins Art School is in Central London is where anyone who became anyone in the Art's studied. Part of the very talented 'Britpop' music scene from the 1990's one of a whole host of top bands over here making great music.....😃 Nice reaction, glad to see the message travelled across the Atlantic ocean ok.
Great reply, can confirm that everyone in the UK loves this song
Took over a decade to get "best newcomer" brit award. Fantastic band.
I'm a metal fan. Still love it.
Nah
"Literally everyone in the UK knows and loves this song." GREAT COMMENT -- imagine a band that's not huge being that big!!!
And all of us “Common People” know exactly what he’s talking about here with poverty tourists.
The band is touring the United States this summer/fall. It’s going to be beautiful
4:43 is when you guys finally got the intent of the song. The second verse (cut out of the "Radio Edit" hits MUCH harder). This song is basically a British Anthem and I've seen pubs go wild when this song comes on (during my common person's life stationed in England in the military). Keep up the good work.
PULP one of UK's finest
Disco 2000 is another great Pulp song to react to.
Such a TUNE!! This is classic 90s Britpop!
Oh wow!! Nice to see Americans react to PULP. Well known, but a smaller following in the States. Very cool to see. One of my favorite bands.💕
You get a subscribe for reacting to Pulp!
This tune always cheers me up. Hands down, a classic.
This song got too number 2 in the UK Top 40 the week i left school in 1995. Greatest song ever!!!!
A defining song of the mid 90s in the UK. A very important number 1 hit that said everything about the time. Their album Different Class is regarded as one of the greatest albums of the 90s. Not a bad song on there.
Didn't actually get to number 1. Peaked at 2.
Jarvis cocker, born Sheffield UK.
There's is or was a plaque on Division Street were he climbed fell out of a window and broke his leg😆 Found out my friend dated his sister.
I thoroughly ENJOYED watching you enjoy that British jewel of a song! Be blessed! ✌🏼
You should check out the full, album version. The single version leaves out the best verse. :)
It’s one of my favourite songs, it’s on many of my playlists!
Jarvis Cocker punched Michael Jackson at the MTV or Britt awards, absolute legend!
Legendary British group Pulp song from the golden 90s!
This was Pulp's only hit in the US, and not a huge hit. They were much more popular in Britain. They were the 90's version of the Kinks, with clever sarcastic lyrics, and social commentary, but with a lascivious twist. They did a lot of videos, I think British bands in the '90s made more than American bands did. "Help the Aged" is another sarcastic one.
You could say that most of the successful Britpop bands were versions of The Kinks in one way or another. Oasis and Blur were definitely influenced by them.
@@CoffeeConnected They may have all been influenced by them, but Oasis was rather openly more modelling themselves on the Beatles. I agree that Blur has some very Kinks influenced songs. But Pulp did the best job of capturing what made the Kinks stand out, which is to say the lyrics.
“Help the motherfuckin’ aged”
@@andrewt836 haha, shit man i'd forgotten about that classic collab!!
Great reaction guys, you got into the spirit and the meaning of the song straight away, yeah he mean common people like US!!!
I've dealt with entitlement pretty much all my life and it made me HATE the upper class and the way they present themselves as "The better man."
As for myself, I worked a job until my body basically gave up on me, actually making ends meet is a struggle and I still deal with chronic pains daily. But I'm still proud to be lower class, I'm one of the Common People Jarvis Cocker is talking about.
I treat people as they come there's wrong uns in all classes.
We live in a land of opportunity. Rather than condemn yourself to a life of jealousy why didn't you try to better yourself? Not all successful people are bad, many of them worked very hard to get where they are.
@@dopiaza2006 lol land of opportunity, isn’t that an American thing? Jarvis is British
@@dopiaza2006 I agree with your comment, I too worked hard all my life, including shift work and heavy work. Retired at 55years old. Great pension, I still consider myself a member of the common people but now living amongst so called ‘privileged people’. Lower class is a different matter altogether, that’s a personal choice. BTW, I too have chronic pain. I should have been a pen pusher 😀
@@louem1375 There's plenty of opportunity in the UK if people can be bothered to look and work for it. Yes, Jarvis is British - your point?
I love the look on Mel’s face when Jarvis sung about the roaches on the wall. It was like, wait a minute - he actually knows - it’s not just lyrics.
“Help the Aged” and “This is hardcore” are two other great pulp songs, 🔥
I was so lucky to be in my twenties during the 90s. Such a fantastic decade. ❤
Yeah, it really was.
The Brits are known to make socio-realist material in films and music videos, where the message always show socio- economic differences, and the government failing them.
"The Full Monty" is a fine example of a film.
it took out one of the best lines- they dance, and drink, and screw, because there's nothing else to do
This song is British through & through,love this anthem ❤️❤️🇬🇧
You will never understand, how it feels to live your life, with no meaning or control.
That’s the line in this song that really stuck with me.
And they cut it….
As a common person (skint) this was an ANTHEM of the time. This song had real meaning!
“mis-shapes”, “your sister’s clothes” and “seconds” are all fantastic pulp songs y’all should give a listen to…
Pulp and Suede were my favourite bands in high school. They sound very much like late 90s Britain but if you check out more, Pulp's Disco 2000 was a banger and from Suede Thrash, Beautiful Ones and Saturday Night.
I would really like to see what Americans make of suede.am hoping now they've done one pulp they'll do more Brit pop.
Suede seem to be the band from that era that gets forgotten about. Criminally so in my opinion. They're right up there with Pulp, Blur, and Oasis.
@@CoffeeConnected totally agree!👍 Although these bands were more what my younger bro was into I still liked all these bands singles and suede are level with them
@@CoffeeConnected Definitely, these bands were known as Britpop's big four - although Suede and Pulp didn't want to be so commercial
Good old Britain 🇬🇧 👏
Great to see you understand the message of this. Great reaction
This song is my top 10 songs of all time! I got to see Pulp in 1995 in London. It was insane! You need to see the live video for this song from Glastonbury and watch an entire generation of kids having a great time. Great reaction, thank you!
Hi Shawn and Mel,got a great pink Floyd tune for you to react too,coming back to life from the 1994 pulse concert, a must for your ears to enjoy, and eyes to see it,,love and best wishes from Scotland ❤❤
My favourite Pulp song is Disco 2000
Another true to life PULP song is "Like a Friend" and "Do You Remember the First Time?" Both worth listening. 💕
I'm a Sheffielder and of all the bands and songs that have come out of there, none says Sheffield like this song (but the Artic Monkeys first album run a close second!).
Also Sheffielder and agree, although weirdly it's also one of their least 'sheffield' songs :D
Best band of the 90s best song by them too
Jarvis Cocker is a legend.
At the Brit awards he stormed the stage and mooned Michael Jackson.
The William Shatner cover of this song is brilliant.
Was coming to say that, a great job by Shatner with production by Ben Folds and a vocal assist from Joe Jackson. It's also easier to make out the lyrics, I may even like it better than the original.
And while there were some good aspects to this video I think it takes away from the power of the song somewhat and bot just because of the missing verse.
That whole album is brilliant
Sadie Frost pushing a supermarket trolley! Iconic
This band is from Sheffield, I once made the band cups of teas while they were practicing for a show!
Pulp... Comon People... Britpop at its best!!! Love this anthem.
Such a masterpiece. Was a fan ever since it first came out. What a tune...
Sadie Frost is the woman in the video who used to be married to Garry Kemp from Spandau ballet and actor Jude Law.She was in Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992.
Oh she puts it about a bit then. Whoever might help her career. A bit like Mila Jovovich. She seems to marry film directors to get parts.
As a common person, I can’t help but watch other common people react to common music on a common platform. What a time to be alive.
Listening to the live version. Unbelievable
Fun song with witty, clever lyrics.
I love Pulp. My two favourite albums by pulp 'Different class' and 'His n Hers'. Brilliant band, they were going for years before their first big single 'Common People' came out, even though earlier songs like 'Do you remember the first time' were Brilliant, but didn't achieve the status of their later songs. I'm boring you now right? I'll get my coat and shut up haha. I just get excited about people finding out néw music that I love. Seeing you all listen to some of the best bands and songs ever, that some didn't even make it in America.
I went to see the Charlatans last Friday in Manchester, then Happy Mondays and James the week before and I've got tickets for Ocean Colour scene on the 23rd (yes we put a u in colour to confuse people 🤣) I bought all these tickets pre lockdown and in-between the second lockdown and they've all been rescheduled within weeks of each other, so I've been having and will be having some good nights out ✌🤘 I really will shut up now. Peace and respect from Burnley, Lancashire, England UK 🇬🇧
Jarvis Cocker the singer in Pulp was the singer in the band Weird Sisters in Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire.
This came out around 1995. They are an English band and this type of music at the time was classified as Brit Pop.
The song is regarded by many as the defining tune of that period. Absolute classic.
The lead singer is called Jarvis Cocker and he was arrested after invading the stage when Michael Jackson was performing at the Brit Awards.
Album version of the song contains another verse /bridge which adds even more to the song regarding the divide in class, between the rich and the common people (normal folk).
Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you
Look out, they'll tear your insides out
'Cause everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh
Yeah and the chip stains and grease
Will come out in the bath
You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
You get it! Honestly one of my favourite songs of the late 90's...great to drive to stepping on the gas when it gets going
william shatner did an amazing cover of this ..... different, but equally good in its own way :D big love to all people :)
WOW!
@@davidhoward2487 It was produced by by Ben Folds and also featured Joe Jackson. It's really a good cover
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That's how I first discovered this song and Pulp. I initially listened to Shatner's album for a laugh, but found it to be surprisingly enjoyable.
This song is timeless.
The radio edit cuts a couple of verses that hit harder, worth listening to the whole thing if you can:
Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you
Look out, they'll tear your insides out
'Cause everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh
Yeah and the chip stains and grease
Will come out in the bath
You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
All time classic song!!
He played at the Hogwarts Yule Ball in one of the Harry Potter films
Pulps songs are surprising , clever and funny
Pulp are reforming to play concerts next year. Spread the word.
Pulp are from Sheffield in Yorkshire, England, UK. The girl in the song was from Greece and 'her dad was loaded' that is, rich! Jarvis used to buy his clothes from charity shops. You guys 'got it', about how rich kids can try living like the rest of us, until they need daddy to bail them out.
Brilliant song, a favorite for decades. Pulp was an immensely creative and talented band. Although many (snobby) fans will cringe at this: The cover by William Shatner, Ben Folds, and Joe Jackson on Shatner’s album Has Been is well worth a listen. Unlike many covers, it truly presents a different sound and orchestration which makes a great alternative version.
Pulp where a British band from Sheffield, a post industrial Steel town in South Yorkshire, England. Lead singer and song writer was Jarvis Cocker.
What an anthem. British genius from Pulp and Jarvis Cocker. Truly underrated. I'm so glad you reviewed this and great to see the American people like it. Another great video from you guys. Big fan from 🇬🇧
The song is a true masterpiece!
You’re reacting to such great songs!!! Thank you! 👏🏻👏🏻
Pulp are from Sheffield England 🏴 brilliant group who are doing some live gigs in the UK 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪 next year 😎😁
Masterpiece
Listen to 'babies' .. do you remember the first time and 'something changed.. brilliant songs by one of sheffields finest 👍👍👍
"...cause everyone hates a tourist.." gets me every time.
This is a true story based on a girl he met a university. Apparently it's a popular thing for rich kids in Britain to do things like this for a bit after high school. They live amongst the lower class kids for a year or so pretending they're one of them but they go back home to their money once the novelty wears off.
Love that you got it straight away..
Thanks for this. You guys cheered me up this morning.
Blur, Oasis & Pulp are three bands that brought back Brit Pop in the 90s. This is a song everyone in the UK knew and loved. Disco 2000 is another great song by this band.
P.S Pulp are the band in the dance scene in Harry Potter - The Goblet of Fire.
only Jarvis Cocker, and by the way guitarist and drummer from Radiohead. Another one Ien Braun from Stone Roses in Prisoner of Azkaban
@@user-qr9yq8fw7g you mean Ian Brown from the Stone Roses
This album still holds up beautifully!
‘All art is inexhaustible.’ Bernard Levin.
So glad you guys got it. In UK the whole class thing is important. And if you are "common people" there is a certain pride that goes with that. And we hate fakers.
Also, I think you missed an important line "Rent a flat above a shop" aka apartment.
You should check out sorted for e's and whizz by pulp, classic mid nineties Brit pop magic!!! Great reactions by the way! ❤️👍
Yeah. My fave pulp song.
I love how much you guys loved this. Made me smile.
I loved watching your reaction to this and how music from a different culture, which in this case is quintessentially Brit Pop, has struck a chord with you. The band is Pulp and Jarvis Cocker is an interesting guy, born in Sheffield England and brought up by his Mum as his Dad left when he was young. I wouldn't say he is totally working class but he relate to it from living in Sheffield I guess. Cocker has a great way of 'telling stories; with his lyrics. Check out Babies too.
As mentioned in other comments, this version is the single version and a great verse is missing about how rich people percieve poor people. I absolutly love this song and again, a great reaction from you
Another son of this band : Disco 2000, Bad Cover Version, Do You Remember the First Time, Sylvia
"Bad Cover Version" is a great song, but not the video version which has a bunch of celebrity look-alikes singing, (and murdering), it. The album version is brilliant though.
@@group-music I agree, nothing beats the original version
Your reactions are fantastic!! I’ve just Subbed!! You guys are Awesome!! Love pulp!!! ❤️✨ Hugs From UK 😆✨
One of my favourite songs of all time, sums up the divide of rich and poor, and the social inequality of the haves and have nots.
Go down this road please, cheers.
Legendary tune.
25 years ago.
OMG I'm so old.
PULP are a very special band - and Jarvis is a special poet. Have a lil look at "Must I Evolve?" a great song from his post-Pulp days.
btw Pulp are from Sheffield, UK.
Iconic song and Band in GB xxx
Thank you for getting our culture. God bless.
I can't believe this wasn't a bigger hit in the US. Such an epic song. This is the shortened edited version though which skips the final verse and crescendo.