I can't impress on you enough how thoroughly & indelibly this track is imprinted of the psyche of the British Working Class. It's a modern Hymn, right up there with 'Abide With Me' & 'Jerusalem' - God Bless Jarvis Cocker & Pulp.
While everyone else was fighting about Oasis V Blur (Blur, btw, obviously! Apologies to my sister who was in the wrong!), the poor, arty intellectuals were all about Blur, I loved them so much!
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender. Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv. Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
In 1995 the Stone Roses were due to headline Glastonbury on the Saturday night, until the guitarist John Squire broke his arm in a bike accident. Pulp were asked to step in at the last minute and absolutely blew the roof of the place with their performance. Absolutely magical.
Great reaction to a great song which was an anthem in the UK when it came out. It's about the class system in Britain and how some of the rich kids seen being poor is cool, probably because there was a lot of working class bands out at the time. The rich girl in the song wanted to live like the working class, but she would never understand the struggle as her father could always bail her out if it got too much.
Saw Pulp live in my first week at university back in 1991. Seen them many times over the years and managed to get tickets for their 2023 Homecoming concert in Sheffield. Love Pulp!
Pulp has been my favorite band from 1995 when they realeased the best Britpop album ever (in my opinion) with this song that is considered the unofficial Britpop anthem by many people.
Pulp were iconic. Jarvis Coker a god in the day. His lyrics were all based on people’s every days experience. If you want more look out their performance at Glastonbury. Unbelievable band.
Pulp had struggled for years as an underappreciated indie/post punk band. "Britpop" came and they rode that wave and are emblematic of the last hurrah of British rock music. Thanks Jarvis! ( give 'im a knighthood!)
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender. Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv. Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
@@lukebarton5075 ah, fair enough. i do admit i havnt actually watched it since the time and was going off memory. silly me. still my point still stands. jarvis is ace.
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender. Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv. Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
You need to read the lyrics because you'll miss some of them. This song define a whole ten year period of British Music (BritPop late 80s to late 90s). This song is ingrained into the british collective subconscious.
@@speleokeir or ocean colour scene or feeder or steriophonics or travis or..... oh god it just goes on and on. i didnt know at the time i was living in a golden age of british bands that i would never see again. I thought it would always be like that.
Lyrics based on an upper class female student Jarvis knew at his school and her expressed desire to *be* with common people. He actually tried to track her down not many years ago but to no avail.
Reminds me of my first time on a plane, I was bought a CASSETTE player and the PULP album, this was playing when we accelerated like nothing I had EVER felt before
Seriously, just let Dei pick all your reactions 😂 everytime I come here for a banger, it’s recommended by Dei 👏 FOTC, Colin Hay, now Pulp. Well played sir.
I think in this day and age, celebrities take theirs and their families life in their hands when they venture out, there are so many crazies in the world.
What they're singing about is 'Slumming'. Slumming in Britain is rich/upper class people coming to working class area's to 'live' like us for a few hours.....and yes it's a real thing.
Check out "do you remember the first time", "sorted for e's and whizz" and "disco 2000" for more classic Pulp....one of the best bands to come out of the 90s Britpop scene 💙🙌
I just remembered Crazy Jarvis busting on stage while Micheal Jackson was sing like he was Christ like Jarvis was having none of that pompous nonsense 😂
Great thing about concerts in the 90s ,not one single person looking at a screen instead of the stage ,great days ,phones should be banned from concerts you paid to see the band .
In the 90s, British working class music became THE pop music and for a period it was gentrified. The rich wanted to be us. It was a kind of poverty porn. This is that.
The British class system in a nutshell. They've got it. We're never going to get it. And it's kind of curious coming from a former art student who, by that alone, probably wouldn't typify the average Brit. You can take the boy out of Sheffield, but you can't take Sheffield out of the boy.
I've got a ginger haired acquittance who's quite big in the public eye, plays the guitar and sings a bit. Even if he's just popping round to his mates place in Suffolk he has to have an entourage of a couple of security guards. Insurance, contracts, blah blah blah Not so much fun being in the public eye.
You didn't quite understand all the lyrics but that's fine. The song is objectively fantastic, and Jarvis cocker has more charisma in his pinky toe then whoever is at the top of the Spotify charge these days
That's not drinks being thrown LOL. It's the great British pastime of throwing the bottles of pee you have stored up from waiting at the front for so long.
7,53 totally misunderstanding the song and magnifying the US obsession with fuckin celebrity .... oh lets all shed a tear for the celebrities ... what a pair of "see you next tuesdays "
Yes Thank you to whoever suggested this Version disco 2000 I Dunoo still don't think the Blond is your Air colour Gal...maybe if that blone was a highlighr iwth the majority of youyr hair a dark aburn... just pplain Blond... what are you going to do, pink with purple poka dots or a smile cace.... starting with a clean vlank canvess eh... check ya'll later eh
Great song….shame this version has been tarred by a couple of wannabes over-reacting with their stupid fake facial expressions. Why do they have to do reactions like this?
This is one of the best anthems of the 90s if not ever. Pulp are criminally underrated.
I can't impress on you enough how thoroughly & indelibly this track is imprinted of the psyche of the British Working Class. It's a modern Hymn, right up there with 'Abide With Me' & 'Jerusalem' - God Bless Jarvis Cocker & Pulp.
While everyone else was fighting about Oasis V Blur (Blur, btw, obviously! Apologies to my sister who was in the wrong!), the poor, arty intellectuals were all about Blur, I loved them so much!
@@Fluttermoth D'ya mean 'arty intellectuals were all about Pulp'?
@@colinmiles27 Well, um... yes, yes I do!
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender.
Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv.
Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
@@NeilLewis77this did not happen 😂
I watched that in that crowd, and I was 19. One of the best performances of the festival.
Jarvis Cocker knows how to write about the British working class.The different class album is an outstanding piece of work.
this was the heart beat of the British Indy scene... you cannot underestimate its importance
In 1995 the Stone Roses were due to headline Glastonbury on the Saturday night, until the guitarist John Squire broke his arm in a bike accident. Pulp were asked to step in at the last minute and absolutely blew the roof of the place with their performance. Absolutely magical.
I was huge fan in the 90s. Jarvis is a force and one of the best lyricist. Hugs from Sweden.
Great reaction to a great song which was an anthem in the UK when it came out. It's about the class system in Britain and how some of the rich kids seen being poor is cool, probably because there was a lot of working class bands out at the time. The rich girl in the song wanted to live like the working class, but she would never understand the struggle as her father could always bail her out if it got too much.
Bingo 😊
Saw Pulp live in my first week at university back in 1991. Seen them many times over the years and managed to get tickets for their 2023 Homecoming concert in Sheffield. Love Pulp!
Pulp has been my favorite band from 1995 when they realeased the best Britpop album ever (in my opinion) with this song that is considered the unofficial Britpop anthem by many people.
So many people react to the studio single cut of this which misses out the crucial, blistering final verse. Thank you for doing the full length one.
Pulp were iconic. Jarvis Coker a god in the day. His lyrics were all based on people’s every days experience. If you want more look out their performance at Glastonbury. Unbelievable band.
the hymn of the common people and a generation ...like me, the pulp the best
Brilliant agree more PULP 🍻🕺👍🏼
Pulp had struggled for years as an underappreciated indie/post punk band. "Britpop" came and they rode that wave and are emblematic of the last hurrah of British rock music.
Thanks Jarvis! ( give 'im a knighthood!)
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender.
Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv.
Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
@neil
It seems to be said quite a lot in this comments section. He didn’t punch him but put his behind on him.
@@lukebarton5075 ah, fair enough. i do admit i havnt actually watched it since the time and was going off memory. silly me.
still my point still stands.
jarvis is ace.
The fabulous Jarvis Cocker ❤
Something that doesnt get said enough is that Jarvis Cocker once while drunk, looked up from his seat to see they were giving an award to a known child offender.
Not too happy and a bit too drunk Jarvis decided to walk up on stage and punch micheal jackson in the face on live tv.
Jarvis truly was a man of the common people.
You need to read the lyrics because you'll miss some of them. This song define a whole ten year period of British Music (BritPop late 80s to late 90s). This song is ingrained into the british collective subconscious.
William Shatner - Common People. Yes that William Shatner has an amazing cover.
Cant recommend this enough.
@@goatslunch6991 Completely agree. That whole 'Has Been' album he did with Ben Folds, is great.
You'll have time is a song I want at my funeral
It is fantastic
Disco 2000
Do You Remember The First Time
Sorted For E's and Wizz
Are 3 other Pulp songs to check out! 🤘
I would add at least 20 more :-D
I have seen their in 1995 live in Berlin… this Song was live so unbelievable … best Performance.
Pulp won the battle of Britain. Best britpop band
Yeew,,,,, The music vid to this explains it more. Classic song
There was Oasis , there was Blur and there was PULP !
Easily the best of the Britpop bands .
Don't forget Suede. Or Placebo.
@@speleokeir or ocean colour scene or feeder or steriophonics or travis or..... oh god it just goes on and on.
i didnt know at the time i was living in a golden age of british bands that i would never see again. I thought it would always be like that.
Pulp was the best
@@speleokeir Suede were too cool for school, Placebo were magnificent but Pulp were It!
Saw Pulp at Carling festival in Leeds, around 94.
Jarvis filled the gaps between songs, giving us the background story to each story 'Awesome'❤
While we are at the 90s, let me mention another great song from then. The Bluetones and "Slight Return", from the superb album, Expecting To Fly.
The lady in the story is real. She was most likely an international student in London at the time.
...its so sweet you think its "drinks" that's flying out of those cups where the crowd has been stood for so long without bathroom facilities 🙂
Lyrics based on an upper class female student Jarvis knew at his school and her expressed desire to *be* with common people.
He actually tried to track her down not many years ago but to no avail.
Reminds me of my first time on a plane, I was bought a CASSETTE player and the PULP album, this was playing when we accelerated like nothing I had EVER felt before
Check out Jarvis Cocker interrupting Michael Jackson's performance at a U.K. award ceremony.
And didn’t he just 😂
I remember that. And then the presenter said" any man that bares his arsehole to Micheal Jackson is a braver man than me!!!" LOL
British festival crowds,the best 🇬🇧
I saw them twice last year, they still put on an incredible show.
Love this performance! Suzy looking 🔥
I was in that crowd. Great gig. To be fair we were quite heavily medicated.
Common people are just the best ❤
Seriously, just let Dei pick all your reactions 😂 everytime I come here for a banger, it’s recommended by Dei 👏
FOTC, Colin Hay, now Pulp. Well played sir.
the lyrics went right over their heads.
@@SEANBANOG4 British accents are a minefield for most Americans
americans dont get the class thing...
That crowd 😘
Yeah. Great live performance. Be nice if you also reacted to Pulp and "Underwear", equally good but in a different way. (live at Brixton Academy 1995)
Brilliant reaction as a massive pulp fan ❤
This is the hymn of working class England in the '90s (me thinks). Great tune.
Yeah it was released in 1995.
I want more pulp 🍻😂👍🏼
I think in this day and age, celebrities take theirs and their families life in their hands when they venture out, there are so many crazies in the world.
What they're singing about is 'Slumming'. Slumming in Britain is rich/upper class people coming to working class area's to 'live' like us for a few hours.....and yes it's a real thing.
Check out "do you remember the first time", "sorted for e's and whizz" and "disco 2000" for more classic Pulp....one of the best bands to come out of the 90s Britpop scene 💙🙌
Babies!
Hey guys Good to see you back love this video very common . Stay safe Good start . love ya GTO
Blur - The Universal (Live at Hyde Park 2012). 80,000 people belting along in pure joy!
Great live
Gatecrashed the stage while Michael Jackson was performing and mooned the audience. He knew what Jackson was.
"There WAS! - in 1998!" - nice one.
3.22 epic
Brilliant Dei ......
Met Jarvis once, he was with his mum. Lovely Guy!
Love pulp javis is a great frontman
Are you sure that’s drinks flying about. Think about it they’ve been standing in a field for hours, need to go toilet somewhere x
You should watch the Kinks Celluloid Heroes puts into perspective what you are staying
Superb
I still got the album on cd strangely enough , the rich women never had it so betta.
1 of da biggest BritPop anthems..
I just remembered Crazy Jarvis busting on stage while Micheal Jackson was sing like he was Christ like Jarvis was having none of that pompous nonsense 😂
Great thing about concerts in the 90s ,not one single person looking at a screen instead of the stage ,great days ,phones should be banned from concerts you paid to see the band .
100%
Brilliant version. Got al the lyrics that were bleeped out on the record. 🤪
The weed in tweed!!
More pulp!!!!!!!!!
Disco 2000 next
In the 90s, British working class music became THE pop music and for a period it was gentrified. The rich wanted to be us. It was a kind of poverty porn. This is that.
Now do Sunrise by Pulp, the Reading Festival 2011 version! It is amazing!!
If you pause, always rewind a bit!
Good job guys ! Love you!🎉
From this concert try to react to ''Sylvia'' or ''Do You Remember The First Time''
Love Jarvis. Jarvis is God
The British class system in a nutshell. They've got it. We're never going to get it. And it's kind of curious coming from a former art student who, by that alone, probably wouldn't typify the average Brit. You can take the boy out of Sheffield, but you can't take Sheffield out of the boy.
I was a poor, working class girl who loved reading and art, I was not accepted by either class, it was tough, but we had Pulp!
@@Fluttermoth 1000s have trod that lonely path... I'm right there with yer...
It's worth reading the lyrics to this, to understand what the song is actually about.
Done many great tunes.But... Lipgloss is a just perfect pop..imo..
I've got a ginger haired acquittance who's quite big in the public eye, plays the guitar and sings a bit. Even if he's just popping round to his mates place in Suffolk he has to have an entourage of a couple of security guards. Insurance, contracts, blah blah blah Not so much fun being in the public eye.
DRINKS ha, your so funny!!!!!!!
people dont realise what a great frontman Jarvis was......
Try Disco 2000.
Don’t feel sorry for those famous people - there’s an easy answer PACK IT UP
You didn't quite understand all the lyrics but that's fine. The song is objectively fantastic, and Jarvis cocker has more charisma in his pinky toe then whoever is at the top of the Spotify charge these days
Never trust anyone who wears a cap indoors.
OFF camera watch lyrics.. they are amazing..
That's not drinks being thrown LOL. It's the great British pastime of throwing the bottles of pee you have stored up from waiting at the front for so long.
Pulp in the mid 90s >>> Oasis/Blur
That's not drinks being thrown in the air. It's bottles of urine.
You ever done green day at reading in 2013
Things flying around back then were most likely beakers of pi$$
Didn't he moony jacko 😂
Newsflash Michael Jackson is not the messiah
It's so punk.
Unofficial British anthem.
7,53 totally misunderstanding the song and magnifying the US obsession with fuckin celebrity .... oh lets all shed a tear for the celebrities ... what a pair of "see you next tuesdays "
Amazing performance of a brilliant song,….. however, the whole meaning of the lyrics completely went over their heads. Embarrassing.
two Americans who are obiously are not listening to the lyrics and do not understand what this classic is all about ffs
Yes Thank you to whoever suggested this Version
disco 2000
I Dunoo still don't think the Blond is your Air colour Gal...maybe if that blone was a highlighr iwth the majority of youyr hair a dark aburn... just pplain Blond... what are you going to do, pink with purple poka dots or a smile cace.... starting with a clean vlank canvess eh... check ya'll later eh
You clowns, do you understand the lyrics?!?
Great song….shame this version has been tarred by a couple of wannabes over-reacting with their stupid fake facial expressions. Why do they have to do reactions like this?