Pulp - Common People
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- Опубліковано 5 тра 2011
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Music video by Pulp performing Common People. (C) 1996 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.
The line that hits the hardest is - "You'll never fail like common people, and watch your life slide out of view", because it's so true. People from poor areas of the country often try so hard to have better lives, but we fail and fail and fail. Because the odds are stacked against you. And decades go by, where we're just stuck. It's only in my mid 40s that I've started to succeed a little, and to experience some of the things I've always dreamed of. And I'm not talking big things - just foreign holidays, car ownership and innocent things like that. I honestly spent the previous 30 years failing.
Now all the common scum bags are on benefits!
Unregulated capitalism makes everything a rat race.
I'm glad that you are finally experiencing those things! From a person who is not experiencing those things and hoping to experience those things someday..
when you were young x respect...youngsters now are injecting coke.......whats gone wrong#
This is one of the most lyrically impressive songs I've ever heard.
Agreed.
I like how the second half is very dark “never fail like common people, and watch your life slide out of view”
Damn
The second half just hits so hard
Indeed. Especially since "Rent a flat above the shop". Lyrics impressed me too, true words)
@@fishels3895 It's pretty dark throughout.
"Pretend you got no money"
"You're so funny!"
"yeah, I can't see anyone else smiling here..."
such a biting line, this song is way smarter than the top of the pop charts people let on
Absolutely
Spot on.
The line, the tempo of life reflected in the song.
But then most in all of history, the masses are always slaughtered. Always.
Sadie Frost anyone? Apt.
I love how deep his accent gets when he says “I can’t see anyone else smiling here”
Went out with a girl in my early twenties who was rich about the time this song came out. I was working class & she thought “slumming” was fun. I didn’t know what that was at the time & found that really strange.
Thought this song was really annoying when it came out. Now I listen to Pulp & love it. Wish I listened to the lyrics, could have saved myself some heartache & annoyance from that weirdo.
Recently, my dad passed. 59. This was my dad’s favourite song. Every so often, I’d put the record on and we’d listen to it in the car. He said it reminded him of when he met my mother. I love you so much, dad. You meant the world to me, and still do.
Everytime i read a comment like this, it makes me cry. I still remember how my dad and me listened to his favourite music in the car. I´m so sorry for your loss, 59 is way too early.
What a lovely memorie ❤❤
🤍🙏🏻🌷
Sending love.
Fifty Nine is too early to go, tell us his name, please.
Your dad had good taste!
I love how the tempo constantly increases throughout the song. You don't get that in many songs, and it adds so much.
@@keithkristi7938 you like this try stairway to heaven
@@keithkristi7938 I think if you set a metronome you'll find the pace definitely increases.
@@keithkristi7938 ""The thing with 'Common People' is that it starts at 90bpm and finishes at 160bpm, with each verse cranking it up. We recorded four or five takes of the band track and, as they weren't recorded to a click, some of them didn't end up at 160; they ended up at different tempos. It was totally freeform, with everyone following Jarvis's guide vocal which just got faster and faster and faster"
David Nicholas, Sound Engineer
@@FuturCrayon He recorded a classic.
The rest of us are raising a glass to him as a result.
🇬🇧
@@FuturCrayon and man, am I glad. Still play it regularly for a fullsome laugh. What crescendo!....and I gotta tell ya W Shatners with Joe Jackson ain't too shabby either..
R.I.P Steve Mackey, the bass guitarist of Pulp. Thank you for this beautiful music.
Absolutely agree Pulp made beautiful music. Steven Mackey will be missed.
❤❤❤❤
Fuck :( I missed that news, and it was a year ago. Goddamn. He was only in his 50s too, far far too young. RIP.
This was played at my mate's funeral. She was only 32y and we all used to play and sing this when we were younger. As we are all getting older, this song always reminds me that you never got to be old. R.I.P Sheree, mate. You'll never be common or forgotten. ❤ Xx
🙏💙
Thats so sad. rip Sheree 🕊
I am so sorry for your loss. We played at our wedding as our first song as it was so dear and true to us. This was 22 years ago and I still play it. It's one of my favourit songs ever.
❤
0:30 I bet you guys didnt notice that he starts saying "...and then in thirty seconds' time" exactly thirty seconds into the track
You need to get out more
I don't suppose you noticed the snatch on the bird in the mauve shorts ?
@@user-nz7nj9mv6gi dont even know what mauve is
@@user-nz7nj9mv6gbut if her snatch was out im sure i would have noticed that
This is one of only a few songs I can think of that has something to say, but also doesn't take itself too seriously. That is extremely rare in music, and art in general for that matter. It's the Kurt Vonnegut of songs.
Plenty of those ironic songs in the 80s to the 90's 😊
So it goes
@@Johnny_T779 Yes but sometimes even those ironic songs take themselves too seriously. If you have never heard it before listen to "Losing My Edge" by LCD Soundsystem. That might be the best example of what I mean by a song not taking itself too seriously but saying something.
@@jessejamesainger3263 why do you think this song takes itself too seriously if i may ask?
@@b.f1731 Sorry worded that wrong, edited.
i walked past jarvis a few weeks ago and he must have noticed i recognised him because he looked at me and pulled a silly face/stuck his tongue out. it was a strange moment lol
Nice btw i like your profile pic
RAD!!!
i was having a bad day and this made me smile bless you
hahahha cool
great moment shared between just u and him to allways remember..............but now its on you tube so its not as good and most probaly a lie..lol ihad too
In my opinion, Pulp was the greatest band of the Britpop era. Nobody captured the zeitgeist of the 90s like Jarvis Cocker. Timeless music ❤
Totally agree mate
I so love this song Jarvis cocker aka the weed in tweed 😂
Spot on.
Blur's pretty good too, imo.
Easily the best..
It couldn’t possibly have been me! She came from Greece and had a thirst for knowledge! I’ve never wanted to know anything in my life
nah, it's inspired by Danae Stratou, Yanis Varoufakis's wife
ha! i was thinking the same thing.
@@Botwinka13 It's a line from "Saltburn"
Violently british
Joshua Still lol that was funny. I came from a cover of this song 😂
we only do violent..
sameee ended up listening to more pulp songs 😂😂
Perfect description!
I think it's pretty reasonable. It highlights the reality. Common people aren't having fun. In fact, they are just stuck and can't do any better. Instead of taking fun of the common people, a better approach would be to try and help them. It's obvious they are not enjoying their life.
I saw Pulp in concert in Adelaide at the Thebarton Theatre, many years ago. I was right up the front, naturally! Jarvis was singing this and pointed to me when he sang 'common people like YOU".😆 I was thrilled!
Did u blush,,,or is it true. 🤾♀️
@@jimmyroos1677 it's absolutely true. I didn't blush 😆 I was beaming!
This is a great story
how great!!!
Back in 1981, I was in a band playing in little pubs in Sheffield. We knew Jarvis as he was always out (!) and was quite happy to chat. We even played a few gigs with them on the bill - higher up, of course even then. Years later in 1995, I was an art teacher in Lincolnshire and one morning, around the time Pulp really went massive, told my tutor group that many years ago I used to know Jarvis a bit etc etc.... The rumour mill churned away all day. Each time a new class came in, I was asked increasingly ridiculous questions, 'Sir, were you in a band with Jarvis Cocker?' etc.... The zenith was reached with the final class of the day, one of whom burst in and shouted, 'Sir! Are YOU Jarvis Cocker?!'
Many forget (or some never knew) that Pulp had been around for over a decade by the time they had this hit. During the 90s they were one of the most underrated British bands and Jarvis Cocker one of the most underrated songwriters.
Am I the first one to mention reference to Common People in Saltburn? Rosemund Pike had the best lines in that movie 😂
только что посмотрел фильм и он заставил меня вспомнить об этой песне снова
Looks like I beat you by two weeks. But I suspect someone else came first. Probably someone at the palme dor premiere furiously typing away.
I was here before saltburn bro 😎
@@DaRealist7 so you caught the reference in saltburn before you saw saltburn? Cute.
She was great in Saltburn. I liked her in that almost as much as I hated her in I Care A Lot.
This is one of those songs that you NEVER get bored of.
Come to the wirral loads of common people. The most forgotten location in England
Oh man! I think I've listened to this, both live versions and the album version every second day for the last 8 months. The Redding 2011 live performance is mind-blowing. 100% agree
Anooshrvanrohani
I listen to this version and I hear Bill Shatner
This gets better with age. Pure genius! 1995 was a banging year for Brit Pop and all music in general!! The nostalgia is killing me right now.
Nostalgia,,,the older we get....
@@jimmyroos1677 best summer ever ( the sun didn’t stop blazing down and Britpop ruled the airwaves)
Not really for all of music. Most of 90s music sucked
Oh man I FEEL you!! I'm exactly the same, being young then was just amazing, the music, the clothes, the tv programmes, I felt like the world belonged to me and my friends, and for a little while it really did
@@ksodz1397 90s music the best
The most honest timeless lyrics ever written
The lyrics of this song is so beautifully well written that the story flows and take you with it.. with or without your cooperation.
much underated band who really hit the mark
RIP Steve Mackey (November 10, 1966 - March 2, 2023), aged 56
You will be remembered as a legend.
I love the way he gets more agressive with the phrase "Wanna live with common people like you" when he repeats it at the end. It's pretty much him being like "The AUDACITY of this BITCH."
An age old rhetorical device and Jarvis nails it. As good as Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - by the end of that speach Antony has the Roman crowd baying for the blood of Ceasar's assassins using the repeated phrase "...the noble Brutus..." more and more caustically.
1.40 is when the penny drops and it became a song about the Haves getting down with the Have Nots. Its was open class war from that point on and highlights the total misunderstanding between the classes.
@@tillyb5768 uhhhhh....okayyyyyy🤨😆
This song has about 30 stanzas in its longest form. Lyrics out the kazoo and all great.
I still smile hearing this song on my boring commute to work. Love the humour and tragic comedy.
This is my song, after an abusive 11 year marriage, I divorced him, got a job behind a bar finally single but with 3 small children. Played this every weekend I was getting ready for work 1999 .. Still brings tears to my eye's of the freedom I felt ❤ like it was yesterday ❤
The line 'Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here' always brings a lump to my throat. I think of it every time I'm in my local Costcutter...
So true.
It's Amazing the true meaning in that one sentence
It encapsulates so much of what being working class can feel like sometimes.
I love how this song builds. It grows on you.
like an extra arm
This is the epitomy of song. The emotion, melody and lyrics are all phenomenal, and perfectly in sync. I suspect it's because it's done without thinking. It's from the heart.
Take me back to the 90s when life was ever so happy and simple
There's something deeply satisfying about patronising the moneyed class.
Agreed even though i am considered rich by the government
#breakingpoints
@@evanvrysoulis7714 lmao
I would love to know what it's like to be a member of the moneyed class, just for a month or so. So sick of worrying about making ends meet.
@@beatricemaude4426 They work harder than you. I mean 80-hour weeks. A chap my folks are friends with was boss of a global hotel chain. He get a few days off at Christmas and worked the rest of the time. The other type are the lottery winners.
ahhh in a supermarket without wearing a mask!!! Oh the nineties!
Tell me about it! I've always been a little too fascinated by the WWII home front so the fact that my life now involves carless roads, empty shelves, shortages, and public information posters everywhere is kind of morbidly fascinating. Still, the first time I went grocery shopping during the crisis, I ended up wandering down an aisle singing under my breath "Are you SURE you want to live like '40s people, you want to see what '40s people see...?"
@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 dead haha
Contemporary comments are he best.
Masks? That's disco 2020.
You should check out Tracey Ullman's version of They Don't Know. More realistic. Pushing a cart wearing slippers, no makeup and messy hair...relatable.
Jarvis has a knack for writing songs about everyday things and turning them into musical works of art
There cant be anyone born between 1976/1984 who doesn't know this word for word.
It has to be like the lord's prayer for our generation
Sadly, this song apparently went nowhere in the US. I certainly don't remember it. It never charted here. The song is 🔥, though. Thank God for movies. I would never have known it existed. Great vid, great lyrics, great music.
In the next aisle over in that supermarket you'll find Thom Yorke, singing Fake Plastic Trees, also in a supermarket trolley. Ah, the 90's...when you couldn't get your shopping done due to angsty singers getting in the way of the butternut squash display.
I had the same thought. He's baby thom.
And The Clash were lost in the supermarket
Also, Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
the greatest crossover episode
That’s a beaut🤣
One of the best songs about class warfare and between the have and havenots. We need more Pulp in these times!
We need more Communism, maaaaaan!
Jesus Christ man….it’s not that deep.
We have the maneskin punk aaaa
@@VegGeorgie yes, it is.
@@VegGeorgie i'll add my yes it is. it is not deep because it's difficult or because it tells about complex concepts. it's deep because it reflects the depth of the nothingness you can do when you are stuck with your back against the wall and hear people going on about how you can really start shitting gold bullions if you really believe in yourself and if you really want to.
For some reason I missed Pulp during my younger years and heard this song when I was 58. I'm stunned by it, and each time I listen, something lumps up in my throat. Just amazing. Such a great criticism of our society.
This is so wonderful really-used to hear this a lot on BBC Radio 2 as well. Thank you so much!
It's 2023, and this is still one of the all-time great bangers.
oh yeah
It was totally underrated... I was living a 'trainspotting' style life back then... this song was like the soundtrack of those days.
@@alainvosselman9960 ab so fkn lutley ! !
always will be
I agree
Jarvis explains the class system in a nutshell. As if there was any doubt.
well if your from Greece its murky isn't it
@@patkelly3966 yea like phil the nazi
No he doesn't.
@Patrick Ryan He's singing about a wealthy Greek girl who had no understanding of Britain and in particular its Working Class. To her, degradation and squalor was a laugh because she could always go home to mummy and daddy and live in luxury again. She was a voyeur
Yaassssss!
I love how it gradually speeds up. Criminally under-rated song. Ahead of its time.
If you like this type of songs, I hope you know Nick Cave! He's the master of these "speeding up" songs 😉
It’s such a thought provoking, timeless, quality tune.
The older I get the more I understand this song and can relate to it. The common person's checklist in this song really hits home...
It really does it Home and I actually get quite emotional with," see your life slip out of view" that part hurts
@@jclancy8246 hahahahahha used to cry my soul out listening to that line when i was depressed in uni realising that im fucked anyway(a cog in the machine and all that shit)...
@@MojoBonzo thats me rn aha, how has it turned out since then?
@@alfiefell6990 i just had to "man up" and do it anyway! tbh the thoughts never went completely away... you just get stuck into it...
@@MojoBonzo fair play to you, did you find those thoughts lessened once you started a career? Cos i cant imagine working a full time week for 40 years id rather live in a van or something...
1:15
"You're so funny"
I said :"YeAh"
"I cAn'T seE anYoNe eLse sMiliNg"
💀
After all these years, I still have to listen to this at least twice a week. A real classic.
Same here,School of fish "For three strange days" as well.
Easily a masterpiece,there’s me still up at 4 o clock in the morning listening to this on repeat not getting bored of it and thinking that I have done this practically one a week since I first heard it 20 years ago
Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Elastica every head must bow and every tongue must confess. They all wrote great songs one way or the other.
keane. you forgot
Keane can’t compare with them,but it’s also a pretty band
What about suede?
In the end, all the "BritPop" thing was like five bands or so.
Don't forget the Manic Street Preachers
"then in thirty seconds time" THAT IS SAID THIRTY SECONDS INTO THE SONG and that pleases me for some reason 0:30
coincidence?
I AM SATISFIED
击 Oreo ほんとだー！wow
Haha yeah the video was fkn awesome, low budget but they pull that off. Rofl 1:32 showing common people and that dudes nicking the tv, hahaha
Not coinkidink.
Loominarty.
Jarvis Cocker was a BritPop icon of the 90s🇬🇧
National Treasure in my house 🥰
LYRICS
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 rum and Coca-Cola
She said fine
And then in thirty seconds time she said
I wanna live like common people
I wanna do whatever common people do
Wanna sleep with common people
I wanna sleep with common people
Like you
Oh what else could I do
I said I'll, 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
I can't see anyone else smiling in here
Are you sure?
You wanna live like common people
You wanna see whatever common people see
Wanna sleep with common people
You wanna 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
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah
You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And you 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 really laughing at you
And the stupid things that you do
Because you think that poor is cool
Wanna live with common people like you
Wanna live with common people like you
Wanna live with common people like you
Wanna live with common people like you
Wanna live with common people like you
Wanna live with common people like you
I wanna live with common people like you
Oh, la, la, la, la
Oh, la, la, la, la
Oh, la, la, la, la
Oh, la, la, la, la
Oh you
Thanks!😊
If I wanted the lyrics I would have searched for them myself.
I searched the comments for the lyrics, thanks a lot :)
@@iainkinehan7030bruh just shut up as someone who is in a music course for college i find it amazing when people take the time to comment lyrics cause I need to learn different songs in a very short timescale
That's awesome lol
Me: (in middle of test)
Brain: are you sure YOU WANNA LIVE LIKE COMMON PEOPLE YOU WANT TO SEE WHATEVER COMMON PEOPLE SEE
Jarvis Cocker in Tesco sadly I think the classes are already defined ever before school tests define which institution or job you go for the future. Family background influences people way more than school tests themselves.
bro THIS.
Jarvis Cocker in Tesco This is actually so relatable... right in the middle of my Biology A-Level exam ahahaha
Lidl. Aldi
Very very very wise! I think here are writing mostly people from the middle class like I with space to create their own story. But if you go down the ladder, lose your family support, you have no money no influence no way to get out your situation but have to accept the decisions of others. As a middle class people it is really hard imaginable, but I would suggest "City of Gods" or "Tropa Elite" to see , what the the downwards risks are. Take your chance, but avoid arrogance against common people at all cost!
When I see politicans , see middle class brainless teens like Greta, this song is always playing in my head.
This is one of the most British videos on all of UA-cam.
Get a cuppa and play it loud (the song, not the cuppa).
Underrated group!! Awesomeness to the highest level!!
Only 45 million views is an insult. This song was not widely aired much in the u.s. I found it much later, is one of the best dynamicly changing songs of all time.
This song has everything! Great lyrics, sharp social commentary, and a perfect blend of conversational and musical tones in the performance. I could listen to it forever. Maybe I will. Signing out to play it again.
Absolutely
The whole "Different class" album is one of the most elegant and amazing pop albums ever made. Pulp did an amazing job with it.
Great voice on this guy, first heard this in 1974, I had just started work as an apprentice at Hoover in Greenford, and they used to play the radio over the PA for 2 hours a day.
Am approaching retirement now and this song ( and a few others) have stayed with me all those years
The bass introduction, to one of the most iconic pop songs of the last thirty years, was courtesy of the late great Steve Mackay.
He was a class act who left far too early. RIP
This song becomes even more brilliant with every passing year.
It's now 2022 and I can confirm that this is true
It's due to inflation
@@hippiemuslim Cost of living crisis,fuel profiteering,disastrous "mini-budget",you name it. 2022 has done its darnedest to make the bulk of the people feel a bit more "common".
correct ☺👍
Anyone else think Jarvis Cocker could pull off some amazing Bowie covers? He's got a similar type of voice.
his voice better than D. Bowie's voice
We will agree to disagree on that one! Nobody has a better voice than David Bowie :)
Jude Ku Freddie Mercury
He could give it a credible 'tribute' shot at least.. Likely better.
Just a smol killjoy Sadly, Freddie's not here :(
2024, 3024, 4024, it doesn't matter, this masterpiece will be heard forever...
Easily one of the best lyrically written songs in pop history. Amazing.
One of the biggest britpop anthems
And one of the biggest and more blatant cases of plagiarism in music.
@@residente44 I'm just curious whom exactlyb did they plagiarize?
@@gilavalos2400 Mecano - Los Amantes
This was my teenage years. Had the cassette played done.. RIP Steve Mackey ❤️
Whats happened
@@goneburnforher He dieds
@@goneburnforherprobably heart attack?
Deborah is no more and our youth is a pillar of salt in the rear-view mirror. Tempus fugit. I just want to be common and not woke.
If you're reading this is 2023 you are a fckin hero - the world needs more people like you
Down under loving it.
I started watching Saltburn and immediately felt like the whole movie was just the embodiment of this song. Then I kept watching and they actually reference this song at one point. Mint.
Venía a buscar algún comentario que hiciera referencia y aca te encontré :) Yo tambien supe que se trataba de esta canción.
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?)
Even reading it, it’s freaking funny ♥️
It is so true. I’m cracking up as I read this comment. 😂
444th like
The best moment
I swear David Tennant based his Dr on Jarvis Cocker.
Ok I'm not alone thinking this haha
@@rileyk5228 YANA
Oh my god
My head just exploded!??
@@barbaraaraneda8971 okay, Donna.
I first heard this song like a month ago and fell in love with it instantly. What a banger!
One of the greatest rock 'n' roll songs of all time. Pulp is so underrated.
As a bandthey are but this video does have 41mil views haha
Agree. Jarvis delivers it all here. Clever wordy, charisma, humor, the performance. I can't fault it. And the band really backed it up.
Criminally under-rated song and group....
really? ua-cam.com/video/abOWpBP_GiQ/v-deo.html
Juan Vazquez wait
@@juanjvp06 Defo. In the states at that time, not a breath of them, even on the alt programs. But they def weren't singing praises of capitalism, so it's understandable? Tho since then, the UK has more than started to embrace the capitalist culture. Voting in a Johnson lead tories...well welcome the extortionist prices of American health care soon. He'll smile and hold your hand when you're paying through the nose for a simple presce 😐
29m views. Wut?
@@juanjvp06 Por que publicaste ese link? Es una canción de la ley.
Here I am flying over Puerto Rico to Guyana, May 2024 listening to Pulp and reminiscing about my high school years in Scotland. So long ago…cheers
Yeah boi, 45 years young and still head bopping foot tapping and reminiscing. 90s rocked man. Peace n Love brothers and sisters ✌️❤️
"Dance and drink and screw.
Because there is nothing else to do"
True.
It shouldn't exist more important things than those few things if you know what I mean...
Except this version is censored. Modern pop is basically just soft porn, and they censor the word 'screw' in this.
in small town pre-internet 1995 it could seem that way
Ah the times before video games
@@CariettaW Agreed. I don't understand why on earth 'screw' would be blanked out - its just not that offensive either back in the 90s (I was there) or now. Bizarre...
There is a quiet contempt in this song that is so sublimely packaged many miss it.
Only rich people miss it
I love this song. The vibe he and the band have is awesome. He’s weird deep down and so is she but they don’t wanna change into “common people”. Amazing video too
truly an anthem of the 90s, combining all the things the band did best. lust, envy, bitterness, good jokes and melody.
I lived in Chelsea during this period of Cool Britannia / Brit Pop . It was just the coolest time ever . Music , fashion ,food and art where all perfectly aligned . Incredible times
Brit Pop Era simply was the B.E.S.T!!!
I’ll you don’t recognise the place now
A Swinging London ‘60’s throwback. We must be due another one pretty soonish.
You should have been there in the early eighties . . . .
Why don’t you tell us about Your Life & Hard Times....in Chelsea...when life was such a groove...when this came out...such a groove! 💔
Jarvis Cocker did better tik tok dances in the nineties than kids in 2020 (3:04)
Let’s be honest, it doesn’t take much to be better than anything on tiktok.
Hahahaha
I think the parts that speak the most to me are “If you called your dad, he could stop it all” combined with “Never fail like common people”.
Partly because this reminds me of a story an older coworker once told me, about a friend's daughter, who back in the 70' did the (as I remember him telling it) leftie/hippie thing (to live like common people), and moved to an old quarter of the town (I think it was around the time young left-leaning people occupied part of it, to save the quarter from being razed (I think that quarter was built in the mid-to-late 1800s, so communal outhouses)). Anyhow, when she got pregnant, she had her dad to buy her a modern flat and moved there.
Further on the topic of “fail like common people do”, money (and fame) is apparently very useful when you're suspected of, or sentenced for having, committed a crime. E.G: having enough money to post bail (from what I've understood (I don't live in a country with that system), it's much easier to defend yourself/prove your innocence/get a good lawyer (or if nothing else, there's a correlation with being able to post bail and afford better defence), besides, look up how many have got away with killing people).
not to mention if you get a $2,500 to $5,000 fine (amount taken from the Wiki). To normal people, that's quite a lot to pay as, about half of US citizens have ≤ $500 in their savings, while another 29% have between $501 - $5,000 (according to an article on CNBC). Which I take as about 80% of US Americans could either lose their entire savings or get (as the majority of them) into deep debt, for a fine. While some people can, in essence, afford to burn double that amount, without a second (or first, for that matter) thought.
I heard this song when it came out. Still play it, especially after a day of hard work. Uplifting and FU at the same time!
i feel he's underappreciated as a dancer
Yes!! I’m so glad someone noted that
Didn't he make it up all without any choreography?
My emerging dance style around 1996 was, I noticed, unconsciously Jarvis mixed well in equals part with Travolta and that then fuelled by just fucking great indie and rock nights... well, as a once-shy INFP kid I think there would have been a lot less of the great kissing without it. So, thanks Jarvis man.
For many an average band... but this is nothing short than a brilliant masterpiece!! Love it!
More less than average...when they have gone, nothing would have left
still so good after all them years.....should have 45 billion views soon......
Definitivamente pese a los años me sigue encantando Pulp, la forma en que pueden meterte una lírica completamente crítica acerca de nuestra sociedad con un ritmo bailable es arte puro. Larga vida a PULP.
One of my favorite quotes from the film "Yesterday", "Some of the best songs never made it to number one. Common People by Pulp, for a start. It’s a total classic."
Did not expect anyone to have a selection of favourite quotes from that movie.
If David Tennant and Declan McKenna had a child, he would look like this.
10th doctor = Jarvis cocker in space
Fantastic, spot on :D
Declan McKenna is younger than this song xD
Or maybe, got's the look of Lou Reed and Janis Joplin, or Joan Jett, just for funk!
wouldn't it be better to say Jarvis would be Declan's dad?
Just got home from watching these live at warrington neighbourhood weekender. Absolute best experience ive ever had ❤
Pulp -Just pure genious. Their music will last for ever.
This song never gets old, it is such a brilliant piece of social commentary.
It just gets truer and truer
True. I've got a fake poor person in my midst who is making a profession out of being pretend-poor.
She's tight as a fishes arse and being rumbled.
@@miraeja It's just always been eternally true. There were rumors of Marie Antoinette doing similar
@miraeja At least the Romans had it in their culture to not ignore luck's influence in your fortune
David tennant's Doctor, is just Jarvis Cocker in space...
And time.
Sam FiveSixEleven With converse.
and a big fuck off coat
this is so accurate?
Yes! both wonderful people. Think Jarvis is a better dancer though...
Never gets old - takes me back to happier times
My aunt is in this 😂
Who is she
1995 was such an incredible year. Having missed the Beatles/Stones/Kinks era I never thought I would live through such brilliant music. I was 28 and remember watching TOTP with Pulp, Blur, Elastica. The number one was Oasis with Don’t Look Back in Anger, they did it live with Noel and his Union flag guitar and Liam on piano. Just breathtaking and never to be repeated.
They have reunited.
I think of 1995 being the last great year of music. The mp3 format made it very convenient for listening, but without people actually buying physical CDs or vinyl, great pop music started to die. We still have a little, but not like it was.
For music but as I spent most of it with an amphetamine filled needle in my arm it also sucked
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Glad to have you around Martin. You might have died.
@@ibosquez5238 One day I did. Second time I tried H
does anyone else come back to songs from their childhood, and then realise that they never really understood what the songs was actually about, it's nice gaining a new appreciation for something.
Exactly what I’m doing right now
I was 23 when this song came out so to answer your question no.
It's definitely me, sums up my relationships with my ex wife perfectly fine, this one
Ive been listening to this song for so many years now and I can't get tired of it!
I love pulp sm they have great songs. I accidentally found out about them by searching pulp fiction haha and I don't regret listening to them at all !
I love this song so much.
The progression of the song, the lyrics, the relatability,
is what makes this song/album, amazing.
Bang on !
1:47 boomerang effect instagram before it was cool!
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I’m bouncing around UA-cam going from recommended songs by artists I haven’t heard of before and man at first I was going to skip over this but holy hell this song is awesome. A++
God bless the working classes. This country be nothing without them.
No country for that matter (don't you dare mention the Vatican or some shit now)
God bless the working class checks. Taxed to death in USA.
kid vicious British car insurance brands : that’s nothing , we can bankrupt so many more people than you could ever
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd like every other country was built on elitism. The peasants and then the working class built it, the elite took all the profit and merit, either they were norman or english, monarchs or republicans, etc
Countries are fictional borders to divide land and power among the Aristocracy, especially in Monarchies like the UK, most peasants would never be so malicious to do such a thing but people do get wasted on power.
Me at 17: This song is about me! Woe, I shall die alone!
Me at 50: This song is about me! Yeah, I shall die alone!
Me at 70: This song is about me!!
@@franbrocard5731 you're actually 70, commenting on youtube? That's so cool.
this song was released in 1995 if you were 17 in 1995 you would be about 43 now
Lol it's been 25/26 years since this song released, how are you 50.