Different Class / Deluxe Edition

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a b Sexton, Paul (20 January 1996). "Pulp Travels Toward U.S. With 'Class' ". Billboard. Vol.108, no.3. p.14 . Retrieved 21 October 2020.

IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 1996". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 16 July 2012. Pitchfork Staff (28 September 2022). "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork . Retrieved 26 April 2023. ... Different Class, a full-length that alchemized bubblegum, glam, and luxe new wave into artful pop. On the one hand there was Tight Fit, loincloth-favouring male/female vocal group about to take the number one spot with their lithesome re-working of Karl Denver's 'Wimoweh', where, famously, " the lion sleeps tonight". On the other there were the archetypal misfits, a Sheffield troupe called Pulp about to release their debut album with a line-up that included future Mission guitarist Simon Hinkler. Thirteen years later it's Pulp who are worrying the chart peaks. But – " Mis-shapes, misfits, mistakes" – Jarvis and friends aren't ready to forget the long years bleakly frittered away as outsiders, terminally out of place and out of cigs.Aside from ' Mis-Shapes' and its sympathetic portrayal of those persecuted by the style elite of Passions Nitespot, 'Different Class' is full of characters excluded from something. ' Disco 2000' has the protagonist rueing a childhood friendship that didn't reach full fruition: " They said that when we grew up, we'd get married and never split up / We never did though". There's the posh-bird subject of ' Common People', doomed never really to experience prole-world. Even with ' Sorted For E's And Wizz', the narrator keeps his distance from the all-together communality of the rave experience: " Now it's nice one, geezer / That's as far as the conversation went". The most desolate glimpse of outsiderdom comes with ' I Spy', a sinister spin on the world of voyeurism. Yoonsoo Kim, Kristen (30 October 2015). "Why Pulp's 'Different Class' Is The Most Important Britpop Album 20 Years Later". Complex . Retrieved 19 January 2017. a b Christgau, Robert (9 April 1996). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York . Retrieved 7 December 2015. Sexton, Paul (21 September 1996). "Pulp Nabs '96 Mercury Music Prize in U.K." Billboard. Vol.108, no.38. p.85 . Retrieved 30 June 2020. Walters, Barry (September 1999). "The 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s". Spin. Vol.15, no.9. p.140 . Retrieved 26 October 2020.

Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums. London, England: Guinness World Records. pp.400–01. ISBN 978-1-904994-10-7. a b Hawkins, Chris (10 April 2014). "How a Wedding Picture Ended Up on the Cover of an Iconic Britpop Album..." HuffPost . Retrieved 30 April 2014. Offiziellecharts.de – Pulp – Different Class" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 17, 2023. Listen - Danmarks Officielle Hitliste - Udarbejdet af AIM Nielsen for IFPI Danmark - Uge 15". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). Copenhagen. 14 April 1996.Released in 1995 at the height of the Britpop era, it is often considered an album which best defines the era and has featured at the number one position on several best Britpop albums polls, including The Village Voice, [34] BuzzFeed, [35] Pitchfork, [36] Spin. [37] Exactly twenty years on from its release, Complex magazine declared Different Class as "the most important Britpop album." [38] Having not featured in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the album was ranked at number 162 in their revised 2020 list. [39] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [40] Commercial performance [ edit ] Laws, Mike (11 December 2014). "The 10 Best Britpop Albums of All Time (or At Least Since 1993 or So)". The Village Voice . Retrieved 12 January 2017. a b Walters, Barry (March 1996). "Pulp – Different Class". Spin. Vol.11, no.12. p.108 . Retrieved 7 December 2015.

McLaughlin, Kylie (2006). "Pulp: Different Class". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe Publishing. p. 766. ISBN 978-0-7893-1371-3. Lamacq, Steve (host) (8 February 1999). "Different Class". Classic Albums of the 90s. London. BBC Radio 1. The Different Class Story. Perpetua, Matthew (9 January 2014). "The Official Britpop Album Ranking". BuzzFeed . Retrieved 13 September 2020.Lynskey, Dorian (1 September 2006). "CD: Pulp, Different Class". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 1 September 2013. The album was a critical and commercial success, entering the UK Albums Chart at number one and winning the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. It spawned four top ten singles in the UK: " Common People", " Sorted for E's & Wizz", " Disco 2000" and " Something Changed". Different Class has been certified four times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), and had sold 1.33 million copies in the United Kingdom as of 2020. [4] Widely acclaimed as among the greatest albums of the Britpop era, in 2013, NME ranked the album at number six in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time [5] while Rolling Stone ranked it number 162 in their 2020 revised version of the same list. Candida Doyle: Farfisa Compact Professional II organ, Ensoniq ASR 10, Korg Trident II, Minimoog, Fender Rhodes piano, Roland Juno 6, Roland SH-09

Mark Webber: Gibson ES 345 guitar, Gibson Les Paul guitar, Gibson Firebird guitar, Sigma acoustic guitar, Casio Tonebank CT-470, Fender Rhodes piano, Roland Juno 6 The album was the winner of the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. [4] In 1997, it was ranked at number 34 out of 100 in a "Music of the Millennium" poll [27] conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q readers voted Different Class the 37th greatest album of all time; [28] a repeat poll in 2006 put it at number 85. [29] In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. [30] In 2005 it was voted number 70 in Channel 4's The 100 Greatest Albums. [31] In 2006 British Hit Singles & Albums and NME organised a poll in which 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and Different Class was placed at number 54 on the list. [32] The album was ranked at number 35 on Spin 's "The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985–2014)" list. [33] PopMatters ' retrospective review in 2004 opined that "nearly nine years after its release, Different Class has aged very well, possessing that timeless quality that is present in all classic albums, but is still obviously a product of its time, a snapshot of mid-'90s life in the UK. Along with Blur's Parklife, it remains the high point of the Britpop era; music, lyrics, production, artwork, it's as perfect as it gets." [24] Reviewing the 2006 deluxe edition, Garry Mulholland of Q stated that the album "defined the mood of the day", [25] while Drowned in Sound described Different Class as "easily the best album of its year of release and arguably the best album from the Britpop era" and went on to call it "a certifiable masterpiece that not only lived up to the sky-high expectations heaped upon it with appalling ease, but surpassed them." [26] Accolades [ edit ] Lindsay, Cam (30 September 2020). "The 25 Best Albums of the Britpop Era". Spin . Retrieved 1 October 2020. Mark Webber – Gibson ES 345, Gibson Les Paul guitar, Gibson Firebird guitar, Sigma acoustic guitar, Casio Tonebank CT-470, Fender Rhodes piano, Roland Juno 6

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Ali, Lorraine (18 February 1996). "Pulp, 'Different Class', Island". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016 . Retrieved 7 December 2015. Candida Doyle – Farfisa Compact Professional II organ, Ensoniq ASR-10, Korg Trident II, Minimoog, Fender Rhodes piano, Roland Juno 6, Roland SH-09 a b Mulvey, John (28 October 1995). " 'Class' A". NME. p.52. Archived from the original on 13 October 2000 . Retrieved 7 December 2015. The album was released in the UK at the height of Britpop. It followed from the success of their breakthrough album His 'n' Hers the previous year. Two of the singles on the album – " Common People" (which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart) and " Disco 2000" (which reached number seven) – were especially notable, and helped propel Pulp to nationwide fame. A "deluxe edition" of Different Class was released on 11 September 2006. It contains a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities. a b c d Copsey, Rob (22 September 2020). "Mercury Prize: The best-selling winning albums". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 17 September 2018.