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Visit product page →Separations is the birth of the modern Pulp. Not only does the record feature the lineup that would eventually break through into the mainstream, it is the first album to contain the fusion of pop, dance, and rock that would take them to the top of the charts in the mid-'90s.
More than anything, the influence of acid house and raves weighs heavily on Separations, as the band stretches out into the disco groove of "Countdown" and the long jam "This House Is Condemned." But what is especially noticeable about Separations is how Pulp is finally starting to write some fully realized songs.
"My Legendary Girlfriend," the song that earned the band its first Single of the Week in NME, is the leader of the pack with a brilliant, sly lyric and vocal from Jarvis Cocker, and an appropriately melodic and slightly dirty instrumental backdrop from the band. "Countdown," with its insistent beat, is nearly as good, as is the loping opener, "Love Is Blind." Separations is the first album that illustrates the band's potential and exactly what it could accomplish.
Tracklisting:
1. Love Is Blind
2. Don't You Want Me Anymore?
3. She's Dead
4. Separations
5. Down by the River
6. Countdown
7. My Legendary Girlfriend
8. Death II
9. This House Is Condemned -
Pulp's debut album from 1983 is re-issued via Fire / Cargo for the first time. It is a gentle, mainly acoustic album that gives very few signs to the musical directions Pulp would later pursue. Lacking any hint of synthesizers or dance music, the album occasionally touches on the majestic, theatrical ballads of Scott Walker, as well as the stark, folky song poems of Leonard Cohen.Visit product page →
Highlights include the light opening single "My Lighthouse" or the silly, music hall stomp of "Love Love." Although technically not as strong as the later albums it has an effortless, amateurish charm that makes up for the unformed songs and the band's rudimentary musical skills.
Tracks:
1. My Lighthouse
2. Wishful Thinking
3. Joking Aside
4. Boats and Trains
5. Blue Girls
6. Love Love
7. In Many Ways
8. Looking for Life -
Sold outPulp had changed significantly since their debut 'It'. By this time every member bar Jarvis had moved on but the addition of Russell Senior proved to be a pivotal turning point for the band. No longer did Pulp sound pastoral, easy-natured; now they were darkly romantic, brooding, noisy and a little bit Gothic, in the way young folk who brush their hair a certain way are always a little bit Gothic. Pulp were out-of-tune with the times: but the times didn't satisfy Pulp.Visit product page →
The album is quite marvellous. Most of these songs stand the distance of time: it was here, possibly even more than 1992's Separations, that Pulp started coming into their own as a band with a fully-realised aesthetic.
The first disc is the original album, unaltered and in its entirety. The second is a bonus disc comprising of tracks from the two big non-album singles from the same era, 'Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)' and 'Dogs are Everywhere'. Two further b-sides 'Tunnel' and 'Manon' complete the second disc for the definitive 'Freaks' period release.
1. Fairground2. I Want You3. Being Followed Home4. Master Of The Universe5. Life Must Be So Wonderful6. There's No Emotion7. Anorexic Beauty8. The Never Ending Story9. Don't You Know10. They Suffocate At Night1. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) (BONUS)2. Simultaneous (BONUS)3. Blue Glow (BONUS)4. The Will To Power (BONUS)5. Dogs Are Everywhere (BONUS)6. The Mark Of The Devil (BONUS)7. 97 Lovers (BONUS)8. Aborigine (BONUS)9. Goodnight (BONUS)10. Tunnel (BONUS)11. Manon (BONUS)
