
[quote]Track listing:
Babies (Original Version): Signs, signs, signs – sideburns!
Razzmatazz: Moulin Rouge, cornflakes, tomato soup – chockies!
Lipgloss: Red, yellow, tunnels, more signs.
Do You Remember the First Time?: Worm, spinny, nausea – censorship.
Babies (1994 Version): White, pose, lips – stuff.
Common People: Trolley, back’n’forth, Saturday Night Fever – Sadie!
Sorted For E’s & Wizz: Squares, unique, arseholes – revenge!
Mis-Shapes: Glasto – alright!
Disco 2000: Telly, cardboard, it – Gloria!
Something Changed: Strums, strings, studio - straight.
Help the Aged: Beards, boobs, bubblers, rails.
This is Hardcore: Screen test, splash, feathers, nurse!
A Little Soul: Dad, son, Mum, daughter.
Party Hard: Cheerleaders, hearts, sparkles – Bowie!
The Trees: Shadows, trails, ballet, red.
Bad Cover Version: Fake, flake, fjake, Brian May?![/quote]
[quote]Review del video
When it comes to visual quality, low budget and high quality rarely rub shoulders – and many of these clips prove to be no exception to this rule. With many of them shot on film the usual gremlins come out to play, most notably speckles and grain, however find me one fan of Pulp who really cares about the odd bit of grottiness here and I’ll eat a cardboard cut-out of Jarvis...
Once given bigger budgets to play with things improve markedly, with many clips boasting superbly vibrant colour without heading into retina-searing territory. For the most part black levels are good, and by the time you get to the latter half of what’s on offer you’ll witness scarcely a blemish within what’s on offer.
Needless to say it’s all in full frame, with the odd clip here or there masked at different ratios, for despite what some dumber folk will try to tell you, black bars are ALWAYS cool.[/quote]
[quote]Review del audio
Nobody’s been given free reign to mess about and surroundisise (I’ll get a new word into usage if it kills me!) Pulp’s music here, which is definitely something to be thankful for. The Dolby Digital stereo mix delivers everything the way it was intended to be, displaying nothing in the way of bad stuff at all save for some minimal hiss in a couple of the early clips. Synch is as spot-on as it gets for a series of mini-films which were all mimed, and cranked up to 11 it all sounds as splendiferous as it ever did on record.[/quote]
[quote]Review de los extras (los añado el sábado)It’s getting harder to classify what’s feature content and what constitutes extras nowadays, for there’s actually more running-time to be found outside of the ‘Promos’ section than within, and all reachable via three options from a deliciously assembled set of simply animated, but ever-so-effective menus, complete with Jarvis hum...
Home Movies Four features of various lengths are on offer here. First up is a fan’s delight – TV Madness (17:42) is a visual scrapbook of sorts featuring appearances on various telly programmes, from dishing band goss on The Big Breakfast to helping the mo-fo aged with Ali G, plus all manner of weird and wonderful pit stops in-between. Highlights include – well, everything – although the cabaret version of Common People by some guy in a suit made from what looks like the silver paper out of fag packets is a highlight, as is an incomprehensible read through of ALL the lyrics from that particular song in Italian by a rather excitable TV presenter. Most of it offers visual “quality” pretty much akin to that of VHS, which isn’t very surprising really when you consider that’s where it was sourced from – occasional on-screen displays and all. I hope their Mum's got the tapes back!
Next up is Sheffield Bands (6:46), another videotaped treat salvaged from somewhere way back in the deep dark mid ‘80s, looking at Sheffield’s rich musical history – after all, who else could boast spawning Joe Cocker, the Human League, Heaven 17, Cabaret Voltaire, Def Leppard – actually, in the case of most of them, who would want to?
The self-describing Home Movies (14:22) fronts up next, straight from bandi-cam to us with such joys to behold as rehearsals, tales of lost keys, early gigs, the odd bad haircut, the odd bad cover version and lots of dicking about.
Completing this little cul-de-sac of fun is the decidedly weird Catcliffe (1:50), whereby Pulp go porcelain in their rehearsal place...
Live Whilst there must be oodles and oodles of live stuff floating about, we get but a wee taste here, with a mere five tracks. Fans will be rapt though that they show a quick potted history of the band over around ten years, with only one obvious song included – the 1995 Brit Awards performance of Sorted... complete with Jarvis getting very high at the end... The other tracks on offer are Joyriders, taken from Yorkshire TV’s The Beat; 59, Lyndhurst Grove from something called No Stilettos (it looks to be in a church); Dishes from Jools Holland’s Later... and finally Sunrise from their Eden Project gig (we’re talking BIG dome-y things!) following the release of the We Love Life album. All up there’s just over 20 minutes here to enjoy, interspersed with some more, usually weird TV bits and pieces.
Short Films You can take the boy out of art school, but you can’t take the art school out of the boy... Here we have three fabulous examples of Jarvis’s flair for the dramatic (a fourth, Documentary is listed on the cover, but is nowhere to be found – mrrf!). Possibly the best known amongst fans will be the 30:21 event that is Do You Remember the First Time?. Perhaps not surprisingly it presents a series of interviews with all manner of folk - including the likes of Justine Elastica, comedienne Jo Brand and UK radio god John Peel – and their remembrances of that initial close encounter; everything from bed-sits to bathrooms, the boring to the “Blakeian” – and all marred only by a stupid layer change plonked haphazardly in the middle.
If that’s not enough, the entire 25:38 of This is Hardcore is also here for the taking. More than a simple extended video clip (the full ones for the titular song as well as Help the Aged do feature), it attempts to find out what happens when you ask people on a film set to talk about some of life’s more difficult subjects – the usual diverse stuff like, erm, porn, freedom, trouble, booze, the afterlife, depression and getting on in years.
Last, but – it must be said – certainly not least, is a spoken version of Babies (2:13). Assorted sound effects accompany Jarvis in a sleazy poet’s corner take on the song, accompanied by cleverly edited vision from the 1994 clip.
Rounding out the package is a very slick, incredibly glossy fold-out, ten-panel booklet type affair, complete with lots of yummy piccies, credits and a brief message from the band.[/quote]
[quote]If you haven’t heard Common People, you’ve either been living in a cave for the last decade, or you’re a fool. Which one are you?
Pulp are quite simply, Pulp. Their electronic, synthesiser sound combined with Jarvis Cockers biting, sometimes romantic, sometimes sinister, always crazy lyrics made Pulp one of the most revered bands of the Britpop era. Unfortunately, as soon as people found out how old Cocker was, Pulp became about as fashionable as the Spring/Summer ’99 Pringle catalogue. Pulp have now, ceased to be.
This DVD collects all of Pulp’s promo’s along with rare gig footage and some lovely TV spots. You also get a couple of documentaries added into the mix. Man, they’ve packed so much onto the disk they probably had to get a fat guy to sit on it to squash all the stuff in.
The promos are, of course, fantastic, with videos from the likes of Hammer and Tongs and Pedro Romhanyi, who did most of the Different Class stuff. Standouts from the promos definitely the funny and oddly touching Mis-shapes video and the original Babies video, with Jarvis Cocker dancing like there’s no tomorrow. In fact, out of the 16 promos, only The Tress disappoints. It’s a fantastic song, but doesn’t hold up as a single, and you can’t watch it due to the fact you float away when it graces your eardrums. Closing track “Bad Cover Version” rounds off the hits fantastically, with a hilarious video featuring and awful Craig David look-a-like.
The extra stuff is mixed. A lot of the Live and Short films hold little interest, but the “TV Spots” feature is fantastic, featuring Jarvis squirming on Live & Kicking and a lovely section from a local TV station about how “Sorted For E’s & Wizz” could promote people to take drugs (lyrics: “I lost my friends, I dance alone, it's six o'clock I wanna go home.”).
The interviews with celebrities and cast members on the documentaries “First Time” and “This Is Hardcore” are also worth watching and prove enjoyable, and bring this DVD up to much more then just a collection of Pulp’s, admittedly fantastic, videos. 9/10[/quote]
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Proximamente añadiré los extras que son muchos, la calidad de imagen en los primeros videos no es muy buena. Tened paciencia, en los próximos días intentaré tener otra fuente completa que me ayude a lanzarlo.
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