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Mar 24, 2024 · Jarvis Cocker and his band Pulp were the art, literary (and elder) outsiders who created youth anthems for everyday people during a ’90s Britpop craze they also despised. Videos by American...
- Thom Donovan
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- ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’ – His ‘N’ Hers
- ‘Common People’ –A Different Class
- ‘Party Hard’ – This Is Hardcore
- ‘Black Magic’ – Jarvis
- ‘Room 29’ –Room 29
- ‘Aline’ – Chansons D’Ennui Tip-Top
Pulp landed their first top 40 UK hit single ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’ in 1994, the success of which was built on the popularity of the band’s two previous releases, ‘Razzmatazz’ and ‘Babies’. Buoyed by the success of the single, Pulp released their fourth studio album, His ‘N’ Hers, that same year. Featuring some of Cocker’s most imaginati...
It’s impossible to mention Cocker without also mentioning Pulp’s biggest hit: 1995’s ‘Common People’, which the band famously performed at that year’s Glastonbury Festival after agreeing to stand in for The Stone Roses at the last moment. A Different Class also featured the controversial single ‘Sorted for E’s & Wizz’, the sleeve inlay of which fea...
Pulp’s startling rise to fame secured Cocker the fame he’d been working towards for so many years. Sadly, it quickly lost its sheen when his private life became food for tabloid newspapers. The frontman’s disillusionment was one of the key influences behind his work on This Is Hardcore– released in the spring of 1998. The album was created during a...
No longer fulfilled by his life with Pulp, Cocker decided to leave the band behind and embark on a solo project. His debut album, Jarvis, was released in the autumn of 2006 and premiered at the previous summer’s Reading Festival. Cocker employed former Pulp bandmates Steve Mackey and Mark Webber, as well as one of the band’s historic members Anthon...
Eight years after the release of a second solo album, Further Complications, Cocker teamed up with pianist Chilly Gonzales for the Room 29 project. The collaborative concept album is set at the Chateau Marmont Hotel, where Cocker stayed during a Pulp reunion tour in 2012. His room contained a baby grand piano, prompting him to wonder whether the in...
When not releasing solo records or performing with his band Jarv..Is, Cocker has been known to pen music for film. His latest endeavour in this regard was a selection of reworked French pop songs called Chansons d’Ennui Tip-Top. Designed to be a companion to Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, the album sees Cocker cover tracks by some of France’s ...
Mar 24, 2021 · Jarvis Cocker—Pulp’s frontman, and principal songwriter, and lacerating wit, and generational icon—Jarvis once said, “I realized that we had written something that had pretensions to...
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The solo discography of Jarvis Cocker, an English musician, consists of five studio albums, six singles and numerous collaborations with other artists. He is best known as the founder, frontman and songwriter for the band Pulp .
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With his band Pulp, Jarvis Cocker was one of the defining British popstars of the 1990s, with songs like Common People and Disco 2000. He’s released seven albums with Pulp and five as a solo...
Jul 18, 2020 · Cocker comes in sounding exactly like Leonard Cohen, when the randy Buddhist of the early 90s favoured synthesisers and angelic backing vocals. “Embrace the darkness and all that it entails,”...
Mar 28, 2017 · During that trek, Cocker also reunited with the Chateau Marmont; he’d first stayed at the infamous, star-stacked Hollywood hotel in the 1990s but became enamored upon his return.
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