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Album Savings: £11.34 compared to buying all songs
- Original Release Date: 25 Aug 2003
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. Babies | 4:04 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Razzamatazz | 3:40 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Lipgloss | 3:35 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Do You Remember The First Time? | 4:20 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Common People | 5:50 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. Underwear | 4:05 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Sorted For E's & Wizz | 3:37 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. Disco 2000 | 4:33 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Something Changed | 3:18 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. Help The Aged | 4:25 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 11. This Is Hardcore | 6:26 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 12. A Little Soul | 3:18 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 13. Party Hard | 4:01 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 14. The Trees | 4:48 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 15. Bad Cover Version | 4:16 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 16. Sunrise | 5:46 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 17. Last Day Of The Miners Strike | 5:56 | £0.89 |
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In most musical scenes, there’s an act who have been around for a while but still manage to become a major part of the movement. For the Baggy scene at the turn of the 90s it was James and for Britpop it was Pulp. After 10 years of Peel sessions and independently released records, the band signed to Island with a new sense of purposes. Within a couple of years they were one of the biggest and best bands in country. Frontman Jarvis Cocker finally achieved the fame he had sought for all those year though it ultimately proved to be a big disappointment…
This compilation chronologically collects together all the singles the band released for Island with the exception of Mis-shapes which some band members now detest for reasons best known to themselves. It starts with the catchy, sexually seedy singles from the His’n’Hers LP before continuing with the epic Common People. One of the defining songs of the 90s, Common People’s true story of a rich girl trendily pretending to be poor is not dissimilar to Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone with both songs having a similar historical resonance within the context of their decades.
Following on from Common People are the other singles from Pulp’s biggest album Different Class including the beautiful Something Changed, a rare purely romantic moment amidst the sex, spite and politics elsewhere. All seemed to be going swimmingly well for the band on the surface though Jarvis found the fame he had sought for so long to be a major disappointment.
Pulp finally re-emerged a couple of years later with This Is Hardcore, the ultimate anti-Britpop LP. Resolutely uncommercial for such a major act, it now stands as a leading artistic statement. It took the fourth release from the album, the glam-tastic Bowie-esuqe Party Hard for the band to release an obvious single. Prior to that we had a poignant song written from the viewpoint of Jarvis’ estranged father with whom he’d recently been reunited, an excellent song about helping the aged and the slightly tedious title track about watching porn. Mostly good worthy stuff though not the hook-laden chart-friendly songs the band’s more mainstream fans and Island were looking for…
After a long break, Pulp returned in late 2001 with their final album We Love Life. A more optimistic LP with several song using metaphors from the joys of nature, it includes the brilliant Sunrise. Released as a double A-side single with Trees, Sunrise has an extended, uplifting coda – thrilling semi-psychedelia and possibly the best section of music the band have ever produced. It’s also free of the kitsch, bleeping synths so beloved of the band as is the final, previously unreleased track on Hits, Last Day Of The Miners' Strike.
With a harder rockier sound, Miners’ Strike shows that Pulp had plenty more mileage left in them. Taking an extended break after refusing a much-reduced new contract from Island, it now looks unlikely that they will take the stage as a unit again though individual collaborations will continue. A great shame though Hits is an excellent worthy epitaph to their legacy.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album charts the rise and supposed fall of Britain's greatest band in the 1990s. Babies, Razzmatazz (the greatest single ever), LipGloss & DYRTFT? kick in with Pulp's main obsession, sex. This is how it really is. Exciting, dirty and a little tragic! Never quite what you hoped it would be. These songs all start off low key before rising to a crescendo and coming back down. Then onto class wars with Common People, raves with Sorted, and young love in Disco 2000 & Something Changed. By now, Pulp were stars, and it was time to return to the sex again. Geriatrics, porn, and absent fathers take you through Hardcore Pulp. And then it was back to nature with The Trees and Sunrise. An album so good, you won't want to listen to anything else until next Christmas!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'm sat writing this late at night as I happen to have stumbled across this item. which I own, on an evening trawl of the web. It isn't the shiraz which has implored me to write this, rather the lack of superlatives in the other reviews. Pulp were, and remain to be, one of the seminal British Bands of the 1990s and early noughties. This album is a key purchase for anyone who wishes to dabble in the phoenomenon that was Britpop. Pulp preceeded, endured and overcame the aforementioned through the unique nature of their material. The fact that I can sit here and lament all of the tracks that are not included simply sums up the depth of their back catalogue. Buy this album and enjoy it. If you do, you will...
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Pulp: Hits - Some great music from some uncommon people
Pulp. What a band! Instantly you hear the word an image of Jarvis Cocker, all gangly and googly eyed, singing common people comes to mind. But the group was so much more! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Victor
pulp hits cd
great price as always with amazon all the hits and more very good buy very good service as usual the cd is a very diverse cd of pulp
Published 8 months ago by s .p.generalovic
great!!
Great cd!!
perfect condition, now one of the few here in Brazil that have got a pulp cd hehe
perfect condition, now one of the few here in Brazil that have got a pulp cd hehe
Published 14 months ago by Igor Fontana
Exactly what it said on the tin
Pulp, Hits! What more do you need to know? Unless you are looking at Blur & Oasis in the three cornered hat this lot knocked them into Pulp was the voice of the disenfranchised... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mystaeli
Brilliant? - Yes! Complete? - No! Satisfactory? - Not really
In many ways the fate of PULP is rather tragic. They struggled for far more than a decade before they finally had their well-deserved breakthrough with 1995's 'Different Class'. Read more
Published on 11 April 2006 by Kasper Michelsen
Well put together package of post 1993 Pulp
Island have done a good job with this best of, if they missed the boat a little. This is what it says on the tin, a hits package, well assembled. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2005
They don't make them like they used to!
"I took her to a supermarket, I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere. So it started, there."
Oh, memories of 1995. Read more
Oh, memories of 1995. Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2003 by M. Hall
"And you want to call your mother and say mother............
pulp's greatest hits is really good!" The difficulty Jarvis and co have is the enormity of 'common people' and 'disco 2000' but this album reminds the ears how strong some of their... Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2003 by taters
Brilliant Pulp!
Of all the "british wave" bands out of the 90's, Pulp probably has the best chance of eternal liking. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2003 by fields21
Is this album really that good?
There is no doubt that Pulp simply are fantastic. But has their creativity, talent and simply brilliant music been captured in their greatest hits? Well, in a word, yes. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2003
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