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- Original Release Date: 1 Jan 1994
- Format - Music: MP3
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- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) | 3:28 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Simultaneous | 4:09 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Blue Glow | 3:06 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. The Will To Power | 3:25 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Dogs Are Everywhere | 4:53 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. The Mark Of The Devil | 4:36 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. 97 Lovers | 4:30 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. Aborigine | 4:53 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Goodnight | 5:08 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. They Suffocate At Night | 6:19 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 11. Tunnel | 8:13 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 12. Master Of The Universe (Sanitised Version) | 3:23 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 13. Manon | 3:33 | £0.89 |
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a good collection of warped, stripped down early singles and E.P.s from Pulp. DON'T expect the glitzy disco sheen and upbeat razmatazz of their mid-period, or indeed, the lush darkness of the later albums. This has most in common with "Freaks"; in fact a couple of tracks, in reworked versions, made it onto that album. The music itself is not nearly as accomplished as those later records, but it does have a warped, jerky charm which is pared down and eerie in places, gratingly urgent in others. At times it's clumsy; the sound of a band finding their feet, learning to explore arrangements and sounds. Jarvis' voice hasn't yet achieved its rich tones and has a habit of slipping into monotony, but in a glorious nod to Pulp's eccentricity, this works with many of the songs, fuelling the claustrophobic, desperate atmosphere and skewed, scathing lyrics. Suburban perversions; bad sex; cracked romantic encounters; bitterness and regret; dumb, mundane urban violence; the vagaries of ageing: these are the themes. It's no Disco 2000, but if you liked "Freaks" or even, at a push, " Separations", then you could find this a fine ride back into the dark heart of early Pulp.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Pulp's weakest album
15 Feb 1999
Format:Audio CD
Well, Freaks wasn't a brilliant album by any means, but it had enough great songs that I decided to go ahead and check out Masters of the Universe--a companion album, if you will, containing singles and b-sides of the era. As it turned out, I was more than a little disappointed. This has to be considered the weakest of Pulp's albums; it does have a few good songs, but they're far outweighed by mediocrity. Mark of the Devil is quite nice, and just as cheerful as it sounds, whilst Dogs are Everywhere displays a sense of black humour--quite a revelation, given the mightily humourless nature of the band's music at this period. The Will to Power is also worth hearing, if for no other reason than the fact that it's one of only four songs credited to violinist Russell Senior--and it's not bad, either. Little Girl (with blue eyes), 97 Lovers, and They Suffocate at Night (the latter already available on Freaks) all show evidence of Jarvis's future lyrical themes in utero, but that doesn't make them great songs by any means. Aborigine and Simltaneous aren't terrible, but the album as a whole is uninspired.
Nonetheless, as a Pulp completist, I'm glad to own it--although it irritates me to no end that Jarvis was too embarassed to allow the inclusion of one of the b-sides, Silence, here. It just doesn't make sense. I mean, given that this compilation is aimed squarely at completists, who uncritically try to amass everything the band's done, what's the point? It's not like the rest of the album's all that great, anyway. And come on, what would YOU rather have, a "sanitized" version of Master of the Universe (for radio play, apparently--yeah, right...) that is identical to the original but for substituting the word "vegetate" for "masturbate", or a NEW song, no matter how bad it is? Get real here...
All in all, this is definitely only for the very, very hardcore. No one else need bother.
This record is quite up to cocker's standards
7 Oct 1999
Format:Audio CD
As a pulp fan, i feel that this album is not that wonderful as their other albums. Aborigine is a very cool song with great lyrics. Some other songs are quite okay, but i just couldn't stand "97 lovers". I recommend this record to Pulp fans out there and give it a try.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
excelent
22 Dec 2002
Format:Audio CD
i love this album! it and We Love Life are soooo good!
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