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This Is Hardcore

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  • Audio CD (25 Aug 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Universal / Island
  • ASIN: B000025EP3
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,155 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. The Fear 5:39£0.69
Listen  2. Dishes 3:30£0.69
Listen  3. Party Hard 4:00£0.79
Listen  4. Help The Aged 4:28£0.79
Listen  5. This Is Hardcore 6:25£0.79
Listen  6. TV Movie 3:24£0.69
Listen  7. A Little Soul 3:20£0.79
Listen  8. I'm A Man 5:00£0.69
Listen  9. Seductive Barry 8:31£0.69
Listen10. Sylvia 5:44£0.69
Listen11. Glory Days 4:55£0.69
Listen12. The Day After The Revolution14:58Album Only

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"I'm not Jesus, though I've got the same initials", croons Jarvis Cocker in Pulp's folllowup to 1996's gleefully hateful DIFFERENT CLASS. As this line illustrates, THIS IS HARDCORE takes Pulp further over the top in every sense--shamelessly dramatic structures telegraph every crescendo, and tense verse arrangements give way to sweeping sing-along choruses. Cocker's venomous, confessional lyrics are best evidenced inhis trademark spoken sections--murmured tales of obsession punctuate the band's call to arms for the pasty, skinny dispossessed youth of the world.
THIS IS HARDCORE boasts a fantastic palette of sonic textures, from the thick T. Rex-influenced grooves to spacey chimes, E-bows, and storms of feedback. Analogue synths buzz and sputter, held aloft by rich string arrangements. As the title implies, sexual themes abound, notably on the cool rush of "Party Hard" and the slow throb of the title track. "Help The Aged" features elegant instrumentation and a lyric which manages to be poetic where lesser misanthropes would yield to the temptation to be comedic. The anthemic closer "The Day After The Revolution" carries on the proud Pulp tradition of nihilism, assuring us that,thankfully, that huge chip on Cocker's finely coutured shoulder isn't going anywhere.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Reality Bites Back!, 9 April 2002
By orac (Ascot UK) - See all my reviews
How do you follow the multi-platinum selling, perfect pop of Different Class? Well, you can wave bye bye to that gold disc and release your darkest collection of songs to date. That's exactly what Pulp did with This is Hardcore. It may have been considered a commercial "flop" by some insiders, but their loss was very much our gain. This is Hardcore is undoubtedly Pulp's finest collection of songs. It's depressing, funny, sad, despondent and uncomfortable to listen to if you are approaching that difficult age of 33. This is a moody, almost sleazy album in places and it's all the better for it. Different Class had an instant appeal to it, but I quickly lost interest.Two years on, Hardcore is still essential listening. That's the biggest compliment you can give to any album, if you still play and treasure it months after the hype has faded. It took a few listens for me to fully appreciate this album, but it soons hit you. Practically every listener will identify with the opening track The Fear. A tale of missed opportunities and panic attacks when everything goes horribly wrong. It all rings so true, and Jarvis knows it. Helped of course by the fine melody, the album touches on many fears but you sort of laff because Jarvis delivers his lyrics like some stand-up comedian. Other highlights include Helped The Aged and the title track which is aided along the way by strings Diva Anne Dudley. Hypnotic and seductive and quite simply brilliant. The track Dishes will make you chuckle whilst TV Movie and A Little Soul will scare you slightly. I never thought that Pulp would release a finer album than His N Hers, but Hardcore is in a class of it's own
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The cold, hard truth of adult life., 7 Oct 2003
By K. Siddiqui (uk) - See all my reviews
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'This Is Hardcore' is the morning after of the thirtysomething parties of the '90s. In a decade of 'This Life', Hornby, 'Sex & the City' & 'Bridget Jones' leaving people paranoid about the life they should be living, the album tells it how it really was during that period. Plus, is an accurate account of how life is for many, especially in the city. It really is the perfect album for those who've lived and are now paying for it. Many indie types (which I'm not I may add)don't like the lack of catchy tunes, and some tracks do muscially go on for too long (the end coda of the final track goes on for ages)yet the superb lyrics make it a must. Difficult at first, but delicious to finish with.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Kitsch is out, but quality remains, 12 Jun 2000
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This is Pulp's equivalent to Blur's eponymous release, showing a darker and far less commercial side to their music. For the most part, the record is too inaccessible to be cherished, but their bravery is commendable, and songs like "Dishes" and (especially) the title track really grow on you.

Jarvis Cocker does exactly what Damon Albarn does on "Blur" and messes up the popular image of himself, perhaps deliberately to make himself less well-loved. He feels isolated and under threat by celebrity, society and "The Fear". He develops a (hopefully tongue-in-cheek) Jesus complex on the afore-mentioned "Dishes", comparing his initials and age to Christ's, whilst adding his usual healthy dose of bathos.

This record is worth buying for the title track alone. Encompassing everything from disco to Krautrock to Velvet Underground to Serge Gainsbourg, it is one of the group's very best, right up there with "Common People" and "Sorted for E's and Whizz", although you can be sure your parents won't like it.

Perhaps in general on this album, Cocker's wryness has faded somewhat and he is less ironic and post-modern and more philosophically naked and direct. That is no bad thing, as the group may have been in danger of turning into a novelty act.

With bands like Pulp, capable of embracing a pop sensibility AND really saying something, who needs vacant pop thrills?

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pulp's Berlin
Uncomfortable is probably the best word to describe this album. It's not always an easy listen, the sonics of the production tend towards the treble on a great deal of the songs... Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2007 by Mr. A. Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars A darker, more complex follow up to Different Class.
"This is our 'Music from A Bachelor's Den' / the sound of loneliness turned up to ten / a horror soundtrack / from a stagnant water bed... / and it sounds just like this". Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2005 by Jonathan James Romley

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the sound of someone losing the plot...
With "Diffrent class" Pulp became one of the most popular bands in britain, their follow up was this album entitled "This is Hardcore" a fitting title for a rarther dark and... Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
This, in my opinion, is alot better than different class. DC may havehad the classics like Common People and Mis-Shapes (check out the Franz Ferdinand cover of that) but This is... Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2005 by Alex Ross

5.0 out of 5 stars Calssic Album If There Ever Was 1
I Bought this album agaist the wishes of my friends who told me it was SH**E...But aftre listening to it a fuew times (belive me you'll need 2.. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2005 by skybluearmy2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Pulp  This is Hardcore
Quirky alt-pop veterans Pulp offer here something altogether darker than the indie-club anthems they're known best for. Read more
Published on 16 Jul 2004 by white_tipped_nails

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fear of Hardcore
It seems to me that many people hate to admit liking this album. Personally I love it. Really, bar the title track, the sexual content isn't anymore vivid than in Different Class... Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2002 by MR N J BROWN

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Everybody seems to have said how it is a difficult and inaccessable album, but I don't see that at all. It is a brilliant pop album, just like Different Class before it. Read more
Published on 7 April 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Top quality musicianship. Take time to listen to this.
This album is harder and nastier the Different Class. It takes more listening to, but it's absolutely worth the time. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2000 by E. Jones

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