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rsmurphy wrote:

enframed wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 10:12 am Also, that shirt is all kinds of wrong. Pulp is definitely sex music for a certain demographic, and a certain kind of sex.

Alas, I am somewhat unfamiliar with the musical stylings of Pulp - the fabulous pairing on "Capitol" with Daniel Knox notwithstanding. What kinda sex and demographic are we talkin' 'bout?

When I worked at a record store in the early 2000s we would sometimes play Pulp and every time we did an older woman (then, I was 25), I'm talking late 30s/early 40s would ask who it was we were playing; the theory being that Jarvis Cocker was seducing these women. YMMV.

You really haven't heard Common People?



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enframed wrote: When I worked at a record store in the early 2000s we would sometimes play Pulp and every time we did an older woman (then, I was 25), I'm talking late 30s/early 40s would ask who it was we were playing; the theory being that Jarvis Cocker was seducing these women. YMMV.

Mature sophisticated ladies. Word.

You really haven't heard Common People?

That's the only one aside from the collaboration with Daniel Knox. I'm lacking in 90's britpop awareness.

Living Colour is mostly boring. (Except for "Glamour Boys." That song is accidentally hilarious, especially when they yell, "I ain't no glamour boy/I'm fierce!" Clearly, Vernon Reid wasn't down w/the late-'80s drag culture vernacular [not to mention those way better, less slick NYC rock bands] simmering just a few blocks away at the Pyramid Club.)

Reid talked a mean game and dropped Bad Brains's name a lot, but man, I'd rather listen to outtakes from Quickness.

Admittedly, Melvin Gibbs sounds cool w/Harriet Tubman or Arto Lindsay's noisier solo material.

As for that t-shirt, funny or not, I don't trust anything that misspells Link Wray's surname. Lana del Link Ray.

Living Colour is pretty cheesy but I recall Reid* doing some collaborations with NYC downtown types (Zorn, etc.) Is any of that stuff any good?

*and yeah I've seen him in several interviews where he seems cool and knowledgeable.

penningtron wrote: Living Colour is pretty cheesy but I recall Reid* doing some collaborations with NYC downtown types (Zorn, etc.) Is any of that stuff any good?

*and yeah I've seen him in several interviews where he seems cool and knowledgeable.

The Decoding Society stuff (Ronald Shannon Jackson's project) is good. And I liked that Guitar Oblique record at the time, but I never feel the need to listen to it. Reid was also in Defunkt, I think, whose music is fun but really, really dated (can't recall if he's on the records; the band was briefly James Chance's backing combo, but much slicker than the first few Contortions/Blacks lineups).

Please keep in mind that I haven't heard any of this since the '90s...

Pulp fucks, 1000%

Vivid is a fantastic album. Reid had some great riffs.

Zorn is about as cheesy and terrible as Mr. Bungle.

Thank you! We'll be taking questions during the post-game press conference, everyone have fun out there.

I love how this thread has gone completely off the rails.

True story time:

I was 21, living in San Diego, working at a record store. There was a coffee shop I would hit on my way to work to drink a drink and chug a couple of darts.

One day this hobo asked me for a cigarette. No shoes, no socks, soiled blue jeans, and a Living Colour “Vivid” tour shirt.

“I will give you the rest of this pack if we can trade shirts.”

He agreed.

As soon as I walked into work my manager said I smelled like piss.

I sold that shirt for $300 about a decade later.

Faith No More still sucks.

How long did it take for the scabies to go away?




Living Colour sounds cheesy to certain people who aren't used to joy and disinhibition in their music.

Man if y'all thought shorts on stage were bad, what is the consensus of neon lycra..

Also, the piss shirt post = HOF.

enframed wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:12 pm

rsmurphy wrote:

enframed wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 10:12 am Also, that shirt is all kinds of wrong. Pulp is definitely sex music for a certain demographic, and a certain kind of sex.

Alas, I am somewhat unfamiliar with the musical stylings of Pulp - the fabulous pairing on "Capitol" with Daniel Knox notwithstanding. What kinda sex and demographic are we talkin' 'bout?

When I worked at a record store in the early 2000s we would sometimes play Pulp and every time we did an older woman (then, I was 25), I'm talking late 30s/early 40s would ask who it was we were playing; the theory being that Jarvis Cocker was seducing these women. YMMV.

You really haven't heard Common People?



Another example:

So women that are the same age as Jarvis? *checks his wikipedia and sees he's married to someone 20 years younger than him