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Thursday, January 26, 2006 

If you want me I'll be sleeping in

The combination of "Glory Days"/"The Day After The Revolution"/"Like A Friend" at the end of Pulp's monumental, perfect* This Is Hardcore always absolutely guts me.

But in a good way. A good, hopeful way. Which is more than a little perverse for an album that also contains two of the most devastating depictions of pathological male usage of pornography ever heard in a rock album (the title track and "Seductive Barry") as well as the best song about knowing you're a horrible role model as a father ("A Little Soul") and a whole lot more besides. I'm pretty convinced Jarvis Cocker will never, ever best this one.

*(Yes, I went there. Yes, even "TV Movie". No, Different Class isn't better, although it's a fine album in its own right. No, they were not better before they were famous. Yes, it is one of the very few explicitly post-fame albums by anyone worth a damn.)

My one doesn't have Like A Friend! Am I missing out a lot?

I'd say so, at least a little. Shoot me an email and I might be able to help you.

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