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Date |
Formats and catalogue numbers |
Notes |
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22 May 1995 |
CD1 'day-time sleeve' - CID613 CD2 'night-time sleeve' - CIDX613 Cassette - CIS613 |
Original UK release. CD1 'day-time sleeve':
CD2 'night-time sleeve':
CD2 came with a silver Pulp sticker. Cassette:
|
1995 |
CD - PHCR8341 |
Japanese release. Tracklisting: |
1995 |
12" vinyl - 854 465-1 |
German promotional release.
Tracklisting: |
1996 |
CD - 854 689-2 |
European release. Tracklisting: * Same as the 7" edit except the word 'screw' is muted. |
February 1996 |
CD - 854 577-2 |
French release. Tracklisting: Black Session tracks recorded 30 October 1995 (France Inter, Paris). |
20 November 1996 |
12" vinyl - 12IS613 7" yellow vinyl - IS613 |
UK vinyl release. 7": 12": |
There is a war in progress - don't be a casual(ty). The time to decide whose side you're on is here. Choose wisely. Stay alive in '95.
Details here.
Mirth-quakingly obvious single of the week
When 'Common People' was first aired at Reading last year it seemed to your correspondent the most potent political statement of cultural ambivalence since the Manic Street Preachers. But that's festival "fever" for you. Herein lies a simple truth: artistic rich people are forever wishing to be artistic skint people in the name of empathy with the belaguered because guilt is the price of privilege. A sound pop idea honed eloquently into a grand colossus of vindication in velveteen trews, this is the one that bestrides Jarvis' gifts for jocular panache and moulded songsmithery and radiates in the pop nook this week as Pulp's very own 'Sympathy For The Devil'. With even more jokes.
'Underwear' is a calmer affair, with a sombre Jarvis noting, "If fashion is your trade / When you're naked / You must be unemployed, yeah?" thus skewering the very souls of several pop notables of the day, including himself. Peerless perfection. So next time some gimp supposes "You're that amusing curiosity from oop North, show us the pineapple up yer cardy" Jarvis can feel free to bend their limbs into an approximation of a poodle and attend his new Ronnie Corbett hairdo for Top Of The Pops with measured aplomb. Ruddy superb.
UK Singles Chart
Week |
Date |
Position |
---|---|---|
1 |
3 June '95 |
2 |
2 |
10 June '95 |
2 |
3 |
17 June '95 |
3 |
4 |
24 June '95 |
6 |
5 |
1 July '95 |
11 |
6 |
8 July '95 |
13 |
7 |
15 July '95 |
18 |
8 |
22 July '95 |
23 |
9 |
29 July '95 |
31 |
10 |
5 August '95 |
38 |
11 |
12 August '95 |
46 |
12 |
19 August '95 |
60 |
13 |
26 August '95 |
71 |
UK Sales Awards
Award |
Copies sold* |
Date |
---|---|---|
Silver |
200,000 |
1 July 95 |
* Awards are based on wholesale rather than retail sales.