Pulp's last album, We Love Life, is over ten years old. Released in October 2001, the Scott Walker produced swansong received rave reviews and saw Pulp achieve their fourth top ten album.
The inclusion of songs from the album at their shows during the successful reunion show how much the band and fans continue to hold the era in regard.
During the many recording sessions for what would become We Love Life plenty of beautiful songs were demoed and let fall by the wayside for one reason or another. Over a decade on, Pulp fans rely on bootleg live recordings to hear gems such as Cuckoo and The Quiet Revolution while numerous other songs remain unreleased, in studio vaults. Little information exists for many of these save for track names and recording dates.
Pulp reissued the three previous Universal Island albums in 2006 much to the delight of fans. Indeed, in many cases certain discarded songs found favour among the hardcore over some of the material that made the final cut. The wealth of songs written, demoed and unreleased prior to and during the making of We Love Life potentially offer the best value and insight into the quality of Pulp's songwriting (to which Richard Hawley contributed at this time). Mr Cocker himself, not given to hyperbole has commented that "We could do quite a good one (reissue) of We Love Life".
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