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All well and good, but there's no " Common People", right? Wrong yet again. " Glory Days" has it all. It's got that ever-rising tune, Jarvis' hollering voice grabbing for higher and higher stars. It's got the same tirelessly sprinting pace, the same euphoric sense of hope and glory and the same sense of sullied justice as Jarvis sneers: "We were brought up on the space race / Now they expect you to clean toilets". He's putting his foot down and he keeps it there with the closing " The Day After The Revolution", an astonishing reprise of the entire album, over-emotional and over-powering. Over the top. Over the worst. Over and out. An incendiary song to end an incendiary album. But ask yourself: can you really afford it?Such lyrical wit and empathy is there in the lovely, bittersweet croon of ' Dishes', a song that has Jarvis contemplating turning 33 (the age at which Jesus died) with typical self-deprecation: "I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials, I am the man who stays home and does the dishes." Such subtlety also runs through the gorgeous, Memphis-tinged father-son confessional of ' A Little Soul' and through ' Help The Aged'. The latter is the song that comes closest to the euphoric spirit of the ' Different Class' album. As with the Manics' 'La Tristessa Durera', it turns the youth-fixated world of the pop song on its head by using it to frame the plight of the OAP. Except, typically of Jarvis' lubricious realm, it concludes that the best way to help the infirm is to give them a shag. DiCrescenzo, Brent. "Pulp: This Is Hardcore". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 10 February 2008 . Retrieved 30 September 2011. Barker, Emily (25 October 2013). "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 200-101". NME . Retrieved 17 January 2023.

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The cover photo was art directed by Peter Saville and the American painter John Currin who is known for his figurative paintings of exaggerated female forms. The model photographed is Ksenia Zlobina and the images were further digitally manipulated by Howard Wakefield, who also designed the album. [8] Currin was also the art director for the " Help the Aged" video, based on his painting "The Never Ending Story". Advertising posters showing the album's cover that appeared on the London Underground system were defaced by graffiti artists with slogans like "This Offends Women" [9] and "This is Sexist" or "This is Demeaning". [10] a b Kot, Greg (23 March 1998). "Pulp: This Is Hardcore". Rolling Stone. No.784. Archived from the original on 3 June 2008 . Retrieved 30 September 2011.Browne, David (13 April 1998). " This Is Hardcore". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017 . Retrieved 30 September 2011.

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Sixth album by the British band. Released in 1998, it is the follow up to the critically acclaimed 1995 album 'Different Class' and features the singles 'Help the Aged', 'This Is Hardcore', 'A Little Soul' and 'Party Hard'. The fact that the album ends on an optimistic note with the final flourishing chords of ' The Day After The Revolution' ( "Yeah, we made it... The Fear is over, guilt is over, Bergerac is over...") just tends to con­firm the kind of obvious emotional manipulation you'd more normally expect from Andrew Lloyd Webber. At the same time it has to be admitted that ' After The Revolution' is gen­uinely affecting in its tugging of the heart strings. It could also be argued that the way that 'This Is Hardcore' takes on limelight aesthetics amounts to a powerful pop-art aes­thetic. But even if Jarvis' lyrical vale­diction does assure that "Cholesterol is over... irony is over" it seems likely that, when the dust settles, this is an album that will seem possessed of just a little too much ironic detach­ment - in the music at least. Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035. Matrix / Runout (D-side runout, variant 1): MPO 0602547866509 B [MPO logo]® 20 182562 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK Universal International Music B.V. Gerrit Van Der Veenlaan 4, 3743 DN, Baarn, Netherlands. Made in the EU.a b "British album certifications – Pulp – This Is Hardcore". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 25 June 2020. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type This Is Hardcore in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. Pearson, Paul (30 March 2018). "Pulp's This Is Hardcore is still a shattering piece of work after 20 years". Treble . Retrieved 6 October 2022.