Pulp - Common People

Brit pop was at it's height when this came out. Jarvis Cocker and the band came out with this masterpiece in 1995 and quickly shot to number 2 in the charts. A song basically about an upper class girl wanting to act and live like a working class girl, swapping luxury for poverty. Jarvis wrote the song about a girl that he knew from his art college days and like the line in the song goes, if she did call her Dad he could just stop it all and so therefore she could never be like common people!

Pulp had always up to this track been a band that always nearly made it, with a big loyal fan base and always critics favourites. I remember seeing them perform this track on Top Of The Pops and was so powerful, almost anthem like and the video was a great piece of footage too. Released on yellow vinyl, 2 cd singles, 12'' and a cassingle all these formats helped get it into the top 5. The follow up single had a dance remix on of Common People which is pretty good too! A classic track that always reminds you of a period of life in the mid nineties