Pulp: This Is Hardcore" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved October 17, 2023. This Is Hardcore is the sixth album by English band Pulp. Released in March 1998, it came three years after their breakthrough album, Different Class, and was eagerly anticipated. Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, variant 2): MPO 0602547852915 B [MPO logo]® 21216650 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK As is the decision to follow such a feat of emotional dramatics with two namby jingle-pop reveries (' TV Movie' and ' A Little Soul' ) before ' Mis-Shapes' makes a reappearance as an anti-Bloke anthem called ' I'm A Man' and, quite suddenly, the seven veils of gloom begin twitching on top of the burnt-out, broken man on the floor who simply gets up and sings four of the most inspired songs in Pulp's 15-year history. ' Seductive Barry' sounds a bit like Joy Division; that BIG and bewitching, a sexual fantasy space-pop sequence featuring Jarvis objectifying himself in the eye of the beholder, which then turns into Madonna's 'Justify My Love'. Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035.

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DiCrescenzo, Brent. "Pulp: This Is Hardcore". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 10 February 2008 . Retrieved 30 September 2011. Merline, Micheal (23 June 2014). "Revisit: Pulp: This is Hardcore". Spectrum Culture . Retrieved 6 October 2022. a b Gerard, Chris (4 April 2014). "50 Best Alternative Albums of the '90s". Metro Weekly . Retrieved 12 January 2017. Harris, Keith (2004). "Pulp". The Rolling Stone Album Guide (4thed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 665. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.Browne, David (13 April 1998). " This Is Hardcore". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017 . Retrieved 30 September 2011. 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.

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Welcome to personal disintegration - the West End musical. Welcome to an album that amounts to breakdown on Broadway - a situa­tion that makes the above snatch of dialogue almost eerily appropriate. The theatrical source is relevant enough, but the tone fits 'This Is Hardcore' to a 'T' - a man hitting the bottom but relaying the descent with the kind of thespian relish that says he's savouring every last minute of it. Laws, Mike (11 December 2014). "The 10 Best Britpop Albums of All Time (or At Least Since 1993 or So)". The Village Voice. Suzan Gursoy . Retrieved 13 December 2016. Matrix / Runout (D-side runout, variant 1): MPO 0602547866509 B [MPO logo]® 20 182562 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK Caulfield, Keith (18 April 2008). "Keith answers readers' questions on Bette Midler, Radiohead, Celine Dion and more!". Billboard. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014 . Retrieved 25 June 2020.

Patterson, Sylvia (21 March 1998). "Pulp – This Is Hardcore". NME. Archived from the original on 2 October 2000 . Retrieved 2 May 2016. 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? Matrix / Runout (D-side runout, variant 2): MPO 0602547866509 B [MPO logo]® 21216594 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK

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Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, variant 1): MPO 0602547852915 B [MPO logo]® 19 136924 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK 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. Never underestimate the spirit of a man who took 12 years to realise The Dream; he knows, perhaps more than anything, about survival... Offiziellecharts.de – Pulp – This Is Hardcore" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 January 2017. 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.a b Hochman, Steve (5 April 1998). "Pulp 'This Is Hardcore' Island". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016 . Retrieved 2 May 2016.