This Is Hardcore

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a b Gerard, Chris (4 April 2014). "50 Best Alternative Albums of the '90s". Metro Weekly . Retrieved 12 January 2017. Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035.

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Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, variant 2): MPO 0602547852915 B [MPO logo]® 21216650 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, variant 1): MPO 0602547852915 B [MPO logo]® 19 136924 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK 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. As with the band's previous album, This is Hardcore reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart, but with far fewer sales, [6] and was well received critically, earning Pulp a third successive nomination for the 1998 Mercury Prize. [7] a b c d Kot, Greg (3 April 1998). "Pulp: This Is Hardcore (Island)". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016 . Retrieved 2 May 2016.Who knows, maybe 'This Is Hardcore' will run and run. Starlight Express is, after all, now in its 14th year. But it seems more likely that while 'This Is Hardcore' should be praised as a brilliant, unprecedented lyrical statement, it's not actually one you'll want to play that much. 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? Our full range of studio equipment from all the leading equipment and software brands. Guaranteed fast delivery and low prices. Barker, Emily (25 October 2013). "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 200-101". NME . Retrieved 17 January 2023. Patterson, Sylvia (21 March 1998). "Pulp – This Is Hardcore". NME. Archived from the original on 2 October 2000 . Retrieved 2 May 2016.

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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. 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. 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. Browne, David (13 April 1998). " This Is Hardcore". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017 . Retrieved 30 September 2011.Harris, Keith (2004). "Pulp". The Rolling Stone Album Guide (4thed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 665. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, variant 3): MPO 0602547852915 B [MPO logo] ® 22 292592 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK 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.