Different Class / Deluxe Edition

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Ali, Lorraine (18 February 1996). "Pulp, 'Different Class', Island". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016 . Retrieved 7 December 2015.

On the one hand there was Tight Fit, loincloth-favouring male/female vocal group about to take the number one spot with their lithesome re-working of Karl Denver's 'Wimoweh', where, famously, " the lion sleeps tonight". On the other there were the archetypal misfits, a Sheffield troupe called Pulp about to release their debut album with a line-up that included future Mission guitarist Simon Hinkler. Thirteen years later it's Pulp who are worrying the chart peaks. But – " Mis-shapes, misfits, mistakes" – Jarvis and friends aren't ready to forget the long years bleakly frittered away as outsiders, terminally out of place and out of cigs. Goulding, Steve (2 May 1996). "Pulp: Different Class (Island)". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015 . Retrieved 7 December 2015.Candida Doyle: Farfisa Compact Professional II organ, Ensoniq ASR 10, Korg Trident II, Minimoog, Fender Rhodes piano, Roland Juno 6, Roland SH-09 Yoonsoo Kim, Kristen (30 October 2015). "Why Pulp's 'Different Class' Is The Most Important Britpop Album 20 Years Later". Complex . Retrieved 19 January 2017.

Offiziellecharts.de – Pulp – Different Class" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 17, 2023. a b Hawkins, Chris (10 April 2014). "How a Wedding Picture Ended Up on the Cover of an Iconic Britpop Album..." HuffPost . Retrieved 30 April 2014. Released in 1995 at the height of the Britpop era, it is often considered an album which best defines the era and has featured at the number one position on several best Britpop albums polls, including The Village Voice, [34] BuzzFeed, [35] Pitchfork, [36] Spin. [37] Exactly twenty years on from its release, Complex magazine declared Different Class as "the most important Britpop album." [38] Having not featured in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the album was ranked at number 162 in their revised 2020 list. [39] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [40] Commercial performance [ edit ] a b c d Copsey, Rob (22 September 2020). "Mercury Prize: The best-selling winning albums". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 17 September 2018. Candida Doyle – Farfisa Compact Professional II organ, Ensoniq ASR-10, Korg Trident II, Minimoog, Fender Rhodes piano, Roland Juno 6, Roland SH-09The album was a critical and commercial success, entering the UK Albums Chart at number one and winning the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. It spawned four top ten singles in the UK: " Common People", " Sorted for E's & Wizz", " Disco 2000" and " Something Changed". Different Class has been certified four times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), and had sold 1.33 million copies in the United Kingdom as of 2020. [4] Widely acclaimed as among the greatest albums of the Britpop era, in 2013, NME ranked the album at number six in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time [5] while Rolling Stone ranked it number 162 in their 2020 revised version of the same list. Lindsay, Cam (30 September 2020). "The 25 Best Albums of the Britpop Era". Spin . Retrieved 1 October 2020.

a b Christgau, Robert (9 April 1996). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York . Retrieved 7 December 2015. PopMatters ' retrospective review in 2004 opined that "nearly nine years after its release, Different Class has aged very well, possessing that timeless quality that is present in all classic albums, but is still obviously a product of its time, a snapshot of mid-'90s life in the UK. Along with Blur's Parklife, it remains the high point of the Britpop era; music, lyrics, production, artwork, it's as perfect as it gets." [24] Reviewing the 2006 deluxe edition, Garry Mulholland of Q stated that the album "defined the mood of the day", [25] while Drowned in Sound described Different Class as "easily the best album of its year of release and arguably the best album from the Britpop era" and went on to call it "a certifiable masterpiece that not only lived up to the sky-high expectations heaped upon it with appalling ease, but surpassed them." [26] Accolades [ edit ] In an interview with BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Chris Hawkins on 8 April 2014, Dom O'Connor, the groom featured in the wedding photograph cover art, recalled how the album cover had come about:

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Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035. The album was the winner of the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. [4] In 1997, it was ranked at number 34 out of 100 in a "Music of the Millennium" poll [27] conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q readers voted Different Class the 37th greatest album of all time; [28] a repeat poll in 2006 put it at number 85. [29] In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. [30] In 2005 it was voted number 70 in Channel 4's The 100 Greatest Albums. [31] In 2006 British Hit Singles & Albums and NME organised a poll in which 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and Different Class was placed at number 54 on the list. [32] The album was ranked at number 35 on Spin 's "The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985–2014)" list. [33]