Different Class / Deluxe Edition

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Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035. 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 ] Lamacq, Steve (host) (8 February 1999). "Different Class". Classic Albums of the 90s. London. BBC Radio 1. The Different Class Story. The album was released in the UK at the height of Britpop. It followed from the success of their breakthrough album His 'n' Hers the previous year. Two of the singles on the album – " Common People" (which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart) and " Disco 2000" (which reached number seven) – were especially notable, and helped propel Pulp to nationwide fame. A "deluxe edition" of Different Class was released on 11 September 2006. It contains a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities. 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:

a b c d Copsey, Rob (22 September 2020). "Mercury Prize: The best-selling winning albums". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 17 September 2018. 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]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.

a b Mulvey, John (28 October 1995). " 'Class' A". NME. p.52. Archived from the original on 13 October 2000 . Retrieved 7 December 2015.

Sexton, Paul (21 September 1996). "Pulp Nabs '96 Mercury Music Prize in U.K." Billboard. Vol.108, no.38. p.85 . Retrieved 30 June 2020. a b Sexton, Paul (20 January 1996). "Pulp Travels Toward U.S. With 'Class' ". Billboard. Vol.108, no.3. p.14 . Retrieved 21 October 2020.

a b Walters, Barry (March 1996). "Pulp – Different Class". Spin. Vol.11, no.12. p.108 . Retrieved 7 December 2015.Pitchfork Staff (28 September 2022). "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork . Retrieved 26 April 2023. ... Different Class, a full-length that alchemized bubblegum, glam, and luxe new wave into artful pop. Ali, Lorraine (18 February 1996). "Pulp, 'Different Class', Island". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016 . Retrieved 7 December 2015. Walters, Barry (September 1999). "The 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s". Spin. Vol.15, no.9. p.140 . Retrieved 26 October 2020.