That's true. Only him and Ray Davies can do that kind of art.

And sparks

2 words: The Kinks.

Chaz and dave

💯

Pulp and Mansun

Pulp, Blur and Suede

Probably since they started in 1978. :)

Suede are fantastic too

@@cristobalradio Oasis too then

Todd Robson i dont carw whete they go nectell them al.

agreed

Chris cornell

I agree. One of the best moments of 1990's.

I'd even be so bold as to say that this song is pop culture's last moment: a lower form of art pushed to the frontier of the sublime by a band which inherited some of Bowie's genius and eventually buried the genre altogether. After that song, pop was dead and nothing new was ever to come out of it.

@@martysouth880 what a band. what an album. what a song. what a guitar. what a video.

And for God's sake, what a voice.

what a singer

Same

Same

@@armanymendoza4117 bless all 3 of you

Hahaaahaa I have found my people

Same

An oral what?

@@HandleGF an interview to all people involved in the creating process of the video to understand the movie references. "I went to college, all they found was rocks in my head" is a quote from Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind for instance.

@@HandleGF and the photojournalist at the beginning could be a reference to Weegee, the photographer of Naked City. I need answers.

OMG yes

I may be wrong, but with the video at least it suggests that a lot of mainstream entertainment is somewhat pornographic. This, coupled with the lyrics, seem to explain a narrator who is jaded by it all, and wants to take things in a more depraved direction.

Reminds me of that film Kubrick started but never made. Just pieces of it exist. Its star never shone. The colors hereat reminiscent of Douglas Sirk too. Jarvis directed some cool videos, I like "On" for Aphex Twin.

You're wrong. This is one of the greatest songs written in the last 50 years.

Hello Im writing from the future: YOU WERE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT

+flamingwoodz I wish I could find a source for "Like a Friend" with similar quality

+JohnnyCagePro me toooooo

+flamingwoodz Never ages. True sublime energy.

holy shit we're the same age damn i feel too young but old at the same time

I was thinking the exact same thing, but now it's 19 years old.

I find it ironic and melancholic, on the contrary.

Correct it is Melancholic. Thats because it's about heroin and nothing to do with foreplay or sex.

@@secretcherio1073 Nothing to do with heroin

Yes, but sex as a one-night stand ultimate fantasy you've held for years with nowhere left to go afterward. Much like how Jarvis thought about the music industry after wanting so hard to be in it since 1978 but then the 'Britpop' years and over excess (including cocaine and heroin) getting too much, with him expected to do his "funny little dance" and regurgitate Common People over, and over and over again, "That goes in there, and that goes in there, and that goes in there..and then, it's over.". See 'Party Hard' for similar feelings by him in 1998.

You have some catching up to do!!!

+Shaun Hensley Then I sincerely advice you to listen to their "Different Class" album. It is the best album of the 90s imho and one of the best musical albums ever produced.

+Vadim Levin very true, massivley underrated.

+Shaun Hensley Lucky you and Unlucky you. You missed the glory days but then you didnt miss all. The music remains as brilliant and fresh as ever. Pulp is a different class altogether.

Outstanding comments

Don't think it's that little-known anymore, it's got over 4M views!

fred linne No. It's the best video ever.

+fred linne Without question.

+fred linne Definitely my favorite, everything about it is so intensely sexy and stylish

It might be my favorite. This song mixed with the pulpy noir along with the David Lynch esque visuals once Jarvis starts his swagger is just god damned marvelous. True vision and emotion on all scales encapsulated in this single video. Brilliant.

It's in the top ten for sure

Says who?

Nice thought, but I somehow doubt he'd be wanting that right now :D

hahaha... brilliant.

So it’s 23 years old now ?

@@felix.mp3639 damn time flies!

@@felix.mp3639 madness the 90’s were boss

eeeeaa

You know a song is good when it's atemporal and this is hardcore is one of those. So good.

Heaven is this song and sipping your whiskey. Is a bad idea if you have to drive. Might give you a hard time getting up for work! You have been warned.

djbethell destroy Fairfield eben when occupy aws mgs bad hapens to je nd.

"And then it's over"

Verdadera! : )

Help the Aged is a great charity anthem for sure.

but here it is pure

JoeStunner great line.

Flora Gosling yeah

This whole album has so much more to say than Different Class, as much as I like Different Class. Or maybe its because I'm gettin' up there in years meself.

yea lol its funny i don't like Oasis's wonderwall, blurs universal or common people, there most hit songs but I like alot of others very much.

+Timothy Gallagher Blur had way bigger hit songs than _The Universal_, namely _Country House_ in terms of that time period.

@@TheFibtastic ye i think you can appreciate pulps music as you move up the ages with them its what makes them so brilliant.

John Fiebke I believe park life and song 2 were bigger hits.

reminds me of Brian ferry and Roxy music

That being said, Common People _is_ a god-tier song

i think that you need to change your social life and follow more/other music acounts.

And Disco 2000

On the time this CD came out people who knows good music followed it, but is too good for mainstream

It doesn't get more gay than this Tyler.... Prolapse

Suede?

A small number of a million people

I used to listen to that track over and over again when the album first came out.

That's it.

@@Alianger maybe out of 7.8 billion? sure, i can see that

This song came out while I was in Art School in Australia and I enjoyed it’s sophistication on every level, the lyrics, the use of orchestral music as a reference to a historical time period, the video and of course Jarvis’s swag. According to interviews of Pulp, this song and album was deemed too depressing by Pulps audience and marked the end of the group!

Good to know I'm not the only one who thinks that :)

+Casey Grutz yeah he does but in here he sounds a lot like Elvis Costello as well - IMO

I am with vinicius on this one.However I have only listened to this album and Different class so may be missing out on something.

+Vinicius Azevedo great shout

Listen to Party Hard (on the same This is Hardcore album), and try not to think of Bowies Teenage Wildlife (from Scary Monsters). Both masterpieces in their own right by the way.

OH BOY. This might as well change very soon. PULP IS BACK.

Just saw them the other night, I've never heard this song before and it was so so so amazing.

​@@erinmcwilliams234 AHHHHH SOOO COOL. I got my ticket for their mexico concert in november. Years ago I couldn't imagine we'd get at this point.

seeing him in this mv would have been truly a blessing

Sixto Martín García YES!

This is where I turn it up, I also like the "and that goes in there" part too.

would like those seconds last forever...

100%

+Esteban Molina pasa :)

all they found

Esteban Molina think its meant to mirror the nonsensical plots of porn flicks.

And I ( instead & somehow) think that has something to do with colleges producing miserable fucks working for big corporations lifelong doing brainkilling whatsoever.

Who was the guy that said that he looks like a famous actor

Holy shit! Did you fanboy all over him?

MINOR THREAT..1981/ 1985.

Nope. The epic part of this song starts at 0:01.

I only found it because a local, small radio station played underground, alternative singles. And ho boy did it change my life

if I don't misremember in that scene they are talking about geology class, wich makes perfect sense 😂 the actor is quite similar too