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Common People - The Best Pulp Song
What makes common people the best pulp song and the best Brit pop song is the maddening but also humanizing specificity of this particular she. When Jarvis starts reeling off, sweatily, furiously, all the things condescending rich people can only pretend to do they're pretty much the only things poor people can do. It's all anthemia and no pretensions. The second best song on this album is called Disco 2000, the guitar riff is Stupendous and Jarvis reminisces at great length and in lurid detail about the childhood neighbor he had a huge crush on. But if you're into it, I don't find this real world aspect of common people that interesting, which