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Pulp—“Common People”

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Britpop She Goes, Nothing New in Theory

Pulp at their triumphant height are a rock band with dance floor aspirations and also high literary aspirations. Common People is the best song on Different class by orders of magnitude. Jarvis Cocker for the record later say that Britpop was a shitty sounding word like somebody trying to appropriate some kind of alternative culture, stick a union jack on it and trick the credit for it. As the Britpop She Goes, Nothing New in Theory here.

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