It's more like a song for the 48%. According to a 2013 study of British Class, 48% of people are "working class" or lower. That's all your electronics technicians, care workers, cleaners, van drivers, electricians, bar staff, chefs, nursing auxiliaries and assistants, assemblers and routine operatives, elementary storage occupations, customer service occupations, joiners, caretakers, leisure and travel service occupations, shopkeepers and proprietors, and retail cashiers. The Common People
Being a poor kid in the 90s who lived in a council house, this song for me like many other people was so easy to relate to. That was the great thing about Britpop, the commercialised, manufactured rubbish today is so fake, it has no meaning.
This is a devastating performance by a ridiculously underrated band. "Common People" is a classic, possibly the greatest lyric to ever grace the UK top five. Anyone remember the Tory that said he could live on dole money and would prove it by doing it for a week? I don't know if Cocker was inspired by that idiocy but the fact that the guy wouldn't experience the despair of living on benefits because he'd be back to his nice life in a week is really reminiscent of the rich girl in the song slumming it and being one phone call away from luxury. This was a triumph.
These people are middle class for the most part. Don’t know where you’ve got the idea that Glastonbury was a working class thing. Although I agree with the rump of your comment
Alright grandad, when I was listening to Pulp my much older brother who was a punk used to piss and moan with his mates saying the same thing about Britpop. Music move with the times, The kids are alright.
Coachella went the other way. Trust fund kids and Hollywood messed up that festival. People forget it used to be an amazing festival. Same thing with Burning Man. Shame what these festivals have become.
Jarvis, and by far. He is probably the best frontman ever, and his writing style and the riffs are unique, and awsome, his style too, the dance moves. And Common people is in the top five as best track in the 90s. I mean to like Pulp is cool
2020 is a tuff year thank god my locals open and its Sunday lunch time with 8 pints in me and 30 people singing along to this in my local Jarvis you legend
Got my hand stamped by a hitchhiker at street in Glastonbury this isn’t James it’s Sheila I had plaits down my back with red gold green and black beeds in it !! I was wearing a army paratrooper all in one I looked soft with my docs 😂😂😂 But memories are golden bumped into my ex in that crowd of thousands of people and reconnected for a week or so 😂🎉❤ If you EVER SEE THIS EITHER THE PEOPLE WHO PICKED ME UP OR THE OTHER HITCHHIKER OR JIM PLEASE COULD YOU TELL ME
This was around the time I bumped into Jim Johnson from Sheffield if you ever see this please get in touch or if ANYONE KNOWS SHERYL JIM VAUGHN PLEASE COULD YOU TELL THEM SHERYL IS ON THE TORI AMOS VIDEO IN CAMO GEAR NEXT TO THE BARRIERS AT THE FRONT SHOWN A FEW TIMES I DIDNT MEET UP TIL THAT NIGHT AS THIS WAS PLAYING amazing bumping into your ex in thousands of people Not James Sheila xx
I will have a rum and coke a cola For my two bestest friends. Thanks. I owe you both. Shit...that looks alot like the Pink Floyd Stage used for PULSE XD I love Pulp powerful
No, check out Reading 2011, it's easily my favourite of all the ones I've seen here on RU-vid. And the crowd. You can hear them singing the whole way through. I love it!
