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HecklerPlay – Top 10 Favourite Opening Lyrics

August 4th, 2012 By Si Sharp

Making a good first impression is important. In books it sets the tone, in social surroundings it allows busy idiots the chance to judge us, and in job interviews it provides a useful opportunity to explain that whilst, yes, you are technically on the sex offenders? register it was all a terrible mix-up and could have happened to anyone.

In music, the first line is underrated. We barely even notice them unless they're clunky or funny.

The best first lines can, like the opening of Kafka?s Metamorphosis, throw you right into the action or they can, like A Tale of Two Cities, set a vivid scene. They can provide an aggressive statement of intent or they can be just plain funny.

Jarvis Cocker Says The Media Killed Amy Winehouse

November 28th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

When Amy Winehouse died, everyone was pretty saddened by the news. A young woman, not yet in her thirties, lost and still with a lot more to give. Shame. Of course, it was a fertile period for making lazy jokes about it on twitter, but the less said about that, the better.

Anyway, Pulp honcho Jarvis Cocker has something to say about it all.

Basically, the national treasure in the making has blamed the tabloids for Amy Winehouse’s untimely death.

Jarvis Cocker Quits Music And Gets A Day Job

October 14th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Jarvis Cocker is something of a national treasure. There’s no John Peel to represent the nerdy music enthusiasts, so the Pulp frontman has somehow found himself filling in for Peel, a man who also wasn’t particularly happy with being the focal point for other, likeminded losers.

However, there’s bad news of sorts.

Jarvis Cocker is ostensibly quitting music because he’s gone and got himself a 9-to-5 job. No, honestly. This isn’t a joke. What job? Well, the kind of job that will make everyone coo ‘Oh Jarvis, you are brilliant aren’t you?’

Pulp Are Reforming – Cue Misguided Notion That The ’90s Were Good

November 8th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

There’s a ’90s revival knocking around, leaving thirtysomethings to thrill about an imagined golden-period of music history… a period that comprised of bands like Echobelly, Menswear, Candy Flip and a whole host of other dreadful bands.

Basically, if you remember the ’90s without rose-tints, then you’ll know that it wasn’t that great at all. Go listen to Sleeper for proof of how rubbish the ’90s could be.

However, one of the better bands of that period are apparently getting back together and, if you can read a headline or look at a picture accompanying an article, you’ll know that the band in question is Pulp.