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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Pulps This Is Hardcore
Essential reading, plain and simple. - Cult FollowingSavidge knows the album backwards. UNCUTThis Is Hardcore is Pulp's cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 1998 album manages to tackle some of the most inappropriate grown-up issues of the day fame, ageing, mortality, drugs, and pornography and still come out crying and laughing on the other side. The subject of pornography dominates the record from its controversial artwork to the images conjured up by songs like Seductive Barry and the title track after Pulp's main man, Jarvis Cocker who''d spent most of his teenage and adult life chasing celebrity, only to be cruelly disappointed when it finally arrived in spades hit upon the grand notion of using pornography as a metaphor for fame. The album''s commercial failure as a follow-up to the band''s Britpop-defining, Different Class, also symbolizes a death knell for Britpop itself. Dark, right? Except just
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Outline Press Ltd Here They Come With Their Make-Up On: Suede, Coming Up . . . And More Adventures Beyond The Wild Frontiers
There were only a handful of people in the world who still really believed in Suede at the time, and five of them were in the band. Brett Anderson, Suede. Suede were Marmite at the time, and I was expecting the press to trash them. Every meeting I had with the record company, I was told they were done for. Ed Buller, Coming Up producer. How did they do that? Comeback of the century. Select magazine cover, November 1996. Here They Come with Their Make-Up On examines in exquisite detail how Suede emerged from the chaotic, ruined remnants of their career and somehow managed to conjure up their most joyously evocative and celebrated album to date. Coming Up the extraordinary record in question stumped the band s most ardent critics and hit the jackpot, with sales that eclipsed those of their first two releases combined. As the band s publicist throughout that period, Jane is uniquely placed to reveal exactly how they did it. This book is also a personal journey into the heart of an album that Jane loves if not unconditionally then as a piece of work that has ultimately survived the ravages of time and the brutish, nasty, and not-so-short nature of the media scrutiny that had threatened to confine the band to the dustbin of history. In addition, it features yet more outlandish tales from Jane s time with Suede and those around them back then, as well as new interviews with band members Brett Anderson, Richard Oakes, and Neil Codling, and Coming Up s producer, Ed Buller.
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