Different Class / Deluxe Edition

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Mark Webber: Gibson ES 345 guitar, Gibson Les Paul guitar, Gibson Firebird guitar, Sigma acoustic guitar, Casio Tonebank CT-470, Fender Rhodes piano, Roland Juno 6 McLaughlin, Kylie (2006). "Pulp: Different Class". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe Publishing. p. 766. ISBN 978-0-7893-1371-3. a b Hawkins, Chris (10 April 2014). "How a Wedding Picture Ended Up on the Cover of an Iconic Britpop Album..." HuffPost . Retrieved 30 April 2014. PopMatters ' retrospective review in 2004 opined that "nearly nine years after its release, Different Class has aged very well, possessing that timeless quality that is present in all classic albums, but is still obviously a product of its time, a snapshot of mid-'90s life in the UK. Along with Blur's Parklife, it remains the high point of the Britpop era; music, lyrics, production, artwork, it's as perfect as it gets." [24] Reviewing the 2006 deluxe edition, Garry Mulholland of Q stated that the album "defined the mood of the day", [25] while Drowned in Sound described Different Class as "easily the best album of its year of release and arguably the best album from the Britpop era" and went on to call it "a certifiable masterpiece that not only lived up to the sky-high expectations heaped upon it with appalling ease, but surpassed them." [26] Accolades [ edit ] In an interview with BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Chris Hawkins on 8 April 2014, Dom O'Connor, the groom featured in the wedding photograph cover art, recalled how the album cover had come about:

The album was the winner of the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. [4] In 1997, it was ranked at number 34 out of 100 in a "Music of the Millennium" poll [27] conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q readers voted Different Class the 37th greatest album of all time; [28] a repeat poll in 2006 put it at number 85. [29] In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. [30] In 2005 it was voted number 70 in Channel 4's The 100 Greatest Albums. [31] In 2006 British Hit Singles & Albums and NME organised a poll in which 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and Different Class was placed at number 54 on the list. [32] The album was ranked at number 35 on Spin 's "The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985–2014)" list. [33] a b Mulvey, John (28 October 1995). " 'Class' A". NME. p.52. Archived from the original on 13 October 2000 . Retrieved 7 December 2015.

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Pitchfork Staff (28 September 2022). "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork . Retrieved 26 April 2023. ... Different Class, a full-length that alchemized bubblegum, glam, and luxe new wave into artful pop. Zaleski, Annie (11 May 2015). "The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985–2014)". Spin. p.5 . Retrieved 6 August 2015. Lamacq, Steve (host) (8 February 1999). "Different Class". Classic Albums of the 90s. London. BBC Radio 1. The Different Class Story. Mark Webber – Gibson ES 345, Gibson Les Paul guitar, Gibson Firebird guitar, Sigma acoustic guitar, Casio Tonebank CT-470, Fender Rhodes piano, Roland Juno 6

Offiziellecharts.de – Pulp – Different Class" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 17, 2023. Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035.Lynskey, Dorian (1 September 2006). "CD: Pulp, Different Class". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 1 September 2013. a b c d Copsey, Rob (22 September 2020). "Mercury Prize: The best-selling winning albums". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 17 September 2018. Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums. London, England: Guinness World Records. pp.400–01. ISBN 978-1-904994-10-7. Aside from ' Mis-Shapes' and its sympathetic portrayal of those persecuted by the style elite of Passions Nitespot, 'Different Class' is full of characters excluded from something. ' Disco 2000' has the protagonist rueing a childhood friendship that didn't reach full fruition: " They said that when we grew up, we'd get married and never split up / We never did though". There's the posh-bird subject of ' Common People', doomed never really to experience prole-world. Even with ' Sorted For E's And Wizz', the narrator keeps his distance from the all-together communality of the rave experience: " Now it's nice one, geezer / That's as far as the conversation went". The most desolate glimpse of outsiderdom comes with ' I Spy', a sinister spin on the world of voyeurism.