This Is Hardcore
by Pulp

The follow up to the mega successful, different class. This is hardcore, is a darker twin to the more optimistic predecessor, but songwise it's just as good. The title track is amazing, one of Pulp's greatest songs. Other highlights include, the fear, a little soul, and, Sylvia. This is hardcore, is a fine album, dark with little specks of light shining through. Good stuff.

From covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/19/2013 23:57 | #73913 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

If Different Class is one of the happiest, better produced albums ever, Hardcore is the complete oposite. Dark, moody, lyrically sad, almost deppresive. It shows a band that has changed the dynamic and energy for a moment of reflextion. The result is almost cathartic. This is one of the greatest albums ever to be conceived and a logic choice to be king of the underrated. Songs like A Little Soul or the supreme Sylvia are simply exquisite...

A dark album that feels like the group has properly matured and this gloomy nature has spawned out of it. The whole record feels like a funeral to Brit Pop and like this record is closing out the short run it endured which works perfectly in my opinion as there wasn't anywhere else it could go. They demonstrate this with the use of more intelligent and complex compositions scattered amongst chorus led tracks that still posses the jingly, positive feel of the genre but they are manipulated and twisted which gives us the idea of this being the end. I think they really nailed the sound and style they were going for on this record and the atmosphere we get to wallow in is just brilliant. Lyrically, it is phenomenal as the words have gone from being light hearted and humourful to thought provoking and dark. They are a joy to explore and the vocal is unique and very powerful. The greatest tracks on the record would be The Fear, Dishes, Help The Aged and I'm A Man. Then there is one of my favourite songs of all time in Sylvia which I fall in love with even more every time I listen to it. One rather large weakness I do find with this record though is the elongated final song and I really think it holds up the record and drags down its quality. Overall, there is so much to love about this record with its darker tone and mature sound which makes it an album not to be missed.

From meccalecca TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/04/2014 20:29 | #110775 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Your witty older brother has settled down with a family. His snide remarks generate a tense relationship with the family.

This album is as brilliant as it is manic depressive. Not like other Orphic Crooners who fall in love with their misery, within the lush and sprawling landscapes of this album there is an unsettling cry for help. It is a beautiful work with a Serge Gainsbourg influence, and is possibly the most uncompromising album I've ever heard. I'm thrilled that it has a following and getting the recognition it deserves