Intro – The Gift Recordings is a compilation album by Pulp

Pulp (band)

Pulp are an English alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Their lineup consists of Jarvis Cocker , Russell Senior , Candida Doyle , Mark Webber , Steve Mackey and Nick Banks ....

. It contains the band's three singles recorded for Gift Records and was released in October 1993. The version of "Babies" included here is the original single mix released in 1992, slightly different from the 1994 version available on the album His 'n' Hers

His 'n' Hers

His 'n' Hers is the fourth studio album by Pulp and is commonly cited as the band's breakthrough album, reaching #9 in the UK charts. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the 70th greatest album of all time. A "deluxe edition" of His 'n' Hers was released on 11 September 2006. It contained a second...

. "Sheffield: Sex City" features a spoken vocal contribution from keyboardist Candida Doyle

Candida Doyle

Candida Doyle is a keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984...

 - reciting a selection from the book My Secret Garden

My Secret Garden

My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies is a 1973 book compiled by Nancy Friday, who collected women's fantasies through letters and taped and personal interviews. After including a female sexual fantasy in a novel she submitted for publishing, her editor objected, and Friday shelved the novel...

by Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday

Nancy Colbert Friday is an author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation.'Nancy Friday's successful fantasy revelations ' have seen her placed among 'the feminist erotic pioneers'...

 - which is one of the few times her voice is audible on a Pulp song.

Track listing

All music written by Pulp, all lyrics written by Jarvis Cocker.

Personnel

• Jarvis Cocker
  Jarvis Cocker
  Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
  
   - vocals, guitar
• Russell Senior
  Russell Senior
  Russell Senior is the guitarist and violinist of the band Pulp.Senior grew up in Sheffield. Whilst at University in Bath, he formed the "Dada Society" and appeared as the lead role in a dramatic adaptation of Kafka's The Trial...
  
   - guitar, violin
• Candida Doyle
  Candida Doyle
  Candida Doyle is a keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984...
  
   - organ, synthesizer, stylophone
• Steve Mackey
  Steve Mackey
  Steve Mackey is a British musician and record producer best known for playing bass guitar in the band Pulp. He also played bass for Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker in the latter's solo career, and worked as a songwriter and producer with artists such as M.I.A...
  
   - bass
• Nick Banks
  Nick Banks
  Nick Banks is the English drummer in the British band, Pulp. He lives in Sheffield with his wife Sarah Banks, two children , and his dog Geoff...
  
  - drums