The Peel Sessions (Pulp album)
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Disc 1
- "Turkey Mambo Momma" (Jarvis CockerJarvis CockerJarvis 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...
) - "Please Don't Worry" (Cocker)
- "Wishful Thinking" (Cocker)
- "Refuse To Be Blind" (Cocker)
- "Pink Glove" (Nick BanksNick BanksNick 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...
, Cocker, Candida DoyleCandida DoyleCandida Doyle is a keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984...
, Steve MackeySteve MackeySteve 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...
, Russell SeniorRussell SeniorRussell 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...
) - "You're A Nightmare" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior)
- "Acrylic Afternoons" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior)
- "Underwear" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior)
- "Common People" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior)
- "Pencil Skirt" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior, Mark WebberMark Webber (guitarist)Mark Webber is an English rock guitarist.He is most famous for playing in Pulp , and appearing on all of their albums since their Mercury Music Prize winning collection Different Class...
) - "Sunrise" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Peter Mansell, Webber)
- "Weeds" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber)
- "I Love Life" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber)
- "Duck Diving" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber, Philippa PearcePhilippa PearceAnn Philippa Pearce OBE was an English children's author.-Early life:The youngest of four children, Pearce was brought up in the Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire...
)
Tracks 1-4 recorded on 7 November 1981.
Tracks 5-7 recorded on 7 February 1993.
Tracks 8-10 recorded on 9 September 1994.
Tracks 11-14 recorded on 12 August 2001.
All tracks recorded in John Peel's studio.
Disc 2
- "Theme From Peter GunnPeter GunnPeter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and later ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The show's creator was Blake Edwards...
" (Henry ManciniHenry ManciniHenry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
) - "Sorted for E's & WizzSorted for E's & Wizz"Sorted for E's & Wizz" is a song by the English band Pulp. Taken from their UK number one album Different Class, it was released as a double A-sided single with "Mis-Shapes" in September 1995 and reached number two in the UK charts...
" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior, Webber) - "Help the AgedHelp the Aged (song)"Help the Aged" is a song by British alternative rock band Pulp, and was released on 10 November 1997 as the lead single from their 1998 album This Is Hardcore...
" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber) - "This is HardcoreThis Is Hardcore (song)"This Is Hardcore" is a song by British indie band Pulp, and was released as the second single from their 1998 album This Is Hardcore. It was released on 16 March 1998 and charted at #12 in the UK Singles Chart . It uses a sample of "Bolero on the Moon Rocks" by the Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra...
" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber, Peter ThomasPeter Thomas (composer)Peter Thomas is a German composer/arranger. He was born in Breslau on 1 December 1925, and his active career spanned more than 50 years between 1955 and 2006....
) - "Sunrise" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Mansell, Webber)
- "Mile End" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior, Webber)
- "Do You Remember The First Time" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior)
- "Babies" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior)
- "Weeds" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber)
- "Weeds II (The Origin Of The Species)" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber)
- "The Fear" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber)
- "The Trees" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber)
- "I Love Life" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber)
- "Party Hard" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Webber)
- "Common People" (Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior)
Tracks 1-5 recorded on Kings College, 11 October 2001.
Tracks 6-8 recorded on Bristol Anson, 21 April 1995.
Tracks 9-15 recorded on Birmingham Academy, 31 October 2001.
Musicians
- Jarvis CockerJarvis CockerJarvis 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...
- vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, percussion (appears on all recordings) - Russell SeniorRussell SeniorRussell 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...
- guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
(1993-1995 recordings) - Candida DoyleCandida DoyleCandida Doyle is a keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984...
- keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
(1993-2001 recordings) - Mark WebberMark Webber (guitarist)Mark Webber is an English rock guitarist.He is most famous for playing in Pulp , and appearing on all of their albums since their Mercury Music Prize winning collection Different Class...
- guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
(1994-2001 recordings) - Steve MackeySteve MackeySteve 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...
- bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(1993-2001 recordings) - Nick BanksNick BanksNick 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...
- drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(1993-2001 recordings) - Richard HawleyRichard HawleyRichard Hawley is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer. After his first band Treebound Story broke up, Hawley found success as a member of Britpop band Longpigs in the 1990s. He later joined the band Pulp, led by his friend Jarvis Cocker...
- GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
(2001 recordings) - Peter Dalton - synthesiser, organOrgan (music)The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, backing vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, xylophoneXylophoneThe xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets...
, percussion (1981 recordings) - Jamie Pinchbeck - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, percussion (1981 recordings) - Wayne Furness - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussion (1981 recordings)