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The fact that the album ends on an optimistic note with the final flourishing chords of ' The Day After The Revolution' ( "Yeah, we made it... The Fear is over, guilt is over, Bergerac is over...") just tends to con­firm the kind of obvious emotional manipulation you'd more normally expect from Andrew Lloyd Webber. At the same time it has to be admitted that ' After The Revolution' is gen­uinely affecting in its tugging of the heart strings. It could also be argued that the way that 'This Is Hardcore' takes on limelight aesthetics amounts to a powerful pop-art aes­thetic. But even if Jarvis' lyrical vale­diction does assure that "Cholesterol is over... irony is over" it seems likely that, when the dust settles, this is an album that will seem possessed of just a little too much ironic detach­ment - in the music at least. Dimery, Robert; Lydon, Michael (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2. Caulfield, Keith (18 April 2008). "Keith answers readers' questions on Bette Midler, Radiohead, Celine Dion and more!". Billboard. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014 . Retrieved 25 June 2020. Offiziellecharts.de – Pulp – This Is Hardcore" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 January 2017. As with the band's previous album, This is Hardcore reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart, but with far fewer sales, [6] and was well received critically, earning Pulp a third successive nomination for the 1998 Mercury Prize. [7]

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Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035. As is the decision to follow such a feat of emotional dramatics with two namby jingle-pop reveries (' TV Movie' and ' A Little Soul' ) before ' Mis-Shapes' makes a reappearance as an anti-Bloke anthem called ' I'm A Man' and, quite suddenly, the seven veils of gloom begin twitching on top of the burnt-out, broken man on the floor who simply gets up and sings four of the most inspired songs in Pulp's 15-year history. ' Seductive Barry' sounds a bit like Joy Division; that BIG and bewitching, a sexual fantasy space-pop sequence featuring Jarvis objectifying himself in the eye of the beholder, which then turns into Madonna's 'Justify My Love'. Welcome to personal disintegration - the West End musical. Welcome to an album that amounts to breakdown on Broadway - a situa­tion that makes the above snatch of dialogue almost eerily appropriate. The theatrical source is relevant enough, but the tone fits 'This Is Hardcore' to a 'T' - a man hitting the bottom but relaying the descent with the kind of thespian relish that says he's savouring every last minute of it.

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a b Kot, Greg (23 March 1998). "Pulp: This Is Hardcore". Rolling Stone. No.784. Archived from the original on 3 June 2008 . Retrieved 30 September 2011. Barker, Emily (25 October 2013). "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 200-101". NME . Retrieved 17 January 2023. a b Gerard, Chris (4 April 2014). "50 Best Alternative Albums of the '90s". Metro Weekly . Retrieved 12 January 2017. Such lyrical wit and empathy is there in the lovely, bittersweet croon of ' Dishes', a song that has Jarvis contemplating turning 33 (the age at which Jesus died) with typical self-deprecation: "I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials, I am the man who stays home and does the dishes." Such subtlety also runs through the gorgeous, Memphis-tinged father-son confessional of ' A Little Soul' and through ' Help The Aged'. The latter is the song that comes closest to the euphoric spirit of the ' Different Class' album. As with the Manics' 'La Tristessa Durera', it turns the youth-fixated world of the pop song on its head by using it to frame the plight of the OAP. Except, typically of Jarvis' lubricious realm, it concludes that the best way to help the infirm is to give them a shag.Merline, Micheal (23 June 2014). "Revisit: Pulp: This is Hardcore". Spectrum Culture . Retrieved 6 October 2022. Matrix / Runout (D-side runout, variant 2): MPO 0602547866509 B [MPO logo]® 21216594 GREG @ FINYL TWEEK

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Pearson, Paul (30 March 2018). "Pulp's This Is Hardcore is still a shattering piece of work after 20 years". Treble . Retrieved 6 October 2022. a b "British album certifications – Pulp – This Is Hardcore". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 25 June 2020. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type This Is Hardcore in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. a b Hochman, Steve (5 April 1998). "Pulp 'This Is Hardcore' Island". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016 . Retrieved 2 May 2016.Harris, Keith (2004). "Pulp". The Rolling Stone Album Guide (4thed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 665. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Who knows, maybe 'This Is Hardcore' will run and run. Starlight Express is, after all, now in its 14th year. But it seems more likely that while 'This Is Hardcore' should be praised as a brilliant, unprecedented lyrical statement, it's not actually one you'll want to play that much. Browne, David (13 April 1998). " This Is Hardcore". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017 . Retrieved 30 September 2011.