{"product_id":"9798765106952","title":"Pulp's This Is Hardcore","description":"Author: Savidge, Jane\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798765106952\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Apr 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 168\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential reading, plain and simple.\" - \u003ci\u003eCult Following\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Savidge knows the album backwards.\"     \u003ci\u003eUNCUT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Hardcore\u003c\/i\u003e is Pulp's cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 1998 album manages to tackle some of the most inappropriate grown-up issues of the day     fame, ageing, mortality, drugs, and pornography     and still come out crying and laughing on the other side. The subject of pornography dominates the record     from its controversial artwork to the images conjured up by songs like \"Seductive Barry\" and the title track     after Pulp's main man, Jarvis Cocker     who'd spent most of his teenage and adult life chasing celebrity, only to be cruelly disappointed when it finally arrived in spades     hit upon the grand notion of using pornography as a metaphor for fame. The album's commercial failure as a follow-up to the band's Britpop-defining, \u003ci\u003eDifferent Class\u003c\/i\u003e, also symbolizes a death knell for Britpop itself.\u003cbr\u003e Dark, right? Except just like Pulp themselves, Jane Savidge's book is playful and sometimes very funny indeed. Kicking off with an imaginary conversation between Jarvis Cocker and the people who run the Total Fame Solutions helpline, Savidge expertly guides us through the trials and tribulations of an album that begins with the so-called Michael Jackson Incident, when Cocker got up on stage at the 1996 Brit Awards and waggled his fully-clothed bum at the King of Pop. Pulp's \u003ci\u003eThis Is Hardcor\u003c\/i\u003ee may be a sleazy run through porn and mental demise, and an album that chronicles Cocker's continuing disillusionment with his newfound lot in life, but Savidge's book assesses the cultural and historical context of the album with insider knowledge and a sharp modern lens, ultimately making a case for it as one of the most important albums of the 1990s.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47509046231198,"sku":"UBD-9798765106952","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798765106952.jpg?v=1780640418","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798765106952","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}