“We don’t want no trouble, we just want the right to be different. That’s all.”
The champagne fizz and E’s & Wizz of 1995 drifts back across the years like the last song of a party no one wanted to end. Different Class, Pulp’s crown jewel in their discography, and their invitation to the ballroom of fame – steps once more into the light, thirty years on, still glowing with a dangerous, electric charm.
These were the songs that dressed desire in polyester, that made the ordinary shimmer like crystal. “You will never understand how it feels to live your life with no meaning or control…” Jarvis Cocker confessed, his voice cutting through the haze. That ache…half lament, half incantation…still hangs in the air, as true today as it was under the sodium glow of mid-’90s Britain.
On October 30th, the album that stormed to No. 1 and won the Mercury Prize returns in a deluxe 4LP boxset, its soul stitched forever to that fevered Saturday night at Glastonbury when Pulp, summoned at the last minute, became the center of the universe.
“The Glastonbury performance in June 1995 will always be the most significant concert of Pulp’s career,’ says Cocker. “Three weeks after Common People hit No. 2 in the national charts, the band filled in for The Stone Roses at the last minute. We played Sorted For Es & Wizz, Mis-Shapes, and Disco 2000 – all receiving their live debut. This is the first time the whole concert (including the long, drone-based intro) has been made available. Your chance to relive a historical moment.”
That performance, now restored in full, thrums with the urgency of dreams suddenly realized. Once it belonged to the mud and the moon, to wide-eyed strangers singing Common People as if their lives depended on it. Now it is pressed into permanence, paired with a newly remastered Different Class, and offered back as both relic and revelation.
“This 45rpm double album version of Different Class will make it sound a whole lot better,” Cocker insists. “We were obsessed with the fact that this was our ‘pop’ album… Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory. Different class indeed.”
The 4LP and 2CD editions arrive this October, a marriage of triumph and time capsule. Within the slipcase lies a 28-page booklet of unseen images by Rankin and Donald Milne, a gallery of ghosts and glitter, stories gathered from new band interviews, and a resurrection of the “Choose your own front cover” design. The deluxe set revives the original aperture sleeve and includes a 12”x24” print of the six cardboard cutouts…paper phantoms grinning like guests at a party that never ended.
Different Class will be released on 24 October 2025, via UMR/Island Records. Pre-order the deluxe 4LP or 2CD here.
LPs 1 and 2 – Original album remastered
Side One
1. Mis-Shapes 3:47
2. Pencil Skirt 3:11
3. Common People 5:51
Side Two
1. I Spy 5:55
2. Disco 2000 4:34
3. Live Bed Show 3:29
Side Three
1. Something Changed 3:19
2. Sorted For E’s & Wizz 3:40
3. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. 6:01
Side Four
1. Underwear 4:06
2. Monday Morning 4:18
3. Bar Italia 3:44
LPs 3 And 4 – Live At Glastonbury, 1995
Side One
1. Common People Drone Intro 3:28
2. Do You Remember The First Time? 4:00
3. Razzmatazz 4:44
4. Monday Morning 5:16
Side Two
1. Underwear 5:17
2. Sorted For E’s & Wizz 4:34
3. Disco 2000 5:45
4. Joyriders 4:03
Side Three
1. Acrylic Afternoons 6:01
2. Mis-Shapes 4:23
3. Pink Glove 5:09
Side Four
1. Babies 6:41
2. Common People 7:33
Pulp is also currently on tour: Jarvis Cocker and company remain cultural shapeshifters, bringing their latest album More to life with the same spiky elegance and deadpan drama that once pinned pop to the margins and made it strange again. They’ll be making stops in DC, Philadelphia, NYC, Detroit, Denver, and more!
Later this month, Pulp and LCD Soundsystem will co-command the Hollywood Bowl for two nights of nostalgia, smirk, and synth beneath California skies…skies that once promised everything but will soon instead deliver disco-drenched existentialism.
- Saturday 6 September – Washington, DC The Anthem
- Tuesday 9 September – Philadelphia The Met
- Thursday 11 September – NYC Forest Hills Stadium
- Saturday 13 September – Boston Suffolk Downs
- Tuesday 16 September – Toronto Budweiser Stage
- Wednesday 17 September – Detroit Masonic Temple
- Saturday 20 September – Minneapolis The Armory
- Monday 22 September – Denver Red Rocks Amphitheatre
- Thursday 25 September – Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl
- Friday 26 September – Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl
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