Pulp have announced a reissue of their classic 1995 album ‘Different Class’, including the first ever release of their Glastonbury 1995 performance.
The Mercury Prize-winning, chart-topping record was the band’s most successful album, selling over a million copies in the UK and including the hit singles ‘Common People’, ‘Disco 2000’ and ‘Sorted For E’s & Wizz’. In 2013, NME named it as the sixth greatest album of all time.
Now, to mark its 30th anniversary, the Sheffield band have announced details of an expanded reissue, to be released as both a quadruple LP set and as a double CD. It will be out on October 24 via Universal Music Records on behalf of Island Records and you can pre-order your copy here.
The release will include the full performance the band gave as Pyramid Stage headliners at Glastonbury 1995, an iconic set that came several months before the release of ‘Different Class’, after they were asked to fill in for The Stone Roses with just 10 days notice.
Speaking about the release, frontman Jarvis Cocker has said: “This 45rpm double album version of ‘Different Class’ will make it sound a whole lot better. We were obsessed with the fact that this was our ‘Pop’ album (we had finally achieved some ‘popularity’ when ‘Common People’ was a hit) &, as everyone knows, all pop albums have 12 songs on them: 6 tracks per side.
“Only problem: this took the running time of the record to 53 minutes. We were told this would compromise the audio quality of the vinyl record – but we were more bothered about not compromising the quality of our Pop Dream. Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for ‘Different Class’ to be heard in all its glory. Different Class indeed.”
“The Glastonbury performance in June 1995 will always be the most significant concert of Pulp’s career,” Cocker added. “Three weeks after ‘Common People’ hit number #2 in the national charts, the band filled in for The Stone Roses at the last minute. We played ‘Sorted For E’s & Wizz’, ‘Mis-Shapes’ & ‘Disco 2000’ – all receiving their live debut. This is first time the whole concert (including the long, drone-based intro) has been made available. Your chance to relive an historical moment.”
‘Different Class’ reissue 4xLP tracklist:
LPs 1 and 2: Original remastered album
Side One
1) ‘Mis-Shapes’
2) ‘Pencil Skirt’
3) ‘Common People’
Side Two
1) ‘I Spy’
2) ‘Disco 2000’
3) ‘Live Bed Show’
Side Three
1) ‘Something Changed’
2) ‘Sorted For E’s & Wizz’
3) ‘F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.’
Side Four
1) ‘Underwear’
2) ‘Monday Morning’
3) ‘Bar Italia’
LPs 3 and 4: Glastonbury 1995 performance
Side One
1) ‘Common People Drone Intro’
2) ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’
3) ‘Razzmatazz’
4) ‘Monday Morning’
Side Two
1) ‘Underwear’
2) ‘Sorted For E’s & Wizz’
3) ‘Disco 2000’
4) ‘Joyriders’
Side Three
1) ‘Acrylic Afternoons’
2) ‘Mis-Shapes’
3) ‘Pink Glove’
Side Four
1) ‘Babies’
2) ‘Common People’
In June, Pulp released their eighth album ’More’, their first full-length record in 24 years. In a four-star review, NME concluded: “Drenched in synths and strings and aided by producer James Ford’s knack for making the music feel alive and omnipresent, ‘More’ is everything you’d want a Pulp album to be, made richer from some lived experience.
“Just as Blur did with ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ and Suede have managed on their immaculate run of post-reunion albums, Pulp have retained their original spirit and flair into a statement of middle age without feeling any less vital. As Cocker pines on the cinematic closer ‘A Sunset’, all things end, so just make the most of the time you have. It’s strangely beautiful, now they’re all fully grown.”
They went on to play a ‘You Deserve More’ UK arena tour this summer, as well as a triumphant and badly-kept “secret” set at Glastonbury 2025, and they are about to kick off the North American leg of the tour with a show in Atlanta tonight (September 4). See all the dates here and find any remaining tickets here.
NME was at the Glastonbury set, awarding it five stars and noting: “With songs for the mis-shapes, a whole lotta ‘L-O-V-E’ and even a Red Arrows fly-past for the glorious crowd-engulfing ‘Common People’, these legends capture the spirit of these hallowed grounds with a little peace, love and joyous wonky-pop hedonism. One for the books? Sure, but as Cocker puts it: ‘History and stuff like that doesn’t matter because it’s all about now and what we can do right now’.”
