His’n’Hers, Different Class and This Is Hardcore are reissued with bonus material by Universal on September 11. In the gap between a decade of gissa-hit-record toiling in Sheffield and Jarvis’s melodic muse abandoning him, Pulp made some of the greatest kitchen-sink-dramatics pop in the history of British music.

1 Common People Their finest four minutes, and a song that, for pathos, bite, propulsion and inventiveness, ranks in pop’s highest echelons.

2 Babies Wherein Cocker plays peeping Tom in a girl’s wardrobe, admitting ominously: “Soon, I wanted more.”

3 Disco 2000 The tender, glam-rock heart of Different Class — a masterpiece of nostalgia and regret.

4 Help the Aged A nightmarish vision of old age. Its ghostly piano and ambivalent lyric chill the blood.

5 Razzmatazz This cruel early slice of social observation lacks Cocker’s compensatory compassion.

6 Bad Cover Version From the underrated We Love Life, a string-, sleigh bell- and metaphor-laden beauty.

7 Lipgloss One of the loveliest choruses on His’n’Hers, and a rehearsal for Different Class.

8 This Is Hardcore The title track from what some call a lost classic, but others regard as a fitfully brilliant but self-indulgent mess.

9 The Trees Pulp go Walker Brothers on this epic string-drenched We Love Life stunner.

10 Mis-Shapes Now, Jarvis, stand up for misfits.

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