Album · Pulp
Different Class by Pulp
Different Class is an album by Pulp, released in 1995. 6 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 50 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Common People”, on 36 lists and voted number one twice.
Different Class, Pulp's fifth studio album, came out on Island on 30 October 1995, and it caught the Sheffield band at the absolute peak of their powers. Chris Thomas produced it, and the lineup was Jarvis Cocker on vocals, guitar and keyboards, Russell Senior on guitar and violin, Candida Doyle on keys, Steve Mackey on bass, Nick Banks on drums and new boy Mark Webber on guitar and keyboards.
Cocker writes like a kitchen-sink dramatist with a disco habit, sharp, sly and very British, and the band sets it to swooning synths and strutting glam guitars. "Common People" sneers and surges, "Disco 2000" bounces with wistful glee, "Mis-Shapes" swaggers, and "Sorted for E's & Wizz" drifts along in slow motion. No wonder Cocker and company ended up as reluctant figureheads of Britpop. It went straight in at number one, won the 1996 Mercury Music Prize and spun off four top-ten singles, "Something Changed" among them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Different Class on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Common People | 36 | #1 | 2 | 1994–2026 | |
| 2 | Disco 2000 | 7 | #5 | – | 1995–2025 | |
| 3 | Sorted For E's and Wizz | 2 | #2 | – | 1995–2025 | |
| 4 | Mis-Shapes | 3 | #12 | – | 1995–2025 | |
| 5 | I-Spy | 1 | #8 | – | 1995 | |
| 6 | Underwear | 1 | #31 | – | 1995 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.