“The Fear” by Pulp

"The Fear" belongs to This Is Hardcore, Pulp's sixth studio album, released in March 1998 after a long and fraught stretch. The success of Different Class had left friction in the ranks, guitarist and violinist Russell Senior walked out, and Jarvis Cocker took himself off to New York alone to unwind and write. What he brought back leaned toward art rock, with a glam streak running through it.

The music is credited to Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Mark Andrew Webber, the words to Cocker alone. Chris Thomas produced, with Pete Lewis engineering and Lorraine Francis and Jay Reynolds assisting, and the album took from November 1996 to January 1998 to finish. It went straight in at number one in Britain and earned the band a third Mercury Prize nomination in a row.

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