Different Class is the fifth studio album by English Britpop band Pulp. It was released on Island Records in the UK on 30 October 1995, and in the US on 27 February 1996. The album became a huge success for the band, reaching #1 in the UK Albums Chart, going Platinum four times and winning the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. It had sold 1,255,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2011. In 2013, NME ranked the album at number 6 in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Background and release
The album was released in the UK at the height of Britpop, and led to the band being regarded as part of that movement. Two of the singles on the album – "Common People" (which reached number two in the UK singles chart) and "Disco 2000" (which reached number seven) – were especially notable, and helped propel Pulp to nationwide fame. A "deluxe edition" of Different Class was released on 11 September 2006. It contains a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities.
The inspiration for the title came to frontman Jarvis Cocker in Smashing, a club night that ran during the early 1990s in Eve's Club on Regent Street in London. Cocker had a friend who used the phrase "different class" to describe something that was "in a class of its own". Cocker liked the double meaning, with its allusions to the British social class system which was a theme of some of the songs on the album. A message on the back of the record also references this idea:
Well we were born within one hour of each other. Our mothers said we could be sister and brother. Your name is Deborah. Deborah. It never suited ya. Oh they thought that when we grew up we'd get married, never split up. We never did it although often I thought of it. Oh Deborah do you recall. Your house was very small with wood chip on the wall. When I came around to call you didn't notice me at all. I said let's all meet up in the year 2000. Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown. Be there at 2 o'clock by the fountain down the road. I never knew that you'd get married. I would be living down here on my own on that damp and lonely Thursday years ago. You were the first girl at school to get breasts. Martyn said that yours were the best. The boys all loved you but I was a mess. I had to watch them trying to get you undressed. We were friends but that was as far as it went. I used to walk you home. Sometimes it meant nothing to you cause you were so very popular. Ah Deborah do you recall. Your house was very small with woodchip on the wall. When I came around to call you didn't notice me at all. I said let's all meet up in the year 2000. Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown. Be there at 2 o'clock by the fountain down the road. I never knew that you'd get married. I would be living down here on my own on that damp and lonely Thursday years ago. Oh yeah, oh yeah. And now you've paid your money and you've taken your choice. I know we'll never meet again but I want you to know Want you to know that I remember every single thing. Ah do you recall. Your house was very small with wood chip on the wall. When I came around to call you didn't notice me at all. I said let's all meet up in the year 2000. Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown. Be there at 2 o'clock by the fountain down the road. I never knew that you'd get married. I would be living down here on my own on that damp and lonely Thursday years ago. Oh what are you doing Sunday baby. Would you like to come and meet me maybe you can even bring your baby. Ohhh ooh ooh. Ooh ooh ooh ooh. What are you doing Sunday baby. Would you like to come and meet me baby you can even bring your baby. Ooh ooh oh. Ooh ooh ooh ooh. Ooh ooh ooh ooh. Oh.
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