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Track: I Spy
Artist: Pulp
Album: Different Class

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Name: Pulp
Spotify Genres: britpop, madchester
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British indie rock/Britpop band founded in 1978 in Sheffield. Sole constant member is [a76828] who formed the band while at school, and led the band through a series of stylistic changes and numerous band members until finding success and a stable lineup by the early 90s. They split in 2002, and reformed in 2011 for a series of reunion concerts before going on hiatus again in 2013. It was announced in 2022 that Pulp was to reunite and play some shows in 2023, as confirmed by Jarvis Cocker at a Q&A for his memoir, "Good Pop, Bad Pop", which was initially teased via a cryptic Instagram video posted by Cocker featuring the lyrics, "What exactly do you do for an encore?", that featured on the song "This Is Hardcore" from the album of the same name. [B]Lineup History[/B]: [I][B]Early Years[/B][/I]: [b]1978[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Peter Dalton [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Ian Dalton [i](Percussion)[/i] [b]1979[/b]:Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Peter Dalton [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], David 'Fungus' Lockwood [i](Bass)[/i], Mark Swift [i](Drums)[/i] [b]Jan 1980 - Jul 1980[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Peter Dalton [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Philip 'Pip' Thompson [i](Bass)[/i], Mark Swift [i](Drums)[/i] [b]Jul 1980 - March 1981[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Peter Dalton [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Jamie Pinchbeck [i](Bass)[/i], Jimmy Sellars [i](Drums)[/i] [b]March 1981 - Jan 1982[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Peter Dalton [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Jamie Pinchbeck [i](Bass)[/i], Wayne Furniss [i](Drums)[/i] [b]Feb 1982 - Aug 1982[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Peter Dalton [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], David Hinkler [i](Keyboards/Guitar/Trombone)[/i] Jamie Pinchbeck [i](Bass)[/i], Wayne Furniss [i](Drums)[/i] [I] [B]It[/B] [/I]: [b]Mid 1982[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Wayne Furniss [i](Guitar)[/i], David Hinkler [i](Keyboards/Guitar/Trombone)[/i], Simon Hinkler [i](Bass)[/i], Peter Boam [i](Drums)[/i] [b]October 1982 - early 1983[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], David Hinkler [i](Keyboards/Guitar/Trombone/Bass)[/i], Peter Boam [i](Guitar)[/i], Tim Allcard [i](Keyboards/Guitar/Poetry)[/i], Michael Paramore [i](Drums)[/i] [I] [B]Everybody's Problem[/B] [/I]: [b]1983[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Tim Allcard [i](Keyboards/Guitar/Poetry)[/i], Saskia Cocker [i](Vocals)[/i], Magnus Doyle [i](Drums)[/i] [I] [B]Freaks & Associated Singles[/B] [/I]: [b]1984 - November 1986[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Russell Senior [i](Guitar/Vocals)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Pete Mansell [i](Bass)[/i], Magnus Doyle [i](Drums)[/i] [b]December 1986[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Russell Senior [i](Guitar/Vocals)[/i], Captain Sleep [i](Keyboards)[/i], Steven Havenhand [i](Bass)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i] [b]1987[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Russell Senior [i](Guitar/Vocals)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Steven Havenhand [i](Bass)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i] [b]Jan 1988 - Aug 1988[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Russell Senior [i](Guitar/Vocals)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Antony Genn [i](Bass)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i] [I] [B]Separations, His N' Hers [/B] [/I]: [b]Late 1988 - Mid 1995[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Russell Senior [i](Guitar)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Steve Mackey [i](Bass)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i] [I] [B] Different Class[/B] [/I]: [b]Mid-1995 - 1997[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Russell Senior [i](Guitar/Vocals)[/i], Mark Webber [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Steve Mackey [i](Bass)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i] [I] [B] This Is Hardcore, We Love Life[/B] [/I]: [b]1997 - 2002[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Mark Webber [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Steve Mackey [i](Bass)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i] with Richard Hawley [i](Guitar)[/i] [I][B] Reunion [/B][/I]: [b]2011[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Russell Senior [i](Guitar/Vocals)[/i], Mark Webber [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Steve Mackey [i](Bass)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i] with Richard Hawley [i](Guitar)[/i] [b]2012 -2013[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Mark Webber [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Steve Mackey [i](Bass)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i] with Richard Hawley [i](Guitar)[/i] [b]2023[/b]: Jarvis Cocker [i](Vocals/Guitar)[/i], Mark Webber [i](Guitar/Keyboards)[/i], Candida Doyle [i](Keyboards)[/i], Nick Banks [i](Drums)[/i], with Andrew McKinney [i](Bass)[/i], Emma Smith [i](Violin/Guitar)[/i], Adam Betts [i](Percussion)[/i], Richard Jones [i](Strings)[/i]

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Release: Pulp - Different Class
Year: 1995
Genres: Rock, Pop
Styles: Alternative Rock, Britpop

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LYRICS

I spy a boy, I spy a girl.
I spy the worst place in the world,
In the whole wide world.
Oh you didn't do bad,
You made it out,
I'm still stuck here oh but I'll get out.
Oh yeah I'll get out.
Can't you see the giant that walks around you seeing through your petty lives?
Do you think I do these things for real?
I do these things just so I survive.
And you know I will survive.
It may look to the untrained eye,
I'm sitting on my arse all day.
I'm biding time until I take you all on.
My Lords and Ladies,
I will prevail,
I cannot fail.
Cos I spy.
Oh I've got your numbers,
Taken notes,
I know the ways your minds work;
I've studied.
And your minds are just the same as mine
Except that you are clever swines,
You never let mask slip,
You never admit to it,
You're never hurried.
Oh no no no.
And every night I hone my plan
How I will get my satisfaction,
How I will blow your paradise away away, away.
Cos I spy.
And it's just like in the old days -
I used to compose my own critical notices in my head.
"The crowd gasp at Cocker's masterful control of the bicycle,
Skilfully avoiding the dog turd next to the corner shop."
Imagining a blue plaque
Above the place I first ever touched a girl's chest,
But hold on,
You've got to wait for the best.
You see you should take me seriously.
Very seriously indeed.
Cause I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks,
Smoking your cigarettes,
Drinking your brandy,
Messing up the bed that you chose together.
And in all that time I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly one afternoon,
And catch us at it in the front room.
You see I spy for a living,
And I specialise in revenge,
On taking the things I know will cause you pain.
I can't help it,
I was dragged up.
My favourite parks are car parks,
Grass is something you smoke,
Birds are something you shag.
Take your "Year in Provence"
And shove it up your arse.
Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah.
With roach burns in designer dresses,
Skin stretched tight over high cheek-bones,
And thousands of tiny dryness lines beating a path to the corners of your eyes.
And every night I hatch my plan,
It's not a case of woman v man.
It's more a case of haves against haven'ts.
And I just happen to have got what you need,
Just exactly what you need yeah.
La la la la la la la la la la,
In the midnight hour.
La la la la la la la la la la,
I will come to you,
I will come to you,
I will take you from this sickness,
Dinner parties and champagne,
I'll hold your body and make it sing again.
Come on - sing again,
Let's sing again, oh yeah,
Cos I spy,
Yes,
I spy.
I spy a boy,
And I spy a girl.
I spy the chance,
To change the world,
To change your world