Pulp - “Got to Have Love”

Pulp

“Got to Have Love”

Rough Trade

I would consider myself a Pulp fan, at least more so than most people I know. Like my friend Joe doesn't fuck with Pulp - at all. And while I'm not in their fan club either and don't really need any new songs, I do dig "Different Class" which is their classic as well as the cocaine record "This Is Hardcore". I even fuck with the record right before that called "His N' Hers", it has a few bangers on it like "Do You Remember The First Time?". But you can miss me with the early early stuff and the last album, just don't care. I've tried before to get into those records and it's just not happening. So not that big of a fan I guess. But in my opinion when they we're good, Pulp were good. Didn't really dig the solo Jarvis records much for the most part, they have a couple cute songs but that's about it. Although I did like the cunts are still running the world song. That was dope and fit perfect at the end of Children of Men. My conspiracy theory that I only like Jarvis's art when he's on cocaine.

So this is like a come back single, the second of two from a new upcoming record called "More". "Got to Have Love" is a disco-romp about love (I miss the old Jarvis who'd be honry talking over these tracks) and "Spike Island" although unfortunately not a cover of The Icarus Line song of the same name does sound the most like Pulp of the two. Neither really connects with me or is that great in my opinion, which is kind of par for the course from a brit pop band long past their prime here in the hellscape world of 2025. I already don't remember hearing these songs but let's be honest - they could be doing so much worse, most things are worse than this now and there's something nice about having Pulp back even if I don't even up caring about any of these new songs.

So anyways back to me... lemme round this boring ass review out with a story cuz that's all I've got. So some reason they let me DJ in "The Mojave Tent" at Coachella back in 2007 and I had a trailer in the backstage. It had my name on the door in sparkles and was full of beer and snacks. Was wild. The reason I'm telling you this during a Pulp review is because my trailer was directly across from Jarvis Cocker's trailer. As you can imagine pretty quickly the word spread through my friends that I had a place hang at and party at and everyone decended on my trailer. I just remember it was jammed packed - people drinking, doing lines of cocaine and smoking weed... as you do backstage at a music festival in 2007 - and Jarvis was just kind of watching all this unfold. And then Danny DeVito just casually walked up and asked "Who's trailer is this?" I stepped forward and said "mine" and let Mr. DeVito know I was a big fan of his work. He said "Great can I take a shit in your trailer?" To which I said sure and then he made me kick everyone out so he could blow up the bathroom. He left it steaming and he had to wait for a while to go back in. But it was worth being able to tell this story and he did give me a high five as he left which made Jarvis Cocker walk over and ask "Who are you exactly?" and we started talking. I told him how I dug the compilation he curated called "The Trip" and how it turned me onto Porter Wagoner, The Animated Egg and OMD's Velvet Underground cover of Waitin' For The Man. Jarvis was cool as fuck, super charming and down to earth. The End.

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