Pulp’s 1995 Mercury Prize profitable, chart-topping album Totally different Class is ready to be reissued on October 24, 2025, through Common Music Recordings on behalf of Island Information. The widely-acclaimed album will probably be out there as each a quadruple LP set and on double CD format and is expanded to incorporate the band’s legendary 1995 Glastonbury Pageant set in full. It will likely be the primary time that the Glastonbury efficiency has been launched.
Following the discharge of Pulp’s latest primary album Extra and an acclaimed UK and Eire area tour, European headline reveals and a weekend-defining set at this 12 months’s Glastonbury Pageant – the reissue of Totally different Class builds on what has already been a really particular 12 months for the group.
Frontman Jarvis Cocker explains how this re-creation presents the album in an improved format, “This 45rpm double album version of Different Class will make it sound a whole lot better. We were obsessed with the fact that this was our “Pop” album (we had lastly achieved some “popularity” when “Common People” was successful) and, as everybody is aware of, all pop albums have 12 songs on them: 6 tracks per facet.”
He provides “Only problem: this took the running time of the record to 53 minutes. We were told this would compromise the audio quality of the vinyl record – but we were more bothered about not compromising the quality of our Pop Dream. Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory.”
The Glastonbury efficiency in June 1995 will all the time be essentially the most important live performance of Pulp’s profession. Cocker says “Three weeks after “Common People” hit No.2 within the nationwide charts the band crammed in for The Stone Roses on the final minute. We performed “Sorted For E’s & Wizz”, “Mis-Shapes” & “Disco 2000” – all receiving their dwell debut. That is first time the entire live performance (together with the lengthy, drone-based intro) has been made out there. [The new reissues offers] your probability to relive an historic second.”
Shaped in 1978 by 15-year-old Sheffield schoolboy Jarvis Cocker, Pulp launched three albums between 1983 and 1992 on the Hearth label earlier than attaining prominence and industrial success within the mid-Nineties on Island Information with His ‘n’ Hers (1994).
The follow-up, Totally different Class (launched October 30, 1995) was a serious important and industrial success, bringing Pulp worldwide acclaim, profitable the 1996 Mercury Music Prize and debuting at primary on the U.Ok. Album Chart. It additionally produced 4 Prime Ten U.Ok. singles, together with the quantity two hits “Common People” and “Mis-Shapes/Sorted for E’s & Wizz” and “Disco 2000 (No. 7). So far, the album has offered over 1.4 million models within the UK and over a million throughout Europe.
The brand new, deluxe 4LP version of Totally different Class is offered in a sturdy slipcase with a complete, 28-page booklet that includes a newly fee essay based mostly on new interviews with the band members, plus many beforehand unseen photos from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the images for the unique launch) and the band’s personal archives.
The unique ‘aperture’ sleeve design, which inspired purchasers to “Choose your own front cover”, got here with six double-sided inserts/artwork playing cards of other cowl photos depicting cardboard cut-outs of the band members captured in quite a lot of conditions. This has been absolutely recreated for the LP set, which can even embody a 12” by 12” poster that includes miniatures of the cut-outs themselves, which followers can excise if they need and place within the settings of their selection. The 2CD set comes housed in a digi-sleeve with 28-page booklet.
The remastering/mastering (and lacquer reducing) by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Highway, who co-mastered (alongside Kevin Metcalfe) Totally different Class for its preliminary launch three a long time in the past, has been overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Pulp guitarist Mark Webber.
In 2013, NME ranked Totally different Class at quantity six in its checklist of the five hundred Best Albums of All Time, whereas Rolling Stone ranked it quantity 162 of their 2020 revised model of the five hundred Best Albums of All Time. In its 2013 retrospective, NME stated “Funny, phenomenally nasty, genuinely subversive, and, of course, hugely, flamingly POP!… Different Class is a deft, atmospheric, occasionally stealthy and frequently booming, confident record.”
Store Pulp’s thirtieth anniversary version of Totally different Class now.
