Track Listing

1. My Lighthouse
2. Wishful Thinking
3. Joking Aside
4. Boats and Trains
5. Blue Girls
6. Love Love
7. In Many Ways
8. Looking for Life

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #562279 in Music
• Released on: 1997-08-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

Pulp's first album
Although this is a different Pulp to what you may be used to, this album is still a goodun. It's an album containing clever little acoustic melodies with intelligent lyrics and timing that Cocker is famed for. If your a Pulp fan you may be shocked by what you hear, but if you're a broad minded Pulp fan then you'll love it. The album starts with the wonderful "My Lighthouse" on which Jarvis's sister does the backing vocals for. It then continues with pleasant upbeat songs such as "boats and Trains" and "Love Love". True, some may not like it, but I do.

Strong start by Britpop's leading lights
Appearing some twelve years before Jarvis Cocker's tramp-like persona imprinted itself on the national consciousness, "It" is understandably different from the better-known material. Except for 1996's single Something Changed, which was written at this time and not included, then left on the shelf at Pulp HQ until Different Class was being recorded.

The first album is predominantly acoustic, with backing vocals by Jarvis' sister and her school friends, the seven songs (in the album's original form) are mostly concerned with an idealist's appreciation of love and hardly dare mention the s-word.

The real stand-outs are Wishful Thinking, concerned with the tendency of a one-night encounter to leave you wanting more, and the sublime song Blue Girls, which watches several old flames flicker and die as their lives progress.

First ever single My Lighthouse is the ideal opening track, and its b-side Looking For Life is tacked onto the end of all recent (ie: last ten years or so) pressings. Both these songs are in keeping with the rest of the album: in fact the ponderous grind of Looking For Life fits so well onto the end that its presence is a rare example of Fire Records getting something exactly right.

If you liked Something Changed, expect to like this. It's grate. I love It.

pulps first, yet worst album
being a big fan of pulp, IT is the worst album pulp released. I guess they wanted to make it "big" right from the start, but failed. All songs on there are total rubbish, but we can understand that jarvis cocker at the age of 20 or 18 or whatever, was hoping for something more. Oh and same goes to "fire" another failing album. The rest YOU SHOULD BUY. Dont bother to waste your money on "it" !