Pulp - Different Class 30 (4LP + Exclusive Comic Book)

Different Class (originally released October 30, 1995) is Pulp's most successful album, achieving multi-platinum sales and international acclaim, winning the 1996 Mercury Music Prize and debuting at #1 on the UK Album Chart. It also produced four Top Ten singles, including ‘Common People’. Four months prior to the release of the album, the band headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 24 June.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of what is widely regarded as one of the best records of the era, this legendary Glastonbury performance, the audio wholly restored and released here for the first time, has been paired with the remastered album (each cut over 2 LPs) and is released as a deluxe 4LP boxset.

The audio has been remastered/mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Mark Webber, and is presented in a sturdy slipcase with a comprehensive, 28-page booklet featuring extensive notes from new interviews with the band members, plus previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the photos for the original release) and the band’s own archives. The original ‘aperture’ sleeve design, which invited purchasers to “Choose your own front cover”, came with six double- sided inserts/art cards of alternative cover images depicting cardboard cutouts of the band members in a variety of situations. This has been fully recreated and a 12” by 12” poster featuring miniatures of the cutouts themselves is also included.

“For the original Different Class marketing campaign in 1995, Island Records in France commissioned a totally unique promotional comic book, illustrating the lyrics to Common People, designed by Jamie Hewlett.

A limited number of copies of the comic are being made available in a replica print run and will be available as a free gift at participating Indie record stores in the UK alongside purchases of the 4LP boxset. Available while stocks last”

The comic is a complete replica of the original so that includes a fill in, post off slip on the inner back page to send to an address in France, obviously that is no longer a thing, but a nice collectible piece, right?

LPs 1 and 2 - Original album remastered 

1. Mis-Shapes 3:47 

2. Pencil Skirt 3:11 

3. Common People 5:51 

4. I Spy 5:55 

5. Disco 2000 4:34 

6. Live Bed Show 3:29 

7. Something Changed 3:19 

8. Sorted For E’s & Wizz 3:40 

9. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. 6:01 

10. Underwear 4:06 

11. Monday Morning 4:18 

12. Bar Italia 3:44 

LPs 3 And 4 - Live At Glastonbury, 1995

1. Common People Drone Intro 3:28 

2. Do You Remember The First Time? 4:00 

3. Razzmatazz 4:44 

4. Monday Morning 5:16 

5. Underwear 5:17 

6. Sorted For E’s & Wizz 4:34 

7. Disco 2000 5:45 

8. Joyriders 4:03 

9. Acrylic Afternoons 6:01 

10. Mis-Shapes 4:23 

11. Pink Glove 5:09 

12. Babies 6:41 

13. Common People 7:33