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12 tracks · 52 min
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Different Class is the fifth studio album by English Britpop band Pulp. It was released in 1995 at the height of Britpop, and led to the band being regarded as part of that movement. Two of the singles on the album - "Common People" (which reached number two in the UK singles chart) and "Disco 2000" (which reached number seven) - were especially notable, and helped propel Pulp to nationwide fame. A "deluxe edition" of Different Class was released on 11 September 2006. It contains a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities. The album was the winner of the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998 Q readers voted Different Class the 37th greatest album of all time; a repeat poll in 2006 put it at number 85. In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2004 it was voted number 70 of Channel 4's 100 greatest albums. It has sold 1,255,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2011.
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The inspiration for the title came to frontman Jarvis Cocker in Smashing, a nightclub on Regent Street in London. Cocker had a friend who used the phrase "different class" to describe something that was "in a class of its own". Cocker liked the double meaning, with its allusions to the British social class system which was a theme of some of the songs on the album. A message on the back of record also references this idea: "We don't want no trouble, we just want the right to be different. That's all."
In brief
- Is Different Class good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Different Class 3.5/5 from 1 rating.
- When was Different Class released?
- Different Class was released in 1995 on Island.
- How many tracks are on Different Class?
- Different Class has 12 tracks, with a runtime of 52 minutes.
- What genre is Different Class?
- Different Class is catalogued under Alternative Rock.
- What BPM is Different Class?
- Different Class runs at a median tempo of 125 BPM across its tracks, most often in C major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Different Class?
- Listeners of Different Class also rate Blur: The Best Of by Blur, In Rainbows by Radiohead, The Bends by Radiohead.
Different Class at a glance
- Labels
- Island Records, PolyGram
- Produced by
- Chris Thomas
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