![1. Pulp - 'Do You Remember The First Time': The deep, embittered breaths Cocker takes between each line just add to the sense of frustration (a common Pulp theme) threaded through this song. It's a fairly rare demostration of Cocker's range, and can't help but move something in you.]()
1. Pulp - 'Do You Remember The First Time': The deep, embittered breaths Cocker takes between each line just add to the sense of frustration (a common Pulp theme) threaded through this song. It's a fairly rare demostration of Cocker's range, and can't help but move something in you.
![2. Pulp - 'Common People': Undeniably Pulp's most enduringly popular song even twenty years after its release, the visceral anger that drips from lines such as,]()
2. Pulp - 'Common People': Undeniably Pulp's most enduringly popular song even twenty years after its release, the visceral anger that drips from lines such as, "If you called your Dad he could stop it all" is what makes this song so truly affecting.
![3. Pulp - 'Babies': Somehow manages to give genuine musicality to the awkward narrative of a pervy teenage boy. Surely the mark of a true musical genius.]()
3. Pulp - 'Babies': Somehow manages to give genuine musicality to the awkward narrative of a pervy teenage boy. Surely the mark of a true musical genius.
![4. Pulp - 'Sunrise': Another example of Cocker's incredible lyricisism.]()
4. Pulp - 'Sunrise': Another example of Cocker's incredible lyricisism. "I used to hate the sun because it shone on everything I'd done / Made me feel that all that I had done was overfill the ashtray of my life."
![5. Lush - 'Ciao': A duet between Cocker and Lush's Miki Berenyi, this is an unbeat but hilariously bitter slagging match between an ex-couple, before the pair come together for the chorus:]()
5. Lush - 'Ciao': A duet between Cocker and Lush's Miki Berenyi, this is an unbeat but hilariously bitter slagging match between an ex-couple, before the pair come together for the chorus: "I never thought that I could feel as great as I do today/ 'Cause you were nothing but a waste of space."
![6. Pulp - Help The Aged': Ageing is something the music industry views as an inconvenient by-product of staying alive, and 'Help The Aged' sums this up succintly. Alluding to a fear of death and loneliness without labouring the point, it's a true gem.]()
6. Pulp - Help The Aged': Ageing is something the music industry views as an inconvenient by-product of staying alive, and 'Help The Aged' sums this up succintly. Alluding to a fear of death and loneliness without labouring the point, it's a true gem.
![6. Pulp - 'Glory Days': Continuing the darker tone of This Is Hardcore, 'Glory Days' feels like it's going to escalate to the shouty bitterness of 'Common People', but it's too fatigued with itself to quite work up the energy. It's pensive and powerful.]()
6. Pulp - 'Glory Days': Continuing the darker tone of This Is Hardcore, 'Glory Days' feels like it's going to escalate to the shouty bitterness of 'Common People', but it's too fatigued with itself to quite work up the energy. It's pensive and powerful.
![7. Jarvis Cocker - 'Fat Children': A 3 minute 25 second indictment of youth crime, obesity, capitalism and police brutality, all enveloped in the kind of dry wit Cocker excels at.]()
7. Jarvis Cocker - 'Fat Children': A 3 minute 25 second indictment of youth crime, obesity, capitalism and police brutality, all enveloped in the kind of dry wit Cocker excels at.
![9. Discodeine - 'Synchronize': A French dance anthem elevated to something bigger and brighter with the help of Cocker's distinctive crooning. It's a combination that shouldn't work, but does, brilliantly.]()
9. Discodeine - 'Synchronize': A French dance anthem elevated to something bigger and brighter with the help of Cocker's distinctive crooning. It's a combination that shouldn't work, but does, brilliantly.
![10. Pulp - 'After You': Featuring at least three toe-tapping guitar riffs, the short, perfectly-judged period of silence before the]()
10. Pulp - 'After You': Featuring at least three toe-tapping guitar riffs, the short, perfectly-judged period of silence before the "After you" refrain just about gives you time to mentally and physically prepare for its infectious chorus. The Soulwax remix is pretty great too.
![11. Jarvis Cocker - 'Don't Let Him Waste Your Time': This song first appeared on Nancy Sinatra's 2004 self-titled album, before Cocker decided to use it on his own debut solo album (he did write it after all). Both versions are equally brilliant, and, aside from the]()
11. Jarvis Cocker - 'Don't Let Him Waste Your Time': This song first appeared on Nancy Sinatra's 2004 self-titled album, before Cocker decided to use it on his own debut solo album (he did write it after all). Both versions are equally brilliant, and, aside from the "skinny bitch" line, it's quite empowering.
![12. Pulp - 'This Is Hardcore': Creepy, dark and hugely inappropriate for a nine-year-old boy to enter a Pulp karaoke contest with, but that didn't stop Jarvis Cocker picking him as the winner of one in New York last month.]()
12. Pulp - 'This Is Hardcore': Creepy, dark and hugely inappropriate for a nine-year-old boy to enter a Pulp karaoke contest with, but that didn't stop Jarvis Cocker picking him as the winner of one in New York last month.
![13. The Weird Sisters - 'Do The Hippogriff': We'd never forgive ourselves if we didn't include this one - partly because it's really, really catchy and features lyrics like 'a hairy troll learning to rock and roll'. For five minutes of the Goblet Of Fire film, the students of Hogwarts become moshers.]()
13. The Weird Sisters - 'Do The Hippogriff': We'd never forgive ourselves if we didn't include this one - partly because it's really, really catchy and features lyrics like 'a hairy troll learning to rock and roll'. For five minutes of the Goblet Of Fire film, the students of Hogwarts become moshers.
![14. Pulp - 'The Fear': The lyrics to 'The Fear' are some of Cocker's very best -]()
14. Pulp - 'The Fear': The lyrics to 'The Fear' are some of Cocker's very best - "This is our music from a bachelor's den / the sound of loneliness turned up to ten. / A horror soundtrack from a stagnant water-bed & it sounds just like this. / This is the sound of someone losing the plot." In typical Pulp style, it's witty, poignant and uplifting.
