On this day in 1994 Pulp released His ‘n’ Hers.
The fourth studio album proved to be the band’s breakthrough album, reaching number nine on the UK Albums Chart, and was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the seventieth greatest album of all time, while it was placed at number 110 in the book Virgin All-Time Top 100 Albums.
Lyrically, the album encompasses subjects for which Pulp were to become well known, including sexual encounters, social class, and voyeurism. The CD edition of the album included a new remixed version of the song “Babies”, the original version of which was previously released as a single in 1992. This re-released became a top 20 hit, peaking at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart. It has since seen critical acclaim and has been named by many writers as among Pulp’s best songs.
The Guardian named “Babies” as one of Pulp’s ten best songs, writing, “What makes many of Pulp’s finest singles so enchanting is that they unfold like little short stories, full of odd narrative bumps and lovable characters, with Cocker coming on like some sort of northern J.D. Salinger. It’s one of Cocker’s best-ever yarns.”
Well it happened years ago…
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