Pulp / Different Class 30th anniversary

Pulp are to reissue Different Class next month, 30 years to the week since the original album was released.

The new 2CD and 4LP edition adds Pulp’s full headline performance from Glastonbury in 1995, four months before the album was released. It’s the first time their entire Glastonbury show has been issued, with ‘Common People’ the only previously issued song from the performance.

Overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Mark Webber, the main album has been remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, who mastered the original version in 1995. Although Different Class has been repressed on vinyl regularly since 2011, the new 4LP set is the first time the original studio album has been pressed on two LPs, rather than just one, despite its 53-minute runtime.

Cocker said of the new pressing: “This 45rpm double album version of Different Class will make it sound a whole lot better. We were obsessed with the fact that this was our ‘Pop’ album. (We had finally achieved some ‘popularity’ when ‘Common People’ was a hit.) As everyone knows, all pop albums have 12 songs on them: six tracks per side.

“Only problem: this took the running time of the record to 53 minutes. We were told this would compromise the audio quality of the vinyl record – but we were more bothered about not compromising the quality of our Pop Dream. Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory. Different class indeed.”

The vinyl and CD editions both include a 28-page booklet featuring new interviews with the band discussing the making of the album, plus previously unseen photos by original sleeve photographers Rankin and Donald Milne.

Housed in a slipcase, the 4LP set also recreates the original 1995 “Choose your own sleeve” design, featuring six double-sided sleeve inserts of alternative cover options.

Initially a B-side of ‘Mis-Shapes’/’Sorted For Es And Wizz’, the 1995 Glastonbury performance of Common People was also previously part of Different Class’ only previous expanded reissue, when a 2CD was released in 2006. Its second CD housed 11 additional tracks, including demos of four unreleased songs, plus Mile End from the soundtrack of Trainspotting, the B-sides PTA and Ansaphone, a cover of Whiskey In The Jar and Nick Cave’s remix of Disco 2000.

However, UMR’s new expanded edition drops all pre-existing bonus material in favour of the Glastonbury performance. A third CD could have kept the 2006 bonus material, plus potentially additionally released B-sides from the era, such as Moloko’s remix of F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E and the extended version of Live Bed Show, while a DVD/Blu-Ray could have included the BBC’s footage of Glastonbury 1995, videos of the album’s five singles and TV performances.

Cocker’s statement on the reissue concluded: “The Glastonbury performance in June 1995 will always be the most significant concert of Pulp’s career. Three weeks after Common People hit No 2 in the national charts, the band filled in for The Stone Roses at the last minute. We played Sorted For Es & Wizz, Mis-Shapes and Disco 2000 – all receiving their live debut. This is first time the whole concert (including the long, drone-based intro) has been made available. Your chance to relive an historical moment.”

Pulp’s tour for their reunion album More, which made No 1 in June, reaches the US on September 4. The band’s final scheduled show is at Hollywood Bowl on 26 September.

Different Class is released on 24 October 2025, via UMR/Island.

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Tracklisting

Different Class Pulp / 30th anniversary

• 2CD
  • CD 1: Different Class (remastered)
    1. Mis-Shapes
    2. Pencil Skirt3) Common People
    3. I Spy
    4. Disco 2000
    5. Live Bed Show
    6. Something Changed
    7. Sorted For Es And Wizz
    8. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
    9. Underwear
    10. Monday Morning
    11. Bar Italia
  • CD 2:  Live from Glastonbury 1995
    1. Common People (Drone Intro)
    2. Do You Remember The First Time?
    3. Razzamatazz
    4. Monday Morning
    5. Underwear
    6. Sorted For Es And Wizz
    7. Disco 2000
    8. Joyriders
    9. Acrylic Afternoons
    10. Mis-Shapes
    11. Pink Glove
    12. Babies
    13. Common People
• 4LP vinyl
  • LP 1: Different Class (remastered)

    Side one

    1. Mis-Shapes
    2. Pencil Skirt
    3. Common People

    Side two

    1. I Spy
    2. Disco 2000
    3. Live Bed Show
  • LP 2: Different Class (remastered)

    Side one

    1. Something Changed
    2. Sorted For Es And Wizz
    3. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E

    Side two

    1. Underwear
    2. Monday Morning
    3. Bar Italia
  • LP 3:  Live from Glastonbury 1995

    Side one

    1. Common People (Drone Intro)
    2. Do You Remember The First Time?
    3. Razzamatazz
    4. Monday Morning

    Side two

    1. Underwear
    2. Sorted For Es And Wizz
    3. Disco 2000
    4. Joyriders
  • LP 4:  Live from Glastonbury 1995

    Side one

    1. Acrylic Afternoons
    2. Mis-Shapes
    3. Pink Glove

    Side two

    1. Babies
    2. Common People