Pulp‘s amazing Britpop classic Different Class turns 30 in October, and to celebrate they’re releasing a Super Deluxe reissue on October 24. It’s available as a 4-LP or 2-CD set.
The album has been remastered from the original master tapes at Abbey Road, overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Pulp guitarist Mark Webber and pressed across two LPs at 45 RPM. This is the first proper reissue of the album since its original release, and Jarvis says, “This 45rpm double album version of Different Class will make it sound a whole lot better. Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory. ”
The vinyl box set recreates the very cool original “aperture” sleeve that allowed you to change the cover image, which featured lifesize cardboard cutouts of the band placed in different real environments. It also comes with a 12″ x 12″ poster of those cutouts, plus a comprehensive, 28-page booklet featuring extensive notes from new interviews with the band members, previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the photos for the original release) and the band’s own archives.
Different Class fills the first two LPs, and the other two LPs are a live album of Pulp’s legendary 1995 Glastonbury performance — filling in as headliners when The Stone Roses had to drop out — that helped their skyrocketing fame that year.
Check out the full tracklist and packaging below.
Meanwhile, Pulp’s North American tour starts tonight (9/4) in Atlanta. Hamilton Leithauser is opening all dates and they’ll play NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium on September 11. All dates are listed below.
Different Class topped our list of The Best Britpop Albums of 1995.
Pulp also released More, their first album in 24 years, earlier this summer.
PULP – DIFFERENT CLASS 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
LPs 1 and 2 – Original album remastered
Side One
1. Mis-Shapes 3:47
2. Pencil Skirt 3:11
3. Common People 5:51
Side Two
1. I Spy 5:55
2. Disco 2000 4:34
3. Live Bed Show 3:29
Side Three
1. Something Changed 3:19
2. Sorted For E’s & Wizz 3:40
3. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. 6:01
Side Four
1. Underwear 4:06
2. Monday Morning 4:18
3. Bar Italia 3:44
LPs 3 And 4 – Live At Glastonbury, 1995
Side One
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
Side Two
1. Underwear 5:17
2. Sorted For E’s & Wizz 4:34
3. Disco 2000 5:45
4. Joyriders 4:03
Side Three
1. Acrylic Afternoons 6:01
2. Mis-Shapes 4:23
3. Pink Glove 5:09
Side Four
1. Babies 6:41
2. Common People 7:33
Pulp: 2025 Tour Dates
Thursday 4 September – Atlanta Tabernacle
Saturday 6 September – Washington, DC The Anthem
Tuesday 9 September – Philadelphia The Met
Thursday 11 September – Queens Forest Hills Stadium
Saturday 13 September – Boston Suffolk Downs
Tuesday 16 September – Toronto Budweiser Stage
Wednesday 17 September – Detroit Masonic Temple
Saturday 20 September – Minneapolis The Armory
Monday 22 September – Denver Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Thursday 25 September – Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl
Friday 26 September – Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl