Pulp-Separations (1991)
Artist: Pulp
Catalog Number: SFIRE025CD
Year of Release: 1991
Country and Year of Edition: UK 2002
Sell Price: $4.13
Sell Date: 8/29/24
Condition: VG+/VG booklet water damaged
Discogs Last Sold 2/28//24 VG+/VG+ $4.75
Low: $4.13
Median: $6.33
Average: $7.38
High: $16.85
Current low price: $7.75
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10
Have/Want: 106/37
Where Sold: Seminole, FL
Time It Took To Sell: 12 years
Where and When Bought: web used mid aughts
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+
Sad To See It Go: No
When I first heard Separations, I was annoyed by the seemingly endless house music track "This House Is Condemned" which seemed to come up more than a few times on the 100-CD carousel randomizer. Although Pulp had been around over a decade when this third album was released in 1991, they were still a work in progress before the mid-90's albums, particularly Different Class, that defined the band as top tier.
I was dreading to listen to this start to finish. At one point I accidentally bought a second copy of Separations online in a "complete my Pulp collection" frenzy and the other copy sold a while back. I didn't even give the CD a pass when it went out the door at the end of August. I really was dreading playing this for some reason, even though I hold the band in high regard and review of this album is a perfectly reasonable way to see if my opinion held. Well, it's still a mixed bag after a few streams but there were some things that certainly were likable.
On Separations there is a voice somewhere near Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen in a set of murder ballads. To my ears the best track is "She's Dead" which meanders in a way you would expect from the aforementioned. The live tracks here were "Countdown" and "My Legendary Girlfriend." The other standout of note is the opener, "Love Is Blind."
Evolution in slow motion became more accelerated.
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