Sunday, February 25, 2007

15. Misshapes- Pulp

I had to include a song from the brit-pop era, from the days when we would sit around in a classroom in the 6th form at school and talk about music. 6th form was the time I starting noticing that the music in the charts was taking a definite turn for the better, bands who played real music with real instruments were back. I have a whole load of singles from those two years full of fairly bouncy cheery songs, not musical pap but not genius, just some fun stuff with sing a long choruses. (the Beach Boys influence coming out again.). Pulp were a little more innovative than the rest and I and a friend spend much fun imitating the slightly angular movements of Jarvis Cocker.

Misshapes is one of those songs that helps you feel less alone when you are clearly a geek and aren’t one of the crowd. (clearly I should also have included Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ for similar reasons) Someone else putting a voice to the fact it’s ok to have a brain and not be the same as all the rest was a good thing. As someone who walked through my home town and got punched in the arm for smiling the lyrics were highly pleasing…

“Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits, we'd like to go to town but we can't risk it, Oh 'cause they just want to keep us out. You could end up with a smash in the mouth just for standing out.” “We'll use the one thing we've got more of - that's our minds.”

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