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Release Date
1 January 1995
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Length
12 tracks
Different Class (released in Japan as "Common People") is the fifth studio album by English rock band Pulp. In 2013, NME ranked the album at number six in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Released by Island Records on 30 October 1995 at the height of Britpop, the album led to the band being regarded by some as part of that movement. Two of the singles on the album – "Common People" (which reached number two in the UK singles chart) and "Disco 2000" (which reached number seven) – were especially notable, and helped propel Pulp to nationwide fame. A "deluxe edition" of Different Class was released on 11 September 2006. It contains a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities.
The album was the winner of the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998 Q readers voted Different Class the 37th greatest album of all time; a repeat poll in 2006 put it at number 85. In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2004 it was voted number 70 of Channel 4's 100 greatest albums. The album is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2013, NME ranked the album at number six in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album include the insert "Please do not read the lyrics whilst listening to the recordings", also included in another of Pulp's albums.
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