10 Even More Perfect 1990s Rock Albums With No Bad Songs

3. Different Class - Pulp

Having toiled away as a collective for 17 years by that point, 1995's Different Class propelled Pulp to true superstardom.

Sure, predecessor His 'n' Hers had been well received - even being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize - but it was Different Class that took Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle and Co. to an entirely other level.

Many have expected big things from Different Class, with Common People - the first single from the album - reaching #2 in the UK charts and becoming an anthem of its time. It wasn't just Common People that wowed in May '95, for B-side Underwear showed the band at their humourous, reflective best, with Jarvis Cocker talking us through how he'd "give my whole life to see it, just you, stood there, only in your underwear" - complete with the brilliant line of, "if fashion is your trade, then when you're naked, I guess you must be unemployed, yeah?"

Different Class released five months after Common People, and in that period we'd get the utterly banging double-A side single of Mis-Shapes/Sorted for E's & Wizz. When the album finally got here, it was Cocker at his cynical, snarking, observant best, with album tracks like I Spy, Pencil Skirt, and Monday Morning wowing just as much as Different Class' other singles - those being Something Changed and the again anthemic Disco 2000.

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