Rewind: Pulp - Party Hard

This terrific single by Sheffield indie legends Pulp was released 20 years ago today on 7 September 1998. Reaching number 29 in the UK charts, this was taken from their classic post-Britpop comedown album This Is Hardcore. Featuring some of the best guitar sounds in any Pulp track, and bringing to mind Bowie's 'Scary Monsters', it perfectly captured the debauchery, decadence of the mid 90s, as well its decline and aftermath. The line "now the party's over" does seem to make it official that the era was over. Some people even consider this as the last true Britpop single, although I'd say Blur killed it off the previous year, and that its sound is more post-Britpop. Whatever it is, it was a magnificent album. Pulp would release their next LP 'We Love Life' a few years later before splitting. A comeback tour a decade later would produce no new songs or albums, aside from a newly recorded version of the old demo 'After You'.