| Different Class | ||||
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| Released | 30 October 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 18 January – 28 July 1995[1] | |||
| Studio | Townhouse, London | |||
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| Length | 52:50 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Chris Thomas | |||
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Different Class (released in Japan as Common People) is the fifth studio album by English rock band Pulp, released on 30 October 1995 by Island Records.
The album was a critical and commercial success, entering the UK Albums Chart at number one and winning the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. It included four top-ten singles in the UK, "Common People", "Sorted for E's & Wizz", "Disco 2000" and "Something Changed". Different Class has been certified four times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), and had sold 1.33 million copies in the United Kingdom as of 2020.[4] Widely acclaimed as among the greatest albums of the Britpop era, in 2013, NME ranked the album at number six in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[5] while Rolling Stone ranked it number 162 in their 2020 revised version of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
- ^ Sturdy, Mark (15 December 2009). Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121035.
- ^ Walters, Barry (September 1999). "The 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s". Spin. Vol. 15, no. 9. p. 140. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ Pitchfork Staff (28 September 2022). "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
...Different Class, a full-length that alchemized bubblegum, glam, and luxe new wave into artful pop.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (22 September 2020). "Mercury Prize: The best-selling winning albums". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 100-1". NME. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2017.