Pulp - It (LP)

Product specifications

Details

Album

It

Artist

Pulp

LP release year

2022

Album release date

20 februari 2012

Label

Fire Records

EAN

809236122315

Available

Yes

Product information

Format

LP

Quantity

1 piece(s)

Type

Reissue

Mono or stereo

Stereo

Duration

48 min

Tracks

12 tracks

EAN

EAN

809236122315

Other

Limited Edition

No

Country

UK

Genre

Britpop

Box set

No

Remastered

Yes

Reissue

Yes

• Pulp's "It" CD: Inferior Quality

  2 out of 5 stars
  XoeYM17 June 2025United Kingdom🇬🇧

  It seems Cherry Red Records mistakenly thought they had the rights to all of Pulp’s old Red Rhino material, including the "It" album and the singles "My Lighthouse" and "Everybody’s Problem." However, it turned out that Fire actually owned the rights to all tracks from "It" and "My Lighthouse," so this release was pulled from shelves and replaced by Fire’s version, though without "Everybody’s Problem" and "There Was…". Strangely, Cherry Red still seems to hold the rights to the two tracks from the "Everybody’s Problem" single, which have since appeared on various obscure compilations. But now, in 2025, there’s not much point in listening to this CD. The latest remaster from Fire is clearly sourced from the master tapes and sounds much better than the needledrop on this Cherry Red CD. You can even hear the inner-groove distortion on tracks like "Boats & Trains" and "In Many Ways," which were the last tracks on each side of the original LP. The only advantage of owning this CD is having all 10 tracks together as one album, though the sound quality is inferior to what’s now available elsewhere. By the way, I don’t think "Everybody’s Problem" and "There Was…" have ever been remastered, so any releases of these tracks since on other CDs or streaming platforms are probably also needledrops… but I might be wrong.

• 1994 CD: Decent but Outdated

  5 out of 5 stars
  mesca.hnansos11 March 2024United States🇺🇸

  In 1994 terms, the sound quality here is pretty decent, but it's clear the producers didn't have the original master tapes and were hoping to pass off a rip from a (fairly decent) vinyl record. It's great to have the band's first single and its b-side tacked on at the end, as they match the album's vibe, but since you can now find the album and those bonus tracks in a cleaner remaster on later releases, this CD feels like a odd throwback from a label trying to see what they could get away with.