Freaks (Pulp album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Freaks
Type = Album
Artist = Pulp


Released = May 1987
Recorded = Input Studio
21 June–27 June 1986
Genre = Post-punk
Length = 44:13
Label = Fire
Producer = Pulp, Jonathan Kirk
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fa2gtq5znu4p link]
*Pitchfork Media (6.0/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/21084/Pulp_Freaks link]
*"Q" Rating|3|5 Oct. 2000|
Last album = "It" (1983)
This album = "Freaks" (1987)
Next album = "Separations" (1992)

"Freaks" is the second album by British pop band Pulp. It was released in 1987 to little commercial success. It has a much darker sound than its predecessor, "It".
"I Want You" is the only song from the album to have been performed live regularly (notably during the UK Forest Tour in the Summer of 2002).

Track listing

# "Fairground" – 5:07
#*"Lead vocals: Russell Senior"
# "I Want You" – 4:42
# "Being Followed Home" – 6:03
# "Master of the Universe" – 3:22
# "Life Must Be So Wonderful" – 3:59
# "There's No Emotion" – 4:28
# "Anorexic Beauty" – 2:59
#*"Lead vocals: Russell Senior"
# "The Never-Ending Story" – 3:01
# "Don't You Know" – 4:09
# "They Suffocate at Night" – 6:17

Musicians

*Jarvis Cocker - lead vocals, guitar, drums on "Anorexic Beauty"
*Russell Senior - guitar, violin, lead vocals on "Fairground" and "Anorexic Beauty"
*Candida Doyle - keyboards, backing vocals
*Peter Mansell - bass
*Magnus Doyle - drums

ingles

*"They Suffocate at Night" / "Tunnel"
*"Master of the Universe" (sanitised version) / "Manon" / "Silence"

Censorship

*The "sanitised version" of "Master of the Universe" that was released as a single replaces the word "masturbates" with "vegetates".

References

*"Truth and Beauty: The Story of Pulp" by Mark Sturdy (Omnibus Press)
* [http://www.acrylicafternoons.com AcrylicAfternoons]