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His 'n' Hers is a 1994 album by Pulp and is commonly cited as the band's breakthrough album. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the 70th greatest album of all time. A "deluxe edition" was released on 11th September 2006. It contained a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities. "Lipgloss", "Do You Remember The First Time?" and a new mix of "Babies" were released as singles, the latter as part of The Sisters EP.
It lost out to Elegant Slumming by M People in the 1994 Mercury Music Prize by, as presenter Mark Radcliffe put it in an edition of British rock show 'The White Room', "one measly vote".
Credits
- Jarvis Cocker: Vocals, school piano, Vox Marauder guitar, EMS Synthi A
- Russell Senior: Fender Stratocaster guitar, violin, bowed bass
- Candida Doyle: Farfisa Compact Prefessional II organ, Stylophone 350S, Korg Trident II, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer piano, Hohner clavinette, Steinway grand piano
- Nick Banks: Drums, percussion, treated cymbals, timpani, fire extinguisher
- Steve Mackey: Fender jazz bass
- Writers: Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle, Nick Banks and Steve Mackey
- Producer: Ed Buller
Sleeve credits:
Releases
| Date
| Formats and catalogue numbers
| Notes
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12 April 1994
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CD - CID 8025
12" - ILPS 8025
Cassette - ICT 8025
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Original UK release.
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April 1994
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CD - 314524006-2
Cassette - 314524006-4
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US release.
Extra track:
- Razzmatazz
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April 1994
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CD - CIDX8025
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French release.
Included a bonus CD containing:
- Seconds
- His 'n' Hers
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11 September 2006
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CD - 9840045
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Deluxe edition. Includes a bonus disc of B-sides, demos and rarities. More details here.
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Sleeve notes
Please deliver us from matching sweatshirts and 'chicken in the rough', from evenings sat on couple row admiring the flock, from Sundays spent parading the aisles of Meadowhall. We don't want to live like this. It's bad our health. Do Something soon or it's curtains (just as long as they match with the walls and the sofa).
Jarvis' comments
From Volume Ten, June 1994:
This was just a great big sigh of relief really, because for the first time ever in our long tortuous history we had enough time and money to do a record as we wanted to do it. It was really good because, having waited so long for that kind of opportunity, we weren't going to mess it up. The only real trauma was that we thought we'd summoned up the devil on the synthesiser that we were using. We had one of those old late '60s synthesisers that you can only get a sound on by plugging loads of leads in, like a telephone exchange or something. I was just messing around with it one day, and I got this strange sound that just played itself without touching the keyboard. It started off as a bit of a joke, but then even Ed Buller and the engineer believed it was evil and we all agreed that we couldn't put it on the record because it would doom it to failure. It's put me off using synthesisers a bit - I think we might go acoustic from now on.
Charts and sales
UK Album Chart
| Week(s)
| Date(s)
| Position(s)
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| 1
| 30 April '94
| 9
| | 2
| 7 May '94
| 48
| | 3 (re-entry)
| 4 June '94
| 68
| | 4-6
| 11 to 24 June '94
| 55, 48, 63
| | 7 (re-entry)
| 9 July '94
| 29
| | 8-16
| 16 July to 10 September '94
| 44, 44, 65, 59, 44, 39, 41, 53, 45
| | 17 (re-entry)
| 3 June '95
| 68
| | 18-38
| 10 June to 4 November '95
| 49, 57, 60, 65, 42, 45, 47, 43, 38, 53, 51, 40, 38, 48, 57, 74, 55, 59, 48, 41, 51, 60
| | 39 (re-entry)
| 7 September '96
| 38
| | 40-43
| 14 to 28 September '96
| 49, 63, 75
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UK Sales Awards
| Award
| Copies sold*
| Date
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| Gold
| 100,000
| 1 February 1995
| | Silver
| 60,000
| 1 August 1994
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* Awards are based on wholesale rather than retail sales.
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