Details
- Release date: 15 February 1993
- Label: Gift
- Formats: CD, 7", 12"
- Catalogue numbers: GIF6CD, 7GIF6, GIF6
- Recorded: October 1992 to January 1993 (various studios) - more details here.
- Chart position: 80 (UK)
Info
Razzmatazz is a song and single by British rock group Pulp. It was their final single for Gift Records and peaked at #80 in the UK singles chart, despite critical acclaim.
All the tracks on the single were re-released within eight months by Island Records on their Intro compilation.
Sleeve notes
Razzmatazz
...the bits that "Hello" leaves out
Inside Susan "A story in three songs..."
...following Susan from her Rotherham puberty through wild teen years in Sheffield to her eventual marriage and settling down somewhere on the outskirts of London.
I played these songs to Susan the other day - she just laughed and said I was being spiteful because she wouldn't sleep with me when we first met. She also said to tell you that she's perfectly happy where she is at the moment, thank you very much.
Jarvis' comments
Record Collector interview, 1994:
I had some problems with the initial mix - it sounded a little A Flock Of Seagulls-like, so we remixed it with Phil Vinall early in '93. The B-side, "Inside Susan", was a story in three songs, done under our own steam. You follow this character from early adolescence through to early thirties and married to an architect somewhere in South London. The last part, "59 Lyndhurst Grove", was inspired by a party I'd been to the weekend before. We were thrown out by an architect but I got my own back by writing a song about the event. It was a really crap 'right on' party - there were children there. You don't take your children to a party in my book. I sent a copy of the CD to 59 Lyndhurst Grove, the lady of the house, because she was in a bad situation married to this prick, but she never wrote back. A Japanese fan went there and stood outside and asked if she was Susan!
Promotional video
Details here.
