Disco 2000 (song)

"Disco 2000"
vinyl single, CD single (part one)
Single by Pulp
from the album Different Class
B-side "Ansaphone"
Released 27 November 1995 (1995-11-27)
Format
Genre
Length 4:33 (album version)
4:51 (7" mix)
Label Island
Songwriter(s) Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle and Mark Webber
Producer(s) Alan Tarney (single, 7" remix), Chris Thomas (album version)
Pulp singles chronology
"Mis-Shapes" / "Sorted for E's & Wizz"
(1995)		 "Disco 2000"
(1995)		 "Something Changed"
(1996)

"Mis-Shapes" / "Sorted for E's & Wizz"
(1995)		 "Disco 2000"
(1995)		 "Something Changed"
(1996)
Alternative cover
CD single (part two)

"Disco 2000" is a hit single by British band Pulp, released in 1995. The song tells the story of a narrator falling for a childhood friend called Deborah, who is more popular than he is and wondering what it would be like to meet again when they are older. Deborah was based on a real life childhood friend of Cocker's, Deborah Bone, who moved away from Sheffield to Letchworth when she was 10. As the lyrics suggest, she did marry and have children.[1] Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker said "the only bit that isn't true is the woodchip wallpaper."[2] It is believed that the fountain referred to as the meeting place was Goodwin Fountain, formerly located on Fargate, in Sheffield city centre. The song's riff is said to be influenced by Umberto Tozzi's 1979 hit "Gloria".[3]

"Disco 2000" reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the third top 10 single from the album Different Class, following "Common People" and the double A-side "Mis-Shapes"/"Sorted for E's & Wizz", both of which reached number two. The song also charted highly in Finland, Iceland, Ireland, and Austria, as well as becoming Pulp's only top 50 hit in Australia.[4]

Due to its millennial subject matter, Pulp removed the song's synchronisation licence, effectively banning the song from being used in TV and radio trailers throughout 1999 and 2000.[5]

Music video

The music video for "Disco 2000", directed by Pedro Romhanyi, portrays the daily events for a girl and a boy as they prepare for the weekend. As they make their way across town the life-sized photographic cut outs from the band members used on the cover for Different Class appear in shops, in the bus, on an escalator and even in the disco where the boy and girl meet. The whole time this is going on, both the boy's and girl's thoughts are represented below the frame, set in Windsor Condensed Extra Bold. The video ends with two life-sized photographic cut outs of the boy and girl together in bed and them complaining about Jarvis being on television again. The boy and girl are played by models Patrick Skinny and Jo Skinny. The music video also includes a different, slightly orchestral version of the song.

Track listing

CD

All lyrics written by Jarvis Cocker; all music composed by Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle and Mark Webber.

Part one
No.TitleLength
1."Disco 2000" (7" mix)4:51
2."Disco 2000" (album mix)4:33
3."Ansaphone"4:01
4."Live Bed Show" (extended)4:10
Part two
No.TitleLength
1."Disco 2000" (album mix)4:33
2."Disco 2000" (7" mix)4:51
3."Disco 2000" (Motiv 8 Discoid Mix)7:31
4."Disco 2000" (Motiv 8 Gimp Dub)6:31
Single-CD version
No.TitleLength
1."Disco 2000" (7" mix)4:51
2."Disco 2000" (Motiv 8 Discoid Mix)7:31
  • UK Cassette editions have the same track listing.

12"

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Disco 2000" (7" mix)4:51
2."Ansaphone"4:01
Side B
No.TitleLength
3."Disco 2000" (Motiv 8 Discoid Mix)7:31
4."Disco 2000" (Motiv 8 Gimp Dub)6:31

7"

Orange vinyl
No.TitleLength
1."Disco 2000" (7" mix)4:51
2."Ansaphone"4:01
  • Released: November 1996.

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1995-96) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[6] 35
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[7] 14
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[8] 9
Germany (Official German Charts)[9] 47
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[10] 2
Ireland (IRMA)[11] 13
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[12] 8
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[13] 41
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[14] 7

Cover versions

The song was covered by Nick Cave as a b-side for Pulp's single "Bad Cover Version" (2002), and again as a "pub rock" version on the deluxe edition of Different Class (2006). Keane covered the song in 2008.

"Disco 2000" was featured in Episode 7 of the first series of Life on Mars, where DI Sam Tyler hears it come on the radio in 1973, and mentions to DCI Gene Hunt that he had seen Pulp play the Manchester Nynex in 1996, to Hunt's bemusement. The song also appeared in a party scene in the 2013 Seth Rogen film This Is the End, and again in "The End of the Tour" in 2015.

In 1996, it featured on the UEFA Euro 1996 official album, The Beautiful Game.

References

  1. ↑ Vincent, Alex (2 January 2015). "Deborah Bone, who inspired Pulp's Disco 2000, dies aged 51". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Interview with Jarvis Cocker, Liz Kershaw, BBC 6Music, 22 November 2002 Transcript
  3. ↑ Allmusic review
  4. ↑ "Search for: pulp". Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  5. ↑ News, Select. January 1999.
  6. ↑ "Australian-charts.com – Pulp – Disco 2000". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Pulp – Disco 2000" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "Pulp: Disco 2000" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Pulp – Disco 2000". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "Íslenski Listinn Nr. 155: Vikuna 3.2. - 9.2. '96" (PDF). Dagblaðið Vísir. 3 February 1996. p. 38. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Disco 2000". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  13. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Pulp – Disco 2000". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  14. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
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