Pulp hit Common People voted as number one Britpop anthem

 
Common People: Jarvis Cocker starred in a video with Sadie Frost
Alexandra Rucki11 April 2014

Pulp hit Common People has been voted the best Britpop tune in a poll held to mark 20 years since the musical movement.

The poll, which ran on BBC 6 Music, asked listeners to vote for which track they thought was the era’s most defining record.

Pulp saw off competition from the likes of Blur’s Parklife and Wonderwall by Oasis to top the poll after more than 30,000 fans votes.

Steve Lamacq, who announced the results on his radio show this evening, said: “I'm really pleased Common People has won 6 Music's Favourite Britpop Anthem vote.

"It is one of the defining records of Britpop because it seemed to embrace the essence of the time so perfectly.

"It was a big, bold anthem, but with a great narrative. And it seemed to sum up a feeling of 'us and them' as if to illustrate how the indie mavericks had taken on the pop stars and for once, they'd won”

In the song Sheffield frontman Jarvis Cocker sings about a middle class girl he met while studying at Central Saint Martin’s art college.

Jarvis Cocker: Common People has been voted number one Britpop anthem (Picture: PA)

The lyrics claim she wants to live in east London with the ‘ common people’ and Cocker goes onto claim she will never be the same because she can call her dad to ‘stop it all.’

Common People was released in May 1995 and made it to number two in the charts, with Robson and Jerome’s Unchained Melody knocking it off the top spot.

Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve came in second place, while Oasis tracks Don’t Look Back in Anger was voted third.

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