The new 2CD and 4LP edition adds Pulp’s full headline performance from Glastonbury in 1995, four months before the album was released. It’s the first time their entire Glastonbury show has been issued, with ‘Common People’ the only previously issued song from the performance.
Overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Mark Webber, the main album has been remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, who mastered the original version in 1995. Although Different Class has been repressed on vinyl regularly since 2011, the new 4LP set is the first time the original studio album has been pressed on two LPs, rather than just one, despite its 53-minute runtime.
Cocker said of the new pressing: "This 45rpm double album version of Different Class will make it sound a whole lot better. We were obsessed with the fact that this was our ‘Pop’ album. (We had finally achieved some ‘popularity’ when ‘Common People’ was a hit.) As everyone knows, all pop albums have 12 songs on them: six tracks per side."
The only problem: this took the running time of the record to 53 minutes. We were told this would compromise the audio quality of the vinyl record – but we were more bothered about not compromising the quality of our Pop Dream. Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory. Different class indeed.
The vinyl and CD editions both include a 28-page booklet featuring new interviews with the band discussing the making of the album, plus previously unseen photos by original sleeve photographers Rankin and Donald Milne.
Housed in a slipcase, the 4LP set also recreates the original 1995 "Choose your own sleeve" design, featuring six double-sided sleeve inserts of alternative cover options.
Initially a B-side of ‘Mis-Shapes’/’Sorted For Es And Wizz’, the 1995 Glastonbury performance of Common People was also previously part of Different Class’ only previous expanded reissue, when a 2CD was released in 2006. Its second CD housed 11 additional tracks, including demos of four unreleased songs, plus Mile End from the soundtrack of Trainspotting, the B-sides PTA and Ansaphone, a cover of Whiskey In The Jar and Nick Cave's remix of Disco 2000.
Cocker’s statement on the reissue concluded: "The Glastonbury performance in June 1995 will always be the most significant concert of Pulp's career. Three weeks after Common People hit No 2 in the national charts, the band filled in for The Stone Roses at the last minute. We played Sorted For Es & Wizz, Mis-Shapes and Disco 2000 – all receiving their live debut. This is first time the whole concert (including the long, drone-based intro) has been made available. Your chance to relive an historical moment."
Different Class is released on 24 October 2025, via UMR/Island.
CD 1: Different Class (remastered)
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