A brand new animated video sees Jarvis Cocker narrate his liner notes for the reissue of Pickled Eggs & Sherbet by cult Sheffield digital group The All Seeing I.
Set for launch on 25 April, the 1999 album has been totally remastered and can be out there for the very first time on double vinyl in addition to an expanded double CD model, which incorporates uncommon B-sides from misplaced CD singles, plus new mixes from All Seeing I’s DJ Parrot (aka Crooked Man) and pop alchemist The Reflex.
Watch the animated video under:
Stroll Like A Panther
In a brand new animated video, created by Jonny Sanders (aka Prehuman), Jarvis describes his awkward first efficiency of Stroll Like A Panther, the tune the band requested him to write down for Tony Christie which went on to be the legendary Sheffield crooner’s first hit single for 25 years.
Having not too long ago returned from a protracted world tour selling Pulp’s 1997 album This Is Hardcore, Jarvis was visiting household in Sheffield and took the chance to satisfy with the All Seeing I to play them his demo of the tune. Nonetheless, with no tape participant within the trio’s ‘studio’, they requested him to sing the tune to them as an alternative.
“Was this an initiation ceremony?,” writes/narrates Jarvis. “A take a look at to see if I’d “gone gentle” as a result of pop stardom? Simply as I used to be about to begin singing, I realised that I used to be now much more nervous than at any level through the tour of Australia I’d simply returned from. What may that imply? 4 minutes and 28 seconds later, I felt a complete lot higher: they favored it! I breathed a reasonably hefty sigh of aid – I used to be formally part of the crew. Welcome residence, Jarvis.”
Later in his notes Jarvis writes: “Listening again to the album now I’m struck by how a lot a number of the lyrics I wrote take care of my latest brush with pop stardom and my makes an attempt to re-engage with my residence city.”
Metal Metropolis Sounds
The All Seeing I had been the manufacturing trio of Dean Honer, Jason Buckle, and Richard Barrett (aka DJ Parrot), previously of influential Warp Data signings Candy Exorcist. Initially lumped in with the late-90s Massive Beat scene, there was much more creativeness to The All Seeing I, who joyously introduced collectively all of the disparate threads of the Sheffield music scene previous (after which) current on an album that might solely have come from the ‘Metal Metropolis.’
Beat Goes On, the lead single from Pickled Eggs & Sherbet , reached No.11 on the UK Singles Chart and No.1 on the UK Dance Singles Chart in 1998. In 2022, the tune had an enormous viral second on TikTok and social media, changing into probably the most broadly used ‘Sounds’ in recent times, accruing 2.4 billion views and 162k creations.
Stroll Like A Panther went on to peak at No.10 and third single 1st Man In House contains a good vocal from The Human League’s Phil Oakey, who’s uncharacteristically backed by flanged guitars.
Initially launched in September 1999, Pickled Eggs & Sherbet is the only album by The All Seeing I, who cut up in 2002.
Tracklistings
Vinyl:
A1. Stroll Like A Panther
A2. No Return
A3. Beat Goes On
B1. Candy Music
B2. Mary
B3. 1st Man In House
C1. Drive Safely Darlin’
C2. Stars on Sunday
C3. Massive Pecker
C4. I Peggio
D1. I Stroll
D2. Glad Birthday Nicola
D3. Plastic Diamond
CD
Disc One
01 Stroll Like A Panther
02 No Return
03 Beat Goes On
04 Candy Music
05 Mary
06 1st Man In House
07 Drive Safely Darlin’
08 Stars On Sunday
09 Massive Pecker
10 I Stroll
11 I Peggio
12 Glad Birthday Nicola
13 Plastic Diamond
14 Soiled Woman
15 Ethereal Armpits
Disc Two
01 Beat Goes Improper
02 Sweaty Partitions
03 Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
04 Beat Goes on (La De Da De De Combine)
05 First Crooked Man
06 First Crooked Dub
07 I Stroll Crooked
08 Return of the Crooked Cat
Digital
01 Stroll Like A Panther
02 No Return
03 Beat Goes On
04 Candy Music
05 Mary
06 1st Man In House
07 Drive Safely Darlin’
08 Stars On Sunday
09 Massive Pecker
10 I Stroll
11 I Peggio
12 Glad Birthday Nicola
13 Plastic Diamond
14 Soiled Woman
15 Ethereal Armpits
16 Stroll Like a Panther (The Reflex Revision)
17 Beat Goes Improper
18 Sweaty Partitions
19 Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
20 Beat Goes on (La De Da De De Combine)
21 First Crooked Man
22 First Crooked Dub
23 I Stroll Crooked
24 Return of the Crooked Cat
25 Jarvis Cocker Audio Liner Notes
Pickled Eggs & Sherbet is launched on 25 April and is on the market on 2LP, 2CD and digital codecs, pre-order right here
*Featured Jarvis Image Credit score: Ben Rymer
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