Tim’s imaginary compilation album yesterday understandably concentrated on what is rightly regarded as the band’s golden period. But I’m a bit of a sucker for one of their early songs dating back to 1985 and released as the lead track on an 12″ EP on Fire Records:-
mp3 : Pulp – Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
It is a precursor to the sort of lyric and tune that would much later on provide the band with critical acclaim and commercial success.
Here’s the equally wonderful b-sides the last of which doesn’t have Jarvis on lead vocal duties:-
mp3 : Pulp – Simultaneous
mp3 : Pulp – Blue Glow
mp3 : Pulp – The Will To Power
Looking back, it was probably just as well that the single was a flop as it would have set the band on an entirely different course and they would in all likelihood have broken up before the 90s came along.
Enjoy.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
While I’d heard of Pulp, it wasn’t untl they released Babies the first time round that I actually heard any of their stuff. MrsRobster has a double CD compilation of early Pulp stuff called ‘Countdown’, and that was where I first heard this track. It was one of the standouts for sure.