The version of “Babies” released by Gift in 1992 failed to chart, but it set the stage for the actual coming-out party for the band. His n Hers‘ first official single completely on Island, “Lipgloss,” came in November of 1993.
Island would put out one more single before the album was released in March of 1994. “Do You Remember The First Time?” is like some Rosetta Stone, connecting the Pulp that would dominate Britpop starting later that year with the earlier version of the band that clearly wore its art-pop influences much more openly on its sleeve. The song finds itself embellishing the band’s various influences, but having them gel in a new way: there’s the Bowie-guitar lead of the chorus the verse’s underlying synthesizer throb that feels akin to their earlier house music influences Cocker’s quotidian life details that somehow manage to drop bawdy and honest bits of the story left and right.
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