"A Little Soul" is a song by British

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band

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, from their 1998 album, ''

This Is Hardcore ''This Is Hardcore'' is the sixth studio album by English rock band Pulp, released on 30 March 1998. Following the success of '' Different Class'' (1995), friction grew in the band, culminating in the departure of the guitarist and violinist ...

''. It was released on 8 June 1998 as the third single from the album, charting at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart.

B-sides

"Cocaine Socialism" surfaced as a "proper recorded version" on the 2006 deluxe edition reissue of the ''

'' album. The song features very similar music but almost entirely different lyrics to the song "Glory Days" which features on the album. "Like a Friend" was featured in the 1998 film ''

Great Expectations ''Great Expectations'' is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after ''Dav ...

'', and a music video for the song was produced for US music television networks featuring footage from the film. "That Boy's Evil" features no vocals from Jarvis Cocker and was originally released as a white label vinyl by Cocker and Mackey's side project The Chocolate Layers and features spoken word samples from other media in a similar style to Black Box Recorders' "The Facts of Life (Chocolate Layers Remix)"

Track listings

Personnel

Jarvis Cocker Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp (band), Pulp, he became a reluctant figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Cocker h ...

: Vocals * Mark Webber: Guitars *

Candida Doyle Candida Mary Doyle (born 25 August 1963) is an Irish musician who is keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984. She joined her brother, drummer Magnus Doyle, in the line-up to replace the prev ...

: Piano *

Anne Dudley Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genre ...

: Strings *

Steve Mackey Stephen Patrick Mackey (10 November 1966 – 2 March 2023) was an English musician and record producer best known as the bass guitarist for the Britpop band Pulp, which he joined in 1989. As a record producer, he produced songs and albums by ...

: Bass Guitar *

Nick Banks Nicholas David Banks (born 28 July 1965) is an English drummer, a member of the British band Pulp. He lives in Sheffield with his wife Sarah and two children. He is the nephew of Gordon Banks, goalkeeper of the 1966 FIFA World Cup-winning Eng ...

: Drums

Charts

Release history

References

External links

A Little Soul on PulpWiki
{{DEFAULTSORT:Little Soul, A Pulp (band) songs 1998 singles 1998 songs Island Records singles Song recordings produced by Chris Thomas (record producer) Songs written by Candida Doyle Songs written by Jarvis Cocker Songs written by Mark Webber (guitarist) Songs written by Nick Banks Songs written by Steve Mackey