올뮤직닷컴 바이오그라피 : Jarvis Cocker

	by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Misfits have often been part of rock & roll, but of the many outsiders, few have been as clear-eyed, passionate, and savagely witty as Jarvis Cocker, a bookish, sex-obsessed English eccentric who became not just a star but a pop archetype as the leader of Pulp in the '90s. misfits!  Jarvis Cocker의 소개 첫 단어로서 이 단어가 튀어나온다는 것. .. 이것을 어찌 생각해봐야할까.. 그래도 이 세 줄로 정리는 참으로 멋지게 정리되었다는 느낌. It's been impossible to separate Jarvis Cocker's story from Pulp — he was not only the founder, he was the creative force and the only constant member during the group's long, winding history. Winding down Pulp, as he did not long after the group's 2002 We Love Life, was not so much a breakup of a band as it was a closing of a chapter of Cocker's life, as he moved from the U.K. to settle in Paris with his new wife and child.  펄프의 활동 중단 소식을 들었던 적이 없었던 것 같은데, .. 하긴 눈에 띄지않고 활동 중단되는 밴드가 한둘이던가. 게다가 펄프 정도면 내 집중관심사도 아니었고 ㅜㅜ, .. After a few quiet years he began recording again, first as a member of the barbed electro-pop duo Relaxed Muscle and then as a solo artist, releasing his debut solo album, Jarvis, at the end of 2006. At the time of the release of his solo debut, Cocker had been pursuing a music career for nearly 30 years. 펄프 이후의 활동은, 그다지 큰 성공을 가져온 것 같지는 않고, 이 글에서 나의 흥미를 자극하는 글은 마지막 줄. 솔로로 데뷔할 때 이미 음악 커리어가 거의 30여 년이었다니..   At the age of 15 in 1978, he formed Arabacus Pulp, dropping the "Arabacus" before they went public — and they went public in a big way, having their first Peel Session in November 1981 before they released an album. It was an auspicious beginning, but Pulp then settled in for a decade of struggle. They released the bedsit indie pop of It to little attention in 1984, then they morphed into murky goth rock a year later, signing to the British indie Fire in 1985, with Freaks following in 1986. Two years later, Cocker, along with Pulp bassist Steve Mackey, left his hometown of Sheffield to attend university at St. Martin's College in London. 이 부분의 내용을 보면, 펄프라는 밴드의 이력은 나름 유구하다는 생각이 든다. 그냥 밴드 이름이 주는 느낌으로는 ... 가볍게 만들어진 밴드라는 생각을 했었드랬는데.. 15세에 결성한 밴드의 생활은 안봐도 훤한(ㅡ.ㅡ:?!) 것 같기도 하지만.. 그 명맥과 이름을 꾸준히 끌고왔다는 것은,  나름 대단한 면모로 여겨지는, 80년대에도 앨범을 두 장이나 냈었군 .. Pulp were still an active, if irregular, proposition and they had once again shifted sound, incorporating elements of the burgeoning rave and acid house movements for their next album, Separations, a record recorded in 1989 but not released until 1991, when the single My Legendary Girlfriend began attracting attention, including being awarded Single of the Week by NME. <My Legendary Girlfriend> 음.. <My Legendary Girlfriend>는 처음으로 들어보는데, ... 이런 아방~ 한 곡으로 대중들의 이목을 끌었다는 것도 이번에 처음 알았다. .. 사실, 펄프의 음악들을 들을 때 마다 느꼈던, 시원스러운 Rock의 화법을 따르지 않는, "막연한 이상스러움"을 이 곡에서도 느낄 수 있다. * 2013. 6. 2. 오래간만에 포스트를 보니 동영상이 삭제된 듯.    My Legendary Girlfriend의 온전한 유튜브 영상 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycKFlB7Mlg *  My Legendary Girlfriend kicked off the classic years of Pulp. They signed to Gift in 1992, where they soon hit upon their signature sleek, sexy sound, equal parts glam and post-punk. Babies proved to be their breakthrough to the big leagues, leading to a contract with Island Records, which released the band's major-label debut, His 'n' Hers, in the spring of 1994. The album did well, garnering good reviews and earning a Mercury Award nomination, but they truly entered the big leagues in 1995, as the bracing Common People single became a smash hit — the kind of hit that defined an era. <Babies> <Common People> 히트 싱글 <Common People>은 다음 앨범인 Different Class에 수록되어 있다. 이 앨범은 내가 유일하게 듣던 앨범 ㅜㅜ;; 1992년부터 1995년까지, .. 사실 영/미를 막론하고 90년대를 규정짓는 중요한 밴드들이, 수면 급부상하던 때.. 펄프 역시 수면 위로 등장하였던.. 혹자는, 때를 잘 만난 밴드라고 하더이다.. Its accompanying album, Different Class, was equally successful, entering the charts at number one and going gold within its first week of release. Pulp were now stars — or, perhaps more accurately, Jarvis Cocker was now a genuine star, appearing on magazine covers constantly, popping up on television, even earning the honor of being parodied by TV comedians throughout 1995.  <Disco 2000> Glastonebury 95 94년 군입대를 한 나는,  96년 제대를 한 뒤, 여러 잡지들에서 기생오래비같은 자르비스 코커의 사진들을 볼 수 있었는데, 당대의 음악잡지 <HOT뮤직>에서도 펄프를 접했던 것 같고, <페이퍼>등 다종다양하게 등장했던 컬쳐 매거진들에서도 어렵지 않게 접할 수 있었다. Different Class 에서 가장 좋아하던 곡은 <Disco 2000>. 뮤직비디오도 워낙 좋았다.. All these heady times culminated at the 1996 Brit Awards when he interrupted Michael Jackson's performance of "Earth Song" and was later arrested for his stunt. This prank only cemented Cocker's position as a British pop hero, but his status soon weighed heavily on his shoulders, as evidenced by the band's gloomy 1998 follow-up to Different Class, This Is Hardcore, an ambitious, arty album that slowed Pulp's commercial momentum. The hits might not have been arriving as quickly as they once did, but Cocker continued to work and not just in Pulp: he sang with Barry Adamson, wrote with the All Seeing I, and directed various music videos. <논란의 그 장면!> 문제의 사건! .. 당시에 나도 어렴풋이 들었던 기억이 나는 것 같기도 하지만.. 최근 들어서 마이클 잭슨의 죽음과 그의 여러가지 일화 중 하나로 지인에게 다시 들으면서 정확히 알게 된 듯. 글쎄, 어떻게 보면 ... 해프닝? 아니면 스타덤에 대한 자만? 이 사람의 음악적 커리어에는 아주 큰 영향을 미친 사건 인 것이 분명한 것 같다. 그 뒤로 ... 글쎄;; One more Pulp album — the elegiac Scott Walker-produced We Love Life — followed before the band quietly became inactive. Cocker moved to Paris with his new wife, Camille Bidault-Waddington, where they soon started a family, as she gave birth to a son. 두꺼운 뿔테 안경이 그의 외모를 바꾼다. .. 기생오래비 같던 외모는 사라지고, 더 이상 같은 삶을 지속하기 힘들었나 보다. .. 이사도 가고. After a few quiet years, he and ex-Fat TruckerJason Buckle, augmented by former Pulp touring guitarist Richard Hawley, embarked on the electro-pop project Relaxed Muscle, releasing one album — A Heavy Nite With — in 2003. It was a low-key project and Cocker continued to do low-key work, collaborating with pop queens Nancy Sinatra and Marianne Faithfull, and working with the Lovers in 2005. Later that year, he began to re-emerge in a more public fashion, notably as the leader of the Weird Sisters, the supergroup assembled for a Hogwarts school dance sequence in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; it also featured Pulp's Steve Mackey and Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway from Radiohead.  참 이것저것 많이 거쳤구나.. 라는 생각이 든다. 그래도 음악계를 떠나지 않고 있었으니. But 2006 was the real kickoff of Cocker's solo career, as he and Mackey put together an edition of the various-artists series The Trip, released the single "Running the World" on the Internet that summer, and then released his solo debut, Jarvis, at the end of the year.  <Don't Let Him Waste Your Time> 드디어, 데뷔 앨범이 나오는구나. .. 약간은 외로워보이기도 하고, 약간은 어두운 그늘을 거쳐온 티도 나고. ... The next three years found Cocker's trajectory steadily climbing. Collaborations with others in 2008 (Marianne Faithfull's album Easy Come Easy Go and a Heaven 17 cover duet with Beth Ditto) as well as some guitar playing on David Byrne and Brian Eno's Everything That Happens Will Happen Today set the stage for the release of his second solo effort, Further Complications, in May of 2009. 참. 음악적인 관계의 폭이 넓다는 생각이 들게 하는  이름들.. 이 포스팅을 쓰게된 결정적인 동기가.. 우연치 않게, <Further Complications> 앨범을 입수하게 된 것인데, ... 매우 misfit 해보이는 것이, 우리가 기억하는 그의 모습에 걸맞기도 하고.. 여전하게 익숙하지 않은 조영남스타일의 두꺼운 뿔테 안경과 .. 존레논 스타일의 덥수룩한 머리와 수염에서 오는 괴리. 음악은 그냥 즐기기 어렵지 않은데, ... 이 사람의 앞날이, ..  궁금해진다. <Pilchard> <I Never Said I Was Deep> I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time If you want someone to share your life, you need someone who is alive And if every relationship is a two-way street, I have been screwing in the back whilst you drive I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever Forever and ever I can dance you to the end of the night 'cause I'm afraid of the dark I have to confess I'm out of my depth You're going over my head and straight through my heart Some girls like to play it dirty, some girls want to be your mum Me, I disrespected you whilst we were waiting for the taxi to come My morality is shabby, my behaviour unacceptable No, I'm not looking for a relationship, just a willing receptacle I never said I was I never said I was I never said I was I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever Forever and ever I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow I never said I was deep