Pulp had changed significantly since their debut ‘It’. By this time every member bar Jarvis had moved on but the addition of Russell Senior proved to be a pivotal turning point for the band. No longer did Pulp sound pastoral, easy-natured; now they were darkly romantic, brooding, noisy and a little bit Gothic, in the way young folk who brush their hair a certain way are always a little bit Gothic. Pulp were out-of-tune with the times: but the times didn’t satisfy Pulp. The album is quite marvellous. Most of these songs stand the distance of time: it was here, possibly even more than 1992’s Separations, that Pulp started coming into their own as a band with a fully-realised aesthetic.

The first disc is the original album, unaltered and in its entirety. The second is a bonus disc comprising of tracks from the two big non-album singles from the same era, ‘Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)’ and ‘Dogs are Everywhere’. Two further b-sides ‘Tunnel’ and ‘Manon’ complete the second disc for the definitive ‘Freaks’ period release.

1-1. Fairground
1-2. I Want You
1-3. Being Followed Home
1-4. Master Of The Universe
1-5. Life Must Be So Wonderful
1-6. There's No Emotion
1-7. Anorexic Beauty
1-8. The Never-Ending Story
1-9. Don't You Know
1-10. They Suffocate At Night
2-1. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
2-2. Simultaneous
2-3. Blue Glow
2-4. The Will To Power
2-5. Dogs Are Everywhere
2-6. The Mark Of The Devil
2-7. 97 Lovers
2-8. Aborigine
2-9. Goodnight
2-10. Tunnel
2-11. Manon