"Funny how it all falls away"Jarvis Cocker's band, Pulp, followed up its breakthrough album, Different Class, with This is Hardcore.
'Help the Aged' is a tender slow burner featured on Track Four of Hardcore that oscillates between benevolence and stark truths. "You can dye your hair, but it's the one thing you can't change," sings Cocker, in reference to the one constant none of us can escape: our own mortality.
Structually, 'Help the Aged' slyly begins as the usual ballad, but steadily marches toward a bombastic melody with a stunning hook. It doesn't hurt that the lyrics are stirring and poetic.
Watch the video to 'Help the Aged' below, and while you do remember, "Help the aged. Because one day you'll be older too."
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