Pulp's This Is HardcoreJane Savidge (Author) "Essential reading, plain and simple." Cult Following "Savidge knows the album backwards." UNCUT This Is Hardcore is Pulp's cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 1998 album manages to tackle some of the most inappropriate grown up issues of the day fame, ageing, mortality, drugs, and pornography and still come out crying and laughing on the other side. The subject of pornography dominates the