History Music / JarvisCocker

** Collaborations: "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis" (with [[Music/Magazine Barry Adamson]]) and "I Picked a Flower" (with The Pastels)

* SeductionLyric: "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis" (technically by [[Music/Magazine Barry Adamson]], but with Jarvis on vocals) involves a peculiar approach to seduction.

** Collaborations: "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis" (with Barry Adamson) and "I Picked a Flower" (with The Pastels)

* SeductionLyric: "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis" (technically by Barry Adamson, but with Jarvis on vocals) involves a peculiar approach to seduction.

** Several collaborations: "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis" (Barry Adamson) and "I Picked a Flower" (The Pastels)

-->"I met her in the museum of palaeontology, and I make no bones about it"
-->"He says he loves you like a sister – Well, I guess that's relative"

In 2010, Jarvis was given his own Sunday afternoon radio show on BBC 6Music – "Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service". This sedate and low-key two hour show blends music, spoken-word recordings, and interviews with guests as well as promising to "put the boringness back into Sunday".

* NerdGlasses: Part of his image from the late '90s on. He wore contacts during the early '90s until he had a situation with [[EyeScream chile containers]].

* DeadpanSnarker

* SelfTitledAlbum: ''Jarvis''.

Jarvis Branson Cocker originates from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, though he now divides his time between London and Paris, and can best be described as a dryly witty, spindly-legged, tweed-jacketed dabbler in everything related to his passion for the arts. His most well-known and memorable foray has been into the world of music with Music/{{Pulp}} and his solo career, where his catchy tunes and witty, observational style of lyric writing have garnered praise from critics and fans.

%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited: "Slush", "Leftovers".

-->''Well, I try my best to keep my feelings hid.''
-->''And I'm getting good 'cos I've been practising ever since I was a kid.''
-->''I'll hold your hand - but at arms length, you'll see.''
-->''I've got it covered.''
-->''Apparently, I am in love with you''

* {{Instrumentals}}: The two excerpts of "Loss Adjuster" in ''Jarvis'' are brief piano pieces.

* OneWomanSong: "Angela".

* SpokenWordInMusic: The intro to "Big Julie" features a clip of Carson [=McCullers=] reading from her book ''The Member of the Wedding''.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: "Slush", "Leftovers".

** "Fat Children"
** Implied with "Quantum Theory".

* {{Instrumentals}}: The two excerpts of "Loss Adjuster" in ''Jarvis''.

* NonAppearingTitle: "Quantum Theory"

* OverlyLongGag: Jarvis's website features videos of him standing around, sitting around, running around, and tuning/playing a guitar, all of which go on for minutes on end. And they're not loops.
* PrecisionFStrike: "Fuckingsong" does not say the title until the last second of the song, where it is used as both the [[IntercourseWithYou euphemism]] and expletive.

* SelfTitledAlbum: ''Jarvis''

* SpokenWordInMusic: The intro to "Big Julie" features a clip of Carson [=McCullers=] reading from her book ''The Member of the Wedding''

** "Fuckingsong"

* TitleTrack: "Further Complications"

* AlbumTitleDrop: The title of Relaxed Muscle's only album ''A heavy Nite With...'' comes from "The Heavy", which contains the line "it's gonna be a heavy nite".

In 2010, Jarvis was given his own Sunday afternoon radio show on BBC 6Music – "Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service". This sedate and low-key two hour show blends music, spoken-word recordings, and interviews with guests as well as promising to "put the boringness back into Sunday". The show is currently on hiatus, with Music/IggyPop filling the timeslot.

Describe Jarvis Cocker here.

Well, alright. Jarvis Branson Cocker originates from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, though he now divides his time between London and Paris, and can best be described as a dryly witty, spindly-legged, tweed-jacketed dabbler in everything related to his passion for the arts. His most well-known and memorable foray has been into the world of music, where his catchy tunes and witty, observational style of lyric writing have garnered praise from critics and fans.

* {{Instrumental}}: The two excerpts of "Loss Adjuster" in ''Jarvis''.

* Instrumental: "Pilchard"

* CreatorProvincialism – to a lesser extent in his solo endeavours than his work with Pulp, but it is difficult not to notice that quite a few of the people he's collaborated with or played on the radio are from Sheffield.

* {{Sampling}}: "Black Magic" features a sample from "Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells. "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)" is built around a loop from "Rolling Down the Hills" by Glass Candy.

* TitleTrack: "Further Complications."

* AlbumTitleDrop – The title of Relaxed Muscle's only album ''A heavy Nite With...'' comes from "The Heavy", which contains the line "it's gonna be a heavy nite".
* AllLoveIsUnrequited – "Slush", "Leftovers".
* AlterEgoActing – Darren Spooner is a type 3. Jarvis, who was getting married and having a child at the time, thought that if he had a persona he could use as an outlet for negative things it would make it easier for him to settle down and become a nicer person.
* AntiLoveSong – "Apparently":

* DeadpanSnarker – oh yes.
* DeathSong - "Fat Children", and possibly also "Quantum Theory".
* EpicRocking – "The Loss Adjuster" and "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)" both top 8 minutes.
* IncrediblyLamePun – "Leftovers" has got "I met her in the museum of palaeontology and I make no bones about it", as well as "[...]he loves you like a sister – well, I guess that's relative".
* InkSuitActor – his character in WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox looks a lot like him.
* Instrumental - "Pilchard"
* IntercourseWithYou – A large part of the ethos of Relaxed Muscle. Several collaborations: "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis" (Barry Adamson) and "I Picked a Flower" (The Pastels), as well as "Fuckingsong", which is slightly unusual in that, as Jarvis has explained:

* LoveWillLeadYouBack – "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)", in which the narrator is at a discotheque, spots his old lover, and starts dancing with her. Although he knows it's a hallucination, he doesn't want it to end and is willing to dance with her all night in hopes that it'll become real.
* NerdGlasses – very much part of his image from the late '90s on.
* NonAppearingTitle – "Quantum Theory"
* OneWomanSong – "Angela".
* OverlyLongGag: [[http://jarviscocker.net Jarvis's official website]] features videos of him standing around, sitting around, running around, and tuning/playing a guitar, all of which go on for minutes on end. And they're not loops.
* ProtestSong – "Running the World", the full title of which is "[[CountryMatters Cunts]] are Still Running the World".
* {{Sampling}} – "Black Magic" features a sample from "Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells. "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)" is built around a loop from "Rolling Down the Hills" by Glass Candy.
* SelfTitledAlbum – ''Jarvis''
* SomethingBlues – "Caucasian Blues", a tongue-in-cheek number about the pains of being a well-off middle-aged white man.
* TheSomethingSong – [[WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox "Petey's Song"]], "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)", "Fuckingsong".
* SpokenWordInMusic – The intro to "Big Julie" features a clip of Carson McCullers reading from her book ''The Member of the Wedding''
* ThisIsaSong – "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)" refers to being "caught in a loop that repeats endlessly". "Fuckingsong" has the lyric "I know it's just a song".
* ThisIsYourSong – "Fuckingsong", which is one for the fans.
* TitleTrack – "Further complications."
* TranslatedCoverVersion – "I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going", originally a French-language song by {{Serge Gainsbourg}}

In 2010, Jarvis was given his own Sunday afternoon radio show on BBC 6Music – "Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service". This sedate and low-key two hour show blends music, spoken-word recordings, and interviews with guests as well as promising to "put the boringness back into Sunday".

* InkSuitActor – his character in FantasticMrFox looks a lot like him.

* TheSomethingSong – [[FantasticMrFox "Petey's Song"]], "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)", "Fuckingsong".

-->-- ''I Never Said I Was Deep''

-->-- '''Jarvis Cocker''', ''I Never Said I Was Deep''

From a young age, he had dreamed of becoming a pop star, though his unconventional charms and slow progress in learning to play the guitar seemed to indicate that the fame he craved would remain forever in his dreams. Then punk rock came along, catalysing his ambitions in earnest. In 1978, when he was 15, Jarvis started a band called Arabicus Pulp. After the excision of the first word of their name, years of struggling in obscurity, a hiatus (during which Jarvis got a degree in film-making at St Martins art college in London), and innumerable membership and stylistic changes, Pulp finally came into their own and became famous in the mid-90s. Fame was not kind to Jarvis and by the turn of the 21st century, he was recovering from drug addiction and dealing with the aftermath of nervous breakdown and general disillusionment with the nature of the music business

From a young age, he had dreamed of becoming a pop star, though his unconventional charms and slow progress in learning to play the guitar seemed to indicate that the fame he craved would remain forever in his dreams. Then punk rock came along, catalysing his ambitions in earnest. In 1978, when he was 15, Jarvis started a band called Arabicus Pulp. After the excision of the first word of their name, years of struggling in obscurity, a hiatus, and innumerable membership and stylistic changes, Pulp finally came into their own and became famous in the mid-90s. Fame was not kind to Jarvis and by the turn of the 21st century, he was recovering from drug addiction and dealing with the aftermath of nervous breakdown and general disillusionment with the nature of the music business

During Pulp's late 80s hiatus, Jarvis got a degree in film-making at St Martins art college in London. Put off by what he perceived as a disconnect between art and reality, the subject of his thesis had been outsider art – art made by the untrained, often manifesting as highly ornate homes or monuments. In 1998 he returned to this fascination, travelling through France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and North America viewing outsider art and interviewing its creators about their works. This was filmed and became the 1999 television documentary "Journeys into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker".

-->''Well, I try my best to keep my feelings hid.''\
''And I'm getting good 'cos I've been practising ever since I was a kid.''\\
''I'll hold your hand - but at arms length, you'll see.''\\
''I've got it covered.''\\
''Apparently, I am in love with you''

->''"I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow.''\

-->''And I'm getting good 'cos I've been practising ever since I was a kid.''\
''I'll hold your hand - but at arms length, you'll see.''\
''I've got it covered.''\