Album artwork for Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker
Album artwork for Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker

Rough Trade Books Of The Year: #3

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?

We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of objects that catalogue his story and ask him some awkward questions:

Who do you think you are?

Are clothes important?

Why are there so many pairs of broken glasses up here?

From a Gold Star polycotton shirt to a pack of Wrigley's Extra, from his teenage attempts to write songs to the Sexy Laughs Fantastic Dirty Joke Book, this is the hard evidence of Jarvis's unique life, Pulp, 20th century pop culture, the good times and the mistakes he'd rather forget. And this accumulated debris of a lifetime reveals his creative process - writing and musicianship, performance and ambition, style and stagecraft.

This is not a life story. It's a loft story.

Jarvis Cocker, Penguin

Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory

Album artwork for Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker
Hardback

£18.99

Released 26/05/2022Catalogue Number

9781787330566

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Album artwork for Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker
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Signed by Jarvis Cocker

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Released 08/11/2022Catalogue Number

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Album artwork for Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker
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Released 25/05/2023Catalogue Number

9781784707910

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Jarvis Cocker, Penguin

Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory

Album artwork for Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker
Hardback

£18.99

Released 26/05/2022Catalogue Number

9781787330566

Learn more
Album artwork for Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker
Hardback +

£20.00

signed

Signed by Jarvis Cocker

Signed Copy
Released 08/11/2022Catalogue Number

9781787330566signed

Learn more
Album artwork for Good Pop, Bad Pop : An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker
Paperback

£12.99

Released 25/05/2023Catalogue Number

9781784707910

Learn more

Rough Trade Books Of The Year: #3

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?

We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of objects that catalogue his story and ask him some awkward questions:

Who do you think you are?

Are clothes important?

Why are there so many pairs of broken glasses up here?

From a Gold Star polycotton shirt to a pack of Wrigley's Extra, from his teenage attempts to write songs to the Sexy Laughs Fantastic Dirty Joke Book, this is the hard evidence of Jarvis's unique life, Pulp, 20th century pop culture, the good times and the mistakes he'd rather forget. And this accumulated debris of a lifetime reveals his creative process - writing and musicianship, performance and ambition, style and stagecraft.

This is not a life story. It's a loft story.