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The album proved to be their commercial breakthrough, with "Common People" and "Disco 2000" going on to become their Signature Songs.

Four singles were released for this album: "Common People", "Mis-Shapes/Sorted for E's and Wizz", "Disco 2000" and "Something Changed".

Tracklist:

1. "Mis-Shapes" (3:46)
2. "Pencil Skirt" (3:11)
3. "Common People" (5:50)
4. "I Spy" (5:55)
5. "Disco 2000" (4:33)
6. "Live Bed Show" (3:29)
7. "Something Changed" (3:18)
8. "Sorted for E's and Wizz" (3:47)
9. "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E." (6:01)
10. "Underwear" (4:06)
11. "Monday Morning" (4:16)
12. "Bar Italia" (3:42)

I wanna trope with common people like you:

• Age-Progression Song: Disco 2000 ("born within an hour of each other", "the first girl at school to get breasts", and "you can even bring your baby")
• Audience Participation Song: "Common People". Even on the mastered versions of this performance that they've released, you can still hear the crowd's voice better than Jarvis'. It fits the song though.
• Childhood Friend Romance: "Disco 2000" is the Unlucky Childhood Friend variation.
• Epic Rocking: "Common People", "I Spy" and "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E." are all around 6 minutes.
• Intercourse with You: "I Spy" is about the narrator seducing some middle class suburban man's wife, the latter time as an intentional plan of class warfare.
• Lyrical Dissonance: "Disco 2000" is a song about meeting up again with an over-the-hill unrequited childhood crush, all set over a guitar riff lifted from Laura Branigan's Gloria. And "Disco 2000" contains some of the bands most sentimental lyrics.
• Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List: Invoked during the spoken preamble to the 1995 Glastonbury performance of "Common People":
  Jarvis: ...I did actually write a few things down, so let's see if I've missed any of them out. (looks at notes) erm... carrots, potatoes, peas, ... no, that's my shopping list...
• Shout-Out: Much of the music video for “Common People” takes place on a dance floor with partygoers dancing in an endless loop.
• Slumming It: "Common People" may be the archetypical song on this topic. It's also, arguably, one of the most scathing uses of this trope.
• Take That!:
  • "Common People" viciously skewers rich kids who glamorize the working class life. It also is skewering much of the Britpop scene they were generally part of, particularly at acts like Blur, who promoted such “class tourism”, as Jarvis put it.
  • "Mis-Shapes" is a misfit's revenge fantasy against townies.
• Time Marches On: A subtle example. The 'fountain down the road' in "Disco 2000" apparently refers to the Goodwin fountain in Sheffield, however anyone wanting to meet there in the year 2000 would find it very difficult as it was demolished in 1998.
• Title by Year: "Disco 2000", written in 1995. Uses the year 2000 as a Literal Metaphor for a fresh start with an unrequited childhood crush.
• Upper-Class Twit: The clueless rich girl who is portrayed in "Common People".