Bottom/ The cover art for This Is Hardcore (Island Records, 1998) by British indie rock band Pulp was directed by the American painter John Currin, whose work shows influences as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and contemporary fashion models. Pulp are most famous in the UK, where their blend of disco-influenced pop-rock coupled with the down-to-earth "kitchen-sink drama"-style lyrics of frontman Jarvis Cocker made them popular during the mid-1990s as part of the Britpop movement. Top/ The gender-ambiguous cover art for Suede (Nude Records, 1993), the debut album by English band Suede, provoked some controversy in the press, prompting Suede frontman Brett Anderson to comment, "I'm not really interested in being controversial. If we wanted to be controversial we'd have called the album I Fuck Dogs." The fastest-selling first album in UK history, Suede jumpstarted Britpop along with albums from Blur, Pulp, and Oasis
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