Disco 2005

I was listening to an old mix-tape tonight and it had Pulp's Disco 2000 on it. It got me thinking, Pulp only had one big hit in North America (they might have done better in the UK) and that was 1995's Common People. Disco 2000 was on the same album (Different Class), it was a single as I recall, but it didn't do terribly well. Pulp was part of what people were calling Brit-Pop back then. This label put them in the company of Oasis, Blur, and perhaps The Bends-era Radiohead. The thing is, Pulp never quite fit with the rest, they were a bit too new-wavy. Which brings us to today: I wonder if Pulp were hitting it big ten years too early. The new wave sound is huge these days, I wonder what would happen if Different Class was released today?