Disco 2000

The third single from Different Class was released on 27 November 1995 and reached number seven in the UK. Cocker based it on a girl he knew as a child, born in the same hospital as him, and said the only untrue part is the woodchip wallpaper. In the song the narrator imagines meeting her again. The fountain named as the meeting place was Goodwin Fountain, on Fargate in Sheffield city centre.

The band took inspiration from disco, and Nick Banks said they were very much influenced by it. Critics noticed the debt to Laura Branigan's Gloria. Barry Walters wrote in Spin that the way it alludes to Gloria approaches genius, Adrien Begrand of PopMatters called the guitar riff blatantly stolen, and Simon Reynolds in Pitchfork heard an uncomfortable chorus resemblance.

Because of its subject, Pulp removed the song's synchronisation licence, which kept it out of TV and radio trailers throughout 1999 and 2000. Pedro Romhanyi directed the video from the story on the single's sleeve, with the band appearing as cardboard cutouts, which Banks called the easiest video they ever did. Elvis Costello, interviewed in 1996, singled out the woodchip line as the kind of detail he loved.