| Sunrise | |
| Cover: | Pulp_-_Sunrise.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Pulp |
| Album: | We Love Life |
| A-Side: | The Trees |
| Released: | 8 October 2001 |
| Genre: | Britpop, alternative rock |
| Length: | 5:53 |
| Label: | Island |
| Producer: | Scott Walker |
| Prev Title: | Party Hard |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Sunrise | |
| Title2: | The Trees |
| Next Title: | Bad Cover Version |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
"Sunrise" is a song by British rock band Pulp, from their 2001 album We Love Life. It was released as a double-A single with "The Trees" on 8 October 2001 ahead of the album, charting at #23 in the UK Singles Chart. "Sunrise" is also used in the award-winning BBC animated satirical comedy sketch show Monkey Dust.
"Sunrise" was one of the first songs written for We Love Life and was debuted at the 2000 Reading Festival.[1] Cocker explained of the song's meaning:
"Sunrise" was the favorite of the band to be We Love Life's first single, due to its having a "life of its own" and "a real vibe," according to Island Records' Nigel Coxon. In the end, the song was released as a double-A side with "The Trees" at the insistence of the record company. Coxon explained, Sunrise' seemed to have a momentum of its own, but no one in the record company... got it. We all thought it was brilliant and it should be a single... but the record company, being very timid possibly, thought, 'Sunrise', six minutes, two-minute outro, no chance." As a compromise, the two songs were released as a double-A side, which meant, according to Coxon, that "that single got slightly diluted". The single reached number 23 in the UK, a relative disappointment for the band.
The Fat Truckers remix of "Sunrise" is notable for removing the instrumentation from the original recording and using loops and quick-cuts of Jarvis Cocker sighing and breathing heavily to replace it.