Pulp, Common People, Glastonbury 95

Pulp's shorter version with official video leaves out full stanzas. William Shatner does an interesting version in his way, and David Bowie covered this song, as did My Chemical Romance, Urselle, and half a dozen orchestras on YouTube. I like this one because the whole mass of kids at Glastonbury sing along, and it's impressive they all know it. There is also a 1998 Glastonbury that's even longer, and other Pulp concerts around the world.

But is there an asl version? No!

Why not? It's perfect.

In some instances you'd have to say "common" really fast to make it fit. And the sign for "people" is in the right spot to. You don't have to pedal the two "P" configurations, or shake them, you can smack 'em both down like stabbing a table with two knives of the bottom fingers when speed requires. And then "do" is similar hands positioning, but you don't have to do it like scrubbing a piano keyboard, you can just plunk it down like grabbing a rolled up towel with no back and forth motion. The repeated combination of those three signs is really neat but you have to zip through them quickly when the song gets going. It's an impressively graphic song that goes very well with sign. If you saw it then you would go, "Wow, all those signs make sense." Lyrics. 

In the official video the guy dances like a maniac. Long spindly legs that he lifts and kicks, and his hand motions are bizarre. For example, "caught her eye," he places an "O" over one of his eyes instead of the "V" shape, "I'm looking at you" with the other hand also "V" shape looking back, eyes to eyes, a perfect eye contact pantomime. He does his own dumb version.