"Mis-Shapes" is a song written and released by English alternative rock band Pulp from their 1995 album Different Class.

Drummer Nick Banks summed up the song's message, stating, "What an opener, a call to arms, a rallying cry, now is the time to storm the barricades.

"[1] At a 1995 concert, frontman Jarvis Cocker introduced the song as a call to take on the "blokes with 'taches in short-sleeved white shirts telling you that you're the weirdo.

You'd get these packs of blokes, all dressed the same in the white short-sleeved shirt, black trousers and loafers, and they'd call you a queer or want to smack you 'cos they didn't like your jacket.

[3]Cocker reflected on the song's contradiction with the laddish audience the Britpop scene attracted, "All you can do is be as precise and be as good at what you do as possible and throw it out there.

You could buy them in a bag much cheaper than a normal box of chocolates would be and they tasted as good, it's just that aesthetically they weren't that pleasing so that seemed to be a fairly reasonable metaphor.

I think I just scraped through because it's based on the feeling of a Saturday night in Sheffield when the beer monsters are out, wanting to smack you because you're wearing funny glasses, a funny haircut and orange trousers - and you have to run away.David Stubbs of Melody Maker described the song as "musically is so cleverly redolent of the glitzy plasticity of glam but also lino on bedsit floors.

"[13] The background extras were found at a club; Cocker stated, "The kids they got for the video were from this really savage nightclub, and they were totally intimidating everybody on the set - they weren't acting.

"[15] Melody Maker's David Stubbs described "Mis-Shapes" as "a song that so brazenly pushes all of the right buttons, it's hard to see how they were ever anything less than an instant pop success.

"[4] Rolling Stone's David Fricke called the song "a blast of plastic, fantastic vengeance against the plebes, sort of the Pet Shop Boys meet the Clash's 'White Riot.

[17] The Guardian named it as one of Pulp's ten best songs, writing, "It's an intellectual putsch, a nerdy spring, and it's still as convincing today as it was back then.

"[18] All songs written and composed by Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle and Mark Webber; except where noted.