62. Ecstasy - 80 points, 4 votes
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Teclo too loooooooow
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
69 & 62 were both cuts from my ballot.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
I love "Kamikaze", voted for it, not big on the rest of that album but that song is great
― Euler, Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
if I'd have waited a day to vote I'd have voted for "Teclo", it got stuck in my head after I sent the ballot in
Teclo too slowwwwwww
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
Teclo was cut off mine at last minute too.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
It was only a few places below my cutoff too
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
'teclo84' was one of my first AOL SNs
― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:59 AM (1 hour ago)
holy shit, no kidding! my #5 and easily my favorite track off tbyml. kind of shocked, as i'd for some reason assumed it was one of her acknowledged classics.
― his army of super young artists produce, (contenderizer), Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
gorgeous fucking song, nothing else she's ever done really sounds like it
I felt like I had to choose between "Teclo" and "The Dancer" on my ballot and plumped for the latter. Great to see "Happy And Bleeding" made it though.
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
^ exactly what I did.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
"Teclo" doesn't have "Ah-AHH? AHHH-Ah!" tipping the scales in its favour.
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
it does have that ear-shuddering bass note tho
― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
Nice tremelo guitar part too.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Xgau always freed to let out his inner sleaze when the artist in question flaunts sexuality. No doubt he thinks he's being edgy, or even calling them on the banality of their modest transgressions, but it always comes off so poorly.
Y'all are crazy, "Stories..." is soooo good, pretty much start to finish, definitely a better album than "To Bring You My Love." And even if I'm clearly the only one in the world who thinks it's a pretty dark record - opening lines!
Look out aheadI see danger come I wanna' pistol I wanna' gun I'm scared baby I wanna' run This world's crazy Give me the gun
- even the "love" stuff after that is definitely tinged with darkness. I hear it all as a search for security and comfort, romantic or otherwise, in a horrible, batshit world. The words "hold me" shift in meaning, depending on how you hear them. Hold me, I love you. Hold me, I'm scared. Hold me, I feel so shitty I need someone to help me feel better. And so on. Even "We Float" is clearly an end of a relationship song. Dark, dark, dark. Reminds me of "Achtung Baby" meets Murnau's "Sunrise."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
I voted for "Ecstasy". It's got the biggest gap between the ROM and 4TD versions. On 4TD it sounds ordinary, on ROM it's just about the heaviest thing going.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
I voted for it too -- I love a good dirge and it's also v evocative.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
60. The Darker Days of Me and Him - 83 votes, 5 votes
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
59. Snake - 83 points, 5 votes
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Collaborative spotify playlist
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Goddammit, Snake was my #9.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
"the darker days of me and him" is so powerful and so calm at the same time. so relaxed and so strong. a pj harvey grand cru. she is so determined, she knows exactly what she is doing.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
The Darker Days of Me and Him is just boring to me, and the lines about "With no neurosis / No psychosis" etc embarrassing. I do not relate to earnest Polly I think.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
I don't really have anything to say about either of those songs. The name 'The Darker Days of...' meant nothing to me, so I was surprised to find out it was on Uh-Huh-Her (which I have, unlike the more obscure ones). 'Snake' to me was always just filler before the far superior 'Ecstasy'.
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/03/09/2030963_12576ab1.jpg
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
58. Fountain - 84 points, 4 votes
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
^ My number 4, love that song, the tension all the way through building up to
my I for on hill wait wind
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Hmph. ILX has fucked up the formatting of that last post and turned it into gibberish.
shame on you ilx
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, Fountain a great early example of building and building up to the end.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
lol ecstasy was my no. 5
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
Ismael - I need spotify help. I can open that link to get the playlist you're making of the top 60, but that has spotify as a webpage without me being signed in. When I open the spotify program on my PC and do a search I can't find the playlist. Yet, strangely, my search turns up another Ismaelklata PJ Harvey ILM playlist, possibly something you used while my choosing your songs.
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
Cripes yes, I do have another one that I used for ordering the songs. This means all my lists are public?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
In short, I have no idea how the damn thing works
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
xp - Every list you've ever made anywhere. I've just been perusing a shopping list of yours from 1996.
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
Me neither.
If you click the play button on the browser Spotify playlist page, it should open up your client and take you directly to the playlist.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yes the whole world can see your Get Ripped workout mix
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
All that time and nobody said anything?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
57. One Line - 86 points, 5 votes
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
56. The Mountain - 87 points, 5 votes
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
One Line, eh...
The Mountain is in my 2nd tier of favorites from White Chalk, and as such I didn't vote for it, but I like it anyway!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
The Mountain was on my White Chalk list but got squeezed out. Final track on the album, terrific screeching. A version (filmed) for Norwegian radio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xsddqZ8yTU
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
I had The Mountain pretty high. I try not to compare female singer-songwriters, but it does remind me a bit of Kate Bush's A Coral Room, only it explodes outwards rather than looking inwards.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
55. Easy - 88 points, 4 votes
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Easy is fun but very similar to Yuri-G, which develops it into something more interesting. Taken beyond a demo it would've made sense on Dry, but it seems weak compared to other Rid of Me stuff.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
54. The Last Living Rose - 90 points, 4 votes
― BBC 'Witch' Song (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link