too high
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:28 (thirteen years ago)
23. Plants and Rags (Dry) - 198 points, 10 votes
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:28 (thirteen years ago)
i try to be 'honest' when i am doing these ballots, whatever that means, but when i saw i had this just missing out that seemed fucked up so i bumped it a couple spots. a long time favourite.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:30 (thirteen years ago)
man, the 20s got all the jams
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:31 (thirteen years ago)
I initially had it quite high, then when I started ranking them it dropped below nearly everything else on my shortlist
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:32 (thirteen years ago)
It's the exception to the 'Dry > Rid of Me for Klata Dinner Party' rule.
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:40 (thirteen years ago)
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrgc9c4VZ01qfy8tro1_500.jpg
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:43 (thirteen years ago)
24. The Glorious Land (Let England Shake) - 197 points, 10 votes
ooh ENG-GA-LAND
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:44 (thirteen years ago)
22. Dry (Rid of Me) - 204 points, 9 votes
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:46 (thirteen years ago)
good pic
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:46 (thirteen years ago)
ok, i guess dry in this half of the rundown counts as a surprise to me
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:50 (thirteen years ago)
It's funny that for all Rid of Me's uncompromisingity, Dry is where it becomes unbearably raw for me
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:56 (thirteen years ago)
21. Rub Till It Bleeds (Rid of Me) - 208 points, 8 votes
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:28 (thirteen years ago)
TOO LOW
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:28 (thirteen years ago)
I guess you couldn't find a suitable picture for "Rub Till It Bleeds" ...
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:31 (thirteen years ago)
You're quite right
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:33 (thirteen years ago)
That song really sounds like a cancer sore getting poked by a stick.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:36 (thirteen years ago)
all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand
http://e08595.medialib.glogster.com/media/83/83b89d711258fdfd58756a47af07820ce70cba19cfeea07dce599863df07aee7/lady-macbeth-blood-jpg.jpg
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:40 (thirteen years ago)
"I'M CALLING YOU WEAK!!!" -- possibly her finest moment
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:41 (thirteen years ago)
"blood and fucking" indeed
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:50 (thirteen years ago)
listening to Dry for the first time in years... man this is great
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:51 (thirteen years ago)
20. A Place Called Home (Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea) - 213 points, 9 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2NyS3IDjE
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:51 (thirteen years ago)
"Rub Til It Bleeds" is so great
God's truth, I'm not lying
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:53 (thirteen years ago)
even tho i actually like this song i am gonna offer up a "say what now?" at this juncture
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:54 (thirteen years ago)
one of my two sftc,,, picks. (the other being "You Said Something")
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:01 (thirteen years ago)
i think that what really impresses me about ROM - and rub til it bleeds is a good example as any of this - is that she is taking the ordinary insecurities of relationships - doubt and need, desire and fear - and blowing them up large like a bug under a microscope so that you can easily find yourself relating to this horrifying fatal attraction/misery stuff. and rather than flinch from it, she really gets stuck in, which makes it all the more hilarious to see the contrast with her in that film.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:05 (thirteen years ago)
Okay I've defended Stories up til now but A Place Called Home at #20 is ridiculous.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:06 (thirteen years ago)
Let's agree to disagree
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:12 (thirteen years ago)
I think 'Stories...' opens really strongly with three great tunes, then has a pretty good but not so strong mid-section, then tails off.
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:15 (thirteen years ago)
i think that what really impresses me about ROM - and rub til it bleeds is a good example as any of this - is that she is taking the ordinary insecurities of relationships - doubt and need, desire and fear - and blowing them up large like a bug under a microscope
She's one of the few songwriters who eschews the conventions of singer-songrwriters: painterly detail, situations. I guess that's why "Gothic" attaches itself to Harvey. I'd say it's closer to Romantic-capital-R.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:19 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.aquabumps.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/20090630-inferno-over-bondi.jpg
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:22 (thirteen years ago)
not certain but i am worried i hear thom yorke here
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:25 (thirteen years ago)
19. The Sky Lit Up (Is This Desire?) - 216 points, 10 votes
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:26 (thirteen years ago)
lol. that's more like it
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:26 (thirteen years ago)
TOO LOW.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:27 (thirteen years ago)
This one increases my heart rate just thinking about it.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:28 (thirteen years ago)
oh thank god this beat all those boring stories tracks //// TOO LOW
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:34 (thirteen years ago)
if you think anything on stories rocks harder than this, god help you
I should give Stories... another shake, I hated it right off and sold it back. The only Polly I ever felt compelled to do so with.
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:35 (thirteen years ago)
^^ what I did to White Chalk.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:37 (thirteen years ago)
it's not even really that bad an album, would be perfectly adequate in most artists' discographies, it's just rating all these songs from it better than all of PJ HARVEY'S OTHER SONGS is complete insanity
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:38 (thirteen years ago)
I'm gonna WC another shot.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:38 (thirteen years ago)
18. To Bring You My Love (To Bring You My Love) - 222 points, 11 votes
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:40 (thirteen years ago)
^^It took me a while to like that album!
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:40 (thirteen years ago)
Frankly I wish id had my shit together to vote in this
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:45 (thirteen years ago)
figured that one to be a top ten lock.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:50 (thirteen years ago)
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/Russell%20Grant%20Strictly%20Come%20Dancing.jpg
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:53 (thirteen years ago)
17. The Dancer (To Bring You My Love) - 222 points, 2 first places, 9 votes
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:04 (thirteen years ago)
AAHHH AHH
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:04 (thirteen years ago)
the furious round of anti-stories bawking - every dang time a track shows up - is getting kinda funny
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:05 (thirteen years ago)