POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

I guess you couldn't find a suitable picture for "Rub Till It Bleeds" ...

You're quite right

That song really sounds like a cancer sore getting poked by a stick.

all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand

http://e08595.medialib.glogster.com/media/83/83b89d711258fdfd58756a47af07820ce70cba19cfeea07dce599863df07aee7/lady-macbeth-blood-jpg.jpg

"I'M CALLING YOU WEAK!!!" -- possibly her finest moment

"blood and fucking" indeed

listening to Dry for the first time in years... man this is great

20. A Place Called Home (Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea) - 213 points, 9 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2NyS3IDjE

"Rub Til It Bleeds" is so great

God's truth, I'm not lying

even tho i actually like this song i am gonna offer up a "say what now?" at this juncture

one of my two sftc,,, picks. (the other being "You Said Something")

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.

Okay I've defended Stories up til now but A Place Called Home at #20 is ridiculous.

Let's agree to disagree

I think 'Stories...' opens really strongly with three great tunes, then has a pretty good but not so strong mid-section, then tails off.

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.

http://www.aquabumps.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/20090630-inferno-over-bondi.jpg

not certain but i am worried i hear thom yorke here

19. The Sky Lit Up (Is This Desire?) - 216 points, 10 votes

lol. that's more like it

TOO LOW.

This one increases my heart rate just thinking about it.

oh thank god this beat all those boring stories tracks //// TOO LOW

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.

^^ what I did to White Chalk.

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

I'm gonna WC another shot.

18. To Bring You My Love (To Bring You My Love) - 222 points, 11 votes

^^
It took me a while to like that album!

Frankly I wish id had my shit together to vote in this

figured that one to be a top ten lock.

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/Russell%20Grant%20Strictly%20Come%20Dancing.jpg

17. The Dancer (To Bring You My Love) - 222 points, 2 first places, 9 votes

AAHHH AHH

the furious round of anti-stories bawking - every dang time a track shows up - is getting kinda funny

in in that spirit, "rub til it bleeds" WAY too fucking low bok bok bok

i was hoping that "dancer" pic was a late arriving "to bring you my love" illo

ha, I thought of "Meet Ze Monsta"

Was away all day and I am shocked, shocked by the low placement of Dry. Geez people, that is a doozy.

Rub Till It Bleeds (Rid of Me) - 208 points, 8 votes

my co-number 1, tho in a pinch i made it number 2 merely because of the other song's brief intro

My TOO LOWS:
Plants and Rags
A Place Called Gome
THE DANCER

The slightly off kilter vocal melody in the chorus of P&R -- did Polly nick that from someplace, or did someone else later steal it from her? Because it sounds so epically familiar, like some alternate universe lullaby (obviously everyone wears eye patches and goatees in this universe).

The Dancer is my all-time favorite, was praying that it'd get top ten at least. Instead, I'm going to put on Stories as a balm for my disappointment.

oh and TBYML title track also TOO LOW.

voted plants and rags higher, but tbf there are a lot of great songs

A Place Called Gome
I can't wait to hear this one

This is getting very tight now. 16 songs left (probably two more Stories songs among them!) and I've still got 14 songs I voted for yet to show up. It's not looking good for Me-Jane or Harder, but otherwise I'd expect my other choices to be in there... yet there are other songs that must be coming up too.

Thanks to this poll I've started teaching myself how to play TBYML on the guitar

I wish I had voted in this

#1 has to be Rid of Me or Dress, right? With Down By the Water close behind.

Most of my ballot has showed already and it's highly doubtful that my #1 will show at all.

Yes, I'm pouting.

Jeez, why do people like 'Down By The Water'? Is it because she got away with saying "whore" on the radio?

Okay, I'm done pouting now, I swear.