POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

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.

people like "Down By The Water" because is a great stomping beast of a song

yeah, cuz it's awesome, plus about different kinds of fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTGe6_KI_U

it's interesting to go back through the albums and realize that the random song that keeps getting stuck in my head once a month is "Rid of Me"

Probably shouldn't have my hopes up for any Desert Sessions tracks ("Crawl Home," "A Girl Like Me")

http://unicorntheatre.com//media/images/Shows/Spring%2012/Tales-from-the-River-Thames-Main-Image.jpg

I'll probably do all the remaining tunes later on, but here's one to keep you going for now...

16. The River (Is This Desire?) - 234 points, 11 votes

Incredible song

I can imagine Celine Dion covering it.

Wow! Been to busy to follow this poll unfortunately, but good going ILM, "The River" is amazing.

http://www.vipclean.co.uk/images/uploads/PAPER/kleenex%20mansize.jpg

15. Man-Size (Rid of Me) - 244 points, 12 votes

Never liked this one much, but I do like women's imaginings of what it's like to be male - 'leather boots', 'iron knickers', and so forth

only 12 people out of 30 voting for man-size at all is something of a surprise

I don't really like it, prefer the sextet version, but not wild on that either

A quick recap:

60 Ecstasy
59 We Float
58 The Darker Days of Me and Him
57 Snake
56 Fountain
55 One Line
54 The Mountain
53 Easy
52 The Last Living Rose
51 Black Hearted Love
50 Meet Ze Monsta
49 Working for the man
48 White Chalk
47 All and Everyone
46 Victory
45 The Devil
44 Legs
43 Catherine
42 The Garden
41 The Letter
40 Water
39 When Under Ether
38 Written on the Forehead
37 Reeling
36 O Stella
35 The Piano
34 This Is Love
33 In The Dark Places
32 Send His Love To Me
31 The Whores Hustle…
30 You Said Something
29 Big Exit
28 The Wind
27 Is This Desire?
26 Let England Shake
25 On Battleship Hill
24 The Glorious Land
23 Plants and Rags
22 Dry
21 Rub Till It Bleeds
20 A Place Called Home
19 The Sky Lit Up
18 To Bring You My Love
17 The Dancer
16 The River
15 Man-Size

i like it a lot but it didn't make my ballot

the single was the first thing of hers i got, and prompted me to buy Dry, which was a thing i did at the time for some reason, like a song and then buy a different album

Collaborative playlist still going here. It must be missing a couple, but I can't immediately see which.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Lesser_Bird_of_Paradise.jpg

My number two coming up...

14. Good Fortune (Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea) - 278 points, 12 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDBZZ3uvimE

back in about an hour

1) are we finally done with stories now
2) how is it that every lesser cliché seemed to place but "this wicked tongue" - one of its TWO great songs - failed to?

Eight is too many.

daaaamn. So high.

Got a feeling that the Thom Yorke song might show up.

you shut up

even the mere mention of it is making my blood boil

I felt sure Desperate Kingdom of Love would place but I doubt it now. Uh Huh Her's been given the bum's rush.

Good Fortune is probably her best attempt at writing a straight-up pop song actually.

I'm not really that keen on To Bring You My Love but The Dancer is still amazing.

White Chalk hasn't done too well either, I was hoping for Silence, which is an incredible song but we must be too high up for that by now.

Actually I can only think of eight or so songs that will definitely place, so there could still be a few surprised in there.

Uh Huh Her's been given the bum's rush.

as glad as i am as my personal fav off UHH scraped in, i agree. no "the slow drug" or "it's you" :(

dance hall at louse point has been so majorly shafted - imo it's smack bang in the middle of her (first!) imperial phase and yet not represented AT ALL -_-

I'm many places delayed in responding, but "Sky Lit Up" was my #2. Totally exhilarating song. She sounds like she owns the world.

I can think of 11 certs.

the parish stuff is just less known than her main stuff i think. i was sufficiently umipressed by 'that was my veil' to not be in any way curious about either album until the positive mentions in the voting thread

umipressed

I can think of 12 songs still to come that are certs to place.