POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

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.

yeah "that was my veil" is ok but not a particular standout

Were the Tricky and Nick Cave collaborations eligible, just out of interest?

Didn't see DL's post before I wrote that, if it looks like measly one-upmanship.

i considered collabs where PJH wasn't the main artist ineligible (inc. desert sessions too)

xp Ha ha. It's fine. [struggles to think of 13]

The Tricky, Cave and Desert Sessions songs are all great but I didn't vote for them because I wasn't sure if they counted.

just noticed that missed hasn't placed yet. we're higher than i would've expected but surely to god that has made it.

it's funny, all this talk of certs reminded me of a discussion on the let england shake thread where someone referred to PJH's "hits" and i was super-confused because i'd never thought of her as having even that many fan hits, let alone hits in the wider world. i've heard very few of her songs outside album context, or even in any context where it wasn't me pressing play

"a perfect day elise" was her highest charting single!

AND IT HASN'T PLACED YET, IT HAD BETTER

I would've voted for Love Too Soon with Pascal Comelade if collaborations were included and if it wouldn't've been a wasted vote.

She's had the most hits of any artist who's never made the top 20

A Perfect Day Elise is definitely coming. It's actually the closest she's come to a "straight-up pop song" imo.

for all people talk about stories as containing her best pop songs, it was the only PJH album not to spawn a top 40 hit until white chalk

oh apart from dry i guess

"A Perfect Day Elise" is lock.

There are a *lot* of #1 votes still not accounted for too.

fortuitous timing:

http://www.spin.com/articles/pj-harvey-rid-of-me-oral-history-steve-albini/

Top 40 hits are an odd bunch:

50 ft Queenie
Down by the Water
C'mon Billy
Send His Love to Me
A Perfect Day Elise
The Wind
The Letter

Wiki discography reveals there was a 2008 mash-up of Good Fortune and Music Sounds Better With You!

That's a surprised ! rather than a that's-gotta-be-good !

Wiki discography reveals there was a 2008 mash-up of Good Fortune and Music Sounds Better With You!

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Wiki discography reveals there was a 2008 mash-up of Good Fortune and Music Sounds Better With You!

Wow that managed to be several years too late with every single element.

lol

the only Youtube video I can find is unavailable in the US, boo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbTFq9NcUs

Did Sheela-na-gig not chart then? It was definitely played on the radio because that's where I first heard her. Though thinking about it, it was probably on the indie-ish early evening thing on Radio 1 (was it still Mark Goodier in 1992? or Steve Lamaq?).

I've only ever heard it on campus radio.

Sneaked in at no.60, which was okay for a piddly little label back then. Pretty sure it was still Goodier in 1992

it's funny, all this talk of certs reminded me of a discussion on the let england shake thread where someone referred to PJH's "hits" and i was super-confused because i'd never thought of her as having even that many fan hits, let alone hits in the wider world. i've heard very few of her songs outside album context, or even in any context where it wasn't me pressing play

Yeah, to be honest I had no idea which tracks had been singles until I started on this poll (apart from S-n-g which I bought on 7")

no.69 rather. 'Radio 1's NEW MUSIC leader' iirc