POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

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

http://media.ticketmaster.co.uk/tm/en-gb/dbimages/10519a.jpg

Yeah, I mean, what I said doesn't mean it wasn't released as a single. Tonnes of 7"s out there that never get airplay.

She hasn't had a single chart in nearly ten years!

13. C'Mon Billy (To Bring You My Love) - 285 points, 1 first place, 13 votes

not a fan tbh

it seemed like a weird single choice at the time, altho clearly people like it so phaps i am just missing something

i was expecting this in the top 5 at least :(

Love C'mon Billy. My #4 I think.

it was the first PJH song i ever heard

it's so...concise, not a moment wasted

and her growl! "RAIIIRRRLLLL remember"

Found this in the related videos for that awful mashup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u75Qtit-lng

1) Start playing youtube clip above
2) Think to self 'I'd like to see the tracklist'. Decide to copy the url into another window.
3) Start watching the youtube clip in new window (with tracklist below).
4) The music to 'Let England Shake' starts up, PJH starts singing
5) The band arrive on stage and prepare themselves to perform despite the fact they are already well into the song without touching their instruments
6) The band start doing a bizarre mashup of two versions of 'Let England Shake' simultaneously which greatly confuses me
7) I remember that I hadn't stopped the first youtube clip and curse my stupidity

It's good. On Battleship Hill (50:15) should've won this. She's left us a wonderful legacy, and we've fucked it up.

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