POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

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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12. Long Snake Moan (To Bring You My Love) - 296 points, 2 first places, 13 votes

holy shit re: live "On Battleship Hill"

didn't know 'c'mon billy' had been a single, sorta odd that 'down by the water' should be such a bigger hit in the us (#2 altrock vs not charting). what did chart from her in the us is curious (and surprisingly representative and strong) - 'sheela-na-gig' hit #9 altrock, 'down by the water' #2, and 'a perfect day elise' #33. i can remember 'good fortune' getting strong mtv and mtv2 play and 'this is love' getting a push at radio but altrock radio had gone strictly nu-metal and nickelcreed by that point. her highest charting album in the us is quite a surprise also, obv soundscan anomaly during slow week etc.

http://www.inyourpocket.com/gallery/item_7137.jpg

My no.1. I adore it.

MO-HOOOAAN

her highest charting album in the us is quite a surprise also

To Bring You My Love, right? Why would that be a surprise? "Down by the Water" was easily her biggest hit this side of the Atlantic.

UHH!

13. Yuri-G (Rid of Me) - 309 points, 4 first places, 12 votes

More first place votes than any other track bar one (my number 13 fwiw).

uh huh her is her highest charting album in the us

UHH!

Oh, I was thinking "best-selling" as opposed to "highest-charting". Yeah, charts don't mean the same thing in the 21st century.
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wow @ 1st place love for yuri-g. great song, v near miss on my ballot.

whoa had no idea "yuri-g" was so popular, think it narrowly missed my ballot (i prefer the 4TD version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxo0W_oXoK8

The second side of Rid of Me is amazing - thrill after thrill - and Yuri-G might be the best of it.

sorta odd that 'down by the water' should be such a bigger hit in the us (#2 altrock vs not charting).

tbh "Down By the Water" and "Sheela-Na-Gig" and "Broken Homes" (because Tricky) were the only PJ Harvey hits I heard on college radio, period. In my neck of the woods she was a non-entity.

So, into the top ten...

The next one was my number one. I wouldn't have guessed it would end up being my number one, it's certainly not the track I've listened to the most, but it's the one I liked most while making my ballot.

can you do a quick recap

Yuri-G TOO LOW! (I'm one of the #1's)

10. Oh My Lover (Dry) - 323 points, 3 first places, 11 votes

'sheela-na-gig' doing that well on modern rock chart kinda representative of that brief post-nirvana window when modern rock radio blew up and consultants still didn't know how to professionally program it just yet (and the 80s kroq template was dying or dead) and so if something was a huge sensation on college radio (and esp if it had major label distribution) modern rock radio could spin it as a big deal even if a huge chunk of their audience weren't sure why exactly - helmet the obv example but also pj harvey apparently and i can remember the atlanta modern rock station hyping up the premiere of the new pavement single. that era ended pretty quick - indie artists blanched at mainstream success, much of college radio cut their ties to 120 minutes college rock to an extent that an artist as mainstream as pj harvey couldn't get near their playlists, the consultants figured out a system, live and hootie happened.

can you do a quick recap?
I did one a bit earlier: here

ah okay, was wondering if "Send His Love To Me" had placed already (#32)

thx

oh my lover is str8 amazing. first of my evidently boring top 5 to place

Yeah, I remember there was a window when you could still hear things like Morrissey and Smashing Pumpkins during the general music programmes on the Carleton station.

"Oh My lover" v good: OTM.

Oh My Lover is legit great. Agree that you maybe wouldn't think so 'til you're listening to it.

i was in iceland when tbyml came out but i can remember coming home on leave nearly a year after 'down by the water' came out and hearing it w/ some regularity on the radio. i can remember seeing 'a perfect day elise' and 'broken homes' a ton on the box (sometimes i think i miss the box more than i miss 'old mtv'). love 'broken homes' but never considered voting for it - it's a tricky track for sure.

Oh My Lover is fantastic. I remember buying Dry in 1992 without having heard a note of PJ Harvey - based on an NME or Melody Maker review - getting home and then the first song on the album was ridiculously exciting. At that time, I just liked what everyone else liked - Stone Roses/Ride/The Smiths - and this was the first thing I'd found that departed from that slightly. I had Oh My Lover at #3, but my top 3 are pretty interchangeable.

9. A Perfect Day Elise (Is This Desire?) - 329 points, 16 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3tD9EPOEik

as seen on the box!

LOVE this so much

as seen on the box!

I don't think I've ever seen it in colour before. I saw it on MTV-Italia on a black-and-white mini TV that you had tune to channels with a dial.

Yuri-G my #1, love how the chorus roars in every way, & love the interlocking of the guitars & vocals. & I've been confused by its sexuality ever since which is obv a huge plus

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8. Down By The Water (To Bring You My Love) - 332 points, 1 first place, 14 votes

last few are all among my favorites, esp yuri-g (my #1). long snake moan was a near miss on my ballot, but no complaints.

Yeah getting good now. "Long Snake Moan" was my number one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbq4G1TjKYg&NR=1&feature=endscreen

i am starting to fear for one or two of my preciouses here tbqh. i have a good guess at what's left but i am steeled for disappointment