POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

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

7. The Words That Maketh Murder (Let England Shake) - 337 points, 1 first place, 15 votes

Too high. What'm I missing there?

i really love "the words that maketh murder" by i'll never understand why it seems so preferred over any other LES track

Take it to the United Nations...

very good song. i had it somewhere late on my ballot but i suspected it had missed out by this point. 2nd single off LES i think?

figure that is a final dagger in the gizzard of 'missed'. for shame.

wow @ four 1sts for "Yuri-G". If I'd remembered how much the 4TD version kills before sending my ballot then I probably would have voted for it. But I probably voted for too many ROM-era songs already.

it is preferred because it easily one of the best (two) tracks on the album. great summary statement, everything else seems to spin out from there.

mentally replaying it, 'words...' is catchy as fuck tbh, it can't be too surprising this high

Pointless interlude, but re: I saw it on MTV-Italia on a black-and-white mini TV that you had tune to channels with a dial, to put in perspective just how good 'A Perfect Day Elise' seemed to me at that time you have to see it in the context of the other music shown (and the fact I understood hardly a word of Italian at that time). This was one tune I was regularly treated to around Sep/Oct 98:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlwFygkAw9w

Oh, I like that one

I like the sudden transition after 2 minutes of gothic Dr Who style horror into dazzling colours and sunglasses. Anyway....

6. Angelene (Is this desire?) - 360 points, 15 votes

^^^ wow!

great to see this so high

shocka! not one of my favorites, but a fine and admirable sally nonetheless.

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Good track. I slightly unfairly marked it down a bit for pastiche, but it's worth its high place imo.

Ha!

5. Missed (Rid Of Me) – 362 points, 1 first place, 17 votes

I was pleased you went for 22 rather than 20, it meant I could sneak this one a vote

I randomly went for 22 when I did the Blur poll a couple of years ago just because it meant that the bottom-placed track on each ballot got 10 points, which seemed somehow more satisfying than 12. I didn't realise that poll was going to lead to this huge never-ending series of polls. Somewhere down the line my 22-tracks thing got rationalised to 20 by everyone else. I'm keeping it real.

Missed is probably the biggest surprise here. I voted for it, but didn't think it would be that popular. In fact I massively underestimated the appeal of 'Rid of Me' (the album) in general.

wow, glad i was wrong on missed but that means we are done with LES and some ppl will be disappointed at one exclusion i guess.

anyway, just wonderful track, the whole 1st 4 of ROM should've been top 20 imo.

and angelene, beautiful, beautiful song. no #1 love is a little sad. i really thought about it.

I guessed that 22 was an homage to old world cup squads before they added an extra goalie place - that's all that number means to me anyhow.

There's a huge leap up of more than 100 points between 5th and 4th place.

is "Angelene" this poll's "Sway"?

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yeah i had guessed the top 4 would separate themselves altho you can never be too sure

'Missed' and 'Angelene' both in my top 5.

looks like the whole top 5 will be from her first two albums - i like/love all of them (obv guessing the last 3) but in the context of such a discography it's a bit disappointing that the implication is she peaked at the start

I didn't even consider voting for this - felt like such an idiot, I tell you, when I saw her blazing through it on that documentary.

agree xp

4. Sheela-Na-Gig (Dry) – 460 points, 19 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkS_R7RDuMc

what an amazing single!

it's a bit disappointing that the implication is she peaked at the start

You could look at it that way, or you could say that people have had 20+ years for those songs to be so wholly absorbed that calling them favorites is just instinctual.

(Though, truth be told, there's a huge gap in quality between the first two and everything else in her discography imo.)

Sheela is obviously great, but I always link it to the other single on Dry, whose oddness beats Sheela's indie hookiness. That's why I didn't vote for it. No number ones for it either.

(xps) I loved it (Sheela-na-gig) at the time, but for some reason it feels trapped in 1992 to me (while most of 'Dry' seems timeless).

(Though, truth be told, there's a huge gap in quality between the first two and everything else in her discography imo.)

absolutely not, unless you mean everything else is a huge step UP

I feel like she has four 5-star albums:

Dry
ROM
TBYML
LES

the others are 4-star

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