POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

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

OTM

I was ambivalent about LES on its release but, boy, did it sneak up on me. 4.5 stars.

I *thought* (i.e. this is not necessarily my opinion of the albums) that she was kind of regarded as a step-forward-step-back artist. So I thought 'Dry' was a big deal, 'Rid of me' was seen as a bit of a deliberately awkward retreat, 'To Bring You My Love' was the breakthrough, 'Is This Desire?' was relatively ignored, 'Stories from...' won the Mercury Prize, 'White Chalk' I didn't even notice, 'Let England Shake' critically acclaimed and another Mercury Prize.

love the old guy backing vox on twtmm

http://australiafirstparty.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/queenie.jpg

5: ITD, LES, TBYML
4: DHALP, WC, D, 4TD
3.5: UHH
3: ROM, AWAMWB, SFTCSFTS

actually I think ITD is 4.5 stars, upon reflection

queue "Joy" before The Knife's "Full of Fire." Go on.

3. 50ft Queenie (Rid of Me) - 488 points, 1 first place, 18 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKLiU7Hq93w

I had Queenie at no.2 but I never understood what it's supposed to mean

wow, the placement of "missed" is the biggest surprise so far. i never even considered voting for it.

everything else otm

Missed is a really good song, but one I never remember the name of until it comes on and I look at the tracklisting.

Maybe "Missed" is the "Sway" then...

glory glory lay it all on me

If the next two go in alphabetical order they'll match my 1-2.

I'm hoping #1 is my own #1, but my #2 was Yuri-G.

I had Queenie at no.2 but I never understood what it's supposed to mean

Think I understand what it's supposed to mean. The one I don't get is Down By The Water, which sounds like it's supposed to be a pretty straightforward narrative but I've never managed to untangle it.

i would like to hear an explanation on queenie if there is one going. it always seemed to me like a parody of the grotesqueries of male sexuality but i am sure there is more to it.

50ft. Queenie is about how her dick's bigger than yours, mine & ours.

^ that's my understanding

2. Principles v Feelings (Automatic Dlamini)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr9K1MUmcuA

too low

Better than anything on Stories...

haha!

slammm

it is amazing how bad that song is

2. Rid Of Me (Rid of Me) – 608 points, 2 first places, 23 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gvpvh4WYoA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwG3r9_L9o

perfect alignment of youtubes!

HUH

1. Dress (Dry) – 714 points, 6 first places, 25 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QySwGXrpHzw

wow, 6 #1 votes to 2, genuinely surprised.

how are 7 ppl out of 30 not voting for rid of me, ffs

Rid of Me was first place for me. Who else?

Can't argue with that top five (other than missing On Battleship Hill ffs) even if it is all from the first two

me xp

Who else?
Mr Spiralli, but it got quite a few second places as well.

that leno clip is so great.i can only imagine the reaction what that was broadcast. millions of people across america have no fucking idea what is happening right now

My ballot:
1 Oh My Lover
2 Good Fortune
3 Dress
4 Fountain
5 Big Exit
6 Plants and Rags
7 Happy and Bleeding
8 A Place Called Home
9 Rid of Me
10 Working For The Man
11 O Stella
12 A Perfect Day Elise
13 Yuri-G
14 The Words That Maketh Murder
15 Is This Desire?
16 Victory
17 Missed
18 Teclo
19 Ecstasy
20 The Sky Lit Up
21 C'mon Billy
22 Meet Ze Mostra

(Monsta, not Mostra - that's some weird typo from spotify)

great job NBS, thank you for doing that. great job voters too tbf

Mine

TRACKS

Dress - 40
Yuri-G - 36
You Said Something - 33
Sheela-Na-Gig - 30
The Piano - 28
The Slow Drug - 26
Rid of Me - 25
Reeling - 24
C'mon Billy - 23
O Stella - 22
When Under Ether - 21
Shame - 20
To Bring You My Love - 19
Man-Size - 18
Dry - 17
The Words That Maketh Murder - 16
The Chair - 15
Black Hearted Love - 14
This Is Love - 13
That Was My Veil - 12
The Letter - 11
Is That All There Is? - 10

ALBUMS

Dry - 10
Rid of Me - 8
4 Track Demos - 6
White Chalk - 4
Uh Huh Her - 2

1. Yuri G
2. 50ft Queenie
3. On Battleship Hill
4. It's You
5. Rid of Me

6. The Glorious Land
7. The Mountain
8. Dress
9. The Dancer
10. Big Exit

11. Reeling
12. Let England Shake
13. The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
14. Oh My Lover
15. The Devil

16. Silence
17. The Slow Drug
18. Legs
19. The Piano
20. The Soldier
21. Angelene
22. Missed