POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

Yuri-G
Dress
Rid of Me
White Chalk
Teclo
Rub ‘til It Bleeds
Reeling
The Glorious Land
A Perfect Day Elise
Plants and Rags
Man-Size
The Wind
The Mess We’re In
Easy
Sheela-Na-Gig
Down by the Water
The Words that Maketh Murder
50 Ft. Queenie
Water
C’mon Billy
Maniac
When Under Ether

dress not even in my top half of fav songs from dry

It's the drums, cad. THE DRUMS!

yeah it's not bad but lover, sheela, plants, fountain, victory, stella are all better

nothing is better

ALBUMS

1. Is This Desire?
2. To Bring You My Love
3. Rid of Me
4. White Chalk
5. Let England Shake

TRACKS

1. Long Snake Moan
2. Angelene
3. Missed
4. A Perfect Day, Elise
5. Taut
6. Dress
7. The River
8. Grow Grow Grow
9. The Glorious Land
10. Legs
11. The Piano
12. C'mon Billy
13. Rope Bridge Crossing
14. My Beautiful Leah
15. Sheela-Na-Gig
16. The Dancer
17. The Sky Lit Up
18. Happy And Bleeding
19. Hanging In The Wire
20. Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
21. Rub 'Til It Bleeds
22. One Line

Many thanks to Mr. NBS for running the poll. There will always be a place for it in the Desperate Kingdom of Love of my heart.

My ballot:

1. The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
2. Missed
3. Good Fortune
4. Dry
5. Is This Desire?
6. Victory
7. You Said Something
8. Down By The Water
9. No Child Of Mine
10. Dress
11. The Sky Lit Up
12. The Last Living Rose
13. Sheela Na Gig
14. A Perfect Day Elise
15. Hook
16. 50ft Queenie
17. White Chalk
18. One Line
19. When Under Ether
20. Meet Ze Monsta
21. Stella
22. Hair

TRACKS
This is Love
The Words That Maketh Murder
Sheela-Na-Gig
You Said Something
The Life and Death of Mr. Badmouth
Down By The Water
A Perfect Day Elise
Big Exit
The Wind
C'mon Billy
The Whores Hustle and The Hustlers Whore
In The Dark Places
The Letter
A Place Called Home
On Battleship Hill
The Darker Days of Me and Him
Good Fortune
Send His Love To Me
The Devil
Angelene
Bitter Branches
Is This Desire?

ALBUMS
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Is This Desire?
Let England Shake
To Bring You My Love
Uh Huh Her

Hmm, interesting poll. I disagree with a lot of what seems to be the consensus. Always fun to do these though. Thanks for doing the work NB+S!!

Here's my ballot:
Albums:
1) Is This Desire?
2) Let England Shake
3) White Chalk
4) Rid of Me
5) Dry

Songs:
1) Sweeter Than Anything
2) In the Dark Places
3) Black Hearted Love
4) Water
5) A Place Called Home
6) Is This Desire?
7) Civil War Correspondent
8) Missed
9) The Piano
10) Rid of Me
11) Sheela-Na-Gig
12) The River
13) Driving
14) Shame
15) Dress
16) That Was My Veil
17) The Glorious Land
18) Angelene
19) We Float
20) Plants and Rags
21) Dry
22) The Letter

Tracks:

40. Yuri-G
36. Dress
33. The Words That Maketh Murder
30. Black-Hearted Love
28. You Said Something*
26. 50 ft. Queenie
25. To Bring You My Love
24. Sheela Na Gig
23. The Letter
22. Long Snake Moan**
21. Hook
20. This Glorious Land
19. Rid of Me
18. Man-Size
17. All and Everyone
16. A Place Called Home
15. Urn With Dead Flowers In A Drained Pool
14. Angelene
13. It's You
12. Meet Ze Monsta
11. Catherine
10. Written On The Forehead***

Elpees:

10. Rid of Me
8. Let England Shake
6. Is This Desire?*
4. Stories From The City...*
2. To Bring You My Love

*Probably over-rated these
**Should have swapped out with 28.
***Would have ranked this higher, but it felt like such a good playlist closer (all those "Let it burn"s) that it stayed there.

I'll catch up eventually when not posting from phone but seriously what is there to explain abt 50 Ft Queenie?! She's 50 inches long! She's a gigantic worm! Am I understanding correctly that O My Lover was shafted?

no ways, #10!

less that's shafted, in which case y

Didn't vote, because I've never really overcome my disappointment with Bring You My Love, though I kept trying until Un Hunh. This thread has got me listening, and I shouldn't have oughta quit. Turns out I like White Chalk and Let England as much as the first two. Didn't get drawn in as they were being promoted, but I'm getting them now.

Sorry I missed this whole convo -- but iirc that was my #1. 10th pl is respectable.

yeah, good results overall. could hardly go wrong tho...

ballot:

TRAX

1. Is This Desire?
2. The Sky Lit Up
3. All And Everyone
4. Let England Shake
5. The River
6. Taut
7. Easy
8. The Darker Days Of Me & Him
9. A Perfect Day Elise
10. C'mon Billy
11. When Under Ether
12. The Glorious Land
13. Angelene
14. The Dancer
15. Urn With Dead Flowers In A Drained Pool
16. Long Snake Moan
17. The Wind
18. Dress
19. As Close As This
20. Hardly Wait
21. The Garden
22. This Wicked Tongue

ALBUMS

1. Is This Desire?
2. Let England Shake
3. To Bring You My Love
4. Dance Hall At Louse Point
5. White Chalk

"Urn With Dead Flowers In A Drained Pool" is the track I most regret not voting for.

mine would be "the slow drug"

as i've said, i really like the first two albums, but PJH as a truly interesting artist began when she went solo for me

Tracks:

1. C'mon Billy
2. 50ft Queenie
3. A Place Called Home
4. Angelene
5. Missed
6. One Line
7. Catherine
8. Good Fortune
9. White Chalk
10. I Think I'm a Mother
11. That Was My Veil
12. Dress
13. Working for the Man
14. The Piano
15. The Wind
16. Rope Bridge Crossing
17. Shame
18. To Bring You My Love
19. The Garden
20. Big Exit
21. Memphis
22. Rid of Me

Albums:

1. To Bring You My Love
2. Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
3. White Chalk
4. Is This Desire?
5. Dance Hall at Louse Point

Very much a 'how I felt on the day' ballot, my top 5 tracks could really be in any order. Also I think Stories has ended up being my favourite album again now, sorry guys!

Lex is very much my PJH soulmate.

1. The Words That Maketh Murder
2. Rid of Me
3. Written on the Forehead
4. Down by the Water
5. Angelene
6. The Sky Lit Up
7. Dress
8. All and Everyone
9. A Perfect Day Elise
10. The Desperate Kingdom of Love
11. You Said Something
12. Long Snake Moan
13. The River
14. Let England Shake
15. The Devil
16. When Under Ether
17. The Wind
18. Pocket Knife
19. Hanging in the Wire
20. White Chalk
21. The Dancer
22. Meet Ze Monsta

But I did it in a hurry without revisiting all the songs so The Dancer is way too low.

Albums:

1. Let England Shake
2. Is This Desire?
3. To Bring You My Love
4. White Chalk
5. Rid of Me

The ranking was a little bit of a chore, but somehow I picked the consensus fave.

Tracks
1 Dress
2 Victory
3 Working for the Man
4 Oh My Lover
5 The Dancer
6 Angelene
7 The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
8 Send His Love to Me
9 The Glorious Land
10 To Bring You My Love
11 Dear Darkness
12 The Garden
13 Dry
14 Fountain
15 Joe
16 The Darker Days of Me and Him
17 The Mountain
18 Kamikaze
19 Hip Shake
20 The Letter
21 O Stella
22 In the Dark Places

Albums
1 Dry
2 To Bring You My Love
3 Let England Shake
4 White Chalk
5 Is This Desire?

I had been quietly tipping 50ft Queenie to make #1 am am overjoyed it made the top 3. First PJ Harvey record I'd ever heard (think I saw the video on MTV at the time) and at the time it felt like the most raucous thing I'd ever heard.

listened to let england shake for the first time last night. its outstanding.

The full chart:

1 Dress 25 714 6
2 Rid Of Me 23 608 2
3 50ft Queenie 18 488 1
4 Sheela-Na-Gig 19 460
5 Missed 17 362 1
6 Angelene 15 360
7 The Words That Maketh Murder 15 337 1
8 Down By The Water 14 332 1
9 A Perfect Day Elise 16 329
10 Oh My Lover 11 323 3
11 Yuri G 12 309 4
12 Long Snake Moan 13 296 2
13 C'Mon Billy 13 285 1
14 Good Fortune 12 278
15 Man-Size 12 244
16 The River 11 234
17 The Dancer 9 222 2
18 To Bring You My Love 11 222
19 The Sky Lit Up 10 216
20 A Place Called Home 9 213
21 Rub Till It Bleeds 8 208
22 Dry 9 204
23 Plants and Rags 10 198
24 The Glorious Land 10 197
25 On Battleship Hill 9 195
26 Let England Shake 9 188 1
27 Is This Desire? 8 185 1
28 The Wind 10 180
29 Big Exit 9 175
30 You Said Something 7 175
31 The Whores Hustle… 7 165 1
32 Send His Love To Me 7 159
33 In The Dark Places 8 158
34 This Is Love 6 140 2
35 The Piano 7 137
36 O Stella 8 132
37 Reeling 6 132
38 Written on the Forehead 6 130
39 When Under Ether 7 127
40 Water 6 124
41 The Letter 8 122
42 The Garden 7 116
43 Catherine 5 113
44 Legs 7 112
45 The Devil 6 112
46 Victory 5 110
47 All and Everyone 5 109
48 White Chalk 6 107
49 Working for the man 4 100
50 Meet Ze Monsta 8 97
51 Black Hearted Love 4 93
52 The Last Living Rose 4 90
53 Easy 4 88
54 The Mountain 5 87
55 One Line 5 86
56 Fountain 4 84
57 Snake 5 83
58 The Darker Days of Me and Him 5 83
59 We Float 5 81
60 Ecstasy 4 80
61 Dear Darkness 4 78
62 Highway 61 Revisited 3 76
63 Joe 4 76
64 This Mess We're In 4 74
65 Shame 4 70
66 Taut 3 69
67 Teclo 3 68
68 Bitter Branches 3 66
69 Horses in my dreams 3 66
70 That Was My Veil 4 66
71 Happy and Bleeding 3 64
72 The Slow Drug 3 61
73 Kamikaze 3 60
74 Hook 3 58
75 Grow Grow Grow 3 54
76 My Beautiful Leah 2 54
77 The Colour of the Earth 3 52
78 Urn with dead flowers… 3 51
79 Hanging in the Wire 4 50
80 Rope Bridge Crossing 3 47
81 It's You 2 43
82 Sweeter Than Anything 1 40 1
83 England 2 38
84 The Desperate Kingdom of Love 1 37
85 One Time Too Many 2 36
86 Wang Dang Doodle 2 34
87 Is That All There Is? 2 32
88 This Wicked Tongue 2 31
89 Hardly Wait 2 30
90 This Glorious Land 2 30
91 66 Promises 1 28
92 Somebody's Down, Some… 1 28
93 The Life and Death of Mr B… 1 28
94 Hair 2 27
95 As Close As This 2 25
96 Civil War Correspondent 1 25
97 Goodnight 1 24
98 Me Jane 1 24
99 No Child Of Mine 1 23
100 I Think I'm A Mother 1 22
101 Who the fuck? 1 21
102 Harder 1 20
103 Heela 1 20
104 Driving 1 19
105 Silence 1 16
106 The Chair 1 15
107 Pocket Knife 1 14
108 A woman walked../ the crow.. 1 13
109 Beautiful Feeling 1 13
110 Hip Shake 1 13
111 Bows and Arrows 1 12
112 The Soldier 1 12
113 Maniac 1 11
114 Memphis 1 11
115 Sixteen, Fifteen… 1 11
116 Un Cercle Autour du Soleil 1 10

(Apologies for the formatting) - first figure = no. of votes, second figure = total points, third figure (if there) = first places

I was the only voter for Desperate Kingdom of Love? You're all crazy.

i see no vote/point #s :(

weird, if i c/p the list elsewhere i can see the #, but i can't see them in the post itself

how bizarre

Thanks for doing the poll NBS, this was a lot of fun.

yeah thanks NBS!

i hope everyone who missed dance hall at the time goes back to check it out

Did any b-sides make it? :'-(

Reeling

This the my last day on ILM. This poll reveals just how much shitiness in musical taste permeates this fine upper-crust of musical pros. And it's not just these judgments; in 10 years of reading and posting, only a handful of meaningful discussions have helped me discover new music and reveal new understandings. You experts are just as unsophisticated the pablum devouring public, and my early respect for many contributors to this site has been beaten down under the girth of far too much asshole flesh. Good fucking riddance.

"reeling" was on 4-track demos

lol xp

I don't even know what suspecterrain is referring to!

Was it too many tracks from Stories that broke the camel's back after 10 years?

super-pissed that 'a woman a man walked by' got shafted i guess

it's realy sad, he was beaten down by fleshy assholes

"I put up with 10 years of this shitiness and then you fleshy assholes decide that A Place Called Home is better than On Battleship Hill? That's finally it. Fuck you all to hell!"

on the plus side, I have a new display name

Not quite Chaki level in terms of departure.

"You will taste on far too much asshole flesh!"

http://www.nothisown.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/574906-lotr_two132christopherlee_super.jpg

i knew we shouldn't have made this poll experts only :/

I love when someone makes a post about quitting and it's the first time you've ever seen them post.

Gosh, suspecterrain was a real poster - I guess that kind of genius post only gets made once, but I still feel bad at never having noticed him before.

lol @ ilx as a bastion of "good taste". maybe in cat gifs.