POLLy Jean Harvey - The PJ Harvey results thread

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.

But seriously, this had to be one of the least offensive threads in ILX history.

Pop music in itself is not dis-satisfying, but i tend to feel that it best serves children, the infirm, and neophytes.

― suspecterrain, Saturday, March 30, 2013 7:33 PM (1 month ago)

tick...tick...tick...

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.

― bendy, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 10:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thought this was a great poll/thread; hooray to NBS for doing it! My feelings mirror bendy's; TBYML was a major let-down, but I have some serious revisiting to do (although I recently listened to UHH again and nope, still can't get into it).

Also, Steve Vaughan never gets enough love. His bass was their secret weapon, and those first two records would be a lot less frightening/engaging without it.

My feelings mirror bendy's; TBYML was a major let-down, but I have some serious revisiting to do...

i went through exactly the same trajectory, and i can't urge you to revisit to bring you my love and is this desire? strongly enough. they're excellent albums, not perfect, but with lots to appreciate.

That used to be me too ... I remember being really stoked to hear the new PJH single and making a trip to a music store just to hear it. I was hoping for another "Rid Of Me", so "Down By the Water" was a total letdown. It took me years to really appreciate it (once I finally accepted that the PJH of 1991-3 was never coming back).

I remember hearing "Down By The Water" on the radio and thinking, "This better be the worst song on the record. Or not PJ Harvey."

I will revisit. But I never wanted her to repeat Dry and ROM, just to get more skronky in that vein (one reason I love 4TDs).

"Down by the Water" might be the worst song on the record but as with all songs of the 120 Minutes pedigree I have endless nostalgia for it.

'down by the water' was the first PJH song i ever heard and i was totally enchanted/mystified by that buzzy synth line. i still love it. the title track on TBYML was the hardest for me to accept at first, that guttural growling took some growing into

these TBYML reactions are insane to me; I basically bought that album blind based on how much I liked her previous work and was entranced from the first notes of the title track

when rid of me came out, i remember reading so much about "pj harvey the BAND, not pj harvey the person" that it started to sound a bit defensive. you wouldn't stick your name on your band unless you viewed it as not just yours, but actually YOU, a direct extension of your inner self. with that in mind, i figured pj-harvey-the-band wouldn't last long, that she'd soon want to establish herself as an independent artist. so i wasn't at all surprised when she did just that and recorded to bring you my love. but i was still bummed, cuz i was way more into bands than singer-songwriters, more into scabrous rock, noise & punk than artful pop. at this remove, those divisions don't mean much to me, and i can hear what i was missing way back when. growing up isn't all bad.

i always did like "down by the water", though. still do. one of the best tracks on the album, imo, even after all the overplaying.

i was a huge nick cave and zooropa fan so tbyml was right up my alley

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.

― suspecterrain, Thursday, May 2, 2013 9:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mG8rUGhxtjo/TienW98ateI/AAAAAAAAF7c/L89kgODTgGs/s1600/funny_maraca_pic.jpg

If that 10 years is right, the poor dude invested 6 years' lurking before working up the nerve for his first post. This gesture seems so noble now.