P.J. Harvey track from album due in February
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mjp
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I love PJ Harvey.
Don't love that.
Wait, I do love it when it becomes the song Blood and Fire, because that's a classic old tune.
So, I am confused.
all weak heart shall leap out and split up
all righteous shall stand
hail Rasta
hail and wail
blood blood blood blood and fiyah
let it burn
Don't love that.
Wait, I do love it when it becomes the song Blood and Fire, because that's a classic old tune.
So, I am confused.
all weak heart shall leap out and split up
all righteous shall stand
hail Rasta
hail and wail
blood blood blood blood and fiyah
let it burn
the song relies too much on the Niney the Observer sample (had to look that up). I'm not against sampling, but I expect more from PJ. she lets me call her The Peej, but that's a long story, and totally false.
anyway, hope the album is a grower, not a show-er.
but I thought some people might be interested in the track. I'm not looking at you Purple Stickpin. heh.
anyway, hope the album is a grower, not a show-er.
but I thought some people might be interested in the track. I'm not looking at you Purple Stickpin. heh.
Gonna have to agree with mjp on this one.
Lets just hope the rest of the album is as good as White Chalk is.
Lets just hope the rest of the album is as good as White Chalk is.
mjp
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I'm sure it will be interesting even if I don't love it all. Polly is just a little bit crazy, which makes for good entertainment any way you slice it. All the best musicians (and writers and artists) are restless and fearless, it's a necessary combination. And it doesn't always please the faithful who latched on to one period in the artist's history.
well that's just it, the above song lacks the tension that most of her songs have: you always get the feeling that at any moment she could snap and go apeshit and wreck the joint. it doesn't always happen, but she usually leaves room for that possibility. this song lacks that quality.
I was disappointed with it as well. Nothing beats this for me.......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJk2wXsIZI&ob=av2nm
yup, that's more like it.
I like the use of horns in these two.
is that an Eddie Cochrane sample in the second one? which is kind of a coincidence. I watched a movie last night, Radio On (1980) and Sting has a small part playing a Cochrane worshiper.
I like the use of horns in these two.
is that an Eddie Cochrane sample in the second one? which is kind of a coincidence. I watched a movie last night, Radio On (1980) and Sting has a small part playing a Cochrane worshiper.
mjp
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She plays saxophone on both of those tracks. I don't know if she ever did that on a record before.
Dunno if that's Eddie Cochran. I don't think I've heard more than two or three of his songs.
mjp
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She may not have played it before. She taught herself how to play the piano for White Chalk, which is primarily a piano record. Apparently she enjoys a challenge.
Aside form guitar (and that god damned autoharp) I know she plays viola...now piano and saxophone, and probably a dozen other things that we just don't know about.
Aside form guitar (and that god damned autoharp) I know she plays viola...now piano and saxophone, and probably a dozen other things that we just don't know about.
reasonknot
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so we know the auto harp pisses you off. but, what about that late '70's mini mug she drinks out of, and then the old lady shakin' those hips like only her husband knows?
YouTube - PJ Harvey- The Words That Maketh Murder stuck in my head today at work. damn catchy ass tune. And pretty sure a couple other jewels on Let England Shake. Wait like an animal.
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NPR streaming entire album.
number6horse
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But I bet that she still has a bad dress or two and needs to change at my apartment because I'm the tour assistant wardrobe consultant and stuff
I just miss my crazy girlfriend Polly.
I just miss my crazy girlfriend Polly.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
I ran out this morning and picked this album up. after the first few listens, I can say that this is her best cd in a long time.
Polly Jean is pissed, but she's not shouting, she's seething. the whole album is a long slow burn.
I've only bought 3 cds so far this year (way below my normal consumption, but times is tuff, y'all) and they've all been good, but this is by far the best.
can you tell I like it?
number6horse
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Jeez ! All I was doing was referencing a several-months-old (or perhaps year-old) posting about P.J. Harvey in a video (that you may or may not have read), wearing a dress that someone (I don't know who) didn't like (for some reason or another) in a different thread (can't remember which), somewhere on this site (I don't know where).
Try to keep up, old man.
short interview/article on Miss Polly Jean from Exclaim!, a free monthly Canadian music mag.
and I can't stop listening to this cd. it's on right now.
and I can't stop listening to this cd. it's on right now.