So back in April I wrote some articles
on Guns N' Roses and it was a hoot, so I figured I'll try writing
something else music-related. I heard that in June Consequence of
Sound ranked every Red Hot Chili Peppers song – all 236 of them –
from best to worst. It's a brilliant idea, right? Why didn't I think
of that? I thought it would be cool to do the same to an artist that
I really like. And that's what I'm going to do here, starting with PJ
Harvey's 107 songs. The first time I listened to PJ Harvey's music
was in 2012 (when I tried Rid of Me) and since then I've been
working my way through her discography to the point where I now own
all nine of her albums.
“Who is PJ Harvey?” you might ask.
Polly Jean Harvey is an alternative rock
singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Dorset, England. She's
probably most well-known for her 90's works, though her 21st
century material has seen plenty of success as well (she's the only
artist to have won the Mercury Prize twice). I guess what drew me
into her type of music was the raw emotion of her vocals, the stark
lyrics, and the instrumental intensity of her 1990's material. Over
the years her albums have taken on a wide variety of musical genres.
Her first three albums were very alternative, with an indie rock feel
and mix of blues rock as well. The fourth album, Is This Desire?,
was again alternative, but was more experimental and had some
electronic elements. In the first half of the 2000's, PJ Harvey
released two more alt-rock albums, the first with a more pop feel
(but still good) and the second which was kind of all over the place
in terms of genre, but still raw and unpredictable. Harvey's sound
took a sharp turn with the release of 2007's White Chalk,
a piano-driven album that delves into the realm of gothic eeriness.
Her latest two albums – the latter of which was released just three
months ago – continued the trend of PJ singing in a higher register
about social issues and history in an indie/folk rock style. In
short, no two of her albums sound alike.
If any of this
sounds interesting to you, then I'd advise checking some of these
songs out starting at the top. And just for the record, this list
only includes songs from PJ Harvey's nine studio albums. This list
won't contain “Shaker Aamer”, any collaborative songs, or any
special edition-type releases. So here we go.
1.
“Dress”, Dry
(1992)
2. “A
Place Called Home”, Stories from the City, Stories from
the Sea (2000)
3.
“Down by the Water”, To Bring You My Love
(1995)
4. “Send His Love
to Me”, TBYML
5.
“Rub 'til it Bleeds”, Rid of Me
(1993)
6.
“The Last Living Rose”, Let England Shake
(2011)
7.
“The Wheel”, The Hope Six Demolition Project
(2016)
8.
“Happy and Bleeding”, Dry
9. “Rid of Me”,
ROM
10. “Let England
Shake”, LES
11. “Oh My
Lover”, Dry
12. “Is This
Desire?”, Is This Desire? (1998)
13. “The Life &
Death of Mr. Badmouth”, Uh Huh Her (2004)
14. “A Perfect
Day Elise”, ITD
15. “When Under
Ether”, White Chalk (2007)
16. “To Bring You
My Love”, TBMYL
17. “Beautiful
Feeling”, SFTCSFTS
18. “On
Battleship Hill”, LES
19. “The Words
that Maketh Murder”, LES
20. “Fountain”,
Dry
21. “C'mon
Billy”, TBYML
22. “The Devil”,
WC
23. “Sheela Na
Gig”, Dry
24. “All and
Everyone”, LES
25. “O Stella”,
Dry
26. “Big Exit”,
SFTCSFTS
27. “This is
Love”, SFTCSFTS
28. “The Garden”,
ITD
29. “Legs”, ROM
30. “The Glorious
Land”, LES
31. “Good
Fortune”, SFTCSFTS
32. “My Beautiful
Leah”, ITD
33. “The
Community of Hope”, TH6DP
34. “Hanging in
the Wire”, LES
35. “Water”,
Dry
36. “The Dancer”,
TBMYL
37. “The Wind”,
ITD
38. “River
Anacostia”, TH6DP
39. “Pocket
Knife”, UHH
40. “Silence”,
WC
41. “One Line”,
SFTCSFTS
42. “A Line in
the Sand”, TH6DP
43. “Hook”, ROM
44. “Man-Size”,
ROM
45. “Dear
Darkness”, WC
46. “You Come
Through”, UHH
47. “Ecstasy”,
ROM
48. “The
Mountain”, WC
49. “The Letter”,
UHH
50. “Meet Ze
Monsta”, TBYML
51. “Working for
the Man”, TBMYL
52. “The Whores
Hustle and the Hustlers Whore”, SFTCSFTS
53. “Grow Grow
Grow”, WC
54. “The Ministry
of Social Affairs”, TH6DP
55. “To Talk to
You”, WC
56. “The Slow
Drug”, UHH
57. “Victory”,
Dry
58. “Plants and
Rags”, Dry
59. “You Said
Something”, SFTCSFTS
60. “The Ministry
of Defence”, TH6DP
61. “Hair”, Dry
62. “Missed”,
ROM
63. “Me-Jane”,
ROM
64. “Near the
Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln”, TH6DP
65. “We Float”,
SFTCSFTS
66. “Angelene”,
ITD
67. “Dry”, ROM
68. “Cat on the
Wall”, UHH
69. “This Mess
We're in”, SFTCSFTS
70. “It's You”,
UHH
71. “Long Snake
Moan”, TBYML
72. “Who the
Fuck?”, UHH
73. “Shame”,
UHH
74. “No Child of
Mine”, UHH
75. “The Orange
Monkey”, TH6DP
76. “Catherine”,
ITD
77. “In the Dark
Places”, LES
78. “Before
Departure”, WC
79. “Snake”,
ROM
80. “The
Desperate Kingdom of Love”, UHH
81. “The Sky Lit
Up”, ITD
82. “Chain of
Keys”, TH6DP
83. “White
Chalk”, WC
84. “Kamikaze”,
SFTCSFTS
85. “50 ft
Queenie”, ROM
86. “The Piano”,
WC
87. “Electric
Light”, ITD
88. “The Darker
Days of Me & Him”, UHH
89. “The River”,
ITD
90. “Horses in My
Dreams”, SFTCSFTS
91. “Joe”, Dry
92. “Teclo”,
TBYML
93. “Written on
the Forehead”, LES
94. “Medicinals”,
TH6DP
95. “Yuri G”,
ROM
96. “Dollar,
Dollar”, TH6DP
97. “Bitter
Branches”, LES
98. “Joy”, ITD
99. “Broken
Harp”, WC
100. “Highway 61
Revisited”, ROM
101. “The End”,
UHH
102. “England”,
LES
103. “I Think I'm
a Mother”, TBYML
104. “No Girl So
Sweet”, ITD
105. “The Colour
of the Earth”, LES
106. Untitled
(seagulls), UHH
107. “Man-Size
Sextet”, ROM
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