Poll Till It Bleeds: Dig the PJ Harvey Rid Of Me Poll

To choose one of these songs would be so fucking hard. I know the best song is NOT Rub Till It Bleeds, Hook, Dry or Ecstacy. And it's probably not either of the Man-Sizes, much as I like them. And it can't be Yuri-G, which is great but I would never pick it as the absolute best song here.

But the rest is too good. The first three songs are so creepy and claustrophobic. This is the best record I listen to for real. And Highway, 50ft Queenie, Me-Jane and Snake are all so fucking exciting I can't take it. I think Me-Jane going into Snake is my favourite part of the record. Rid of Me is an unbeatable first track. There's too much here, I dunno. I couldn't choose one of these, the whole thing's unbelievable.

electric "Man Size" followed hard by title track

I love this record to death but Me-Jane. For the same reason I would have voted Hair on Dry.

There are probably four or five tracks that could be my favourite on any given day, but on most of those given days it would be "Rub Till It Bleeds".

title track

Man-Size Sextet 4evah.

rub it

Missed, narrowly over Dry

no song makes me want to strut around and punch shit like 50 ft queenie does, so that song wins
i love this album so much

Rid of Me

I know the best song is NOT Rub Till It Bleeds, Hook, Dry or Ecstacy.

Wrong.

Voted for "Dry" easily.

Dry is a super duper song.

God I can't believe ILX is gonna make me play this album again in the next couple of days in order to decide. Too intense. Deep breath.

Yuri G now and forevah.

50ft Queenie. Just. Title track REALLY close behind.

my 2nd least favourite PJH album but this is still such a tough choice! it's between 'me jane', 'yuri g', '50ft queenie' and 'man-size' i think - title track disqualified on the grounds of preferring the 4-track demos version. and yeah what bimble said, i hadn't been planning to listen to this any time soon but am probably gonna have to now...

u bend OVA
casa-nova

50 ft queenie.

"Yuri-G" oh so narrowly ahead of "Missed" and the title track. But

no song makes me want to strut around and punch shit like 50 ft queenie does

The whole album has this effect on me: in a fucked-up way it's a great motivational album.

rid of me, followed by.. yuri-g, 50 ft queenie

prob my favorite album in high school, but haven't played it in a while! getting it out again today, definitely.

50 ft queenie

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I do love the production on this record but sometimes I wish it wasn't quite so RARGH so I could listen to it more often. The way I do listen to it, as it is, leaves me a bit shellshocked and not quite prepared to go through the whole shebang again for a while.

"Rub Til It Bleeds"

biggest woman
i could have 10 sons
10 gods 10 queens
10 foot and rising

mah name, eff you and see kay

YuriG 4 me.

no sweat
i'm clean
nothing can touch me

i think it's 'missed'

"Missed" second. Great songs wall to wall, but there's something especially fragile/mercurial about that one, plus I've always halfway suspected it might secretly be about Jesus, which is always good for extra points.

Or rather "seconded."

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I think these results are proof of what a fantastic album this is.

No votes for "Snake" is really, really surprising!

man this album is ruling right now

this performance is how it's done
what audacity!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=4Gvpvh4WYoA

does this work?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=4Gvpvh4WYoA

what happened?

oh well
it rules and in the interview jay leno acts like she is an alien when she talks about working on her parents' farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozkdfsVMG_8&feature=related

amanda i am obsessed with that performance!!! polly jean screaming LICK MY LEGS I'M ON FIRE LICK MY LEGS OF DESIRE over and over again as jay leno becomes increasingly uncomfortable (i imagine) is like something i made up in my head. perfect!

his reaction to her is just so pathetic, and she is so gracious and calm about it that i just feel inspired
can't help it

haha it's so clear he's trying to keep the interview on safe ground and then she has to go and mention castration!

i love you forever, p.j. harvey

i wouldn't be critical of him if he had just been like "whoa i am blown away by that" but he had to take it to "what do your dates think" and that THAT! is where i point and laugh at him for being dumb

that's amazing <3

so is the performance that goes with it, hadn't seen it before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEhG0-xsl0w

"and then after about two weeks they drop off"
"..."

christ what a massive record

otm

No idea what he was talking about here tbh

https://www.nme.com/news/music/elvis-costello-says-steve-albini-made-pj-harveys-rid-of-me-album-sound-like-shit-2828696?amp

revisiting this for the first time in years and i got to say, elvis costello massively offtm

the only issue i have is that "rid of me" is a very rare case of too much dynamic range

ufo that's why it's so good. PLAY IT FUCKING LOUD!

albini's masterpiece imo.

the top of pj's spotify this morning\m/♡♡♡♡
https://i.postimg.cc/xCpynNFh/Screenshot-20240509-113048-Spotify.jpg