Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville") | | Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 20:31 | |
Early on it sounds a lot like Cat Power. Or I suppose Cat Power sounds like PJ Harvey.
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pianocomposer
(Springfield) | | Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 20:30 | |
romeotuma wrote:
This song is soooo good for the ears...
Yes. At some point I previewed most of this album on Grooveshark or something. It's awesome. Upgraded from 7 -> 8. |
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 17:42 | |
This song is soooo good for the ears...
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Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet) | | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 16:31 | |
Just caught the last few notes of this....darn!
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Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window) | | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 16:30 | |
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 16:30 | |
Haunting melody... I dig it...
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mmoyer
(Silicon Valley) | | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 16:28 | |
mandolin wrote:
...give it time; it's a grower...
You're right! 7 —> 8 |
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bluedot
(Long Beach, CA) | | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 23:20 | |
Amazing song, and also, I never realized that PJ had this kind of vocal range!
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hujoppi
(Helsinki) | | Posted: Jan 02, 2012 - 07:14 | |
mandolin wrote:
...give it time; it's a grower...
True! Some albums need listening them from first track to last one in one session. This need good headphones and quiet hour on the listening chair. For my particular taste, this became the best album of year 2011. Such a fine album overall. |
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peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg) | | Posted: Dec 29, 2011 - 20:24 | |
Ears_of_Stone wrote:Battleship Hill: http://www.gallipoli.com.tr/silent_witnesses/battleship_hill-trenches.htm "Just before reaching Chunuk Bair, a signpost at the left hand side of the road marks an important spot on the battlefield: Battleship Hill ( Düztepe- Flat Hill ), also known to the Allies as Big 700. During part of the campaign, the Turkish 10th regiment, which operated under Mustafa Kemals famous 19th Division, defended this position. The remains of this trenches that can still be seen here were mainly obsevation posts. From April 25 onwards the British fleet kept up an almost continuous bombardment of Battleship Hill." On Battleship Hill lyrics
Songwriters: P.j. Harvey
The scent of Thyme carried on the wind
Stings my face into remembering
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
On Battleship Hills caved in trenches
A hateful feeling still lingers
Even now 80 years later
Cruel nature, cruel, cruel nature The land returns to how it has always been
Thyme carried on the wind
Jagged mountains, jutting out
Cracked like teeth in a rotten mouth On Battleship Hill I hear the wind
Say, "Cruel nature has won again"
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won agai Thanks! Powerful lyrics. |
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sweettone
| | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 22:42 | |
Heard of PJ Harvey, but not this. She frightens me, yet I like her. Bring it on!
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bschena
(SillyValley, CA) | | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 17:29 | |
Came to upload this...found it was already in the RP vault. Doesn't sound too much like other PJ work, but like it...a lot.
I'm still stumped by the haters...but wtfevah. I'm in.
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aspicer
(Chicago, IL) | | Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 09:49 | |
PJ Harvey is brilliant - nuf' said!  |
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rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California) | | Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 09:48 | |
donnyballgame wrote:This brought me out of a daydreaming stupor. And not in a good way. |
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mandolin
(...drifting...) | | Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 09:47 | |
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oppositelock
(On the road) | | Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 18:43 | |
Ratings are all over the place on this one but if you look closely more 10's then any other number. I didn't know much about PJ Harvey till I started listening to RP. Now I own everything she has out there, I think! She says about 70% of the songs she writes she doesn't use because it might sound like an older album she has done. She wants every album to be different and unique. This album is brilliant. Thanks RP!
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socalhol
(Seattle) | | Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 18:35 | |
d-don wrote: Ouch. Normally like PJ. Agree — before I saw who it was I thought I at least could like the music without the vocals... |
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Red_Dragon
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paulmack
(the hissing swamps) | | Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 16:21 | |
hippiechick wrote:I own all of Polly Jean's records, but her voice is so bizarre sometimes.
You would like her to be boring? Predictable? Both? Personally, while I hear moments in this song that I might call 'bizarre' I don't see that at all for the vast majority of this song. Or for the album, for that matter. |
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Ears_of_Stone
(Crushed under the hooves of the herd) | | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 11:39 | |
Battleship Hill: http://www.gallipoli.com.tr/silent_witnesses/battleship_hill-trenches.htm "Just before reaching Chunuk Bair, a signpost at the left hand side of the road marks an important spot on the battlefield: Battleship Hill ( Düztepe- Flat Hill ), also known to the Allies as Big 700. During part of the campaign, the Turkish 10th regiment, which operated under Mustafa Kemals famous 19th Division, defended this position. The remains of this trenches that can still be seen here were mainly obsevation posts. From April 25 onwards the British fleet kept up an almost continuous bombardment of Battleship Hill." On Battleship Hill lyrics
Songwriters: P.j. Harvey
The scent of Thyme carried on the wind
Stings my face into remembering
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
On Battleship Hills caved in trenches
A hateful feeling still lingers
Even now 80 years later
Cruel nature, cruel, cruel nature The land returns to how it has always been
Thyme carried on the wind
Jagged mountains, jutting out
Cracked like teeth in a rotten mouth On Battleship Hill I hear the wind
Say, "Cruel nature has won again"
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won agai
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mcklein18
| | Posted: Oct 27, 2011 - 12:39 | |
I wish I didn't, but I hate this.
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hippiechick
(topsy turvy land) | | Posted: Oct 27, 2011 - 12:37 | |
I own all of Polly Jean's records, but her voice is so bizarre sometimes.
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donnyballgame
(41*53'36.29N 87*38'20.43W) | | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 14:50 | |
This brought me out of a daydreaming stupor.
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Aud
(lost in lakecity) | | Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 01:57 | |
This is a variation of Kate Bush/Nick Cave??
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mandolin
(...drifting...) | | Posted: Sep 29, 2011 - 10:39 | |
d-don wrote: Ouch. Normally like PJ. ...give it time; it's a grower... |
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Photo-John
(Nor Cal to SLC) | | Posted: Sep 29, 2011 - 10:38 | |
Awesome - psyched for new PJ Harvey!
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d-don
(Oregon) | | Posted: Sep 29, 2011 - 10:38 | |
Ouch. Normally like PJ. |
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Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land) | | Posted: Sep 29, 2011 - 10:37 | |
I had a crystal wine glass sitting next to one of my speakers. It shattered on that first high note.
(Not really, but it could happen.)
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Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina) | | Posted: Sep 29, 2011 - 10:37 | |
oppositelock wrote:Congratulations to PJ Harvey for becoming the first artist ever to win the Mercury Prize twice in a lifetime! She won for "Let England Shake" last week. She won for the first time on September 11, 2001 for "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea," another great album. Something else was happening that day so no one noticed. She was in Washington DC and actually saw the Pentagon burning from her hotel room.
"Let England Shake" is a great album but it takes a couple listens to get into. In Dark Places and Written On The Forehead are my other favorites from this album.
This CD is definitely on my short list for my Favorite CD of 2011. From top to bottom a solid, solid effort. |
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FlatCat
(Chicago) | | Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 12:27 | |
scraig wrote:Did Yoko Ono highjack Fleet Foxes?
Bwaah! That starting voice is pretty tortured. I don't know whether to feel more sorry for her or for those listening. Like Harvey usually. |
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