I've put this up to a 6, (which is not bad, really) but I really wish PJ could have found someone else for this song.  I don't mind Thom Yorke's voice most of the time; I just find his falsetto objectionable.

Incredible song! Especially given it's release within a year of 9-11!  Made more significant b/c she went to NYC for year to gain inspiration for this album....a bit of an omen album I believe, another song on the disc is Kamikaze.

Oh dear God make it end

I'm gonna listen to this album on my ride home from work today. Thanks RP. 

*My* very first PJ HArvey album. Also still my only one... but a couple of songs on it I do love!
As chance would have it, RP plays my favorite "You said something" on a regular basis!  
Hopeless fan of Radiohead, I remember quite well the surprise when Yorke's voice suddenly came out of my loudspeakers. ...
Great album.  

 lemmoth wrote: 
exactamente.

 oilydwarf wrote: 

yup

 oilydwarf wrote: 
HUH????  It's her bloody song.  Thom is just guesting.  here.

would be better without the cheesy repeated voiceover by ms harvey

sooo hot

 DigitalJer wrote: 
i  Thom Yorke!  and i like PJ Harvey a little better because of this song!

Gets a strong 7 from me...

PLUS I get to interject on an otherwise negative string of posts.  Breaking the cycle, that's what I'm all about!!

Sensuality is a good thing. This song is a good thing. Happiness is a good thing.

Thom Yorke's voice is horrible. Wimpy and small.

 keller1 wrote: 
No wonder you haven't made any sense during this entire exchange.  You've been arguing that "spare us" means "play this song less".  Seriously?  Even if that were a commonly accepted definition of the phrase, the context of its use here makes it clear that that wasn't what was intended.

Your argument is nonsensical.  You can throw "pedant" my way all you'd like (ironic, as you're the one doing loud spelling corrections and claiming a radical (and clearly unintended) meaning change related to the word "please" here).  It doesn't change the fact that you're full of hot air.

Have a nice day.

 dwhayslett wrote: 
I disagree. "Spare us" is one thing.  "Please spare us" is quite another.

And like I have repeatedly said —- to no avail, apparently —- is that asking Bill to spare us a song, modified by "please" or not, is hardly dictating anything.  It's just a plaintive request for less, as one other poster put it, of that "whiny prick" Thom Yorke.

So, that's the argument, and in my mind it makes the "stop trying to dictate" thing, logically, a non sequitur.

To paraphrase on old saw:  "Never get into an argument with a pedant.  They'll just drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

So, I'm done wasting electrons on you.  The last word is yours.

 keller1 wrote: 
You think "please" fundamentally changes the meaning of "spare us", and you call *me* pedantic?

The meaning of "spare us" is not modified by the "please".  Read, yourself.

 dwhayslett wrote: 

Read, my pedantic friend, read.

"Please" does not enter into the conversation if one is trying to dictate.

 keller1 wrote: 
Oh?  I can't imagine any reading of that statement that *doesn't* construe exactly that.  So I repeat my previous question:  What exactly do you think "Please spare us" means?

 dwhayslett wrote: 
A literal reading of the statement "Please spare us" could hardly be construed as dictating anything.

s'just a song on the radio guys.    .............. oh look, its over.     I like Thom/RH but his morose stuff like this is surely there to convey angst and emotion.   it did.   s'just a song.

 keller1 wrote: 
Like your attention span, your logic is deficient.  There's no inconsistency between "stop trying to dictate" and "The writer of the latter can't dictate ...".

But your spelling is excellent, though.  So there's that.

 dwhayslett wrote: 

Pardon my short attention span.

"Stop trying to dictate" is a non sequitur (note the correct spelling) vis a vis "Spare us".

The writer of the latter can't dictate anything, as demonstrated by Bill's abject refusal to play this POS less.

 keller1 wrote: 
Where did I say that *you* wrote that?  (Go back and read your first post that I replied to.  You'll find it.  Then you can explain exactly what you think 'non-sequitor' means.)

 dwhayslett wrote: 

You are going to have to direct me to where I said "Please spare us."

I have lost the thread.

 keller1 wrote: 
So, um, what exactly do you think "Please spare us." means, then?  (And for the record, I said *trying* to dictate.)