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The scent of Thyme carried on the wind,
stings your face into remembering
cruel nature has won again.
On Battleship Hill's 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.
The scent of 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."
| jimmpypowder | Posted: Apr 19, 2013 - 14:46 oppositelock wrote: My favorite album for about two years straight. Took a while to get into it. Brilliant. Yes it takes a while to sink in . |
| oppositelock (On the road) | Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 12:59 My favorite album for about two years straight. Took a while to get into it. Brilliant. |
| Nobb | Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 01:19 martinc wrote: Well that was pretty odd and I have there PJ albums. She never fails to be unpredictable and sometimes in her own little space. that hits it pretty good |
| martinc (Ottawa Canada) | Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 17:41 Well that was pretty odd and I have there PJ albums. She never fails to be unpredictable and sometimes in her own little space. |
| Grammarcop (You want an E Class? We got 'em!) | Posted: Jan 15, 2013 - 10:54 As sung by Sarah Brightman? |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 09:26 ghostly... love it... |
| asilbuch | Posted: Oct 02, 2012 - 06:33 ech, screechy |
| valeriogonzalez (Quito, Ecuador) | Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 17:47 TerryS wrote: NBC reported yesterday that astronaut Neil Young died at the age 82. Yes, they really did. So fucking stupid. I feel ashamed of studying journalism! |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 17:44 GarageDragon wrote: "The moon belongs to America and anxiously awaits the arrival of our Astro-men." NBC reported yesterday that astronaut Neil Young died at the age 82. Yes, they really did. |
| GarageDragon | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 07:46 Hannio wrote: Lyrics remind me of one of those Simpson's educational films, "Man and Nature - The Road to Victory!"
"The moon belongs to America and anxiously awaits the arrival of our Astro-men." |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 05:49 Lyrics remind me of one of those Simpson's educational films, "Man and Nature - The Road to Victory!" |
| jjspring (Apex, NC) | Posted: Jul 10, 2012 - 20:52 Sorry, I am just not feeling it on this song. The vocals are too distracting. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 01, 2012 - 10:34 Report: Nature May Soon Overcome Monsanto as ‘Super Rootworms’ Destroy Crops What will be the end of Monsanto? Could it be lawsuits, new legislation, or perhaps even a tiny insect that is less than 0.10 mm in length. A new report reveals that rootworms may ultimately be what ends Monsanto’s crops, despite the biotech giant’s rampant success within the United States legislative system. Amazingly, western corn rootworms have virtually no problem gobbling up Monsanto’s modified maize crop, as they have developed a serious resistance to the very crops designed to kill them. So much so that these little critters are outpacing Monsanto’s top scientists. To make matters worse for the company, the resistant rootworms are maturing earlier than expected this year. And with the enhanced growth has come enhanced birth rates, with the bug’s larvae hatching the earliest in decades. Monsanto, of course, is absolutely defenseless against the resistant rootworms which have adapted to their biopesticide known as Bt. At least 8 populations of insects have developed resistance, with 2 populations resistant to Bt sprays and at least 6 species resistant to Bt crops as a whole... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 21:34 TerryS wrote: Well, after that, someone has to say-...................................................This song is soooo good for the ears... This song be very very groovy... |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 21:27 Well, after that, someone has to say-...................................................This song is soooo good for the ears... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 20:36 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. Wow! That is very interesting stuff! I have looked into this song, and from what I understand, the haunting music matches the historical ghosts defined in the lyrics— Harvey told NME: "Battleship Hill was the place of a particularly bloody battlefield. The 'scent of rhyme' was because it grows wild in Gallipoli." Harvey told The Sun about this song: "Throughout the songs on the album, nature plays a great role. I'd chosen to look at a lot of ancient folk songs from all over the world. Songs from hundreds of years ago passed down the line in Cambodia, Ireland, Vietnam, Russia. And a theme which comes through in all these countries' music is your relationship to the land. The lyric: 'I hear the wind say, cruel nature has won again,' captures that feeling. No matter what happens to us, nature will always be there. Which is comforting but also quite brutal." |
| Nadine | Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 04:10 I will always love Polly. Love the background vocals guy (s & gals?). |
| rtrudeau (Bay Area, California) | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 12:43 romeotuma wrote: marvelous... love it... Ya know, I'm usually pretty much on the same wavelength with romeo but this tune absolutely makes my hair hurt! UGGHH! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 08, 2012 - 09:26 marvelous... love it... |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 19:08 This is very intriguing - like everything I've heard from PJ Harvey! Please play more from this album, Bill! |
| pamohearn (not close enough to a beach) | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 06:26 I generally really like PJ Harvey, and the song sounds intriguing, but the pitch is like an icepick into my temples and I just can't do it. |
| Darlington (Columbia, South Carolina) | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 06:22 MTL_Robbie wrote: I believe PJ is a genius. Very creative, never the same, keeps the listener on his/her toes. I am enjoying this very much, as with the whole "Let England Shake". Probably my favorite CD of last year. |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Apr 06, 2012 - 16:01 This is horrible..... UGH...... |
| sajitjacob (Christchurch NZ) | Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 15:27 Is this really Polly Jean? I loved her stuff in the 90's with her grungy bass lines and agonized songs of pain and frustration. Seem like she's grown up, like her fans? Unfortunately the high pitched singing is rather hard to listen to (one could say agonizing) although the lyrics still sound good. Because it's Polly I'll reserve judgment for now. |
| MTL_Robbie (Rain City, far far left from Harperville) | Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 15:22 I believe PJ is a genius. Very creative, never the same, keeps the listener on his/her toes. I am enjoying this very much, as with the whole "Let England Shake". |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 26, 2012 - 23:00 pianocomposer wrote: Yes. At some point I previewed most of this album on Grooveshark or something. It's awesome. Upgraded from 7 -> 8. Cool! Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Feb 26, 2012 - 08:23 Caught this on my PSD stream,never again. #4 |
| coyotexxx2 (Enjoying Paradise) | Posted: Feb 25, 2012 - 09:22 jools wrote: Face Hand. Mute button Really? What about it do you not like? |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Feb 25, 2012 - 09:22 Kinda the antithesis of her 90:ies sound. |
| jools (Brighton UK) | Posted: Feb 25, 2012 - 09:20 Face Hand. Mute button |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 17:42 This song is soooo good for the ears... |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 16:31 Just caught the last few notes of this....darn! |
| Sasha2001 (I can see Zabars from my window) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 16:30 Wow. Just....wow. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 16:30 Haunting melody... I dig it... |
| mmoyer (Silicon Valley) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 16:28 mandolin wrote: ...give it time; it's a grower... You're right! 7 —> 8 |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| 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
On Battleship Hills caved in trenches The land returns to how it has always been On Battleship Hill I hear the wind Thanks! Powerful lyrics. |
| sweettone | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 22:42 Heard of PJ Harvey, but not this. She frightens me, yet I like her. Bring it on! |
| 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. |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 09:49 PJ Harvey is brilliant - nuf' said!  |
| 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. |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 09:47 7 -> 8 |
| 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! |
| 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... |
| Red_Dragon | Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 18:33  |
| 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. |
| 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
On Battleship Hills caved in trenches The land returns to how it has always been On Battleship Hill I hear the wind |