Posted May 9, 200916 yr 66. P.J. Harvey http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drP000/P014/P01466U76DT.jpg Polly Jean Harvey is one of the most individual and influential songwriters of the '90s, exploring themes of sex, love, and religion with unnerving honesty and dark humour. ALL MUSIC GUIDE BIOGRAPHY Key Studio Album: To Bring You My Love (1995) http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drg200/g288/g28816ms7q9.jpg Key Compiliations: She has yet to release a proper best of yet: The Peel Sessions (Live 1991-2004) (2006) http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drh900/h973/h97370jdswo.jpg Career Defining Song: Down By The Water (1995 UK#38)
May 9, 200916 yr Author Some Other Key Songs (Pre 2000): Sheela-Na-Gig (1992 UK#69) 50 Ft Queenie (1993 UK#27) Send His Love To Me (1995 UK#34) A Perfect Day Elise (1998 UK#25) Are any of you fans of this highly critically acclaimed artist; or do you think the Great British public are correct in ignoring her Patti Smith, Siouxsie Sioux; Kate Bush-isms?
May 10, 200916 yr Are any of you fans of this highly critically acclaimed artist; or do you think the Great British public are correct in ignoring her Patti Smith, Siouxsie Sioux; Kate Bush-isms? The "Great British Public" by and large wouldn't recognise a truly great Female Artist if she bit them in the arse frankly..... PJ is one of our greatest artists of the past 20 years, it's really quite astounding to think that she's been around since '92, I remember seeing an early show of hers in Glasgow way back during this period..... Most artists would've lost their edge a bit by now, but PJ doesn't seem to have really had a really "bad" patch, even when she was doing that more commercial stuff.... The fact that she's never bowed to overt commerciality and actually done a "Best Of" album yet, is really quite commendable, but ironically, she's probably one of the few artists who would genuinely justify it considering her pretty formidable back-catalogue.....
May 10, 200916 yr "Down By The Water" used to be on rotation on MTV (when MTV was European and was ONE music channel). She isn't my bag but I do like that particular track.
May 10, 200916 yr I saw her live many times in her early years. She used to apologise for not doing an encore because "they didn't know any more songs".
May 13, 200916 yr To Bring You My Love is an absolutely amazing album. Full of great tunes and a real sense of menace and foreboding behind the tunes. Probably something to do with Nick Cave being her beaux at the time. Edited May 13, 200916 yr by grebo69
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