PJ Harvey miscellany thread

[rubidoux]

Not sure if you guys noticed but for the last year or so Polly has been posting self-curated playlists of her inspirations and stuff she's been listening to on the road. You can check them out on Spotify and Apple Music (there are links on her website if you can't find them). Here are the tracklists:

VOLUME ONE

The Beatles — A Day in the Life
Nina Simone — Feeling Good
Unloved — After Dinner
Micachu & The Shapes — L.A. Poison
John Jacob Niles — I Wonder as I Wander
Pixies — I Bleed
Michael Nyman — War Work: song 6: For Just One Night
Joan Baez — Song in the Blood
Sunflower Bean — Easier Said
Elliott Smith — Pictures of Me
Ennio Morricone — I quattro passeggeri

VOLUME TWO: BREXIT BLUES

George Frideric Händel — Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437): IV. Sarabande
Robert Wyatt — The Age of Self
Billy Bragg — Between the Wars
Johannes Brahms — Chorale preludes op. posth. 122: IV. O Wie Selig Seid Ihr Doch, Ihr Frommen
Patti Smith Group — Ghost Dance
Bob Dyllan — Ballad of a Thin Man
Billy Bragg & Wilco — Eisler on the Go
Robert Wyatt — P.L.A.
Low — No comprende
Vincent Gallo — So Sad
The Rolling Stones — Tops
Vincent Gallo — Honey Bunny

VOLUME THREE: LOS ANGELES

The Rolling Stones — Heaven
Micachu & The Shapes with London Sinfonietta — State of New York
The Stooges — Dirt
The Rolling Stones — I Just Want to See His Face
Mica Levi — Love
The Rolling Stones — Shake Your Hips
The Rolling Stones — Little Red Rooster
Radiohead — In Limbo
Mica Levi — Lonely Void
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
U2 — Love Is Blindness

VOLUME FOUR: APRIL 2017

The Paragons — Quiet Place
The Doors — The Crystal Ship
Adalita — The Repairer
Lost Animal — Lose the Baby
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — I Need You
Elvis Presley — Love Me Tender
Bob Dylan — Simple Twist of Fate
Kate Bush — Army Dreamers
The Specials — Man at C&A
Bob Dylan — Love Sick
George Frideric Händel — Chaconne for piano in G major (HWV 435)
Vincent Gallo — Glad to Be Unhappy

VOLUME FIVE: SUMMER IN SIAM

The Pogues — Summer in Siam
The Moody Blues — Nights in White Satin
The Pretenders — I Go to Sleep
The Jam — That’s Entertainment
Bob Dylan — Three Angels
Roy Orbison — Crying
The Fall — Janet, Johnny + James
Greg Sage — Straight Ahead
Greg Sage — Seems So Clear
Jefferson Airplane — White Rabbit
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Spanish Castle Magic
The Animals — Inside Looking Out
The Staple Singers — What You Gonna Do?
Jackie & The Starlites — You Put One Over on Me
The Pogues — The Old Main Drag

[Spikey]

Wow thanks for posting those!

Very interesting.

[Octopussy]

I like how she listens to NY songs and bands while in Los Angeles

[rubidoux]

Polly's new song "An Acre of Land" (a cover of a traditional nursery rhyme, it seems) will be featured in Clio Barnard's film Dark River.

[rubidoux]

Paul Muldoon in conversation with PJ Harvey - an hour-long interview, I guess the first and only one from this era.

She also reads some poetry - Sondheim's "There's Something About a War", Louis MacNeice's "Autobiography", and her own poems "Let England Shake", "The Forest" and "Down by the Water".

ETA: I can't seem to embed the video, here is the direct link: https://vimeo.com/234850739

[velvetjosephine]

https://pitchfork.com/news/new-pj-ha...trailer-watch/

"PJ Harvey has contributed new music to Dark River, the upcoming thriller movie from director Clio Barnard (The Arbor, The Selfish Giant). Watch a trailer featuring a new song below. In the film, set in rural England, a pair of estranged siblings reunited by their father’s death descend into an inheritance dispute. Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, and Sean Bean star. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9rTDmTeDI

edit:

Polly's new song "An Acre of Land" (a cover of a traditional nursery rhyme, it seems) will be featured in Clio Barnard's film Dark River.

oh, that's it. sounds good to me, the bit that can be heard in the movie trailer.

[Spikey]

Small piece by Vogue I never had read before on her Spice Girls outfit =).
https://www.vogue.com/article/pj-har...nd-shirts-tour

[Octopussy]

Wow, I remember hating her look back then... but now, to think, she indirectly influenced Justin Bieber. She's a genius.

[toriMODE]

I was watching Altered Carbon (Netflix series) last night and they were playing This Wicked Tongue on episode 4.

[velvetjosephine]

the full song (An Acre Of Land) is here!
https://soundcloud.com/cognitiveshif...acre-of-land-1


https://www.stereogum.com/1982226/pj...of-land/music/

Late last year, the trailer for the new movie Dark River, a new UK thriller from director Clio Barnard, came out, and it featured an absolutely gorgeous soundtrack: PJ Harvey’s version of the traditional English folk song “An Acre Of Land.” Today, Noisey reports that Harvey is teaming up with composer Harry Escott to soundtrack the entire movie. And Harvey has also shared the full studio version of “An Acre Of Land.” It’s a total stunner, stark and mesmerizing, and you can hear it below, via Noisey.

[grapefruit_is_winning]

^ Thanks so much for sharing!

(I can't give you anymore rep or I would)

[Ime Achoo Dooa]

I'm late to this but, I fucking love this song and at the time(2016) disliked "The Camp" because it's so transparently bullshit (as if all immigrants are refugees fleeing imminent death LOL) but it's quickly became one of my favorite PJ Harvey songs: the clarity of her voice, the counterpoint of that Egyptian guy...I love this song so much, despite being completely against all the supposed political viewpoints it stood for at the time. And that's okay, because even though I can see PJ as being an ignorant upper-class white cis-woman naive classist SJW, sorry to say, she makes amazing songs that captures...the dire side of life, even though it's not politically correct or even politically real to acknowledge that there exists a "difference":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhttLXBkJvE

[Meowth]

New P J Harvey - John Parish song available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2TTMY0HthX3mavpocVi1K0

It is called "Sorry for your loss" and it will be included in the new Parish album: https://pitchfork.com/news/john-pari...ew-song-listen

[Octopussy]

I honestly hate that politics always come up in PJ Harvey discussions now. I wonder if it's the fact that she's so specific, the bigger message gets lost? All I know is "The Camp" probably shoulda been on the album, and "Dollar Dollar" is absolutely one of the best political songs I've ever heard, like Neil Young or Patti Smith level.

[halo eighteen]

https://kontraband.store/pjharvey/rare-merchandise

I'm a few days late on this, but PJ's store put up a bunch of rare shit for sale (at moderately inflated prices). It's been pretty much cleaned out at this point, though.