PJ HARVEY: UK Alternative rock ..90s .. 2000s
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PJ Harvey – We float (2000)
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PJ Harvey is the undisputed Queen of the British alternative rock scene in the 1995-2005 period. After the striking raw rock of her early hits ‘Dress‘, ‘Rid of me‘ and ‘Man-size‘, PJ Harvey delivers avant-garde alt-rock compositions with elaborate, intense and elegant musical content like the magnificent ‘Down by the water’ (1995), ‘A perfect day Elise‘, ‘The wind‘ (1998), ‘A place called home‘, ‘This mess we’re in‘ or ‘We float’ (2000). Since 2007 however, her music becomes predominantly acoustic and uses, among other things, old string or wind instruments such as the lyre harp, the accordion and the harmonica. Her three LPs ‘White chalk’ (2007), ‘Let England shake’ (2011) and ‘I inside the old year dying’ (2023) are masterpieces. Over time, alt-rock star PJ Harvey has muted into a Queen of modern folk, exploring a musical universe that her 1996 song ’That was my veil’ had indeed previously announced.
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∙ 1992 DRY ∙ Dress ∙ Sheela-na-gig ∙ 1993 RID OF ME ∙ Rid of me ∙ Man-size ∙ 1995 TO BRING YOU MY LOVE ∙ Down by the water ∙ C’mon Billy ∙ Send his love to me ∙ Working for the man/Goodnight (Live) ∙ 1995 MURDER BALLADS ∙ Henry Lee (Nick Cave ft PJ Harvey) ∙ 1996 DANCE HALL AT LOUSE POINT (PJ Harvey & John Parish) ∙ That was my veil ∙ 1998 IS THIS DESIRE? ∙ A perfect day Elise ∙ The wind ∙ Angelene ∙
∙ 2000 STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA ∙ A place called home ∙ This is love ∙ Good fortune ∙ This mess we’re in (ft Thom Yorke) ∙ Big exit ∙ We float ∙ One line (live) ∙ 2004 UH HUH HER ∙ Shame ∙ The letter ∙ You come through ∙ Who the fuck? ∙ Pocket knife (live 2013 ver) ∙ 2007 WHITE CHALK ∙ When under ether ∙ The piano ∙ White Chalk/ The piano/ The devil/ Grow grow grow (from ‘the Basement’) ∙ 2009 A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY (PJ Harvey & John Parish) ∙ Black hearted love ∙
∙ 2011 LET ENGLAND SHAKE ∙ The last living rose ∙ Let England shake ∙ In the dark places ∙ The glorious land ∙ Written on the forehead ∙ Hanging in the wire ∙ The words that maketh murder ∙ On Battleship Hill ∙ Bitter branches ∙ The colour of the Earth ∙ All and everyone ∙ 2016 THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT ∙ The wheel ∙ The community of hope ∙ The orange monkey ∙ River Anacostia ∙ Chain of keys ∙
∙ 2019 SOUNDTRACKS ∙ Red right hand (film ‘Peaky Blinders’) ∙ The moth (ft Lily James, film ‘All about Eve) ∙ A dog called Money (Documentary) ∙ 2023 I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING ∙ Lwonesome tonight ∙ Seem an I ∙ The nether-edge ∙ I inside the old year dying ∙ I inside the old I dying ∙ A child question, July ∙
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INTERVIEWS 1993-2016
∙ 1993 ∙ Jay Leno Tonight Show ‘Rid of me’ ∙ 1995 ∙ Jay Leno Tonight Show ‘C’mon Billy’ ∙ Interview ‘Down by the water’ ∙ 2000 ∙ MTV interview ∙ 2001 ∙ Mercury Prize ‘Stories from the city, stories from the sea’ ∙ 2004 ∙ Sweden ‘I was unprepared for the reaction’ ∙ 2009 ∙ Talk with Dave Fanning (part 1) ∙ 2011 ∙ Mercury Prize ‘Let England shake’ ∙ With Caspar Llewellyn Smith ‘I just wanted to survive’ ∙ 2016 ∙ Q & A interview ∙
