PJ Harvey, Let England Shake

by **Voodoo Billy** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:25 am

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:Didn't think of Betty Boo. Yeah, more similar... Betty Boo who was/is a minx and I don't mean the cartoon version, who isn't real.

Ooh yes, yes please.

by **fat cherry** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:00 am

she, betty boo, write for other people these days, much more lucrative i imagine, she did that 'pure & simple' mega hit for hear say, includiung that fit bird whose now in corrie (or was, i've lost touch a bit.

here's a review - i love it when journos get all snooty about stuff. My daughter would say, why send someone to review it when its clearly not for them. Well, its funnier for a start. Mind you coupling this with a richard thomson review is even funnier.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 91820.html[/url]

by **crystal89** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:51 am

girlwithnoname wrote:. Or maybe I'm just old and out of touch.

Nice allusion to the classic song "Rescue"

Jessie J's most famous song is the rather aptly named "Price Tag" which seems to be
about buying expensive items of niff naff.

by **fat cherry** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:02 pm

though you'd have to say JJ isa bit niaive if doing a student gig shocks her....

http://celebrity.uk.msn.com/features/sensible-stars

by **Voodoo Billy** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:44 pm

crystal89 wrote:Nice allusion to the classic song "Rescue"

Jessie J's most famous song is the rather aptly named "Price Tag" which seems to be
about buying expensive items of niff naff.

'Niff naff'? is that a colloquialism for a minge?

by **crystal89** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:01 pm

add a r to that last word and pluralise it
and include in the sentence:
"minging items of clothing, accessories and cushions for the throne she cavorts on."

by **fat cherry** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:01 pm

speaking of corrie, guess who is going to be on it - well a spin off thing ....

http://www.list.co.uk/article/35674-hollyoaks-star-signs-up-for-corrie-spin-off/

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:58 pm

Perhaps she'll get on Corrie main afterwards. Mac can do a guest appearance as well as Emily Bishop's love interest.

by **Voodoo Billy** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:07 pm

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:Perhaps she'll get on Corrie main afterwards. Mac can do a guest appearance as well as Emily Bishop's love interest.

He could make an appearance as Audrey's love-interest in that blonde get-up from the Seven Seas video.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:29 pm

Sorry VB, got the wrong one... you are correct about Audrey's love interest - there's even a picture in this week's TV Quick. Saw a clip on TV earlier, I think they play Seven Seas as well in the background.

by **in_bluer_skyz** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:22 pm

saw PJ Harvey live once. why does she look like she's in so much pain when she's doing interviews and performing? it's ok to relax a little. life is too short.

i quite think she's a poor man's version of Bjork. Bjork can pull off the feathers and fancy dress way better as well.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:02 am

Don't know about the poor man's Björk In Bluer Skies. I have been a Björk fan back to her Sugarcubes days and PJ Harvey went straight over my head when she emerged at around the same time Björk went solo, completely different type of music and vocal abilities. Björk very distinctive and original, great beats, great remixes to have a drink-fuelled (and sometimes other stuff) dance to back in the 1990s as a younger ghostie - these days a bit so-so, certainly anything post-Vespertine - haven't been that impressed by stuff leaked out from Biophilia so far, seems very mellow and restrained - and the last album Volta wasn't very good at all. This new one seems to be more focused on the ipad visual interactive stuff so has kind of influenced the music.

PJ Harvey though over the years has been more rocky, bluesy and there's probably hundreds of female singers who vocally sound the same. Song I vaguely liked before was Good Fortune but would have never considered going to see her live before, which I will be doing next month, or even listening to or buying her music.

I like the PJ Harvey that has emerged with Let England Shake complete with her Victorian dress and dead crow on her head. Björk's eccentric dress sense seems though to be a fairly recent thing since she wore that dead swan dress in 2001 so not so much copying. At this moment, I'm more interested in PJ than Björk even though I still consider myself a fan of Björk's music. More power to the dead crows I say.

by **Voodoo Billy** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:22 am

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:Sorry VB, got the wrong one... you are correct about Audrey's love interest - there's even a picture in this week's TV Quick.

I never imagined you to be a TV Quick man. :biggrin:

by **in_bluer_skyz** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:59 am

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:I have been a Björk fan back to her Sugarcubes days and PJ Harvey went straight over my head when she emerged at around the same time Björk went solo, completely different type of music and vocal abilities. Björk very distinctive and original, great beats, great remixes to have a drink-fuelled (and sometimes other stuff) dance to back in the 1990s as a younger ghostie

PJ Harvey though over the years has been more rocky, bluesy and there's probably hundreds of female singers who vocally sound the same.

i watched a video of bjork and pj harvey yesterday which spawned the comparison. think it was a performance from a previous brit award show. if i had to choose, i'd prefer the older pj harvey when she wasn't so restrained with droning on about making sense or whatever she's speaking of in the interview (part 1) posted on this thread. i liked 'rid of me' when she was a little more relaxed and feminine. been reading a few articles/interviews with her most recently and they are so, so draining. i get the idea of the artist being entranced in their work but the word i like to best associate her with is "painful."

when i saw her live, it felt like i was being cruelly punished for all of the bad things i've ever done in the past. if you can sit through something like that for an hour and a half, you are a more patient person than myself.

i'm not a massive bjork fan but do like how you said she was original and distinctive where as many sound quite similar to pj. good point.

lastly, i must say.. this made me laugh for hours: What a load of bollocks. She wants to sing about England, then "our lands are plowed by chavs and burning chavs, chavs marching" might be more suitable.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:30 am

Yeah, the lyrics to Let England Shake are cringeworthy. Think I made that same point when the album was released with that exact chav line would have been a more accurate lyric. It's almost harking back to a bygone era, kind of 19th Century English folk lyrics about poor rural England with a dabbing of later Wilfred Owen-esque war poetry or something written around the time of the Napolenic Wars, and, quite frankly, a load of bollocks in terms of relevance to "England" in the 21st Century. Perhaps that was the influence though for the album with PJ immersing herself in old forgotten and proper traditional English folk tunes in her Devon home before recording it. Haven't read much in the way of interviews about what she was thinking about and trying to convey with this album, so ought to I suppose.

PJ Harvey, Let England Shake

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