PJ Harvey, Let England Shake

[Kounelaki]

Full album streamed here
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/06/133495228 ... shake?ft=1

[withahip]

Geeeeez-
PJ Harvey's eighth album, out on Feb. 15, finds the singer turning her gaze outward, toward the political situation in her homeland of England. The topics are as bleak and violent as they were on her most lacerating work, but this time the subjects are soldiers falling in battle ("like lumps of meat") and landscapes that have been torn up, both physically and spiritually. Much of Let England Shake feels like an elegy for not just her homeland, but also the entire world; the bitterness behind the title of "This Glorious Land" is underlined by words like, "Our lands are plowed by tanks and feet, feet marching."

[withahip]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWBrWhrKchQ[/youtube]

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Geeeeez-
PJ Harvey's eighth album, out on Feb. 15, finds the singer turning her gaze outward, toward the political situation in her homeland of England. The topics are as bleak and violent as they were on her most lacerating work, but this time the subjects are soldiers falling in battle ("like lumps of meat") and landscapes that have been torn up, both physically and spiritually. Much of Let England Shake feels like an elegy for not just her homeland, but also the entire world; the bitterness behind the title of "This Glorious Land" is underlined by words like, "Our lands are plowed by tanks and feet, feet marching."

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. The songs themselves sound alright, however.

[fat cherry]

she was on the radio last night talking to mark lawson. All about war and stuff - gallipolli, iraq, afganistan:
link here?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qsq5

also live sessionon radio 2 last night.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y6n35

root aruound and theres an OMD concert somewhere too.

[Kounelaki]

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[fat cherry]

wonder if Gord's got her on his ipod

[Kounelaki]

wonder if Gord's got her on his ipod

Along with Arctic Monkeys?

[bluegrace]

Full album streamed here
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/06/133495228 ... shake?ft=1

Thanks Kounelaki

[fat cherry]

apparently the imperial war museum have approached her to be a war correspondent.

[withahip]

Well, some people just get stuck in the past and can't let it go. Then they get all bitter.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

apparently the imperial war museum have approached her to be a war correspondent.

PJ Harvey is the new Wilfred Owen.

Didn't a few years back Nerina "I sound like a Yank when I sing, but I'm actually a posh English totty pretending to sing with an American accent" Pallot approach the sensitive issue of the Iraq war with the hit single "Everybody's Going To War". Wonder what happened to her. I got dragged (screaming and kicking) to see her live. Recalling the dark days of the World War One rat-infested trenches where English tommy - amongst the misery, rotting flesh, bullets and mud - got punished if they deserted from their position, I left the concert thinking she should have been taken to the nearest wall, blindfolded and shot.

[withahip]

Didn't Pink Floyd cover this ground quite well already?

And The Jam?

She could have thought of something more original? Like an album for the Arctic - she could have called it Baby Seal Club.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Didn't Pink Floyd cover this ground quite well already?

And The Jam?

Quite recently I believe. It's so old hat. I was browsing only today in the long player section of Woolworths when I heard the terrible news of The Jam's split on the store's wireless. Apparently, the lead singer is going to form a new band that will be more pop than punk. He's also going to have blond highlights put into his hair, a bit like that George Michael Wham bloke. Don't tell anyone, but I'm sure that George Michael Wham bloke is one of them... you know... batting for the same side.

[Voodoo Billy]

I've heard he likes to bowl the occasional googly.