PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
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Artist: PJ HarveyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 1993
CD Release Date: 1993-05-04
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Rid Of Me
- Missed
- Legs
- Rub 'Til It Bleeds
- Hook
- Man-Size Sextet
- Highway 61 Revisited
- 50ft Queenie
- Yuri-G
- Man-Size
- Dry
- Me-Jane
- Snake
- Ecstasy
Free Music Notes for Rid of Me
Free Music Review: The best PJ album!
Hit: 5 Stars
RID OF ME was PJ Harvey's sophomore effort and hands down, my favorite album of all time. Truly! I wish I could convey just how excellent this album is and how much it's changed my life but alas, words can never describe the experience of the wave of emotion and longing this album will hit you with. Even now, over a decade later, my heart still skips a beat whenever I anticipate hearing this CD. It is that good.
A lot of people describe this album as raw, noisy, angry and uncompromising. And while that may be true enough, I think it is also profound, deeply passionate and to me, storytelling at its best. The songwriting is superb, with topics we can all relate to, ranging from unrequited love to religious references to feminism to (attempted, anyway) murder. Throw in Steve Albini's signature raw, stripped-to-the-core touch and we have this flawless of a record. All the songs flow beautifully together, yet each song can hold its own. I'm tempted to go through every song because honestly the whole album is fantastic but that would mean a review ten pages long and I know no one wants that, so I'm just gonna highlight a few songs that are extra special to me.
The album kicks off with the song "Rid of Me" and what a great title track this is. Starts off slow with a bit of guitar but by the end, it'll have you screaming from the top of your lungs, "Don't you wish you, NEVER, NEVER MET HER?!!" This song is about a love affair gone sour and a desperate woman pleading and plotting for her lover to return but to no avail.
"Missed" is such a beautiful, melodic, sorta downtempo song. One cannot help but be moved by this song. It is somewhat out of place on this album, I think, just like "Plants and Rags" seemed out of place on DRY. Nevertheless, it's a great song. PJ's vocals is especially effective here, lending to the lush, surreal vibe of the song and the lyrics are very heartfelt, supposedly about Mother Mary and how she went mad over her son's Crucifixion.
"Legs" is awesome! It is a jilted lover's anthem! Such a wickedly intense song, from the opening crooning of, "OOOOOOhhhh, you're divinnnnne..." to the sinister last lines, "I might as well be dead. But I could kill you instead." The lyrics are most powerful in this song, I think, with words like, "I'll bet you never thought I'd try. Your mouth my love, was open wide... Got to ease my aching head. Do you know, no other way, cut off your legs..."
"Man-Size Sextet" is a two minute masterpiece of extra creepy strings and organs. Think raised hair.
"50ft Queenie" I call my therapeutic song. It is one of my favorites to see live, with the mad high low beats merging with the crazy fast and fun lyrics. I really feel a need to jump up and down and shout along with the words, "Hey now I'm the King of the world, you oughta hear my song. You come and measure me, I'm twenty inches long!.."
One of my favorite PJ Harvey songs is "Yuri-G." I cannot get enough of this lil' ditty! "She's so white, she's so clean. I'm telling you, she's everything. I'd give it all, my sorry eyes, give just everything, she's got me so mesmerized.." This song (I think) is about being envious of the moon and how exquisite it is, and pays homage to Yuri Gagarin, a Russian astronaut and the first man to orbit the earth.
Ah, then we get to the most excellent of songs, "Man-Size." Oh Polly, thank you for gracing us with this amazing song. I love to sing along with the lyrics because this song really help put things in perspective. Told from a macho man's point of view, I can't help but get a sense of harrumph, well, a bit of penis envy, I suppose:
"I'll measure time, I'll measure height
I'll calculate my birth right
Good Lord I'm big, I'm heading on
Man-sized
Got my leather boots on
Got my girl, she is a WOW
I cast my iron knickers down
My babe looking cool and neat
I'm pretty sure good enough to eat
Man-sized, no need to shout
Let it all, let it all hang out!
I'm MAN SIZE! MAN SIZE! MAN SIZE!"
The album ends with a few more great songs such as "Dry," the excellent track "Me-Jane" and "Ecstasy." As I mentioned, there is not a bad song on this album, and depending on the day, I still discover bits about the record that's more brilliant than I remembered it to be. I've just about worn out my copy, as I play it so often but yet somehow I never seem to tire of this CD. And I doubt I ever will. It is that good.
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