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« on: March 23, 2024, 02:21:09 PM »
Polly Jean Harvey doesn't have a mass audience. She is a music artist for niches. Usually people don't hear about her through the mass media (although I included the option).
How did you know about her?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Harvey
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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2024, 03:19:00 PM »
Well, I know Bridport very well, you see, so not in the usual way.
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2024, 03:23:19 PM »
Nick Cave's Wikipedia page.
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2024, 04:04:41 PM »
« Edited: March 24, 2024, 05:35:09 PM by Independents for George Santos »
Probably around the time "Let England Shake" released, it got a lot of buzz on the music sites of the day. Somehow I never really listened to her though, even though I love Nick Cave (started listening to him a little later, when a Grinderman song was on True Detective). Might throw on Rid of Me or something later and report back with thoughts.
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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2024, 05:58:58 PM »
I'm a big Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fan, so obviously through his "Murder Ballads" album. He was dating her at the time, and she contributed to some of the songs.
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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2024, 05:18:26 AM »
My father is an avid listener.
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2024, 05:46:15 AM »
It was actually Pitchfork, which I believe is dead now.
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2024, 08:03:06 AM »
Wikipedia
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2024, 08:33:32 AM »
Her videos on Beavis and Butthead.
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2024, 09:10:31 AM »
Quote from: Filuwaúrdjan on March 23, 2024, 03:19:00 PM
Well, I know Bridport very well, you see, so not in the usual way.

Do you know her in person?
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2024, 09:11:08 AM »
She inspired St Vincent.
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2024, 09:14:34 AM »

Yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXcU45Anqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTGe6_KI_U
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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2024, 04:36:31 AM »
Mum & stepdad I think had an album or two of her's, plus she shares a first name with my sister which enabled a connection.
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« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2024, 09:58:16 AM »
Quote from: vitoNova on March 25, 2024, 10:56:16 PM
"I want a pistol...

"I want a gun..."

Big Exit

All those songs from Fiona Apple to Sleater Kinney to Babes in Toyland to Seven Year Bitch were all about sexual assault.

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I love SK and Fiona Apple.
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« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2024, 05:16:28 PM »
Quote from: vitoNova on March 26, 2024, 07:35:52 AM
"Down by the Water" still got airplay on Kraut radio as late as 2016. 

This is why I have so much soul.

She doesn't have a signature song, but "Down by the Water" is the closest song to have this definition. There is no clear hierarchy of PJ Harvey's hits. "Down by the Water" is a little bit more important than "To Bring You My Love", which is a little bit more important than other songs.
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« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2024, 06:01:40 PM »
"The Wheel" is probably my favorite of her songs.
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« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2024, 07:31:51 PM »
The information that she has already played in the German Democratic Republic blew my mind.
I always related her to the post-Cold War world.

https://olivergray.com/the-history-of-automatic-dlamini/
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