PJ Harvey: Rid of Me

As the relentless chords of PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me" ring out, I'm reminded of the first time I felt the earth-shattering impact of her music—the raw emotion, the sheer power. We're setting sail on the tumultuous seas of Harvey's second studio album, where the lines between the solo artist and the PJ Harvey trio blur into a singular, potent force. In a heartrending salute, we celebrate the life and legacy of the phenomenal Steve Albini, the engineer behind this masterpiece, whose recent passing has left a void in the music world. The episode peels back the layers of the album, from the iconic raw cover art to the behind-the-scenes struggles and personal tribulations Harvey endured during its creation. 

Have you ever found yourself caught in the undertow of a song that perfectly encapsulates your wildest emotions? Together, we'll dissect the haunting melody and explosive dynamics of the title track "Rid of Me," exploring its cultural echoes—from Glenn Close's simmering wrath to the fleeting rebellion of "Ferris Bueller." The conversation then takes a turn, spiraling into an unscripted foray through the rough and tumble of topics like puberty, resilience, and the oddities that bond us together in fits of laughter and reflection. Our eclectic banter serves as a reminder that even in the wildest chaos, there's solace in the shared experience of music and life, with the phrase "I am rubber and you are glue" as our anthem against the absurd.

As we wrap up our sonic odyssey, we bare our musical souls, revealing our top tracks from the album with "Rub 'til It Bleeds" striking a chord amongst us. It's been an eclectic ride, but as we prepare to hit pause on the podcast for a brief hiatus, we invite you to keep the rhythm alive, whether you're rocking out or jazzing it up. With a heartfelt thank you to our dedicated listeners, we promise to return with more deep cuts and shenanigans, urging you to embrace the dry or the wet, wherever you may find yourself. Until next time, keep the volume cranked and the conversation flowing.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:08

All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest, not Hits. I'm Chris and playing the song Miss you from PJ Harvey's Red View album is my co-host, tim, and neighbor across the street, and thank you for listening to our podcast. The subject matter of today's episode is PJ Harvey's second studio album entitled Rid of Me and PJ Harvey is you know what at this time actually. So there's PJ Harvey, the, the person and the solo artist, but there is a PJ Harvey a trio that existed for, I think, the first couple albums. This is the second album. The previous album was Dry, so this is technically a group effort, the group PJ Harvey, I think. After this album she goes on to a solo career With the various studio musicians chipping in and touring with them, I think, including the guys that recorded on this album with her.

Speaker 1 1:24

One point of interest is the recording was in late fall of 1992, and it was recorded in Pagoderm Studios in Cannon Falls, minnesota. So, yeah, so it was Steve Albini. He was the producer, but he didn't really go by the name of producer. He's more of a recording audio engineer. But he also technically produced a lot of different albums for grunge and alt rock, punk rock, a those uh in indie bands from that time period. He also, like right after producing this album in the same studio, was in utero by nirvana, so that one followed this one.

Speaker 1 2:18

But it's got this really funky uh cover to the album with I think it was um done in the dark. I guess it was the picture. Think it was done in the dark. I guess it was the picture. The photo was taken in the dark by a friend in her house, I guess In her in the bathroom or whatever. But I guess she was like her hair was wet. She just kind of flipped it around and then in the middle of the flip the picture was taken and you can see like the tiles in the back With her hair. I think she was kind of going through some issues too. So, as it turns out, pj Harvey, if you look back at her career From this time to now, she's super successful, great, great artist. I think this particular album are we at?

Speaker 1 3:09

that stage now in our lives. No, there's a lot of angst. There's a lot of. She's just in the middle of a breakup. Things weren't going well from the previous album after a tour, and so she's kind of burnt out. To make matters worse, and she's probably in her out to make matters worse, and she's probably like in her early 20s at this time, she is no longer accepted at an art school, so she goes back to her hometown of dorset, england, from london, where she was at, and they begin recording this album or at least writing.

Speaker 1 3:44

No, I should say, when she's at Dorset England she's writing songs with the body of work that she has. In the songs, you know, they decide on Steve Albini to produce the next album. They sign a deal with Island Records off of the success of the first album. So, with all of that turmoil and trauma going on in her life, she writes the songs that we're going to listen to today from the album.

Speaker 1 4:13

So one other point of interest Steve Albine, the producer he recently passed away, and what PJ Harvey wrote of him Steve was a great friend, wise, kind and generous. I am so grateful. My thoughts are with him and his family and friends as we suffer this loss. So kudos to her. Let's pay our respects to Steve Albini, incredible producer and, yeah, he'll definitely be missed in the music world, very well respected, critically acclaimed, as is PJ Harvey. But that doesn't necessarily mean that we're not going to have some fun on our show today Because, like we always do, we're going to listen to all the songs, we're going to dialogue, we're going to yuck it up. At the end we're going to give're gonna yuck it up, yeah, at the end we're gonna give our, you know, three top songs that were not hits, and I mean tim and I didn't go really deep into this but, uh, we didn't really define what we're gonna consider to be a hit or a non-hit. I think one of the songs that is most played there's a bob dylan uh remake of a song on here.

Speaker 5 5:24

And we'll talk about it, but by and large I think everything will be up for discussion, so we've got a good show in store for you.

Speaker 4 5:35

We're going to have a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 5:36

We're going to listen to all the songs, like I mentioned, continue to download us wherever you're at, and also there's a new link on the podcast for mail. So shout out to us. We want to hear from you. Let us know what you're thinking of the show. Let us know what you want to hear. We're happy to oblige.

Speaker 1 6:05

So, uh, with that out of the way um, before Tim, uh, you know, settles in, uh comes and joins me, uh, tim and I are going to. We're going to be taking a sabbatical, uh, probably for like like about a month, so with the summer intact, uh, we've got some plans, but we're also going to do some work on the show and do some other things behind the scenes. So if you're not caught up on all of our episodes, use this as an opportunity to explore our library. And if you're listening to this, we do have the Pixies Surfer Rosa as an episode from last year that you might want to check out. It was also a Steve Albini produced album that was said to have had a profound impact on what was later the Nirvana album that we also did an episode on. That know a little bit later. So this is, this is an album within that lane and uh, well, you're gonna get deeper into it. But, uh, let me introduce, uh, my, my neighbor, my bud, tim, how you doing man?

Speaker 3 7:14

oh, we're getting deep, we're getting deeper and deeper, doing well, good, good well yeah, you sound good, you look good thank you, um, what do you?

Speaker 1 7:23

yeah, you shared some opinions about this out. I don't know if we're on the same page with it, but tell me you know, lay it out there um well, I really like the angstiness of this and the creative endeavor.

Speaker 3 7:41

I would say, uh, musically, stylistically, I, for the record, I'm not a huge, you know, grunge punk rock fan, but I'll, I'll, I'll do it and we'll do it live. And um, um, yeah, the album cover has a sort of she looks completely different in other photos. It's kind of weird. You're like I don't know if it's the best photo, but it is a good photo. I mean, she's swinging her hair around.

Speaker 1 8:19

Yeah, it's artsy, it's almost scary.

Speaker 3 8:22

It's a little scary.

Speaker 1 8:24

She's just off of the breakup right? Yeah, she goes back. She's at home? Yeah, she doesn't. She's got no shirt on you know her a little bit androgynous it is a little, yeah, because it's very skinny, so it doesn't show any in that regard yeah, in that regard, yeah so I think she just got.

Speaker 3 8:43

Her hair is wet and there's like water dripping from the side of it as it flips to the left side of her face I'm having a feeling that if I delve more into her discography I'm going to like it more. That being said, yeah, this one is uh, it's somewhat hard to listen to at times. I did do the little scroll to different parts of the song to see what it was, and apparently there's a bottle used as a slide guitar on one of the songs, so that's cool.

Speaker 1 9:25

Yeah, I think there was somebody who contributed with regard the sly guitar on this um very dissonant let's well, let's jump into the, the, the musicians like the, the personnel, because you got pj harvey and vocals. Uh, steve vaughn is my bassist, rob ellis drums percussion. So vaughn and ellis, I think, are her. Those are the. They're like a power trio sort of.

Speaker 4 9:47

And they actually are a part of the band.

Speaker 1 9:49

I think this is actually technically a band album with those two other guys. Drums are super loud, I found. Did you remember? Yes, they're hitting them like Bonham-esque, but with a little snare, a little, I don't know.

Speaker 3 10:05

When it gets to be uh, discordant and distorted, the drums kind of always are hitting that high hat. Yeah, to just level up, it's like the recording sounds like it's in a really like small bar yeah and it it comes off as that right.

Speaker 1 10:27

It comes off as what's it's supposed to be raw. That was the the style of the time.

Speaker 3 10:31

It was early that was alb, that was Albini. Right, that's Albini.

Speaker 1 10:35

Well, it's Albini it was. A lot of artists, though, too, wanted to go that way, because heavy metal was getting too ultra glam and it was getting kind of fake and polished. And Northern California and Washington. They wanted to get away from that. That was associated with Southern California, and so this is stripped down. We're in Minnesota. Everything is opposite of that, which was cool.

Speaker 2 11:05

And she's English.

Speaker 1 11:07

Right, yeah, but I think music was international. Yes, definitely, I mean at this point but I mean, this is more like a female being like at that time, doing like having it, like taking like control of a, of a narrative, and she's sort of an ambassador to like the, the, the female branch of of of grunge and alt rock and post post metal kind of Right.

Speaker 3 11:40

And she's but she's stated that she's doesn't half the time when she's creating, doesn't think of herself as a female, or half the time she's.

Speaker 1 11:51

You know so it's not yeah, her gender is irrelevant when she's creating it on stage and when she's presenting it's more of a human emotion, like when you're in a breakup.

Speaker 3 12:00

So which in thus is, you know, I guess, feminist? Because feminists aren't always. Despite the title of feminist, they don't always want to be pegged for a quote-unquote feminine role, right yeah?

Speaker 1 12:22

Well I mean, yeah, this isn't necessarily a choice. It's not a Taster's Choice moment for bros, right?

Speaker 3 12:30

No, it's not a bunch of raga, it's no barbershop raga here. Mary Tyler Moore might, she might.

Speaker 1 12:42

She might pop up here.

Speaker 3 12:44

She might like it. Well, with that in mind, We'll check in with her later.

Speaker 1 12:48

Yeah, exactly. Well, neither of us have anything more to add, so let's get in the tunes. Whoa, okay, wait of us have anything more to add, so let's get in the tunes Whoa, okay, wait, hold on. That's a good teaser.

"Analysis of "Rid of Me'"

Speaker 3 12:59

That was a little teaser, yeah.

Speaker 1 13:00

This is a song. Rid of me. It's probably the song most. If there was a hit on here, it would be this one. It's got 12 million plays.

Speaker 3 13:10

It's a title track.

Speaker 1 13:11

It's a title track, of course.

Speaker 3 13:21

Just get over it. Go out with somebody else.

Speaker 1 13:25

Okay, so with the title track, rid of me. Obviously this is some raw emotion that's going to happen here momentarily.

Speaker 3 13:33

I really like the guitar-drum unison here. It's very ominous.

Speaker 2 13:43

Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 13:46

Yeah, be really quiet.

Speaker 6 14:08

And all of a sudden, bam. You know what I think it is, that you're mental. Well said, cara. You know what I think it is.

Speaker 1 14:14

That you're mental, Well said.

Speaker 3 14:18

Garth, just based on her music. I don't think she's like that sentimental. Maybe At least. Yeah, maybe not.

Speaker 1 14:34

Now.

Speaker 3 14:38

Well, yeah, it's kind of monotone. Yeah, I was like this is one of the longest intros we've ever done, I think so so much opportunity. It's not even an intro, it's just part of the song.

Speaker 1 14:55

How many minutes are we in now? Yeah, we're still of the song. How many minutes are we in now? Yeah, we're still in the intro. This is two minutes. I like it. I saw this on concert like a YouTube moment for the song. It's great. The crowd at the end she like screams, like that last part.

Speaker 6 15:24

I'm not gonna be ignored, dan yeah.

Speaker 1 15:28

So there's a little little shout out to Glenn Close, not answering your calls.

Speaker 3 15:34

There's a little shout out to Glenn Close, not answering your calls.

Speaker 1 15:46

Yeah, shout out to those who have had some traumatic breakups. Shout out to like basically everybody.

Speaker 3 15:53

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 15:56

Let's see, rob Ellis is a pretty violent drummer.

Speaker 3 16:09

Are we in a different phase of the song? Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 16:14

I'll make you lick my injured face. I'm gonna twist your head off sale Till you say don't you wish you never, never, never, don't you, don't you wish you never, never, never. Don't. You don't you wish you never, never, never. Don't. You, don't you wish you never, never, never, don't you, don't you wish you Never, never matter. Don't you, don't you wish you Never, never matter. Don't you, don't you wish you? You don't want to talk about your problems Never, never matter. Don't you don't you wish you Never, never matter. Don't you, don't you wish you Never, never matter. Don't you, don't you wish you Never, never matter. Don't you, don't you wish you. You know what I think? It is that you're mental.

Speaker 6 17:06

I'm not gonna be ignored. You know what I think? It is that you're mental.

Speaker 4 17:24

Whoa what I think it is that you're mental whoa. Now she sings this at the end of the song, that's wrong, yeah, but she does it live too, and it's a.

Speaker 5 17:27

It's a crowd. You don't want to talk about your problem with you.

Speaker 6 17:30

Are you serious?

Speaker 1 17:31

I'm serious. Shout out to Ferris Bueller all right, okay, we are off now. This is the song that you did, right, yeah, yeah, this is called mist yeah, I needed a little drummer and a bass well, maybe in the hiatus I'll just uh pick up bass.

Speaker 4 17:50

I'll do the.

Speaker 1 17:54

I could probably lay this down.

Speaker 3 17:57

I mean easier said than done, I guess.

Speaker 1 18:05

Yeah, hey, listen. If you make it your mission, anything is possible.

Speaker 3 18:08

That's true. Please come down.

Speaker 1 18:19

Was she like at the bargaining phase now, what is this? Yeah, this is the bargaining phase of the stages of grief right.

Speaker 3 18:28

Right, oh, definitely, it's written in order, maybe yeah show yourself to me.

Speaker 2 18:44

So this is the anger phase.

Speaker 1 19:01

Okay, I'd burst in fall to the brim.

Speaker 3 19:04

Good call on the intro. It was one of the better moments for guitar. Yeah, for guitar, for guitar yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 19:20

You want to know what's wrong. I know what's wrong.

Speaker 2 19:27

Mary, come on, don't talk like that, that's just.

Speaker 4 19:29

Realistic.

Speaker 1 19:31

Shout out to Ted Knight.

Speaker 3 19:38

Crying Somebody's crying.

Speaker 4 19:41

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood. I think this is a good song.

Speaker 1 20:08

I'm down with this. Even she's being a whiner about it A little bit, you know, but I think she's being a whiner about it.

Speaker 3 20:14

A little bit, you know.

Speaker 1 20:16

But I think she's being sincere. The feeling is you know it's.

Speaker 3 20:22

It doesn't. Does it blow me away, it's cool.

Speaker 4 20:26

Did you blow me away or?

Speaker 1 20:27

something You're going to say no right, You're not blowing away.

Speaker 3 20:31

Well, maybe on this I do like. No, it's not. I'm blown away by the gravity of the way that they Mm-hmm the sort of crescendo and drop.

Speaker 1 20:46

Yeah, this is for somebody between the ages of 15 and 28, or even younger than that.

Speaker 3 20:56

Or midlife crisis, 35.

Speaker 1 21:00

Or 54 and above, basically, yeah, okay, this is my favorite song.

Speaker 3 21:07

Special Special Good lord this song is special.

Speaker 1 21:37

Alright, All right. Yeah, she's just going to need to keep her composure. I think this is just too All right. All right, PJ, Keep your composure.

Speaker 4 21:59

Don't talk like that.

Speaker 2 22:00

We've got to keep our composure. We've come too far. There's too much to lose. We've got to keep our composure, okay All right, don't text him again.

Speaker 1 22:13

Just don't do it. Yeah, exactly, don't page him again. Just don't do it. Yeah, exactly, don't page him. Yeah, cause it's 1993.

Speaker 3 22:17

And maybe the problem is you. Problem is you? Yeah, excuse me.

Speaker 5 22:22

Excuse you. You ought to spend a little more time dealing with yourself, a little less time worrying about what your brother does. Your brother, that's just an opinion, okay.

Speaker 3 22:35

Thank you, Charlie.

Speaker 1 22:36

Yeah, thanks.

Speaker 3 22:36

Winning.

Speaker 1 22:39

This is like before crack. I think Well, who knows I mean? What do I know?

Speaker 3 22:45

Crack was rampant then Like in 86.

Speaker 1 22:50

I think crack was like a 90s thing, or at least he was doing it in the 90s, but he was doing some other drug that was available that did the same thing, to your point yeah oh, oh, you're showing him my O-Face.

Speaker 4 23:26

Oh, oh, oh, you know what I'm talking about. Oh, nobody makes me bleed my own blood.

Speaker 3 23:43

I thought you would try A little harder. Now we're getting into like the angsty past, anger Right. I don't need angsty past, anger Right, I don't need him kind of phase.

Speaker 2 23:57

Yeah, whoa Damn, it.

Speaker 1 24:19

I don't know what talk about this. It sounds like it's in a basement bar and this is like it's kind of got like an open mic night kind of appeals to you. Ha ha, ha, ha, ha ha. She's like tight enough legs, can.

Speaker 6 24:52

I hump your leg for 15 uninterrupted seconds.

Speaker 4 24:55

Nice, yes, I mean no, brian, oh oh oh. You're showing her my oh face.

Speaker 3 25:08

Oh gosh.

Speaker 1 25:09

All right, all right. Dollar shots for the next 15 minutes.

Speaker 3 25:16

Tip your bartenders. Yeah, make sure you tip your bartenders.

Speaker 1 25:20

Put your hands together for the lovely Jasmine on center stage. That's cool.

Speaker 2 25:34

Did you blow on my hair or something? That's cool.

Speaker 5 25:36

Did you blow him away or?

Speaker 2 25:38

something. No, you must, no, you must not go away.

Speaker 1 25:45

It's like oh, they have a cover charge, what is it? $5? Oh fuck it. Who is it tonight? Bj Harvey? Oh fuck it, I don't know. All right.

Speaker 2 25:57

Let's just go ahead and see this. What?

Speaker 3 26:00

Kill you instead. Oh, that's not right.

Speaker 5 26:05

With all this talk about killing and 45 Magnums with the clip file down and the safety off. Oh, it's just all so confusing I won't, I won't, I won't.

Speaker 2 26:14

It's just all so confusing. I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't let you. He is a dead man.

Speaker 4 26:21

All right.

Speaker 1 26:24

The line of the movie right there.

Speaker 2 26:28

It's a pretty big gun All right.

Speaker 1 26:37

This is rub till it bleeds.

Speaker 3 26:40

Okay, of course.

Speaker 5 26:42

I always rub them and they would never fall off.

Speaker 1 26:49

There's a lot of sex stuff in this one. There's just so many. A lot of bleeding too, seems to be going through this difficult phase right.

Speaker 6 26:54

Oh, I don't know, it's a lot of sex stuff in this one. There's just so many. A lot of bleeding too.

Speaker 3 26:55

Seems to be going through this difficult phase right. Oh, it's a difficult phase. What phase? The puberty.

Speaker 5 27:05

Wait, just a minute.

Speaker 1 27:19

When's our waitress coming over?

Speaker 3 27:21

I'll take ten royal flushes, a set of onion rings.

Speaker 1 27:27

I should probably eat something, yeah, and like an Alabama slammer chaser.

Speaker 3 27:33

A brandy Alexander. Yeah for the DJ Steve portion of my night at the club Penner Blanco.

Speaker 1 27:47

So these guys are just like tuning their instruments. Are they going to play?

Speaker 2 27:52

I might be rubbing one in.

Speaker 1 27:55

Shout out to cartoon Joan of Arc. It's like let's burn this chick at the stake. Oh, I love steak. I'm not like other chicks, I'm rubbing one in.

Speaker 2 28:12

Oh gosh, oh gosh.

Speaker 1 28:17

Yeah.

Speaker 4 28:24

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood.

Speaker 1 28:29

Nobody I don't think you have a choice sometimes.

Speaker 3 28:39

That's the only bud you can please. I don't know. I kind of like this is winning you over. It's kind of winning me over. What do you think, Charlie?

Speaker 6 28:48

Why should he get to ditch when everybody else has to go? You could ditch, yeah.

Speaker 5 28:51

I'd ditch class I'm to go, you could ditch. Yeah, I ditched.

Speaker 3 28:55

Ross, I'm not ditching on this one.

Speaker 1 29:03

Rob Ellis really likes to bang to Ross oh.

Speaker 3 29:11

A little airplane going off the runway kind of effect there.

Speaker 1 29:15

And she's playing it. She's a pretty good guitar player. She plays cello, violin. She did some of the producing.

Speaker 3 29:24

Well, the problem is not her, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 29:31

Her voice can go up and down like flows, like the river Ganges. I'm just sitting with those words now. I can't believe I just said that.

Speaker 3 29:50

Shout out to the Indian listeners.

Speaker 1 29:53

Shout out to the Indian listeners, shout out to the Ganges out there.

Speaker 3 30:04

Oh yeah, all right, can I hump your leg for 15 uninterrupted seconds? All right, this song's winning me over. Single-handedly, I could. This is something they can get down to on Ham Hill. Hell yeah, her parents listen to Captain Beefheart. That's pretty cool. Oh, beefheart yeah, he's pretty avant-garde, okay.

Speaker 1 31:17

For the 70s. Yeah, shout out to ham hill iron age all right. Yeah, you could hear the sustain on that all right.

Speaker 2 31:31

So I mean, the next song is gonna be hook and it's a.

Speaker 1 31:32

You can hear the sustain on that, all right. So I mean, the next song is going to be Hook and it's a fucking horrible song. We'll listen to it a little bit at least. I mean I think it is. Yeah, just real quick. Her parents turned her on to Captain Beefheart. Got to check that. Got to check that guy out.

Speaker 3 31:50

You're a fan. I find a lot of his stuff to be hard to listen to, but yes, he makes songs that are not supposed to be possible with, like these, changing key signatures Okay.

Speaker 1 32:08

God, and then it's like a moving target kind of thing. Yeah, so he's trying to be really super clever, he's trying to be super clever and right.

Speaker 3 32:15

Sometimes it hits them and sometimes it doesn't.

Speaker 1 32:18

Gotcha Kind of like this song. Oh yeah, I don't know, are you more bullish on it than I am Than me, I mean, because I this is just like I can't even listen to it.

Speaker 3 32:29

Where's our waitress God?

Speaker 1 32:32

Yeah, this is exactly. This is like. They're like tuning right now.

Speaker 2 32:37

To me at least.

Speaker 3 32:47

Alright, are they insulting each other?

Speaker 5 32:51

Are you aware that I am rubber and you are glue and everything that you say to me bounces off of me and sticks to you?

Speaker 1 33:02

Oh, I don't know if I'm going to be able to.

Speaker 3 33:04

All right next.

Speaker 1 33:05

I can't go the distance. Okay, we're just going to fade out of that. All right, maybe now it's time for a palate cleanser, oh, or we can go to the next. Yeah, this next one. This is kind of a weird one too, I think it's.

Speaker 2 33:22

I'm coming up man-sized.

Speaker 1 33:26

It's man-sized.

Speaker 2 33:27

This is just.

Speaker 1 33:41

It looks man-tastic.

Speaker 2 33:49

That's great man.

Speaker 3 33:51

Well, Mary Tyler Moore, how are we feeling out there? Do you like it?

Speaker 2 33:57

I really like it Really.

Speaker 3 34:01

Okay, I don't believe you. Yeah, we don't believe you?

Speaker 1 34:05

Yeah, we don't know, that's great man.

Speaker 2 34:16

Oh man, good Lord, I'm big, I'm heading home. I'm not in size. Got my leather boots on, got my girl on the sheets a while.

Speaker 1 34:30

Yeah, this is kind of Mary.

Speaker 2 34:31

Catherine Callier, I'm not in size. I'm not in size, no need to shout.

Speaker 5 34:37

Are you aware that I am rubber and you are glue and everything you say to me bounces off of me and sticks to you?

Speaker 3 34:49

What is going on right now?

Speaker 1 34:52

Some going post-festive.

Speaker 2 34:54

I'm not going to be ignored. You know what I think? It is that your bed's awful. I think I should do it. Just get over it and go out with somebody else I sound like a cello.

Speaker 3 35:15

This is a difficult phase.

Speaker 6 35:17

Seems to be going through this difficult phase.

Speaker 3 35:21

Yeah, this is a difficult phase. Is that a light Light of my life? Yeah, this is a difficult phase.

Speaker 4 35:23

Set it alight Light of my life.

Speaker 1 35:27

Yeah, you mean like that.

Speaker 3 35:30

All work and no play makes PJ a very dull girl.

Speaker 1 35:33

Yes, highway 61 Revisited. This is written by Bob Dylan. Okay, so this builds up in there.

Speaker 3 35:59

So many words for her.

Speaker 1 36:18

Sounds like I Want Candy there's a group called Bow Wow, wow. I want candy. Sounds like that a little bit.

Speaker 2 36:37

I took that music, said louis the king got 40 red, white and blue shoe strings and a thousand telephones that won't ring. You're not gonna get rid of these things, he said.

Speaker 3 36:51

Now let me think for a minute, son uh, it's got spunk, that's for sure, oh yeah no, it's a good song. You tell me that I'll get back to the interstate what it is bro, it's good that this is only two minutes and 57 seconds.

Speaker 1 37:28

Yeah, but it's it's tolerable.

Speaker 2 37:33

It's a little catchy 12th night told first father that things weren't right. My complexion, she said, is much too white. He said come here and stare up into the light and said it's terrible.

Speaker 3 38:26

Oh, don't do that Okay.

Speaker 1 38:29

It's tolerable. Okay, so we got 50-foot Queenie. This is like a.

Speaker 3 38:36

Oh God this next one.

Speaker 1 38:39

Okay, this is a big deal this one, I think for some reason, first single yeah.

Speaker 2 38:57

Okay, that's what it is.

Speaker 1 38:59

Killed the chart. Yeah, that's what it is. It hit the chart, yeah that's what it is.

Speaker 3 39:09

It hit the charts In UK, in UK.

Speaker 1 39:12

Yeah, hey, there's nothing wrong with UK Shout out to the UK and she's from the UK. Well, yeah, so.

Speaker 3 39:29

This is like a Tony Hawk game song, Doing your nollies and your kickflips Exactly Eating your beef jerky for breakfast, lunch and dinner, you know.

Speaker 1 39:38

Exactly, it's a Spicoli rock.

Speaker 5 39:44

It's Spicoli, I got a knickerbatch.

Speaker 3 39:54

Is that how much you threw in the open mic tip jar.

Speaker 1 39:58

Yeah exactly. Snack lip Drop down, shout out to the surfers yeah exactly.

Speaker 6 40:00

Snack lip Core pack.

Speaker 2 40:02

Drop down, say bah.

Speaker 1 40:05

Shout out to the surfers.

Speaker 3 40:07

That was well done, well done, so pitted on this one 40 inches long.

Speaker 5 40:28

You're showing him my O face O O, this is so crazy. Yeah, this is totally.

Speaker 3 40:36

I love it, though oh cool, this is so crazy. Yeah, this is totally. I love it, though I I oh cool. Hey, you know, we left this england place because it was bogus. So if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, we'll just be bogus too yes, I think yeah well, there are no rules with pj, that's right well, but yeah, we don't hear it right.

Speaker 1 41:03

Well, but yeah, we don't Back then. No queenie, yeah, we don't have queenie. I'm making a political statement.

Speaker 3 41:09

Oh, fair, fair, but I'm sorry. No, we don't have a queen, you're right, I don't know.

Speaker 1 41:14

Shout out to England. Nevertheless, love you guys, keep listening. Hey, you know.

Speaker 3 41:20

Hey, we left.

Speaker 1 41:21

We left Spicoli just shut up. We don't need to go down there again, he's here.

Speaker 3 41:28

He's in the studio Yuri G.

Speaker 1 41:44

We're on Yuri G.

Speaker 2 41:51

Tell ya.

Speaker 3 41:54

He's a dead man.

Speaker 1 41:55

Yeah, she sounds like she's at her rock bottom, like this might be the time.

Speaker 3 42:01

Great drumming right now, I know.

Speaker 1 42:02

Rob Ellis is right now. I know Rob Ellis is crushing it.

Speaker 3 42:05

I keep going back to that he's not just a punk drummer here.

Speaker 1 42:12

Yeah, he's multi-talented.

Speaker 3 42:14

This is kind of like Calypso drumming.

Speaker 1 42:18

He goes in and out of styles.

Speaker 3 42:36

Okay, shout out to Yuri G and all the things that she does to you, oh.

Speaker 1 42:58

Okay, so this is about drugs in some way, I guess.

Speaker 3 43:02

I think so yeah.

Speaker 1 43:05

What does the 8-ball say? Shaking it up? All signs point to yes. Oh, do you you have that memory or the drugs taken, that memory? Uh yeah, memory is in the eye of the beholder. No, it's not. I don't know.

Speaker 2 43:41

Yeah, it is, this is it is. This is it looks man-tastic, this is.

Speaker 1 43:50

This is supposed to be a feminist album. We just keep going to 40-year-old virgins.

Speaker 3 43:54

But it's, it's man.

Speaker 1 43:56

This is a collage cast. This is a. This is a. That's what we're doing here, this is kind of androgynous. This reminds me of the Stooges. She's kind of like she's almost trying to channel what's his name.

Speaker 3 44:23

Iggy Pop. Okay, now I see what you're, what you're putting down that's what it feels like to me.

Speaker 1 44:29

Is that she's yeah, she's a, a british. Uh, yeah, she's iggy pop in a you know, recreated, you know, by gender and nationality and time period, kind of a thing.

Speaker 4 44:49

Okay.

Speaker 1 44:51

She's representing the punk strain of alt rock. That's what I'm trying, that's what I'm picking up. So this is another iteration of man Size. Oh, this is the man Size demo. That's great man, man.

Speaker 3 45:38

I like the bass build up on this, yeah.

Speaker 1 45:44

Man size, mach 2? I don't even know it. I'm confused.

Speaker 3 45:49

Shave that beard man, get the Mach 6 out.

Speaker 1 45:53

So the previous one was man Size, sex Dead. And then this is just man Size. Oh, is it going to be in your top three? It's not going to be in mine.

Speaker 3 46:02

Well, right now, I mean, I like Legs, rub-a-tool Bleeds and man Size.

Speaker 1 46:09

Man Size Sex Dead no this one's way better, because it's the demo version.

Speaker 3 46:14

Okay, it's a little less avant-garde, yeah, and that's why I like it. I don't know. Okay, okay, good Lord, I'm big.

Speaker 1 46:26

I like your optimism.

Speaker 3 46:34

Is this written from the point of view of a man?

Speaker 1 46:37

I have no idea. I think maybe she's trying to write this from the point of view of the guy that she just broke up with. Maybe Maybe she was dating some guy that saw her as a trophy and she's belittling.

Speaker 3 47:05

She's obsessed with, she's mocking, the obsession that men have with their size, even in 50-foot Queenie she says she's unimpressed with the macho posturings that her male counterpart parts engage in, you know, mocking their obsession of their hem measurements.

Speaker 1 47:29

Yeah, yeah. So it's about, yeah, mocking like I'm this size, that size that seems to be.

Speaker 3 47:38

I really liked the bragging the way rappers say their names over and over. She said I wanted to write something about a really bulshy character.

Speaker 1 47:53

Was that written recently, or was that at the time, I wonder?

Speaker 2 47:57

Probably at the time, I wonder, probably at the time.

Discussion of Top Three Songs

Speaker 1 48:03

Oh, it was like an inspiration for this song. Got it. Yeah, yeah, this is fabulous. Okay, I mean not that it's bad, but I'm just saying Because it's a little, it's knocking, yeah, any type of bravado.

Speaker 3 48:20

Right, it's anti-bravado. Yeah, yeah, round and round, round and round.

Speaker 1 48:41

Shout out to our sponsors Mococo, ah yeah, yeah, from the hairy slopes of Mount Nicaragua.

Speaker 3 48:50

It just goes round and round, yeah, and round and round.

Speaker 1 48:56

Shout out to Happy Fun Ball. It's still legal in 16 states. It's happy, it's fun, it's Happy Fun Ball. Remember Colon Blow that was. They should be one of our fake sponsors too.

Speaker 3 49:25

Shout out to Colon Blow. What does Sir David Attenborough think about the dryness?

Speaker 2 49:31

One day the land is so dry that the withered plants crunch to pieces underfoot.

Speaker 3 49:38

Okay, right.

Speaker 2 49:53

You leave me dry.

Speaker 3 49:57

You leave me dry. I need a little moistness for this song. Personally, A little mayonnaise, maybe. I need a little mayonnaise for this one. It's a little dry. Yeah, it's a little dry.

Speaker 5 50:08

Or maybe, yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 50:14

No this is the bottle cap solo or the bottleneck solo.

Speaker 3 50:20

Is she doing this? Yeah, I read somewhere that it's like a heineken bottle or something cool. Now we're getting into a little. I kind of like this A little raga, yeah.

Speaker 5 50:52

Oh the shot raga.

Speaker 3 50:54

There it is Sucking on a well.

Speaker 2 51:00

What.

Speaker 3 51:02

Sucking till. I'm white.

Speaker 5 51:04

Mother Shop Raga. Mother Shop Raga. Mother Shop Raga, mother Shop Raga. Leave me in joy.

Speaker 4 51:17

You leave me in joy. You leave me in joy. Be showing her my old face.

Speaker 1 51:30

All right.

Speaker 5 51:30

That was good.

Speaker 1 51:31

You know what that won me over? I was a fan of that. That's me.

Speaker 3 51:36

The land's so dry, oh man this is like Me.

Speaker 1 51:49

Jane is the name of this one.

Speaker 3 51:50

This is like Tarzan here, tarzan and Jane.

Speaker 1 51:54

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 51:56

Okay, okay, a little screaming. Nobody makes me bleed my own blood. I'm gonna freak out out there. Okay, gotta, keep our composure. I'm maintained and I'm trying to make sense. You're screaming. Don't hold it on me. Don't hold it on me. Don't hold it on me.

Speaker 6 53:12

What you know, gronk, gronk, gronk actually does Bitcoin, which is where he just chews on a handful of nickels.

Speaker 1 53:20

This is so crazy Too much to lose.

Speaker 5 54:12

Don't load it. Hey, hold on All right, here we go.

Speaker 6 54:15

I mean, even Gronk was like me, know that, not real money.

Speaker 1 54:18

It's like Tarzan Jane kind of thing Shout out to Nikki Glaser.

Speaker 4 54:25

All right.

Speaker 3 54:28

Snake is the next song oh gosh, Snake it up.

Speaker 1 54:32

All right, here we go.

Speaker 3 54:33

Sneaky.

Speaker 1 54:34

Snake.

Speaker 5 54:35

I'm a snake.

Speaker 3 54:59

I'm a snake. That was only a oh gosh. We're in the fire here. There's a snake in my boots here.

Speaker 5 55:25

Oh, wow, oh she's out of control.

Speaker 1 55:28

Call the fire department.

Speaker 2 55:38

This is out of control. I ate a true thing here.

Speaker 3 55:43

What rotten fruit inside of me. Oh Adam, oh Adam Got some beautiful stuff going on.

Speaker 1 55:53

Joshua, father of Jericho.

Speaker 6 56:06

Does that mean it's Well, it's one louder, isn't it?

Speaker 1 56:11

Oh so ecstasy All right.

Speaker 3 56:14

Oh gosh.

Speaker 1 56:15

This is. We're getting deep here. I think this is the last one. This is the last one, okay.

Speaker 3 56:24

Oh man, this is immediately already in my top three. Okay, yeah, where's this song? The whole album what, what?

Speaker 2 56:43

What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what what.

Speaker 1 57:05

What, what, what. This is like it's got PJ heavy. This is heavy stuff.

Speaker 2 57:24

That's some heavy shit, man.

Speaker 3 57:29

Isn't this? This is like heavy. Yes, three people Really just dialing in the heaviness here Floating. I don't know what that was Shout out to Brighton, shout out to the Gulls. I like this little guitar feedback loop. Yeah, mary, mary, how are we feeling? Do you like it, mary?

Speaker 1 58:45

I really like it. That's what she's going to say.

Speaker 6 58:51

I really like it Really.

Speaker 1 59:04

This is Zeppelin-esque With a little bit of Black Sabbath, and she's the guitarist. You know it's pretty good. It's pretty good. That's more than tolerable.

Speaker 6 59:30

Seems to be going through this difficult phase right now. I think I should do it Just get over it, go out with somebody else.

Speaker 1 59:42

This is the despair stage. And then the album ends we didn't. Yeah. It's like there's. It didn't resolve. I was hoping there'd be some hope or some positive thing at the end, but it's like no, we're at despair Chaos. Thank you Good night.

Speaker 3 1:00:07

Well, we kind of had to see that coming.

Speaker 1 1:00:10

But it doesn't take away from it being badass.

Speaker 3 1:00:21

I'm not going to be ignored, especially when I'm drawn drugs.

Speaker 1 1:00:23

Yeah, I could be no more than drugs, but this doesn't sound like while you're on ecstasy, like it's usually like oh, you love everything kind of a.

Speaker 3 1:00:30

Thing well so I think it's like positional.

Speaker 1 1:00:33

Yeah, exactly, I love, love well, so what are we talking here? You know top three. What do you? What are you thinking? Let's bring, uh, let's bring that to the forefront here, all right, what do you? What are you thinking for your top?

Speaker 3 1:00:51

uh, three, rub, rub till it bleeds. I'm going to go with three, oh yeah, that's a good one it's got some angst that I didn't know I I needed and enjoyed yeah, okay, yeah, I'm gonna go number three.

Speaker 1 1:01:12

Yeah, I think the same thing rubbed till it bleeds.

Speaker 3 1:01:15

Nice.

Speaker 1 1:01:15

That's my number three as well. Yep, Great song, Good look and uh get out the band-aids. That's right. What's your number two?

Speaker 3 1:01:25

Um missed gone missed yeah.

Speaker 5 1:01:28

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:01:28

Sort of a less punk guitar part. That was needed for the rest of the, the really heavy stuff.

Speaker 1 1:01:40

It's kind of slow drip for that I'm going to agree. That's going to be my number two as well. I mean I can't lie, I mean it is my. I think you're right. It's a better song than rub till it bleeds by a little bit, you know, by some. Yeah, so yeah, but the thing was for me there was a I don't want. There's one song that was close to Rub Till it. Pleads for me for number three. But I'm sorry, I'm sort of interrupting you. What let's get to you to your number one.

PJ Harvey Album Discussion

Speaker 3 1:02:18

We'll go in ecstasy. Last song oh, it was a sleeper, uh, honorable mention to me, jane. Yes, uh, and man size? Honestly, they were close to being on the list, right, not a man man size sex debt. Man size on side two yep the only real song that I probably would go for listening to. Get again would be missed and rub till it bleeds. Regardless of my choice of ecstasy as the number one, it still has a lot of that like discordant, like yeah, yeah, that was my number one too.

Speaker 1 1:03:01

Also, ecstasy was my number one, and it's like the least like this, the third to the least listened to song, like in terms of the number of plays, like by far it's a landslide. Rid of me. Well, that was my number four. I was gonna make it my number three, but I Rub Till it Bleeds is a little bit better, but I do like Rid of Me a lot. If there was a hit on this, I think we would exclude that one and maybe 50 Foot Queenie for whatever it did in Britain.

Speaker 1 1:03:30

But, nevertheless, I came away liking it a little bit more than I did coming into it. I listened to this a couple of times before this.

Speaker 3 1:03:39

Same. I had never heard of this group or PJ Harvey until you had recommended it. I'd never heard her.

Speaker 1 1:03:46

Yeah, she's huge.

Speaker 3 1:03:48

Well, I had no idea, and that's good for me to do this homework. Assignment of debaucherousness.

Speaker 1 1:03:57

Yeah, I've never gotten into it this much. I remember on the scene back in the day, PJ Harvey was the buzz. It's like, yeah, I heard wisps of it, Heard a song here and there I'm like, ah, this is avant-garde. This really sounds kind of cool. But I'm listening to this right now. Now, this is our opportunity to dig deep, and yeah. I mean any last words, man, I mean we're going to be taking our break. We want to thank everybody for continuing to listen.

Speaker 3 1:04:25

Stay dry out there or stay wet or whatever.

Speaker 1 1:04:28

Honorable mentioned the song Dry on this, by the way. Yeah, exactly, but you're right. It was a good one too. I thought right, but you're right.

Speaker 3 1:04:33

Yeah, it was a good one too. I thought right yeah, stay high stay low stay wet, stay dry, all right.

Speaker 1 1:04:39

And we're going to see you probably the next four or five weeks. We'll touch base here and there We'll drop a little thing Rock on or jazz on. All right rock on jazz, on All right later Woo.