PJ Harvey Tuesday #20: “Red Right Hand”
A brand-new PJ release is also huge in the context of PJ Harvey’s romantic history.
PJ Harvey Tuesday #19: “Taut”
PJ wrote the words in a collaboration with John Parish that is both literary and bonkers.
PJ Harvey Tuesday #18: “Good Fortune”
I’ve been spinning some deep cuts the last two PJ Harvey Tuesdays, so this week I’m throwing out a crowd pleaser: “Good Fortune,” off 2000’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.
Not Quite Fourteen
On September 11, 2001, I was two weeks into high school, a month away from turning fourteen. I was getting ready for school in my bedroom…
PJ Harvey Tuesday #17: “The Faster I Breathe, the Further I Go”
“The Faster I Breathe, The Further I Go,” a song not by Morrissey but by PJ Harvey, was used on the soundtrack to a very bad film Harvey was in.
PJ Harvey Tuesday #16: “Maniac”
This is a continuation of the PJ Harvey Tuesday series started at the Rumpus. You can see the Rumpus installments here and the rest of the…
PJ Harvey Tuesday #15: “Dress”
Like many of her early songs, it’s full of #misandry, which is made all the more delicious by the fact that all her bandmates are men.
PJ Harvey #14: “Pocket Knife”
I don’t have a shiny-bladed pocket knife to prove my point, but I have a PJ Harvey song, which I think is close enough.
PJ Harvey Tuesday #13: “Joy”
If “A Perfect Day Elise” sketched some curlicues branching off the story it was based on, “Joy” just goes ahead and dumps the inkwell on the page.
PJ Harvey Tuesday #12: “The Words That Maketh Murder”
Warfare might seem an odd topic for an old-school ’90s rocker who made her name roaring about broken hearts, but in a certain way it makes sense.
The Tusk 