https://youtu.be/6T7popeC_5Q?t=264Robert Plant crediting Polly for the decision to work with Albini at around 4:24
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and a few comments from Elvis Costello
https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/ind ... April_1994Q: Have you heard anyone who's made you fear for your job?
I don't think anyone would want my job (laughs). PJ Harvey I really liked for the sound and the overall commitment. I loved Björk's album. To me it sounded like a dance album arranged for a jazz quartet. I've always liked her voice though. I remember going to see her with The Sugarcubes and your man with the trumpet was shouting his fucking head off. I was like, Shuddup! I can't hear her sing! Lyrically, I liked Aimee Mann's record. She has that ability, like Chris Difford, to draw you into her world through sheer attention to detail. To me, it's very reassuring that three of the albums I've liked most are by women. The guys are just boring at the moment, the young guys more boring than anyone. There's too much shoe-gazing and "Help me feel my pain" music and "Mummy I wet my trousers again" music. It just doesn't say anything to me.
Q: If they ever printed the lyrics to Get Happy!! people would be saying, Oh so that's what he's singing!
(Laughs) But isn't that fun? I much preferred R.E.M. before they started giving you the words. It was much less interesting when I found out what he was singing. It seems a shame to write them down because the fumbling for the thought in the moment that he did it, with a lovely expression of the voice, was actually more touching. He always stops short of really letting go, doesn't he? He's not a full-out type of singer. But I loved the first two albums when you didn't know what the hell he was on about. I found the same thing with PJ Harvey. The atmosphere of it is great but I had no idea what she was singing about and do you know what? I don't care. I'm not the right age. From what I could gather, it seemed to be a lot about blood and fucking. But I don't need to pore over it like someone who identifies directly with her. I don't want to be one of these middle-aged guys who turns up with the baseball hat on the wrong way round.
https://elviscostello.info/wiki/index.p ... r_24,_1994Elvis Costello and others program their ideal Christmas night TV schedule.
9.05pm — The Sublime And The Ridiculous
A Christmas blockbuster of unforgettable music moments from TV's archives. Highlights include Van Morrison (vocals and drums!) and The Chieftains with a storming St Pat's Day rendition of "Raglan Road"; NBC's Tonight Show host Jay Leno following a bizarre line of questioning into the messy end of sheep farming following PJ Harvey's mighty solo version of "Rid Of Me"; a pasty-faced Rolling Stones sitting cross-legged at the feet of Howlin' Wolf in a vintage US clip; Daisy Chainsaw on The Word; sensitive '70s singer-songwriter Judy Sill breaks down and begs OGWT viewers to "please buy my album" so that she may avoid the martyrdom of opening for "snotty rock 'n' roll bands" — without any obvious irony, she then performs her fine song "Jesus Was A Crossmaker"; an extremely drunken singer is flown in painful pantomime harness and dumped onto studio floor in TOTP's rather literal visual interpretation of "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" (artist unknown).
https://elviscostello.info/wiki/index.p ... r_10,_2003yes, the Clash, who has taken up the legacy? What remains of them?
Not much, Strummer himself for years had a band, the Mescaleros, which went in a completely different direction than the Clash. He was an extremely gifted person, he had an extraordinary open-mindedness. There are bands that apparently have nothing, or little, to do with punk: Radiohead's Thom Yorke and PJ Harvey. I think she is one of the most intense performers today, she is incredible, deep and strong like Howlin' Wolf.
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