St. Vincent (Annie Clark) on
A Perfect Day Elise, kind of similar to her comments in the video from 2014 linked earlier in the thread:
Quote:
Do you remember the first time you heard PJ Harvey? Annie Clark does.
"This was my introduction to PJ Harvey, on 120 Minutes on MTV. 120 Minutes was a show where they played rock music, hosted by Matt Pinfield.
"I saw this video in '98 or something, and I was just like, 'What the fuck is this? This is so cool. This scares me'."
"I went to the CD store the next day and I bought [Harvey's 1998 album Is This Desire?], and I bought [Harvey's 1995 album] To Bring You My Love, because the cover was like a fucked up Ophelia. I was like, 'What is this?'.
"At first I listened to Is This Desire? and I was like, 'I don't know, this scares me. There's something that really scares me here'. And then it became one of my absolute favourite records ever.
For Clark, the darkness of the music that came out of the UK in the late 90s was especially affecting.
"The late 90s in England, after the sunny side of the Britpop thing, it was just all this very narcotic music, like Portishead. Just this dark shit. It was really, really exciting.
"Anyway, this is a great song. PJ Harvey should be knighted, as far as I'm concerned."
https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-re ... u/13377112