PJ Song Survey

[yarnforhair]

Taken from the facebook group "if you don't like PJ Harvey, you're probably not worth knowing"; thought it'd be fun/interesting:

SURVEY: Which PJ song...
Makes you smile: A Woman A Man Walked By
Makes you cry: White Chalk
Makes you laugh: Sheela-Na-Gig
Makes you want to dance: Sixteen Fifteen Fourteen
Makes you want to rock out: Meet Ze Monsta, Heela, Taut
Makes you want to sing along: Harder
Makes you wish you were a child again: Grow Grow Grow
Is played most often on your iTunes: Taut
Is your all-time favorite: Taut
Is better performed live than it is on recording: Big Exit
Is better on recording than it is performed live: Pocket Knife
Should be shorter: Cat On The Wall
Should be longer: Harder
Should have more lyrics: The Northwood
Should be longer AND have more lyrics: Claudine My Inflatable One
Should have been put on an album but wasn't: The Faster I Breathe The Further I Go
Should be performed live more often: Easy, though it was never performed. Or Dance.
Should have been a music video but wasn't: The Mountain
Has lyrics that are unbelievably profound: The Bay
Has lyrics that confuse you a little bit: Sheela Na Gig at first
Has lyrics that confuse you very much so: Naked Cousin
Has lyrics that you had trouble understanding until you looked them up: Primed and Ticking; I think I just wasn't paying attention enough.
Will be played at your funeral: Rid of Me really though, I've already told people that any and all PJ will be played at my funeral
Reminds you of someone you love: Electric Light
Tells your life story: Is This Desire?
Turns you on: Harder or This Is Love (the first line just says it all)
Depresses you: Before Departure
Might give you a headache if you turned it up too loud: Rid Of Me
Could you listen to all day and never get sick of: Water
Would make great background music for fucking (whether or not you have actually played this song in the background during sex is irrelevant): Ecstasy or Working For The Man

[Pitifuljoy]

SURVEY: Which PJ song...
Makes you smile: Lately, its Pig Will Not. I love it
Makes you cry: White Chalk
Makes you laugh: again, Pig Will Not
Makes you want to dance: The Sky Lit Up
Makes you want to rock out: Big Exit, Me Jane, Who the Fuck?
Makes you want to sing along: No Girl So Sweet
Makes you wish you were a child again: Hmm, I don't think PJ's music evokes such a feeling
Is played most often on your iTunes: No Girl So Sweet
Is your all-time favorite: Too many to list
Is better performed live than it is on recording: All of Uh Huh Her
Is better on recording than it is performed live: I don't know?
Should be shorter: Seagulls
Should be longer: Civil War Correspondent
Should have more lyrics: I think they are all fine really
Should be longer AND have more lyrics: Same answer as above
Should have been put on an album but wasn't: 66 Promises
Should be performed live more often: Angelene
Should have been a music video but wasn't: Pig Will Not
Has lyrics that are unbelievably profound: I really need to brush up on PJ's lyrics
Has lyrics that confuse you a little bit: "I think I'm a Mother"
Has lyrics that confuse you very much so: "Teclo" for one, what's a teclo exactly? lol
Has lyrics that you had trouble understanding until you looked them up: Meet Ze Monsta
Will be played at your funeral: Never really thought about it
Reminds you of someone you love: To Talk To You
Tells your life story: Rid of Me
Turns you on: Ecstasy, Me-Jane
Depresses you: The entire White Chalk album
Might give you a headache if you turned it up too loud: City of No Sun
Could you listen to all day and never get sick of: To Bring You My Love
Would make great background music for fucking (whether or not you have actually played this song in the background during sex is irrelevant): The entire To Bring You My Love album


yeah I suck at these things

[bluesman]

Makes you smile: Legs (i'm a horror hound)
Makes you cry: We Float
Makes you laugh: Me-Jane
Makes you want to dance: The Slow Drug
Makes you want to rock out: Joe
Makes you want to sing along: Highway '61 Revisited
Makes you wish you were a child again: Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
Is played most often on your iTunes: Have an ipod but rarely use it, how 'bout my turntable: Rid Of Me (would never play a single track though, whole side if not both sides )
Is your all-time favorite: Is This Desire? , changes on a daily basis
Is better performed live than it is on recording: TAUT
Is better on recording than it is performed live: Victory
Should be shorter: Big Exit
Should be longer: No Child Of Mine
Should have more lyrics: The Slow Drug
Should be longer AND have more lyrics: No Child Of Mine
Should have been put on an album but wasn't: Primed & Ticking
Should be performed live more often: Dress No Girl So Sweet
Should have been a music video but wasn't: Plants & Rags
Has lyrics that are unbelievably profound: Dear Darkness
Has lyrics that confuse you a little bit: Who The Fuck
Has lyrics that confuse you very much so: Naked Cousin
Has lyrics that you had trouble understanding until you looked them up:
Will be played at your funeral: Before Departure
Reminds you of someone you love: Fountain
Tells your life story: M-Bike
Turns you on: TBYMY
Depresses you: When Under Ether
Might give you a headache if you turned it up too loud: Leaving California
Could you listen to all day and never get sick of: Fountain
Would make great background music for fucking (whether or not you have actually played this song in the background during sex is irrelevant): Ecstasy, Heela

[karloz]

Makes you smile: Down By The Water
Makes you cry: To Bring You My Love
Makes you laugh: None
Makes you want to dance: Pocket Knife
Makes you want to rock out: Snake
Makes you want to sing along: Water
Makes you wish you were a child again: Grow, Grow, Grow
Is played most often on your iTunes: No Girl So Sweet
Is your all-time favorite: To Bring You My Love
Is better performed live than it is on recording: Grow, Grow, Grow
Is better on recording than it is performed live: Taut
Should be shorter: None
Should be longer: None
Should have more lyrics: None
Should be longer AND have more lyrics: No Child Of Mine
Should have been put on an album but wasn't: Who Will Love Me Now?
Should be performed live more often: No Girl So Sweet, Water (TBYML era version). Goodnight (she could have done a huge version in the WC tour ;_;,
Should have been a music video but wasn't: | taut | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8PjjsCwak (that's why I did it XD :P )
Has lyrics that are unbelievably profound: Plants And Rags
Has lyrics that confuse you a little bit: Joe
Has lyrics that confuse you very much so: Missed
Has lyrics that you had trouble understanding until you looked them up: None, I guess
Will be played at your funeral: Before Departure
Reminds you of someone you love: You Come Through
Tells your life story: No Girl So Sweet
Turns you on: Snake
Depresses you: B4 Departure
Might give you a headache if you turned it up too loud: Pig Will Not
Could you listen to all day and never get sick of: Good Fortune
Would make great background music for fucking (whether or not you have actually played this song in the background during sex is irrelevant): Snake (yep, I'm weird)

[alonbp]

Bluesman and Karloz, are you aware to the fact that No Child of Mine does have a longer version, with a lot more lyrics? It's on Before the Poison, PJ gave it to Marianne Faithfull.

Makes you smile: Good Fortune
Makes you cry: The Piano
Makes you laugh: AWAMWB, Pig Will Not
Makes you want to dance: 16, 15, 14
Makes you want to rock out: Rid of Me
Makes you want to sing along: I sing along to pretty much everything, I'm awful like that.
Makes you wish you were a child again: White Chalk? I don't know, it has a relevant line in it.
Is played most often on your iTunes: on my last.fm, it's Shame. I love it to death.
Is your all-time favorite: Impossible to choose. But The Dancer
Is better performed live than it is on recording: Electric Light
Is better on recording than it is performed live: The Devil, I guess.
Should be shorter: We Float
Should be longer: Broken Harp
Should have more lyrics: I don't know.
Should be longer AND have more lyrics: She might as well add lyrics to the extended version of Broken Harp.
Should have been put on an album but wasn't: Memphis.
Should be performed live more often: Is this Desire
Should have been a music video but wasn't: The Mountain, Polly should direct it the way she talked about it in the White Chalk epk.
Has lyrics that are unbelievably profound: Broken Harp
Has lyrics that confuse you a little bit: Meet Ze Monsta
Has lyrics that confuse you very much so: Can't choose.
Has lyrics that you had trouble understanding until you looked them up: I didn't understand a word of No Girl So Sweet before I looked it up.
Will be played at your funeral: Before Departure
Reminds you of someone you love: Is it terrible I don't have an answer for this?
Tells your life story: Don't know.
Turns you on: Harder.
Depresses you: The Soldier.
Might give you a headache if you turned it up too loud: Cat on the Wall.
Could you listen to all day and never get sick of: 66 Promises.
Would make great background music for fucking (whether or not you have actually played this song in the background during sex is irrelevant): Black Hearted Love.

[cat on the wall]

Makes you smile: The Devil
Makes you cry: Plants & rags
Makes you laugh: Leaving California
Makes you want to dance: C'mon Billy
Makes you want to rock out: Rid of Me
Makes you want to sing along: So many!
Makes you wish you were a child again: Nina for some reason..
Is played most often on your iTunes: Still a discman for me but a LOT are!
Is your all-time favorite: Not fair because it changes lol.
Is better performed live than it is on recording: When she performs Is This Desire with the strings (or bells?) in the background!
Is better on recording than it is performed live: The Wind.
Should be shorter: Nothing.
Should be longer: The Devil
Should have more lyrics: The Devil
Should be longer AND have more lyrics:Above^^
Should have been put on an album but wasn't: Nina!
Should be performed live more often: Cat on the wall
Should have been a music video but wasn't: The Life & Death of Mr Badmouth
Has lyrics that are unbelievably profound: Is This Desire
Has lyrics that confuse you a little bit: One Line
Has lyrics that confuse you very much so: Dunno.
Has lyrics that you had trouble understanding until you looked them up: Working for the man the vocals are hard to hear
Will be played at your funeral: Rid Of Me JK...not sure
Reminds you of someone you love: That was my veil
Tells your life story: not possible
Turns you on: C'mon Billy
Depresses you: Angel
Might give you a headache if you turned it up too loud: Kamikaze
Could you listen to all day and never get sick of: Plants & rags
Would make great background music for fucking (whether or not you have actually played this song in the background during sex is irrelevant): Oh My Lover

[bluesman]

Bluesman and Karloz, are you aware to the fact that No Child of Mine does have a longer version, with a lot more lyrics? It's on Before the Poison, PJ gave it to Marianne Faithfull.

yep well aware, highly recommended disc to anyone that doesn't have it by the way, it's great. But as you said she gave it to Marianne. Would have loved to here that version with polly's vocal.

[Pollyphoniac]

Bluesman and Karloz, are you aware to the fact that No Child of Mine does have a longer version, with a lot more lyrics? It's on Before the Poison, PJ gave it to Marianne Faithfull.

yep well aware, highly recommended disc to anyone that doesn't have it by the way, it's great. But as you said she gave it to Marianne. Would have loved to here that version with polly's vocal.

this is not meant to disparage Marianne, but frankly I would have loved to hear all those songs (that Polly wrote or co-wrote) with Polly's vocal (and The Mystery Of Love especially).

[bluesman]

Bluesman and Karloz, are you aware to the fact that No Child of Mine does have a longer version, with a lot more lyrics? It's on Before the Poison, PJ gave it to Marianne Faithfull.

yep well aware, highly recommended disc to anyone that doesn't have it by the way, it's great. But as you said she gave it to Marianne. Would have loved to here that version with polly's vocal.

this is not meant to disparage Marianne, but frankly I would have loved to hear all those songs (that Polly wrote or co-wrote) with Polly's vocal (and The Mystery Of Love especially).

For sure, I've been listening to Faithfull since I was a kid and love her but how could anyone listen to those songs and not wonder how they would sound if Polly had recorded them. Nice thing to do, kind of like paying respect to the elders lol

[Shadowboxer]

Makes you smile: This Is Love
Makes you cry: Broken Harp
Makes you laugh: Working For The Man, M-Bike
Makes you want to dance: Dress, Down By The Water, The Wind
Makes you want to rock out: Meet Ze Monsta, Hook, Long Snake Moan, 50FT Queenie
Makes you want to sing along: Big Exit
Makes you wish you were a child again: Good Fortune
Is played most often on your iTunes: April
Is your all-time favorite: Meet Ze Monsta
Is better performed live than it is on recording: The Darker Days of Me & Him
Is better on recording than it is performed live: A Perfect Day Elise
Should be shorter: Horses In My Dreams
Should be longer: My Beautiful Leah
Should have more lyrics: ?
Should be longer AND have more lyrics: Snake
Should have been put on an album but wasn't: Harder, Uh Huh her
Should be performed live more often: Long Snake Moan
Should have been a music video but wasn't: Meet Ze Monsta
Has lyrics that are unbelievably profound: The Dancer
Has lyrics that confuse you a little bit: Reeling
Has lyrics that confuse you very much so: Long Snake Moan
Has lyrics that you had trouble understanding until you looked them up: No Girl So Sweet
Will be played at your funeral: The End jk - I don't know, I wouldn't play her at my funeral.
Reminds you of someone you love: It's You
Tells your life story: We Float - the chorus
Turns you on: Harder, Rub Til It Beeds, Monsta, Hook, Rid Of Me
Depresses you: The White Chalk album
Might give you a headache if you turned it up too loud: Ecstsay
Could you listen to all day and never get sick of: Meet Ze Monsta, Black Hearted Love
Would make great background music for fucking (whether or not you have actually played this song in the background during sex is irrelevant): Rub 'Til It Bleeds

[pink_and_chipped]

SURVEY: Which PJ song...
Makes you smile: Rid of Me, Working for the Man
Makes you cry: When Under Ether
Makes you laugh: 50ft Queenie
Makes you want to dance: Powered Wig Machine, My Beautiful Leah
Makes you want to rock out: Harder, Victory
Makes you want to sing along: Angelene, A Perfect Day Elise, Black Hearted Love, Shame
Makes you wish you were a child again: Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
Is played most often on your iTunes: Harder
Is your all-time favorite: White Chalk, Angelene, Black Hearted Love, Harder
Is better performed live than it is on recording: No Girl So Sweet, White Chalk
Is better on recording than it is performed live: The Wind
Should be shorter: Lying in the Sun
Should be longer: No Child of Mine
Should have more lyrics: Seagulls :-)
Should be longer AND have more lyrics: ... Hardly Wait?
Should have been put on an album but wasn't: Bows and Arrows, Sweeter than Anything
Should be performed live more often: The River
Should have been a music video but wasn't: Angelene
Has lyrics that are unbelievably profound: The Bay, Missed
Has lyrics that confuse you a little bit:
Has lyrics that confuse you very much so: Naked Cousin
Has lyrics that you had trouble understanding until you looked them up: It was a song on White Chalk, but I've forgotten which one ...
Will be played at your funeral: ...
Reminds you of someone you love: Meet Za Monsta
Tells your life story: Is This Desire?
Turns you on: Harder, Crawl Home, This Mess We're In
Depresses you: Desperate Kingdom of Love
Might give you a headache if you turned it up too loud: Uh Huh Her (the song, not the album), Snake
Could you listen to all day and never get sick of: Black Hearted Love, Henry Lee, This Mess We're In (Polly singing both vocals version)
Would make great background music for fucking (whether or not you have actually played this song in the background during sex is irrelevant): Harder, The Slow Drug

[karloz]

I didn't knew there was a larger version of "No Child Of Mine"

Me wants!!!!!

[pink_and_chipped]

I didn't knew there was a larger version of "No Child Of Mine"

Me wants!!!!!

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[karloz]

Thank you so much!

Does that means that "No Child Of Mine" is a cover?

[bluesman]

Thank you so much!

Does that means that "No Child Of Mine" is a cover?

Faithful covering Polly's song, not the other way around