P J HARVEY RID OF ME 12" VINYL LP 1992 14 Track ILPS 8002 514 696 1st Press VGC+
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PJ HARVEY RID OF ME 12" VINYL LP 14 TRACKS 1992 ILPS8002514696 1st Press VGC+. Condition is "Used".
Sleeve: Very Good Plus Inner Sleeve: Excellent
Vinyl: Very Good Plus - Record surfaces may show some signs of wear and may have slight scuffs or very light scratches that don't affect one's listening experience and are of a cosmetic nature only, not affecting the actual playback as a whole.
I have cleaned and play tested the album and it sounds great. There is negligible surface noise in the very quietest moments of the songs, but in my opinion does not affect the enjoyment.
This is fantastic album and features 50ft Queenie, which is probably one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded, well I think it is.
I'm selling a lot of my vinyl and CD collection, because as the kids have grown I have simply run out of storage room. Here's an online review if you don't know the record.
ONLINE REVIEW:
"...A tough listen, even at its comparative prettiest, but an essential one that demands your attention from beginning to end. And thoroughly rewards your effort. She went onto to become an alt.Rock megastar, but this captures her at her rawest rock beginnings, and is quite simply awesome!..."
Polly Jean Harvey’s biggest albums may have followed in its wake – 1995’s To Bring You My Love was a year-end number one almost across the board, and 2000’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea was an overdue Mercury Prize triumph – but this striking second LP remains one of the Dorset-born singer’s most-loved releases.
But it’s an awkward record to pour one’s affections over; a snarling affair that barks and lashes out like a beast cornered. The artwork is striking, an apparently topless Harvey flicking a head of entrails-alike hair from, presumably, a bathroom body of water, and the music contained within the packaging is equally as memorable. Largely recorded alongside celebrated engineer Steve Albini, who allows each compositional element space to flex and flail, it’s a collection of songs so close to the bone of subject matter that to cut them would simply blunt the blade.
Amazingly, Rid of Me represented Harvey’s first album for a major label – nowadays, such a risk on a relatively underground artist, whose material is hardly suited to significant radio rotation, is unheard of. But Island’s confidence in their new signing was vindicated when Rid of Me debuted at three on the domestic albums chart, paving the way for Harvey’s future albums to become hits. Also, her rising profile enabled a handful of angst-ridden female songwriters to emerge to prominence, not least Canadian vocalist Alanis Morrissette, whose worldwide smash Jagged Little Pill took its share of cues from Harvey’s bare-all performances.
From which Man-Size Sextet – the one track not recorded with Albini – and 50ft Queenie were selected as singles, though neither possesses the attractive warmth of later cuts like Down By the Water and Good Fortune. But that’s the point, really: Rid of Me isn’t intended as an easy listen. It’s a deeply personal experience, one that presents lyrical catharsis to the fore beside barren arrangements (the album was the last to feature the trio of Harvey, Rob Ellis and Steven Vaughan) to stir the soul like few records of its kind. Even several years on, Harvey’s much-imitated style sounds remarkably fresh, her passion complemented by some enthrallingly naked musicianship.
A tough listen then, even at its comparative prettiest, but an essential one that demands your attention from beginning to end. And thoroughly rewards your effort. She went onto to become an alt.Rock megastar, but this captures her at her rawest rock beginnings and is quite simply awesome!
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