The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

I know this is going to sound typically ungrateful, but I was expecting more unreleased stuff since the reissues campaign started, this was the chance of a lifetime. It's still cool though. Oh and I don't understand why the demos of 'You Come Through' and 'Cat on the Wall' weren't added to the "Uh ...

DrDark wrote:^ Yes, it's essentially the same as 2016 edition with the addition of the 11 pages from Nov of 2020 and 4 pages of new material by Stephen Trousse on the demos, up through White Chalk
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thank you for all the details!

Out now. A new updated version
https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/blogs/introducing-the-deluxe-ultimate-music-guide-to-pj-harvey-131103/



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If anybody has the chance to browse it, can you confirm if besides ...

I just noticed there is no demo for "You Come Through", that's weird!
Also No Child of Mine (but that's not weird) and "Cat On the Wall" are missing, but the latter has been already out as "97 Degrees"

This really puzzles me, cause the 4-track version of 'Who the Fuck?' was also released as a B ...

Yes, excellent read. Thanks desparateK!

Chapter 7 of Blandford's biography is interesting regarding the tapes for Is This Desire:

thank you for transcribing this from the biography, my copy's been at my mother's for ages and all these details weren't fresh in my memory. I woud love to see ITD ...

This has just gone online and it's wonderful. John gives great insight about his favourite PJ recordings and it's specially interesting to read his memories about the making of ITD?

https://t.co/kNWMnHxB3g?amp=1

maybe it wasn't necessary to "release" it, and have collections of the most interesting/different versions of her known repertoire and mix them with unreleased demos from each era instead.

I can see your point, but I guess the label/PJ decided to follow the same template as the original Dry Demos ...

The fact that records as "To Bring You My Love" and "Is This Desire?" used so much stuff from the demos (I expected the latter to be more different for some reason) leave me wondering if this collection definitely should have been approached differently. I enjoyed the raw, different versions of 'The ...

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“Angelene,” a somber monologue sung from the perspective of the “prettiest mess you’ve ever seen,” (...)

And what of the 15-second “Angelene (Research Hook)” that backed up the original song’s single and isn’t even on YouTube? Perhaps she’s saving those for ...

Surprised no one’s posted this here yet. You can hear Ben Wishaw discussing things he loves, including his friend PJ Harvey’s “The Garden,” on the new podcast Things I Love. They play a good chunk of the demo.

https://linktr.ee/pjharvey

thank you for this. it's interesting how many times the ...

In my humble opinion, this is another example of how these lists are so predictable and basically created so the journalists get to mention once again the same names that they love to gush about in the top positions, artists that always turn out to be the best known, the most commercially viable for ...

Listening to the TBYML demos and surprised with a couple of things, such as how the drum machine in 'Meet ze Monsta' resembles de arrangement of the Glastonbury 1995 show, just like the 'Water' arrangement from that tour rescued the guitar solo from her original demo; also how sparse 'Long Snake ...

oh, god, that cassette from 1990...

The "Down by the Water" demo is up on Spotify and it's very, very similar to the album version. They actually used the vocals from the demo in the studio recording! The demo features the same drum machine beat she used while playing the song solo live in 2007/2008.

It really has been a surprise ...

Wow, I didn’t know that initial recording on the Dylan tribute vinyl was done on cassette 4-track. It certainly has the quality of 4-Track Demos songs like “50ft Queenie”, “Hook”, and “Legs”, with the distortion on the vocal and another vinyl record playing in the room while she was recording ...