The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

ElNatos wrote:I've found something. Laura Snapes - Who did the interview with Polly for NME - replied this on this website:
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2010/11 ... -forehead/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"The rest of the album sounds nothing like this, it's really weird that they've chosen to put this out first..."

Well, The Last Living Rose is number two on the tracklist - and from what I've heard on the live recording that sounds nothing like LES or WOTF
I suppose a good mix is to be expected

I wonder why they had published "Let England Shake" lyrics with "Written on the forehead" ones.

But it's very nice to see all these instruments add on the track: saxophone, trombone, mellotron, xylophone. Sounds like Zappa or Captain Beefheart influences or... not.

Skladunk wrote: I suppose a good mix is to be expected

a very good mix! i think it may be the best Polly;s album for a long time. i think she rejected everything she did and made something completely new and unexpected. i mean, she is always re-inventing herself. but this time i think it may be something completely new, which cannot be classified as any known kind of music. fingers crossed, can't wait !!

Where are these lyrics being found? I can't find them on the site anywhere under "lyrics" or elsewhere.

HowardF wrote:Where are these lyrics being found? I can't find them on the site anywhere under "lyrics" or elsewhere.

Try clicking center pic "Lyrics" (between -8 and -9) at this addess:
http://www.pjharvey.net/index.html

^ Thank you!

I just listened to "The last living rose" on youtube, I didn't know it was already there, I just adore it.
Do someone have the lyrics?

Karenmary wrote:I just listened to "The last living rose" on youtube, I didn't know it was already there, I just adore it.
Do someone have the lyrics?

here
http://www.thegardenforum.org/viewtopic ... 11&start=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thank you so much.

(and sorry for my mistakes in english )

Don't you guys find funny how both of the songs for the new albun contains samples from another songs (well seems like Let England Shake doesn't have it anymore)

è_é Hmmmmm, intriguing

karloz wrote:Don't you guys find funny how both of the songs for the new albun contains samples from another songs (well seems like Let England Shake doesn't have it anymore)

è_é Hmmmmm, intriguing

as if Polly had become so anxious not to repeat herself that now she prefers to partly repeat the songs of others by playing samples from them. or perhaps she has simply chosen to acknowledge certain points of inspiration by including those samples in some of her own songs.
indeed it is intriguing. (I wonder how she would respond to an interview question about this.)

Pollyphoniac wrote:

karloz wrote:Don't you guys find funny how both of the songs for the new albun contains samples from another songs (well seems like Let England Shake doesn't have it anymore)

è_é Hmmmmm, intriguing

as if Polly had become so anxious not to repeat herself that now she prefers to partly repeat the songs of others by playing samples from them. or perhaps she has simply chosen to acknowledge certain points of inspiration by including those samples in some of her own songs.
indeed it is intriguing. (I wonder how she would respond to an interview question about this.)

Maybe she just thought that those parts of the songs sampled would work in conjunction with her own work? I doubt that either is a "certain point of inspiration". Well to be fair, she's taken certain phrases from Beefheart, Cave and Leadbelly before, but fact remains; though she references others and takes tiny bits from various sources..she has a way of creating a collision of various moods, themes, atmospheres, emotions etc. through these various points of inspiration and the end result is something completely different to anything they've(artists previously mentioned) created. It becomes 100% PJ (well, maybe 90% haha). e.g. Down By The Water references "Missisipi John Hurt and Leadbelly you could also say there are Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Beefheart elements there also. I think she has done something similar here...taken a reggae sample and blended it with synth, dream pop and shoegaze..breathed new life into it. Claimed it and made it her own. You could say Beck and her are similar in that respect. That is what makes her/them original.

also is not that simple to set it up.
I mean, the Not Costantinopolo track has a different timing than Let England Shake.
This is a way to build music
And what I see is this very genuine and sincere need to bring this out, to us
she's an artist

This is such an exciting time, the wait, the anticipation, the wild imagination...
Just like a first date with a lover!!!

I can't wait! Am loving "Written on the Forehead" - vocal effect was strange at first, a flange of some sort methinks, but got used to it.