Your 20 favourite PJH songs.

[Polly_Jean_Cave]

Original idea for a thread I know, there are probably a few others just like this already done.

In no particular order:

-Henry Lee
-Green Eyes
-Primed and Ticking
-Claudine(The Inflatable One)
-Lying In The Sun
-Catherine
-The Garden
-Teclo
-No Girl So Sweet
-Plants And Rags
-Me-Jane
-Horses In My Dreams
-There Will Never Be A Better Time
-Taut
-City Of No Sun
-Kick It To The Ground
-Pig Will Not
-Grow Grow Grow
-Long Time Coming
-The Faster I Breath The Further I Go

Honourable Mentions: Hook, Legs, Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name, Driving, Civil War Correspondent, Rest-Sextet, The Piano, To Talk To You, A Woman A Man Walked By, The Falling, Zaz Turned Blue, Ballad of The Soldier's Wife, Long Snake Moan, Meet Ze Monsta

[Shadowboxer]

Catherine
I Think I'm A Mother
Meet Ze Monsta
April
Electric Light
To Bring You My Love
Rid of Me
Black Hearted Love
50ft Queenie
Big Exit
Civil War Correspondant
Long Snake Moan
The Wind
My Beautiful Leah
Dear Darkness
The Devil
The Letter
Down By The Water
Is This Desire?
It's You

I mostly went by play count.

[Glitter & Doom]

No order:

The Dancer
My Beautiful Leah
The Desperate Kingdom of Love
The Slow Drug
I Think I'm a Mother
Silence
The Piano
To Bring You My Love
Big Exit
Harder
Oh My Lover
Dress
A Perfect Day Elise
Legs
Memphis
This Is Love
The River
Rid of Me
The Darker Days of Me and Him
The Devil

Like slaughtering my own children, that was.

[grissom]

very hard to choose

oh my lover
fountain
Rid of me
hook
yuri g (demo)
Meet ze monsta
Down by the Water
maniac
My beautiful leah
The garden
Joy
big exit
kamikaze
30
Who the Fuck
The Darker Days of Me & Him
Uh Huh Her
The Devil
The mountain
White chalk

[Pollyphoniac]

in alphabetical order:

66 Promises
Black Hearted Love
Civil War Correspondent
Down By The Water
Dry
Heela
I Think I'm A Mother
Instrumental #2
Joy
Maniac
Man-size
Missed
Rope Bridge Crossing
Seagulls
Slow Motion Movie Star
The Slow Drug
The Wind
To Bring You My Love
Water
White Chalk
You Said Something

there are 21 "songs" in this list, because I suppose that "Seagulls" might not be properly regarded as a PJH song, nevertheless it is one among my 20 most preferred tracks on all of PJ's records, therefore I could hardly exclude it from a list of my favorites.

otherwise I must say that 20 songs is a very decent number for this type of list, even though it's difficult to make the cut (however I think it would be more than doubly difficult to cut the list down to 10 songs).

[ethereal]

The last 20 that I listened to usually

[alonbp]

I limited myself to solo albums, otherwise it would have been doubly impossible.

Plants and Rags
Missed
To Bring you my Love
Send his Love to me
The Dancer
Angelene
Catherine
Electric Light
Joy
No Girl So Sweet
This Mess We're In
Shame
The Desperate Kingdom of Love
The Darker Days of me & him
The Devil
White Chalk
Broken Harp
The Piano
The Mountain
In the Dark Places (I can't get over that snippet; it broke my heart to pieces)

[uroboros]

impossible for me to choose my twenty favorite.
Instead I'll cheat and chooose two from each album/era:

oh my lover
fountain
snake (4t)
yuri-g (4t)
rid of me
missed
to bring you my love
long snake moan
civil war correspondent
urn with dead flowers in a drained pool
sweeter than anything
no girl so sweet
66 promises
horses in my dreams
shame
the falling
broken harp
white chalk
16 15 14
April

[12fingered]

^ I'll cheat as well and pick two from each album

Sheela-na-gig
Water
Rid of me
Legs
Hardly wait
M-bike
Meet ze monsta
The dancer
City of no sun
Civil war correspondent
My beautiful leah
Perfect day, elise
You said something
Horses in my dreams
Shame
The desperate kingdom of love
Grow grow grow
White chalk
April
The soldier

[RickMoretti]

mmmm it took all the afternoon.....

Black Hearted Love
Silence
Shame
The Desperate Kingdom Of Love
Big Exit
Good Fortune
Meet Ze Monsta
Driving
Rid Of Me
Legs
Dry
Dress
66 Promises
Sweeter Than Anything
The Falling
30
Crawl Home
Evol
Naked Cousin
Shot Of Love

I excluded all the songs from Let England Shake...

[Amanda_ataxia]

Passionless, Pointless
Silence
Oh My Lover
The Mountain
We Float
Good Fortune
There Wil Never Be A Better Time
Is This Desire?
Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
Ecstasy
You Said Something
Dress
Horses In My Dreams
The Garden
The Darker Days of Me & Him
Rub 'Till It Bleeds
To Bring You My Love
The Devil
Catherine
The Dancer

[cat on the wall]

Well *Right NOW* because they change with my moods:

Plants & Rags
Angeline
The life & death..Badmouth
Missed
Lying in the sun
Teclo
Yuri-G (4 track)
Happy & Bleeding
Working for the man
Angel
Is this Desire?
Somebody's down, Somebody's name
The Wind
Water
A place called home
Dry
A perfect day Elise
Driving
Dear Darkness
Legs

[sonfo]

In no particular order of preference (since I'm using the chronological order to make the list ) and not including the JP/PJ collaborations

1-Dress
2-Joe
3-Water
4-50ft queenie
5-Me-jane
6-M-bike
7-To bring you my love
8-I think I'm a mother
9-The sky lit up
10-Catherine
11-No girl so sweet
12-This is love
13-Cat on the wall
14-The darker days of me and him
15-The devil
16-The mountain

plus

17-Harder
18-The bay
19-The faster I breathe, the further I go
20-Liverpool tide

[sweetforthesoul]

The Dancer
Sheela-Na-Gig
Sweeter Than Anything
Harder
My Naked Cousin
Hair
Legs
A Perfect Day Elise (don't listen to it so much anymore, but it's the song that got me hooked!)
C'mon Billy
Man-Size
Me-Jane
The Last Living Rose
Rid Of Me (solo)
Dress
The Letter
Ecstasy
Rub 'til It Bleeds
The Faster I Breathe The Further I Go
Water
Is This Desire

Aah, this was hard!

[Pocket Knife]

Catherine
My Beautiful Leah
Rid of Me
To Bring You My Love
The Dancer
Plants and Rags
Taut
The Piano
Dress
A Woman a Man Walked By/ The Crow Knows Where All the Little Children Go
Rebecca
Harder
Oh My Lover
The Darker Days of Me & Him
The Desperate Kingdom of Love
The Mountain
It's You
A Place Called Home
Man-Size Sextet
Sheela-Na-Gig