Album Tracks That Should Have Been Single – ‘LONG SNAKE MOAN’ (1995) By PJ HARVEY
26 March 2025
Artist: PJ HARVEY
Song: LONG SNAKE MOAN
Album: To Bring You My Love
Her 3rd one witch turned 30 last February.
Ferocious psych-o-delic hellraiser.
26 March 2025
Artist: PJ HARVEY
Song: LONG SNAKE MOAN
Album: To Bring You My Love
Her 3rd one witch turned 30 last February.
Ferocious psych-o-delic hellraiser.
27 February 2025
The ever amazing PJ HARVEY released her 3rd LP TO BRING YOU MY LOVE
on 27 February 1995, 30 years ago today. Her first collaboration with John Parish.
It was her breakthrough longplayer, heavily promoted by her major label Island
Records. In my book one of her best achievements. All killers, no fillers. Intense,
sensual, compelling high-quality songwriting. The album reached #12 in the UK
and #40 in the US.
Rolling Stone wrote at the time: “Harvey has ambitions to remake rock & roll and
its myths in her own guise. So what’s this young, white, bluesdrenched woman doing?
In attempting to create a sexual landscape as charged as the Midnight Rambler’s,
Harvey envisions a teeming underworld where she is victim, aggressor and accomplice,
song by song.” Full review here – Score: 4/5
Singles: Down By The Water / C’mon Billy / Send His Love To Me
– DOWN BY THE WATER –
– C’MON BILLY –
– SEND HIS LOVE TO ME –
ALBUM
28 December 2024
Band: OASIS
Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Their 2nd one. The best-selling
album of the 90s in the UK.
Rolling Stone said: “What’s the Story is more than a natural progression, it’s
a bold leap forward that displays significant musical and personal growth.”
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Band: RADIOHEAD
Album: The Bends
Their second LP. It peaked at
#7 in the UK and #88 in the US.
NME wrote: “Radiohead clearly resolved to make an album
so stunning it would make people forget their own name,
never mind ‘Creep’.”
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Artist: PJ HARVEY
Album: To Bring You My Love
Her 3rd one. #12 in the UK.
The Independent (British newspaper): “Harvey’s performance makes the record stand out from its peers. A threatening, nightmarish creature. Imagine Siouxsie and the Bad Seeds”
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Band: BLACK GRAPE
Featuring 2 Happy Mondays.
Bez and Shaun Ryder.
Album: It’s Great When You’re Straight…
Their debut longplayer. No. 1 in the UK.
VOX (British music monthly): “Black Grape buzz with the
life-affirming, innovative, fuck-you spirit of true rock’n’roll”.
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Artist: TRICKY
Album: Maxinquaye
The debut of former
Massive Attack member.
Q (British music monthly): “A highly inventive and intoxicating collection.
With this debut, Tricky proves himself to be more challenging and eclectic
than his peers”.
PlAY
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Band: PULP
Album: Different Class
The 5th one of the Sheffield, led by Jarvis Cocker.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 44 in the USA.
Melody Maker (former British weekly): “Bloody essential. The album’s title
alone announces that Cocker’s broadened his scope, has another axe to grind:
social
antagonism.”
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Band: LEFTFIELD
Album: LEFTISM
London-based duo’s
debut LP.
NME said: “There’s a scope and spirit, an energy and a madness to ‘Leftism’ which’ll
make it one of the few dance derived that’ll stay up there, bouncing around in the great
echo chamber of futurity for years.
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Band: GARBAGE
Album: Garbage
The Scottish/American team’s 1st one.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 20 in the US.
AllMusic: “Garbage’s self-titled debut has all the trappings of alternative rock, off-kilter arrangements, occasional bursts of noise, a female singer with a thin, airy voice but it
comes off as pop, thanks to the glossy production courtesy of drummer Butch Vig.”
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Band: THE SMASHING PUMKINGS
Album: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
3rd longplayer, a double one. No. 1 in the US, and the UK.
Time USA said: “The group’s most ambitious and accomplished work yet. One gets the feeling that the band charged ahead on gut instincts; the sheer scope of the album (28 songs) didn’t allow for second-guessing or contrivance.”
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Band: THE CHARLATANS
Album: THE CHARLATANS
Their 4th LP. #1 in the UK.
NME wrote: “It feels unequivocally like a statement of intent. With the various
influences, the band was capable of absorbing the sensibility wholesale, while
leaving the incriminating specifics alone.”
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Clips to impress your eyes
15 June 2022
PJ HARVEY not only created/creates astoundingly challenging sounds but
the musical heroine always visualized her work too with eye-catching album/single
covers, sensual glamour outfits, showy press photos and splashy video clips like this
one for Down By The Water. One of the many standout tracks of her 5-stars 1995
LP To Bring You My Love.
Here comes the lady in red…
PJ just can’t stop…
17 July 2020
The queen of indie PJ HARVEY releases her entire catalog on vinyl this year, starting
with her jagged 1992 debut album Dry coming next week. Simultaneously, for each LP,
a separate album of demo’s will be issued.
The reissue of her third longplayer album To Bring You My Love, which turned 25 this year, arrives in September. As a taste of its companion demos release, Harvey shared the demo for its classic track ‘Down By The Water‘.
Demo…
Original…
PJ HARVEY: Facebook
Top singles from the past…
6 February 2020
Artist: PJ Harvey
Song: Down By The Water
B-side: Somebody’s Down, Somebody’s Name
Released: 6 February 1995 – 25 years ago
Note: The song is about a woman who drowned
her daughter and refers also to the traditional
American folk song Salty Dog Blues
Album: To Bring You My Love – her third LP
Score: The single marked PJ Harvey’s breakthrough in
the US where it reached #2. In the UK it only got to #38
Here’s the original video clip…
PJ HARVEY: Facebook
The best of the past…
Here are 5 stellar albums, selected by
Turn Up The Volume, turning 25 in 2020!
1. ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory? by OASIS
Play here…
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2. ‘The Bends’ by RADIOHEAD
Play here…
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3. ‘To Bring You My Love’ by PJ HARVEY
Play here…
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4. ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah’ by BLACK GRAPE
Play here…
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5. ‘Maxinquaye’ by TRICKY
Play here…
Clips with a lasting impact on Turn Up The Volume’s eyes and ears…
31 January 2019
‘C’mon Billy’ by PJ HARVEY
A journalist described Harvey in the video clip as
a ‘sadomasochistic dominatrix in blood-red dress’.
Sounds like a pretty accurate description to me.
From her 1995 album TO BRING YOU MY LOVE