Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:

McParadigm wrote:I wonder if they'll do a Greatest Hits 2004-2014.

I'd assume that, if anything, they'd be more likely to do like most long-lived bands and just do yet another full-career retrospect hits record (this time a little more concise, dropping some minor early successes to make room for bigger late-era hits). But I'd be a little curious to see how a 04-14 hits record would sell....some of these songs got more play than almost anything else they've ever done besides Daughter and Betterman, but is that initial impact translating into a lasting memory?

World Wide Suicide
Life Wasted
Gone (or perhaps they'd replace it with Severed Hand, since that got some live-tv plays?)
Brother
Love Reign O'er Me
The Fixer
Just Breathe
Got Some
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known (another maybe, because of tv exposure and some mild radio attention)
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Future Days

that is a sobering list of songs. (Edited. Comment deleted. there's been enough bloodshed today).

Now more than ever, we need a PJ Harvey forum.

Washed Away wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

McParadigm wrote:I wonder if they'll do a Greatest Hits 2004-2014.

I'd assume that, if anything, they'd be more likely to do like most long-lived bands and just do yet another full-career retrospect hits record (this time a little more concise, dropping some minor early successes to make room for bigger late-era hits). But I'd be a little curious to see how a 04-14 hits record would sell....some of these songs got more play than almost anything else they've ever done besides Daughter and Betterman, but is that initial impact translating into a lasting memory?

World Wide Suicide
Life Wasted
Gone (or perhaps they'd replace it with Severed Hand, since that got some live-tv plays?)
Brother
Love Reign O'er Me
The Fixer
Just Breathe
Got Some
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known (another maybe, because of tv exposure and some mild radio attention)
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Future Days

that is a sobering list of songs. (Edited. Comment deleted. there's been enough bloodshed today).

Now more than ever, we need a PJ Harvey forum.

I'm not the biggest fan of the most recent Pearl Jam albums and this list scares me.

LetMeSleep wrote:Or you could drop by my house and watch Wolf kick this song squarely in the nuts. Except this song has nuts whatsoever. In fact he'd probably hear the opening chords and scream NO and throw a chair over. I'm going to test this out tomorrow.

LetMeSleep wrote:

stip wrote:You just need to come to my house and give mia a hug and then you'll love that song

Or you could drop by my house and watch Wolf kick this song squarely in the nuts. Except this song has nuts whatsoever. In fact he'd probably hear the opening chords and scream NO and throw a chair over. I'm going to test this out tomorrow.

Strat wrote:I found myself super moved by this song actually yesterday. I guess when you get close to losing someone you adore, cheesy shit hits the soul :\

Strat wrote:cheesy shit hits the soul

stip wrote:It's cheesy as hell, but it's unapologetically cheesy, which matters.

What also mattes, I think (a lot) and what separates this from, say Bon Jovi, is that it's coming from a band that normally doesn't write in terms of cheese, and has a pretty large back catalog moving entirely in the opposite direction. Cheese is a problem when it is lazy and manipulative and it is all you do. But there is an authenticity to it when the cheese is an exception, rather than the rule. It becomes an honest, unguarded, pure sentiment.

malice wrote:patrick stewart and ian mckellen are much too old to give a fuck if their friendship is cheesy or not

McParadigm wrote:
I'm currently sitting comfortable at zero friends.

malice wrote:

malice wrote:patrick stewart and ian mckellen are much too old to give a fuck if their friendship is cheesy or not

i think i just agreed with stip's commentary on future days

stip wrote:

malice wrote:

malice wrote:patrick stewart and ian mckellen are much too old to give a fuck if their friendship is cheesy or not

i think i just agreed with stip's commentary on future days

I'm too much of a gentleman to point that out