Rid Of Me

The snare drum on this album sounds exactly like In Utero, I suppose makes sense with Steve Albini and all, and I thought that was cool. But that's about all I thought was cool about this. It's that lethal mix on the linear scale of boring and annoying. I want to like PJ Harvey for the vibe, but everything about this album was simply awful

1.me - 1 2. mizzed - 1 3. legz - 1 4. Rub -1 5. Hook - 1 6. Man - 0 7. Highway - 1 8. Queenie - 0 9. Yuri - 0 10. Size - 0 11. Dry - 1 12. Jane - 1 13. Snake - 1 14. Ecstacy - 1

I did not like the loud to quiet shifts. None of the songs had any melody. Sounds rough and poorly mixed, unpleasant to listen to

First time listening to this artist. Grunge Did not like, very shit

For the amount of albums this person has, I really thought this could be something enjoyable. It was not. None of the songs on this album are in their top songs on Spotify so I check which songs are the best by PJ Harvey and Rid of me was one of the top answers. It was too quiet and then suddenly too loud. Now I generally like a song that does that (I had a feeling that it would) but this was not enjoyable at all. The whole album felt like how people mock the vocals for 90s alt grunge female artists. Maybe this is the inspiration.

Didn't like it.

Ok fuck no. Nono, not listening to this voluntarily.

I do not like this. This just feels like generic garage rock. Top track: “Rid of Me” (I guess)

Edgy != good

Why is this album so quiet? Ah, there it is. What awful mixing for actual listening. Who uses dynamic range like that? Also the song is awful. How is this the 153rd best album Rolling Stone's heard? That list must be as bad as this one. Maybe they rated this album when they were feeling particularly emo. Have these guys heard of music? Pretty sure it's not whatever this is. This is a 1.

"woohoo my band and I can make some noise"

Art is subjective, yes, and my subjective experience of this album was one of great discomfort and distaste. The instrumental structure of the songs are fine, maybe even good sometimes, but this is completely overshadowed by the unbearably whiny and simply terrible vocal performance. Most songs lack a melody entirely, and the artist is nearly impossible to understand. I couldn't sit through a single song in its entirety. I have a hard time believing that abstract projects have any real influence on the music industry aside from showing future artists what not to do.

Tried to find the 5 star rating in this but it just seems so unbalanced.

I will never understand why music critics fellate PJ Harvey albums the way they do. If some British dude put this out he would be labeled a wanker. Good thing this list is insisting on shoving PJ Harvey down your ear holes 4 times with 4 albums. YAY!

She can’t sing and the instrumentals are nearly as intricate and complex as an AC/DC album. I can think of any number of teen garage bands that sound better than her.

Albums like this beg for a zero or negative stars rating. I find it inconceivable that anyone has this crap on their playlists.

1/5

I want to like this but I just don't. Minimalist arrangements and an antagonistic style throughout, daring you to admit you aren't enjoying the experience of listening to this. I will.

2/10… alternative rock / 90‘s indie

No thanks

1993 totally passed me by. In the grip on my own alcoholism.

i dont like it.

Some nice 90s rock segments followed by screeching and illiterate poetry. 3/10

Why are we still doing PJ Harvey? This isn't good. At all.

Not for me (weirdly), I think it was the drums in the end

I couldn't stand it. There's very few albums I dislike as much as this one.

First Morrissey now PJ Harvey, is it Get Happy week? 🤦🏻‍♂️😅 Tortured and painful, no redeeming features.

I think I got this album before. Still do not like it after a second listen.

1. Interesting pa intro. 2. Not memorable. 3. Quit whining, woman. My god. 4. No me ta gustando, mano. 5. Noise rock, shitty tho' 6. WTF is this shit. 7. ... 8. God, stop. Ya es un chao para mi que vaya el 8vo maldito tema y siga pareciéndome una mierda. 9. Na, ya lo cerré el youtube music. No me calo más esta mierda. "Utter shit show"

I first heard PJ Harvey in the mid 90s on the Batman Forever soundtrack. I think I should like her music but I don't. I keep trying to listen to it, and it's not happening.

Hate how quiet then loud it gets, was literally a jumpscare. Pls stop making “music”

When I tried to listen to this on spotify the audio was awful. Then I tied on youtube and it was the same. It just seemed poorly mixed or perhaps badly compressed as a digital file. Did a little research and it seems the only really good way to listen to this album is on vinyl due to the way it was mastered. With that in mind I have to say I did not enjoy my listening experience. Vocals too soft then too loud sometimes in the same song. One of my biggest gripes with music is when vocals are too low in the mix and that has never been more of an issue for me than with this album. I am sure it is some sort of artistic choice but it ruins it for me. Maybe I am just an Audiophilic Philistine.

Boring

Total garbage

1/5

Another PJ album?! I think I’ll stick to her later stuff. The first track was downright unpleasant and the rest not much better!

very meh, don't get it. She's just, store brand Alanis but less interesting. def 999 better artists that should be on this list.

Fuck me, this is worse than the other PJ Harvey album I already reviewed. that got 1 star and I only made it through 4 tracks. I couldn't even get to track 4 on this one though! I am honestly scratching my head how anyone can think this is quality.

Honestly was a lot of sound, like a terrible grunge sound and it felt like it didn’t have a coherent moment. Very happy I never have to listen to this ever again.

Not great

1.5

Not my bag

No

Edgy but not in a good way

No thanks

Shrill vocals and loud for the sake of being loud. Definitely not a must hear.

who put this here? off-night bowery electric bleh

Meh

Hated it, awful singing, abrasive guitar work. Just bad

I used to think this album sucked. I mean, I still do, but I used to, too.

25/1089 - Not sure why this is on here. In terms of influential music, it seems "Doolittle" by the Pixies, did the dynamic shifts first. Other than that, I never liked how "talk-singing" sounded. Pick one or the other. Instrumentals are either boring noisiness or ugly Penderecki sounding contemporary-classical strings.

Weird Nirvana/Nick Cave/Yoko Ono howly hybrid thing writhing around on the floor in Steve Albini’s special mix of serrated blades and doggy doo doo making serrated blade and doggy doo angels. The iconic cover shot of her having a wash up in bathroom flinging her hair is the only cool and non garbage thing about this terrible terrible earsore album.

Angry woman rock

Absolute worst album I’ve had to listen to EVER.

I saw her open for U2 years ago. It wasn't enjoyable outside of her one recognizable song "Down By The Water". This album was painful to endure. She's not a great singer, the music is noisy with very little melody, the lyrics didn't speak to me, it just wasn't my thing. I know she was a reviewers dream in her heyday but she was average at best and that's a gift. The only tracks I sorta enjoyed were "Highway '61 Revisited" & "Dry". The remaining 12 songs were not good. There's a reason you don't hear any of these songs on a best of the 90's mix or on the radio. I suffered thru the entire album in the name of thoroughness! No way this should make the Top 1001; not influential, no staying power, no hits, nothing memorable (for me at least).

feels like watching a Portlandia sketch, but without a punchline. worse than Wilco

No.

Horrible! Not one enjoyable moment

could have left this one off the list.

Oh this again... not the we've heard much from PJH, but I've just had enough of this pitchy, whiney, emo, white girl 90's rock.

I haven't liked anything they have to offer yet

Bad 90s music needs to stay in the 90s and forgotten.

p715. 1993. 1 star. Not her best work by any means. Raw, shouty girl rock with no tunes. She improved as she got older.

Very strange

Girl grunge. Every song sounded the same. For grunge being the edgy 90s genre this was so tame and boring. Found myself skimming through each song and eventually just skipping the last few. 2/10

Trash

I wanted to be rid of this just a few songs in.

Not for me

Ah, my nemesis. I freely admit grunge isn't my genre, but there's something about PJ Harvey that prevents me from enjoying her music. I get no enjoyment from her vocals, which sound out of tune at best. The screaming at the end of the title song left something to be desired. Some of the music itself is passable, but the frequent discordant sounds prevent me from giving Rid of Me anything other than a 1.

Didn’t like this one at all

Weird and angry music.

Intrigued by the glowing reviews. I had high hopes. Seriously?

Didn't make it through most of these songs. Very unenjoyable listening.

For someone who enjoys indie rock, this album completely misses me, I was hoping to at least get one good track but no such luck

Not my thing

Det här är faktiskt jävligt dåligt.

The second half of the album after 50ft queen (the one greay song here) is definitely better than the snooze fest that the first half is but not by much. Then again this whole album was really not for me I reckon

This is so bad. I wanted to turn it multiple times. Maybe make the album good before you put it out?

Not my jam

Too whiney

Nick Cave's - Murder Ballads and Tom Waits' - Bone Machine couldn't stop my streak of listening to every song off every album and neither can PJ Harvey.

Really not a fan, she's on this list far too much.

I'm not understanding how this album is considered iconic. Didn't like a single song on this album.

too rocky. too punk

Im not into this punky 1990's groaning, but she keeps making it on this list.

Gruselig, inspiriert die Stop Taste zu finden, Langeweile pur, Stimme für Karaoke ohne Esprit oder gar Anmut. Sorry,, selbst ein Stern ist nur Ausdruck von Mitleid.

Not up my neighbourhood, let alone street

So many boring tracks that sounded so similar I couldn't really tell when one ended and the next began.

not my sound

Really didn’t enjoy this album

Yeah, no.

Ik heb het echt geprobeerd, maar ik vind het zeurderig en saai. Ik kan wel alle nummers 1 op 1 gaan opnoemen, maar dan komen we tot dezelfde conclusie. Niks voor mij

Hell to the naw naw

I really didn't care for this album at all. Her voice was often off key and the instrumentation was annoying. So far, my least favorite album.

did not finish.

Not a fan

Raw, powerful, emotional, atonal, rubbish. Write some songs Polly, write some songs.

Sooo I actually hated this album. Right from the beginning the vocals were just awful and not impressive at all. A bunch of screaming does nothing for me. No respect for this album, I don’t see what was aimed for.

Not for me. Too experimental and nothing to really tap your toes to. Most songs just go from really quiet to really loud. I can understand why some people like PJ Harvey, but these songs just don't do it for me.

Yeah this ain’t the female music I can dig. I get the booming grunge scene and that this came out as response. But it just ain’t for me. 2 out of 10

Rid and Dry were ok, the rest was not good

Coming down from the Led Zeppelin high, we were bound to get a one-star record at some point. From the very first track, PJ Harvey establishes a bipolar style of quiet vocals contrasted against loud instrumentals that may as well be pots and pans falling down a staircase. I want to give this album a fair shot, but when I turn up the volume just to be greeted with a cowbell amplified by a bullhorn, I don’t appreciate it. You could argue that true art can’t possibly be appreciated by everyone, and I’d respond that some art just sucks. Her cover of Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” is blasphemous. What was once only the title track of an all-time great album is here scrambled into a hardly recognizable soup of what can be described charitably as “noises.” Some albums are hard for me to listen to, and Rid Of Me is one of them. It’s yet another reminder that this list is not about the best albums, but rather albums that should be heard. Even that claim I tend to disagree with sometimes.

Live vanaf het Festival voor de Lelijke Muziek in Enkhuizen. En dan is dit toch wel de hoofdact. De kenners zullen dit wel weer fantastisch vinden, maar voor mij is gewoon een hoop gekras, gesteun, gegil en geblèr. Als ze dacht: er willen een boel mensen 'Van me af', dan heeft ze gelijk. Ik heb het halverwege afgezet. Volgende plaat graag.

I've tried PJ Harvey a few times and I just can't get into her music. Just nothing appeals.

Not in the mood.

no.

This is some of the worst noise I have ever heard

PJ Harvey also does not deserve this many place on this list. 2 This ass 1

Not for me, I really just don't get it, 1.5 stars

This fucking sucks lmfao

Nothing spoke to me or made me happy to listen.

I really have no clue why this list loves this woman so much. After giving the other three albums of her I had the misfortune to listen 2 stars, this one is even worse than the others and only gets 1. Unpleasant, sludgy noise. Fourth-rate garage band vibes.

I did not enjoy this album at all, I didn’t even like one song. There were elements that I was on with, but over all not sure why I even listened to the whole thing.

This is the third PJ Harvey album ob this list. I really tried to listen to it without prejudice, since i didn't like the other two. I still can't stand her voice nor her "singing" style. In the other albums at least i liked the band. This time i didn't. This was actually one of the worst albums for me on this list. I wish i could abstain from rating even a single star. There ist not even one song on this album, that i even remotely "liked".

Not for me.

A little too aggressive for my taste. some of her other songs I like though!

Indie screeching

Kategoria powiedzenia wyspiarskie, z deszczu pod rynne, bo po Slayerowym picku nie sadzilem, ze cos jeszcze w tym tygodniu bedzie sola na rane, a jednak wylosowalo kolejny album od pani PJ Harvey, Rid Of Me, ktory jest jej drugim studyjnym krazkiem z 93, ktory jest follow upem do goraco przyjetego Dry, ktory juz pojawil sie wczesniej na liscie, tak w ogole jest to czwarta pozycja od tej pani, wiec juz nie tyle sama muzyka, co znudzenie nia wywoluje w czlowieku negatywnce uczucia, bo w przeciwienstwie do let england shake brakuje tutaj ciekawego grania wychodzacego poza standardy artystycznego indyjskiego rokowania, a za to jest klasyczne trio z Dry, wiec gitara, bas i drumy, do tego dodatkowe instrumentowanie od pani Harvey w postaci organow czy smyczkow, ktore slychac przede wszystkim na man-sizowym sextecie, ktory wyroznia sie tym, ze nie harczy jak wiekszosc materialu z tej plyty, ktory brzmi wrecz piwnicznie przez te przesterowane gitary i gleboki basior, co do strony lirycznej to nadal slychac podobne motywy co na Ridzie, wiec nadal zagubiona i nadal zla mloda dama ktora wyrzuca swe wnetrze jako kontent swych utworow, do tego dochodzi jeszcze zbrodnia na coverze dylanowskiego highwaya i tak zamyka sie prawie 50 minutowy odsluch, niby 1001 albumow na liscie, ale jakims dziwnym trafem znajdzie sie miejsce na polowe dyskografii lokalnych artystow wyspiarskich

Listened to on 5/12/22 1/5 No songs I don’t like anything about PJ Harvey’s style of music - too chaotic for me

Skal la være å gjenta meg selv, men dette er ikke min type musikksmak. Blir litt lamslått av at det får så gode tilbakemeldinger og finnes på 1001 album. Bare fordi en person varierer mellom å hviske inn i mikrofonen og hyle fra full hals gjør det ikke nyskapende og bra. Såvidt 1/5, burde være 0,5/5

Didn't like this one. 1/5 stars.

Slightly better than the last one but pj Harvey is not for me. 2.5/10

I liked it kinda sounded like someone stepped on a cats tail at a few spots but good overall.

Just after half way something akin to a tune emerged. Otherwise it felt like we had wandered into a forge. May well be better live.

pass -

Not another PJ Harvey album :( I have stated that I can't stand her voice

Can't say I really liked much, if any, of this. Not my type of music

Niet afgewerkt. Mooie stem, maar de muziek kon niet overtuigen.

Gave up. Not for me.

could not get on with it

Meh. Not bothered at all.

pretty rugid - not helped by the kinda dirty production. I get the grunge influences, and i like some of her later stuff but this was just pretty....shite.

Boring

Like ice picks in my ears. Big yikes all throughout. 1/10.

i feel like i'm at my local watering in the mid 90's hole waiting for my favorite local band Rosemary Gates, and I'm listening to the opening local act... its fine, yet unremarkable. Its like background music at hot topic. I don't understand how this one and GFK got on here. top 1k? ever? there is no way this was groundbreaking in 93. perhaps its just my boomer sensibilities. top 3.... 1of5

SHIT

Not very good at singing

not my thing