Is This Desire? 15 Years To PJ Harvey Album

On the 28th of September, 1998, PJ Harvey, the English Alternative Rock singer released her fourth studio album, Is This Desire?. That album came out about three years after her highly acclaimed To Bring You My love and the fans expected her to follow the musical route of its successful previous. Because of those expectations, some of them were pretty disappointed with the fact that PJ Harvey made a record which is more Electronic and atmospheric in comparison to her earlier releases. The reviews were mixed but PJ Harvey was proud in her work, which helped her step towards unknown musical experiments with the help of Flood, Mick Harvey, John Parish and others. 15 years after, this album still sounds fantastic, take a few minutes to listen to five of them

The Garden

Catherine

Angelene

A Perfect Day Elise

Is This Desire

 

Hill (Pick Word #31)

When I was a young child, I lived in a small town surrounded by beautiful endless green fields and a view to the sea. But most of all, I loved the little hill, where I found myself running up and down without any particular purpose. It seems that many songs were written about hills, five of them by The Beatles (Of course...), Marketa Irglova, PJ Harvey, Emma Pollock and Gorillaz, which I find wonderful and intersting are here. Enjoy

The Beatles - The Fool On The Hill (Taken From Magical Mystery Tour, 1967)

Emma Pullock - House On The Hill (Taken From The Law Of Large Nunmbers, 2010)

Marketa Irglova - The Hill (Taken From Once OST, 2007)

PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill (Taken From Let England Shake, 2011)

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill (Taken From Plastic Beach, 2010)

Kingdom (Pick Word #10)

There are only few kingdoms left in our world today. What was once the common social structure became an institute that fades away slowly through the pages of History. In Medieval ages we could count a lot of kingdoms all over the world, but what was left is broken castles, historical tales and some paintings. But the kingdoms hadn't past away from lyrics as you could listen below in the first playlist of Fairies And Kingdoms series. So here are Soulsavers, Unkle, My Heart Belongs To Cecilia Winter, The Good, The Bad & The Queen and PJ Harvey. Enjoy...

Soulsavers - Kingdom Of Rain (Taken From It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land, 2007)

 

The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Doom Kingdom (Taken From The Good, The Bad & The Queen, 2007)

 

My Heart Belongs To Cecilia Winter - Kingdom Oh Kingdom (Taken From Our Love Will Cut Through Everything, 2010)

 

Unkle - Keys To The Kingdom (Taken From War Stories, 2007)

PJ Harvey - The Desperate Kingdom Of Love (Taken From Uh Huh Her, 2004)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

I must admit that I'm not the most addicted fan in the world of Nick Cave's music. Although he released great songs along the years, I've never found the time to listen to a whole album of him with The Bad Seeds. When They released Push The Sky Away (2013) last week, I listened to the stream at The Guardian web site and suddenly I understood that I missed a great band along the time. This album is the first without the founding member Mick Harvey, but it seems that they got over his departure. Along with Barry Adamson, Martin Casey, Warren Ellis, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos and Thomas Wydler, The Bad Seeds made a great album which sounds like a coming storm, which is waiting to demolish everything. Before all hell falls down, we can meet the Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds trying to push those grey skies away, although there is a lot of dirt in this world. Listening to this album is like a spiritual event and it's very recommended. Of course, that gave me an opportunity to go back to their songs from the past 14 albums, so here are five of their best.

Mermaids (Taken From Push The Sky Away, 2013)

Henry Lee (Taken From Murder Ballads, 1996, Featuring PJ Harvey)

 

Jubilee Street (Taken From Push The Sky Away, 2013)

The Ship Song (Taken From The Good Son, 1990)

 

Higgs Boson Blues (Taken From Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

Horses (Pick Word #2)

The Horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of he most ancient animals which were domesticated by human beings. We can find it along the human History writings as well as we can see them today functioning as police horses or work animals. A lot of songs were written about horses and it deserves to start the issue of animals which will gather together songs about them under the name Animal Kingdom. so here's five songs dedicated to horses, enjoy.

1) The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses (Taken from Steaky fingers, 1971)

In 5 Words: Jagger goes to experience nature
Favourite Line: Childhood living is easy to do. The things you wanted I bought them for you

2) Bat For Lashes - Horse And I (Taken from Fur and gold, 2006)

In 5 Words: Fantasy and reality mixed up
Favourite Line: The smell of redwood giants, the banquet for the shadows. Horse and I. We're dancers in the dark

3) U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Taken from Achtung Baby, 1991)

In 5 Words: From the days I could still hear them
Favourite Line: Took a drive in the dirty rain to the place where the wind calls your name 

4) GusGus - Arabian Horse (Taken from Arabian horse, 2011)

In 5 Words: Icelandic ride with Techno tempo
Favourite Line: Disappear into the dust. Lost on your horse

5) PJ Harvey - Horses In My Dreams (Taken from Stories from the city, stories from the sea, 2000)

In 5 Words: Wish everyone these kind of dreams
Favourite Line: Horses in my dreams. Like waves like the sea