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Record LabelIsland / Universal

UPC0602508511127

eBay Product ID (ePID)7050203678

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

Era1990s

Run Time2879 Sec

Release Year2020

FormatRecord

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenrePop, Alternative, Rock

TypeAlbum

ArtistPJ Harvey

Release TitleRid of Me

Additional Product Features

DistributionUniversal Music

Number of Tracks14

ReviewsHighly Recommended - "...plunges into the battle of the sexes with a saber that sharpens with each cut....the band's songs prove to be as surefooted on rocky terrain as on pop's rolling hills...", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", Ranked #19 in the Nme "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums"., Ranked #37 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", "Harvey’s songs are literal performances of gender; they shed light on, poke fun at, and rail against the misery of being trapped by the expectations of femaleness or maleness for one’s entire life.", Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...about as exciting as three-piece rock music gets without actually being the Jimi Hendrix Experience...", "...Unlike DRY, which drew most of its strength from the uncluttered eloquence of Polly Harvey's songwriting, RID OF ME keeps its focus on the churning, Beefhartian clangor of her band...", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", Ranked #11 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - "...Steve Albini captured her band in all its abrasive glory...", 3 Stars - Good - "...explores the toxic consequences of intimacy with a lacerating explicitness reminiscent of Marianne Faithfull's BROKEN ENGLISH...", Ranked #3 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll., Ranked #15 in New Musical Express' List of `The Top 50 Albums of 1993.', 8 - Excellent - "...RID OF ME rises from a whisper to a scream, over and over until you can hardly bear it anymore....Don't look now, Polly, but you're a WOMAN!...", Ranked #19 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...RID OF ME's `tough woman' scream attests that Harvey's lineage includes, but doesn't begin or end with, Patti Smith. Tough because the music likes it that way, woman because she was born one. This has everything to do with rock and roll...and nothing to do with some textbook treatise on womanhood..."

Number of Discs1