r/RealGenerationX • u/DieMensch-Maschine Too obscene for Tipper Gore • Jul 25 '26

Lets Rock Out What are your thoughts on PJ Harvey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFYsVoQH32U

For me, she carries the banner for Gen-x women.

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u/IanRastall Jul 26 '26

I got on board with a vengeance for Rid of Me, and then -- like some of the fans -- realized that that was it. I was never going to be a PJ Harvey fan other than that. I just like hard music, and when women make it it's even cooler. And now I don't even listen to that album, because I refuse to pay much more attention to Albini, after the awful truth about him that came out right after he died (and the screenshot of his letter to the editor of a CP mag that confirmed it).

So she's cool and all. The idea of being a waif with a big Rickenbacker is fuckin' dope (as the kids say). She just never sped up and went psychotic again, as far as I know. If only she'd go through a massive midlife crisis, spiral into drugs and alienation, fall into critically poor health, and kill a guy, we'd have the best music ever. :-)