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  • This is the most perfect version of this song!

  • This song got a little play on the 'alternative' stations in the 90s. I always felt blessed when it came on the radio.

  • Absolutely amazing, it's such a shame that this wasn't a number one hit, some shit music was probably number one when this came out.

  • 1995 it was cool... 2012 wayyy cooler than most trash you've been hearing!

  •  I love her!

  • jest niesamowita

  • .lyrical genius. .do you feel distorted. .it is love. .don't be fool to the illusion. ♪horrah!

  • Killer.

  • A woman this talented is threatening to other talent less so, man or woman. Thanks for posting. PJ you're sooo cool.:)

  • is she doable?

  • Powerfull

  • @TheHugoCoyote Even more powerful with a guitar on her...legs. :D

    watch?v=zr5M4z2kQrQ

  • It's so perfect it's ridiculous... goddess

  • What an amazing performance. Far better sounding than the album version. This woman can reach levels others can only dream about.

  • Fucking awesome

  • Hey is Pj! what else do you pretend to listen and watch for?? This is so bad-ass!! AWESOME! <3

  • this music calms me..

  • this song is so strong

  • that blue eyed girl became the blue eyed whore

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  • the knife on the guitar is so amazing experimental lol ¡ Pj Harvey, Tori Amos and Bjork rules 90's ¡

  • @dlfppa No it didn't.

    

  • ротешник хороший

  • The words Sizzle but the Percussion sneaks in and Steals the show.

  • 2:03 very sexy

  • gaga and harvey are very similar in fact. both utilize image, sound, and performance techniques to convey different themes and emotions, associated with different eras/concepts relative to the works of art they produce (albums)...I agree, however, cos the 90s ruled, and I was only alive for 1/2 of them and am barely able to recollect anything at that lol

  • 18 people rather hear Lady GA GA

  • Very powerful and sensual performance by every one of of them, can't get enough.

  • like...and love... x 1000 :-)

  • I love her!!!

  • john parish is so hot!

  • PJ Harvey - the most underrated pop musician/song-writer of all times.

  • Actually I heard the album version way back when and still play it, but haven't heard anything live until now. Gottta love youtube. Thanks to ALL uploaders!

  • This song along with the work of many other great artists were on the radio a lot....maybe not on the easy listening channels or pop music stations, but they were played A LOT......She was on the cover of Spin and Rolling Stone too.

  • I am watching a guitarist play with a painbrush and kitchen knife..... what is art coming to?

  • @spectrum99122 what the fuck does that even mean - i am reading a comment by a total bell-end who doesn't know what they're on about.......what are humans coming to?

  • @srv1978 It means you don't have a sense of humour I guess.

  • yyyyyyyyyeeeeessssss

  • Wtf...are all you guys Amish? Did you have a radio or not? It's not the radio's fault that you didn't change the station when some commercialized piece of shit started crackling through your speakers.

    And don't even bother complaining now about Lady who? Gaga? Who the hell is that? In 10 more years you'll be bitching about how you missed killer bands like Phantogram because Gaga got in the way. It's not the radio's fault that you don't know how to tune it.

  • Have to admit alot of my favorites started out in the 90's: radiohead, pj harvey, bjork, portishead, etc. it really was a great decade for music although most of what you heard on the radio was junk. i remember playing the video for this song at school and getting mocked by all the other kids. they thought i was a complete weirdo for liking it. ah well.

  • Sexy!

  • pj harvey is the greatest

  • ruddegore is right...it takes a generation or so to filter the good from the bad...good music is timeless...calculated pop music has a shelf life...

  • holy crap, good

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  • Wow!

  • the first song i saw live by her was this one when i was watching this program. no wonder how it blew my brains. she's just incredible.

  • omg this is sick... i love this woman

  • Paintbrush and knife folks, paintbrush and knife.

  • Or maybe this is song about necrophile, who killed a girl, and then "have to do her harm", or maybe not. However, jesus helped pj write this song, it's so good.

  • I always thought that this is song about sick father, who killed his wife and his daughter. When i hear "little fish big fish swimming in the water, come back here man give me my daughter" it means for me : little fish - kid, big fish - parent (mother) swimming in the water - mummy said:oh, im so lonely; come back here man- he killed her down by the river; give me my daughter - "drown our daughter for me, because im so lonely with all of those fishes around me".

  • 15 people would rather be entertained by the latest child abduction/rape/murder/dismembe­rment story

  • 15 people aren't paying attention. Or are perhaps offended by child-drowning.

  • 15 have no clue what good music is ......so very sad

  • that's a historical performance of PJH all star band..

    the brush & knife on the guitar.. brilliant!

  • 'to bring you my love' is one of the best alternative albums I've ever heard

  • P.J. Harvey wrote "The Lovely Bones" 7 years before Alice Sebold.

  • P J Harvey and Nick Cave - the Bonnie and Clyde of great music.

  • I love this song ! I wish i knew who sang it.

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  • All bands that dress in black are excellent - see also Stranglers.

  • amazing voice

  • yeehaw,what a big thing

  • I love how she totally plays the wood chimes with complete intensity.

    :)

  • why the fuck is a Sarah Palin ad on a PJ Harvey video?!

  • I can hold my breath for 3:18 !!!!

  • 1995 babies rule

  • This song get better and better!

  • P. J.'s make-up and wardrobe fit perfectly in context with this beautiful performance.

  • Why didn't my dad knock up my mom 10 years earlier?

    People who were my age in 1995 got to see some amazing music like this.

    What do I get, Lady GaGa...

  • @notsovelvet But at the time you may have been infuriated that there was music like this about, but you would be hearing whatever was around at the time on the radio, rather than these gems! Be thankfull that you didn't get to see this being overshadowed by the cheesey 90's pop that was about.

  • @ruddegore Absolutely. Top 40 radio in the 90's was like Chinese water torture.

    I doubt we have anything this bad nowadays:

    /watch?v=jjnmICxvoVY

  • @ruddegore Bull shit. Even the mainstream music like Ace of Base or the grunge movement was way better than the shit music today.

  • @ruddegore This is a really good point, so many people wished they had been 'around' for a certain period, but that period was full of just as much bullcrap as Gaga (anyone remember Gina G and Whigfield?) that obscured the greater talents. Pop is called pop because it appeals to the lowest common denominator and this will always be the case. There is good and bad to every decade of music, even this one, you just need to look hard to find it like we had to back then.

  • @ruddegore even cheesy 90s pop is better than Gaga any day.

    But I agree. I did get to live in the 90s and I never saw/heard PJ Harvey until after 2000 when I had internet.

  • @kaishikittycat Pj Harvey will always stay in margin of the rock history, like Joplin, Smith and co before her. In rock: men first!

    with pop women can rule popular music. So Gaga is on the right track!

  • @ruddegore: I was lucky: My favorite radio station played PJ Havey besides Nirvana, Tori Amos, Soundgarden, Babes in Toyland, Pixies, etc. - in the 1990s... Not to forget Metallica (black album) and other metal of course. There have always been alternatives to the so called »pop mainstream«. :)

  • @ruddegore This WAS on the radio at the time. :/

  • @ruddegore

    Anyone loving music got to get many pearls that days...much more than nowadays...

  • @notsovelvet Yeah, the 90's >>> 00's. That's for sure. 

  • @notsovelvet pulse that would hav made your mom about six :D

  • @fruitconor I did the math, my mom would have been about 13.lol

  • @fruitconor oh right lol

  • @notsovelvet Oh man, my sides hurt from laughing so much! I ask myself that same question so I could see The Beatles, The Who, and Queen in their prime. I have to say yours is the best comment on YouTube in quite some time!

  • @notsovelvet That's the best comment I've heard in years!

  • @notsovelvet we also get to see backstreet boys and spice girls... so not that great actually.

    but i'm glad i grew up listening to pj harvey.

  • @notsovelvet Congratulations...Lady Gaga is a joke..P J is a Artistic Genius. The music today is CRAP/RAP.."this" is Music..this is Talent..good news is..you can still enjoy listening to Britain's Best.

  • @notsovelvet The last wave of counterculture was the 90s.

  • @jordancloudbuster I don't think the last wave of counterculture was the 90's. There is a lot going on right now. I think one of the changes is that technology has permitted us all to have easy access to so much more of the music of the past. There is an embarrasment of riches from all periods of recorded sound. Also, there are so many bands out there. I think that some of them are excellent, even though we may not have heard of them. Plus which, Polly Jean Harvey is still making great music.

  • @briteness The 90s was the last decade that counterculture really effected the mainstream. The anti-corporate stance and sentiment of the "alternative" movement in music (however naive) was a natural byproduct of the concurrent culture at the time, I think. The neoliberal policies of the decade + the advances in technology have created a stronger glamour-centric, corporate-sycophant climate in pop that I think began in the late 90s, but has culminated into a homogenizing of the mainstream.

  • @jordancloudbuster You can see the 'counterculture' flow into the mainstream pretty clearly in a band like Nirvana. Since then, not so much, maybe. I see your point. But, as you seem to be somewhat aware, 'alternative' may never have meant much, and certainly not by time it was marketed as a kind of genre, or something. It is a different time now, you are right. But I still hear good music. Just not on the radio, but it wasn't so much on the radio then, anyway. A lot could be said. No space.

  • @notsovelvet Don't fret too much it. It was all New Kids

    , take that etc. This kind of thing (i.e. good music) has never been mainstream and never will. As you get older you'll learn this and also where to look. If you don't like Lady Ga Ga try New Young Pony Club's new LP "The Optimist". It's brilliant. Good music is put there, you have to look for it. like I had to to.

  • @notsovelvet check out florence and the machine, best female vocalist i've seen for a long time, and for old times... pattie smith, tori amos, kate bush and pj of course, happy listening! :)

  • @notsovelvet you are absolutely right man....the best comment ever written....i wish i could live some of the glory of the great 70s n 80s ....

  • @notsovelvet I know .....I feel for ya

  • @notsovelvet dont forget KarenO!

  • @notsovelvet Yeah, in 1995, people were still line dancing for fun. Fuck that. I'll take a hundred Lady Gagas over another stupid fucking "Achy Breaky Heart" or "Macarena." As someone who remembers the 90's, they were complete shit. You have no idea how good things are now. And that's fine. We all tend to fetishize things that came before our time, but there's still good music out there now, and it's just as buried in shit as it was in 1995.

  • @thesoup So true!

  • @notsovelvet -There was plenty of garbage around in 1995. PJ Harvey wasn't something you'd hear on most radio stations.

    Things have always been the same: Culture is dominated by shit music. If you want good music, you have to dig for it.

  • @notsovelvet hihi, i can understand u're sorry about that fact, but don't worry too much: sie is ´still alive and giving successful concerts. :)

  • @notsovelvet look at it this way: pop music of your day may be poo on a stick, but at least so much brilliant music has already been made that you'll never need to listen to it.

  • @notsovelvet Ya at least you didn't have to grow up with Macarena or New Kids. When I was growing up in the 90s, there was similar crap like Lady Gaga. Just be thankful that you found it. Cause I grew up in the 90s and still didn't know about PJ Harvey until a couple years ago. She has a new album out too, its pretty awesome.

  • @notsovelvet good music is timeless so i dont know what the fuck are you talkin 'bout..

  • @notsovelvet

    You're damn right there, Junior!

  • @notsovelvet . Very funny, but be glad you have YouTube. Your mom, dad and I couldnt look up our favorite songs with just a few keyboard clicks.

  • @notsovelvet

    Well she is still doing her stuff, still producing some great music!

  • @notsovelvet haha.. I have to say... I like the comment kiddo :)

  • @notsovelvet Relax! They're both good!!!

  • @notsovelvet You were never subjected to Milli Vanilli so you are lucky.

  • "I lost my meal under the bridge That little sandwich was from my empty fridge Meant so much to me And now I hunger, and now I holler You'll never guess what just happened: That little Fish Mac fell into the sea And so I still look like a crack whore Down by the water I went to get it Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water Cook yourself real quick and become my first breakfast Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water Enter my huge mouth, ending this starvation"
  • It sounds awesome live!

  • i would marry her now even she being nearly 40 and me 21.

  • Wow...someone should give her some soap and water to wash her face...she lookes like a Joker from Tim Burton's movie

  • I want to marry this woman.

  • this must be the most sexy "ugly" women on earth.....damn she is soooo hot

  • I GO TO SCHOOL WITH HER NEPHEW :D

  • pj is a goddess!she cant be real!

  • shockingly beautiful

  • smuggling peanuts.......yah ha

  • She is such a talented artist, her voice is superb! Polly you are amazing!!

  • I'm a girl in love. I want to make babies with Polly. God damn.

  • @BrigondaX

    so how do u intend to do that exactly?

  • The best way to download this as an mp3 is on that site mp3iifffy. Awesome site. GOOGLE mp3iifffy

  • :-)

  • Esa pj Harvey que chistosa es, su calidad de intérprete y compositora no está a discusión, tremenda !

  • Mmmm..mysterious.....

  • this song so gets me...

  • More Cowbell!

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  • Love this performance.

  • she's awesome, some sort of love and sex addict.

  • Excellent!

    I was working in this eerie, run down factory near the river when I first heard this song. Somehow it was fitting. This song, Possum Kingdom by The Toadies, and The Vampire Song by Concrete Blond! Those were the (creepy) good old days!

  • Trippy ass lyrics

  • She is so good and sexy and I love the music. I still listen to the Dry album...but...this was 1995, I must be her age in the vid now and she seems a little strange....not sure id want a pint with her but I loved her in my teens. Live on...

  • it's funny how serious the guy looks when he's singing background

  • Saw this on the "50 Years Of Island Records" on BBC Four, and I must say this is some of the most bizarre and yet awesome music I've heard in a long time.

    "ittle fish, big fish, swimming in the water, come back here and give me my daughter"

    It's so random and bizarre, yet it works!

  • awesome.....!!!!she's great...amazing and unique

  • Many years ago I use to work with Polly. She could have an average sized room painted in a couple of hours flat, skirting boards too!

  • wow ive never heard anything quite like that! (playing guitar with a knife.. wtf?!)

    that was amazing :)

  • I remember when I first heard this song on my car radio in '95. I almost got in an accident because I had never heard any music like this. I still listen to this cd over and over.

  • WOW!!! super sexy!

  • THX :)

  • I feel like playing guitar with a brush and a knife.

    WTF??

  • omg they looks like vampires :) especially pj XD

  • this is most wonderful live of dbtw.

  • I saw her in Brasil, some years ago. It was amazing!

  • This song trully scares me.

    Love it.

  • so amazing live version oh my god this song rules since 1995 saw the video in a HMV store HMM the dry drum sound

  • wow she looks so mental its awesome! LOVE HER!

  • Wow! she is an amazing performer, she really gets into it and it is always meaningful.

  • This was her Joan Crawford on acid look. I love it because it goes against what is seen as beautiful and therefore makes it more beautiful

  • Ravishing...

  • awsome song awsome preformace... (L) her

  • good performance of a good song....but she reminds me of marilyn manson here...lol

  • Полностью согласен...Это мать его так!!!!!!

  • Это прекрасная песня...

  • sounds like waves swishing when the knife is scratched along the strings of the guitar. i loved this version so much. but pj needs to leave all the colours off her face .shes a natural. and her sound is wot her fans go for.

  • i just came from her concert in Belgium, she can really hypnotize you if she wants!!!! and you are right, this evening she was wearing no make up only little redish lipstick and she was looking absolutely stunning.

    she has stolen my heart for the rest of my life :D

  • TOOO GOOD

  • only polly jean can pull off such an outfit hehe.... and maybe tori amos :D.... such an awesome song and an awesome girl.

    And by the way.... you guys are right... that drummer is looking daamn good hahah

  • I also noticed the drummer guy :P

  • That drummer guy is SEXY ! ;)

    Same thing goes for the song. (:

    -Rafy

  • I think it's jean-marc butty, he played the drums on "to bring you my love"-record. and he is currently touring with PJ and John Parish :)

  • Yes, but PJ Harvey is sexier. ;P

  • I love the Little fish big fish part in this version so much!

  • So cute ...

  • amazing as always!