PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea – Demos

Enregistré avec Rob Ellis et Mick Harvey, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea prenait la suite d’Is This Desire? et emmenait PJ Harvey vers un (très) grand succès.
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea tranche avec ses aînés et adoucit les angles. Ce qui n’est pas le cas de ses démos.
On redécouvre donc ce grand disque avec des versions propres qui n’ont pas été encore mises dans les mains de Victor Van Vugt, le producteur choisi par Harvey. On se rend donc compte encore une fois que PJ Harvey n’avait écrit que des bonnes chansons. Et on se surprend à adorer ces versions dénudées des chansons de nos vingt ans. Pour faire dans la métaphore filée, on pourrait comparer chaque corde de guitare à une lame de scalpel… Mais on ne le fera pas.

PJ Harvey – Good Fortune

Threw my bad fortune
Off the top of
A tall building
I’d rather done it with you
Your boy’s smile
Five in the morning
Looked into your eyes
And I was really in love
In Chinatown
Hung over
You showed me
Just what I could do
Talking about
Time travel
And the meaning
Just what it was worth
And I feel like
Some bird of paradise
My bad fortune slipping away
And I feel the innocence of a child
Everybody’s got something good to say
Things I once thought
Unbelievable
In my life
Have all taken place
When we walked through
Little Italy
I saw my reflection
Come right off your face
I paint pictures
To remember
You’re too beautiful
To put into words
Like a gypsy
You dance in circles
All around me
And all over the world
And I feel like
Some bird of paradise
My bad fortune slipping away
And I feel the innocence of a child
Everybody’s got something good to say
And I feel like
Some bird of paradise
My bad fortune slipping away
And I feel the innocence of a child
Everybody’s got something good to say
So I take my
Good fortune
And I fantasize
Of our leaving
Like some modern day
Gypsy landslide
Like some modern day
Bonnie and Clyde
On the run again (on the run again)
On the run again (on the run again)
On the run again (on the run again)
On the run again (on the run again)

Discographie

PJ Harvey

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea – Demos de PJ Harvey est disponible chez Island Records/Universal.