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Released: May 4, 1993


Rating: 3.829 (average of 8 ratings)


Genre: alternative rock


Quotable: --


Album Tracks:

  1. Rid of Me
  2. Missed
  3. Legs
  4. Rub ‘Til It Bleeds
  5. Hook
  6. Man-Size Sextet
  7. Highway 61 Revisited
  8. 50 Ft. Queenie
  9. Yuri-G
  10. Man-Size
  11. Dry
  12. Me-Jane
  13. Snake
  14. Ecstasy


Sales (in millions):

sales in U.S. only 0.2
sales in U.K. only - estimated --
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. --
sales worldwide - estimated 0.2


Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 158
peak on U.K. album chart --


Singles/Hit Songs:

  • 50 Ft. Queenie (4/93) #27 UK
  • Man-Size (7/93) #52 UK


Awards:

Rated one of the top 1000 albums of all time by Dave’s Music Database. Click to learn more. Spin Magazine’s 100 Greatest Albums


Rid of Me
PJ Harvey
Review:
Dry was shockingly frank in its subject and sound, as PJ Harvey delivered post-feminist manifestos with a punkish force. PJ Harvey’s second album, Rid of Me, finds the trio, and Harvey in particular, pushing themselves to extremes. This is partially due to producer Steve Albini, who gives the album a bloodless, abrasive edge with his exacting production; each dynamic is pushed to the limit, leaving absolutely no subtleties in the music.” STE

“Harvey’s songs, in decided contrast to Albini’s approach, are filled with gray areas and uncertainties, and are considerably more personal than those on Dry. Furthermore, they are lyrically and melodically superior to the songs on the debut, but their merits are obscured by Albini’s black-and-white production, which is polarizing. It may be the aural embodiment of the tortured lyrics, and therefore a supremely effective piece of performance art, but it also makes Rid of Me a difficult record to meet halfway. But anyone willing to accept its sonic extremities will find Rid of Me to be a record of unusual power and purpose, one with few peers in its unsettling emotional honesty.” STE


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Last updated March 17, 2010.