PJ Harvey discographyPJ Harvey performing live in 2008.
Studio albums 10 EPs 1 Soundtrack albums 2 Compilation albums 3 Singles 23 Video albums 3 Music videos 29 Collaborative albums 2 Miscellaneous 17 Other 20
The discography of PJ Harvey , an English alternative rock musician, consists of ten studio albums , two collaboration albums with John Parish , twenty-two singles , one extended play , three compilation albums and a number of collaborations with other artists.
Following her departure from Automatic Dlamini in January 1991, Harvey formed the PJ Harvey Trio. The trio, which included Rob Ellis and Steve Vaughan, released Dry in 1992 on the independent label Too Pure and later released Rid of Me in 1993 on major label Island . The trio split in late 1993 and Harvey continued as a solo artist under the same name. In 1995, she released To Bring You My Love , often considered to be her mainstream breakthrough,[ 1] and the album charted in twelve countries worldwide upon its release. Between To Bring You My Love and its follow-up, Is This Desire? (1998), Harvey released the collaborative album Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996) with John Parish . Her fifth album, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea , was released in 2000, received the Mercury Music Prize in 2001[ 2] and was considered by critics to be her magnum opus .[ 3] In 2004, her sixth album, Uh Huh Her , was released and became Harvey's highest-charting album in the United States, peaking at number 29 in the Billboard 200 .[ 4] In 2007, her seventh album, White Chalk , was released and in 2009, Parish and Harvey released their second collaborative album, A Woman a Man Walked By . In 2011, her eighth studio album, Let England Shake , was released and received the Mercury Music Prize, making Harvey the only artist in history to have won the award twice[ 5] and increasing record sales by over 1,100% overnight.[ 6]
In the United Kingdom, five of Harvey's albums have been certified Silver, one certified Gold and one certified Platinum,[ 7] amounting to total sales of over 800,000 copies. In the United States, her albums have collectively sold over 1.5 million copies as of 2007, according to Nielsen SoundScan .[ 8]
Albums
Studio albums
Soundtrack albums
Demo albums
I ^ Limited edition versions of Dry included a second LP titled Demonstration , featuring acoustic demos.[ 45]
II ^ Limited edition versions of To Bring You My Love included a bonus disc of b-sides .[ 46]
Collaborative albums with John Parish
Compilation albums
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Other appearances
Soundtracks
Tributes
Compilations
Other project
Year
Song(s)
Notes
Ref.
2013
"Shaker Aamer"
Released to highlight the detention of the then last British resident held without trial inside the US prison at Guantánamo Bay. The track was streamed exclusively on The Guardian ’s website
[ 68]
Collaborations
Year
Song(s)
Artist
Album
Instrument(s)
Ref.
1990
—
Automatic Dlamini
Here Catch, Shouted His Father
Vocals , saxophone
[ 69]
1991
"Baby in a Plastic Bag"
Grape
Maths & Passion EP
Backing vocals
"Colour Me Grey" "River of Diamonds"
The Family Cat
Furthest from the Sun
1992
"Yell Hollow" "Putty" "So You Got a Horse" "Raw" "What's Fair" "Water"[I]
Automatic Dlamini
From a Diva to a Diver
Vocals, guitar , bass , percussion
[ 70]
1994
"Your Last Friend in This Town" "Just a Working Girl" "We're Making War" "Right to Fly" "Into Deep Neutral"
Moonshake
The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow
Backing vocals
[ 71]
1996
"Death is Not the End"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Murder Ballads
Vocals
[ 72]
1998
"Love Too Soon" "Green Eyes"
Pascal Comelade
L'Argot du Bruit
Vocals, composer
[ 69]
1999
"Featherhead"
Swing Slang Song
Vocals
2001
—
Tiffany Anders
Funny Cry Happy Gift
Vocals, guitar, backing vocals, producer
"Piano Fire" "Eyepennies"
Sparklehorse
It's a Wonderful Life
Guitar, piano , backing vocals
[ 73]
2002
"Johnny Hit and Run Pauline"
Giant Sand
Cover Magazine
Vocals
[ 69]
"Airplane Blues"
John Parish
How Animals Move
[ 74]
"Hitting the Ground"
Gordon Gano
Hitting the Ground
Vocals, guitar
[ 75]
2003
"I Wanna Make It With Chu " "There Will Never Be a Better Time" "Crawl Home " "Powdered Wig Machine" "A Girl Like Me" "Dead in Love" "Holey Dime" "Bring it Back Gentle"
The Desert Sessions
Volumes 9 & 10
Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, melodica
[ 76]
2004
"The Mystery of Love" "My Friends Have" "No Child of Mine"[II] "Before the Poison" "In the Factory"
Marianne Faithfull
Before the Poison
Guitar, backing vocals, composer, producer
[ 77]
"Hit the City " "Methamphetamine Blues" "Come to Me"
Mark Lanegan
Bubblegum
Vocals, backing vocals
[ 78]
2011
"Lonely Avenue"
Ben Waters
Boogie 4 Stu
Vocals, saxophone
[ 69]
N/A denotes performance on all songs.
I ^ Not the same song as "Water" featured on Dry .
II ^ Not the same song as "No Child of Mine" featured on Uh Huh Her , although the song incorporates elements of the PJ Harvey version.
Videography
Music videos
Year
Title
Director(s)
Ref.
1991
"Dress"[I]
Maria Mochnacz
[ 79]
1992
"Sheela-Na-Gig"
Maria Mochnacz, Tim Farthling
[ 80]
1993
"50ft Queenie"
Maria Mochnacz
[ 79] [ 81]
"Man-Size"
1995
"Down by the Water"
"C'mon Billy"
"Send His Love to Me"
1996
"Henry Lee" (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
Rocky Schenck
[ 82]
"That Was My Veil"
Maria Mochnacz
[ 81]
"Is That All There Is? "
1997
"Ballad of the Soldier's Wife"
Larry Weinstein
[ 83]
1998
"Broken Homes" (Tricky)
Theodore Witcher
[ 84]
"A Perfect Day Elise"
Maria Mochnacz
[ 81]
"The Wind"
"Angelene" [II]
[ 85] [ 86]
2000
"Good Fortune"
Sophie Muller
[ 81] [ 87]
"A Place Called Home"
2001
"This is Love"
2003
"Crawl Home" (The Desert Sessions)
Hal Hartley
[ 88]
2004
"Who the Fuck?"
Maria Mochnacz
[ 79] [ 81]
"The Letter"
"You Come Through"
"Shame"
2007
"When Under Ether"
"The Piano"
2009
"Black Hearted Love"
Jake and Dinos Chapman
[ 89]
2011
"Let England Shake"
Seamus Murphy
[ 90]
"The Last Living Rose"
"The Glorious Land"
"The Words That Maketh Murder"
"All and Everyone"
"On Battleship Hill"
"England"
"In The Dark Places"
"Bitter Branches"
"Hanging in the Wire"
"Written on the Forehead"
"The Colour of The Earth"
2016
"The Wheel"
[ 91]
"The Community of Hope"
[ 92]
"The Orange Monkey"
[ 93]
2023
"A Child's Question, August"
[ 94]
"I Inside the Old I Dying"
[ 95]
I ^ Two versions of the video for "Dress" were shot.
II ^ The previously unseen video for "Angelene" was officially released in 2020.
Video albums
References
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Top 50 peaks: "australian-charts.com > PJ Harvey in Australian Charts" . Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 June 2019 .
Top 100 peaks to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 125.
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"That Was My Veil": Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 5 June 2015 . Imgur.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015 .
Dry , Rid of Me , 4-Track Demos and Dance Hall at Louse Point : "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 13 September 2016" . Imgur.com. Retrieved 14 September 2016 .
All solo singles chart peaks to 15 May 2018: "Response from ARIA re: PJ Harvey singles chart history, received 15 May 2018" . Imgur.com. Retrieved 15 May 2018 . N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column displays the single's peak on the national chart.
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^ a b c Swiss chart peaks:
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^ a b "InfoDisc : Les Certifications (Albums) du SNEP (Bilan par Artiste)" . infodisc.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 21 June 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2012 . N.B. User must select "HARVEY P.J." from the drop-down list.
^ "PJ Harvey Eyeing Festivals, Collaborations" . Billboard . 15 April 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2019 .
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^ "British Broken Homes position" . Official Charts Company . Retrieved 23 February 2010 .
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^ PJ Harvey, Rob Ellis, Ian Olliver (October 1991). Sheela-Na-Gig (VHS) . Dorset, United Kingdom. Event occurs at 3:22.
^ a b c d e "Video" . jphuntley.co.uk . Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2012 .
^ "DNA | Commercial & Music Video Directors | Rocky Schenck" . David Naylor & Associates . Archived from the original on 20 March 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2012 .
^ PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, David Johansen (14 May 1997). September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (VHS) .
^ "Tricky [videography]" . moon-palace.de . Retrieved 19 April 2012 .
^ "PJ Harvey - New Album, Out Now" .
^ "PJ Harvey Shares Unreleased "Angelene" Video From 'Is This Desire?' Reissue - Stereogum" . 9 December 2020.
^ "» Music Video Director Sophie Muller Music Video Wire – MVWire.com" . mvwire.com . 11 February 2002. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2012 .
^ "CMT : Videos : Queens of the Stone Age : Crawl Home" . Country Music Television . Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2012 .
^ "Behind the scenes: Chapman brothers video shoot | Music | The Guardian" . The Guardian . 31 March 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2012 .
^ "Untitled Document" . pjharvey.net . Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012 .
^ "PREMIERE: Watch PJ Harvey's Seamus Murphy-Directed Video for "The Wheel" " .
^ "PJ Harvey Shares 'The Community of Hope' Video" . Pitchfork . 18 March 2016.
^ Music, Guardian (2 June 2016). "Watch the video for PJ Harvey's the Orange Monkey" . The Guardian .
^ Music, RollingStone (26 April 2023). "PREMIERE: Hear PJ Harvey Reframe 'Love Me Tender' in New Song 'A Child's Question, August' " . Rolling Stone .
^ Music, RollingStone (7 June 2023). "PREMIERE: PJ Harvey Yearns for Change on New Song 'I Inside the Old I Dying' " . Rolling Stone .
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