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“Down by the Water”—PJ Harvey

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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PJ Harvey's Dry

Young Polly Jean Harvey learns to play saxophone and guitar for starters she studies art and sculpture at Yoville college. She falls in with a Bristol based band called automatic Dlamini but she is destined to take a couple dudes from that band and form her own basically eponymous band PJ Harvey dry comes out in 1992. Steve Vaughn on bass and Rob Ellis on drums and some other stuff this is a debut rock record in 1992 it certainly doesn't sound anything like the replacements but Nirvana has broken punk has broken all rock has broken super quiet verses and super loud choruses have broken It's a great era if you like bombastic subversive ominousness punctuated by snare drums that sound like

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