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4->''I have not time for hate or love\
5Hey child, you're so full of woe\
6I have no time for hate or lying\
7Hey child, you're no, child of mine''
8-->-- '''''"No Child of Mine"'''''
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10''Uh Huh Her'' is the sixth studio album by Music/PJHarvey, released in 2004. It's arguably her most "raw" album to date, due to her being the producer, something she hasn't done since ''4 Track Demos'' (The album of demos from ''Music/RidOfMe'') in 1993. Also, most of the recording of the album was done alone by PJ using her four-track and eight-track home studio. She played all of the instruments on the album, including guitar, keyboards, and the drum machine. The only instruments she didn't play on the album was the final drum tracks.
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12Critics have praised the album for being raw, dark, and for PJ's ability to go from gentle singing, to shouting and screaming in one album. The album has produced the singles "The Letter", "You Come Through", "Shame", and "Who the Fuck?".
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15# "The Life & Death of Mr. Badmouth" (4:53)
16# "Shame" (2"33)
17# "Who the Fuck?" (2:09)
18# "The Pocket Knife" (3:44)
19# "The Letter" (3:22)
20# "The Slow Drug" (3:25)
21# "No Child of Mine" (1:08)
22# "Cat on the Wall" (3:03)
23# "You Come Through" (2:48)
24# "It's You" (4:13)
25# "The End" (1:23)
26# "The Desperate Kingdom of Love" (2:44)
27# "Seagulls" (1:11)
28# "The Darker Days of Me & Him" (4:34)
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31!! ''The Desperate Kingdom of Tropes'':
32* AlliterativeTitle: "The '''D'''arker '''D'''ays Of Me & Him".
33* AntiLoveSong: "Shame".
34--> ''Shame is the shadow of love''
35* ArrangedMarriage: "The Pocket Knife"
36--> ''Please don't make my wedding dress''
37--> ''I'm too young to marry yet''
38--> ''Can you see my pocket knife?''
39--> ''You can't make me be a wife''
40--> ''How the world just turns & turns''
41--> ''How does anybody learn?''
42* ClusterFBomb: In "Who The Fuck?", as indicated by the title.
43--> ''Who, who, who?''
44--> ''Fuck, fuck, fuck, you!''
45* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Seagulls"
46* FaceOnTheCover: A close-up of P.J. in a car.
47* {{Instrumentals}}: "The End".
48* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Who The Fuck?"
49* LimitedLyricsSong: "No Child Of Mine".
50--> ''I have no time for hate or love''
51--> ''Hey child, you're so full of woe''
52--> ''I have no time for hate of lying''
53--> ''Hey child, you're no child of mine''
54* LyricalColdOpen: "Who The Fuck?".
55* LyricalDissonance: In "The Pocket Knife", PJ's voice sounds pretty child-like, but the song is about an arranged marriage of a young girl.
56* MinisculeRocking: "No Child of Mine", "The End", and "Seagulls" are all between 1-2 minutes. However, "No Child of Mine" is just an excerpt; the full version is on [[Music/MarianneFaithfull Marianne Faithfull]]'s album ''Before the Poison''.
57* OneWordTitle: "Shame" and "Seagulls".
58* QuestioningTitle: "Who The Fuck?"
59* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
60** PJ gives one to her man in "The Life & Death Of Mr. Badmouth":
61--> ''Baby, you got a bad bad mouth''
62--> ''Everything is poison that's coming out''
63--> ''Cheating, lying since the day you were born''
64--> ''Someone outta rinse it out with soap''
65** "Who The Fuck?:"
66-->''Who the fuck do you think you are?''
67-->''Get out of my hair''
68-->''who the fuck do you think you are?''
69-->''Comin' round here''
70* SoapPunishment: In "The Life & Death of Mr. Badmouth," PJ tells her lover to "rinse his mouth out with soap."
71* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "The Desperate Kingdom of Love," compared to the other songs of this album (even the more gentler ones), is very pretty.
72* TitleOnlyChorus: "Cat on the Wall."
73* SingleStanzaSong: "No Child Of Mine."

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