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''Rid of Me'' is Music/PJHarvey's second album, released in 1993. It marked a [[DarkerAndEdgier rawer and more aggressive sound]] than her debut ''Music/{{Dry}}'' (1992). The record is best remembered for the singles "50 ft. Queenie" and "Man-Size".
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''Rid of Me'' is Music/PJHarvey's second album, released in 1993. It marked a [[DarkerAndEdgier rawer and more aggressive sound]] than her debut ''Music/{{Dry}}'' (1992). The record is best remembered for the singles "50 ft. Queenie" and "Man-Size".
"Man-Size."
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* LocationSong: "Highway 61 Revisited", Revisited," where Highway 61 is the solution to everything.
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** "Legs". Nothing says "I love you" like sawing someone's legs off to keep them from leaving you.
* OneWomanSong: "50 ft. Queenie".
* OneWordTitle: "Missed", "Legs", "Hook", "Yuri-G", "Dry", "Snake" and "Ecstasy".
* OneWomanSong: "50 ft. Queenie".
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** "Legs". "Legs." Nothing says "I love you" like sawing someone's legs off to keep them from leaving you.
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Queenie."
* OneWordTitle:"Missed", "Legs", "Hook", "Yuri-G", "Dry", "Snake" "Missed," "Legs," "Hook," "Yuri-G," "Dry," "Snake," and "Ecstasy"."Ecstasy."
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* RecordProducer: Music/SteveAlbini, except for the track "Man-Size Sextet".
* RepurposedPopSong: P.J. recorded a cover of "Highway 61 Revisited" before on the tribute album "Outlaw Blues Volume 2".
* SelfBackingVocalist: During "Rid Of Me".
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* RearrangeTheSong: "Man-Size Sextet" is "Man-Size" with the track's instrumental being played on a sextet of strings instead of guitar.
* RecordProducer: Music/SteveAlbini, except for the track "Man-SizeSextet".
Sextet."
* RepurposedPopSong: P.J. recorded a cover of "Highway 61 Revisited" before on the tribute album "Outlaw Blues Volume2".
2."
* SelfBackingVocalist: During "Rid OfMe". Me."
* RecordProducer: Music/SteveAlbini, except for the track "Man-Size
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* UnrequitedLove: "Dry", where P.J. is direct about her feelings about a man who tries to seduce her.
--> ''You leave me dry''.
--> ''You leave me dry''.
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* UnrequitedLove: "Dry", "Dry," where P.J. is direct about her feelings about a man who tries to seduce her.
--> ''You leave medry''. dry.''
--> ''You leave me
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* RefrainFromAssuming: The song "Dry" is from this album, not ''Music/{{Dry}}''.
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--> ''Ah come on measure me''\\
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''Rid Of of Me'' is Music/PJHarvey's second album, released in 1993. It marked a [[DarkerAndEdgier rawer and more aggressive sound]] than her debut ''Music/{{Dry}}'' (1992). The record is best remembered for the singles "50 ft. Queenie" and "Man-Size".
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'''Rid Of Me''' is Music/PJHarvey's second album, released in 1993. It marked a [[DarkerAndEdgier rawer and more aggressive sound]] than her debut ''Music/{{Dry}}'' (1992). The record is best remembered for the singles "50 ft. Queenie" and "Man-Size".
Music/{{Nirvana}} hired Music/SteveAlbini, the album's producer, afterwards to record ''Music/InUtero'' (1993) for them.
In ''Magazine/RollingStone'' 's list of ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'' "Rid Of Me" was placed on nr. 406.
'''Tracklist'''
# "Rid Of Me" (4:28)
# "Missed" (4:25)
# "Legs" (3:40)
# "Rub 'Til It Bleeds" (5:03)
# "Hook" (3:57)
# "Man-Size Sextet" (2:18)
# "Highway 61 Revisited" (2:57)
# "50ft. Queenie" (2:23)
# "Yuri-G" (3:28)
# "Man-Size" (3:16)
# "Dry" (3:23)
# "Me-Jane" (2:42)
# "Snake" (1:36)
# "Ecstasy" (4:26)
!! ''Man-Size Tropes''
* ACappella: The end of "Rid Of Me" ends with P.J. just screaming out her lungs.
* AdamAndEvePlot: "Snake"
--> ''You snake (You snake)''
--> ''I ate (I ate)''
--> ''A true (A true)''
--> ''Belief (Belief)''
--> ''Good Lord (Good Lord)''
--> ''That fruit's (That's fruit's)''
--> ''Inside (Inside)''
--> ''Of me (Of me)''
--> ''Oh Adam (Oh Ad-)''
--> ''Please (-am please)''
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Ecstasy"
--> '' '''H'''itting '''h'''eavens '''h'''igh''
* AntiLoveSong: "Legs"
--> ''Did you sing "Oh happy day"?''
--> ''Singing it''
--> ''Sing it that time I went away?''
--> ''Got to ease my aching head''
--> ''Do you know''
--> ''No other way cut off your legs oh''
--> ''Hey oh''
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: "50 Ft. Queenie"
--> ''50ft queenie''
--> ''Force ten hurricane''
--> ''Biggest woman''
--> ''I could have ten sons''
--> ''Ten gods ten queens''
--> ''Ten foot and rising''
* BrokenRecord: "Rid Of Me"
--> ''Don't you, don't you wish you never never met her''
--> ''Lick my legs, I'm on fire''
--> ''Lick my legs of desire''
* CarefulWithThatAxe: P.J. really strained her vocals for this album.
* ClassicalMusic: "Man-Size Sextet" has P.J. being backed by strings and a contra bass.
* CoverVersion: The Music/BobDylan cover "Highway 61 Revisited".
* DarkerAndEdgier: The album is more raw and aggressive than ''Music/{{Dry}}''. Similarly P.J.'s cover of "Highway 61 Revisited" is darker than Music/BobDylan's light-hearted original.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The black-and-white album cover.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The stylish album cover, taken by Maria Mochnacz, taken in a dark bathroom.
* DoubleEntendre: "Snake"
--> ''You snake''
--> ''You crawled''
--> ''Between''
--> ''My legs''
--> ''Said "Want''
--> ''It all?''
--> ''It's yours''
--> ''You bet''
--> ''I'll make''
--> ''You queen''
--> ''Of everything''
--> ''No need''
--> ''For God''
--> ''No need''
--> ''For him''
--> ''Just take''
--> ''My hand''
--> ''You'll be''
--> ''My bride''
--> ''Just take''
--> ''That fruit''
--> ''Put it''
--> ''Inside''
* ExpressiveHair: P.J.'s wet hair thrown upwards on the album cover.
* FaceOnTheCover: P.J. in a bathroom.
* IKissYourFoot: "Rid Of Me"
--> ''Lick my legs, I'm on fire!''
* IntercourseWithYou: "Rub 'Til It Bleeds"
--> ''I lie steady''
--> ''Rest your head on me''
--> ''I'll smooth it nicely''
--> ''Rub it better 'till it bleeds''
* ItsAllAboutMe: "Ecstasy"
--> ''Singing, I'm singing. Yah!''
--> ''Sounding hanging breathe''
--> ''I'm begging you look at me.''
--> ''Ecstasy. I'm in ec... ecstasy''
--> ''Ecstasy''
* JumpScare: "Rid of Me" starts off creepy and quiet with some rather disturbing lyrics, and then slowly gets louder and then "DON'T YOU WISH YOU....NEVER....NEVER MET HER DON'T YOU!!!!!"
* LocationSong: "Highway 61 Revisited", where Highway 61 is the solution to everything.
* MisandrySong:
** "50 ft. Queenie"
--> ''Glory, glory''
--> ''Lay it all on me''
--> ''50ft queenie''
--> ''50 and rising''
--> ''You bend over''
--> ''Casanova''
--> ''No sweat I'm clean''
--> ''Nothing can touch me''
** "Man-Size"
--> ''Got my girl and she's a wow''
--> ''I cast my iron knickers down''
--> ''Man-sized no need to shout''
--> ''Can you hear, can you hear me now?''
--> ''I'm man-sized''
--> ''Man-sized''
--> ''I'll measure time''
--> ''I'll measure height''
--> ''I'll calculate''
--> ''My birth right''
--> ''Good Lord I'm big''
--> ''I'm heading on''
--> ''Man-size''
--> ''Got my leather boots on''
** "Me-Jane"
--> ''Oh damn your chest-beating, just you stop your screaming''
--> ''It's splitting through my head and swinging from the ceiling''
--> ''Move it over, Tarzan, can't you see I'm bleeding?''
--> ''I've called you by your first name, good Lord it's me-Jane!''
* ObsessionSong:
** "Rid Of Me"
--> ''I'll tie your legs''
--> ''Keep you against my chest''
--> ''Oh, you're not rid of me''
--> ''Yeah, you're not rid of me''
--> ''I'll make you lick my injuries''
--> ''I'm gonna twist your head off, see''
** "Legs". Nothing says "I love you" like sawing someone's legs off to keep them from leaving you.
* OneWomanSong: "50 ft. Queenie".
* OneWordTitle: "Missed", "Legs", "Hook", "Yuri-G", "Dry", "Snake" and "Ecstasy".
* PepTalkSong: "50 ft. Queenie"
--> ''Hey I'm the king of the world''
--> ''You oughta hear my song''
--> ''You come on and measure me''
--> ''I'm twenty inches long''
* RecordProducer: Music/SteveAlbini, except for the track "Man-Size Sextet".
* RefrainFromAssuming: The song "Dry" is from this album, not ''Music/{{Dry}}''.
* RepurposedPopSong: P.J. recorded a cover of "Highway 61 Revisited" before on the tribute album "Outlaw Blues Volume 2".
* SelfBackingVocalist: During "Rid Of Me".
* ShoutOut:
** The line "don't you wish you never met her" from "Rid Of Me" is a nod to a line from "Dirty Blue Gene" from Music/CaptainBeefheart's ''Music/DocAtTheRadarStation''.
** "50 ft. Queenie" is inspired by the B-movie ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman''. It also namedrops UsefulNotes/GiacomoCasanova.
--> ''You bend over, Casanova''
** "Me-Jane" references ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' a few times:
--> ''Move it over, Tarzan, can't you see I'm bleeding?''
--> ''I've called you by your first name, good Lord, it's me-Jane!''
** "Yuri-G" is a shout-out to UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin.
* The music video of "50ft. Queenie" was once featured in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''.
* SiameseTwinSongs: "Man-Size" and "Man-Size Sextet" have the same lyrics, but different arrangements.
* SpellingSong: "50 Foot Queenie"
--> ''Tell you my name''
--> ''FU and CK''
* UnrequitedLove: "Dry", where P.J. is direct about her feelings about a man who tries to seduce her.
--> ''You leave me dry''.
* WomanScorned: A major theme throughout the entire album.
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'''Rid Of Me''' is Music/PJHarvey's second album, released in 1993. It marked a [[DarkerAndEdgier rawer and more aggressive sound]] than her debut ''Music/{{Dry}}'' (1992). The record is best remembered for the singles "50 ft. Queenie" and "Man-Size".
Music/{{Nirvana}} hired Music/SteveAlbini, the album's producer, afterwards to record ''Music/InUtero'' (1993) for them.
In ''Magazine/RollingStone'' 's list of ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'' "Rid Of Me" was placed on nr. 406.
'''Tracklist'''
# "Rid Of Me" (4:28)
# "Missed" (4:25)
# "Legs" (3:40)
# "Rub 'Til It Bleeds" (5:03)
# "Hook" (3:57)
# "Man-Size Sextet" (2:18)
# "Highway 61 Revisited" (2:57)
# "50ft. Queenie" (2:23)
# "Yuri-G" (3:28)
# "Man-Size" (3:16)
# "Dry" (3:23)
# "Me-Jane" (2:42)
# "Snake" (1:36)
# "Ecstasy" (4:26)
!! ''Man-Size Tropes''
* ACappella: The end of "Rid Of Me" ends with P.J. just screaming out her lungs.
* AdamAndEvePlot: "Snake"
--> ''You snake (You snake)''
--> ''I ate (I ate)''
--> ''A true (A true)''
--> ''Belief (Belief)''
--> ''Good Lord (Good Lord)''
--> ''That fruit's (That's fruit's)''
--> ''Inside (Inside)''
--> ''Of me (Of me)''
--> ''Oh Adam (Oh Ad-)''
--> ''Please (-am please)''
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Ecstasy"
--> '' '''H'''itting '''h'''eavens '''h'''igh''
* AntiLoveSong: "Legs"
--> ''Did you sing "Oh happy day"?''
--> ''Singing it''
--> ''Sing it that time I went away?''
--> ''Got to ease my aching head''
--> ''Do you know''
--> ''No other way cut off your legs oh''
--> ''Hey oh''
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: "50 Ft. Queenie"
--> ''50ft queenie''
--> ''Force ten hurricane''
--> ''Biggest woman''
--> ''I could have ten sons''
--> ''Ten gods ten queens''
--> ''Ten foot and rising''
* BrokenRecord: "Rid Of Me"
--> ''Don't you, don't you wish you never never met her''
--> ''Lick my legs, I'm on fire''
--> ''Lick my legs of desire''
* CarefulWithThatAxe: P.J. really strained her vocals for this album.
* ClassicalMusic: "Man-Size Sextet" has P.J. being backed by strings and a contra bass.
* CoverVersion: The Music/BobDylan cover "Highway 61 Revisited".
* DarkerAndEdgier: The album is more raw and aggressive than ''Music/{{Dry}}''. Similarly P.J.'s cover of "Highway 61 Revisited" is darker than Music/BobDylan's light-hearted original.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The black-and-white album cover.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The stylish album cover, taken by Maria Mochnacz, taken in a dark bathroom.
* DoubleEntendre: "Snake"
--> ''You snake''
--> ''You crawled''
--> ''Between''
--> ''My legs''
--> ''Said "Want''
--> ''It all?''
--> ''It's yours''
--> ''You bet''
--> ''I'll make''
--> ''You queen''
--> ''Of everything''
--> ''No need''
--> ''For God''
--> ''No need''
--> ''For him''
--> ''Just take''
--> ''My hand''
--> ''You'll be''
--> ''My bride''
--> ''Just take''
--> ''That fruit''
--> ''Put it''
--> ''Inside''
* ExpressiveHair: P.J.'s wet hair thrown upwards on the album cover.
* FaceOnTheCover: P.J. in a bathroom.
* IKissYourFoot: "Rid Of Me"
--> ''Lick my legs, I'm on fire!''
* IntercourseWithYou: "Rub 'Til It Bleeds"
--> ''I lie steady''
--> ''Rest your head on me''
--> ''I'll smooth it nicely''
--> ''Rub it better 'till it bleeds''
* ItsAllAboutMe: "Ecstasy"
--> ''Singing, I'm singing. Yah!''
--> ''Sounding hanging breathe''
--> ''I'm begging you look at me.''
--> ''Ecstasy. I'm in ec... ecstasy''
--> ''Ecstasy''
* JumpScare: "Rid of Me" starts off creepy and quiet with some rather disturbing lyrics, and then slowly gets louder and then "DON'T YOU WISH YOU....NEVER....NEVER MET HER DON'T YOU!!!!!"
* LocationSong: "Highway 61 Revisited", where Highway 61 is the solution to everything.
* MisandrySong:
** "50 ft. Queenie"
--> ''Glory, glory''
--> ''Lay it all on me''
--> ''50ft queenie''
--> ''50 and rising''
--> ''You bend over''
--> ''Casanova''
--> ''No sweat I'm clean''
--> ''Nothing can touch me''
** "Man-Size"
--> ''Got my girl and she's a wow''
--> ''I cast my iron knickers down''
--> ''Man-sized no need to shout''
--> ''Can you hear, can you hear me now?''
--> ''I'm man-sized''
--> ''Man-sized''
--> ''I'll measure time''
--> ''I'll measure height''
--> ''I'll calculate''
--> ''My birth right''
--> ''Good Lord I'm big''
--> ''I'm heading on''
--> ''Man-size''
--> ''Got my leather boots on''
** "Me-Jane"
--> ''Oh damn your chest-beating, just you stop your screaming''
--> ''It's splitting through my head and swinging from the ceiling''
--> ''Move it over, Tarzan, can't you see I'm bleeding?''
--> ''I've called you by your first name, good Lord it's me-Jane!''
* ObsessionSong:
** "Rid Of Me"
--> ''I'll tie your legs''
--> ''Keep you against my chest''
--> ''Oh, you're not rid of me''
--> ''Yeah, you're not rid of me''
--> ''I'll make you lick my injuries''
--> ''I'm gonna twist your head off, see''
** "Legs". Nothing says "I love you" like sawing someone's legs off to keep them from leaving you.
* OneWomanSong: "50 ft. Queenie".
* OneWordTitle: "Missed", "Legs", "Hook", "Yuri-G", "Dry", "Snake" and "Ecstasy".
* PepTalkSong: "50 ft. Queenie"
--> ''Hey I'm the king of the world''
--> ''You oughta hear my song''
--> ''You come on and measure me''
--> ''I'm twenty inches long''
* RecordProducer: Music/SteveAlbini, except for the track "Man-Size Sextet".
* RefrainFromAssuming: The song "Dry" is from this album, not ''Music/{{Dry}}''.
* RepurposedPopSong: P.J. recorded a cover of "Highway 61 Revisited" before on the tribute album "Outlaw Blues Volume 2".
* SelfBackingVocalist: During "Rid Of Me".
* ShoutOut:
** The line "don't you wish you never met her" from "Rid Of Me" is a nod to a line from "Dirty Blue Gene" from Music/CaptainBeefheart's ''Music/DocAtTheRadarStation''.
** "50 ft. Queenie" is inspired by the B-movie ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman''. It also namedrops UsefulNotes/GiacomoCasanova.
--> ''You bend over, Casanova''
** "Me-Jane" references ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' a few times:
--> ''Move it over, Tarzan, can't you see I'm bleeding?''
--> ''I've called you by your first name, good Lord, it's me-Jane!''
** "Yuri-G" is a shout-out to UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin.
* The music video of "50ft. Queenie" was once featured in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''.
* SiameseTwinSongs: "Man-Size" and "Man-Size Sextet" have the same lyrics, but different arrangements.
* SpellingSong: "50 Foot Queenie"
--> ''Tell you my name''
--> ''FU and CK''
* UnrequitedLove: "Dry", where P.J. is direct about her feelings about a man who tries to seduce her.
--> ''You leave me dry''.
* WomanScorned: A major theme throughout the entire album.
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