History Music / ToBringYouMyLove

* AlliterativeTitle: "'''M'''eet Ze '''M'''onsta".
* AsTheGoodBookSays:
** "To Bring You My Love"
--> ''Jesus come closer, I think my time is near''
** "The Dancer"
--> ''Cause I've prayed days, I've prayed nights, for the Lord just to send me off some sign''
** "Down By The Water"
--> ''Oh help me, Jesus''
--> ''Come through the storm''
** "Send His Love To Me"
--> ''Calling Jesus, please, send his love to me''
** "Long Snake Moan"
--> ''Raise me up, Lord''
--> ''Call me "Lazarus"''
--> ''Hey Lord, help me''
--> ''Make me marvel''

* CarefulWithThatAxe: Several songs, for example "Long Snake Moan", have Harvey sing pretty darn loud. And then there are her high moans in "The Dancer".
* CreepyMonotone: "Working For The Man" is a hypnotic track where P.J. whispers and moans her vocals very low and close into the mike. Another song in this vein is "I Think I'm A Mother".
* DisappearedDad: "C'mon Billy", where P.J. sings Billy to come home and meet "his only son", whom she is pregnant with.

--> ''He said: "Dance for me, fanciulla gentile".''

* JumpScare: At the start of "Long Snake Moan" P.J. briefly says "Hmm-hmm", whereupon the song bursts out in all of its loudness. Every first time listener will be startled by this.

* OneWordTitle: "Teclo".

* ShoutOut: The album references Music/CaptainBeefheart three times. The TitleTrack opens with the line "Well, I was born in the desert, came on up from New Orleans", which is similar to Beefheart's opening line on "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' (1967). The title of "Meet Ze Monsta" is inspired by the line "I'm playing this music/ so the young girls would come out/ to meet the monster tonight" from "Tropical Hot Dog Night" from Beefheart's ''Music/ShinyBeast'' (1978). "I Think I'm a Mother" uses the lines "You told her you love her/ so bring her to mother/ You love her, adapt her/ you love her, adapt her/ Adapt her, adapter/ adapt her, adapter" from Beefheart's "Drop-Out Boogie" from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' (1967). Harvey's vocal melody at the end of "Teclo" also mirrors Beefheart's melody in "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles".

* TitleTrack: "To Bring You My Love"

''To Bring You My Love'' is a 1995 album by Music/PJHarvey, widely seen as one of her best albums. "C'mon Billy" and "Down By The Water" were released as singles and helped her break to the mainstream. The album takes a lot of its inspiration from American {{Blues}} music, particularly in its subject matter about rivers, religion and lovers who left. Musically many tracks mimick the intimate sound of these 1920s and 1930s recordings.

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''You wanna hear my long snake... moan?!'']]

* GutturalGrowler: P.J. sings very low on many tracks, sometimes growling and moaning in the process.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: This is a dark album, where Harvey often sings in a CreepyMonotone and with GutturalGrowler sounds. "Working For The Man" is almost whispered, while "Down By The Water" has her sing to fishes in the water to "come back here and give me my daughter."

* ShoutOut: The album references Music/CaptainBeefheart three times. The TitleTrack opens with the line "Well, I was born in the desert, came on up from New Orleans", which is similar to Beefheart's opening line on "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' (1967). The title of "Meet Ze Monsta" is inspired by the line "I'm playing this music/ so the young girls would come out/ to meet the monster tonight" from "Tropical Hot Dog Night" from Beefheart's ''Music/ShinyBeast'' (1978). "I Think I'm a Mother" uses the lines "You told her you love her/ so bring her to mother/ You love her, adapt her/ you love her, adapt her/ Adapt her, adapter/ adapt her, adapter" from Beefheart's "Drop-Out Boogie" from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' (1967).

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: "Down By The Water": why would fishes be willing to bring back a baby daughter to her mother? Justified, as the narrator is [[SanitySlippage clearly not in a lucid state of mind]].

* CreepyMonotone: "Working For The Man" is a hypnotic track where P.J. whispers and moans her vocals very low and close into the mike. Another song in this vain is "I Think I'm A Mother".

* ChildImmortality: Subverted by "Down By The Water", where the protagonist mother lost her daughter in the river, presumably because she drowned her herself.

# "Working For The Man" (4:45)

# "Down By The Water" (3:14)
# "I Think I'm A Mother" (4:00)
# "Send His Love To Me" (4:20)

'''To Bring You My Love''' is a 1995 album by Music/PJHarvey, widely seen as one of her best albums. "C'mon Billy" and "Down By The Water" were released as singles and helped her break to the mainstream. The album takes a lot of its inspiration from American {{Blues}} music, particularly in its subject matter about rivers, religion and lovers who left. Musically many tracks mimick the intimate sound of these 1920s and 1930s recordings.

'''Tracklist'''

!! ''I'm... just...troping... for the man''

* ShoutOut: The album references Music/CaptainBeefheart three times. The TitleTrack opens with the line "Well, I was born in the desert, came on up from New Orleans", which is similar to Beefheart's opening line on "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' (1967). The title of "Meet Ze Monsta" is inspired by the line "I'm playing this music/ so the young girls would come out/ to meet the monster tonight" from "Tropical Hot Dog Night" from Beefheart's ''Music/ShinyBeast'' (1978). The same song also uses the lines "You told her you love her/ so bring her to mother/ You love her, adapt her/ you love her, adapt her/ Adapt her, adapter/ adapt her, adapter" from Beefheart's "Drop-Out Boogie" from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' (1967).

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: "Down By The Water": why would fishes be willing to bring back a baby daughter to her mother?

--> '' For the lord just to send me home some sign''