Line #10 Music/RidOfMe


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3	''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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5	Music/{{Nirvana}} hired Music/SteveAlbini, the album's producer, afterwards to record ''Music/InUtero'' (1993) for them.
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7	The music videos for "50ft. Queenie" and "Man-Size" were once featured in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''.
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9	[[AC:Tracklist:]]
10	# "Rid of Me" (4:28)
11	# "Missed" (4:25)
12	# "Legs" (3:40)
13	# "Rub 'Til It Bleeds" (5:03)
14	# "Hook" (3:57)
15	# "Man-Size Sextet" (2:18)
16	# "Highway 61 Revisited" (2:57)
17	# "50ft. Queenie" (2:23)
18	# "Yuri-G" (3:28)
19	# "Man-Size" (3:16)
20	# "Dry" (3:23)
21	# "Me-Jane" (2:42)
22	# "Snake" (1:36)
23	# "Ecstasy" (4:26)
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25	----
26	!! ''Man-Size Tropes''
27	* ACappella: The end of "Rid Of Me" ends with Rob Ellis just screaming out his lungs.
28	* AdamAndEvePlot: "Snake"
29	--> ''You snake (You snake)''
30	--> ''I ate (I ate)''
31	--> ''A true (A true)''
32	--> ''Belief (Belief)''
33	--> ''Good Lord (Good Lord)''
34	--> ''That fruit's (That's fruit's)''
35	--> ''Inside (Inside)''
36	--> ''Of me (Of me)''
37	--> ''Oh Adam (Oh Ad-)''
38	--> ''Please (-am please)''
39	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Ecstasy"
40	--> '' '''H'''itting '''h'''eavens '''h'''igh''
41	* AntiLoveSong: "Legs"
42	--> ''Did you sing "Oh happy day"?''
43	--> ''Singing it''
44	--> ''Sing it that time I went away?''
45	--> ''Got to ease my aching head''
46	--> ''Do you know''
47	--> ''No other way cut off your legs oh''
48	--> ''Hey oh''
49	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: "50 Ft. Queenie"
50	--> ''50ft queenie''
51	--> ''Force ten hurricane''
52	--> ''Biggest woman''
53	--> ''I could have ten sons''
54	--> ''Ten gods ten queens''
55	--> ''Ten foot and rising''
56	* BrokenRecord: "Rid Of Me"
57	--> ''Don't you, don't you wish you never never met her''
58	--> ''Lick my legs, I'm on fire''
59	--> ''Lick my legs of desire''
60	* CarefulWithThatAxe: P.J. really strained her vocals for this album.
61	* ClassicalMusic: "Man-Size Sextet" has P.J. being backed by strings and a contra bass.
62	* CoverVersion: The Music/BobDylan cover "Highway 61 Revisited."
63	* 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.
64	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The black-and-white album cover.
65	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The stylish album cover, taken by Maria Mochnacz, taken in a dark bathroom.
66	* DoubleEntendre: "Snake."
67	--> ''You snake''
68	--> ''You crawled''
69	--> ''Between''
70	--> ''My legs''
71	--> ''Said "Want''
72	--> ''It all?''
73	--> ''It's yours''
74	--> ''You bet''
75	--> ''I'll make''
76	--> ''You queen''
77	--> ''Of everything''
78	--> ''No need''
79	--> ''For God''
80	--> ''No need''
81	--> ''For him''
82	--> ''Just take''
83	--> ''My hand''
84	--> ''You'll be''
85	--> ''My bride''
86	--> ''Just take''
87	--> ''That fruit''
88	--> ''Put it''
89	--> ''Inside''
90	* ExpressiveHair: P.J.'s wet hair thrown upwards on the album cover.
91	* FaceOnTheCover: P.J. in a bathroom.
92	* GagPenis: P.J. actually claims to have one on "50ft. Queenie":
93	--> ''Ah come on measure me''\
94	''I'm twenty inches long''
95	* IKissYourFoot: "Rid Of Me"
96	--> ''Lick my legs, I'm on fire!''
97	* IntercourseWithYou: "Rub 'Til It Bleeds"
98	--> ''I lie steady''
99	--> ''Rest your head on me''
100	--> ''I'll smooth it nicely''
101	--> ''Rub it better 'till it bleeds''
102	* ItsAllAboutMe: "Ecstasy"
103	--> ''Singing, I'm singing. Yah!''
104	--> ''Sounding hanging breathe''
105	--> ''I'm begging you look at me.''
106	--> ''Ecstasy. I'm in ec... ecstasy''
107	--> ''Ecstasy''
108	* 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!!!!!"
109	* LocationSong: "Highway 61 Revisited," where Highway 61 is the solution to everything.
110	* MisandrySong:
111	** "50 ft. Queenie"
112	--> ''Glory, glory''
113	--> ''Lay it all on me''
114	--> ''50ft queenie''
115	--> ''50 and rising''
116	--> ''You bend over''
117	--> ''Casanova''
118	--> ''No sweat I'm clean''
119	--> ''Nothing can touch me''
120	** "Man-Size"
121	--> ''Got my girl and she's a wow''
122	--> ''I cast my iron knickers down''
123	--> ''Man-sized no need to shout''
124	--> ''Can you hear, can you hear me now?''
125	--> ''I'm man-sized''
126	--> ''Man-sized''
127	--> ''I'll measure time''
128	--> ''I'll measure height''
129	--> ''I'll calculate''
130	--> ''My birth right''
131	--> ''Good Lord I'm big''
132	--> ''I'm heading on''
133	--> ''Man-size''
134	--> ''Got my leather boots on''
135	** "Me-Jane"
136	--> ''Oh damn your chest-beating, just you stop your screaming''
137	--> ''It's splitting through my head and swinging from the ceiling''
138	--> ''Move it over, Tarzan, can't you see I'm bleeding?''
139	--> ''I've called you by your first name, good Lord it's me-Jane!''
140	* ObsessionSong:
141	** "Rid Of Me"
142	--> ''I'll tie your legs''
143	--> ''Keep you against my chest''
144	--> ''Oh, you're not rid of me''
145	--> ''Yeah, you're not rid of me''
146	--> ''I'll make you lick my injuries''
147	--> ''I'm gonna twist your head off, see''
148	** "Legs." Nothing says "I love you" like sawing someone's legs off to keep them from leaving you.
149	%% * OneWomanSong: "50 ft. Queenie."
150	* OneWordTitle: "Missed," "Legs," "Hook," "Yuri-G," "Dry," "Snake," and "Ecstasy."
151	* PepTalkSong: "50 ft. Queenie"
152	--> ''Hey I'm the king of the world''
153	--> ''You oughta hear my song''
154	--> ''You come on and measure me''
155	--> ''I'm twenty inches long''
156	* RearrangeTheSong: "Man-Size Sextet" is "Man-Size" with the track's instrumental being played on a sextet of strings instead of guitar.
157	* RecordProducer: Music/SteveAlbini, except for the track "Man-Size Sextet."
158	* RepurposedPopSong: P.J. recorded a cover of "Highway 61 Revisited" before on the tribute album "Outlaw Blues Volume 2."
159	* SelfBackingVocalist: During "Rid Of Me."
160	* ShoutOut:
161	** 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''.
162	** "50 ft. Queenie" is inspired by the B-movie ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman''. It also namedrops UsefulNotes/GiacomoCasanova.
163	--> ''You bend over, Casanova''
164	** "Me-Jane" references ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' a few times:
165	--> ''Move it over, Tarzan, can't you see I'm bleeding?''
166	--> ''I've called you by your first name, good Lord, it's me-Jane!''
167	** "Yuri-G" is a shout-out to UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin.
168	* SiameseTwinSongs: "Man-Size" and "Man-Size Sextet" have the same lyrics, but different arrangements.
169	* SpellingSong: "50 Foot Queenie"
170	--> ''Tell you my name''
171	--> ''FU and CK''
172	* UnrequitedLove: "Dry," where P.J. is direct about her feelings about a man who tries to seduce her.
173	--> ''You leave me dry.''
174	* WomanScorned: A major theme throughout the entire album.

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