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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) |
24 | |
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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