If I noticed any changes, I made a note on the article version. My process for this was rather unthorough: I read the article and then right afterward I read the book. There’s not a lot but there are a few juicy tidbits (especially in the early articles) that are fun to note for anyone who read only the book and not the original articles. But what I did want to note was the things that are in the articles that have been removed from the book. It quickly became obvious that there were a lot of additions to most of the articles, and it seems rather pointless (well, actually it seems exhausting and really outrageously time-consuming) to mention them all. original articles that comprise A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do AgainĪs I mentioned last week, I decided to compare the articles in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again with the original publications to see what the differences were.
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“M-Bike” is a cool angry rocker about a guy and his motorcycle which is one of my favorite tracks on the disc. “Reeling” is an organ-propelled song of female strength with the nice lyric: “Robert DeNiro sit on my face.” “Hardly Wait” is a slow grinder that is fairly quiet for this time period. The disc also has some tracks unreleased elsewhere. I admit that I like the finished version of “50 Ft Queenie” better,”but there’s something about this version of “Yuri-G” that I like better. “Snake” actually features even creepier vocals–Harvey must have had a field day making these sounds! (Which sort of undermines that idea that this was released because Rid of Me was too intense for fans). Speaking of scary vocals, her lead screams in “Legs” are far scarier here than on Rid of Me–like really creepy. “Rid of Me” is just as quiet/loud, and has those high-pitched (and scary) backing vocals. The songs definitely have an unfinished feel about them, and yet they only vary from the final version in polish (and Albini’s stamp).
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Or if not more intense, then certainly more raw. The amazing thing is that these versions actually seem more intense than the Albini version. SOUNDTRACK: PJ HARVEY-4-Track Demos (1993).Īfter the intensity of the Steve Albini produced Rid of Me, Harvey releases this collection of demos.