PJ Harvey's "Greatest Hits" - Your Ideal...

[toriMODE]

01. Oh My Lover
02. Sheela-na-gig
03. Snake
04. Rid Of Me
05. Down by the Water
06. To Bring You My Love
07. The Wind
08. A Perfect Day, Elise
09. Good Fortune
10. A Place Called Home
11. The Letter
12. Who the Fuck?
13. Silence
14. When Under Ether
15. Pig Will Not
16. Black Hearted Love
17. The Words That Maketh Murder
18. The Glorious Land

[Spikey]

1. Dress
2. Victory (peel session)
3. Dry (demo)
4. 50 FT Queenie (live -that one from the Help EP)
5. Man-size
6. Reeling
7. Down by the Water
8. C'mon Billy
9. Send his love to me
10. Angelene
11. A Perfect Day, Elise
12. The Wind
13. Good Fortune
14. This is Love
15. You said something
16. the Letter
17. Shame
18. the Devil
19. the Piano
20. The Words that Maketh Murder (or maybe Let England Shake)
21. Last Living Rose
22. On Battleship Hill
23. The Guns Called Me Back Again

Oh no, way too long already

[yoshi]

^ I really like the LES b-sides, The Nightingale & The Guns Called Me Back Again.
The Nightingale is actually becoming one of my favourite PJ Harvey songs.

[Octopussy]

Boosting this to update! As PJ is halfway through the third decade of her career, I'm going to break the 18 tracks rule. 26 tracks, for me, is showing restraint. She would be perfectly justified in doing a 5-disc retrospective box set at this point, but you know she would consider that "excessive." Good ol' Peej.

Disc 1

01 Dress
02 Good Fortune
03 C'mon Billy
04 Sheela-Na-Gig
05 Down By The Water
06 50ft Queenie
07 A Perfect Day Elise (remix)
08 Shame
09 When Under Ether
10 Man-Size
11 The Glorious Land
12 This Is Love
13 Angelene

Disc 2

01 Guilty
02 The Words That Maketh Murder
03 Black-Hearted Love
04 That Was My Veil
05 A Place Called Home
06 White Chalk
07 The Last Living Rose
08 The Wind
09 The Wheel
10 The Desperate Kingdom Of Love
11 Silence
12 To Bring You My Love
13 Rid Of Me

((((itunes volume presets = ))))

[Glindathegood]

1.Sheela-Na-gig
2. 50 ft. Queenie
3. Down by the Water
4. Henry Lee (w/ Nick Cave)
5. Broken Homes (w/Tricky)
6. A Perfect Day Elise
7. Good Fortune
8. This is Love
9. The Letter
10. When Under Ether
11. Black Hearted Love
12. The Words that Maketh Murder
13. This Glorious Land
14. Community of Hope

[Kala]

01 Big Exit
02 A Perfect Day Elise
03 Rid of Me
04 Good Fortune
05 The Dancer
06 Catherine
07 Teclo
08 The Darker Days of Me and Him
09 It's You
10 The Letter
11 When Under Ether
12 Dear Darkness
13 The Glorious Land
14 Bitter Branches
15 On Battleship Hill
16 In the Dark Places
17 Shaker Aamer
18 The Orange Monkey
19 The Ministry of Social Affairs
20 The Wheel

[grapefruit_is_winning]

Sue me but I have to choose 19 songs, bare minimum. No particular order:

1 - Dear Darkness
2 - The Devil
3 - On Battleship Hill
4 - Driving (4 Track Demo version)
5 - Memphis
6 - Fountain
7 - Down By The Water
8 - The Dancer
9 - I Think I'm A Mother
10 - Teclo
11 - Rid of Me
12 - The Letter
13 - The Glorious Land
14 - The Orange Monkey
15 - Who The Fuck?
16 - Dress
17 - It's You
18 - No Girl So Sweet
19 - Angelene

[MikeEP]

a greatest hits of just her singles would be fucking amazing in its own right, but in terms of my favorites and what i consider essentials, and also representative of each proper solo album, limiting myself to 18, i'd go with the following with this image:

1. Dress
2. Rid of Me
3. Missed
4. 50 Ft. Queenie
5. Man-Size
6. Reeling
7. Down By the Water
8. C'mon Billy
9. Long Snake Moan
10. Angelene
11. A Perfect Day Elise
12. Big Exit
13. A Place Called Home
14. One Line
15. Shame
16. The Devil
17. The Last Living Rose
18. The Wheel

[Beelust]

This is at 18 tracks without B-sides. But this is impossible. I skipped UHH and Hope Six...

Rid of Me
Meet Ze Monsta
Oh my Lover
My Beautiful Leah
Send His Love To Me
Written on the Forehead
Dress
Man-Size
Working For The Man
On Battleship Hill
Teclo
Black Hearted Love
The Glorious Land
Angelene
The Dancer
Dear Darkness
Big Exit
We Float

[Stone]

I am heartbroken that only one of you has included Shaker Aamer on your retrospective.

[Spikey]

My post ( a few posts up ), is from before that song even existed.

[Kala]

I am heartbroken that only one of you has included Shaker Aamer on your retrospective.

I love that little song SO MUCH.