Breaking into the Top 5 now, with only one more post to go. With albums 7-5 on the list and classic singles leaping from a couple of those albums, 2000 was a very good year.
6.
Album: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea — PJ Harvey (2000)
I admire most of Harvey’s albums, and all of them up to this point. But Stories from the City, Stories From the Sea is the only one I love — probably because it’s so full of affection itself. After years of tormented, severe, magnificent English blues-rock of her own imagining, Harvey crossed the Atlantic and made her love album: A woozy, breezy, blushing but endlessly rocking romantic ramble through Manhattan and Brooklyn. In truth, I hadn’t listened to it front-to-back in a few years before pulling it out during a summer vacation road trip this year. And I was taken aback at how gloriously well it had held up.
Song Sample: “You Said Something”
