#there's also still a lot of stuff to get rid of which. also work. ahhhhhhh

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15 days until move

I have packed:

1. one box with all my books. (most of my books...)

2. That's it.

I have the strange feeling that this possibly might be a lot of work. Packing everything. Crazy shit

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could you share a few song recs by Patti Smith & PJ Harvey.. I'm curious and wanna get into them but have no idea where to start

YES omg i absolutely can!!! :DD hehe thank youuuuuu <3

the best place to start with Patti is her 1975 first album Horses - the first song, Gloria, is probably the best way to sort of sum up her music and the general vibes of what she's doing. all of horses is an excellent intro to her work. because the night is a song you've probably heard already, and is the most mainstream-sounding song of hers (it is still a banger though hehe <3). some cool ones to get started with -

Redondo Beach

Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / Le Mer (De)

Ain't It Strange

Ask the Angels

25th Floor / High on Rebellion

Easter

Dancing Barefoot

Citizen Ship

Tarkovsky (the Second Stop is Jupiter)

About A Boy

these are mostly from her four 70s albums, which of all her music is definitely the most well-known - some of her more recent stuff is cool too, she's done some kind of ambient tributes to french poets & brian eno remixed one song, that was pretty cool as well, but yknow, bit more niche. radio ethiopia is my favourite album of hers but it does definitely lean towards art music for people who write poetry. like it's a bit odd but i love it. (i don't even write poetry)

if you're interested in her other works, i cannot recommend enough her books - Just Kids is the famous one and you'll see why if you read it hehe, it's very very good, about her life in new york with her best friend robert.

with PJ Harvey, she has gone through so many styles of music so there's not really one album that is a good summary of her stuff - that being said, To Bring You My Love 1995 is a brilliant album with some of her best stuff on it, and has some kind of grungey ones and also some slightly chiller ones as well, and it the first one i would reccommend ajznshnsaskan love that album.

some good songs to start with would be uhmm

To Bring You My Love

Down by the Water

C'mon Billy

Man-Size

Rid of Me

Sheela-na-gig

Water (live at glastonbury 1995 is also an amazing version if you're interested, it's on youtube)

White Chalk

I Inside the Old I Dying

My Beautiful Leah

again, mostly her older stuff, but her album from this year I Inside The Old Year Dying is so so so cool ahhhhhhh. white chalk as an album is all more gothic-folk stuff as well if that's more your thing than grunge. rid of me is the scary angry one but i love it <3

she has lots of really amazing live performaces up on youtube if you're wanting to look, and b-sides & until-recently-unreleased stuff & demos for all her albums, which can be a bit of a rabbit hole but lots of them are Really Very Good

i hope this helps!! it's quite a lot sorry lol but hopefully you like some of these!!