THIS IS LOVE
“This Is Love” is a song by English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey. It is the tenth track from her fifth studio album, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) and was released as a single on 8 October 2001 under the title “This Is Love / You Said Something”. It charted on UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 41. The blues-influenced song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 2002 but lost to Lucinda Williams song “Get Right With God”. (More from Wikipedia)
My favorite PJ Harvey album thus far (and also the first one that I purchased, though I had heard about her for years), Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000) is drawn from a six-month sojourn in New York City in 1999. PJ Harvey’s thrilling video for “This Is Love” is what originally grabbed me; the song has the memorable lyric: “I can’t believe life is so complex / When I just want to sit here and watch you undress.”
(January 2014)
