Song · PJ Harvey
“Rid Of Me” by PJ Harvey
From the album Rid of Me (1993)
“Rid Of Me” by PJ Harvey appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1993 and 2024. It was first released in 1993 on the album Rid of Me. Its best result is #4 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1993. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #79 alternative song of 1993.
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"Rid of Me" is the title track of PJ Harvey's second album, released by Island on 26 April 1993, roughly a year after her acclaimed debut Dry, and she wrote it alone, words and music. The record around it lurched toward something rawer and more aggressive than Dry, and it was played by her original trio: Harvey singing and playing guitar, Rob Ellis behind the kit and adding backing vocals, Steve Vaughan on bass. Steve Albini recorded most of the album.
It was also the end of that band, which split up late in 1993 without making another record. Rid of Me drew rave reviews and has since been ranked among the greatest albums of the '90s; Rolling Stone's 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time put it at number 153, up from 406.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 4 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1993 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 329 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2022 | 494 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 436 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2023 | 440 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2024 | 96 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
Also listed as: Rid of Me.
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