Song · PJ Harvey
“This Is Love” by PJ Harvey
From the album Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
“This Is Love” by PJ Harvey appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2001. It was first released in 2000 on the album Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea. Its best result is #36 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #443 alternative song of 2001.
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"This Is Love" is the tenth track on Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, PJ Harvey's fifth album, from 2000, and it's a bluntly physical blues-punk stomp; as author Amy Britton read it, the song ranks sex above all the strangeness of the world. The guitar riff has been heard as a tip of the hat to the Stooges' "No Fun", with a family resemblance to the Heartbreakers' "Chinese Rocks".
Harvey wrote it, sings it and plays guitar and keyboard, with Mick Harvey on bass and keyboard and Rob Ellis on drums and tambourine. It came out as a single in 2001, billed alongside "You Said Something", and reached 41 in the UK. In 2002 it was up for the Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, which went to Lucinda Williams' "Get Right With God".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 36 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2001 | 50 |
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