PJ Harvey "To Bring You My Love" [1995]

Beware rough-edged recording techniques -- they always indicate a profound lack of talent and creativity. Exhibit A is "To Bring You My Love," the female equivalent to Nick Cave recording an album while fast asleep. Clearly consumed by the realization she'd recently had sex with a black guy (as her songs "Meet Ze Monsta," "Long Snake Moan" and "I Think I'm a Mother" obviously, vulgarly attest), PJ Harvey -- er, Polly Jean Harvey, the lead singer, whose association with the band name "PJ Harvey" is purely coincidental… yeah, sure thing, sweetheart -- proves once and for all that vampires shouldn't shoot junk, junkies shouldn't become vampires, and neither or any of them ought to have a record company hawk their wares. Repetitively hideous and hideously repetitive, all the eye shadow and lipstick in the world couldn't pretty this pig. Surprised she wasn't floating face down on the front cover, instead.