Dress CDS -
Released: October 1991
ID: PURE CD5
Track List:
1. Dress
2. Water
3. Dry
Liner Notes:
Dress
Recorded at the Icehouse, Yeovil
Produced by Mark Vernon
Engineered by Head
Water
Dry
Recorded and produced by P J Harvey
Mixed at the Icehouse
P J Harvey - Vocals, Guitar, Violin
Rob Ellis - Drums
Ian Olliver - Bass
With
Ben Groenevelt - Double Bass on 'Dress'
Mike Paine - Guitar on 'Water'
Photographs - Maria Mochnacz
Sleeve layout - Foothold
Further info: P O Box 1944, London NW10 SPJ
Thanks to: Richard & Paul, Mark V. Parrot and Dick
Made in England
All songs written by P J H © 1991
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Song trivia:
Dress:
"I was devastated, because I wanted to be a boy and I was a girl. My mom was trying to make me wear a dress. I ended up wearing the dress for a day, then took it off. I just really didn't want to wear a dress. I couldn't understand why I had to wear one and my brother didn't. I wanted to have a willy like my brother and I didn't have one."
-PJ Harvey, Alt. Press 1993
"Like 'Dress' - I'll let into a little secret - was influenced by 'The Rite Of Spring' by Stravinsky! I was completely and utterly obsessed with that and I got interested in cross rhythm! (Rob starts drumming a pulsating rhythm on the table!) If you take the middle section of 'The Adoration Of The Earth' from 'The Rite Of Spring' there's all that stuff going (more drumming) and the third one is all that stuff, things moving at different rates and that's where that comes in. Polly's music of that time. She also wrote in different interesting time signatures and contrasting time signatures as well."
-Rob Ellis, Funky Mofo July 2004
