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''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'' is the fifth studio album by English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey, released on 23 October 2000 by Island Records. Recorded during March to April 2000, it contains themes of love that are tied into Harvey's affection for New York City. The album became the second major commercial success of her recording career, following her successful breakthrough ''To Bring You My Love'' (1995). Upon its release, the album received acclaim from most music critics and earned Harvey several accolades, including the 2001 Mercury Prize. It spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, and was certified Platinum in the UK and Australia.〔http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/Search.aspx〕〔http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesARIACharts-Accreditations-2007Albums.htm〕 It is generally regarded as one of her best works.〔 Relevant portion also posted at 〕〔 Portions posted at (【引用サイトリンク】title=PJ Harvey > Album Guide )〕 In the updated version of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, it was ranked at #431.〔()〕 ==Background== ''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'' was recorded at the Great Linford Manor in Milton Keynes in March–April 2000. The record was co-produced by Mick Harvey, Rob Ellis and Harvey, and mixed by Victor Van Vugt at the Fallout Shelter. The album featured a duet with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on the track "This Mess We're In", as well as backing vocals and keyboards from Yorke on the songs "One Line" and "Beautiful Feeling". "This Mess We're In" was featured in the series finale of ''Queer as Folk'', in the final love scene shared between the two main characters. The song was subsequently included on the series' fifth soundtrack. Harvey told ''Q'' in 2001, "I wanted everything to sound as beautiful as possible. Having experimented with some dreadful sounds on ''Is This Desire?'' and ''To Bring You My Love'' - where I was really looking for dark, unsettling, nauseous-making sounds - ''Stories From The City...'' was the reaction. I thought, No, I want absolute beauty. I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody. I want it to be my beautiful, sumptuous, lovely piece of work." She did, however, concede jokingly that it was only "pop according to PJ Harvey, which is probably as un-pop as you can get according to most people's standards." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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