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Originally Posted by trackaghost
Did you know Polly hadn't even heard of Patti Smith until people started to compare her to Patti?
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And? Patti certainly had covered Polly's territory before. It's not like Harvey didn't add her own twist to it, but the similarities to me are obvious.
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Plus Polly is a better musician than Patti.
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Doesn't matter to me. Gary Moore is a better musician technically than Peter Green, but would you honestly pick Gary over Peter?
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Obviously Patti paved the way for Polly, but PJ Harvey's achievements equal hers IMO. She's definitely one of the few artists of today that people will still be talking about in 20, 30 years to come.
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No one in rock and roll has revolutionized anything for the past twenty years or so; it's all been a recycling of whatever has been done in the past with post-modern values. Polly has created nothing genuinely new, if anything will carry her over to the future generations it's her persona. But it might as well not happen; we can never predict these things correctly anyway. Let's talk about this in 30 years time then, if we're both allowed to live into our late middle-ages and The Ledge is still up and running.
