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I also prefer Murmur over Automatic (and God knows a lot of their 80s albums over Out of Time and others) and i've been noticing that critics are slightly starting to see Rid of Me as PJ Harvey's seminal 90s album instead of Love and Stories from the City as her overall best. It's very hard to pick a favorite Polly album: Love is the one i admire the most, Rid of Me the one I play the most, Dry and Stories are accessible and also played a lot, though Uh Huh Her and Is This Desire are both raw and experimental in parts, so it's tough to pick between her 4 top 500 records. Maybe it's because i'm a fan.
HRS
I also prefer Murmur over Automatic (and God knows a lot of their 80s albums over Out of Time and others) and i've been noticing that critics are slightly starting to see Rid of Me as PJ Harvey's seminal 90s album instead of Love and Stories from the City as her overall best. It's very hard to pick a favorite Polly album: Love is the one i admire the most, Rid of Me the one I play the most, Dry and Stories are accessible and also played a lot, though Uh Huh Her and Is This Desire are both raw and experimental in parts, so it's tough to pick between her 4 top 500 records. Maybe it's because i'm a fan.
Out of Time has no business in the top 500 of all time; maybe not even the top 1000. And this is coming from a hardcore R.E.M. fan.
I always thought Reckoning and Life's Rich Pageant belonged in the top 500 of all time; two fine records displaying a band in their peak.
For me the only great albums R.E.M. released after leaving IRS for Warner Bros were Automatic For the People (my #2 R.E.M. record) and New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Green is okay. Out of Time has two good songs. Monster has one good song. Accelerate has a lot of good songs but no great songs that stand among their best classics.
HRS
I also prefer Murmur over Automatic (and God knows a lot of their 80s albums over Out of Time and others) and i've been noticing that critics are slightly starting to see Rid of Me as PJ Harvey's seminal 90s album instead of Love and Stories from the City as her overall best. It's very hard to pick a favorite Polly album: Love is the one i admire the most, Rid of Me the one I play the most, Dry and Stories are accessible and also played a lot, though Uh Huh Her and Is This Desire are both raw and experimental in parts, so it's tough to pick between her 4 top 500 records. Maybe it's because i'm a fan.
White Chalk is another masterpiece. Very beautiful and haunting songs. I'm suprised it's not ranked higher. It was a much better record than I expected it to be especially since you hear very little guitar in favor of harp, piano, violin and even banjo. The title track alone is one of her best songs to date.
Tim E
HRS
I also prefer Murmur over Automatic (and God knows a lot of their 80s albums over Out of Time and others) and i've been noticing that critics are slightly starting to see Rid of Me as PJ Harvey's seminal 90s album instead of Love and Stories from the City as her overall best. It's very hard to pick a favorite Polly album: Love is the one i admire the most, Rid of Me the one I play the most, Dry and Stories are accessible and also played a lot, though Uh Huh Her and Is This Desire are both raw and experimental in parts, so it's tough to pick between her 4 top 500 records. Maybe it's because i'm a fan.
White Chalk is another masterpiece. Very beautiful and haunting songs. I'm suprised it's not ranked higher. It was a much better record than I expected it to be especially since you hear very little guitar in favor of harp, piano, violin and even banjo. The title track alone is one of her best songs to date.
Don't even tell me about it! "Scratch my palms, there's blood on my hands". I can't believe i forgot to mention it! I suck! xD
I really like White Chalk and many PJ fans overlook it, to me was a brave, passionate album, she was really inspired. Too bad it was kinda overlooked by american critics and inside EODs because of Stories. Let England Shake is also shaping to be one of her greats. Chills when the Let it Burn samples comes out and fits the song incredibly well. I really enjoyed The Last Living Rose and Written on the Forehead.
About the R.E.M. comment made by Jonathon i do agree, their 80s albums should've rank higher and Out of Time is very overrated. I do enjoy their Warner years, but they do rank extremely high, they're not bad albums, they're just not top 500 material, i always thought it was only me though, nice to see other people in other topics agreeing. Those albums have their charms and great share of tracks: Hi-Fi, Green, Monster, Up! and i don't see anything that wrong about their placements, but with Out of Time is different, since is not an album full of Losing My Religions or terrific songs like Automatic for the People is, which is what some people think when they see that record inside the top 400.
And i enjoyed reading the other two topics too. I like whitechocolate, but i do LOVE Exile in Guyville, and kill me, but i love when Phair screams "baby i'm tired". it's like: she was breaking boundaries speaking of sex, exs, love and relationships in such a unique point of view during the whole album and suddenly she gives up and just want somebody to love and how fuckin wrong she and the others around them were, it was the perfect closing of what might be the perfect relationship record by a woman. But spaceegg is underrated, a very good album, so is Tori Amos's Pele (the melody of Doughnut Song is chilling) andI used to think Under the Pink was better than Earthquakes, but then i realized that it was because it is her most cohesive record and the definition of the Tori Amos sound. Hissing of Summer Lawns is the yang for Blue's yin. Cynical, jazzy, social, it should rank higher inside the top 600. And i've been enjoying Jane Birkin and Serge, but i don't know if enough to kick Nelson's ass.
Erm, just about all of them would be my answer. 
Moonbeam
Erm, just about all of them would be my answer. 
No prizes for guessing the one at the top of your list...