"50ft Queenie" is a song by English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey, and the first single from her second studio album, Rid of Me (1993).
The song was recorded at Pachyderm Studios with Steve Albini, who had previously produced albums for Pixies and The Breeders.
Upon its release as a single, Gina Morris of NME picked "50ft Queenie" as one of the magazine's "single[s] of the week" and described it as "another startling, emphatic slab of potent punk rock, delivered in a flurry of intensity" and one which "again highlights Polly's ability to manoeuvre her voice to sound spent, torn and bleeding in emotive tension".
[1] David Bennun of Melody Maker considered it "pretty good, in a weird frenetic steel-tipped rockabilly kind of way" but added that it was "by no means the best thing on the [new] album".
While he encouraged buyers to purchase the album instead, he noted that the single was "worth having for the stark demo version" of "Man-Size".