1 = Debut/Homogenic/Vespertine4 = Post/Medulla
interspersed with huge amounts of everything else she's done. Post from the livebox is also far, far more deserving of the acclaim for that record and time and carries the sentiment, and sense of adventure a little better than the studio record I think.
6 = Selmasongs :( (me too)
― lurking but not, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
The only song I can actually stand on that record is "Heirloom."
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
so, for me, its:
homogenicvespertine
and then the rest I like more or less about the same. Medulla is an admirable record but I don't listen to it much.
I love the first sugarcubes album although they are a band served best by the greatest hits collection.
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
[oh sod it, the rest]
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ozbash (stickthrower), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
There was no discussion of Voltaic on ILM?
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
wait what's Voltaic? not volta? News about the upcoming Björk album Volta.
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Best first:
HomogenicMedullaPostVespertineDebutVolta
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Homogenicthe song "Ruby Baby"Debut Post VoltaVespertineMedulla
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
MedullaVespertineHomogenicDebutPostVolta
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
PostHomogenicDebutVespertineVoltaMedulla
― lilsoulbrother, Friday, 9 April 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
HomogenicPostDebutVespertineSelmasongsMedulla...Volta
― biologically wrong (Z S), Friday, 9 April 2010 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Homogenic PostDebut...Medulla. . . Volta. . . . (the cruel depths of hell) VespertineSelmasongs
― Turangalila, Friday, 9 April 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
debut > post
congratulation to the five or so posters who got this right itt
― zvookster, Friday, 9 April 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
HomogenicDebutPostVespertine-----------then i gave up on bjork
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 9 April 2010 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
(the cruel depths of hell)Vespertine
SO RONG...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Life's Too GoodPostHomogenicHere Today, Tomorrow Next Week!It's ItSelmasongsGling GloTelegramMedullaVespertineDebutVoltaStick Around For Joy
― Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Homogenicthe other albums
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
homogenicvespertinedebutpostselmasongsmedúllavolta
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Vespertine = steamy winter sex music
― SongOfSam, Friday, 9 April 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Homogenic (9.9)Medulla (9.7)Post (9.2)Vespertine (8.1)Strings (7.6, compilation of Brodsky Quartet professional recordings)Reply (7.5, compilation I made of B-sides 1994-2001)Debut (6.5)Selmasongs (5.7)Telegram (5.3)Drawing Restraint (5.1)Volta (4.0)Gling Glo (3.5)
'Homogenic' is likely my favorite album of the 90s, and 'Medulla' surprised me slightly by topping my Top Albums of the 2000s list. Vespertine has two of my favorite of her songs ("Undo" and "Unison"). Her performance of "Anchor Song" with the Brodsky Quartet is a heart-stopper--and shows how her mastery of her voice grew exponentially from 'Debut' through the early 2000s.
― Soundslike, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Homogenic (My favourite album of the 90's)VespertinePostDebutMedullaVolta
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2011/03/17/bjork-multimedia-residency-at-manchester-international-festival/
Björk is will undertake a new music & multimedia residency at the 2011 Manchester International Festival, under the banner of Biophilia.
The three-week residency – comprised of six 1800-capacity shows at Campfield Market Hall – will see the artist give live performances of news songs and introduce companion apps, invented instruments and more. A press release explains the concept of Biophilia:
“Where do music, nature and technology meet? Björk introduces Biophilia, an extraordinary answer to this fascinating question and her most ambitious and exciting work to date. A multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows, Biophilia celebrates how sound works in nature, exploring the infinite expanse of the universe, from planetary systems to atomic structure.
“For these six special shows, Björk will be performing new tracks from the forthcoming Biophilia studio album as well as music from her genre-defying back catalogue with a small group of unique musical collaborators. The show will feature a range of specially conceived and crafted instruments, among them a bespoke digitally-controlled pipe organ; a 30 foot pendulum that harnesses the earth’s gravitational pull to create musical patterns – creating a unique bridge between the ancient and the modern; a bespoke gamelan-celeste hybrid; and a one-off extraordinary pin barrel harp. These devices make visible some of the physical processes that are the subject matter of tracks.”
The Biophilia live show takes place on June 30 and July 3, 7, 10, 13 and 16. It will travel to major cities around the world following the Manchester premiere.
― piscesx, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Where do music, nature and technology meet?
Love Bjork, but this is srlsly nothing new with her. All her records mix up organic sounds w/ heavy tech beats... and, um, all incorporate music.
― yeah (kelpolaris), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Is a three-week music and multimedia residency as amazing as it sounds?
― Moka, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Does a two-shows-a-week residency sound better?
comprised of six 1800-capacity shows
― StanM, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I sort of picture a camp or community of sorts. The idea of having 1800 people living together, exhibiting ideas, playing music... and even better having artists like say Bjork among the community sounds wicked. I'd definitely pay to live in this sort of place for a few days... regardless if I get to have lunch in the same table as Bjork or not.
― Moka, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I'm thinking of something similar to burning man. Only... you know, less faux-hippie, not in the desert and more music-centric.
― Moka, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
1. Debut2. Gling-Gló3. Everything else
I wish she would've done more jazz albums, her interpretations of those standards on Gling-Gló are nifty. Still, nothing beats the clubby stuff of Debut - it's both insistently danceable and wonderfully idiosyncratic (there's never been a house diva like her). I like many of her later songs, and I understand why she wanted to move into other directions, but it was still a loss for the dancefloors. I've always been a dance music guy and I was just at the right age when Debut dropped... Hearing a voice like that on top of cool, minimal (for the time) house beats, and seeing those videos on MTV, nothing she's done since has given me such chills down my spine.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Agree that she was brilliant as a house diva but I don't think it would've fared too well for her in the long term.
― Moka, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
also she did tons and tons and tons of dance songs all throughout her post-Sugarcubes career...?
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not saying she didn't. TBH I only own the two albums mentioned above, but I've heard most of the albums she's released after them at least once, and none of them have sounded as dancey as Debut.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
you should, at a bare minimum, replay Post, Telegraph and Homogenic again
really she strayed away from danciness only on Selmasongs and even there it wasn't that far
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
you should run out and buy the soundtrack to drawing restraint 9 she did, its full of big bass dancefloor jams
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Medulla sounds non-dancey because practically everything is a capella but I defy you to tell me this isn't meant to be a dance track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQB9d-MMIx0
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
huh I can't seem to find a non-shitty sounding Youtube of this
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ah here we go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6eWhqFDRvE&feature=related
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
also I can't stand to watch the "Oceania" video because of the crystals on her face but that's basically her doing a capella trip-hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1N2-ZgD7H0&feature=related
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah...Triumph of a Heart is pretty much the art-sy counterpart of Violently Happy.
― Moka, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I really like the Towa Tei mix of Hyperballad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqBs3fr80w
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
There's even an alt avant dance club in the music video.
― Moka, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
HomogenicVespertinePostDebutMedulla
Haven't heard Volta or Selmasongs. Am I missing much?
― corey, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Selmasongs is a curio with a couple of good songs on it (curiously, the one nominated for the Oscar wasn't one of the good songs).
Volta ranges wildly from awesome to unbearable; if you can put up with 7+ minutes of Antony bleating, it's worth getting.
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't! But I'll listen to it anyway.
― corey, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
rank em
Homogenic > Vespertine > Telegram > Post > Debut > Medulla > Selmasongs > Utopia > Vulnicura > Volta > Biophilia > Drawing Restraint 9
Vulnicura was a welcome return to form for me when released, it seemed to revisit the harsher distorted beats of Homogenic and was a little more accessible emotionally. Utopia was also a nice surprise, the arrangements are gorgeous on this and it's really a record to live in. Also there's some good melodic vocal hooks, which it seems have become less frequent on recent Bjork albums
also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68qymYgSxCM
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:53 (six years ago) link
Recruiting: POLL Neon Like -- ILM artist poll #88 -- BJÖRK (voting open until April 27, 2018)
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, 9 April 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link