HYPERBALLOT: ILM Artist Poll #88 -- Björk Resultsness

In an album with so many long and pained tracks, "Quicksand" is such an effectively abrupt conclusion.

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59. An Echo, A Stain (Vespertine, 2001) -- 210 points; 5 votes

^^^ love this

echo! one of her first really centerless compositions. so beautiful

Quicksand was one of three songs from Vulnicura that made my list. She's one of my favourite artists for album closers.

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58. Generous Palmstroke ("Hidden Place" B-side, 2001) -- 216 points; 6 votes

yesssss

High-five to Brad for “centre-less”

Looking forward to roaming this thread after the roll out.

& especially looking forward to...

Great! I've been preparing a bit this weekend, setting beat grids/cue points/etc for a nice playlist of Björk remixes, I'm just waiting for the poll-winners, include those and then I can live mix & record a hopefully halfway decent hour-long mix. Listening to dozens of these remixes, I feel more and more it's a real shame that she abandoned dancefloor oriented material so quickly.

― Siegbran, Monday, May 7, 2018 3:34 PM (yesterday)

Can't believe I didn't fall for "Generous Palmstroke" back in 2001. The important thing is I stan for it now.

The lyrics, harp melody and her fragile voice performance on this one are really engraved forever in my mind. "You have to trust, I am eternally yours, all that I gave them I gave to you", "So needy of comfort, but too raw to be embraced, undo this privacy and put me in my place" etc. The way she looks appreciatingly to Zeena too. It's a "moment", like Immature is.

awesome artwork

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57. There's More to Life Than This (Debut, 1993) -- 217 points; 7 votes

A Spotify playlist of the rollout, including sub-polls, in case anyone is interested:

https://open.spotify.com/user/empeecee/playlist/2iT7jz1QIN3esqFt1JsC4W?si=Y-eYOZhvTcKhDQseJlvg5Q

Made it collaborative. I need to go to bed myself--do feel free to tinker. :)

I know it's a lightweight novelty track, but the production on this is amazing, it really sets up that atmosphere so convincingly

Thanks, N!N!N!

"Novelty track" is a little strong. It's cute but it also has at least a little bit of philosophical heft.

I don't particularly care for "There's More to Life Than This" but in itself it's an amazing piece of novelty. Back then the toilet improv gave me such a weirdly twisted view of clubs.

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56. Mutual Core (Biophilia, 2011) -- 222 points; 8 votes

i'm officiall over Google Image Search because

toilets at "the milk bar", london

is coming up with nothing

I believe it wasn't actually recorded at the Milk Bar or in their toilets, but can't find anything to back this up.

i came across another forum's mega-Bjork countdown and it's one possible answer to "what if ILX had avatars and a more generic BBS setup?"

Yeah, I came across that too. They are much more keen on Volta.

i like there's more to life than this, mostly cause i like how she pronounces "ghetto-blaster" as "jetto-blaster"

Research to determine where it was recorded has led me to this bizarre wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathroom_singing

mutual core is a jam

these images are amazing eric

Mutual Core is brilliant anyway, but the video really makes it

xp yeah the images are fabulous

lol voodoo chili gets it, that bumped it up a few places on my ballot

It's weird, I've listened to the 'Non Toilet Mix' of TMTLTT (one of the Venus as a Boy b-sides) and it sounds totally wrong without that section of the song

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55. Amphibian (Being John Malkovich soundtrack, 1999) -- 224 points; 6 votes

Generous Palmstroke was the only b-side on my ballot in the end, what a song though.

god i love amphibian, so beautiful and sad

wait, what

i don't think i've ever heard amphibian

never heard it either

it plays during the closing credits of Being John Malkovich

it was also released on the Cocoon single

it’s also one of the best björk songs

well yeah

it fits really nicely as a Cocoon b-side, they're both so delicate and warm

I'm a fan of both versions of "Amphibian," which I can't really say the same for in the case of "All is Full of Love."

dumb q since i could google it, but does Bjork have a comprehensive b-sides compilation?

no and she really needs one

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54. Lionsong (Vulnicura, 2015) -- 254 points; 8 votes

Absolutely loving the images Eric <3

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53. Virus (Biophilia, 2011) -- 255 points; 7 votes

my first and def not my last “too low”

my first, too, although I almost ended up voting for Quicksand and An Echo, A Stain

each image is a work of art!

eric can i hire you to do images for the kylie poll