HYPERBALLOT: ILM Artist Poll #88 -- Björk Resultsness

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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

"Virus" and "An Echo, A Stain" were both in my top 10.

xp turns out I did vote for Quicksand

xps I feel like I'm biffing it pretty hard on these image tiles tbh

These are not the Biophilia tracks I voted for

I did put An Echo, A Stain at #7 tho, my second-highest ranked Vespertine track :) amazing song

I can see how one could be very much not a fan of "Virus," but it gives me exactly what I need at that point in the album.

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52. Sun in My Mouth (Vespertine, 2001) -- 257.5 points; 7 votes

xp Virus does kind of bring Biophilia back to earth after the cosmic/atomic journeys of Dark Matter and Hollow

Generally I cringe when I hear poems set to music but Bjork singing e.e. cummings is an exception.

YES!

Sun in my mouth is haunting, the vocal line creates everything and she's so in command, she really creates that impression of bursting to life.

Generally I cringe when I hear poems set to music but Bjork singing e.e. cummings is an exception.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 8:06 PM (twelve minutes ago)

I can't say as much, I'm an Ulver fan :P

her vocal on this is a masterpiece of control

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51. Blissing Me (Utopia, 2017) -- 258 points; 8 votes

re: Sun in My Mouth......and it's such a beautiful complex vocal line..

As lovely a song as I can imagine with the word "MP3s" in its lyrics, re: "Blissing"

I didn't vote for any Utopia tracks in the end. Blissing Me was the one I considered going for.

Wow I completely forgot about Amphibian. Would have made my ballot.

I voted Sun In My Mouth and Heirloom back to back because I love how she adapts cumming’s imagery in her own subsequent lyric and the transition between the two is one of the most sob-rising-in-your-throat moments on Vespertine, for me.

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50. I've Seen It All (Selmasongs, 2000) -- 268.5 points; 8 votes

I really don't care much for this one, voted for another from Selmasongs, but don't expect it to place

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49. Violently Happy (Debut, 1993) -- 282 points; 8 votes

#49?!?

I love "I've Seen It All" full stop, but prefer the Thom Yorke version over the Peter Stormare film version. Their voices just sound so goddamn beautiful together.

There's a sizeable bloc among Bjork fandom that just has no time for "Violently Happy," misguidedly.

I love 95% of Bjork, but also don't care for Violently Happy, sorry, please don't fp me, just find it a bit bland and don't like the bit about ecstatic music

all of the singles from Debut were high on my ballot

Not a good song!

"I've Seen It All" snuck onto my ballot last minute, and I'm glad it did. An eerie, beautiful song.

Violently Happy is fine, but it definitely is one of my least favourite songs on Debut.

i didn’t vote for it but “violently happy” is great come on. amazing remixes too

I'm with ^^^^^^

If the ballots had been 40 or 50 instead of 30, it would've been on mine.

Violently Happy is good but there's so much better on Debut

Sun in My Mouth is one of her prettiest songs, a real highlight on Vespertine and I love where it's sequenced

My copy of Debut goes Human Behaviour / Crying / Venus as a Boy / TMTLTT / Big Time Sensuality (The Fluke Minimix) / Atlantic / Aeroplane / Come To Me / The Anchor Song / Play Dead

Omitting "One Day" is a crime.

yeah wtf

I don't regret leaving out One Day, but might put Glora in there too

Gonna risk offense here ... not a lot of love in my corner for the Debut-era B-sides on the whole

Also, I have to take a break and will post the last few for today mid-evening.

most of the Debut-era B-sides were Elgar Sisters songs weren't they? i don't care for them much either

That stretch of relative non-bangers before "Violently Happy" is quite handsome. I think I only voted for one of them but they're all working for me right now, divorced from their parent albums.

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48. It's Oh So Quiet (Post, 1995) -- 286 points; 8 votes

your images and text are just fantastic

my five year old niece loves this song and singing along with her is a blast

SHHHHH

wish oh so quiet was a b-side; it's the only thing i don't like on post. it's not much fun to watch a card trick again and again

your images and text are just fantastic
agreed!