HYPERBALLOT: ILM Artist Poll #88 -- Björk Resultsness

really enjoyed discovering this mix while putting together my ballot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyqWLkwZJ0c

Due to events out of my control, that needs to be the extent of today's reveal. More fun for tomorrow tho!

this was the first solo Bjork song I heard and will always be one of my favorites

This was my #1, when I was in college I would listen to this over and over again and it filled me with such joy. I was particularly obsessed with this version, of which 3:25 onward is prob my fav Bjork *moment* of all time, the held-down organ killls meeeeeeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSTXn4H5jY

I didn't much like it at the time -- the one Debut song hampered by the production -- but I GET IT now, or at least I got it 15 years ago.

I sing this while I ride my bike a lot, like not even deliberately but out of some sort of habit/muscle memory thing, I've done it for prob like 10 years

ALSO this version from MTV Unplugged/Debut Live from 4:08 to like 4:25 how the two organs sound like they're dancing around each other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg1C1-MwQIk

ALSO ALSO the Plaid remix is gorgeous and really IDM-y, it's the version she performed during the Post tour and this video of it (starting at 36:13) is also incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryNqPd_XTtU&t=2173s

whoops its this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryNqPd_XTtU

The aforementioned "Scary" was in my top 10. Guess I can safely stop anticipating an appearance.

So glad "Black Lake" made it. *recommences weeping* Also suggests that "Stonemilker" is much, much more likely in the top 20 than out beyond #60. Bless.

I sing this while I ride my bike a lot, like not even deliberately but out of some sort of habit/muscle memory thing, I've done it for prob like 10 years

Ooh, I also have discovered myself singing Björk on my bike, though I think it was either "I Miss You" or "Isobel," or both. Does Björk ride a bike in any of her videos? ... Googling suggests that the Björk to sing on a bike properly should be "Motorcrash."

I should have had Black Lake higher on my list. I always forget just how powerful it is.

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Hmm. No cars in sight. Post-automotive dysutopia, all motorcrashes completed.

doesn’t she ride a bike in “Triumph of a Heart”?

I don’t remember. She rides a car to a party and then she’s walking hungover the next day and mr. Cat picks her up also driving a car.

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/19-unison.jpg

19. Unison (Vespertine, 2001) -- 700.5 points; 19 votes; 1 first-place vote

great first-place vote

it was mine!

ayyy

Woot! Totally dig the leisurely addition of layers up to the heavenly "let's unite" section.

Another simultaneously ambitious, delicate and peaceful track, I guess rightfully the best of that 5-track string of songs closing Vespertine (even though I like Heirloom a lot, and Sun in my mouth even more). I think "Harm of Will" must have been lost somewhere in the poll, I can't see it break 700, though it's of course very nice.
I also think Stonemilker / Who is it should be the guests to the early-career party (I so should have voted for Stonemilker). Excited to see in what order all those tracks will place. I hope for very good places for Hidden Place, Undo, Venus as a Boy and Isobel. And to see Aeroplane. Not too concerned for the others.
And I think all the tracks I like slightly less (relatively, I love Björk so it's just grumbling and being assish finicky) have already placed, Big Time Sensuality being the last of them :)

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/18-its-not-up-to-you.jpg

18. It's Not Up To You (Vespertine, 2001) -- 743.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote

yay! almost made my top 5.

hope the third draft of my ballot helped push this song this far

When a few of you on Wednesday mused on replacing Vespertine album tracks with B-sides, I thought you were cracked. Here's why.

This was very, very close to the top of my ballot.

A surging ode to passivity, I can 100 percent sign onto that.

Early favorite :) so brooding and playful, love the lyrics, like following a typical Björk day, the regular organ is like counting time, love how she drags the vocals and then there's this illuminating chorus lifting you up by surprise with this big excess of strings / choir.

also must say once more those images are moving from great to gorgeous

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/17-possibly-maybe.jpg

17. Possibly Maybe (Post, 1995) -- 780 points; 20 votes

Another good organ line.

this was almost my no. 1 and it's way too low

perfect use of the organ's lower register

since we broke up
i'm using lipstick again

I gotta try that line

as much as i definitely enjoy solitude
i wouldn't mind
spending a little time with you
sometimes

it's like bjork wrote a song about every relationship i've ever had from beginning to end

no one uses adverbs like björk lol

Brilliant song.

I don't know if there's 16 songs in whole of recorded history that are better!

otm

no number ones tho

OK just checked my ballot, I put this far too low down (have been listening to the Post Live disc today and the version on there is great).

I like the space and freedom she gives herself in this one, there's still something a little jazzy and retro. One of these delightfully slow and tranquil songs, almost decadent but it's not this. Lyrics brilliant again, and what a great title for a love declaration. I haven't listened to it nearly enough.

Does ILX know how wrong it is to put Possibly Maybe outside of the top ten? Probably not.

i put it as my #11

björk has a lot of really good songs

tooo looow

jeepers i don't think we're getting anything that isn't on the first 4 albums anymore!