HYPERBALLOT: ILM Artist Poll #88 -- Björk Resultsness

Thank you Eric, you can stop the poll here.
Hidden Place would have been my #1 if I had ranked the ballot :)

I wasn’t expecting Pagan Poetry to be the highest ranking Vespertine track, that was the one people would laugh at when I would play the album for them 17 years ago, well who's laughing now eh

more than any other single moment, hidden place coming out was when i became totally bewitched by bjork

That Herbert remix of pagan poetry tho

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jBzKucaqlTk

as an album opener Hidden Place kind of echoes Hunter on Homogenic, similar eerie feel to me

Hidden place samples a deck of cards
Dope

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09. All is Full of Love (Homogenic, 1997) -- 1,035.5 points; 26 votes; 1 first-place vote

big point jump

I thought I was aware of most of the iconic imagery around these albums, but there are so many in this poll I had never seen before!

Wait what, what is number 1 then, Jòga ?

DON: Well, yeah

Can't believe that Hunter, Venus as a Boy, Bachelorette and Hyperballad are all in front of All is Full of Love.

I wonder if it's the split between those who love the original mix and those who love the album's Howie B version?

dude, those five songs end to end are one helluva line-up.

Alfred lining it up

This was the last thing cut from my ballot. I think I prefer the Howie B version these days.

Kind of surprised "Stonemilker" just missed the top 10. I went back on forth between it and, er, something that hasn't placed yet as my #1.

Stonemilker is my jam

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08. Hunter (Homogenic, 1997) -- 1,037 points; 25 votes; 1 first-place vote

Well, yeah

I remember listening to "Hunter" at the same time as Spring Heeled Jack and Roni Size.

Because I like perversions, I entertained the thought of a Henley-Bjork collaboration.

Damn son you make me feel young

The only Homogenic track I didn't vote for. It just doesn't do anything for me, other than introduce the album, really.

Unravel is the best tho cmon

Hunter really feels like a dramatic album opener to me

xp my favorite version of All if Full of Love is the one on the album. I've never figured out what string instrument is featured in this, it sounds like plucked harpsichord strings. and I love those shimmering blasts of white noise at the end

you tried to organize freedom

Dan - that’s A harpsichord my friend

ok, thought so!

love the video

(of Hunter)

Hearing the bell choir version of Who Is It for the first time, wow.

I forgot about the funkstorung remix of all is full

"all is full of love" and "hyperballad" were the two really obvious björk songs i couldn't stop myself from voting for. "love" in particular is so powerful, so beautiful, and lately i've found it very therapeutic. it's so simple. you'll be given love. you'll be taken care of. you have to trust it. maybe not from the directions you poured yourself into but it's there. i'm crying paraphrasing the lyrics rn

anyway i think it's too low

I too have had my moments of private crying to AIFOL; definitely multiple times in college.

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07. Venus as a Boy (Debut, 1993) -- 1,037.5 points; 27 votes; 1 first-place vote

all is full of love was my #2. wondering which version everyone was voting for, though. for me, i was thinking the single, non-album version, which i can't help but think of it as "futuristic" sounding even though i know that i'm probably just thinking of the imagery of the video. the beatless album version is also great, but somehow adding the mechanical rhythm track only enhances its soothing nature while also making it the kind of song that you turn way the hell up on the car stereo so that your butt will itch

wow they are basically tied! didn't realize ppl felt that strongly about hunter (i do, but like an order of magnitude less than AIFOL)

xp omg that one too! 1035.5, 1037, 1037.5...

i voted for both versions of "all is full of love" at once

that's basically it for my ballot except for "hyperballad" wherever it lands (on those rocks probably)

it was incredibly painful to cut "unravel" from my ballot but it happened

If I'm being honest, I voted for the album version of AIFOL.

Aren't there still quite a lot of first place votes left?

There were some unranked ballots. But yes, there are a good chunk left.

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06. Isobel (Post, 1995) -- 1,043.5 points; 27 votes; 1 first-place vote

the pairing of bollywood strings and celeste in Venus as a Boy is perfect

"isobel" is so perfect

i guess "isoperfect" is an awkward song title

I have gotten really REALLY into "Isobel" over the past year and it's gone from "oh that's nice" to like my top 10

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05. Unravel (Homogenic, 1997) -- 1,121.5 points; 28 votes; 3 first-place votes

devil collects it
ah, with a grin