Bjork's new program "Vespertine" Total Victory or Total Failure?

And Sean, I'm fine with people not agreeing that Vespertine is a triumph, but I just can't understand Melissa's reasons for disliking it so. I'm genuinely curious.

I just wanted to say to all those who didn't like Vespertine : you don't have a heart!! This album is one of the most original and creative albums I have ever heard. To say that bjork is a genious is un understatement, because no other contemporary artist has been or is as innovative as she is especially since Homogenic, another great album. Sometimes I wonder if this lady is human, because I'm not sure that humans are capable of writing such amazing, touching, annoying but still incredibly human words, so if she's human then I'd say that she's surely unique and one of a kind. enough said about bjork, let me go back to Vespertine.

To begin with Hidden Place is an incredibly well done song, and I agree with her choosing it as the first single. This is my second favorite song on the album.

Cocoon : I found it disturbing in the beginning but after hearing it 4 or six times I started loving it and its explicit erotic lyrics.

It's not up to you : a beatiful song, one of the rare sing along songs of the album and the choir is just awsome.

Pegan Poetry : the hightlight of the album and my favorite one. It's a haunting, touching and powerful love song. I have never heard a woman singing about love in this way, it's deeply original. Even when she bursts out at the end saying I love him I love him.

well I can't go on reviewing the rest of the songs because I haven't heard them enough.

PLease don't hate bjork and be grateful that artists like her exist in a world full with purely commercial music and singers like britney spears and jlo

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I have high hopes for Lake Experience, perhaps masochistically.

But I really want one of those cookies. Could I get one for hayt0rizing something else? What if i went outside and drop-kicked a kitten into my neighbours yard?

...yes...yes...it is warm in the cavern of the Bjork-hayt0rz...and we have many delicious cookies besides...

Ha! I felt exactly the same.

But then, there's also good songs like "Pleasure is all Mine," "Mouth's Cradle," "Triumph of a Heart," "Sonnets / Unrealities" & the Robert Wyatt duet "Submarine."

I'll pretend "Desired Constellation" never existed, though.

i think it's bold to put some of those vocal noises on a "pop" record - it reminds me of some of kate bush's stuff on The Dreaming, but even more bizarre. also, those bloopy noises on that one track - where is the line with you? - are very reminiscent of some bloopy noises on The Dreaming.

and i just really like that bjork always leaves room for flaws in her music.

room for like total vocal failure. bjork has talked about how she has come to accept the fact that sometimes her voice "sounds beautiful, sometimes not so beautiful," or something like that. i feel like that sort of margin for error is apparent in pretty much all her stuff, in the looseness of some of the arrangements, but mainly in the cadence of her voice. it's not always perfect, and that's kind of the point. with that part of Medulla, i feel like she's driving the point home: total failure is its own artform. i love that.

total failure is its own artform

erm i don't think this is true, nor do i think it's anything that bjork has aimed for/'left room for' - most of her solo work has totally had a perfectionist streak about it! i don't think much she's done is any different to exactly what she wanted it to be.

granted, i do think perfectionism is very different from making it what she wants it to be. i don't know she wants her voice to sound perfect - i've definitely heard her say something to this effect.

I have! It's also awesome (and points out that the song itself is really really strong in addition to the renditions).

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I have! It's also awesome (and points out that the song itself is really really strong in addition to the renditions).

yes it definitely made me go back to the original and hear it with new ears - i'd previously thought 'oceania' was one of the more impenetrable tracks (compared with 'where is the line?' or 'who is it?') but it really isn't.

haha i've just remembered about 'ancestors'!!!