So remixes no, but guest lead vocals on other artists' tracks yes?
― chap, Monday, 9 April 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
Sure.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, 9 April 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
I also burned out on Bjork and haven't cared since 2004, although I've given the last two albums a dutiful listen.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 April 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
I fear that my own ballot will be almost exclusively pulled from two albums from the 90s, though my #1 might actually be something far more current.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 April 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
excited to dive back into her catalogue and to give proper attention to stuff that's eluded me (mostly Medulla, the one that was an app, and the Debut, somehow)
― stormzy daniels (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 April 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
Play dead is essential from the debut. Not sure why it’s left off some editions
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Monday, 9 April 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
It will def be a struggle for me not to include every last track from one specific '90s album, but I think I'll manage.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, 9 April 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
super excited for this, her first four albums are all classic.
Play Dead was a bonus track on reissues of Debut, it was originally recorded for The Young Americans soundtrack. it is completely essential though yeah
― ufo, Monday, 9 April 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 April 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
so versions on the live albums also count as the regular track?
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 April 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
The vespertine live DVD is incredible
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Monday, 9 April 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
Which live version of which song?
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, 9 April 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
girl i don't know yet there are so many!!!
xp this guy I met in Philly several years ago and stayed in touch with just mailed me some stuff he was getting rid of and when I opened it this morning it wound up being 5 BJORK DVDS, one of which is Vespertine live!
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 April 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Wait
Only three albums?
So it's like Homogenic by a country mile, Post somewhere behind that, and then the only suspense is whether Vespertine or Debut makes #3, and zero votes for everything else?
Not speaking ill of the rest of her catalogue
But I think consensus on Björk's "finest albums" is such that you might open up the ballot to five albums, or up to ten or something
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 9 April 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
yeah 5 albums would give much more interesting results
― ufo, Monday, 9 April 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
I'm sending five w/e
I feel like I have different ears for different eras of Bjork, I adore shit like "Hollow" and "An Echo, A Stain" but don't know where to place them amongst all the poppy fun stuff
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 9 April 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
I have no idea how I'm going to rank most of the second half of Vespertine because I love it as a suite all flowing together but as individual tracks I have no idea
― ufo, Monday, 9 April 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
have been planning on revisiting to the whole discography before voting, but so far I can't stop listening to Venus as a Boy
― Dan S, Monday, 9 April 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
*revisiting the...
― Dan S, Monday, 9 April 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
FGTI bringing it, just saying
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 9 April 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
I'm looking forward to this. But...any chance of >1 Sugarcubes selection per ballot? :)
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
I’m fine with however much enthusiasm people want to offer in their ballots. I’ve as of yet received only one ballot, so for the side polls, let’s say up to five on all three.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
Good call imo, I think both albums and Sugarcubes will have a more interesting list with 5 votes
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
no side poll for music videos?
― stormzy daniels (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Aw, nice to see this in the list:
Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
x/p jeez, I hadn't even thought of that! Going to get a mod to amend the first post to include that too.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
sweet. soooo many good ones to choose from.
― stormzy daniels (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
Drawing Restraint #9 - fair game?
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Man
The past 24 hours has been mostly me realizing that Biophilia might be one of the best albums ever made, and maybe her best album (if I were to divest myself of my teenage attachment to her early stuff)
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
whoa
i have to admit i did not take well to biophilia the first time around, but i will give it another good shot
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
i love that kind of overnight mindblown experience though, there's nothing like it
Conceptually I can't think of a more daring and overwrought album-- an instrument built for every song!-- sonically it's so diverse and interesting, there's never a wasted moment-- and like, I've always thought that Bjork had been dividing her time between "traditional pop songs" and "chamber music hybridism" for her entire career, and this entire album of successful no-holds-barred 'art song' just really blows my mind that it exists
She literally had simultaneously booked a recording studio, a 3D-film production house, an team to make the app, and people building the instruments-- that album essentially bankrupted her and it was entirely worth it imo
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
Like if you remove the experience of listening to it from the context of "this woman recorded 'Joga'", let go of your desire for hooks or fun or whatever you got from those early albums, then it is completely, completely insane that it exists
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
If I were to pick one single post-Vespertine album, I pick Biophilia.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
Eric, forgive me if this is a dumb question but are the main poll tracks supposed to be ordered by favourite? That's tough
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
They don't have to be. If you want to just submit 30 unranked titles, that's fine too.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
thanks Eric
Got really excited doing the tracks, here's my 30
Come To MePlay DeadEnjoyHyper-balladPossibly MaybeIsobelImmatureMy Snare/Nature is AncientPagan PoetryUndoPleasure is all mineSo BrokenSod OffStonemilkerTabula RasaTriumph of the heartWhere is the lineUnisonvenus as a boywanderlustwho is itit's in our handsyou've been flirting againjogaunravelbachelorette5 yearshidden placescaryone day
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
my pref for possibly maybe is the telegram version
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
(In general, I think it's bad form to reveal ballots before the results are announced.)
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
Alright fair enough
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
I voted but I realized that I too have not given Biophilia due consideration, will definitely give that a listen.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
i'm gonna listen to biophilia with fgti's post in the back of my head at some point this week
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
someone has a list of her b-sides/rarities? i have all the albums (except Medulla for some reasons) but don't know where to turn to get the remaining stuff.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
All of my mouth was kissing himNow, into the air, I am missing himIs this excess texting a blessing?Two music nerds obsessing
He reminds me of the love in meI'm celebrating on a vibrancySending each other MP3sFalling in love to a song
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:29 (fifty-six minutes ago)
Ditto. Which reminds me, for the remix side-poll consideration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEjKrP6tOs
― etc, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
She tripped me up slightly as we both made our way to the same one-stall unisex loo in a tiny Indian restaurant in West London a coupla years back. She got there first.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
Van Horn Street - Wikipedia has a useful page for this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Bj%C3%B6rk
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
every single underworld remix of "human behavior" is the best thing i've ever heard
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
I haven't listened to Utopia yet :/ I gotta do that tomorrow
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 6:50 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fantastic thanks!
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
and if the poll organizer wants to include my late unranked ballot (I know ilm is nice like that sometimes), I substract The Anchor Song, Army of Me and Unison back to make it 30 exactly (not counting the current value remix either).
― Nabozo, Friday, 4 May 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
and since I'm at it: 1) Homogenic 2) Vespertine 3) Medulla 4) Debut 5) Volta (6) Vulnicura 7) Post 8) Utopia 9) Biophilia)
― Nabozo, Friday, 4 May 2018 08:33 (five years ago) link
and to make it 4, I've gone through the thread and haven't seen the remix I mentioned, and maybe it's not too known, crank it up because it slayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruIj7glvxwA(to pair with that beat-drop facebook video... what was that btw)
― Nabozo, Friday, 4 May 2018 08:48 (five years ago) link
Nabozo, if you can put that in the form of an email, I'll let your ballot slip in. I'm not revealing until next week.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 4 May 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
Alternatively, if you just want me to count all 30 of those as "unranked," I can do that too.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 4 May 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
Nevermind, I saw you indicated "unranked." Will add you to the mix.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 4 May 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
Thank you ! Robot french kisses to you.
― Nabozo, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
By the way, my most recent listen to Volta was not unpleasant.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 4 May 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
I was reading a similar poll on another site from a few years back and they were very keen on Volta overall. I had never heard it before last month, was very keen at first but went off it a bit, only one track was in my final ballot
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 May 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
We got a word for Eric. Mensch
― Tosser full of secrets (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
for some reason i was just listening to hyperballad while i was looking at the song title Bela Lugosi's Dead and... am I crazy that i am kinda hearing one in the other? I mean JUST the intro tho
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
Waiting for the poll results and listening to a tracks that never really stuck with me. And coming across "Foot Soldier," I'm thinking that's one of the first examples of a Bjork track that vocally is entirely made up of the the "auto-Bjork-isms" phenomenon that mars a lot of her later work. No meter, no rhyme, mostly stock melodic phrasings (swooping from a low to higher note repeatedly), etc. It's weird, because the b-sides of that era are otherwise some of her more melodically compelling work (i.e. "Generous Palmstroke," "Domestica," etc.)?
For comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztSz0Y1I9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYjyaEABkt0
― Soundslike, Sunday, 6 May 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
Fuck I’m watching the Greatest Hits DVD for the first time and I’ve seen like less than half of these before, I wish I did this a week ago
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 7 May 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
i watched that dvd so many times in high school
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 04:01 (five years ago) link
Reveal starts today with the sidebar polls.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, 7 May 2018 12:13 (five years ago) link
violently happy!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
HYPERBALLOT: ILM Artist Poll #88 -- Björk Resultsness
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 7 May 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link