― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha! I felt exactly the same.
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
I have! It's also awesome (and points out that the song itself is really really strong in addition to the renditions).
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
xp
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'!!!
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
but it's always a compromise: what you want, and what your limitations are. i think bjork treds the line beautifully - in a sense, she is a perfectionist because her visions, whatever they may be in her own world, translate so well on record. on the other hand, to me, it seems like bjork has perfected a world of sound that isn't always perfect. that's how i hear it anyway.
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
What's that supposed to be mean?
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I love Vespertine. I love the harp sound, I love the music boxes. I agree that the record emphasizes sound over songwriting, and it does wear a bit towards the end. Still, it has a lovely shimmering aura not unlike primo Cocteau Twins.
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
oh and that headphones song on post? now to me, there's an example of the beauty of the imperfect.
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Again, art = what you want + what you can do.
I think it's fun deconstructing her voice - we should all be deconstructing anything of interest that seems too difficult to deconstruct. that's like what we do!
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
From the same Pulse! article:
"...I know I just can't sing like anyone else, and I still haven't found a singer who I can say is my hero or who has influenced me. I...admire a lot of singers and how larger than life, how big they are, but I haven't got anything in common with them. Just the sound of my voice, to begin with, or what I've experienced, just my life in general - there's no way I could compare myself to someone like Edith Piaf, or Maria Callas or Ella Fitzgerald, because they're just too distant from me, and I can't really learn from them either."
― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― funny farm, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
So easily the best Bjork record.
― admrl, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
"program"
― admrl, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
this and Homogenic tie for my fav
― stephen, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i know, ha.
really, this just gets better every year.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
(ha about "program")
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
wow mel w is so OffTM up there....yes, I think this is Bjork's best album; volta really pales in comparison.
― akm, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link