what, jed, you're going to seriously tell me "The Anchor Song" is better?
No, but "Come to Me" and "One Day" and "There's More to Life Than This" are!
― lou, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Anchor Song", "Come to Me" "Aeroplane" are my favourite things on debut. i agree with you on Homogenic though.
― jed_, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
voted for "I miss you". definitely prefer post to debut.
― VISION QUEST TO KNOCK YOU UP (John Justen), Friday, 19 December 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I need to learn to just steer the conversation to Homogenic whenever Debut comes up.
― Eric H., Friday, 19 December 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Homogenic is her best album but Post is my favorite.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Friday, 19 December 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Vespertine 4 life
― USICMAKEULOSECONTROL (The Reverend), Friday, 19 December 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i am probably alone in this but i think Helmet's cover of "Army of Me" is one of the greatest covers of any song everhttp://www.imeem.com/people/VF-Iw6/music/nbLkak8D/helmet_army_of_me_bjork_cover/
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 19 December 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Dan I am just agreeing with you all over the place here
― expletive for lady parts (Granny Dainger), Friday, 19 December 2008 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Homogenic is the one that for me has the dated 90s production (late 90s techno vs early 90s trip hop?), but that may be because I'll still fuck with some trip hop, but techno is dead to me.
― expletive for lady parts (Granny Dainger), Friday, 19 December 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think I said this album was an embarrassment of riches,
No, I said it.
Debut is maybe a notch below Post; Bjork seems to be wearing a musical straitjacket, and it's becoming, as far as it goes; it sounds like she's struggling to say something in an idiom she's halfway to figuring out. That's why I love "Come To Me," "Violently Happy," and "Venus as a Boy."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 19 December 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel like ███████████ you right this second!
― Moka, Friday, 19 December 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know if it's the best thing on there but "The Modern Things" is my jam on this album.
― Tim F, Friday, 19 December 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Overall, this is my favorite album of hers even though I never, ever, ever play "Army of Me" when I listen to it.
Dan we are EXACTLY THE SAME IN EVERY WAY. Well, in Bjorkpinions at least.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 19 December 2008 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Along with It's Oh So Quiet, Army of Me is one of the most insular tracks on the album. But more than any Bjork album, I see post as being comprised beautifully of many insular pieces that gel together more with time. these days i even put army of me on by itself sometimes!
― Surmounter, Friday, 19 December 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"It's Oh So Quiet" is a great song and her best ever vocal performance. This is not to say that the other, and less conventional, songs on this album are bad in any way, but "It's Oh So Quiet" is just too great.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 20 December 2008 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Also props to "Possibly Maybe" but it sounded better after Goldie remixed it.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 20 December 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
What is with the disliking of "Army of Me"?
― usic concrète (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 December 2008 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"Isobel" by far.
― daavid, Saturday, 20 December 2008 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Worst track is "Quiet" though.
― daavid, Saturday, 20 December 2008 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
How can Geir like "It's Oh So Quiet" so much when Bjork didn't write it? FWIW I boringly went with "Hyperballad" though "Headphones" runs it close because it's sexier.
― how can you mend a broken hat? (edwardo), Sunday, 21 December 2008 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 20 December 2008 02:10 (Yesterday) Permalink
what an awful thing to say
― Surmounter, Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hyper-Ballad" is probably my favorite Bjork track.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, December 19, 2008 11:52 AM Bookmark
― USICMAKEULOSECONTROL (The Reverend), viernes 19 de diciembre de 2008 14:01 (2 days ago)
― elgolfo, Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
"Enjoy", I think. Almost all of the rest of these tracks (as good as they were) were improved upon by their remixes. Actually I guess "Army of Me" wasn't.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Played this last night for the first time in years; Army Of me is fucking AWESOME through big speakers. Great record.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
That's the one track that I still don't ever play off of this album.
― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
How come?
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
there was a björk concert available to watch on the plane back from canada last week - first time i'd heard "army of me" in a while and that groove is pretty fucking amazing, right? started raving in my seat
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's fucking monstrous.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i also really approve of the song's sentiment
SELF-SUFFICIENCY PLEASEAND GET TO WORK
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
AND GET OFF FACEBOOK!!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Strangely Norman Tebbitesque lyrics to that song but it kicked her Glastonbury set into gear - lasers!
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"Army of Me" is a click too slow for me, edging the beat from being menacing into just being plodding and stodgy. I also think the transition from "Army of Me" to "Hyper-Ballad" is the weak link on the album where the end of a song doesn't accurately set you up for the beginning of the next one.
― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/bjork-post-round-28-nicks-choice/
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
what's a "playback version on a carnival show"?
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
"army of me" is incredible, both as a song and as a thing to listen to when you need to be jolted out of moping around and feeling sorry for yourself. i think this song has helped people.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
More a song I'd rather play for other people than myself.
Also, "sex without touching" sounds a lot less menacing now than it did in '95.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
i think it's useful. i have an easier time taking tough love advice from bjork than i do people i actually know. "the modern things" should have won this poll though. when she starts singing in icelandic it's the most beautiful thing on the record.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
I miss pissing off people in my car with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur1RBKNfdCk
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
I think I took my summer car trips with the wrong people in high school.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
Problem is, I still actually want to meet an army of Bjork.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
me too, but i'd want them to like/approve of me
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:19 (ten years ago) link
You're probably right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lhgiuTFxxM
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
"the modern things" should have won this poll though. when she starts singing in icelandic it's the most beautiful thing on the record.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:12 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Agree with this.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
Apparently I was one of the the 3 that voted for it, so I do too.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
It's odd that this is only my fourth or fifth favorite Bjork album, since it was so intimately connected with what now seems like the happiest time of my life.
there are very few moments in life as good as this
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:28 (ten years ago) link
sometimes Life's Too Good
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:38 (ten years ago) link
xp I detest cheap sentiment.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:39 (ten years ago) link