Bjork singles

I didn't really hop aboard on Hooper until the R+J soundtrack, I think.

"Wanderlust" was her most recent single that got the blood pumping for her like it did back in my college days.

Eh, I was there at the time and I thought that most of Debut was a valiant failed effort; only "Human Behaviour", "Big Time Sensuality" and "There's More To Life Than This" worked for me and I had basically written her off as "better in rock bands and with 808 State" until I heard "Army of Me". (Then I heard the rest of Post and "Army of Me" became less impressive, lol.)

loved those three, "Venus as a Boy," "One Day," "Come to Me" (which has one of my favorite keyboard hooks and uses of icy electronics in a ballad) -- all of it really except "The Anchor Song."

I wasn't there at the time.

I loooooove "Crying" and "Venus" and "There's More To Life Than This" and "Anchor Song" and "Aeroplane" and all those weirdzo tracks. Debut is a fabulous album. I even like the jazz song. To my ears, "Violently Happy" is the only bummer jam but again, not my favourite lyric and the melody is lame slash non-existent. My first MIDI keyboard I got when I was 14 I transcribed "Venus" into its sequencer, lol.

Regarding Biophilia-- I had a unique problem with Bjork's production when she hooked up with The Greenhouse around Vespertine and started recording her vocals into an SM58 and mixing them hot and sibilant. My ears shrink from it. When she changed to work instead with Damien, he softened her voice and made it sound great again (Volta, Biophilia). For my personal history of Bjork it's like she disappeared after Selmasongs and reappeared 10 years later making terrific arty prog-rock. I guess if you're hanging around waiting for New Hot Bjork Singles then Volta might be a disappointment (I hated "Earth Intruders" and "Independence" but thought the rest was A+), but I dunno, Biophilia rules, it's an entirely original and amazing record and if it were some lost Tzadik thing made by an anonymous we'd all be bragging about who found it first

Bjork's vocals being hot on Vespertine don't bug me half as much as the choir swells being hot. The only disappointment I associate with "It's Not Up To You" and "Undo" is that their climaxes sound cramped and overbearing than expansive. (Production only; the arrangement is great.)

The Vespertine Live album is really great cause you get to hear those arrangements executed in a 'real' space

biophilia was the first time björk's lyrics started to jar with me; i have no problem with the supposed "bad lyrics" mentioned so far from homogenic or post, but biophilia felt very...conscious, and laboured, on many levels

Those are both positive adjectives in my book :)

My first reaction to Homogenic as a teen was so negative. "I'm going hunting / I'm the hunter" "I'm no fucking Buddhist / but this is enlightenment" wtffffffff. I liked the fake-mythic stuff like "Unravel", or the fake-conversational tone of "Pluto". I try not to be critical of ESL lyricists when they're playing-at-poetry but it does get in the way of true love sometimes

I wish I could go back in time and play teen-you "Birthday" first just so I could film your reaction

I first heard the Icelandic language version tbh and I stuck with it

conscious, and laboured, on many levels
― lex pretend

Those are both positive adjectives in my book :)
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti)

Hah, this is like how I can think of no worse adjective to apply to dance music than "academic."

"I'm no fucking Buddhist / but this is enlightenment"

haha i LOVED that lyric as a teenager

Being exposed to Homogenic as a teenager is the only reason I think I was able to digest and absorb sentiments like "maybe not from the sources you have poured yours, maybe not from the directions you are staring at."

Can't believe "Pagan Poetry", "Play Dead", "Violently Happy" and "I Miss You" all got zero votes in this poll.

"Play Dead" was my number one soundtrack to ~really deep thoughts~ at age 13.

"i miss you" is one of the weirdest tracks in björk's discography, especially in retrospect

I had no idea there were five singles off Volta, I don't have much affection for any of those songs at all ('Innoncence' isn't bad but it's basically 'Alarm Call Pt. 2'). Can't remember which Biophilia singles are which either but I do like that album as a whole. I agree with Lex's first 10 more or less although I'd put 'Hyperballad' and 'Venus...' in there and bump 'Army of Me' and 'Violently Happy'.

The trumpet solo at the end of "I Miss You" (and similarly on "Enjoy") >>>>>>

Bjork was the first ESL lyricist I ever went deep with-- ESL is typed with zero judgement, obv, just a statement of fact. It was so amazing to hear her ways around English. I absolutely fucking loved all the unconventional wordings of her stuff on Debut and Post: "you better be ready to get confused", "your rescue squad / is too exhausted"-- even the way she pauses here on "rescue squad" like she's teasing out what the right word is, it sounds like she's mid-argument--, the weird weighting of "suggests exciting sex", "like dinosaurs and people", "my best souvenir", "I suck my tongue in remembrance of you". Or the way she liked to dwell on details that were so unconventional "we'd then have to rush back / to the town's best baker / to get the fresh bread of the morning".

But my favourite moments of all were of course the ones where she didn't seem cute or exotic but seemed to be looking right through me, like on "Hyper-Ballad" especially

poxiii björk deep cuts:

come to me
charlene
sod off
my snare
pluto
one day
enjoy
unravel
aurora
where is the line?
the modern things
my spine

Man I love "Sod Off."

"Homogenic" didn't have many songwritey moments that resonated with me, though production-wise it was fucking amaaaaazing. "Cocoon" was a big one for me on "Vespertine" but most of the rest of that album's songs have faded from my mind. I wanted to hold on to the song about her son pouring oil in her mouth but it never stuck.

In comparison I really fuck with "Virus" and "Cosmogony", not to mention the out-there shit like "Dark Matter" and "Hollow", but emotionally I file her recent records next to Dagmar Krause

FUUUUCK lex those are all amazing songs

"Heirloom" is the one track that doesn't work for me on Vespertine b/c album is 110 percent sex and then BOOM song about her mother and son stuffing lightbulbs down the throat.

Also, the lyrics to "Immature" are all they need to be.

play dead is so great. maybe my number 3 after Bachelorette and Isobel.

brb gonna listen to " Come to Me" for the nth time in the last 24 hours.

one of my favorite string sections on an electronic track too.

"Who Is It" always seemed like a deep cut to me, despite being a single, and it's absolutely my 2nd or 3rd favourite Bjork song

Here's the version Tagaq and B and Rahzel did together, ruuuuules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60meINdgk9c

'filed emotionally next to dagmar krause' = you just sold me a copy of biophilia, young man!

Bjork the producer: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/bjork-production-feature

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