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
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti), Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
poxiii björk deep cuts:
come to mecharlenesod offmy snareplutoone dayenjoyunravelaurorawhere is the line?the modern thingsmy spine
― lex pretend, Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Man I love "Sod Off."
― Eric H., Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
"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
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti), Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
FUUUUCK lex those are all amazing songs
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti), Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― Eric H., Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Also, the lyrics to "Immature" are all they need to be.
― Eric H., Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
play dead is so great. maybe my number 3 after Bachelorette and Isobel.
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
brb gonna listen to " Come to Me" for the nth time in the last 24 hours.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
one of my favorite string sections on an electronic track too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
"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
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
'filed emotionally next to dagmar krause' = you just sold me a copy of biophilia, young man!
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Bjork the producer: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/bjork-production-feature
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
Recruiting: POLL Neon Like -- ILM artist poll #88 -- BJÖRK (voting open until April 27, 2018)
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, 9 April 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link