BJORK SINGLES POLL (debut-vespertine)

Hyperballad vs Cocoon for me. That is an impressive list of singles.

screw your "dated," I voted army of me

head says "Army of Me", heart says "Jóga"

Army of Me probably the worst single ever recorded by anyone ever....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGS-Z8opqk

It didn't make the cutoff, but Earth Intruders has its moments too.

i swear we did this really recently. why the cut-off (apart from the obvious "she went to shit after medúlla)?

"jóga" and "bachelorette" tower over most music recorded by anyone, including the rest of björk's discography, incredible as it is. there isn't a song here i dislike though i'm perpetually baffled that "hyperballad" seems generally to be considered one of her high points when it's easily in the bottom 5 of this lot for me

She still has some great songs in Medulla and Volta. Not much single material as they're too offbeat but still great songs. biophilia and drawing restraint are the ones that dont do anything for me. I predict her next album will tone the experimentalism down.

i definitely class medúlla in björk's worthwhile years

Army of Me probably the worst single ever recorded by anyone ever....

― fndgo, Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:38 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one last time before the new year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGiulPm3IU

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Forgot to vote in this; chalk one up for Cocoon.

Apropos of nothing.... I loathe Gondry's video for Batchelorette to the point that it actually stopped me liking the song for a long while.

Really? I like that video!

If 'Hyperballad' wasn't an option I probably would have voted for 'Bachelorette', so I'm delighted to see it in second place here.

Homogenic still kind of sounds like the future to me.

― J. Sam, Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:40 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's my favourite album of hers, but for some reason or other I've found myself listening to Post a lot more recently.

Army of Me getting twice the number of votes as Isobel is a travesty

Yeah, I prefer 'Isobel' to 'Army of Me' too, but I don't see anything particularly wrong with 'Army of Me'. As I understand, you always start Post with track 2, DJP? I think I remember reading it was you that said this, anyway...

idgi wtf is ppl's beef with army of me?

It's a lumbering snooze that is worse than every other song on Post

no it's not and no it's not

the lumbering is the point!

(isobel is also good)

Couldn't choose, didn't vote, they're pretty much all great. Seeing them all together it does look like one hell of a decade - you'd think she was really a "singles artist," but then the albums are classics (though with Vespertine things get a little spottier).

I can think of only one song on Vespertine that's weak, whereas Post and Debut each have at least two or three.

army me of me rules
isobel also rules

you know what rules and i intended to vote for? "possibly maybe"

poooossibly maaaaybaaaee

yeah, there were very few terrible options in this poll

Vespertine was an album where I was really psyched for it coming out and then really struggled to get into it. I think the vinyl was sort of badly mastered (?) (lot of sibilance problems, kind of an issue on this very whispery album) which probably put me off too. Loved "Aurora," "Heirloom," "It's Not Up To You," liked the singles okay, had trouble holding the rest together in my head. I guess I should give it another chance, though!

So weirded out by all the love for "Love", I mean, the remixes are great but on the album it is a footnote

No. It is a perfect epilogue to that album. I will not hear it any other way.

The remixes pollute the crystalline beauty of the album version.

I am unyielding on this point.

I volunteer to lose friends to endorse this opinion.

Your phone is off the hook
Your doors are all shut

Maybe not from the sources you are staring at.

the album this poll makes me want to revisit is vespertine

Isn't the album version actually a remix?

"All Is Full of Love" is a song by Björk, released as the fifth and final single from her album Homogenic. The version of the song used in the video is actually the original version of the song, while the version on Homogenic is a remix by Howie B.

Huh! That is very interesting and prob explains why the album version is so sonically divergent

Man I love Pluto so much and its hi-fi expensive drill sound and I guess here's the right place to ask "where can I find more like that"

love "hidden place" & the way it opens up. vespertine my favourite just for its essence, but I am a sucker for ppl breathing in my ear

Oh damn, I had completely forgotten about 5 Years and how much I love it.

I hate the histrionism in Bachelorette half of the time. For me Joga is the real jewel in Homogenic, it could be an instrumental song and it would still be brilliant. Probably Bjork's best string arrangements, don't think she'll ever top them.

Have you heard the Polar Prize version with Ane Brun? Obviously Bjork owns the song and noone is able to perform it as she does, but the backing orchestra makes it one of the better performances I've heard of it. Wish Bjork herself was singing it. You can tell she is moved by the rendition, though. It appears that she is crying at the end of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC4RTMsb8bA

Hi!. Here are my picks.

Are you saying Joga from Homogenic prefigured Vespertine?