the lumbering is the point!
― katherine, Sunday, 4 January 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link
(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).
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 January 2015 03:20 (nine years ago) link
I can think of only one song on Vespertine that's weak, whereas Post and Debut each have at least two or three.
― Eric H., Sunday, 4 January 2015 04:45 (nine years ago) link
army me of me rulesisobel also rules
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 January 2015 05:19 (nine years ago) link
you know what rules and i intended to vote for? "possibly maybe"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 4 January 2015 05:33 (nine years ago) link
poooossibly maaaaybaaaee
yeah, there were very few terrible options in this poll
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 January 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 January 2015 06:12 (nine years ago) link
So weirded out by all the love for "Love", I mean, the remixes are great but on the album it is a footnote
― fgti, Sunday, 4 January 2015 06:20 (nine years ago) link
No. It is a perfect epilogue to that album. I will not hear it any other way.
― Eric H., Sunday, 4 January 2015 06:53 (nine years ago) link
The remixes pollute the crystalline beauty of the album version.
― Eric H., Sunday, 4 January 2015 06:54 (nine years ago) link
I am unyielding on this point.
I volunteer to lose friends to endorse this opinion.
― Eric H., Sunday, 4 January 2015 06:55 (nine years ago) link
Your phone is off the hookYour doors are all shut
― fgti, Sunday, 4 January 2015 07:01 (nine years ago) link
Maybe not from the sources you are staring at.
― Eric H., Sunday, 4 January 2015 07:10 (nine years ago) link
the album this poll makes me want to revisit is vespertine
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Sunday, 4 January 2015 07:42 (nine years ago) link
Isn't the album version actually a remix?
― y kant max read (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 4 January 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
"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
― fgti, Sunday, 4 January 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
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"
― fgti, Sunday, 4 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Sunday, 4 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
Oh damn, I had completely forgotten about 5 Years and how much I love it.
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Sunday, 4 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
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
― Moka, Sunday, 4 January 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Hi!. Here are my picks.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 September 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
Are you saying Joga from Homogenic prefigured Vespertine?
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 12 October 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link