Rank Bjork's Albums

There was no discussion of Voltaic on ILM?

wait what's Voltaic? not volta? News about the upcoming Björk album Volta.

Best first:

Homogenic
Medulla
Post
Vespertine
Debut
Volta

Homogenic
the song "Ruby Baby"
Debut
Post
Volta
Vespertine
Medulla

Medulla
Vespertine
Homogenic
Debut
Post
Volta

Post
Homogenic
Debut
Vespertine
Volta
Medulla

Homogenic
Post
Debut
Vespertine
Selmasongs
Medulla
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Volta

Homogenic
Post
Debut
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Medulla
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Volta
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(the cruel depths of hell)
Vespertine
Selmasongs

debut > post

congratulation to the five or so posters who got this right itt

Homogenic
Debut
Post
Vespertine
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then i gave up on bjork

(the cruel depths of hell)
Vespertine

SO RONG...

Life's Too Good
Post
Homogenic
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!
It's It
Selmasongs
Gling Glo
Telegram
Medulla
Vespertine
Debut
Volta
Stick Around For Joy

Homogenic
the other albums

homogenic
vespertine
debut
post
selmasongs
medúlla
volta

Vespertine = steamy winter sex music

Homogenic (9.9)
Medulla (9.7)
Post (9.2)
Vespertine (8.1)
Strings (7.6, compilation of Brodsky Quartet professional recordings)
Reply (7.5, compilation I made of B-sides 1994-2001)
Debut (6.5)
Selmasongs (5.7)
Telegram (5.3)
Drawing Restraint (5.1)
Volta (4.0)
Gling Glo (3.5)

'Homogenic' is likely my favorite album of the 90s, and 'Medulla' surprised me slightly by topping my Top Albums of the 2000s list. Vespertine has two of my favorite of her songs ("Undo" and "Unison"). Her performance of "Anchor Song" with the Brodsky Quartet is a heart-stopper--and shows how her mastery of her voice grew exponentially from 'Debut' through the early 2000s.

Homogenic (My favourite album of the 90's)
Vespertine
Post
Debut
Medulla
Volta

http://www.factmag.com/2011/03/17/bjork-multimedia-residency-at-manchester-international-festival/

Björk is will undertake a new music & multimedia residency at the 2011 Manchester International Festival, under the banner of Biophilia.

The three-week residency – comprised of six 1800-capacity shows at Campfield Market Hall – will see the artist give live performances of news songs and introduce companion apps, invented instruments and more. A press release explains the concept of Biophilia:

“Where do music, nature and technology meet? Björk introduces Biophilia, an extraordinary answer to this fascinating question and her most ambitious and exciting work to date. A multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows, Biophilia celebrates how sound works in nature, exploring the infinite expanse of the universe, from planetary systems to atomic structure.

“For these six special shows, Björk will be performing new tracks from the forthcoming Biophilia studio album as well as music from her genre-defying back catalogue with a small group of unique musical collaborators. The show will feature a range of specially conceived and crafted instruments, among them a bespoke digitally-controlled pipe organ; a 30 foot pendulum that harnesses the earth’s gravitational pull to create musical patterns – creating a unique bridge between the ancient and the modern; a bespoke gamelan-celeste hybrid; and a one-off extraordinary pin barrel harp. These devices make visible some of the physical processes that are the subject matter of tracks.”

The Biophilia live show takes place on June 30 and July 3, 7, 10, 13 and 16. It will travel to major cities around the world following the Manchester premiere.

Where do music, nature and technology meet?

Love Bjork, but this is srlsly nothing new with her. All her records mix up organic sounds w/ heavy tech beats... and, um, all incorporate music.

Is a three-week music and multimedia residency as amazing as it sounds?

Does a two-shows-a-week residency sound better?

comprised of six 1800-capacity shows

I sort of picture a camp or community of sorts. The idea of having 1800 people living together, exhibiting ideas, playing music... and even better having artists like say Bjork among the community sounds wicked. I'd definitely pay to live in this sort of place for a few days... regardless if I get to have lunch in the same table as Bjork or not.

I guess I'm thinking of something similar to burning man. Only... you know, less faux-hippie, not in the desert and more music-centric.

1. Debut
2. Gling-Gló
3. Everything else

I wish she would've done more jazz albums, her interpretations of those standards on Gling-Gló are nifty. Still, nothing beats the clubby stuff of Debut - it's both insistently danceable and wonderfully idiosyncratic (there's never been a house diva like her). I like many of her later songs, and I understand why she wanted to move into other directions, but it was still a loss for the dancefloors. I've always been a dance music guy and I was just at the right age when Debut dropped... Hearing a voice like that on top of cool, minimal (for the time) house beats, and seeing those videos on MTV, nothing she's done since has given me such chills down my spine.

Agree that she was brilliant as a house diva but I don't think it would've fared too well for her in the long term.

also she did tons and tons and tons of dance songs all throughout her post-Sugarcubes career...?

I'm not saying she didn't. TBH I only own the two albums mentioned above, but I've heard most of the albums she's released after them at least once, and none of them have sounded as dancey as Debut.

you should, at a bare minimum, replay Post, Telegraph and Homogenic again

really she strayed away from danciness only on Selmasongs and even there it wasn't that far

you should run out and buy the soundtrack to drawing restraint 9 she did, its full of big bass dancefloor jams

Medulla sounds non-dancey because practically everything is a capella but I defy you to tell me this isn't meant to be a dance track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQB9d-MMIx0

huh I can't seem to find a non-shitty sounding Youtube of this

ah here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6eWhqFDRvE&feature=related

also I can't stand to watch the "Oceania" video because of the crystals on her face but that's basically her doing a capella trip-hop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1N2-ZgD7H0&feature=related

Yeah...Triumph of a Heart is pretty much the art-sy counterpart of Violently Happy.

I really like the Towa Tei mix of Hyperballad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqBs3fr80w

There's even an alt avant dance club in the music video.

Homogenic
Vespertine
Post
Debut
Medulla

Haven't heard Volta or Selmasongs. Am I missing much?

Selmasongs is a curio with a couple of good songs on it (curiously, the one nominated for the Oscar wasn't one of the good songs).

Volta ranges wildly from awesome to unbearable; if you can put up with 7+ minutes of Antony bleating, it's worth getting.

I can't! But I'll listen to it anyway.

Check out "Earth Intruders", "Declare Independence", "Innocence" and "Wanderlust" on Youtube; if you dig those, the album is worth getting.

Wanderlust video is awesome, btw. Probably my favorite of hers... she chooses her video directors even better than her producers.

She is some sort of countercultural Madonna in a sense that she functions more as a sort of art director than as an actual artist.

if you get only one song from Selmasongs, make it this one:

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

Anyway my ranking:

Vespertine - Coccoon
Post - Hyperballad
Homogenic - Unravel
Debut - Come to Me
Medulla - Desired Constellation
Selmasongs - Scatterheart
Drawing Restraint - Storm
Volta - I See Who You Are

Wanderlust video is awesome, btw. Probably my favorite of hers... she chooses her video directors even better than her producers.

She is some sort of countercultural Madonna in a sense that she functions more as a sort of art director than as an actual artist.

This doesn't really make sense to me... I'm sure most of the the time she has a vision of what she wants to do, and picks her collaborators accordingly (as does Madonna). In music, unless you're a singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar or electronic music producer, you always have to find other people to work with you, but that doesn't make you less of an artist. "Art director" would imply someone who only finds those other people but isn't involved in the creative process itself, which I doubt is the case with Björk (or Madonna).

Does anybody have a point-of-view about her actual debut solo album, "Bjork" ?

I don't think it's ever been reissued except as a bootleg. And TBH I'm not particularly interested in what she sounded like when she was 11.

Well, she struck me as someone that was somewhat precocious, musically.

I wondered if what she made then had any bearing on what she produces latterly.

(I did see a CD a few years ago, but wasn't fussed about getting one)