HYPERBALLOT: ILM Artist Poll #88 -- Björk Resultsness

This video is so near and dear to my heart and fills me w such joy

all the debut-era videos are so excellent

Except apparently "Violently Happy," as per Stevie D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwV9W9Mj9uY

06. Army of Me (1995) -- 42 points; 5 votes; 1 first-place vote

Honestly, I can only think of one Bjork video that does nothing in the slightest for me and that's "Play Dead," obvs.

xp the extreme wide angle (fish eye?) filming lens in Big Time Sensuality really contributes to feeling of joyful exhibitionism, too

big time sensuality video is iconic come on

thrilled the underworld mix won

I had never seen "Army of Me" before last night and was blown away, it def would have been in my top 3 if I'd voted

it’s such a powerful and bizarre video

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

05. Triumph of the Heart (2005) -- 65 points; 8 votes; 1 first-place vote

😽

too low!!!

love the way the triumph of the heart video expands the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnZzE89Qn7w

04. Hyperballad (1996) -- 78 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote

“hyberballad” is a visual perfectly suited toward its song, my favorite thing is the way the camera sways in time to the low bass riff and also hologram björk and also 8-bit avatar björk

it also makes me cry for some reason

oh my god "Who Is It" isnt' going to place is it

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

03. Human Behavior (1993) -- 93 points; 11 votes; 3 first-place votes

oh my god "Who Is It" isnt' going to place is it

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never felt any kind of way about this video even though the bell dress rules

the only Bjork videos I have a hard time watching are Hidden Place and Vertebrae by Vertebrae, both are disturbing to me

(although beautiful at the same time)

“where is the line” has a deeply fucked up video

oh, never saw that one!

idk you may want to keep it that way

“mouth mantra” video also basically unwatchable for me

the Human Behavior video filled my kid with such delight, and me once again, seeing it for the first time in twenty years.

"Vertebrae by Vertebrae" doesn't have an official video, does it?

No, that and "Virus" are taken from a video art installation piece.

Oh, you mean the ones on YouTube? They are both fan edits of Andy Thomas Huang's "Solipsist". Bjork saw the original video and asked Huang to collaborate on "Mutual Core".

Given the visual spendor of her video oeuvre I kinda feel Big TIme Sensuality placed for nostalgia and the song itself. Always felt the video was "meh" at best and didn't place on my ballot.

xp

ok, that makes sense

yeah it was the youtube video of Solipsist that I was reacting to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJnhaXwK86M

02. Bachelorette (1997) -- 101 points; 12 votes; 4 first-place votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjI2J2SQ528

01. All is Full of Love (1999) -- 123 points; 14 votes; 5 first-place votes

fair

Full music video results:

All is Full of Love	123	14
Bachelorette	101	12
Human Behavior	93	11
Hyperballad	78	10
Triumph of the Heart	65	8
Army of Me	42	5
Big Time Sensuality	37	5
Pagan Poetry	35	4
Wanderlust	34	4
It's Oh So Quiet	33	4
Isobel	33	4
Mutual Core	29	4
Jóga	28	4
Gate, The	25	4
Possibly Maybe	23	3
Venus as a Boy	21	3
I Miss You	16	2
Black Lake	15	2
Who Is It	12	2
Cocoon	9	1
Hunter	9	1
Unison	7	1
Hidden Place	6	1
Oceania	6	1

"Joga" and "Possibly Maybe" and "I Miss You" all had a single first-place vote each.

There’s a great bit in the Emily Mackay book about how the AiFoL video anticipated (inspired?) the white, sterile look of the iPod and other Apple products of a few years later.

All is full of love is not only the best bjork video it should be in every top 10 music videos from the 90’s from here to eternity. Hyperballad would be my second choice. There are days when I think Bjork videos are even better than her songs.

i voted for the Joga video, the one with all the digitally altered shots and zooms and pans of icelandic landscapes. parts of it just look silly bad today, but i still get really disoriented (in a good way) with some of the weird pans that shift in time with the music, like the shot of the river around 1:42 in. the 480p quality of the youtube version is not pleasant to look at, though.

i was also the Isobel #1. i used to watch a bjork video collection at my friend's house on a weekly basis, and Isobel was the one that always sucked me in. love the way the two holographic versions of her approach and retreat into each other, a trick that's used in the Hyperballad video a bit too.

y’all how did “I Miss You” not even place???

i mean

it was really hard to vote for a v perverse john k. video given recent news

^^^ yup

it’s such a great video. whole thing fuckin sucks

oh yikes I don’t know anything about it??

in breaking news I do NOT like the “Cocoon” video

“Hunter” video is like worse than “Play Dead” in terms of snooze factor

no!

idk the bear effect carries it i think

I had the same thought re: John K but tbh it was never my favorite Bjork video or song

some björk videos live or die on the strength of their central image