https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbPYoaAiyc
03. Human Behavior (1993) -- 93 points; 11 votes; 3 first-place votes
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
oh my god "Who Is It" isnt' going to place is it
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, May 7, 2018 1:05 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
never felt any kind of way about this video even though the bell dress rules
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
the only Bjork videos I have a hard time watching are Hidden Place and Vertebrae by Vertebrae, both are disturbing to me
― Dan S, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
(although beautiful at the same time)
― Dan S, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
“where is the line” has a deeply fucked up video
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
oh, never saw that one!
― Dan S, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
idk you may want to keep it that way
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
“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.
― omar little, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
"Vertebrae by Vertebrae" doesn't have an official video, does it?
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
No, that and "Virus" are taken from a video art installation piece.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
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".
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
xp
ok, that makes sense
yeah it was the youtube video of Solipsist that I was reacting to
― Dan S, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
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
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
fair
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
Full music video results:
All is Full of Love 123 14Bachelorette 101 12Human Behavior 93 11Hyperballad 78 10Triumph of the Heart 65 8Army of Me 42 5Big Time Sensuality 37 5Pagan Poetry 35 4Wanderlust 34 4It's Oh So Quiet 33 4Isobel 33 4Mutual Core 29 4Jóga 28 4Gate, The 25 4Possibly Maybe 23 3Venus as a Boy 21 3I Miss You 16 2Black Lake 15 2Who Is It 12 2Cocoon 9 1Hunter 9 1Unison 7 1Hidden Place 6 1Oceania 6 1
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
"Joga" and "Possibly Maybe" and "I Miss You" all had a single first-place vote each.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
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.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
y’all how did “I Miss You” not even place???
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 7 May 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
i mean
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
it was really hard to vote for a v perverse john k. video given recent news
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
^^^ yup
― challops trap house (Will M.), Monday, 7 May 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
it’s such a great video. whole thing fuckin sucks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
oh yikes I don’t know anything about it??in breaking news I do NOT like the “Cocoon” video
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
“Hunter” video is like worse than “Play Dead” in terms of snooze factor
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link
no!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
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
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
some björk videos live or die on the strength of their central image
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
Like “Violently Happy”
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
yep
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
oh fuuuuuuuck John K what a sack of shit!!
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
After listening to his commentary tracks on the Ren and Stimpy discs, hardly surprised
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
I was always annoyed that they wrote down the wrong lyrics in the I Miss You video. "Well it's more important" instead of "Or what is more important". Couldn't they check the lyrics sheet before putting them in the video ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
I fell asleep just before the Sugarcubes rollout. All 5 of my selections were in the top 9 there, though I guess their oeuvre is fairly small.
It occurs to that it's almost exactly 30 years since I was startled by "Birthday". Not least the bit about the raven gliding down the sky. SHE TOUCHED IT!!!! It served as timely gateway to whole lot of (mostly UK) indie stuff at the very moment I tuned to the right radio stations. Though, as Tim F said in the other thread, their relationship to such music wasn't necessarily straightforward a lot of the time. I'm not sure I've ever had a favourite song but "Birthday" has probably come to mind more often than anything else when the question has come up!
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
"occurs to ME"
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
Interesting results for videos (I haven't seen any post-Vespertine) and Sugarcubes (surprised there was so much consensus that only 16 songs got voted for, thought I might be the only voter for some of my tracks). can't wait to see tracks!
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 08:32 (six years ago) link
It looks like everyone just voted for the most Bjork-centric Sugarcubes tracks (other than “Fucking in Rhythm & Sorrow” which I would have liked to have had space to cote for, and “Chihuahua” which, lol).
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
damn yeah i was wondering where the I Miss You video was, then the penny dropped.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link
Cool results so far, the albums list was more or less what I expected but can't really argue with it. Despite owning the Volumen: Greatest Hits DVD I didn't get round to properly re-watching all the videos so my votes were pretty nostalgic. Wasn't familiar with many remixes so that took a bit of digging - ended up without any overlap between my remix votes and originals in my top 30 tracks, completely unintentionally. The Sugarcubes have some great songs but I do think all you really need by them is the Best of.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 11:06 (six years ago) link
My sidepoll ballots anyway, all ranked 1-5
Albums:HomogenicVespertineMedúllaPostDebut
Remixes:Virus (Hudson Mohawke Peaches & Guacamol Remix)Cover Me (Dillinja Mix)It's in Our Hands (Soft Pink Truth Mix)Arisen My Senses (Lanark Artefax Remix)Mutual Core (Matthew Herbert's Teutonic Plates Mix)
Music videos:Army of MeBacheloretteHyperballadHuman BehaviourHidden Place
Sugarcubes tracks:BirthdayHitPlanetMamaWalkabout
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
My albums:
Albums:
01. Homogenic (10.0)02. Post (1995) [9.7]03. Medulla (2004) [9.5]04. Vespertine (2001) [8.3]05. Vulnicura (2015) [8.0]06. Debut (1993) [7.7]07. Biophilia (2011) [7.2]08. Utopia (2017) [6.0]09. Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) [5.3]10. Semlasongs (2000) [5.1]11. Volta (3.5)
Remixes/Versions:
01. Anchor Song (Strings Version)02. Isobel (Deodato Mix)03. Black Lake (Viola Organista Version)04. Hyperballad (Girls Blouse Mix)05. I Miss You (Dobie Part 1)06. All Is Full of Love (Strings)07. Sun In My Mouth (Recomposed By Ensemble)08. Oceania (Piano & Vocal)09. Bjork - Earth Intruders (Lexx Remix)10. Wanderlust (Ratatat Remix)
For remixes I realized for me it's all about versions that really engage the track, and don't just superimpose a genre or a totally unrelated idea. A secondary criterion was how close to being as good and coherent a piece as the original. The live Brodsky version of "Anchor Song" is the only version for me that supercedes its original--the strings work better than the saxes, and my god--her total vocal mastery! You can hear how far she'd come in a few years.
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 12:29 (six years ago) link
https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/60-quicksand.jpg
60. Quicksand (Vulnicura, 2015) -- 196.5 points; 7 votes
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
my #29!
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
Just about didn't make my final cut, but a great track to start with nonetheless.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
In an album with so many long and pained tracks, "Quicksand" is such an effectively abrupt conclusion.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/59-an-echo-a-stain.jpg
59. An Echo, A Stain (Vespertine, 2001) -- 210 points; 5 votes
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link