<3 <3<3 Undo, my #2
― sleeve, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
oh I always thought "uphill" was "up here," i.e. up here on planet Earth, Björk graciously reminding us we live on the same plane as she does.
― geoffreyess, Friday, May 11, 2018 1:19 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Same!
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, May 11, 2018 1:20 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too lol
i did too for a long time! it's lovely because the song is so celestial that it totally makes sense that way
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
or, i guess when i thought it was "up here" i took that as some sort of higher plane of existence where people like bjork roam. it's interesting to look at the "up here" as earth, though!
forgot to vote for this poll but "Undo" would've been my #1. phil elverum covered that live at a show once out in a field in Western Massachusetts with everyone singing along and it was beautiful. believe it was before the julie doiron collab album.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
had graduated from college and was really struggling to find a job let alone a lol career and that "struggle uphill" line for real helped change my perspective on Life.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/12-who-is-it.jpg
12. Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right) (Medúlla, 2004) -- 904 points; 26 votes
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
xpostyeah, his song "voice in headphones", besides musically and lyrically quoting "undo", is also pretty much just about how amazing the song is.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
YES
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
YESSSSS
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
many xps
I love Army of Me but is it just me or does it sound like a demo? It’s mostly the chorus which bothers me how it sounds... the verses sound more overpowered and the chorus sounds somewhat unfinished. I wish I knew more about music production to verbalize what I’m hearing.
The bass cuts out is all
Sometime-reported music nerd moment alert: "Army Of Me" is the most conspicuous single in popular music to be written in the Locrian mode, complete with stylistically correct cadences; likely a conscious music-nerd decision on Björk's part to attempt to write a hit single in this most bizarre of modes
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
björk's best pop song imo. more in the spirit of a theoretical björk/timbaland collab than the one we actually got
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
Also "Who Is It" is THE BEST
At its early peak, "Who Is It" was the song I teased out as being the surprising #2 overall.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
I knew it wouldn't hold the same I way I knew Fassbinder wouldn't stay #3 on the movie directors' poll, but it was a thrill for a moment, nonetheless.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
oh damn xp
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
if you ask yourselfpatientlyand carefully
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
"who is it" is one of the medulla songs i can't imagine w different production, it's the embodiment of vocal exuberance
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
I ... like the handbell version too.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
I'd like to ask her how she got the vision for Who is it, it's so not "intuitive" and complex as a pop song.I guess for Medulla at large it must have come in good part from these backing choir vocals she knew so much about.Those drums <3
― Nabozo, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
I love the version of this song they used for the video, with all of the bells and chimes, is that the handbell version?
― Dan S, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
...well this is what i get for not having time to dig in and fill out a ballot before
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
yeah i really love the single version with the bells
― ufo, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
Tagaq's voice is largely responsible for the vocal forest that you hear on "Who Is It"-- no actual throat singing except at the end, but on them choruses, lots of the ululations she is so good at
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
who is it was my #2, definitely thinking of the bells version when i voted
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Also I personally prefer the Bogdan Raczynski version with the accompanying Colargol mashup
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, May 11, 2018 10:51 AM (forty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"vocal forest" otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/11-stonemilker.jpg
11. Stonemilker (Vulnicura, 2015) -- 931 points; 26 votes
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
Seeing as it (the Bogdan Raczynski version of "Who Is It" with amazing Colargol video) has less than 100k views I would guess that it's not.. as popular or well known as I thought it was?
hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FEB01V8TU
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
another great image
― Dan S, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQf0y_mk3hs
the Vespertine tour version of Who Is It is also great, it's fascinating to be able to track the development of it from the Bogdan Raczynski version to the Vespertine tour version to the two Medulla era versions
fantastic to see Stonemilker this high! her best album opener
― ufo, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
lol i was right, the five missing homogenic songs are all in the top ten
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
the violins and cellos on this track are so great
― Dan S, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
yay, Stonemilker! After I submitted my ballot and kept the Bjork-binge up, I regretted not putting it higher. i love the moment when the low end enters and the strings begin to flesh out, and the song briefly organizes into a stately walk - "show me emotional respect / and i have emotional needs "
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
I was about to argue how strong "Army of Me" is as an album opener and maybe her best, and then I remembered "Stonemilker" and shut myself up.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCCmYTbJy4
wow i didn't know about this early version of Where is the Line from the greatest hits tour
― ufo, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
i know it's just chance that "stonemilker" follows "who is it" in the roll-out, but it sounds very intentional in the playlist because of the echoes in the pre-chorus (Who is open chested, who has coagulated, Who can share, Who has shut down the chances?)
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
yeah, I was thinking about the similar lyrics too
― Dan S, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
sisyphus' friends are always putting Undo on his mixtapes and he fucking hates it, stop that, he says
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
ilx - the only place where my sisyphus jokes land :)
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to the Vulnicura Live version of All Neon Like and others. This live is a killer.I also really enjoyed the 360° video clip of Stonemilker, I'd never seen that on YouTube, it's cool and the concept really fits such a sad song/album.
― Nabozo, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/10-hidden-place.jpg
10. Hidden Place (Vespertine, 2001) -- 944 points; 25 votes; 1 first-place vote
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
the 360* Stonemilker video was the first time I ever experienced VR, it was at MoMA PS1 and my friend and I saw it the same weekend (maybe same day?) we saw her on the Vulnicura tour. I like actually cried watching it.
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
HI-DDENNNN PLAAAAACE
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
Thank you Eric, you can stop the poll here.Hidden Place would have been my #1 if I had ranked the ballot :)
― Nabozo, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
I wasn’t expecting Pagan Poetry to be the highest ranking Vespertine track, that was the one people would laugh at when I would play the album for them 17 years ago, well who's laughing now eh
― sciatica, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
more than any other single moment, hidden place coming out was when i became totally bewitched by bjork
― ogmor, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
That Herbert remix of pagan poetry tho
― Ross, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jBzKucaqlTk
― Ross, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
as an album opener Hidden Place kind of echoes Hunter on Homogenic, similar eerie feel to me
― Dan S, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
Hidden place samples a deck of cards Dope
― Ross, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link