HYPERBALLOT: ILM Artist Poll #88 -- Björk Resultsness

damn it, i forgot Verandi. i'm totally in the "vespertine b-sides" camp. the way the voice counters the falling bassline...

surprised (and glad) to see Enjoy and Crying make it - for whatever reason i also always thought that they were neglected and not widely liked tracks (and both were the first tracks i liked on both albums). funny it seems to be a shared perception.

Last-minute ballot so v.short.

Singles (ranked):

Hidden Place
Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Remix)
Pagan Poetry
Hunter
Play Dead
Venus As A Boy
Domestica
Amphibian
Human Behaviour
Verandi

Remixes (ranked):

Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Remix)
Human Behavour (Speedy J Remix)
Hyperballad (Tee's Freeze Mix)
Dull Flame Of Desire (Modeselektor's Remix for Girls)
Stonemilker (Forest Swords Remix)

Albums (ranked):

Vespertine

Poor Volta. The singles, or most of them, are probably the least successful things on it. A brassy mini-album based around "Wanderlust" and the somber middle section etc would be great.

Yeah I do quite like the album (particularly that stretch in the middle) but Wanderlust is the only one of the singles I can really get behind. Dull Flame of Desire is a slog, Innocence is OK but just feels like an inferior retread of Alarm Call.

My normie ballot, except for my questionable volta stanning --

4 / Bachelorette
1 / Hyperballad
20 / Big Time Sensuality
9 / All is Full of Love
2 / Joga
8 / Hunter
18 / It's Not Up to You
3 / Pagan Poetry
12 / Who Is It
46 / Where Is the Line
Earth Intruders
54 / Lionsong
7 / Venus as a Boy
Pleasure is All Mine
The Dull Flame of Desire
48 / It's Oh So Quiet
5 / Unravel
30 / Enjoy
49 / Violently Happy
10 / Hidden Place
Moon
50 / I've Seen it All
15 / Cocoon
Stígðu Mig
Declare Independence
44 / Wanderlust
22 / All Neon Like
26 / Pluto
13 / Undo
25 / Aurora

also thanks for running this eric h! not often i feel knowledgeable enough to jump in on an ILM poll but this was one of them :) and the pictures were BEAUTIFUL!

tbh I don't think the top 5 remixes we collectively chose were actually the top 5 remixes; they were just the small handful of remixes that people had heard. IF we all did a deep dive and actually assessed her massive collection of remixes we'd I think certainly have more Mark Bell/LFO stuff.

yeah i only managed to get through the debut/post/homogenic remixes before voting

i love the black dog remix of "come to me" but it's like... the most unsettling version of that song and i think rating it significantly over "anything else on The Best Remixes for People" is a curious choice to say the least

then again i love cheap euphoria

just kinda shortchanges what the other remixes are going for i think

That Mark Bell "Bachelorette" remix is sheen.

ok so maybe i was a bit too dismissive of the rest of The Best Mixes (and didn't realize Ned wrote the allmusic review for it, just saw it)

but the Black Dog "Come To Me" is the one i immediately turn up when it comes on. if the original is being enveloped in this warm, glowing (yet almost suffocating) blanket of safety then the black dog version is the other end of it, the person to whom the song is addressed, completely surrendered, in a trance of not worrying. which could be seen as unsettling - but that's what the Sabres version is to me, it's the person realizing the suffocating aspect of it.

as for Human Behaviour it's nice but just feels a bit too "Underworld remixes Bjork" by numbers. i'd actually prefer if Sabres remixed it instead! just think of what Weatherall could do with it.

i really wish she had a follow up to The Best Mixes / Telegram, or a singles box set..

I like the Speedy J remix of Human Behaviour more than the Underworld one. Reminds me of The Shamen, oddly enough.

My ballot; Isobel and Hunter might have placed too high, but Hyperballad was an easy pick for #1.

1. Hyperballad
2. Possibly Maybe
3. Isobel
4. Hunter
5. Enjoy
6. Venus as a Boy
7. History of Touches
8. All Neon Like
9. Army of Me
10. Pluto
11. New World
12. 5 Years
13. It's Oh So Quiet
14. Like Someone in Love
15. Unravel
16. Immature
17. Human Behavior
18. Bachelorette
19. Aurora
20. The Gate
21. Joga
22. Black Lake
23. Arisen My Senses
24. In the Musicals
25. The Modern Things
26. Come to Me
27. Big Time Sensuality
28. Stonemilker
29. Violently Happy
30. Alarm Call

Albums

Homogenic
Post
Vulnicura
Utopia
Debut

i thought i'd never want to hear her voice ever again but i listened to Black Lake because of this poll and I liked it. i still don't want to hear her singing ever again though.

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH omg you guys Mark Bell made a fucking Miami Bass remix of "Bachelorette" I am SCREAMING!!

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

@BradNelson

have been listening to the Spotify, great job as always ILM.

my ballot

Tracks:

Come To Me
Play Dead
Enjoy
Hyper-ballad
Possibly Maybe
Isobel
Immature
My Snare/Nature is Ancient
Pagan Poetry
Undo
Pleasure is all mine
So Broken
Sod Off
Stonemilker
Tabula Rasa
Triumph of the heart
Where is the line
Unison
venus as a boy
wanderlust
who is it
it's in our hands
you've been flirting again
joga
unravel
bachelorette
5 years
hidden place
scary
one day

Albums:

#1 Homogenic
#2 Vespertine
#3 Selmasongs
#4 Telegram
#5 Utopia

remixes

#1 pagan poetry herbert mix
#2 plaid all is full of love
#3 soft pink truth it's in our hands

music videos

#1 joga
#2 bachelorette
#3 isobel
#4 human behaviour
#5 i miss you

hey, i voted Come to Me #1 too! *high five*

such a lovely song

Debut turns 25 today.

listening to "come to me" with the most respect

Been listening again to this ranking and I love this poll’s results.

Aww, me too.

Funny, I was listening to this as well yesterday.

I found myself here just the other day because I had "Scary" swimming around inside my head and wondered whether it got an appropriate amount of love here. (It was on a few ballots, at least!)

TTL has all the old Bjork vinyls in stock, FYI

https://www.turntablelab.com/search?sort=best-selling&type=article%2Cpage%2Cproduct&q=bjork&_=pf&pf_v_artist_manufacturer=Bjork&pf_v_artist_manufacturer=The%20Sugarcubes&pf_st_stock_status=true&goal=0_8b218d7604-bbb69b2476-31345977&mc_cid=bbb69b2476&mc_eid=365684acc9