Can't go wrong with any Bjork album tbh, but some are definitely stranger than others. Bipohilia for example is a concept album that intends to teach music theory and the natural patterns of the earth (like, I'm not kidding when I say that she designed an iPad app for each song and actually got this album added to school curriculums in Scandinavia), while also exploring love and sex and politics at the same time. It's insane, but so good at the same time.
yay thank you for reacting to more Bjork!! Id say “Medulla” would be great to check out! Its not her most accessible and is perhaps a bit challenging but I think it’s amazing. Vulnicura would be great too!!
So glad you are going though some of Bjork's discography. This was the first album I purchase from her when I was in high school and began my Bjork obsession. Her first two albums are more pop albums than what came after when she formed more of what is thought of as the "Bjork" sound. Also I am once again suggesting you listen to Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven and will keep doing it until you give in and listen to it. P.S. That line about littering had me on the floor!
@@nikolanikolic1366 yeah, I think because they broke up before youtube and streaming so it is on nobodies radar. Roisin Murphy is still at it although I always have mixed feelings with her albums, one I love, One I don’t. But was the same with Moloko. Always cool when artists dare to experiment☺️
@@nikolanikolic1366 Ruby Blue is my absolute favourite and Hairless Toys and Roisin Machine. Not too fond of the other 2, although I was obsessed with Overpowered when it came out. Seen Moloko and Roisin live a couple of times too. She is amazing! Your favourite album?
I know that there's depth and history in every song but reading the album like its own thing it feels like a relationship that's is really intense and then grows distant and distant by each song. It feels like a rocket going into space and every song that goes by it is more and more like a memory of the previous songs, the previous feelings about the relationship. A heart beating and releasing energy and actually she's just singing about the resonance that this "old" relationship. The process of closure but yet not complete.
I'm a big Bjork fan!! I think you would like "When I get Home" by Solange if you're a sucker for transitions between the songs and a good production. Also, I love your reactions!
This is the first album I heard from her, I loved it instantly. Undoubtedly the most varied album and the best to start on this crazy journey that is Björk's discography.
Definitely recommend Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf if you’d like to check it out at some point! Amazing rock record with a tight concept. Definitely a classic one of my faves
Great video. You got a few of the lyrical themes confused on this one - Hyperballad is about how through the contemplation of her violent death every morning, she is thereby able to better appreciate the safety and security of her relationship with her then-husband Matthew Barney. She throws objects off the cliff and imagines they are her slamming against the rocks - that's her daily morning routine, according to the song. "It's Oh So Quiet" is about how the relationship can be volatile, with periods of calmness and stillness punctuated by him "blowing a fuse," shouting, and yelling.
WAAAAY off. Post was released 5 years before Björk and Matt Barney were ever together. They were never married either. She’s only ever been engaged to Goldie, who she was with when Post came out
interesting. i read somewhere that he took responsibility for the failure of their relationship. i remember in the 90s he had literally called björk a “vampire.” always nice to see men grow to take accountability
I'm gonna erase this post shortly after, but I recently had the privilege of hearing T.Swift belt this song out at karaoke. 'It's Oh So Quiet' runs the gamut of emotions and vocal expression so much, that even Taylor Swift had a hard time keeping up!😂🥰😎
This is a bit of an obscure recommendation but the album Dripping by Pile is really good. Kind of a combination of post-hardcore and prog rock, but it's very accessible at the same time. Very unique album.
Recommendation: David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees (1984). Debut solo album by him after the split of the new wave band Japan in 1982. "For those of us disappointed by David Bowie's 1983 transformation from an avant pop avatar to a denim-sponsored Tommy Steele, David Sylvian became an important alternative: a parallel Bowie dedicated to musical exploration and spiritual self-improvement rather than money, skiing and acting. Sylvian's debut solo album Brilliant Trees - featuring a subtly experimental neo-acoustic sound thanks to stellar collaborators like Holger Czukay, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jon Hassell - set a new mid-80s standard for ECM-inflected subtlety and sophistication, and the Sylvian persona (reclusive, refined, asexual if not androgynous) continued to intrigue, fitting well with post-feminist - or, in Simon Reynolds' term, anti-rockist - deconstructions of masculinity and machismo. While young guns in padded shoulders went for it, here was an artist stretching towards the gorgeous introspective territories and musical subtleties last heard on Joni Mitchell's 1976 travelogue Hejira." - Nick Currie, The Wire Magazine, Issue 418 (December 2018)
