Three quick notes: 1. The next DDD will be picked by you! The poll is in the description. If you want a say in who gets covered next time, go check it out. 2. Also check out the playlist in the description - it has all the songs I play or mention in the video. 3. As some of you might know, this is a redo of my 2nd DDD ever! The old one is in the description as well if you want to watch it, but this one replaces it in every way. Thanks for watching!
I see Nirvana on the list but not Foo Fighters, if you ever did a dive for them would it be combined so one half is Nirvana, then the second is Foo? Or would they be entirely independent of one another? I think both stories are worth telling and I'd hate to see them lessened due to time constraints.
Was sad not to see Robyn and hope she can be added for next time❤ she is such an interesting artist who has made such a big journey from her childstar origin and her music has made a big impact. There is a great vid more on her story here on YT for anyone that’s interested.
Björk going full on violent mama bear on that reporter was so badass and it proves how far she would go for her kids~We love an adorable tough cookie like Björk
I always felt that the first four albums were like the four seasons. Debut is light innocent fun like a stroll through flowery woods, thinking about the promises of the future, on a fresh day of spring. Post is hot, intense and saturated like a hot summer day at the beach. Homogenic is introverted and meditative like when you see the leaves turning brown and feel the autumn wind announcing the coming winter. And Vespertine feels, as mentioned in the video, icy and restricted like being inside during a blizzard.
I appreciate how willing she is to reinvent herself as an artist even into her 50s. There's such a specific, imaginative vision and framework to each album, and I deeply respect that.
@dumb angel that's true, but I'm not counting that because 1. She was a child, so obviously it's not on the same level and 2. It was before Björk became BJÖRK
It's the same as the lana del rey argument, she had albums that were under her real name and other stage names but do we count them in the Lana Del Rey canon? No, we don't, I'd apply the same logic to Björk's 1977 album, it was before she was a true artist and musician with creative intentions, that's why I don't count it
@@jon.callaghan4165 I agree with this, it was released when she was 12. Her first kind of mainline album is Gling Gló when she was 25, but judging by the title, “Debut” is what she considers her debut album.
Björk is a true singular talent with an immaculate discography. I might not love everything she's put out but I always respect her artistic vision even when it's not my cup of tea. She's a force of nature that marches to the beat of her own drum.
I think Beyoncé being on a vocal album makes perfect sense bc she can do so many things with her voice, Beyoncé’s voice is an instrument, Björk might have stacked them to create some sort of string sounding feel and tell her to try new things and Beyoncé is all about learning and trying new things so that’s not really a big surprise The surprise would be Justin Timberlake
Beyoncé collaborating with Björk would be one of the most random, weirdest yet surprisingly pleasant collaborations that I have ever seen and would 100% warmly welcome with open arms lol
Never quite forgiven the Grammy for snubbing Kesha after all the abuse she suffered...for a guy who rudely admitted to have sleep through the award ceremony at home.
Plus, considering it’s been rumored that it was “ancestors” was the song Beyoncé would’ve been featured on, it would make so much sense to mix Bjorks Icelandic singing, Tonya Tagaqs Inuit Throating Singing and Beyoncé’s Soulful R&B voice together and be a beautiful mix of three separate singing styles, influenced by three different cultures respectively
Vespertine will always be my favorite Björk album for two reasons. Firstly, it's darkly romantic sound. But also, it was my "early teen emo album" haha. Even ten years after it came out, tween me was listening to this in my room crying over mean girls. Björk showed me that music could be weird and an extension of the body. It was the first time I felt like I was listening to music for grown ups. Not in the way that the 2000s club music of my youth had made me feel like "this is about sex I think" but in a way that really hit me as "I do not know enough about the world to understand this". And most importantly, that felt okay. So often I would get mad at being considered too young for something or not understanding something (especially since I was undiagnosed as autistic at the time). Vespertine made it okay to not fully understand it, because it wasn't meant to be fully compressible to everyone at all times. And it didn't think itself better for being so
I think bjork does something special to autistic people's brains cause I was also undiagnosed autistic at the time I started to get obsessed with her and her music tickled a special place in my brain, I legit think it made me more "music smart" it made me recognize every little sound bjork puts in her compositions, she's a genius no doubt
Björk is one of the artists with the most intersting discografies ever. And as a brazillian it makes me very happy that she and Milton Nascimento (my favorite singer) are close friends.
Medulla is such an underrated masterpiece. I love the concept of using the human voice as the primary instrument for the soundscapes. It's in my top 5 Björk records.
My fav too! Medulla is the most emotional and primordial, its wet, Its joyful and obscure. Happy to find out that there is a "medulla is the best one" coven out there! Hi sisters!!
There was one time I was hanging out with my dad. I don’t remember what we were talking about exactly but I felt like he brought up Björk randomly and talked about what a horrible artist she is. I had heard some good things about her so either my dad was right or wrong about her and I was pretty sure he was wrong so I decided to check her out. She completely blew me away and that’s how I learned that I could never trust my dad again.
Weirdly similar case on my end. In high school, I was the guy into the really werid, artsy stuff and my parents policy was “We’re not gonna ask questions we don’t want to know the answers to. You do you”” but for whatever reason, me liking Bjork was the one thing they felt like they had to step in an express concern about.
I listened to Venus As A Boy for the first time 2 days ago and I’ve been obsessed ever since. I had never listened to Bjork and decided I needed to explore Bjorks discography and here you are blessing me with this video 🎉😭
Nirvana + Foo Fighters in one video would be pretty neat, but if that's too much a singular video on each would be interesting, too. Dave Grohl has had a very cool career and it'd be interesting to see how you follow that.
Yeah foo fighters discog wayy too long to bundle with nirvana; if mic wants a singular video with a long enough run time he could have two DDD in one video with another artist with a shorter discog like joy division, the stone roses, or biggie
Nothing makes me happier on a brand new year than a remake of one of my favourite Deep Discog Dive episodes about my favourite artist of all time. Thank you for being the one to bless us with that
'Hidden Place' will all be one of my top favorite songs of all time. Björk is an immeasurable talent and such an individual. I appreciate her existence so much. And you killed this! So witty and funny and thorough, as always. Love you so big! -x t.🖤
@@aidanlastname0187 maybe to you. but every 2 years on a random sabbath, a random mass of mostly homosexual teenagers will discover post and think it’s the most unique, mind blowing thing on the planet and then go into a rly typical path of restreaming all the albums they feel like they’re having to pretend they like until one day it clicks and theyve tried too hard and gone too far into their relationship to ever stop going thru an entire album as a bidaily ritual ur spam of hate will never be as consistent as the spam of mildly annoying queer 15 year olds
Truely the best! Voice of an angel and artistry and vision beyond anyone. Growing up in the 90's with her amd bands like portishead played at home. Seeing cornucopia at the o2 in 2019 was truely mond blowing. Never change Björk❤!!!
Thank you for this video! It's such a great way to revisit Björk's music. When I was growing up, my mum owned a Homogenic CD, and both the cover of that album and the general sound of her music have been positively seared into my brain. Fun fact for anyone that's curious: as of me writing this comment, Björk has released a collaboration with Rosalía, a little song called "Oral". I'd say it's Björk at her björkiest, it's so dreamy, and flows absolutely beautifully. Definitely worth a listen if you like her music.
i'm usually not a big music video person, but bjork has always used them as an opportunity to explore what her music can be and i think that's worth highlighting as well. she and the directors she works with always have extraordinary vision. the pagan poetry music is one of the most terrifyingly intimate things i've ever seen, and, more recently, ancestress explored death in a way that left me breathless. she knows how to communicate through multiple mediums and isn't afraid of marrying them together.
listening to Björks whole discography for the first time i think Biophilia is her most underrated album. I love the use of organ and super weird time signatures and wild, unexpected instrumental passages. if i was to rank bjork albums i would probably put it at number 4
DDD is really one of my favourite formats on RU-vid. I love how you talk about music and how you convey what makes it good or special to you. And your humor is great. I could watch one of these every day, but I will also patiently waiting for the next one for however long
fun little fact, both of her children share a song with her In Fossora, her son Sindri through background vocals of ancestress and her daughter Isadora in duet in A mother's House
I think Debut will always be my favourite Bjork album, I can just remember exactly where I was and who I was when I first heard it. Really changed my views on music and the genres that I was open to consuming. Vulnicura has an incredibly special place in my heart too. Most Bjork albums do tbh, they're all brilliant. Picking a favourite Bjork album is like picking a favourite child. I love all her earlier work in her previous bands also. Genius woman.
It got me into trip hop and techno, which the boy carries on with phonk, that he showed me. So many bad ass women and bands during the 90s, Hole, sneaker pimps, luscious Jackson, and that hot girl from sonic youth and that bull in the Heather song. Fuck this I going to Spotify, thanks for reminding me unattentionaly.
I love Bjork so much! Her music helped me get through college. I loved this video. I can't even state a favorite because I love them all for different reasons.
Thanks for taking the effort to not only pronounce Björk's name correctly, but also explaining it for those who need that. Watching an old episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, I was both amused and appalled by someone calling her Bee Orc.
Dearest Björk, you are one of the people I look up to the most and I would be thrilled thinking that you may read this email to you from me. I've been listening to you since the nineties and since then you're always looking for a new sound; you're the hunter: you're going hunting of music 'cause it is not a product but a process and each lyrics that you write are a collection of emotional peaks, like a storytelling of your (and my) life. I think also that you are ART in everything you do because you have been translating from music to what can be represented in images across your stage costumes or your videography and dj set; so I guess that you've been commissioned ("ordained") by music to convey emotions to human race. I say it as a hopefully meaningful compliment, which I hope you accept. Gratitudes back to you, Björk. warmth and endless respect. Claudia from ITALY
I SWEAR, Yesterday I decided to listen to Björk for the first time and looked up to se if there was a discog dive about her already, and the only video I found was an old discography review one and thought “I wish there was a proper discog dive for her” and now here we are!
im so thankful that i grew up listening to bjork literally for as long as i can remember. roughly since like '98 or '99. her music has played such a huge part of my life. as a kid i loved hyperballad and one day. as a teen i loved crystalline and hunter. and now i love bachelorette and generous palmstroke
I'd love to see a DDD on slipknot, considering their WILD inconsistency and de-evolution. It's honestly crazy how they released some of the best metal of all time and then pretty much devolved into self parody. Also, the fact that no one reccomended their self titled for the metal video is absolutely criminal.
Björk is so talented. Love her album Post as well as her movies witch are quite disturbing yet beautifully dark. Edit: Dancer in the dark is just SAD! 😔
20:17 I looked this film up on IMDB, and found out that Stefan Karl Stefansson (the late-great actor behind LazyTown’s Robbie Rotten) also provided voices! Iceland’s two greatest celebrities in the same production :)
Wonderful, thanks for this. Minor nit: Tanya Tagaq is not a Tuvan throat singer - she's an *Inuk* throat singer. Tuvan throat singing comes from Eurasia (e.g. Mongolia), and Inuk throat singing from Canada.
I'm surprised you don't mention the initmate (but very platonic, don't get me wrong) relationship Arca and Bjork have which lead to Utopia. They met towards the end of Vulnicura's recording and became incredibly close. They hit it off so well Utopia was made because they enjoyed working together and wanted to make something more joyful together. The two women even went on vacation together collecting the bird song used in the album (other samples were collected from Oiseaux du Vénézuéla by Jean C. Roché which uses bird song from Venezuela, Arca's home country) There's so much to cover about Utopia but Bjork and Arca's relationship is at the heart of Utopia. Together they show this in the opener's music video "Arisen My Senses" where they are interconnected organisms, baring witness to each other's artistic growth and honoring each other.
I'm going to see Cornucopia in a few months and I can't wait. Björk is one of my favorite artists and probably the only one without any skip songs or albums for me. Can't even name the favorite ones. Amazing video, thank you♡
My favourite of her recent collaborators who you didn’t mention is the drag artist Hungary who did her makeup for Utopia and Fossora. Their visual aesthetics meld so well. Hungry’s work often incorporates lots of biological references.
Sometime in the 90s I saw Björk headlining a festival and it was the most unexpectedly wonderful live show I’ve ever seen. I was probably on drugs, but, boy, did that show rock.
This was good, ive been a fan of bjork since debut debut, i kinda of lost track of what she was doing after vespertine, but do occasionally check in with her once in a while. i think with bjork, once you become a fan, you never stop being one. I also agree with you that Joga is fucking amazing!
I voted for Muse solely for the fact that I need more people to be aware that the song will of the people exists and is definitely one of the songs of all time
Björk is sorta like Animal Collective or The Flaming Lips, where there isn't really any clear line between what does and doesn't count as a new studio album
i love how almost each album follows a different theme in its recording process debut with its laid back but electronic production post with its electronic, grand, and experimental approach homogenic with its usage of strings and beats verspetine with its coldness but intimacy medulla with its usage of acapella volta with its more pop-centric take on bjork's sound biophilia with its experimentation in music creation as a whole vulnicura with its immensley hopeless and other-worldly strings utopia with its hopeful usage of nature-type instruments (the flute) and fossora with its fantasy-like percussion and traditional iceland instrumentation
Great video! I also remember that in 2014-2015 she started DJ-ing. Those sets are just mind blowing and you can hear a lot of material that will be in Vulnicura and Utopia, and also a lot of snippets from Arca's future Mutant album. I really want to organise a party with just turning that DJ set😅
Love the Deep Discog dive series, and doing these takes a crapload of time and effort to do-- much appreciated!! Would love to see a Muse one at some point!
Bjork is just on some other shit, like its hard to describe for me, but her music makes me feel more alive and emotive. I would to see her collaborate with ither artists like she has does with Arca or Rosalia
Really appreciate this DDD. Björk is an incredible artist, and Vespertine is, without a doubt, my favorite album of all time. I’ve made it about halfway through her discography so far, but I am looking forward to digesting Volta-Fossora.
I believe one of my first approaches to Bjork was the Biophilia app. I discovered on my rhythm game phase thinking it was another one, but I was pleasently surprised and my 12 year old brain was exploding colors, lovely memory
And here am I, still on "debut" God damn, Björk has that expressive thing that attracts me, but i got into electric funk and a bit city pop.... I will go to Björk someday ! I swear !
Another Bjork related thing of note is ‘The Juniper Tree’ a sparse Medieval fantasy adaptation of a Brother’s Grimm tale released in the early 90s. She plays one of the major roles! It was shot in Iceland in beautiful black and white and is a great example of a grounded take on a fairy tale. Worth a watch if you’re in the mood for a deep cut in Björk’s already enormous ouvre.
of the tubeTVs... the Sony Trinitron is one of the best ones and still holds its value. Hell, most of them are more expensive than flatscreens nowadays.
I was so surprised to see Ween in the poll. I REALLY hope to see that DDD one day. They are far from my favorite band, but damn it if they aren’t interesting as hell
I love Björk's music and this video was very good! Please do a Swans DDD though, i don't even know if you know them but trust me if you don't know them they will change your thoughts on what music can be. Also the "The Seer, To Be Kind and The Glowing Man" Swans Trilogy might be the best 3 album run of all time in my opinion. Keep up the good work man! Edit: nvm i just saw you had Swans in the DDD vote for Febuary... Well now you know who I voted for
