This 15-track fan-compiled collection brings together Bjork's cutting edge hits and best-loved songs, including All is Full of Love"
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Compiled via a fan survey conducted on her Web site, Björk's Greatest Hits eschews presenting the tracks in chronological order, making for a jumbled ride through the vocalist's unique, twisted, and frequently brilliant discography. A few welcome surprises surface, including EP remixes, a rarity (the 1993 David Arnold collaboration "Play Dead"), and the previously unreleased "It's in Our Hands," a clever blip-pop number that would have fit nicely on either 1997's Homogenic or 2001's Vespertine. Starting off with a dreamy remix of "All Is Full of Love," the collection contrasts giddy dance-pop like "Hyperballad" (from the wonderful Post) with the brooding thump of "Army of Me" and Debut's "Human Behaviour," while injecting liberal doses of experimental ballads such as "Joga" and "Pagan Poetry." Some choices will grate on the nerves of purists (the sans strings mix of "Hyperballad"), and it would have been nice to hear something from Selmasongs, but with Björk's incredibly consistent discography to work from, it's impossible to screw up a retrospective compilation such as this. --Matthew Cooke
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When Bjork hit the scene I was in Jr High or HighSchool and saw a music video that paralyzed me. I just couldnt turn away and while I will admit that she was not someone that I would have classified as particularly good, she was definately original. I introduced my sister to her just to get her reaction and my sister pretty much felt the sameway "strange and yet I cannot look away". Over the years my sister, my cousin and I became hardcore fans. She grew on us and her music just really touched us. Here we are more than 15years later and I still love Bjork. I was excited to hear one of her songs featured in the film "Sucker-Punch" and I am glad that she is still in the industry. Her voice is hypnotic she reminds me of a mythical creature projecting a melody that calls the masses. She is still so different and that is a very good thing in this day and age when there simply is no originality anymore. This is just a greatest hits CD so before you purchase it check your Bjork collect to see if you already own the songs on this. There was one song I did not have so I bought this. Still a great CD as are all of her CDs.
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2009
MAIN BODY OF THIS REVIEW ========================================================================================== Every song tells the perfect story of what it is like to be a human being. And, together, they weave a tale that looks like it was intended, as if Bjork actually wrote all the songs for a single album, an album with a theme of human love. One can only wonder if she saw it that way when she hand-selected these songs for this Greatest Hits compilation.
From the First Song "All Is Full of Love" which is, in my opinion, an ode to people like John Lennon and the New Age of Peace, Love and Tranquility. Look (see below in the lyric section of this review) how the lyrics point to Love being all around us, if we could but perceive it. Well, to perceive it, you do not need anything special (no technological innovation), just simple human awareness. Remove your own blocks to love's presence and you will simply be aware of it.
HYPERBALLAD is a deep look, an honest look at when the natural high of life and love leaves one destitute and all one has is a routine to wake it back up. She sings to you when you are lost and need a way back.
Look at the 3rd Song. HUMAN BEHAVIOR. Read the lyrics. Very short and to the point. When you have experienced human love in all of its various forms (a love part of, or rather, a subset of, the All that is Full of Love), you will know these lyrics deeply and profoundly (and, thus, have experienced a part of All that is Full of Love).
And, then, we have JóGA. Just read the words. Listen to the song. Listen to the words and the music and tell me you are not transported into the depths of the fullness of Human Love. Every note. Every lyric. All of it. Perfectly sounded. Perfectly worded. A deep thought conveyed beautifully like only music can do.
This is followed by BACHELORETTE. Moving deeper now into an emotional and deeply affecting love of love of our love. We see ourselves and others who are afraid of love, ones close to us. We appear to be a river flowing around and not through them, but we have enough love.
Skipping now to PAGAN POETRY. A New Ager ode to the profound graffitti of the soul of love between two human beings. Pagan in nature, human love is for all, but for self. A contradiction only a new lover embraces and an aged lover rejects and then collapses back into as the only thing a human body can suffer for eternity.
Let's let the artist herself tell of BIG TIME SENSUALITY: "I've got a lot of courage, but I've also got a lot of fear. You should allow yourself to be scared. It's one of the prime emotions. You might almost enjoy it, funny as it sounds, and find that you can get over it and deal with it. If you ignore these things, you miss so much." This song sounds like it was lifted from a Public Image Ltd album. (or did John Lydon do the lifting from Bjork?)
VENUS AS A BOY is any erotic, new love, esp., first-touch love. Sensual. Read the caption below on how she created the sounds in the song.
Let's let the artist herself tell of HUNTER: "I guess that song's about when you have a lot of people that work for you and you sort-of have to write songs or people get unemployed, you know? In most cases, it's inspiring but in that particular song I was pissed off with it. I was ready for a break but it didn't seem fair on the people I worked with at the time."
Let's let the artist herself tell of HIDDEN PLACE: "'Hidden Place' is sort of about how two people can create a paradise just by uniting. You've got an emotional location that's mutual. And it's unbreakable. And obviously it's make-believe. So, you could argue that it doesn't exist because it's invisible, but of course it does. And it's sort of a one-nil situation." One of the more haunting sounds of the album. I'd always imagined it meant something like her vision, but mine orbited around love of others, in general, and of love of love and its fullness, specifically, esp., all that it inspires, where it comes from--a hidden place from deep within each of us.
ISOBEL. The jungle drums. The haunting and personal lyrics. The strings. Let's have the artist herself give us a Big Picture of ISOBEL, HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND BACHELORETTE: "There's an epic continuity between 'Human Behaviour', 'Isobel' and 'Bachelorette'. I'm not sure if it's a joke or serious - probably a bit of both. It's basically a character I invented called Isobel.
In 'Human Behaviour', she's a little girl. In 'Isobel', she moves to the big city and big lights. She functions with her intuition wich isn't very good in cities and crashes with a lot of ill-behaved people. So she goes back and trains a lot of moths and sends them back, as messengers of intuition, into the city to people who are not working with their intuition. In 'Bachelorette' she takes over and trees grow over the city. It's part autobiography part storytelling.
There's a side to me that's really casual and that's in them. There's a side to me that's very dramatic and very romantic and there's a side to me that's pretty hardcore. I guess the line of songs were meant to be like an epic, 19th Century novel but at the same time taking the piss. I can be a little too dramatic at times."
For POSSIBLY MAYBE, Bjork had this to say about it: "The first unhappy song I wrote was 'Possibly Maybe.' That was very hard for me. Usually I write all the time, but that was like nothing happened for months. Then the song came out. I was ashamed writing a song that was not giving hope." Probably my favorite song for a good while. Here are some quotes to wet your appatite for this artist:
QUOTE Interview by David Hemingway. Reprinted by kind permission of Record Collector. 'Possibly Maybe' is a song that I can really do rollercoaster rides on and just go for it vocally. It's one of the first songs that I wrote but didn't hold my voice back. For me, and this is why I play it live almost every time, as a singer I can really use my voice as an instrument.
Actually, it was supposed to be a country song - an ambient country song - and when I first wrote it, we got a slide guitarist in. I'm not sure it ended up as one but that's where it started. We were thinking about that song by Chris Isaak.
QUOTE UI interview, 13 august 1998 What is your favourite remix of your own songs? Well, I have many favourites, probably one of my favourites is Possibly Maybe that Mark Bell did.
QUOTE Oor, September 1997 In the first years of my solo career - the period around Debut - I wasn't able to record a dark or sad song. You have to know, I was raised hardcore happy. That's something typically Icelandic: to be happy, to feel good, to see everything from the positive side. So it took me a lot of courage to try something moody. On Debut it didn't work, on Post it did, eventually. Possibly Maybe was my first dark song.
QUOTE Raygun, September 1997 I would always write songs about happy things and keep my dirty laundry to myself. I was brought up so self-sufficient and happy and to never complain. Icelandic people are so furiously optimistic that it's aggressive. So for me to write songs that are not happy is a bit abhorrent You feel ashamed about it. The first unhappy song I wrote was 'Possibly Maybe.' That was very hard for me. Usually I write all the time, but that was like nothing happened for months. Then the song came out. I was ashamed writing a song that was not giving hope.
Skipping now to the 15th and final song on this greatest of Greatest Hits collections, we find IT'S IN OUR HANDS. Laugh with me in deep appreciation of the joy and truth of this song. The music, again, accompanying the lyrics making them penetrate further into our psyche, reaching us in that hidden place where human behavior is defined, but often shunned for the darkness and we let out a scream of fear and rage rather than joy. But, make no mistake, our health, our healing, our very beings and the continuation of our species and the evolution of our selves is, indeed, only in our all so human hands.
Buy it today and evolve into what you think you can be. ==========================================================================================
LYRIC AND SONG INFO SECTION OF THIS REVIEW ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Song 1: ALL IS FULL OF LOVE
You'll be given love you'll be taken care of you'll be given love you have to trust it
Maybe not from the sources you have poured yours
Maybe not from the directions you are staring at
Trust your head around it's all around you all is full of love all around you
All is full of love : you just ain't receiving All is full of love : your phone is off the hook All is full of love : your doors are all shut
All is full of love
SONG INFO
Written by Björk and produced by Howie B. Released in June 1999 as the last of five singles taken from Björk's third album, 'Homogenic'. The Greatest Hits album contains a different version of the song than the orginal version which can be heard on album. This because this mix was used in the video and was included on the singles.
The video is directed by Chris Cunningham, who became famous in 1997 with the scary video "Come to Daddy" for Aphex Twin. He was also responsible for Madonna's "Frozen" and "Only You" for Portishead. "All is Full of Love" got nominated for a Grammy and won several awards including the Best Breakthrough video and Special Effects at the 2000 MTV Video Awards.
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we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning I walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever I find lying around
it's become a habit a way to start the day
I go through all this before you wake up so I can feel happier to be safe up here with you
it's real early morning no-one is awake I'm back at my cliff, still throwing things off I listen to the sounds they make on their way down I follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks
and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open?
I go through all this before you wake up so I can feel happier to be safe up here with you
SONG INFO
"Basically, 'Hyper-ballad' is about having this kind of bag going on and three years have passed and you're not high anymore. You have to make an effort consciously and nature's not helping you anymore. So you wake up early in the morning and you sneak outside and you do something horrible and destructive, break whatever you can find, watch a horrible film, read a bit of William Burroughs, something really gross and come home and be like, 'Hi honey, how are you?'."
Written by Björk, Nellee Hooper & Marius De Vries. Produced by Nellee Hooper and Björk. Released in February 1996 as the fourth single from Björk's second album, 'Post'. In June 2002 [...] organised a webvote, in order to compile the tracklist for the current 'Greatest Hits' cd, and 'Hyperballad' was voted as the most popular track. The video is directed by Michel Gondry, born in Versailles France. 'Hyperballad' was his fourth videoclip for Björk since their first project 'Human Behaviour' back in 1993. Resulting in a imaginary clip which is almost impossible to interpret the first time you see it. "Will my eyes be closed or open?".
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Song 3: HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
If you ever get close to a human And human behaviour Be ready be ready to get confused
There's definitely definitely definitely no logic To human behaviour But yet so yet so irresistible
And there's no map to human behaviour
They're terribly terribly terribly terribly moody Then all of a sudden turn happy But, oh, to get involved in the exchange Of human emotions Is ever so ever so satisfying
And there's no map And a compass wouldn't help at all
SONG INFO
"'Human Behaviour' is an animal's point of view on humans. And the animals are definitely supposed to win in the end."
Written by Nellee Hooper and Björk. Released in the summer of 1993 (June), one month before the album 'Debut'. This single launched Björk her international solo career after some years with the Sugarcubes. The video, directed by Michel Gondry, became an instant classic and was rewarded by MTV as 'Best Breakthrough Video'. "Human Behaviour" was the birth of a lyrical imagery collaboration, his unique perceptions of Björk's music and his art of storytelling are unique to the music video world, which resulted in 6 videos.
All these accidents that happen follow the dot coincidence makes sense only with you you don't have to speak - I feel
Emotional landscapes they puzzle me then the riddle gets solved and you push me up to this:
State of emergency : how beautiful to be state of emergency : is where I want to be
All that no-one sees you see what's inside of me every nerve that hurts you heal deep inside of me you don't have to speak - I feel
Emotional landscapes they puzzle me then the riddle gets solved and you push me up to this:
State of emergency : how beautiful to be state of emergency : is where I want to be
EXTRA VERSE
When I've lost my cards, you deal me another hand even when I sleep, you're real on your way to me you don't have to speak - I feel
This strengh I get from you I rest my head in your hands but when I leave, I leave you only to: give out to the others, this:
State of emergency...
SONG INFO
"I was doing a lot of experimenting with beats trying to make them sound volcanic. With this song, I really had a sort of National Anthem in mind. Not the National Anthem but certain classic Icelandic songs - very romantic, very proud."
Jóga was written by Björk. It was produced by her and Mark Bell at the El Cortijo studios in Spain. The lyrics for it were written by Björk's long-term collaborator Sjón. Jóga became the first single from her third studio album 'Homogenic'. The video was shot on location in Iceland by the French videodirector Michel Gondry, using a 16mm handheld camera, and it was subsequently digitally processed into luscious computer-animated landscapes, alive and moving in synkronization with the beats of the song.
The extra verse was never performed anywhere, only featured in the documentary of the recording of Vespertine known as "The Southbank Show".
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I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl you're bird on the brim hypnotized by the whirl
Drink me - make me feel real wet your beak in the stream the game we're playing is life love's a two way dream
Leave me now - return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
I'm a path of cinders burning under your feet you're the one who walks me I'm your one way street
I'm a whisper in water a secret for you to hear you're the one who grows distant when I beckon you near
I'm a tree that grows hearts one for each that you take you're the intruders hand I'm the branch that you break
Leave me now - return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
LYRICS IN THE BOOKLET
I'm a fountain of blood (my love) In the shape of a girl You're the bird on the brim (my love) Hypnotized by the whirl
Drink me - make me real (my love) Wet your beak in the stream The game we're playing is life (my love) Love is a two way dream
Leave me now - return tonight The tide will show you the way Forget my name go astray Killer whale trapped in a bay (the ocean miles away)
I'm a path of cinders (my love) Burning under your feet You're the one who walks me (my love) I'm your one way street
I'm a tree that grows hearts (my love) One for each that you take Your the ground I feed on (my love) We're a circle no-one can break
Leave me now - return tonight The tide will show you the way Forget my name go astray Killer whale trapped in a bay (the ocean miles away)
I'm a whisper in water (my love) A secret for you to hear You are the one who grows distant (my love) When I beckon you near
Life is a necklace of fears (my love) Your uncried tears on a string Our love will untie them - come here (my love) Loving me is the easiest thing
SONG INFO
"Isobel decides to return to the city and to take a train, like in the 30's, in South America somewhere. She decides to confront love with love and confronts the cowards that don't have the guts to fall in love with love. So you see - it's like Isobel has returned. "
Bachelorette is the sequel in this epic tale written by Björk with lyrics by Sjón. Released on her third album "Homogenic", it was also chosen as one of the first singles. A tall adventure. Produced by Björk. The video to the song was realised by - once again - Michel Gondry, who now had done 6 videos for Björk.
Regarding the extra lyrics in the booklet that are unsung in the song, Sjón said this in a [...] interview september 2004: "I think the artwork for Homogenic was at the printers before the final vocals were laid down, so you were never supposed to see the extra verses for Bachelorette. But you did and I'll never recover from being exposed like that ... ;-)"
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Stand up you've got to manage I won't sympathize anymore
And if you complain once more you'll meet an army of me
You're alright there's nothing wrong self-sufficience please! and get to work
And if you complain once more you'll meet an army of me
You're on your own now we won't save you your rescue-squad is to exhausted
And if you complain once more you'll meet an army of me
SONG INFO
"It's probably the most realistic way of expressing what situation I'm in - all these people trying to take things away from me, and the gorilla finding a diamond that I don't know I have and then stealing it. 'Army of Me' is so much about me actually learning that I have to defend myself. I have to stand up and fight the f**king gorilla. Once I've got the diamond and I run away with it, it becomes massive 'cos it's mine. But if the gorilla had kept it, it would have gone really tiny. That's surrealism for me."
Written by Björk & Graham Massey. Produced by Nellee Hooper & Graham Massey and Björk. This is the second video directed by Michel Gondry (1995) for Björk.
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Pedalling through the dark currents I find an accurate copy a blueprint of the pleasure in me
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
A secret code carved : a secret code carved
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
He offers a handshake crooked five fingers they form a pattern yet to be matched
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
On the surface simplicity but the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry pagan poetry
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
Morse : coded : signals they pulsate : they wake me up from my hibernate
On the surface simplicity but the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry pagan poetry
I love him
This time : I'm gonna keep me to myself This time : I'm gonna keep my all to myself
She loves him
But he makes me want to hand myself over
She loves him
SONG INFO
"We discussed how to do something with the moving image that was a mirror of what was happening musically. . . . It had to have a different look from the video footage and from the digitally altered video footage. I knew it had to look as luscious as possible," Chaudoir says. "It's stripping away the artifice and the digital effects, into the raw image of Björk."
Pagan Poetry is written and produced by Björk. It is the second song to be taken off her fourth studio album "Vespertine" as a single. The video to the track is done by Nick Knight who previously photographed Björk for the Homogenic cover image. Production: Gainsbury & Whiting. Director of Photography: Simon Chaudoir.
Written by Björk Published by Universal Music Publishing Produced by Björk Additional Production by Marius de Vries Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent Programming by Jake Davies, Björk & Marius de Vries Bassline by Björk Music Box Arrangement by Björk Adaptation for Music Box by Jack Perron Harp Arrangement by Zeena Parkins & Björk
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Song 8: BIG TIME SENSUALITY
I can sense it something important is about to happen it's coming up
It takes courage to enjoy it the hardcore & the gentle BIG TIME SENSUALITY
We just met and I know I'm a bit too intimate but something huge is coming up and we're both included
It takes courage to enjoy it the hardcore & the gentle BIG TIME SENSUALITY
I don't know my future after this weekend - and I don't want to!
It takes courage to enjoy it the hardcore & the gentle BIG TIME SENSUALITY
SONG INFO
"Big Time Sensuality" was Björk's fourth single and music video, released in november 1993. Written by Björk & Nellee Hooper, produced by Nellee Hooper. The video is shot on location in the streets of New York in 1993 by Stéphane Sednaoui, featuring Björk dancing back and forth and singing on the back of a moving truck.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Song 9: VENUS AS A BOY
His wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex!
His fingers they focus on her touches he's venus as a boy
He believes in a beauty He's venus as a boy
He's exploring the taste of her arousal so accurate
He sets off the beauty in her he's venus venus as a boy
He believes in a beauty He's venus as a boy
SONG INFO
"I think I wrote it in my living room in Iceland and sang it into my dictaphone. Later, by accident, we were going through sounds and I found this broken bottle sound. It wasn't intentional but it sounded great."
'Venus As A Boy' was written by Björk and produced by her long-time collaborator Nellee Hooper. When it became time to turn it into a single & music video, she approached Sophie Muller, a british video director that has done music videos for several big names such as Eurythmics, No Doubt and Blur since the early 80's.
If travel is searching and home what's been found I'm not stopping
I'm going hunting I'm the hunter I'll bring back the goods but I don't know when
I thought I could organise freedom how Scandinavian of me you sussed it out, didn't you?
You could smell it so you left me on my own to complete the mission now I'm leaving it all behind
I'm going hunting : I'm the hunter
(You just didn't know me)
SONG INFO
This song is written by Björk and produced by Björk in collaboration with Mark Bell of LFO. The hunting song of Homogenic (1997). The video was directed by long time collaborator Paul White of Me Company. It was his first video for Björk and it used complicated 3d animation by Digital Domain.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Song 11: HIDDEN PLACE
Through the warmthest cord of care your love was sent to me I'm not sure what to do with it or where to put it
I'm so close to tear and so close to simply calling you up and simply suggesting
We go to that hidden place
Now, I have been slightly shy but I can smell a pinch of hope to almost have allowed once fingers to stroke the fingers I was given to touch with but careful careful
There lies my passion hidden here lies my love I'll hide it under a blanket lull it to sleep
I'll keep it in a hidden place
He's the beautifullest fragilest still strong dark and divine and the littleness of his movements hides himself
He invents a charm that makes him invisible hides in the hair
Can I hide there too? hide in the hair of him seek solace sanctuary
In that hidden place
SONG INFO
Written by Björk, Guy Sigsworth & Mark Bell. Produced by Björk. Hidden Place was not so hidden as it was the first single to be taken from the fourth studio album Vespertine (2001). The video marked also a new beginning as M/M Paris co directed the video with Inez & Vinoodh, and went on to collaboratively create the visuals and layout for the whole Vespertine album and a sequence of singles.
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in a forest pitch-dark glowed the tiniest spark it burst into flame like me : like me
my name isobel : married to myself my love isobel : living by herself
in a heart full of dust lives a creature called lust it surprises and scares like me : like me
my name isobel : married to myself my love isobel : living by herself
when she does it she means to moth delivers her message unexplained on your collar crawling in silence a simple excuse
nana na nana : nana na nana
in a tower of steel nature forges a deal to raise wonderful hell like me : like me
my name isobel : married to myself my love isobel : living by herself
when she does it she means to moth delivers her message unexplained on your collar crawling in silence a simple excuse
nana na nana : nana na nana nana na nana : nana na nana
SONG INFO
"This is the story of Isobel; she was born in a forst by a spark, and as she grew up, she realized that the pebbles on the foret floor were actually skyscrapers. And by the time she was a grown-up woman and the skyscrapers had taken over the forest. She found herself in a city, and she didn't like all the people there so much, because they were a bit too clever for her."
Isobel was written by Björk, Nellee Hooper and Marius De Vries, and the lyrics were made by Sjón - his very first songlyric in fact. Nellee Hooper and Björk produced it together, and released it in 1995 on Björk's second album "Post". To direct this video, Michel Gondry was once again called in for his unique visual style.
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your flirt it finds me out teases the crack in me smittens me with hope
possibly maybe possibly love
as much as I definitely enjoy solitude I wouldn't mind perhaps spending little time with you sometimes, sometimes
possibly maybe probably love
uncertainty excites me - baby! who knows what's going to happen? lottery or car crash - or you'll join a cult
possibly maybe possibly love
mon petit vulcan you're eruptions and disasters - I keep calm admiring the lava - I keep calm (caress)
possibly maybe possibly love
electric shocks? I love them! with you - dozen a day but after a while I wonder where's that love you promised me? where is it?
possibly maybe probably love
how can you offer me love like that? my heart's burnt how can you offer me love like that? I'm exhausted - leave me alone!
possibly maybe probably love
since we broke up - I'm using lipstick again I'll suck my tongue - in remembrance of you...
SONG INFO
Possibly Maybe is written by Björk, Nellee Hooper & Marius De Vries. It was produced by Björk and her longtime collaborator Nellee Hooper and released in 1995 on her second album, Post. When it was time to make a video for the single, she contacted 'Big Time Sensuality'-director Stéphane Sednaoui, who once again created stunning visuals, this time of Björk bathing in milk and eating both watermelon and neonglowing dust!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Song 14: PLAY DEAD
darling stop confusing me with your wishful thinking hopeful embraces don't you understand?
i have to go through this i belong to here where no-one cares and no-one loves
no light no air to live in a place called hate the city of fear
i play dead it stops the hurting i play dead and the hurt stops
it's sometimes just like sleeping curling up inside my private tortures i nestle into pain hug suffering caress every ache
i play dead it stops the hurting
SONG INFO
I watched the film and wrote 'Play Dead' based on the main character. It was actually fun because the character in the film was suffering and going through hardcore tough times and at the time I was at my happiest. It was quite liberating to sit down after writing a whole album to write from someone else's point of view"
Written by Björk, David Arnold & Jah Wobble. Produced by David Arnold & Danny Cannon. Additional production & remix by Tim Simenon. The video was directed by Danny Cannon.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Song 15: IT'S IN OUR HANDS
look no further!
cruelest almost always to ourselves it musn't get any better off
it's in our hands : it always was it's in our hands : in our hands it's all there : in our hands it's all there : in our hands
well now aren't we scaring ourselves unecessarily? aren't we trying too hard?
'cause it's in our hands it's in our hands it's all here : it's in our hands look no further look no further
it's in our hands : it always was it's in our hands
SONG INFO
"It was nice to do a full-blooded song after doing a whole album that didn't have any blood in it, though that was the point with Vespertine, that it was see-through like a crystal. When we played it live, we were all looking forward to rocking out. "
'It's In Our Hands' is written by Björk. Produced by Björk and Drew Daniel of the group Matmos. The music video for this song was directed by Spike Jonze (who previously shot the 'Parapluies de Cherbourg'-inspired video for Björk's single "It's Oh So Quiet" back in 1996) and shot on location in England, featuring Björk in nightvision, crawling around in nature between - and becoming one with - all those brilliant insects and plants.
This album was my very first introduction to Bjork, at the recommendation of my friends. As a stark newcomer to this artist, I had no expectations at all. I do quite like this album, with its ethereal and odd tunes. The lyrics are rather far-out and spacey at times, but this merely provides interest. Bjork has a voice rather like that of Jewel, but used in a totally different way, in a style reminscent of Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos, and the Smashing Pumpkins. The singing often takes no heed of what is happening in the background, which takes some getting used to. I liked this CD, despite its strangeness. A good introduction to a new artist. Note: the album comes with a booklet of little drawings of scary-strange monster-doodles that are a lot like something from the Yellow Submarine. If you are easily freaked out, I don't advise looking at the CD's booklet.
I just ordered this cd in 2015. I've not listened to much of Bjork ever, but this cd does have some incredible songs that fully display her incredible vocal ability, but its only a very few songs that she really stretches herself to demonstrate her voice. Human Behavior is definitely exceptional. The music is good, not great, but her vocals push the song to the song to incredible heights. Her video for human behavior is one of the top 100 of all time. She is worthy of the price paid for this cd.
Bjork's cd of greatest hits include fifteen songs of original beats and can be classified in a music genre by itself. This is because of the hints of electronic, synth-pop, and chillout. The following are some of the unique tracks in this set: "Human Behavior" "Army Of Me" "Pagan Poetry" "Big Time Sensuality" "Hidden Place" The "Bjork Greatest Hits" cd is best for those who enjoy music that is carefully disguised with abstract meanings.
I was just looking for something new (to me, at least) to listen to and explore and then a car drove by. On the window was a Bjork sticker. I am 54+ years old but open to anything!!! Great music and awesome lyrics. I heartily recommend this to anyone!
I lost most of my albums throughout the years so this helps build up my collection again, The music produced by Bjork is amazing if your into different styles of music. I give everything a chance and glad i gave this one sooner than later.
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