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Reply #30 posted 07/18/04 1:21pm

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gooeythehamster said:

Tell me WHY Homogenic. Any specific reasons?


The music, mostly. I loved it the first time I ever heard it and then fell in love with it even more after listening to it on exstacy during my shameful "Drug Phase". boxed
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Reply #31 posted 07/18/04 1:24pm

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gooeythehamster said:

It WAS a fun thread before...
Let's keep it that way.

Tell me WHY Homogenic. Any specific reasons?


NOT that Homogenic is my favorite, but "Unravel".....WOW! And "5 Years"....so true.
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Reply #32 posted 07/18/04 2:28pm

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I must admit that the run of 5 Years and Immature back to back spoke to me in more ways than one.

I connected BIG time, just coming out of a relationship at the time. It's EXACTLY as one does, coming out of a reltionship; first you blame the other, than you hit yourself over the head for being stupid.
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Reply #33 posted 07/18/04 2:55pm

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Ok..could "Violently Happy" be her best SONG?!! F*ck Me!!

dancing jig dancing jig dancing jig
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Reply #34 posted 07/18/04 3:47pm

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Chico1 said:

Ok..could "Violently Happy" be her best SONG?!! F*ck Me!!

dancing jig dancing jig dancing jig

Since I
met you
this small town
hasn't got room
for my big feelings

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - but you're not here
Violently happy - come calm me down before I get into trouble

I tip-toe down to the shore
stand by the ocean
make it roar at me
and I roar back

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - but you're not here
Violently happy - overemotional
Violently happy - I'll get into trouble real soon if you don't get here BABY

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - I'm aiming too high
Violently happy - it will get me into trouble
Violently happy - I'm driving my car too fast with ecstatic music on

Violently happy - I'm getting too drunk
Violently happy - I'm daring people to jump off roofs with me
only you can calm me down
I'm aiming too high
soothe me

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Reply #35 posted 07/18/04 3:48pm

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Although Vespertine is a close second, my personal favorite is Homogenic. It is ust so damn unique sounding and the lyrics push about every emotional button on my body. I'm sure it helps that I saw her on this tour in a field in Belgium as well. I just tie a lot to Homogenic and it sits as my favorite.
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Reply #36 posted 07/18/04 4:11pm

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endorphin74 said:

Although Vespertine is a close second, my personal favorite is Homogenic. It is ust so damn unique sounding and the lyrics push about every emotional button on my body. I'm sure it helps that I saw her on this tour in a field in Belgium as well. I just tie a lot to Homogenic and it sits as my favorite.



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Reply #37 posted 07/18/04 4:12pm

Chico1

VinaBlue said:

Chico1 said:

Ok..could "Violently Happy" be her best SONG?!! F*ck Me!!

dancing jig dancing jig dancing jig

Since I
met you
this small town
hasn't got room
for my big feelings

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - but you're not here
Violently happy - come calm me down before I get into trouble

I tip-toe down to the shore
stand by the ocean
make it roar at me
and I roar back

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - but you're not here
Violently happy - overemotional
Violently happy - I'll get into trouble real soon if you don't get here BABY

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - I'm aiming too high
Violently happy - it will get me into trouble
Violently happy - I'm driving my car too fast with ecstatic music on

Violently happy - I'm getting too drunk
Violently happy - I'm daring people to jump off roofs with me
only you can calm me down
I'm aiming too high
soothe me

nod






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Reply #38 posted 07/18/04 5:05pm

endorphin74

Chico1 said:

endorphin74 said:

Although Vespertine is a close second, my personal favorite is Homogenic. It is ust so damn unique sounding and the lyrics push about every emotional button on my body. I'm sure it helps that I saw her on this tour in a field in Belgium as well. I just tie a lot to Homogenic and it sits as my favorite.



mad B*tch! hmph!


giggle

I know, my BF hates me for this as he wasn't able to be on this trip and missed the show

giggle
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Reply #39 posted 07/18/04 6:16pm

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Björk means sound to me. Nature's voice. Her every album a progression from what she left behind.

The SugarCubes had her bawling, then Debut was a firm shout out of independency.
Post was her being troubled. And found her searching.
On Homogenic she found that inner voice, which meant that her beats became more gentle.

The sounds on Selmasongs are gentle, but very impressive; they impress fear and stength. I have the movie version of 107 Steps and I can never listen to it. Music so good it leaves an impression on the soul so deep it is imprinted in it.

Then Vespertine. What can I say? This woman's music becomes more divine the less instrumentation she uses.

A good friend of mine is sceptic about coming album Medulla, but I am not. My favourite album of Björk is always the latest....



I heard Triumph Of The Heart, a track not on the list to be released, but she speaks of this track while relating to Mark Bell in the Q&A section; "mark bell came later into it he´s funny . i e-mailed him "where is the line " and like a year later he e-mailed me a little idea for it . then when i was mixing in london , i hadn´t been in england for ages then , he would turn up at the studio a lot and ended up rescuing "triumph of the heart" for me . that was the last song and had been the hardest one to get right."

Wow, your impressions are WAY different than mine. I guess that's what makes her so great. She means such different things to different people.
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Reply #40 posted 07/19/04 12:43am

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GangstaFam said:

gooeythehamster said:

Björk means sound to me. Nature's voice. Her every album a progression from what she left behind.

The SugarCubes had her bawling, then Debut was a firm shout out of independency.
Post was her being troubled. And found her searching.
On Homogenic she found that inner voice, which meant that her beats became more gentle.

The sounds on Selmasongs are gentle, but very impressive; they impress fear and stength. I have the movie version of 107 Steps and I can never listen to it. Music so good it leaves an impression on the soul so deep it is imprinted in it.

Then Vespertine. What can I say? This woman's music becomes more divine the less instrumentation she uses.

A good friend of mine is sceptic about coming album Medulla, but I am not. My favourite album of Björk is always the latest....



I heard Triumph Of The Heart, a track not on the list to be released, but she speaks of this track while relating to Mark Bell in the Q&A section; "mark bell came later into it he´s funny . i e-mailed him "where is the line " and like a year later he e-mailed me a little idea for it . then when i was mixing in london , i hadn´t been in england for ages then , he would turn up at the studio a lot and ended up rescuing "triumph of the heart" for me . that was the last song and had been the hardest one to get right."

Wow, your impressions are WAY different than mine. I guess that's what makes her so great. She means such different things to different people.


Just you wait, we are going to agree in the end.
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Reply #41 posted 07/19/04 1:12am

Chico1

endorphin74 said:

Chico1 said:




mad B*tch! hmph!


giggle

I know, my BF hates me for this as he wasn't able to be on this trip and missed the show

giggle



And u find that funny? Have you no shame?!?! disbelief Nevermind..don't answer that. confused



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Reply #42 posted 07/19/04 7:59am

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POOK THINK ABOUT THIS LOT OF TIME

NEVER HAVE FAVORITE!

NEVER THINK POOK LOVE VESPERTINE

BUT LISTEN AGAIN LAST WEEK AND HAVE WHOLE ALBUM MEMORIZE!

PROBABLY HOMOGENIC

BECAUSE EVERY TIME POOK REVISIT ALBUM

POOK FIND NEW FAVORITE SONG

BUT POOK LOVE B SIDE AND REMIX TOO

POOK HAVE ABOUT FIFTEEN BJORKY SINGLE

P o o |/,
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Reply #43 posted 07/19/04 11:39am

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gosh, that's a tough one. i can't let those albums compete against each other. they're all so interconnected to me. bjork is someone who i'm a HUGE fan of, and i wasn't even aware i was such a huge fan until a friend pointed out all the bjork stuff i have lying around my apartment. i never really thought of all that stuff being the fruits of "fandom" the way i think about being a prince freak. i just think of her music and videos as being art and ideas and colors and images, and they just happen to stem from her. so, i dunno....each of her albums lives in its own little vacuum where i'm concerned, untouched by what came before it or what comes after...but at the same time, they're pieces of a bigger puzzle. i love vespertine SOOO much, but i love post too, for entirely different reasons. really, i love them all pretty much equally. nope, can't make a choice on this one.


Agreed. I love 'em all. I still need to check out Gling Glo.

Supa Said:

Pluto!!!!!When I hear that song I just imagine that is the soundtrack to angels of God coming to kick evils ass.

NICE. thumbs up!
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Reply #44 posted 07/19/04 1:21pm

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gooeythehamster said:

Just you wait, we are going to agree in the end.

Don't bet on it. wink
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Reply #45 posted 07/19/04 1:56pm

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Homogenic
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Reply #46 posted 07/19/04 5:45pm

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gooeythehamster said:


On Homogenic she found that inner voice, which meant that her beats became more gentle.




Homogenic? gentle? confuse there are some gentle moments, but this one has the most visceral crash-boom-bang beats of them all. overall, it's like the sound of an erupting volcano colliding with a hurricane.
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Reply #47 posted 07/19/04 7:45pm

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GrayKing said:

gooeythehamster said:


On Homogenic she found that inner voice, which meant that her beats became more gentle.




Homogenic? gentle? confuse there are some gentle moments, but this one has the most visceral crash-boom-bang beats of them all. overall, it's like the sound of an erupting volcano colliding with a hurricane.


Of all her cd's I think Homogenic is the one with the most textures in it. Post was the cd she did where she got to work with many of the producers that she had wanted to. Debut I think was just a fun, get it out of your system cd. Yes, Homogenic has the crashing sounds, but it's combined with softer layers underneath.
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Reply #48 posted 07/19/04 9:10pm

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I have to say I am way behind. I don't have anything past Homogenic. I got lost somehow and started collecting Sugarcubes stuff. I love Debut, simply because it was her solo debut and I'm a bit nostalgic when I hear "Human Behavior" "Big Time Sensuality" and "Venus As A Boy"

Post is perfect from beginning to end

Homogenic is just lovely

I really can't decide
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Reply #49 posted 07/19/04 10:47pm

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My favorite of all of Bjork's albums is Debut. As amazingly consistent as her projects are, there is something special about this one.
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Reply #50 posted 07/19/04 10:53pm

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GrayKing said:

gooeythehamster said:


On Homogenic she found that inner voice, which meant that her beats became more gentle.




Homogenic? gentle? confuse there are some gentle moments, but this one has the most visceral crash-boom-bang beats of them all. overall, it's like the sound of an erupting volcano colliding with a hurricane.



id agree....i have to be in the right moment to enjoy some of those "clashing" moments....

surpisingly i enjoyed her versions of these tunes much more via her live interpetations.....

but the album is indeed just as beautiful as her others.....today i vote for vaspertine.....for the honest inner beauty that was displayed..
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Reply #51 posted 07/20/04 10:32am

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redface never have heard her music..
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Reply #52 posted 07/20/04 11:30am

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GrayKing said:


Homogenic? gentle? confuse there are some gentle moments, but this one has the most visceral crash-boom-bang beats of them all. overall, it's like the sound of an erupting volcano colliding with a hurricane.


I love the beats and strings combo on Homogenic. I guess the beats would be the volcano and the strings the hurricane.
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Reply #53 posted 07/20/04 4:58pm

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sag10 said:

redface never have heard her music..



sag, my dear, you're really missing out. i wasn't into her until earlier this year, and she's just fantastic!
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Reply #54 posted 07/20/04 5:50pm

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Anxiety said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Pluto!!!!! When I hear that song I just imagine that is the soundtrack to angels of God coming to kick evils ass.


wow eek

never thought of it that way, that's kind of amazing. i always picture a meteor burning through the earth's atmosphere where i hear that song.


OK, I just have to say that Homogenic is her fiercest album cover. You are either going to be totally anihalated or completely saved.

At the time I bought Homogenic my roommate would always ask me to turn it off when Pluto came on. She said it scared her. I had the opposite reaction. It absolutely thrilled me. I could see how she thought it sounded evil but Bjork wasn't singing about anything evil and one day I got to thinking how someone would connect the force of that music with evilness while connecting harps to angelic music and I thought, why would only evil be allowed to lay claim to a musical tour de force? That gave me the image of angels marching towards Armageddon destroying any and all evil forces in their path.

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!! woot!
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Reply #55 posted 07/20/04 8:07pm

Chico1
Maybe I over looked something; but is this the new album cover or just from the photo shoot? Or neither?

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Reply #56 posted 07/20/04 9:04pm

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Chico1 said:

Maybe I over looked something; but is this the new album cover or just from the photo shoot? Or neither?




I think it's the album cover. It's from her website. http://www.bjork.com If you link it from there it will turn into a nun picture.
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