The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Mine's Medulla, I think it's her most exciting by light years. I'm listening to "Where is the Line?" and it's just like "WHAT OH MY GOD!" Plus Mike Patton mmmm. I also love Selmasongs even though I can't finish watching Dancer in the Dark.

Mine's Homogenic. Medula was very cool, but only a few songs stuck with me. Plus it's not a vote option.

Dancer in the Dark makes a better soundtrack than movie. I'd much rather listen to her singing with Thom Yorke than her singing with that tone-deaf actor.

I didn't post either of my picks as vote options!? What the hell am I doing!?

What the hell are you doing?!
You forgot that timeless classic Drawing Restraint 9 as well

Having to pick a favourite album means having to neglect at least 2 of my favourite songs per album (including Telegram, to which I owe one of my SF victories)

So for the sake of argument I'm gonna say Homogenic (although the thread wouldn't let me poll my vote) but I'm afraid this particular situation requires a list.

the list goes thusly:
1. All is full of love (single version)
2. Hyperballad
3. Human Behaviour
4. Joga (I am aware this is the exact running order of the Greatest Hits so far, that is intentional)
5. The Modern Things
6. Alarm Call (Homogenic version)
7. Undo
8. Mouth's Cradle
9. Cvalda
10. It's in our hands
11. New World
12. Unison
13. Visu Vatnsenda-Rosu

It's taken me a great deal of restraint to stop there. I may come back and edit this list, as if you care.

Of course. And "Mouth's Cradle" drives me more than wild, by the way. As well as every song she's ever done.

here today, tomorrow, next week

haha, of course, which leads us neatly to the reunion of the year.

I never liked her until after the Sugarcubes. The only song of theirs I could get into was "Birthday."

RxW and I tried to like them for a while, because the media said we were supposed to. But he had their tape, and we just... well, we just didn't care for it.

But "Human Behavior" came out, and we like RAWR YES. TEDDY BEARS.

I liked teddy bears too until that human behavior vid. Now I have to go to counseling two days a week, but I'm getting better. I can actually go in the same room with a teddy bear now without pooping myself.

by the way, my favorite Bjork song is the one where she's not singing, but she attacks the news reporter in the airport......oh, and the one when she screams. I think she's kind of cute, but does anyone else think she looks like a little rat girl kind of? Cute.

14. All of the above.

Her marriage to Matthew Barney just makes sense.
Her marriage to Space Ghost broke my heart.

Her marriage to an abusive cat makes sense, too. Anyone seen that video? I figure what the song's called.

I've just started getting into Bjork.

How do you guys know so much about Bjork? I'm concerned.

Furrypedro wrote:haha, of course, which leads us neatly to the reunion of the year.

"It's the future!" A Short Play By Johnny Cashpoint

Enter excited child, JIMMY, clutching a CD.

JIMMY: Hi my name is Jimmy and I have just purchased "The new Sugarcubes Reunion Official Live" CD! Hoorah!

He pops it in the CD player.

CD PLAYER: Sqquwarrkkkkkkk, hooonk, sqqwaaarkkkk, hooooonk. Toot! Toot!

THE GHOST OF ROD STERLING appears.

TGORS: Now, Jimmy, I hope you have learnt your lesson. Bjork is a nutbag and only 50s pastiche 'It's Oh So Quiet' is worth your pocket money.

Jimmy breaks down crying.

The End.

j$ wrote:"It's the future!" A Short Play By Johnny Cashpoint

Now rewrite that in exactly six words. And don't forget the part about the flying car.

how to respond? hmmm.....

1) wow, I'd never looked at it like that before, thank heavens somebody was there to tell me how bad she was. Now I'll go and listen to R.E.M., but not a whole album, just Everybody Hurts. That is the one that got played to death on the radio isn't it?

2) I actually wasn't aware that, upon becoming a fan after 11 years, Bjork was in fact an acquired taste and that (whisper it) some people don't share my enthusiasm.

3) Using sarcasm.

j$, I won't even begin to pick apart what's wrong with your short play dramatically or comedically, I will rather take the low road: you are the twattiest twat that ever twatted.

(ok, a few nitpicky things about the arc of your short piece. Why Rod Sterling? His lessons were far more cryptic than that, as well as far more-developed. Also: why use the convention of the Twilight Zone if there is no darkly ironic twist? Your parody seems out of context here. Also, who is Jimmy? We don't really get a sense of that. Even though it is a short scene we need to have a beginning a middle and an end. I feel like we have the last two, but I'm seriously missing some key character points from Jimmy. Other than that, it shows potential. Maybe you should call up Mad TV over here in the States, I think they're still looking for good Bjork-bashing material. They're also idiots.)

bzl wrote:Now rewrite that in exactly six words.

Let's hunt the elusive beast, humour!

bzl wrote:And don't forget the part about the flying car.

Damn - forgot about the flying car!

Furrypedro wrote:how to respond? hmmm.....

Interesting that the offence you take when someone disagrees with your opinion does not stretch to Einar! Poor, poor einar...

ps although I would point out that just because I was using your link as a launchpad doesn't mean I was discrediting your opinion, just crediting my source.

henley wrote:Why Rod Sterling? ... why use the convention of the Twilight Zone if there is no darkly ironic twist?

Well, exactly. ps I was thinkin' night gallery, but never mind.

Aw dammit!

j$ wrote:

Furrypedro wrote:how to respond? hmmm.....

Interesting that the offence you take when someone disagrees with your opinion does not stretch to Einar! Poor, poor einar...

ps although I would point out that just because I was using your link as a launchpad doesn't mean I was discrediting your opinion, just crediting my source.

No offence taken, just ......I know somebody here isn't going to like Bjork, it goes without saying, and fair enough but now this thread is degenerating into another boring discussion about something other than it was intended. This is the reason I don't go anywhere near the Yacht Rock thread.

Poor Einar indeed; Quirkiness is something he and Bjork share, talent isn't. Damn, even Rone could be popular if he was surrounded by genuine ability and vision.

I suspect this is a classic example of the whininess JB has been lamenting recently and so.....

I fucking LOVE Bjork('s music)!!! and I probably wouldn't have written 3/4 of the stuff I have if I hadn't discovered her, and if I had it would've sounded like Shed 7. Now THAT is something worth thanking her for if nothing else. All the bullshit about reporters and silly haircuts and....whogivesacrap this music is amazing, I feel priviledged to be alive when she is and I can't believe I got into her in June 2003, man is that fucking cruel or what.

For the record, I don't dislike Bjork, I just don't have the Bjork knowledge that you guys do.

I'm a certified Bjork-ologist.

All this time, I thought you guys were talking about 'Bork', and I was thinking "yeah, I liked the Swedish Chef, but why make a whole thread about it?"