Bjrk - Homogenic - Hunter |
Bjrk |
2005.03.31. 16:36 |
"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."
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Bjrk - Post - Headphones |
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2005.03.31. 15:41 |
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Bjrk - Post - Cover me |
Bjrk |
2005.03.30. 17:56 |
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Bjrk - Post - I miss you |
Bjrk |
2005.03.30. 17:52 |
"It's not about anyone in particular because it's about someone I haven't met. It's like a word game: 'I miss you but I haven't met you yet'. It's about looking forward to something that hasn't happeed."
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Bjrk - Post - Possibly Maybe |
Bjrk, Neele Hooper & Marius De Vries |
2005.03.30. 17:45 |
"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."
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Bjrk - Post - Isobel |
Bjrk, Neele Hooper & Marius De Vries |
2005.03.30. 17:36 |
"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."
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Bjrk - Post - You've been flirting again |
Bjrk |
2005.03.30. 17:31 |
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Bjrk - Post - Enjoy |
Bjrk |
2005.03.30. 17:11 |
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Bjrk - Post - It's oh so quiet |
Hans Lang & Bert Reisfeld |
2005.03.30. 16:28 |
"It was sort of a joke really. It was a song Guy Sigsworth used to play on the bus when we were touring. Ever since, I almost regret doing it bacuse I wanted to put so much importance on making new music. So many people are doing old music and you've even got new bands doing old music. If I put something out in this world, it would be the courage to go ahead and invent things, so it's ironic 'It's Oh So Quiet' became my biggets song. The best bit was the video." / "Isn't that the best song you've heard for five years? In a way it was against my principles to do an old cover version because I'm so anti-retro. But it has this story, this narrative: there's a beginning and something happens in the middle and the ending is different. So many pop songs, especially with English lyrics, are just 900 different ways of saying 'she left me!' Which i actually love because it's pop, just one idea, very simple, but it doesn't mean it's cheap. I can relate to it, but I belong to the storytelling group."
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Bjrk - Post - The modern things |
Bjrk |
2005.03.30. 16:21 |
"It's about how the modern things like cars and such, or computers and all that, have always existed. They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment, and have been listening to the irritating noises - dinosaurs and people outside - and now it's their turn to come out and multiply. I thought it was really funny. I don't know - I might be the only one laughing."
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Bjrk - Post - Hyperballad |
Bjrk, Neele Hooper & Marius De Vries |
2005.03.29. 17:23 |
"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?'."
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Bjrk - Post - Army of me |
Bjrk&Graham Massey |
2005.03.29. 17:13 |
"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 fucking 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."
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Bjrk - Debut - Play Dead |
Bjrk |
2005.01.20. 17:21 |
"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"
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Bjrk - Debut - The anchor song |
Bjrk |
2005.01.20. 17:16 |
'ANCHOR SONG' was written in summer 1990, when Bjork left her boy Sindri with a child-minder for a while and set out across Iceland on a "freedom thing". She rode her bicycle around the island with the express purpose of visiting all the hundreds of churches she'd heard about.
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Bjrk - Debut - Violently happy |
Bjrk |
2005.01.20. 17:12 |
"Violently Happy is about when you're a junkie on exchanging emotion, not at one but at the level 200. That thing. And then the person goes away and you really miss someone. When you're with that person you're really peaceful because you get what you need back and you both give everything you need to give. And that person goes away and all that exchange is not there so you get your kicks elsewhere, you end up running on rooftops in blizzards, drinking 97 tequilas just to feel. You know what I mean. So it starts off really happy then the longer the person's away from you, it starts getting self-destructive."
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Bjrk - Debut - Come to me |
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2005.01.20. 17:10 |
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Bjrk - Debut - Aeroplane |
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2005.01.20. 17:07 |
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Bjrk - Debut - One day |
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2005.01.20. 16:58 |
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Bjrk - Debut - Big time sensuality |
Bjrk & Neele Hooper |
2005.01.20. 16:51 |
"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."
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Bjrk - Debut - Like someone in love |
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2005.01.18. 19:33 |
Cover of an old jazz standard. Words & Music by Johnny Burke & Jimmy Van Heusen.Previously recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Bing Corsby and Chet Baker.
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