Salon :: :: People :: Bc :: Björk, By Chris Colin :: Page 1 Björk Violence may follow her, but so does everything else. Iceland s greatest export is taking us to the verge. By Chris Colin - - - - http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/05/01/bjork/
Extractions: new, Before her recent and biggest fame she verged on making the Oscars different, verged on making Lars von Trier's film "Dancer in the Dark" She lived a long, quiet life there until she was 11, at which point she decided things were too slow and she'd become a great singer. So she did. With five years of music school under her belt, she entered a contest in 1977 and won a record contract. Her stepfather played guitar on the album, and it was soon a hit. Listen to her translation of "Fool on the Hill" it's the cutest Icelandic cover of a Beatles tune you'll hear. She was precocious and lovable, and the record company positioned her to be a child star, Iceland's own Jackson 5 squeezed into a Gudmundsdottir 1. Instead, the 11-year-old, who comes from a working-class family, said no thank you. She slipped back out of the spotlight and stayed away for years. It was a hobby, she says of the internationally successful edgy guitar band. They offered a refrain heard from a lot of good young bands: We can't believe we're making it. Apparently by accident, the Sugarcubes informed the world that Iceland, in fact, existed, and that it could produce a hit pop record. It could even do so while one of the singers tended to her young son. There were MTV videos and extensive tours.
Extractions: B Selmasongs illustrates this ability to an extreme. "Sometimes the worse things get, the need to be happy is so big that the songs become happier," she was quoted in the New York Times . "The times when I wasn't so happy, I would have the fiercest highs. And then when I am overall satisfied, the peaks are not so sharp." It's like the beauty of a Greek or Shakespearian tragedy. To feel extreme joy, extreme pain is needed; it's the idea of yin-yang in the form of music. Selmasongs is the companion album to the film Dancer in the Dark directed by Danish born Lars von Trier, who is best known for his film, Breaking the Waves Dancer , won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival this year, despite the boos from the audience. Now the hype for the film and music has skyrocketed, with several articles in the New York Times and a full-length review in the New Yorker . New Yorkers are the lucky ones who got to watch Dancer in the Dark the opening night of the New York Film Festival last Friday.
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Extractions: After listening to Bjorks new CD the best word to describe it is boring. The songs, for the most part, sound very similar to each other and it is difficult to differentiate one track from the next. Missing from the CD are the caliber of singles such as Big Time Sensuality, Army of Me, and Enjoy to name but a few. Sadly enough, there are no songs on Vespertine that would make one want to get up and move the way those earlier singles did. However, despite the initial disappointment the album may engender for long term Bjork fans, there are a few good tracks that are worth hearing. An Echo, A Stain and the opening track Hidden Place, are the better songs on the CD. As well, Track 10 starts off with a good intro beat and finishes off just as strong. It is questionable, though, whether or not these tracks would be considered the strongest ones on an earlier Bjork album. If it is any consolation, Bjorks voice is still as unique and sweet sounding as ever, although she doesnt seem to be utilizing the full range of her vocal capabilities on this album.
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Extractions: var zflag_nid="369"; var zflag_cid="3/1"; var zflag_sid="1"; var zflag_width="120"; var zflag_height="600"; var zflag_sz="8"; The soundtrack to Lars Von Trier's "Dancer In The Dark" consists of seven tracks from Bjork, who also starred in the film. Includes "I've Seen It All," a duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke.
Atlyrics.com - Bjork Lyrics & Posters Army Of Me 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 And http://www.atlyrics.com/b/bjork/page29.html
Extractions: Army Of Me 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 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 And if you complain once more You'll meet an army of me 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 And if you complain once more You'll meet an army of me And if you complain once more You'll meet an army of me And if you complain once more You'll meet an army of me Army of me
Bjork - Vespertine bjork Vespertine, reviewed by musicOMH.com. http://www.musicOMH.com/albums/bjork.htm
Extractions: 12. Unison If anyone was in any doubt at all about Bjork's success as one of the planet's most popular and inventive stars then let me remind them of a few facts. Not content with a career in The Sugarcubes , Bjork went solo in 1993 and released to an unsuspecting public three fabulously weird albums - Debut, Post and Homogenic. Then she teamed up with director Lars von Trier to star in his film Dancer In The Dark , walking off with the Cannes award for best actress while she was at it. Her soundtrack album for the film, Selmasongs, featured Thom Yorke - and it wasn't the first time by any means she'd appeared on a soundtrack recording, having recorded Amphibian for the Being John Malkovich record.
Björk - On Your Own Little Screen Björk On Your Own Little Screen. Woman in landscape This page has moved to http//www.dancerinthedark.de. Please update your bookmarks and links. ENTER . http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~cdel0099/bjork/
Bjork - Debut - SynthTopia bjork Debut. bjork sings fearlessly, turning her relatively weak voice into one of the strongest voices in electronic pop music. http://www.synthtopia.com/music_review/Bjork-Debut.html
Björk - Vespertine Review of bjork's Vespertine album courtesy of Leonard's Lair. http://www.leonardslair.co.uk/vespertine.htm
Vespertine By Bjork (2001) Reviews for bjork's Vespertine by an array of music critics and publications. http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/bjork/vespertine
Extractions: var zflag_nid="369"; var zflag_cid="3/1"; var zflag_sid="1"; var zflag_width="120"; var zflag_height="600"; var zflag_sz="8"; Bjork's follow-up to 1997's 'Homogenic' and last year's soundtrack to Dancer In The Dark is closer in sound and mood to the latter, taking a quieter, more ambient approach. Produced by San Francisco-based electronic artists Matmos, 'Vespertine' utilizes mainly electronic instrumentation, much of which was recorded by Bjork in Iceland. The lead single is "Hidden Place."
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