POLL Neon Like -- ILM artist poll #88 -- BJÖRK (voting open until April 27, 2018)

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Warmthness! Glow in the dark threads!

MAIN POLL

Send me your ballot of up to 30 top tracks and no fewer than 10. I don't know if that's more or less than usual, but in my experience, people who are into Björk tend to be really into Björk.

APPETIZER POLLS

Albums: Rank up to 5 of your top Björk albums/comps/EPs.
Remixes: Rank up to 5 of your top remixes. (By the way, tracks in the main poll will just be counted as tracks, so if for instance you choose the Phunk You remix of "Alarm Call" on your main ballot, it'll just be counted toward "Alarm Call.")
Music Videos: Rank up to 5 of your top videos.
Sugarcubes: Rank up to 5 of your favorite Sugarcubes tracks.
(NOTE: Indicate if ballots are ranked or unranked; even the sidebar polls.)

Send ballots to ephender at-sign gmail dot com. Order ballots from highest (#1) to lowest, and include your username

Voting closes at midnight April 27, 2018, or within a few hours or days thereafter.

the movie you wanted to see about us? Jia shooting a series of long takes of our listening to Homogenic in a dark room.

I've already shot half that movie.

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Why don't Sugarcubes tracks count among the regular Bjork tracks? Not challenging your rules, just wondering.

Also, Bjork stole my shirt.

Dang, just one Sugarcubes track? I am very excited for this poll tho

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Agreed.

What I already have listed in my tallying spreadsheet. A list of "nominations," if you will:

107 Steps
5 Years
Aeroplane
Alarm Call
All is Full of Love
All Neon Like
Ambergris March
Amphibian
An Echo, A Stain
Ancestors
Antarctic Return
Arisen My Senses
Army of Me
Atlantic
Atom Dance
Aurora
Bachelorette
Batabid
Bath
Big Time Sensuality
Black Lake
Blissing Me
Body Memory
Cetacea
Charlene
Claimstaker
Cocoon
Come To Me
Cosmogony
Courtship
Cover Me
Crying
Crystalline
Cvalda
Dark Matter
Declare Independence
Desired Constellation
Domestica
Earth Intruders
Enjoy
Family
Features Creatures
Foot Soldier
Frosti
Future Forever
Generous Palmstroke
Glóra
Gratitude
Harm of Will
Headphones
Heirloom
Hidden Place
History of Touches
Hollow
Holographic Entrypoint
Hope
Human Behavior
Hunter
Hunter Vessel
Hyper-ballad
I Go Humble
I Miss You
I Remember You
I See Who You Are
Immature
In the Musicals
Innocence
Isobel
It's in Our Hands
It's Not Up To You
It's Oh So Quiet
I've Seen It All
Jóga
Karvel
Komið
Like Someone in Love
Lilith
Lionsong
Losss
Miðvikudags
Moon
Mother Heroic
Mouth Mantra
Mouth's Cradle
Mutual Core
My Juvenile
My Snare/Nature is Ancient
My Spine
Náttúra
New World
North
Notget
Nu Flyver Anton
Oceania
Öll Birtan
One Day
Ooops
Overture
Pagan Poetry
Paradisia
Pearl
Petrolatum
Play Dead
Pleasure is All Mine
Pluto
Pneumonia
Possibly Maybe
Quicksand
Sacrifice
Saint
Scary
Scatterheart
Shimenawa
Show Me Forgiveness
Síðasta Ég
So Broken
Sod Off
Solstice
Sonnets/Unrealities XI
Stígðu Mig
Stonemilker
Storm
Submarine
Sue Me
Sun in My Mouth
Sweet Intuition
Sweet Sweet Intuition
Tabula Rasa
Takk
Tetralógia
The Anchor Song
The Boho Dance
The Comet Song
The Dull Flame of Desire
The Gate
The Modern Things
There's More to Life Than This
Thunderbolt
Triumph of the Heart
Undo
Unison
Unravel
Utopia
Venus as a Boy
Verandi
Vertebræ by Vertebræ
Vessel Shimenawa
Violently Happy
Virus
Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu
Vökuró
Wanderlust
Where is the Line
Who Is It
You've Been Flirting Again

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG

― Tim F, Monday, April 9, 2018 2:13 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great thread

a state of ePOLLgency

pollta

pollst

BIG POLL SENSUALITY

POLL is full of love

(Pole is full of love?)

Hyperballot

thank you for doing this poll, I am going to listen to her in depth for the first time. I've listened before & love Vespertine & (to a lesser degree) Homogenic but I think it's time to go hard, to go deep, to enjoy cock as it were.

A+ xp

^

also fuckin same xp to euler

venus as a poll

It's POLL So Quiet

Oh! One I actually want to get involved in.

i got so obsessed with bjork in high school and college that i never listen to her anymore so i think i'm going to participate in this poll if only for the prospect of me getting excited about her again

Can we include telegram and remixes? The plaid remix of all is full of love is dope

Sorry just read initial post -overly tired

Yesss Brad please be on board!

I expect participation from every single gaylxor.

(That was not directed in response to anyone in particular, for the record.)

Can we vote for tracks from this?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/Bjork%2C1977%2CFront.jpg

Surely, and Gling-glo too.

And maybe whatever's on Family Tree.

So remixes no, but guest lead vocals on other artists' tracks yes?

Sure.

I also burned out on Bjork and haven't cared since 2004, although I've given the last two albums a dutiful listen.

I fear that my own ballot will be almost exclusively pulled from two albums from the 90s, though my #1 might actually be something far more current.

excited to dive back into her catalogue and to give proper attention to stuff that's eluded me (mostly Medulla, the one that was an app, and the Debut, somehow)

Play dead is essential from the debut. Not sure why it’s left off some editions

It will def be a struggle for me not to include every last track from one specific '90s album, but I think I'll manage.

super excited for this, her first four albums are all classic.

Play Dead was a bonus track on reissues of Debut, it was originally recorded for The Young Americans soundtrack. it is completely essential though yeah

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

so versions on the live albums also count as the regular track?

The vespertine live DVD is incredible

Which live version of which song?

girl i don't know yet there are so many!!!

xp this guy I met in Philly several years ago and stayed in touch with just mailed me some stuff he was getting rid of and when I opened it this morning it wound up being 5 BJORK DVDS, one of which is Vespertine live!

Wait

Only three albums?

So it's like Homogenic by a country mile, Post somewhere behind that, and then the only suspense is whether Vespertine or Debut makes #3, and zero votes for everything else?

Not speaking ill of the rest of her catalogue

But I think consensus on Björk's "finest albums" is such that you might open up the ballot to five albums, or up to ten or something

yeah 5 albums would give much more interesting results

I'm sending five w/e

I feel like I have different ears for different eras of Bjork, I adore shit like "Hollow" and "An Echo, A Stain" but don't know where to place them amongst all the poppy fun stuff

I have no idea how I'm going to rank most of the second half of Vespertine because I love it as a suite all flowing together but as individual tracks I have no idea

Madonna poll, which I still consider the gold standard, had 57 ballots.

lol i think that was the last one i did

Madonna poll was immense – much the best yet.

Totally; I can't really think of many other artists who have such an immense career catalogue.

OK, so I still need to verify everyone's ballot as being accurate in my spreadsheet. I expect results can start next week.

if "Karvel" and "Domestica" doesn't place I'm deleting ILX.

Domestica is in my top 10 so hopefully there’s more of us.

Forgot about Karvel goddamit. That one is amazing.

What’s the thread title going to be? Venus as a Poll / My love is a Poll / Poll is full of love / something else?

'Ilxor Behaviour' would be a refreshing 'poll'-less title.

I definitely think the opening post could quote liberally from “Human Behaviour”: you better be ready to get confused / there’s definitely definitely definitely no logic / but oh to get involved in the exchange...

'Hyperballot' was an another excellent early suggestion.

^^^^^ yes

It should be Hyperballot, yes.

"there’s definitely definitely definitely no logic" is what I hum when I read every single ILM poll results thread tbh

I'm fond of "Hyperballot." Tho I like saying "poll is full of love" out loud.

Hyper-ballad will be number 1 too so

It it really such a consensus choice? It was my #21.

i cried watching the “hyperballad” video last week lol

Were you thinking about Karl's cat?

lmao

It’s the winner in past bjork singles polls so maybe?

BJORK SINGLES POLL (debut-vespertine)

Bjork singles

🤐

Weird how Bachelorette is a favorite over Joga, I don’t think it’s even in my top 5 for Homogenic.

If there was ever a consensus pick to make me happy it’s easily Hyper-Ballad.

unravel is my fave bjork song ever fuiud

"our love in a ball of yarn"

this ballot roll out makes me nervous i've neglected a genius bjork track just cuz there's so many

Weird how Bachelorette is a favorite over Joga, I don’t think it’s even in my top 5 for Homogenic.

I love Bachelorette but also agree with this.

this ballot roll out makes me nervous i've neglected a genius bjork track just cuz there's so many

― done and dusted (Ross), Thursday, May 3, 2018 2:12 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I started my ballot with the notion that she has about 60 songs that deserved a mention.

this ballot roll out makes me nervous i've neglected a genius bjork track just cuz there's so many

― done and dusted (Ross), Thursday, May 3, 2018 1:12 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't worry, you have.`

lol

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/may/03/big-time-sensuality-bjork-ballet-rave-puts-san-francisco-under-its-spell-unbound-festival

I'm sure I could find 30 Björk songs to put in front of Hyperballad. Post is also one of my least favorite albums in her career (and yet it's still rather good).
Anyway I missed this poll so I won't have to lose mental energy over ranking her songs.
Some that would feature in my ballot would definitely include: Human Behaviour, Venus as a Boy, The Anchor Song, Army of Me, Isobel, Joga, Unravel, All Neon Like, Immature, All is Full of Love (single), Hidden Place, Cocoon, It's not Up to You, Undo, Pagan Poetry, Sun in my mouth, Heirloom, Unison, Vokuro, Who is it, Desired Constellation, Ancestors, Mouth's Cradle, Triumph of the Heart, Earth Intruders, I see who you are, Vertebrae by Vertebrae, Not Get, Atom Dance, Utopia.
+ Play Dead, A Generous Palmstroke (live with the harpist), Charlene. And to nominate one remix: Crystalline by Current value.
Well, I think it's already over 30. I think at the moment my official favoritest Björk song is still Hidden Place.

and if the poll organizer wants to include my late unranked ballot (I know ilm is nice like that sometimes), I substract The Anchor Song, Army of Me and Unison back to make it 30 exactly (not counting the current value remix either).

and since I'm at it: 1) Homogenic 2) Vespertine 3) Medulla 4) Debut 5) Volta (6) Vulnicura 7) Post 8) Utopia 9) Biophilia)

and to make it 4, I've gone through the thread and haven't seen the remix I mentioned, and maybe it's not too known, crank it up because it slays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruIj7glvxwA
(to pair with that beat-drop facebook video... what was that btw)

Nabozo, if you can put that in the form of an email, I'll let your ballot slip in. I'm not revealing until next week.

Alternatively, if you just want me to count all 30 of those as "unranked," I can do that too.

Nevermind, I saw you indicated "unranked." Will add you to the mix.

Thank you ! Robot french kisses to you.

By the way, my most recent listen to Volta was not unpleasant.

I was reading a similar poll on another site from a few years back and they were very keen on Volta overall. I had never heard it before last month, was very keen at first but went off it a bit, only one track was in my final ballot

We got a word for Eric. Mensch

for some reason i was just listening to hyperballad while i was looking at the song title Bela Lugosi's Dead and... am I crazy that i am kinda hearing one in the other? I mean JUST the intro tho

Waiting for the poll results and listening to a tracks that never really stuck with me. And coming across "Foot Soldier," I'm thinking that's one of the first examples of a Bjork track that vocally is entirely made up of the the "auto-Bjork-isms" phenomenon that mars a lot of her later work. No meter, no rhyme, mostly stock melodic phrasings (swooping from a low to higher note repeatedly), etc. It's weird, because the b-sides of that era are otherwise some of her more melodically compelling work (i.e. "Generous Palmstroke," "Domestica," etc.)?

For comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztSz0Y1I9U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYjyaEABkt0

Fuck I’m watching the Greatest Hits DVD for the first time and I’ve seen like less than half of these before, I wish I did this a week ago

i watched that dvd so many times in high school

Reveal starts today with the sidebar polls.

violently happy!

HYPERBALLOT: ILM Artist Poll #88 -- Björk Resultsness