Choose: Bjork vs. Karin Dreijer-Andersson

The Sugarcubes + Bjork's first three solo albums pretty much obliterate KDA, amirite?

(*not including the album she made in 1970-whatever.)

Vespertine is her best album tho. But still.

Homogenic is my favorite, but that's really just academic in this situation. Bjork by a mile.

BEEYORC

Longevity is skewing this unfairly towards Bjork IMO, the correct answer may well be her but it isn't that cut and dried.

kinda agree but i think karin's got enough material under her belt to make this a not-wholly-unfair comparison, and it's björk, easily, for breadth and depth and quality

Don't know who KD-A is but I hate Bjork

karin's music packs more of an emotional wallop

^^what??

I mean, there's parts in Vespertine where she's almost crying with the sheer joy of love

and you know that nothing in her life has ever meant as much.

Karin 4EVA!!!!

Bjork because there was a time she didn't suck.

tomorrow, in a year >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything bjork has done or will ever do

― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 01:35 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

but one must factor in T,IAY being a highly collaborative effort

vespertine and homogenic are such incredibly brilliant albums it's going to be a long time before K D-A catches up

So far Bjork has done (or been involved in) tons of excellent music so it's hard to compare. But I much prefer KDA's voice, so voting for her.

the conflict this ultimately comes down to is tongue-in-cheek/avant-garde awards show hyjinks:

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I have no fucking idea who Karin Dreijer-Andersson is...So I looked it up on discogs. I vote for Heino.

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actually, for me the bottom line is Debut vs. Fever Ray & The Knife vs. The Sugarcubes. To judge the merits of Bjork's entire ouevre against KDA would be unfair b/c Bjork has had an entire career arc, while it seems KDA is at the pinnacle of hers (& here's hoping that it lasts at least a few more albums).

So, then: Knife > Sugarcubes; Debut vs. Fever Ray.. now that is a dilemma isn't it?

The longevity argument holds no weight because KDA has never been involved in anything I like as much as any of the first 4 Bjork albums

Björk's 2000s output may have sucked but this is still ant vs. elephant. KDA needs to stfu. ktxhbai

The longevity argument holds no weight because KDA has never been involved in anything I like as much as any of the first 4 Bjork albums

All 4 Knife albums (not counting TIAY) are as good as the first four Bjork albums IMO, and in some cases The Knife is better (The Knife > Debut).

There are maybe three or four albums better than Homogenic ever. None of them belong to The Knife.

Björk Guðmundsdóttir > Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson

callin a dude out by his ACTUAL name when shit gets heated

Since we're at it... BEST BJORK ALBUM?

My vote is for Post.

Homogenic = Post > Debut > Vespertine > the others

Homogenic = Post > Debut > Vespertine > the others

Yeah, this pretty much.

^^Yep.

Post = Homogenic > Medulla > Vespertine > Selmasongs > Telegram > Debut = Volta

I know no one else agress with me, btw

vespertine is my fav, it is like snowman gangster luv music

Karin

Far as I'm concerned, it's Homogenic, then Selmasongs, then the rest ... Then the soundtrack to that Matthew Barney flick.

homogenic -> vespertine -> post -> debut -> whatever that last one was -> some other things

homogenic>>>vespertine=post>debut>>selmasongs>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>medulla

have not heard the latest one.

post > homogenic > medulla > vespertine > debut > volta

homogenic >>> vespertine > debut > post > selmasongs > medúlla >>> volta

It's weird, Bjork is one of those people I have huge amounts of respect for, but have never really listened to that much. Perhaps her reputation gets in the way (though it's not fair to hold fawning fanboys against an artist) perhaps I've come to find her vocal stylings a bit irritating over time.

Probably gonna go with Karin.

I think Bjork worked far better in a band context (KUKL, Sugarcubes) than solo, as once ungrounded by the tether of bandmates her melodic lines meandered more, and some of her songs more a series of vocal effects than anything hummable.

She has excellent taste in producers.

A comparison is a bit premature, as Karin has only done two excellent albums, and a couple of good ones which would have been lost without "the return of Laurie Anderson" in Silent Shout.

Another interesting comparison might be between Bjork and Henriette Sennenvaldt of Under Byen (a band which, were they doing Anglophone music, would have their own thread here). They're far more similar vocally, and I've been choosing the latter over Guðmundsdóttir for a few years now.

Well, almost a year. Samme Stof Som Stof had the highest play count of 2009 on my jukebox, at any rate.

I think Björk's blown her chances of having any real artistic mystique around her person for a decade at this point. Entirely self-inflicted due to her utterly OTT promotional machine. The will-this-do underdeveloped patchiness of her last few projects not helping at all either.

I don't blame Kate for being quite put off at this stage, she needs either a time & distance to become recontextualised, or a truly knockout mature, artistic success like Vespertine to remind people who the fuck she actually is at this point.

I've really gone off KDA/The Knife tbh, even Silent Shout I don't rate as highly as I did at the time. I think she/they have great ideas, but are especially thin on them spread over all their output. Hearing the Fever Ray album was the point when I hit diminishing returns... zzz

I want to credit Karin for being enough of an artist that she can actually hold her own with B at times (I'm thinking of a couple of, not all, of the singles from SS) which is no mean feat, but I just don't think what they do is as much of a risk from the off really. A much more distanced, arthouse approach to the music & presentation. It's affecting sure, but just not even the same stakes at play compared to the agony, ecstasy and sonic wonder Bjork can conjure at her best.

I didn't even really like Volta overall, but even THAT has a song on it I'd probably take over the whole of KDA's solo album....

Bjork's a bit odd as I think there are a lot of people who like her as a pop musician, and a lot of people who ADORE her as a heavy-duty serious artiste, and they frequently seem to post in the same thread as if they're actually coming from the same place in what they're feeling. And that's when a lot of posts look very

Rutles >>>>> Beatles

I should step away anyhow. Was wondering why I couldn't see this on New Answers then realised I have polls hidden :/

I've been glued to The Knife's/Fever Ray's every release for the past several years, and Bjork's ouput has had a downward spiral this past decade ... however ... I would argue that Bjork is quite possibly the most accomplished musical artist since, I dunno, Prince (?) ...

If you were listening to her regularly throughout the 90s and into the early 00s, you knew there was no other popular musician who reached her heights in terms of vision, talent, emotional complexity, adventurousness, originality ... that's right, not even Radiohead (who were kind of following her lead in some respects) or OutKast (no comparison, in terms of emotional range). Even if she never puts out another relevant album, Bjork is essentially in 'living legend' territory already.

So as much as I'm truly enjoying KDA's music these days - and as much of a dud as Volta was - I've got to go with Ms. Gudmundsdottir on this one. If KDA continues on her current trajectory, though, this could be a much tougher call in 10 years.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

really surprised by the Bjork adulation here

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Seems reasonable enough!

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Karin Drejir-Andersson.

Bjork

and repeat

Karin Drejir-Andersson