Has someone started a Bjork thread yet?

Okay, I must admit I think of the swedish chef on the Muppets every time I hear her name:
dum,de dumty dummm dum dobe diunkky doo
ehh borm de bing berdan
BJORK! BJORK! BJORK!

The Bjork love song: http://www.brunching.com/audio/bjorksong.mp3

I love Bjork, too...she's so truely original. I really appreciate her fearlessness with her art.

Hahaha, great song. Thanks, Monger.

OK, so one time sometime right after Bjork made Debut, so that musta been 1993, my friend N, me, and the coordinator of all of us barmen and -women at the place - a thirtysomething woman named Louise who at the time seemed, like, old to me - were sitting having a drink. And Louise starts off about how she discovered Bjork and her "Debut" and isnt that a wonderful new singer?

Me, being, like, 22, I roll my eyes and explain that she was in a band before, the Sugarcubes.. that I didnt like Debut but thought the Sugarcubes had been God, and that Bjork, well, err.. well that she'd been like my teenage sex goddess.

(Err, when I was a teenager, I mean, not her.)

Seriously though, they rocked, the Sugarcubes did. Specially on Life's Too Good. Einar gave enough of an erratic roar to go with Bjorks wild-eyed pixie magic, and they were great live.

OK, so I was saying that and my friend N., who was a few years older than me, indulgently smiled upon me and then with a wink said, hell I liked 'em when they were in Kukl. Turns out that he'd been at that legendary underground Rotterdam festival that only took place for a coupla years and where Kukl played, sometime in the early 80s. Both Bjork and Einar were in Kukl too.

OK so I checked just now, and (of course) there's Kukl on YouTube. I never heard anything of theirs, so this was cool, as in funny, as in curious. Like, check this clip for "Anna". Odd, very odd. The vibe is amazingly like that of some Eastern Bloc-era alternative theatre group or something. (Anastasia says: well I guess if you live on a remote island in the Arctic circle it's kind of like living behind the Iron Curtain.)

Allright, so far so good. But did you know that Kukl itself was a merger of two other bands - a band called Purrkur Pillnikk that had Einar, and a band called Tappi Tíkarrass with Björk? Someone on YouTube uploaded part of a TV program that had both of em as well as Kukl, music and interviews. TT apparently is Icelandic for "cork that bitch's arse", and Bjork is, like, a petulant 17 year old. And, eh...

Well, look for yourself: Purrkur Pillnikk, Tappi Tíkarrass & KUKL - for Bjork fastforward to about 1:56 in

good to see a bjork post.
I work in a 4 shift schedule and beside it i used to make a-levels beside work in the past 3 years.
I always listened to her album debut while learning mathematics.
No. Just kidding.
I used to learn until late at night. The whole world was silent, just bjork singing and a few numbers on the sheet in front of me.

"One day it will happen, one day it will all make sense..."
is a good passage in one of her songs.
And really... I like maths now and soon i will go to university....
Thats the story, how bjork helped me....... ))


What do you think of her new album Volta?

I bought that single - glad someone else likes it.

Didn't she record her first album at age 8?

Last time I checked, I still can't listen to Vespertine because it reminds me of nights I listened to it in my apartment, really really high, watching snow fall and listening to the radiator hiss, waiting for the girl who lent the album to me to finish her bar shift.

Which would be a fine memory and all, if it didn't make me feel old. Sentimental. Boring.