Recently (Actually just finished) this two show series thing on ON-Demand and It was about teh making of her new album Medulla. I think that she is amazing! The fact that the whole cd is vocal first off is absolutely amazing. The beatbox dudes blew my mind! The power that you get from her music is absolutely amazing. She talked about how she wanted to make something different, something that no one has ever heard before.

The funny part is that I dont own the cd yet I am going to get it in about 15 min though :D



Man those beat box dudes are amazing.

She talked about how she wanted to make something different, something that no one has ever heard before.



Like that Swan dress she wore to the Academy awards?

The girl is unstable, though. I think that Iceland air has really done something to her, seriously. But sometimes, the best poets are a bit unbalanced.

Koffee

Like that Swan dress she wore to the Academy awards?

The girl is unstable, though. I think that Iceland air has really done something to her, seriously. But sometimes, the best poets are a bit unbalanced.

Koffee


Come on, Koffee, I expected better from you. You sound like Joan Rivers. It was just a dress. She's been making music for 28 years. That's a hell of a lot more interesting than the swan dress.

Nah. Actually, I saw that reporter she attacked when she came off the plane. Then the swan dress. Then I saw the entire attack at some point on television. She has issues.

When you're a celebrity, people will always look a lot closer at how you behave in public. She always strikes me as someone who's kind of spaced out.

Even without the swan dress, she's just one weird chick. :-/

Koffee

Yeah, I expected that screaming girl from KUKL to be totally normal!

The thing with attacking the reporter actually has a lot of background to it. I probably would have done the same.

But yes, she is both absolutely nuts and absolutely wonderful. The world needs more psychos making beautiful music, IMO.

Well, add Sinead O'Conner to your list. She's a weird one, but damn can she sing.

Koffee

Does Toni Halliday count as a psycho?

Does Toni Halliday count as a psycho?

Don't know about her personality, but Curve is wicked.

The thing with attacking the reporter actually has a lot of background to it. I probably would have done the same.

But yes, she is both absolutely nuts and absolutely wonderful. The world needs more psychos making beautiful music, IMO.


What's the story behind the reporter attack then?

Koffee

Don't know about her personality, but Curve is wicked.

Yeah, I really loves me some Curve.

... The power that you get from her music is absolutely amazing. She talked about how she wanted to make something different, something that no one has ever heard before.

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The best thing about Bjork is the range of her music, from thrash punk to classical orchestra scores. I'm don't like Medulla as much as a lot of her other work. Seems too conciously "Artistic" now at the expense of enjoyment. She never really repeats herself so it's always an adventure with her, next one will be different. If Medulla is you first exposure to Bjork, check out the other albums. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

She attacked the reporter after the reporter apparently repeatedly tried to interview her son, against her wishes.

The world needs more psychos making beautiful music, IMO.

Courtney Love.

She gets unfairly associated with the ponderously boring , Alpha-band of overrated bands, Nirvana
when she's a 100x more talented.

Courtney Love.

She gets unfairly associated with the ponderously boring , Alpha-band of overrated bands, Nirvana
when she's a 100x more talented.

You've got a great deadpan. For a few seconds, I actually thought you meant that.

She attacked the reporter after the reporter apparently repeatedly tried to interview her son, against her wishes.

Strange. I saw the full version of the attack, where the reporters were standing around as she came out of customs, and she was walking and the reporters were kind of following her around, and then the lady says something like "welcome to our country" (or something like that), and then you can see Bjork kind of shuddering a little, and then the reporter said something else (like "how do you feel?"), and that girl went bonko on that reporter.

It was weird.

Koffee

The world needs more psychos making beautiful music, IMO.

Courtney Love.

Marylin Manson

Man, I love Marilyn Manson. He has great music, and he is so extremely intelligent and thoughtful too.

Koffee

ANYWAY, the Sugarcubes were totally awesome in a weird Icelandic way,(especially to little 12 year old skate punk mind,) and all Bjorks solo stuff is even more mind-blowing. She's one of those artists like Kate Bush, Beck,Tori Amos and Prince who really don't give a **** about nothing and do whatever they feel like doing, with MUCH talent and skill.

I liked the Sugarcubes, though. I also liked Cocteau Twins. I thought both bands had great stuff going. It got me through school until I hit my Steely Dan phase.

Koffee

I liked the Sugarcubes, though. I also liked Cocteau Twins. I thought both bands had great stuff going. It got me through school until I hit my Steely Dan phase.

Koffee
Cocteau Twins are pretty amazing, as well as a lot of the "shoegazer" bands they influenced/produced, Lush, etc. I tend to wonder if that school of postpuk is destined to be forgotten entirely, overshadowed as it was by the far inferior alternative and grunge thing.

Lush is cool. I played a song by Lush in my spinning class. I think my class went hysterically blind. They just didn't like it at all. Screw 'em. I'll play it anyway. They can't stop me. BRAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAW!!!!! :lol:

Koffee

He's smart and he knows how to push people's buttons. Courtney Love can do that too. They have a talent for pissing people off, along with making music.

BTW: If you read a Bjork interview you'll see she is also intelligent and articulate about her music, not just some Icelandic flake. What woiuld you think of Manson if you just read the newspaper or listened to Rush Limbaugh?

That hes a psyco who wants to kill everybody.

I like his music too, just seems like it sounds alot different from everything else you hear.

Cocteau Twins are pretty amazing, as well as a lot of the "shoegazer" bands they influenced/produced, Lush, etc. I tend to wonder if that school of postpuk is destined to be forgotten entirely, overshadowed as it was by the far inferior alternative and grunge thing.


Thank you Krispistopherson !
the bands you mention are great and are still Sunday morning/coffee/before the ride music.
I get crucified when I offer my opinion of what I consider to be the flatline of creativity
and all the abysmally uninspired imitations of Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music album otherwise
known as 'The Seattle Sound' or 'Grunge'. To have been totally into the '77 Punk scene and
watch it unfold the way it did and then the early 80's which was to me the most musically
inspirational period in the history of the world, the slow, plodding, ponderous, tedious
funaral-dirge-through-a-Marshall Seattle 'sound'(?) explosion in the early 90's was a total soul
crush. I would take 1 Sigue Sigue Sputnik to 10 Sonic Youths anyday :eek: The stench of
this movement still manifests itself today in all of the AOR 'Alternative' crap that gets airplay
today....the Puddle of Mudds, Chevelles and all other 7 string Ibanez / EFX rack type
bands ensure we will have to suffer this plague for decades more....... :mad:
Right now I have Echo and The Bunnyman, Siouxiie and the Banshees and the Damned queued
up before I head out :p Ahhhhhhhhhh...the good old daze :cry:

Good 'ole Siouxiie. I still remember "Peek-a-boo". It was a great song. It caught on with me just weeks before I hit my Steely Dan phase.

Koffee

Man, I love Marilyn Manson. He has great music, and he is so extremely intelligent and thoughtful too.

Koffee


So intelligant he put a fork through his eye to get a glass eye, and he took some of his ribs out so suck his own, yah you get the rest.

Not to say I dont like his music I just hinks that is F**KED up (sry for the swear)

So intelligant he put a fork through his eye to get a glass eye, and he took some of his ribs out so suck his own, yah you get the rest.

Did you read that on the Internet, or did a dude in shop class tell you about it?

internet man, everything you read here is true ya' know?

;)

Not to say I dont like his music I just hinks that is F**KED up (sry for the swear)


Learn dude... learn. Before you make assertions about someone, at least check and see if it's true.

No ribs removed: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/vanities/ribs.htm

No glass eye: http://www.spookhouse.net/rumormill/eyes.html

Apparently, the glass eye rumor was started by that website, although they strongly stated that they were basically making fun, and it was NOT true.

C'mon. We want to take you seriously, but then you have to say something like that. You can do better than that.

Koffee

ehhh, whatever, im too tired and lazy to do anything about it. CASE CLOSED :)

That's how the things you said got posted to begin with. Don't post when you're tired! ;)

Koffee

Maybe I should go take a NAP! HA! ;)

When I first heard "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I really thought Siouxsie may have made some sort of miraculous comeback --- whatever happended to her anyway?

Too bad Bjork wasn't 6' 3", 250 lbs (instead of 5', 100lbs(?)) when she smacked that reporter. Have to admit her aim was dead on though :)

Skinhead O'Conner does have some incredible songs, nearly all from the Lion and the Cobra (why is it that most musicains 1st albums are they're best IMO?).

And let us not forget Patti Smith.

EDIT: almost forgot PJ Harvey

You're up past your bedtime anyway. Get to sleep! :D

Koffee