see, i feel she hasn't been this focused in years. not since selma songs or debut. or at least this engaging. i haven't liked a bjork album this much in years. i think over the past few years she's become unfocused and draggy. vespertine is quite nice but doesn't measure up to her best work. and medulla has it's moments, but i swear i don't like this record at all. i sold it. i never listened to it much or felt like i should. i just don't think it does bjork justice. i heard way too much negative stuff about drawing restraint and i never dug the cover or concept behind it so i politely passed. she became too weird for her own good. here we have volta and it really marked a new and wonderful chapter in her career. she made an album that could excite me again and really fire me up. before volta i was only a passing fan. i loved sugarcubes, but never kept up much with bjork after debut. losing interest and moving on musically.

the more and more time passed my tastes changed and bjork's work became colder and colder. it was still good sometimes, but a lot of the times it never let me in to absorb, love, and linger. volta is her warmest record in quite some time. the melodies are evident and crisp. she has a new found energy. she's not dull or draggy. raging and full of passion is this new bojrk and it's a bjork i fully welcome into my ears. she is fully focused and hitting her mark finally. if i had to rank her albums i would rank them as such:

1. debut - 5 stars
2. volta - 5 stars
3. selmasongs - 4 and 1/2 stars
4.homogenic - 4 stars
5. vespertine - 3 and 1/2 stars/ maybe 4 stars
6. post - 2 and 1/2 stars/3 stars
7. medulla - 2 stars/2 and 1/2 stars

but then i'm not the big bjork fan that qp is. i just never really have been. she sometimes is too processed for me, as well cold and sterile. not organic enough. i try and try, but i really love music played with instruments. it's how i am.

Tori Amos- Body and Soul
Tori Amos- Dragon
Tori Amos- Teenage Hustling
Tori Amos- Big wheel
Tori Amos- Digital Ghost

1. "BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER" by BOB DYLAN
2. "TO BEAT THE DEVIL" by KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
3. "BREAK ME OFF SOME" by JOHN MELLENCAMP
4. "MOONRAKER" by SHIRLEY BASSEY
5. "NEVER GONNA STOP" by ROB ZOMBIE
6. "LUST FOR LIFE" by IGGY POP
7. "HOLIDAY ROAD" by LYNDSEY BUCKINGHAM
8. "F/CK AND RUN" by LIZ PHAIR
9. "WHEN THE MAN COMES AROUND" by JOHNNY CASH
10. "HEY GIRL" by BILLY JOEL

As of now.

You can say fuck here.
Welcome!

I love to fuck wet cunts.

(see, we get away with everything here)

but please dont say nigger or fag , thats rude!

Can I say whop or spic or wagon burner or are those off limits too?

Ok, just because you can say something doesn't mean you should. I try never to use "racial" slurs or the word cunt, it is pretty offensive.

I think you need a conversion.

Just please spare me the sunday sermon.

sunday semen

sweeeeeet
co-
co-
co-
communion.

waillll of guitar

Jakatta- It will be
And One- So klingt Liebe
The Cruxshadows- Deception
The Genitorturers- Lecher Bitch
Lords of Acid- I sit on acid

Tori Amos: Mr Bad Man
Tori Amos: Big Wheel
Bjork: Vertebrae by Vertebrae
Bjork: Hope
Bjork: Pneumonia

We've got everything bouncing off clouds fire it up big wheel spitting venom.

Almost rosey fly trapped in a jar

march into the sea

Nancy Sinatra- these boots were made for walkin
The Rolling Stones- Paint it black
The Mamas and the Papas- California Dreaming
Carly Simon- you're so vain
Percy Sledge- When a man loves a woman

M.I.A.- Bamboo Banger
M.I.A.-Jimmy
Guns N Roses-Chinese Democracy
Chris Cornell- Billy Jean
Velvet Revolver- She Builds Quick Machines

Do you actually have those 2 MIA songs, or did you just see the live videos on Youtube?

My songs:

1. Liz Phair - Shallow Opportunities
2. Liz Phair - Jeremy Engle (I'd love to hear the more 'indie' version of it that she said they recorded but didn't use)
3. Tori Amos - Father Lucifer
4. Tori Amos - Mother
5. Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts

Joan Osborne:
Ladder (live or studio, they're both awesome)
Spider Web (ditto)
Pensacola (ditto)
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Chimes of Freedom (with Bob Dylan)

...actually just about any song by Joan could fall into this category

Panda Bear: Comfy in Nautica

Sonic Youth: Pattern Recognition

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Halloween

Beck: Nausea

Liz Phair: Carnivore

Tori Amos - Little Amsterdam.
Tori Amos - Beauty Of Speed.
Rachael Yamagata - Quiet.
Rachael Yamagata - Ode To.
Vienna Teng - I Don't Feel So Well.

Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Gillian Welch - April the 14, part 1
Gillian Welch - Look At Miss Ohio
Lucinda Williams - Essence
Neko Case - Thrice All American

Liz Phair- Girls Girls Girls (girlysound version)
Pixies-Born in Chicago
Veruca Salt-Blue Paint
Sonic Youth-Bookstore
Peaches & Gonzalez-Red Leather

Kate Nash: Foundations
Kelis: What's That Right Here
Lady Sovereign: Love Me or Hate Me
Goldfrapp: Yes Sir I Can Boogie
Ricardo Villalobos: Trocken Teile

What do we think of Kate Nash? I think her first song is good but I am so sure her album will be a let down!

I love Kate Nash. I was meant to go to her brum gig but she cancelled it like three times and I couldn't make the reschedule.

I love "Foundations" and a lot of her other songs are awesome too, like "We Get On".

LY introduced her to me, I like her a lot.

Siobhan Donaghy: Medevac
Bjork: Wanderlust {!!!!}
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
Kate Bush: Big Sky [meTeorigical mix]
Kate Bush: Watching you without Me

Rosie Thomas - Pretty Dress
Luke Doucet - It's Not the Liquor I Miss
Patty Griffin - Goodbye
The Cardigans - And Then You Kissed Me
Josh Ritter - Wolves

top five tracks from under the blacklight
under the blacklight
give a little love
silver lining
the moneymaker
close call

Five Songs (of many) I Love & Mean A Lot to Me:

Suspended in Gaffa by Kate Bush

On The Radio by Regina Spektor

Tearing Apart by Siouxsie & The Banshees

It's A Hit by Rilo Kiley

Life Is Sweet by Natalie Merchant

Kate Bush: Under Ice
Kelis: I Don't Think So
Bjork: Neon-Like
Sibhan Donaghy: Haclyon Days

Kate Bush : Waking the Witch
Siobhan Donaghy : Don't Give It Up
MIA : Hussel
MIA : 20$
MIA : XR2 (the Kala version is so much better than the demo, thank goodness)

Five Favorite Songs. Of Pretty Much all Summer

PJ Harvey: Good Fortune
PJ Harvey: You Said Something
PJ Harvey: A Place Called Home
PJ Harvey: One Line
PJ Harvey: We Float

THink I'd like her?

5 More Favorite Songs...

1. There Goes A Tenner by Kate Bush

2. Us by Regina Spektor

3. Duel by Propaganda (featuring the fabulous Claudia Brucken)

4. Night Shift by Siouxsie & The Banshees

5. Past The Mission by Tori Amos

eisley - i could be there for you
juliana hatfield and frank smith - on your mind
sheryl crow - chances are
rilo kiley - a man/me/then jim
alanis morissette - flinch

Couldn't say, she's far more agressive than any other artists you listen to, save Homogenic Era Bjork.


Stories From the City would be a good starting place. She's a great guitarist, a lot of her other work is... all bass. Very cool.

I really liked her first two albums & then sort've lost connection with her for some reason. I'll have to listen to some of her later stuff.
PS
Actually just noticed (via Amazon) it looks like she has new album with cool cover due in late September!

There's a thread in this part of the forum, check it out!

Thank U!

Right now...


Heather Nova - Throwing Fire At The Sun.
Heather Nova - Talking To Strangers.
Regina Spektor - Bartender.
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper.
Tori Amos - Abbey Road.

nah, she does some stark bass guitar things but most of the time, she's going for it with hard rock riffs and bluesy slide style as in rid of me era. she's a great guitarist.

Special Favorite Song Lists For the Day

Five OBVIOUS Favorites...

1. Fidelity by Regina Spektor

2. Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush

3. Cities in Dust by Siouxsie & The Banshees

4. Queer by Garbage

5. Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos

Now, Five NOT AS OBVIOUS Favorites

1. Cover Plus by Hazel O' Connor

2. New Toy by Lene Lovich

3. Walking Down Madison by Kirsty Macoll

4. P-Machinery by Propaganda

5. Death Valley 69 by Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch

Chick Habit - April March
Down in Mexico - The Coasters
Twist the Knife - Neko Case
Make Your Bed - Neko Case
31 Today - Aimee Mann

1. WHEN I GROW UP BY GARBAGE

2. ARMY DREAMERS BY KATE BUSH

3. THE HARDEST PART BY BLONDIE

4. MELT! BY SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES

5. 1234 BY FEIST

Bjork - Foot Soldier
Bjork - Earth Intruders (mark stent + spank rock)
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
MIA - JIMMY
MIA - 20 $

1. The Saxophone Song by Kate Bush

2. Scarecrow & Fungus by Regina Spektor

3. In The Flesh by Blondie

4. Miss The Girl by The Creatures

5. The Boy Who Came Back by Marc Almond