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Björk Is My New Music Babe!

Risky Thicket

Risky Thicket

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Not too long ago we took a 10 day trip to Iceland. Iceland is a different world with an impossible language. It isn't as cold as you might think it would be but with the wind blowing across the water not far from the Arctic Circle it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. We didn't see any monkies the entire time we were there.

Iceland retail establishments play the best music: hits from the UK and the US from the 80s and 90s. Icelandic retail rocks. In the US retail music often sucks. I can't stand buying groceries listening to some woman wailing and bawling about being broken hearted. I've never understood how listening to what sounds like someone raping livestock would create happy shoppers. Apparently, most American shoppers love listening to that crap.

So I asked a lady in Reykjavik why no one in Iceland played songs by Björk. I had not and never did until I returned home to the United States and purposely listened to the Björk's It's Oh So Quiet.

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Great, innit? I love whispering and bells and loud brass interspersed with screaming. Easy to see how that song is so popular.

I've sent a few emails asking Björk to cover a few American songs such as:

Evil by Koko Taylor

Gene and Jean by the Filthy Thieving Bastards

The Good Stuff by Kenny Chesney


What are your favorite Björk songs?

What songs would you like to hear ​Björk cover?
 
Risky Thicket said:
Not too long ago we took a 10 day trip to Iceland. Iceland is a different world with an impossible language. It isn't as cold as you might think it would be but with the wind blowing across the water not far from the Arctic Circle it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. We didn't see any monkies the entire time we were there.

Iceland retail establishments play the best music: hits from the UK and the US from the 80s and 90s. Icelandic retail rocks. In the US retail music often sucks. I can't stand buying groceries listening to some woman wailing and bawling about being broken hearted. I've never understood how listening to what sounds like someone raping livestock would create happy shoppers. Apparently, most American shoppers love listening to that crap.
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What are your favorite Björk songs?

What songs would you like to hear ​Björk cover?
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Regarding U.S. music, it really just depends on the venue/people. I got to Kroger and they are indeed playing lifestock sex music (aka country), and I stopped going there. They now play 80s classic rock, which is also mostly trash to me, but its tolerable. You get a few Guns'n Roses type classics mixed in along with the glam rock nonsense.

Just yesterday I heard 3 different Bowie songs at three different random retail/restaurant venues, I was tickled. What I really like is a lot of the modern alternative, and I hear a lot of it out...very happy for that.

Regarding Bjork, she's quirky fun. I use to listen to her when I first moved to Texas..they had a great alternative station that played such gems.
These two are part of my mental soundtrack of my 20s...complete with bazooka bass tubes in the back of a 90hp car.


 
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90 HP is motorcycle territory??? What did you drive, a Yugo?
 
As an side, on that cool alternative station back in the day, one of the DJs said he was smitten with Bjork. He gets to meet her at some event and goes up to her and chats.
He says "I love that thing you do with your voice when you sing, that little...well, you know".
She just looked at him and walked off :) He was cracking up at how stupid he must have looked, but he said he just couldn't help it. Always stuck with me...so human of him.

She's extra cool for U.S. types I feel because of her exotic/unique look, and the accent, neither of which are commonly experienced in the U.S. Art is funny like that.
There are a fwe Russian games I like, that I feel get +10% like factors simply because of the authentic Russian flavor and accents... us art whores love newness in our locust-like consumption of art :)
 
Rexedgar said:
90 HP is motorcycle territory??? What did you drive, a Yugo?
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Justy. Same thing basically.

I use to have to turn off the AC to put it in "turbo" mode. I'm 6'2, and actually had a 5'11 date in that car back in the day...had to be quite the sight.
 
I had never really known anything about Bjork until 2017. That's when the Blue Knight Drum & Bugle Corps included one of her songs in their show..."107 Steps"

Here is her song.



Here is the BK show. Start listening at about 6:00 for the Bjork song...but the whole show is great.

 
Mach said:
Justy. Same thing basically.

I use to have to turn off the AC to put it in "turbo" mode. I'm 6'2, and actually had a 5'11 date in that car back in the day...had to be quite the sight.
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I tried the OP’s song, not my cup of tea. I am intimately familiar with the surrounding, though. In the early ‘80’s, I opened a boarded up Texaco station as an independent auto repair shop in a town where I was a fresh face. One of my early customers asked if we worked on Subarus. I assured them that I was experienced on all makes. I had never heard of Subaru; under the hood, the label credited FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES as the parent of Subaru. I OJT’d on the Subaru.......
 
My 4 year old grand daughter was having a melt down day not too long ago and I set her up with "Its Oh So Quiet" on her tablet. She loved it...changed her whole outlook on the day. She is a new fan, but some of Bjorks stuff is a bit heavy for a 4 year old.

I like Paegan Poetry...Hyperballad. Others. Need to be in the right mood and a little can go a long way.
 
Here she is with her first band, The Sugarcubes.

 
I don't think I've ever heard anyone as bad as Bjork in my entire lifetime. I find it hard to believe that Risky is a fan.
 
Rexedgar said:
I had never heard of Subaru; under the hood, the label credited FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES as the parent of Subaru. I OJT’d on the Subaru.......
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lol. I hear it was just a few hamsters in a hamster-wheel anyway.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Not too long ago we took a 10 day trip to Iceland. Iceland is a different world with an impossible language. It isn't as cold as you might think it would be but with the wind blowing across the water not far from the Arctic Circle it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. We didn't see any monkies the entire time we were there.

Iceland retail establishments play the best music: hits from the UK and the US from the 80s and 90s. Icelandic retail rocks. In the US retail music often sucks. I can't stand buying groceries listening to some woman wailing and bawling about being broken hearted. I've never understood how listening to what sounds like someone raping livestock would create happy shoppers. Apparently, most American shoppers love listening to that crap.

So I asked a lady in Reykjavik why no one in Iceland played songs by Björk. I had not and never did until I returned home to the United States and purposely listened to the Björk's It's Oh So Quiet.

<em>
Great, innit? I love whispering and bells and loud brass interspersed with screaming. Easy to see how that song is so popular.

I've sent a few emails asking Björk to cover a few American songs such as:

Evil by Koko Taylor

Gene and Jean by the Filthy Thieving Bastards

The Good Stuff by Kenny Chesney


What are your favorite Björk songs?

What songs would you like to hear ​Björk cover?
Click to expand...


Got into her when that first Sugarcubes record came out. Some of her stuff is a little to quirky for me, but it's always a worthwhile to check it out. More often than not it's a keeper.

This thread made me pull this out and give it a listen. Not all Björk vocals, but she's what makes it interesting. (The solo stuff is better, imo):

 
RedAkston said:
I don't think I've ever heard anyone as bad as Bjork in my entire lifetime. I find it hard to believe that Risky is a fan.
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Are you trying to steal the worst POS ever award from Cher??? Shame.
 
RedAkston said:
I don't think I've ever heard anyone as bad as Bjork in my entire lifetime. I find it hard to believe that Risky is a fan.
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I'd rather listen to her than Barry Manilow.
 
RedAkston said:
I don't think I've ever heard anyone as bad as Bjork in my entire lifetime. I find it hard to believe that Risky is a fan.
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I visualize her singing nekkid.

Bjork is from a different world where they kill a shark, pee on it and then bury it in the ground for several months before they dig it up and eat it. Also, and this might be of interest to Vesper, it is socially acceptable to fart anywhere at anytime in Iceland. I have a difficult time imagining talking to Bjork and having her hike a leg and rip off a buried shark and boiled egg fart right in the middle of a conversation.

All said, nothing excites me more than listening to Bjork's haunting voice while I'm gutting a bucket of fresh catfish. She's grand.
 
Risky Thicket said:
I visualize her singing nekkid.

Bjork is from a different world where they kill a shark, pee on it and then bury it in the ground for several months before they dig it up and eat it. Also, and this might be of interest to Vesper, it is socially acceptable to fart anywhere at anytime in Iceland. I have a difficult time imagining talking to Bjork and having her hike a leg and rip off a buried shark and boiled egg fart right in the middle of a conversation.

All said, nothing excites me more than listening to Bjork's haunting voice while I'm gutting a bucket of fresh catfish. She's grand.
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You gut catfish? I always nailed the head to a board, then unzipped around the neck with a knife and used a pair of pliers. Good eatin'. Bottom feeders aren't good for ya, but...
 
Risky Thicket said:
I visualize her singing nekkid.

Bjork is from a different world where they kill a shark, pee on it and then bury it in the ground for several months before they dig it up and eat it. Also, and this might be of interest to Vesper, it is socially acceptable to fart anywhere at anytime in Iceland. I have a difficult time imagining talking to Bjork and having her hike a leg and rip off a buried shark and boiled egg fart right in the middle of a conversation.

All said, nothing excites me more than listening to Bjork's haunting voice while I'm gutting a bucket of fresh catfish. She's grand.
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Huck Finn, is that you?
 
Bjork's best song ever. The melody and harmony are something special but the lyrics stay with you forever.



I wish I could hear this one in the reception room at the tire store. It's so peaceful.
 
<alt>doxygen said:
You gut catfish? I always nailed the head to a board, then unzipped around the neck with a knife and used a pair of pliers. Good eatin'. Bottom feeders aren't good for ya, but...
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In truth your way is the only way as far as I'm concerned. I mean the only way to do it yourself. The best way is to get your wife to do it. That only happened once for me. Now my wife hates catfish.
 
Risky Thicket said:
In truth your way is the only way as far as I'm concerned. I mean the only way to do it yourself. The best way is to get your wife to do it. That only happened once for me. Now my wife hates catfish.
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I learned that from an aunt (in Statesboro, of course). Damn skin makes an awful sound when you rip it back, but it comes off clean.
 
Risky Thicket said:
I visualize her singing nekkid.

Bjork is from a different world where they kill a shark, pee on it and then bury it in the ground for several months before they dig it up and eat it. Also, and this might be of interest to Vesper, it is socially acceptable to fart anywhere at anytime in Iceland. I have a difficult time imagining talking to Bjork and having her hike a leg and rip off a buried shark and boiled egg fart right in the middle of a conversation.

All said, nothing excites me more than listening to Bjork's haunting voice while I'm gutting a bucket of fresh catfish. She's grand.
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I thought you were a vegan now?
 
RedAkston said:
I thought you were a vegan now?
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Oh, right. Yeah, but I think it's technically OK to gut the hell out of fish as long as you don't eat them. I will admit to having licked one or two but that's it.
 
Many people don't know this but Bjork's uncle was the guy who invented that plastic spoon/fork combination you sometimes get with takeout food. It's called a Spork.

plain_spork.jpg
 
OK people, back to one of my original questions. Bjork is multi-talented and has proven her ability to craft songs in many genres. There are many covers Bjork would knock the **** out of the park. What would you like to hear her sing?

One song I would love to hear her sing is Too Sick to Reggae. She'd go straight to an international hit if she would cover it.

 
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