{"mvids":[{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113779","idTrack":"32767653","strTrack":"Hidden Place","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/txtxwx1354193531.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMG51HDfr-A&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Hidden Place\" is a song by Icelandic recording artist Bj\u00f6rk, taken from her fourth English language (fifth overall) album, Vespertine (2001). It was written by Bj\u00f6rk, Guy Sigsworth and Mark Bell and produced by Bj\u00f6rk. \"Hidden Place\" was released as a lead single from Vespertine on August 3, 2001.\n\nBj\u00f6rk explains the song's title :\n\n\"'Hidden Place' is sort of about how two people can create a paradise just by uniting. You've got an emotional location that's mutual. And it's unbreakable. And obviously it's make-believe. So, you could argue that it doesn't exist because it's invisible, but of course it does.\"\n\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113779","idTrack":"32767654","strTrack":"Cocoon","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vpuuvs1354193660.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OD9wl6ql7k&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Cocoon\" was the third and final single from singer Bj\u00f6rk's album Vespertine. It was written by Bj\u00f6rk and Thomas Knak, and mixed by Mark \"Spike\" Stent. The song is a low-key musing about a girl basking in the glow of a romance that has taken her by surprise, and includes some remarkably sexually explicit situations described in euphemism and metaphor. The single peaked at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113779","idTrack":"32767657","strTrack":"Pagan Poetry","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wptsuw1354193878.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fboNlM5hL4","strDescription":"\"Pagan Poetry\" was the second single from singer Bj\u00f6rk's album Vespertine. The single peaked at number 38 in the UK and number 12 in Canada. It was written and produced by Bj\u00f6rk with additional production by Marius de Vries and mixed by Mark \"Spike\" Stent. The music box adaptation, featured in the song, was done by Jack Perron and the full version was later featured as a B-side song on the \"Cocoon\" single.\n\n\"Pagan Poetry\" has been highly praised by critics, with many citing it as a highlight of the album. Allmusic said of \"Pagan Poetry\" that it \"shares a spacious serenity with the album's quietest moments\" and included this song as a track pick. Rolling Stone said: \"In 'Pagan Poetry', she deploys the implied heaven of Zeena Parkins harp and a flotilla of music boxes with an Asian-teahouse touch.\" Blender said \"'Pagan Poetry' sounds like the prelude to a particularly exotic sexual interlude.\" In March 2006, in the number 77 of the Spanish edition of Rolling Stone, \"Pagan Poetry\" was ranked number 38 by Spanish music professionals and experts on a list of the best songs of the 21st century.[citation needed] Slant Magazine said of the album: \"Vespertine delicately traces the cycle of said relationship\" and called the song \"loss of personal identity and full possessive entrapment\". Pitchfork Media placed the song at number 227 on its list of \"The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s\"."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113780","idTrack":"32767674","strTrack":"Where Is the Line","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/sxxurx1354194052.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X11tSBXdxYI&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Where Is the Line\" is a song by Icelandic artist Bj\u00f6rk, taken from the 2004 album Med\u00falla. The track was originally intended to be released as the album's third commercial single (following Who Is It and Triumph of a Heart. Oceania was never released commercially), but the release of the single was cancelled just before Bj\u00f6rk released the Drawing Restraint 9 soundtrack, in order to focus all promotional efforts on the film and soundtrack instead. The proposed release date was believed to have been July 2005. Unconfirmed tracklists have since surfaced, as well as suspected artwork (amongst unofficial art by fans and various online stores own art to advertise the digital and vinyl release of the various remixes that were featured on the white label 12\" vinyls) though all remain unconfirmed. A promotional music video for the song was made by Icelandic Artist Gabr\u00edela Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir. Upon the cancellation of the single, the video was used as part of a video installation project by Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir.\n\nThe track is included on a compilation album released by Rough Trade, titled \"The Record Shop - 30 Years Of Rough Trade Shops\". The track was chosen by Richard Russell. A remix by Mike Patton of the band Fant\u00f4mas (who contributed to the original album track) was made available for download on War Child Music in April 2005. and also appeared on a previous White label 12\", as the B-side to the Vitalic remix of Who Is It. Both remixes were suspected to be included with the commercial release of Where Is The Line.\n\nThe song is made up of vocals, as with the majority of the Med\u00falla album on which it exists. It is quite a dark song in which Bj\u00f6rk attacks a younger relative for being greedy and unreliable. She has also said that on this one the vocals of beatboxer Rahzel are edited all the way, because she felt that with Rahzel, she needed to try out both the extremes. The other extreme being \"Who Is It\" which features Rahzel doing a one-take beatbox, creating a less-brooding arrangement.\n\nThe greatest hits tour version of \"Where is the Line\" varies in regards to its string arrangements. Due to its release prior to Med\u00falla, Bj\u00f6rk arranged the song using the prominent strings to create a more Middle-Eastern feel to the orchestration. On the Volta tour, however, the song is dominated by heavy electronic beats and a synthesized organ, creating a much more Western sound."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113780","idTrack":"32767677","strTrack":"Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/sqtxqp1354194503.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcrE2tOCPIk&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, which was the second single to be released from her album Med\u00falla. The video was directed by Dawn Shadforth and shot outdoors in Bj\u00f6rk's native Iceland. The video features the bell choir version of the song, which was re-recorded with the B\u00fasta\u00f0akirkja Bell Choir, and is different from the album version.\n\nThe first version of the song was written with Bogdan Raczynski. Raczynski stated that he did not want this version to be made generally available. He was quoted as saying, \"It was a beautiful thing we did together, but for that reason alone it should be left in the clouds. People need mystery and romance.\" In spite of this, it did eventually receive a limited vinyl release on the Rephlex record label.\n\nBj\u00f6rk explains about the song:\n\n\u201c This is a song I wrote at the end on Vespertine, but I didn't put it there because I felt it was from a different family - Vespertine was introvert and shy and not very physical a record, and this was a very physical song that I wrote when I was feeling quite strong again. \t\u201d\n\nThe single was released on 18 October 2004 in the UK, where it peaked at #26 in the singles chart.\n\nIn 2011, Bon Iver performed a cover version of the song during a concert in Brooklyn, New York and subsequently covered it on an iTunes live session."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113780","idTrack":"32767680","strTrack":"Oceania","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vypwxy1354194614.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5ZU06JDN4","strDescription":"\"Oceania\" is a song by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk. It was formerly planned to be the first single release from Bj\u00f6rk's Med\u00falla album. Later it was just released as a promo. It was written for the 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, where she performed immediately following the Parade of Nations. As with most of Med\u00falla, the track is composed purely of human vocals and features a London choir and Leeds-based beatboxer Shlomo. The lyrics are written by her friend, Sj\u00f3n, who is an Icelandic poet and novelist. They are written in the point of view of the ocean who sings about the evolution of humans from her waters. This was the last song written and mixed for the album.\n\nThe video, directed by Lynn Fox, features a jewel-encrusted Bj\u00f6rk in dark watery depths, with a colourful sunset and swirling floral creatures above her. Lynn Fox also made visuals for Bj\u00f6rk's Greatest Hits Tour and the music video for \"Nature Is Ancient\" which is available on the greatest hits DVD Volumen as a bonus.\n\nA re-recording of \"Oceania\" was featured as a B-side to the \"Who Is It\" single. This version features vocals by Kelis and additional lyrics she had written herself from the continent's point of view. A piano version also appeared on the DVD single, which was assisted in its creation by Nico Muhly.\nThe song was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2005 Grammy Awards but lost out to Norah Jones.\n\nThe song was sampled by e-40 in the track \"Spend the Night\" on his 2010 Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift album."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113780","idTrack":"32767685","strTrack":"Triumph of a Heart","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/ssusrw1354194838.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoP-YTjN7PA&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Triumph of a Heart\" was the third single from Bj\u00f6rk's album Med\u00falla. The hip-hop-influenced song features beatboxer Rahzel from The Roots, Gregory Purnhagen, and Japanese beatboxer, Dokaka.\n\nThe making of the video is documented in a bonus feature that appears on The Med\u00falla Videos DVD. The feature focuses on the auditions for the bar patrons who had to be able to make the noises and sound effects required for the song.\n\nThe single was released on 28 February 2005 in the UK, and peaked at #31.\n\nThe song was first performed live on April 20, 2008 at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The live version features brass in the chorus."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113782","idTrack":"32767691","strTrack":"Human Behaviour","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/sryxvq1354185386.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh22Q1S6iRQ&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Human Behaviour\" is Icelandic singer and songwriter Bj\u00f6rk's first solo single, taken from the album Debut (1993). The song was released in June 1993. The song was produced by Bj\u00f6rk's longtime collaborator Nellee Hooper. Human Behaviour is an alternative song with lyrics reflecting upon human nature and emotion from a non-human animal's point of view. The song and music video were inspired by British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough.\n\nCritics praised \"Human Behaviour\" and deemed it as a highlight of the album. The song was an underground smash, which peaked at number two on the dance charts and reached #36 in the UK Singles Chart."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113782","idTrack":"32767693","strTrack":"Venus as a Boy","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/upxyvv1354185756.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Rd7zrvW7k","strDescription":"\"Venus as a Boy\" is a song by Icelandic singer and songwriter Bj\u00f6rk. It was released as the second single from her 1993 album Debut (1993). The song was written by Bj\u00f6rk and was produced by Nellee Hooper, who produced the majority of her debut album. The single was released in August 1993, a month after the release of the album. The song was inspired by a boy who saw everything from a \"beauty point of view\".\n\n\"Venus as a Boy\" is a chillout song influenced by avant-garde sounds. The song features also an peculiar musical ensemble, made up of Indian instruments like Tablas. The song received mixed reviews from critics, who discussed Bj\u00f6rk's musical shift. The song didn't chart well in any nation but managed to enter the UK Singles Chart Top 30.\n\nThe accompanying music video was directed by the British music video director Sophie Muller. The clip shows Bj\u00f6rk in a kitchen while she's cooking some eggs and was inspired by the singer's favorite book Story of the Eye. Bj\u00f6rk performed the song on different TV appearances, including Top of the Pops, and sang it during the course of her Debut Tour.\n\nThe song was later chosen by fans to be included in her greatest hits album, Greatest Hits and also appeared in her Family Tree Box Set which contained a \"greatest hits\" disc on which the songs were chosen by Bj\u00f6rk.\n\nThe song was written by Bj\u00f6rk and was produced by Nellee Hooper. It was one of the last tracks to be recorded for the album. The song was inspired by a \"specific person\" but Bj\u00f6rk never revealed who it was. Although, it is supposed that this specifical person is Dominic Thrupp (also known as Dom T.) with whom Bj\u00f6rk had a relationship at the time of writing. Moreover, the song talks about a boy who saw everything from a \"beauty point of view, and not superficial beauty but the beauty of brushing your teeth and the beauty of waking up in the morning in the right beat and the beauty of having a conversation with a person.\" as revealed by the singer.\n\nThe B-sides were \"St\u00edg\u00f0u Mig\" (\"Step Me\"), a song originally recorded by The Elgar Sisters; a group formed in the early eighties by guitarist Gu\u00f0laugur Kristinn \u00d3ttarsson and Bj\u00f6rk, written by Bj\u00f6rk, \u00d3ttarsson and Th\u00f3r Eldon.\n\nThe other B-side is \"I Remember You\", a cover of the classic love song written by Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer, that was recorded together with \"Like Someone in Love\", but didn't make the last cut as the latter. In both songs Corky Hale plays the Harp"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113782","idTrack":"32767696","strTrack":"Big Time Sensuality","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vtstys1354187113.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHuXpWSNa-8","strDescription":"\"Big Time Sensuality\" is a song by Icelandic recording artist Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fourth single from her 1993 album Debut (1993). Written by Bj\u00f6rk and staple collaborator Nellee Hooper and produced by Hooper, \"Big Time Sensuality\" is a house-influenced song that helped boost Bj\u00f6rk's popularity worldwide, particularly the U.S., where she charted for the first time.\n\n\"Big Time Sensuality\" lyrics deals with her relation with her friends and Hooper. The song features house grooves and electronic bass-sounds. The single release was actually the \"Fluke Minimix\", which is a mix by Fluke, and the song was performed in this version in various occasions, including the inaugural MTV Europe Music Awards. Critics praised the song and the remix calling them \"saucy\" and commenting on their House and Pop flavors.\n\nA different edit of the Fluke remix was featured in the music video for the song, directed by St\u00e9phane Sednaoui, in which Bj\u00f6rk dances and sings on a truck throughout New York City. The video was praised by critics and fans and received heavy rotation on MTV channels.\n\nThe video edit of the Fluke remix was also featured in Bj\u00f6rk's Greatest Hits."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113782","idTrack":"32767700","strTrack":"Violently Happy","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/sxqvxy1354187446.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38UrRpYsPjw","strDescription":"\"Violently Happy\" is a song by Icelandic singer and songwriter Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fifth and final single from her album Debut in 1993. The song was written by Bj\u00f6rk and Nellee Hooper, who helped her in writing and producing most of the album. The lyrics speak of Bj\u00f6rk feeling a love so intense that it is actually dangerous, requesting that her lover return to \"calm her down\". Musically, it's an upbeat song which peaked at #13 in the UK and reached #3 on the US dance charts.\n\nThe song was released in March 1994 and received good reviews from music critics, which praised its musicality and its dance-pop appeal. The song received an accompanying music video which was shoot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, in which Bj\u00f6rk and many appearances dances frantically in a kind of Asylum while they're cutting out their hair or parts of dolls. Bj\u00f6rk performed the song live a few TV appearances, including Top of the Pops.\n\n\"Violently Happy\" received generally positive reviews from music critics. In particular, Simon Reynolds of The New York Times praised the song generally \"The title of \u201cViolently Happy\u201d captures the Bj\u00f6rk effect perfectly : a gush and rush of euphoria, a tidal wave of oceanic feeling. Over the song\u2019s brisk house beats, Bj\u00f6rk stammers as she struggles to express feelings of excitement so intense she seems on the brink of leaping out of her skin : \u201cI\u2019m driving my car too fast with ecstatic music on/ I\u2019m daring people to jump off roofs with me.\u201d In the end, she and Mr. Hooper resort to studio wizardry to gesture at inexpressible feelings, sampling one syllable and turning it into a stuttering vocal tic\". The Daily Telegraph's journalist Emily Bearn noticed that \"Violently Happy\" finds her making guttural noises at the sea : \"I tip-toe down to the shore/Stand by the ocean/Make it roar at me/And I roar back\".\n\nThe song was defined \"bittersweet\" by Heather Phares of Allmusic, and \"insanely addictive\" by Sean McCarthy of The Daily Vault, which also deemed its title as \"one of the best song titles of all time\". Brantley Bardin of Details commented that \"Songs like \u201cViolently Happy\u201d summed up a worldview that put all its faith in emotional abandon instead of logic. \u201cToo much cleverness,\u201d says Bj\u00f6rk, is the worst disease in the world. It ruins everything. Give us a laugh\u2014make us happy\"."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113784","idTrack":"32767720","strTrack":"Hunter","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wpvuxr1354189725.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSohz7B0Zo","strDescription":"\"Hunter\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released in 1998 as the third single from Homogenic. The song peaked at number 43 in the UK Singles Chart and at number 55 on the French Singles Chart.\n\nThe song also appeared on the soundtrack to The X-Files movie.\n\n\"Hunter\" has been brilliantly well-received by music critics. Some praised its for its elaborate production, its haunting melody and cryptic lyrics. The accompanying music video has been acclaimed, and is considered to be one of the best Bj\u00f6rk videos to date.\n\nAccording to Bj\u00f6rk, the song is about others depending on her:\n\n\u201cI guess that song's about when you have a lot of people that work for you and you sort-of have to write songs or people get unemployed, you know? In most cases, it's inspiring but in that particular song I was pissed off with it. I was ready for a break but it didn't seem fair on the people I worked with at the time.\u201d\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113784","idTrack":"32767721","strTrack":"J\u00f3ga","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/uwsuqp1354190033.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BSMcVRgloY","strDescription":"\"J\u00f3ga\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, and the first single from her 1997 album Homogenic.\n\nAn electronic song, \"J\u00f3ga\" fuses these elements with Baroque and classical styles. The track's sound was partially inspired by Icelandic music, containing what have been described as \"volcanic beats\". Lyrically, the piece is an ode to Bj\u00f6rk's native land and her best friend, while containing subtexts relating to emergency. \"J\u00f3ga\" has been critically acclaimed ever since its release, with reviewers praising her powerful vocal performance, as well as the track's composition and overall production. Commercially, the song was a moderate success, charting in several international markets.\n\n\"J\u00f3ga\" has left a legacy, being ranked as one of the greatest singles of the 1990s. Through the track's blend of classical and electronic elements, Bj\u00f6rk is said to have invented \"baroque electronica\".\n\nThe chorus has repetition of the phrase \"state of emergency\" but does not feature the song title. The song is a dedication to Bj\u00f6rk's close friend J\u00f3hanna \"J\u00f3ga\" J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir \u2013 the wife of the future Mayor of Reykjav\u00edk J\u00f3n Gnarr and also her personal assistant during the shooting of Dancer in the Dark \u2013 and to their homeland Iceland. \"J\u00f3ga\" features electronic beats mixed with a classical string arrangement, as in the other tracks of the album Homogenic.\n\nBj\u00f6rk explained about the song:\n\n\"When I started preparing for Homogenic, it was very obviously supposed to be a love album to Iceland nature. I'd learned enough about studios and beats to make modern Icelandic pop music. I was doing a lot of experimenting with beats trying to make them sound volcanic. With this song, I really had a sort of National Anthem in mind. Not the National Anthem but certain classic Icelandic songs \u2013 very romantic, very proud.\"\n\n\"J\u00f3ga\" has received acclaim from music critics ever since its release. Heather Phares of Allmusic wrote that \"Bj\u00f6rk lets a little light shine through \"J\u00f3ga\"\" and described it as a \"moving song\", listing it as one of the album highlights. Furthermore, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine labelled the track \"adrenaline\". David Browne of Entertainment Weekly also commented on \"J\u00f3ga\", writing that it was more \"somber\" than another album track, \"Bachelorette\", and Bjork sings the lyrics with \"the strings swelling luxuriantly\". Robert Christgau, in his review for the album, placed it as one of the recommended tracks alongside \"Bachelorette\". In Slant Magazine's list of the Best Singles of the 1990s, \"J\u00f3ga\" was placed 35th; alongside the ranking, the track was praised, said to contain \"one of the Icelandic singer-songwriter's fiercest vocal performances to date\", as well as that the \"sweeping string arrangement is its true star\"."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113784","idTrack":"32767722","strTrack":"Unravel","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFQJU9tl7g","strDescription":"\"Unravel\" is the third song on the album Homogenic by Bj\u00f6rk, which was released in 1997. The song features a prominent example of Bj\u00f6rk's use of a half-singing, half-speaking technique which, according to folklore specialist Njall Sigurason, is comparable to that of Old Icelandic choirmen. Structurally, the song is made up of a slowly sweeping melody, saxophones, a church organ, and distant-sounding electronic beats."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113784","idTrack":"32767723","strTrack":"Bachelorette","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wqrxtt1354190508.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5nNfbTS6N4","strDescription":"\"Bachelorette\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released as the second single from her 1997 album Homogenic.\n\nThe song was originally written for a film by Bernardo Bertolucci, but the project was withdrawn. The lyrics for Bachelorette were written by Sj\u00f3n as Bj\u00f6rk tells in her website:\n\u201c Because I wanted the lyrics to be so epic, I got my friend Sj\u00f3n - who's a poet in Iceland - to write them. We sat together at the kitchen table and drank a lot of red wine and I told him the whole story for hours and days and he wrote the words from that story. \t\u201d\n\nThe song is emotionally charged and theatrical, following the album's theme of \"beats and strings\", but also includes other instruments like timbales, timpani, Alp horn, accordion, etc., that make the song stronger and more dramatic. Bj\u00f6rk herself describes the song's story as \"Isobel goes to the city.\""},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113784","idTrack":"32767727","strTrack":"Alarm Call","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tvrrqy1354190602.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtzQ6KbWWY","strDescription":"\"Alarm Call\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk released as the fourth single from her third studio album Homogenic, peaking at #33 in the UK.\n\nThe song was used in the 1999 film The Mod Squad\n\nThe song speaks of re-awakening through music and is rumoured to be about Michael Jackson as it was originally labelled \"Jacko\" on the Homogenic demo tape. Bj\u00f6rk explained \"I think that music has the power to change the things, and that's what I wanted to show on Alarm Call\". The song breaks with the aesthetic of the album of strings and volcanic beats and gives the song a little more relaxed, poppy and hip-hop tone. It is the only single from Homogenic that was not included on Greatest Hits."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113784","idTrack":"32767729","strTrack":"All Is Full of Love","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tsyxst1354190787.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2tBhaVEWGM&hd=1","strDescription":"\"All Is Full of Love\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fifth and final single from her album Homogenic. The version of the song used in the video is actually the original version of the song, while the version on Homogenic is a remix by Howie B. The original version of the song is used in the 1999 film Stigmata. The music for \"All Is Full of Love\" features sounds inspired by machines, and is accompanied by orchestral instruments and clavichord performed by Guy Sigsworth. It was first released as a dance single by Funkst\u00f6rung with their remixes in late 1998, but later received a full single and video release in the 1999 summer. The song has been acclaimed ever since its release, with music critics calling it the highlight of the album, and also praised it for Bj\u00f6rk's powerful vocals and its instrumentation. The single was an alternative rock hit as well as a dance hit in America. It peaked at #8 on the dance charts. Meanwhile, in the UK, the single peaked at #23. It is the first track on Bj\u00f6rk's Greatest Hits album.\n\nThis single was one of the first to ever be issued on the then-new DVD single format, to maximise exposure of the video. It also was the first commercial Mini-disk release in the UK.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113785","idTrack":"32767730","strTrack":"Army of Me","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vvvusw1354187968.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KxtgS2lU94","strDescription":"\"Army of Me\" is a song by Icelandic singer-songwriter Bj\u00f6rk. It was released on April 21, 1995 by One Little Indian as the lead single from her second solo album Post (1995). The song was written and produced by Bj\u00f6rk and Graham Massey, who helped her in producing and writing the majority of her second album. \"Army of Me\" was a commercial success, and the first single from Bj\u00f6rk to enter in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. Lyrically, the song was inspired by the damaging behavior of Bj\u00f6rk's brother, and in the lyrics she tells him to stand up and to regain control of his life. The song was critically well received by music critics who noted its darkness and praised Bj\u00f6rk's energy.\n\nBj\u00f6rk premiered the song on some gigs during the Debut Tour before the release of the album. She performed it in a series of TV appearances, and notably, for the first time on Top of the Pops with Skunk Anansie. Additionally, the song was performed on every date of the Post Tour. The song was featured on Bj\u00f6rk's compilation album, Greatest Hits (2002).\n\nThe song's music video was the product of another collaboration between Bj\u00f6rk and Michel Gondry. It features Bj\u00f6rk driving an enormous vehicle through a city, and includes Bj\u00f6rk fighting with a gorilla for re-obtaining a diamond, and putting a bomb in a museum to free a boy.\n\nIn 2004, Bj\u00f6rk, to help the UNICEF released a charity benefit compilation entitled Army of Me: Remixes and Covers, which featured a series of covers and remix by artists from all over the world.\n\nThe song was well received from music critics. Some noted that Bj\u00f6rk was distant from the \"pixie\" image of the first album, with Jen Appel praising the singer's attitude by saying: \"With lyrics such as \"If you complain once more / you'll meet an army of me,\" Bj\u00f6rk instantly proves she is a force to be reckoned with\". Eric Handerson of Slant Magazine found that the song \"provocatively merges a Weather Report-esque jazz-fusion bass riff with a heavy-timbered rock drumbeat to match her contemptuous vocal delivery (\"Self-sufficience, please!\")\n\nNatalie Curtis described the song as \"inelegant\", on a similar note, Mim Udovitch of Rolling Stone dubbed it as \"ominous, anthemic\", with Lou Stathis of MTV stating that \"Army Of Me\" is \"booming, martial-march techno\". According to Brantley Bardin of Details \"Army of Me\" is \"the album\u2019s straightest song, a manifesto about self-sufficiency\", while for Liz Hoggard of The Observer the track is \"brutal yet tender\". Stuart Maconie of Q praised the song by stating that its lyrics carries \"bold and refreshing sentiments for a rock song. Refreshingly Icelandic sentiments\" and further stating that \"\"Army Of Me\" not only sounds fabulous\u2014Led Zeppelin and techno welded together into a surging, operatic whole\u2014but possesses a briskly pull-yourself-together tone. \u201cStand up, you\u2019ve got to manage .../You\u2019re all right, there\u2019s nothing wrong/...get to work/and if you complain once more, you\u2019ll meet an army of me\".\n\nIn a very positive review, Heather Phares of Allmusic stated that \"Atypical in its relative starkness and darkness, \"Army of Me\" casts Bj\u00f6rk against type as a warrior goddess fed up with whining, instead of her usual cyber-pixie persona. The first single from 1995's otherwise buoyant Post and a featured track on the Tank Girl soundtrack, the song's pounding industrial beat, menacing synth bass, and unusually aggressive lyrics (\"And if you complain once more/You'll meet an army of me\") stand in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and to most of her previous work. However, \"Army of Me\" seems like a precursor of the dark, introspective tone and sparse electronica arrangements of Bj\u00f6rk's next album, 1997's Homogenic. The song was also turned into another video collaboration between Bj\u00f6rk and her longtime director, Michael Gondry. The clip depicts Bj\u00f6rk as a tank girl of sorts who goes to the dentist (which happens to be a gorilla) to have a sore tooth pulled\u2014only to have it turn into a giant diamond, which she uses to fuel her tank. Like the song, it all makes sense in Bj\u00f6rk's surreal, intellectually playful way\".\n\nAccording to The New York Times writer Joy Press \"\u201cArmy of Me\u201d is so menacing and inorganic-sounding it verges on industrial rock\", and in a review, Pulse! defined the song \"a staggering juggernaut of a track\". While reviewing Post, Andy Smith of \"The Providence Journal\" stated that \"Post is an eclectic affair, opening with the assertive industrial clang of \u201cArmy of Me\u201d\".\n\nIn 1995, \"Army of Me\" won an Icelandic Music Award for Song of the Year. The song was also ranked #316 in Blender magazine's The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113785","idTrack":"32767731","strTrack":"Hyper-ballad","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/xqrqss1354188292.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSiU0j_lFA","strDescription":"\"Hyperballad\", also known as \"Hyper-Ballad\", is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fourth single from her 1995 album Post.\n\nBj\u00f6rk performed \"Hyperballad\" at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York in 1997, and this live version was subsequently included on the second disc of the Tibetan Freedom Concert album released later that year.\n\n\"Hyperballad\" was the song receiving most votes from Bj\u00f6rk fans on the overall survey for her Greatest Hits album's song list. In September 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 11 on their \"Top 200 Tracks of the 90s\".\n\nBrodsky Quartet contributed their talents to a remix of the song, which first appeared on Bj\u00f6rk's Post album, and later on Telegram. The song is mistitled \"Hyperballad (Brodski Quartet Version)\" on all pressings of the limited 2-CD edition Australian of Post.\n\nIn the Volta Tour and in the Volta\u00efc DVD, the song is remixed by Mark Bell using a sample from LFO's song \"Freak\".\n\nIn the lyrics, Bj\u00f6rk talks about waking up early before her boyfriend and throwing small objects off a cliff, watching them smash. She imagines her body in their place, which makes her feel better about returning to her safe home and the arms of her lover.\n\nBj\u00f6rk explains: \"I guess that song is about when you're in a relationship and it's going really well and you're really happy and maybe you have given up parts of yourself. To fall in love and be in a relationship for a long time is like giving a lot of parts of you away because the relationship becomes more important than you as individuals. It's a bit of a tricky balance. I think everyone in a relationship needs to know not to forget themselves...\" (from an interview by David Hemingway)\n\nShe also explained how the song relates to the hiding of an aggressive part of oneself from a lover.\n\n\u201cBasically, 'Hyper-ballad' is about having this kind of bag going on and three years have passed and you're not high anymore. You have to make an effort consciously and nature's not helping you anymore. So you wake up early in the morning and you sneak outside and you do something horrible and destructive, break whatever you can find, watch a horrible film, read a bit of William Burroughs, something really gross and come home and be like, 'Hi honey, how are you?'\""},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113785","idTrack":"32767733","strTrack":"It's Oh So Quiet","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wtvsru1354188450.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htobTBlCvUU","strDescription":"\"It's Oh, So Quiet\" is a song by American singer Betty Hutton, released in 1951 as the B-side to the single \"Murder, He Says\". It is a cover of the German song \"Und jetzt ist es still\", performed by Horst Winter in 1948, with music written by Austrian composer Hans Lang and German lyrics by Erich Meder. The English lyrics were written by Bert Reisfeld.\n\n\"It's Oh So Quiet\" was covered by Bj\u00f6rk in 1995 and remains her biggest hit, reaching #4 in the UK and spending 15 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. Fuelled by the Spike Jonze-directed music video clip, the single also shot Bj\u00f6rk into the spotlight in Australia, where it reached #6. In the United Kingdom the single has been certified as Gold, having sold upwards of 400,000 copies.  The song used in promo sixth and final season of HBO's comedy-drama Sex and the City and cover version by Lucy Woodward in Walt Disney Pictures's 2005 film Ice Princess."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113785","idTrack":"32767736","strTrack":"Isobel","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/rruxwu1354188847.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYyPu1wqloE&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Isobel\" is a song by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk. It was released as the second single from her 1995 album Post. The lyrics describe a primitive girl who seems to be a personification of Mother Nature, and who tries to warn the technological world of its potential dangers. The music is underscored by lush strings, electronic beats, and a cinematic, orchestral introduction that eventually fades into a jungle influenced beat. The song was rumored to have been inspired by the piece \"The Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs\" by John Cage.\n\nBj\u00f6rk has stated that a track on Homogenic, \"Bachelorette\", is a continuation of \"Isobel\". In an interview with Paper in September 1997, Bj\u00f6rk explains, \"So Isobel decides to return to the city and to take a train, like in the 30's, in South America somewhere. She decides to confront love with love and confronts the cowards that don't have the guts to fall in love with love. So you see - it's like Isobel has returned.\"\n\nThe lyrics to both \"Isobel\" and \"Bachelorette\" were penned by long-time collaborator, Icelandic poet Sj\u00f3n. The repeating phrase \"moth delivers her message/unexplained on your collar\" in the chorus is a reference to when Bj\u00f6rk found a moth on her favourite shirt. She wore the shirt all day, and even removed it to go swimming, but the moth remained.\n\nBj\u00f6rk had also declared that this song is dedicated to \"Elis Regina\", one of the most famous and talented Brazilian singer, dead in 1982. The name Isobel is maybe the mix between her first name \"Elis\" and \"B\" and\" \"O\" in Bj\u00f6rk's name.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113785","idTrack":"32767737","strTrack":"Possibly Maybe","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/urxxuq1354189079.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE11_5Spq1I&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Possibly Maybe\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fifth single from her 1995 album Post. It is a song with deep electronic tones and soft beats that reflects on potential love.\n\nThere were three different single releases, this was the first Bj\u00f6rk single to be released in three parts. Two of these three parts are rarities in the music world in that their A-side is not the first track. The first CD came with a slipcase that could also house the other two.\n\nThe song details different stages of a breakup. Bj\u00f6rk says it was \"the first unhappy song I wrote... I felt ashamed writing a song that was not giving hope\". The melancholic piece was dedicated to her broken relationship with St\u00e9phane Sednaoui, who, curiously, also directed the video. Rumours have persisted that Bj\u00f6rk recorded the song in the nude, although this has not been publicly commented on. Bj\u00f6rk was sued by British electronic musician Scanner for the uncleared sample of telephones ringing (from his album Mass Observation) at the start of the track. The situation caused her record label, One Little Indian, to contemplate the idea of destroying all current copies of Post in the shops, and of the remixing, remastering and reprinting of a new version of the album that included a version of \"Possibly Maybe\" which did not feature the sample.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113785","idTrack":"32767738","strTrack":"I Miss You","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/yyuxru1354189177.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDX_5hQ6So","strDescription":"\"I Miss You\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, the sixth and final single release from her 1995 album Post. It is amongst her least-well performing singles in the UK, but it hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.\n\nThe B-side \"Karvel\" was recorded in one of the first sessions of Bj\u00f6rk with Graham Massey in 1991; on which other two tracks were also recorded: \"Army of Me\" and \"The Modern Things\".\n\nThe lyrics describe Bj\u00f6rk already knowing who her perfect lover will be, even though she hasn't yet met him. The remastered version as appears on the 2006 release Surrounded features a newly-recorded vocal take.\n\nThe track was performed during the 1995-96 Post Tour. In support of the release of Post the song was performed on UK TV show The White Room in 1995, and on the Spanish TV show Zona Franca in 1996 to promote the later single release. It was also notably performed on TFI Friday on 19 April 1996, with Howie Bernstein and the TFI Friday House Brass. This performance was later featured on the Post Live album. Having not been performed live in over a decade, the song would later be performed during the 2007-08 Volta Tour with the Icelandic \"Wonderbrass\" brass section, sometimes also with fellow Sugarcubes vocalist Einar \u00d6rn on trumpet.\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113786","idTrack":"32767741","strTrack":"Earth Intruders","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/spwyyx1354195197.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Q9ppPPHjU","strDescription":"\"Earth Intruders\" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk. The song was released as the first single from her sixth full-length studio album, Volta. The single was released digitally in the USA on 9 April and 21 April 2007 and in Europe on 28 April 2007. It is produced by R&B record producer Timbaland and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Danja. The single was released in a physical box set on 4 February 2008. Due to high digital download sales, it remains Bj\u00f6rk's highest charting single in the United States to date.\n\nIn an interview on mtv.com Bj\u00f6rk talked about the background of the song.\n\n\u201cThe song \"Earth Intruders,\" in particular, was sculpted soon after Bj\u00f6rk awoke from a dream she had during a cross-Atlantic flight to New York. In the dream, the singer said a \"tsunami of millions and millions of poverty-stricken people\" swelled high above the airplane she was a passenger on. Eventually, the wave overtook the plane, hit land and razed the White House into oblivion. \"It's a quite chaotic song,\" she said of Volta's first single. \"Lyrically, it's a collection of all of these images\" burned into her memory, from her trip to Indonesia as well as her vivid, in-flight reverie.\""},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113786","idTrack":"32767742","strTrack":"Wanderlust","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wsvpxp1354195614.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzPsyMqSYNA","strDescription":"\"Wanderlust\" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk. The track was released digitally as the fourth single from her seventh full-length studio album, Volta, on 7 April 2008.\n\nWhite labels of the single were issued in February 2008. The physical single was released on 12 June after an almost two month delay.\nBj\u00f6rk has described \"Wanderlust\" as being the heart of Volta, and has said that the song is about \"the state of looking for something and almost knowing you're never going to find it\" and that it makes fun of her hunger for \"something new\". It was released in the UK on 30 June.\n\nAs Bj\u00f6rk said in an interview for Harp, \"Things go in circles. Wanderlust, for example, is a sort of continuity of 'Hyperballad'.\""},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113786","idTrack":"32767743","strTrack":"The Dull Flame of Desire","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/qvpvtt1354195870.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWV4N-ZcDJg","strDescription":"\"The Dull Flame of Desire\" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk featuring Antony Hegarty from the band Antony and the Johnsons. The track was released as the fifth and final single from her sixth full-length studio album, Volta, on 29 September 2008. Bj\u00f6rk has performed the song 12 times on her global Volta tour, often with Antony Hegarty onstage. The lyrics to the song are an English translation of a Russian poem by Fyodor Tyutchev, as it appears in the Andrei Tarkovsky film, Stalker."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113786","idTrack":"32767744","strTrack":"Innocence","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wprryw1354196008.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_om8epopI8s&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Innocence\" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk. The song was released as the second single from her sixth full-length studio album, Volta. It is co-produced by Hip-Hop/R&B record producer Timbaland and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Danja. The song was premiered on Bj\u00f6rk's MySpace profile on March 19, 2007 as part of the fan contest to submit ideas for the music video. The single was released exclusively as a digital download on July 23, 2007.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2113786","idTrack":"32767749","strTrack":"Declare Independence","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/yyxvut1354196142.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLCFRo1GlEI&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Declare Independence\" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk. The track was released as the third single from her sixth full-length studio album, Volta. The single was released on January 1, 2008. Bj\u00f6rk's dedication of the song to various independence causes at live performances of the song in Shanghai and Tokyo have caused controversy.\n\nThe song was originally an instrumental track by British musician and frequent musical collaborator Mark Bell, performed at his live shows as early as November, 2006. Bj\u00f6rk later added her vocals on top. The lyrics are dedicated to the Faroe Islands and Greenland, islands currently ruled by Denmark, as Bj\u00f6rk's home country of Iceland had been.\n\nDeclare Independence was originally meant to be released as the second single from Volta in August, 2007, but due to the worldwide success of the album Bj\u00f6rk had to perform more international promotion work than her label One Little Indian had originally planned, meaning that the previously-planned video shoot for \"Declare Independence\" with Michel Gondry in London couldn't take place. The deadline for the music video contest for \"Innocence\" (then slated as the third single) was then brought forward a month to June 10, 2007 so as to provide a finished video able to coincide with a July, 2007 release originally planned for Declare Independence.\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2118205","idTrack":"32822751","strTrack":"Hyperballad","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSiU0j_lFA","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2120451","idTrack":"32850522","strTrack":"Moon","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/suywyy1354196508.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br2s0xJyFEM","strDescription":"\"Moon\" is a song by Icelandic artist Bj\u00f6rk. It is the first track on her album Biophilia and was released as the second promotional single before the release of the album. Each song in the album features a theme related to nature. In \"Moon\", Bj\u00f6rk explores the lunar cycles and the effect they have on Earth.\n\nThe song \"Moon\" is based on four different sequences played by four different harpists: Zeena Parkins, Shelley Burgon, Sara Cutler, Carol Emanuel. These sequences repeat throughout the song, resembling the lunar cycles. The song has 17/8 time signature. The lyrics to \"Moon\" deals with themes such as rebirth, start over and mythology, making reference to the Moon as \"adrenalin pearls placed in the gods' mouths\". About the song, Bj\u00f6rk explained: \"With each new moon we complete a cycle and are offered renewal \u2014to take risks, to connect with other people, to love, to give. The symbolism of the moon as the realm of imagination, melancholy, and regeneration is expressed in the song\"\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2120451","idTrack":"32850524","strTrack":"Crystalline","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/uwytyx1354196764.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvaEmPQnbWk&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Crystalline\" is a song by Icelandic artist Bj\u00f6rk, released as the lead single from her seventh album Biophilia. The song was released as a single on June 28, 2011 accompanied by an iPad app developed exclusively for the song. \"Cosmogony\" served as its double A-side for both its physical and digital release."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2120451","idTrack":"32850530","strTrack":"Mutual Core","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM80F_J-QHE&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Mutual Core\" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer-songwriter Bj\u00f6rk for her seventh studio album Biophilia (2011). It was written and produced by Bj\u00f6rk herself, while programming and beats were made in collaboration with Matthew Herbert and English dubstep band 16bit. \"Mutual Core\" is an uptempo experimental song. Its music includes Pipe organ, electronica-tinged sounds and features the Choir Graduale Nobili, the choir featured on Biophilia. The song's lyrics are a metaphor for human relationships, compared to the structure of the Earth and Plate tectonics. The song was well received by contemporary music critics, who compared its sound to the work of The Chemical Brothers and praised its production and beats, moreover appreciating Bj\u00f6rk's voice on the track.\n\nAs with all the songs on Biophilia, an app was made for the song, which features a video game in which the player have to move geological layers as an accordion to play chords. Though the song wasn't released as a single, a music video was produced, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang. Bj\u00f6rk promoted the song by performing it throughout her Biophilia Tour.\n\nThree remixes by Matthew Herbert, 16bit and These New Puritans were released as part of Biophilia Remix Series. The Matthew Herbert's and the These New Puritans remixes were later included on bastards (2012). On July, 2012, the online music store Beatport announced a fan contest in which \"Mutual Core\" had to be remixed, to be released afterwards on a remix package.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902106","strTrack":"All Is Full of Love","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/qpwvyp1354202301.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2tBhaVEWGM&hd=1","strDescription":"\"All Is Full of Love\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fifth and final single from her album Homogenic. The version of the song used in the video is actually the original version of the song, while the version on Homogenic is a remix by Howie B. The original version of the song is used in the 1999 film Stigmata. The music for \"All Is Full of Love\" features sounds inspired by machines, and is accompanied by orchestral instruments and clavichord performed by Guy Sigsworth. It was first released as a dance single by Funkst\u00f6rung with their remixes in late 1998, but later received a full single and video release in the 1999 summer. The song has been acclaimed ever since its release, with music critics calling it the highlight of the album, and also praised it for Bj\u00f6rk's powerful vocals and its instrumentation. The single was an alternative rock hit as well as a dance hit in America. It peaked at #8 on the dance charts. Meanwhile, in the UK, the single peaked at #23. It is the first track on Bj\u00f6rk's Greatest Hits album.\n\nThis single was one of the first to ever be issued on the then-new DVD single format, to maximise exposure of the video. It also was the first commercial Mini-disk release in the UK."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902107","strTrack":"Hyper-ballad","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/usxqpw1354202563.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26sP2WsA5cY&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Hyperballad\", also known as \"Hyper-Ballad\", is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fourth single from her 1995 album Post.\n\nBj\u00f6rk performed \"Hyperballad\" at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York in 1997, and this live version was subsequently included on the second disc of the Tibetan Freedom Concert album released later that year.\n\n\"Hyperballad\" was the song receiving most votes from Bj\u00f6rk fans on the overall survey for her Greatest Hits album's song list. In September 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 11 on their \"Top 200 Tracks of the 90s\".\n\nBrodsky Quartet contributed their talents to a remix of the song, which first appeared on Bj\u00f6rk's Post album, and later on Telegram. The song is mistitled \"Hyperballad (Brodski Quartet Version)\" on all pressings of the limited 2-CD edition Australian of Post.\n\nIn the Volta Tour and in the Volta\u00efc DVD, the song is remixed by Mark Bell using a sample from LFO's song \"Freak\".\n\nIn the lyrics, Bj\u00f6rk talks about waking up early before her boyfriend and throwing small objects off a cliff, watching them smash. She imagines her body in their place, which makes her feel better about returning to her safe home and the arms of her lover.\n\nBj\u00f6rk explains: \"I guess that song is about when you're in a relationship and it's going really well and you're really happy and maybe you have given up parts of yourself. To fall in love and be in a relationship for a long time is like giving a lot of parts of you away because the relationship becomes more important than you as individuals. It's a bit of a tricky balance. I think everyone in a relationship needs to know not to forget themselves...\" (from an interview by David Hemingway)\n\nShe also explained how the song relates to the hiding of an aggressive part of oneself from a lover.\n\u201cBasically, 'Hyper-ballad' is about having this kind of bag going on and three years have passed and you're not high anymore. You have to make an effort consciously and nature's not helping you anymore. So you wake up early in the morning and you sneak outside and you do something horrible and destructive, break whatever you can find, watch a horrible film, read a bit of William Burroughs, something really gross and come home and be like, 'Hi honey, how are you?'\u201d\n\nThe video was directed by Michel Gondry. It features Bj\u00f6rk as a computer game character who runs through an obscure, two-dimensional landscape of pylons before throwing herself off a cliff. This sequence, along with several others (including blinking lights and some of herself performing the song), are projected onto a three-dimensional shot of Bj\u00f6rk lying amongst a mountainous landscape.\n\nThe video was filmed at Telecine Cell in London, using a motion control system. The entire video and all the effects were shot on a single 400 ft roll of film, by multiple exposure and frame-accurate backwinding of the film strip. The graphics were shot as a series of secondary exposures using a TV monitor, and the flashing lights were created with an LED strip board, also exposed on the same piece of film. There was no post-production or editing at all on this video, except the colour correction transfer to video. This was at the insistence, and under the technical direction, of Michel Gondry.\n\nBj\u00f6rk sings live in the video. This new vocal take was later featured in the CD2 of the Hyperballad single, and in the 5.1 edition of Surrounded.\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902108","strTrack":"Human Behaviour","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tvvtwv1354202691.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh22Q1S6iRQ&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Human Behaviour\" is Icelandic singer and songwriter Bj\u00f6rk's first solo single, taken from the album Debut (1993). The song was released in June 1993. The song was produced by Bj\u00f6rk's longtime collaborator Nellee Hooper. Human Behaviour is an alternative song with lyrics reflecting upon human nature and emotion from a non-human animal's point of view. The song and music video were inspired by British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough.\n\nCritics praised \"Human Behaviour\" and deemed it as a highlight of the album. The song was an underground smash, which peaked at number two on the dance charts and reached #36 in the UK Singles Chart.\n\nThe music video was directed by Michel Gondry and is the first time the two collaborated. The video, as the song, is a story about the relation between humans and animals, from the animal point of view.\n\n\"Human Behaviour\" was written by Nellee Hooper & Bj\u00f6rk, and was produced by Hooper. The song was first written in 1988 when Bj\u00f6rk was still the leading singer of the Sugarcubes, but she decided not to release it with the band.\n\nThe song was inspired by David Attenborough documentaries and by the relation between humans and animals. Bj\u00f6rk explained to Rolling Stone, talking about the inspiration for the song: \"'Human Behaviour' is an animal's point of view on humans. And the animals are definitely supposed to win in the end.\" On a recent Q&A with fans on The Guardian website, Bj\u00f6rk revealed more information about the writing of the song: \"I wrote it I was referring to my childhood and probably talking about how I felt more comfortable on my own walking outside singing and stuff than hanging out with humans...\"\n\nThis is the first song on the \"Isobel song cycle\", a transcendental cycle in Bj\u00f6rk's discography which goes from \"Human Behaviour\" to \"Wanderlust\" (2007).\n\nThe B-side contained in the cassette edition of the single is the reggae-influenced \"Atlantic\", which was produced and written by Bj\u00f6rk. Its lyrics talks about Bj\u00f6rk's family: \"My son has eight grandmothers and eight grandfathers and it's about the love and the complications of that\".\n\n\"Human Behaviour\" bears influences from electronica and alternative dance. The melody-line of \"Human Behaviour\" was originally called \"Murder for Two\" and written by Bj\u00f6rk for the Sugarcubes' final album \"Stick Around for Joy\". But The band didn't know what music to play to the melody-line, so Bj\u00f6rk used it for her debut album.\n\nThe percussion intro is a mix between African and Asian rhythms and contains a sample from \"Go down dying\" by Brazilian artist Antonio Carlos Jobim.\n\nThe song opens with sounds of drums and snapping, during the second verse a bass is heard. Bj\u00f6rk sings the bridge accompanied by strings. The song continues with a keyboard solo and finishes as Bj\u00f6rk sings \"There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic/Human...\"\n\nIn the album version, as the song fades out, the second track \"Crying\" begins.\n\nThe song was well received by music critics. For Allmusic's Heather Pares, the song's \"dramatic percussion provides a perfect showcase for her wide-ranging voice\". The New York Times described the lyrics of \"Human Behaviour\" as a \"parallel between the beastliness of humanity and the bestiality of nature.\n\n\n\n\"After The Sugarcubes, I guess I had a mixture of liberation and fear. It had been obvious for a while in the band that I had different tastes than the rest. That's fair enough - there's no such thing as correct taste. I wrote the melody for Human Behaviour as a kid. A lot of the melodies on Debut I wrote as a teenager and put aside because I was in punk bands and they weren't punk. The lyric is almost like a child's point of view and the video that I did with Michel Gondry was based on childhood memories.\"\n\u2014Bj\u00f6rk talking to David Hemingway about the song."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902109","strTrack":"J\u00f3ga","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tvqsqr1354203114.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWaUPJVM2s&hd=1","strDescription":"J\u00f3ga\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, and the first single from her 1997 album Homogenic.\n\nAn electronic song, \"J\u00f3ga\" fuses these elements with Baroque and classical styles. The track's sound was partially inspired by Icelandic music, containing what have been described as \"volcanic beats\". Lyrically, the piece is an ode to Bj\u00f6rk's native land and her best friend, while containing subtexts relating to emergency. \"J\u00f3ga\" has been critically acclaimed ever since its release, with reviewers praising her powerful vocal performance, as well as the track's composition and overall production. Commercially, the song was a moderate success, charting in several international markets.\n\n\"J\u00f3ga\" has left a legacy, being ranked as one of the greatest singles of the 1990s. Through the track's blend of classical and electronic elements, Bj\u00f6rk is said to have invented \"baroque electronica\".\n\nThe chorus has repetition of the phrase \"state of emergency\" but does not feature the song title. The song is a dedication to Bj\u00f6rk's close friend J\u00f3hanna \"J\u00f3ga\" J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir \u2013 the wife of the future Mayor of Reykjav\u00edk J\u00f3n Gnarr and also her personal assistant during the shooting of Dancer in the Dark \u2013 and to their homeland Iceland. \"J\u00f3ga\" features electronic beats mixed with a classical string arrangement, as in the other tracks of the album Homogenic.\n\nBj\u00f6rk explained about the song:\n\n    \"When I started preparing for Homogenic, it was very obviously supposed to be a love album to Iceland nature. I'd learned enough about studios and beats to make modern Icelandic pop music. I was doing a lot of experimenting with beats trying to make them sound volcanic. With this song, I really had a sort of National Anthem in mind. Not the National Anthem but certain classic Icelandic songs \u2013 very romantic, very proud.\"\n\nCritical reception\n\n\"J\u00f3ga\" has received acclaim from music critics ever since its release. Heather Phares of Allmusic wrote that \"Bj\u00f6rk lets a little light shine through \"J\u00f3ga\"\" and described it as a \"moving song\", listing it as one of the album highlights. Furthermore, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine labelled the track \"adrenaline\". David Browne of Entertainment Weekly also commented on \"J\u00f3ga\", writing that it was more \"somber\" than another album track, \"Bachelorette\", and Bjork sings the lyrics with \"the strings swelling luxuriantly\". Robert Christgau, in his review for the album, placed it as one of the recommended tracks alongside \"Bachelorette\". In Slant Magazine's list of the Best Singles of the 1990s, \"J\u00f3ga\" was placed 35th; alongside the ranking, the track was praised, said to contain \"one of the Icelandic singer-songwriter's fiercest vocal performances to date\", as well as that the \"sweeping string arrangement is its true star\".\n\nMusic video\n\nThe music video was directed by Michel Gondry and filmed in Iceland.\n\nThe video for \"J\u00f3ga\" is a departure from her other videos as it focuses primarily on different Icelandic terrains and landscapes with Bj\u00f6rk's presence only in the beginning and towards the end. With the aid of computer animation, earthquakes begin to separate and shift the chunks of land along fault lines. The video ends with a computerized image of an island floating inside Bj\u00f6rk's chest."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902110","strTrack":"Bachelorette","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tvtwtv1354203482.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNOOBOyn20&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Bachelorette\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released as the second single from her 1997 album Homogenic.\n\nThe song was originally written for a film by Bernardo Bertolucci, but the project was withdrawn. The lyrics for Bachelorette were written by Sj\u00f3n as Bj\u00f6rk tells in her website:\n\u201c Because I wanted the lyrics to be so epic, I got my friend Sj\u00f3n - who's a poet in Iceland - to write them. We sat together at the kitchen table and drank a lot of red wine and I told him the whole story for hours and days and he wrote the words from that story. \u201d\n\nThe song is emotionally charged and theatrical, following the album's theme of \"beats and strings\", but also includes other instruments like timbales, timpani, Alp horn, accordion, etc., that make the song stronger and more dramatic. Bj\u00f6rk herself describes the song's story as \"Isobel goes to the city.\"\n\nMusic video:\n\nThe surreal music video was directed by longtime Bj\u00f6rk video collaborator Michel Gondry, and is an exploration of self-reference. It features Bj\u00f6rk as \"Bachelorette\", a woman who finds a book buried in her garden that begins to write itself, describing what Bachelorette does as she describes it; the book is entitled \"My Story\". She takes the book to a publishing house, \"Clark Publishing\", in an unspecified large city that may be Chicago, and she and the publisher fall in love. (It becomes obvious, seeing and hearing excerpts from the book, that the book tells the story of how Bachelorette found the book, travelled to meet the publisher, and fell in love with him.) The book becomes incredibly popular (at one point, all of Bachelorette's fellow passengers on a subway are seen reading it), and is turned into a musical, featuring Bachelorette as herself. The musical version includes the story of the musical itself, so at some point a mini-theater is shown on the stage, featuring actors dressed as a small audience. At some point later in the musical this mini-musical features an even smaller version of itself, with an even smaller stage audience. The publisher, who is in the actual audience, becomes disgusted with seeing so many versions of himself, and breaks off the relationship; later, his character in the original musical does as well. The book becomes unpopular, and the original copy begins unwriting itself. Because of this turn of events, a chain reaction occurs in the nested theatres, causing each to be nullified and revert back to nature. Ultimately, the entire city de-evolves into the garden that appeared at the outset. The unwritten book finds its resting place buried in the ground once more, and Bachelorette ends up dancing and surrounded by wildlife.\n\nThe video was based on an original idea by Bj\u00f6rk, who saw \"Bachelorette\" as a continuation of the character portrayed in \"Isobel\" and \"Human Behaviour\". As Gondry describes it, \"this character is leaving the forest and she decides to go to the city to have a normal life. She tries her best and it doesn't work out and she comes back to the forest and she is happier there.\"\n\n\"Bachelorette\" is the third part of a song cycle that includes \"Human Behaviour\" and \"Isobel\". And as with the latter two its lyrics were written by Bj\u00f6rk's longstanding co-writer Sj\u00f3n.\n\nThe song has been covered by Turkish singer M\u00fcsl\u00fcm G\u00fcrses and artist Voltaire. Tori Amos has also covered the song in concert, though not to be confused with another song written and performed by herself which shares the title.\n\nThe art direction of the video was heavily praised. The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902111","strTrack":"Army of Me","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/xrppyx1354203764.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KxtgS2lU94","strDescription":"\"Army of Me\" is a song by Icelandic singer-songwriter Bj\u00f6rk. It was released on April 21, 1995 by One Little Indian as the lead single from her second solo album Post (1995). The song was written and produced by Bj\u00f6rk and Graham Massey, who helped her in producing and writing the majority of her second album. \"Army of Me\" was a commercial success, and the first single from Bj\u00f6rk to enter in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. Lyrically, the song was inspired by the damaging behavior of Bj\u00f6rk's brother, and in the lyrics she tells him to stand up and to regain control of his life. The song was critically well received by music critics who noted its darkness and praised Bj\u00f6rk's energy.\n\nBj\u00f6rk premiered the song on some gigs during the Debut Tour before the release of the album. She performed it in a series of TV appearances, and notably, for the first time on Top of the Pops with Skunk Anansie. Additionally, the song was performed on every date of the Post Tour. The song was featured on Bj\u00f6rk's compilation album, Greatest Hits (2002).\n\nThe song's music video was the product of another collaboration between Bj\u00f6rk and Michel Gondry. It features Bj\u00f6rk driving an enormous vehicle through a city, and includes Bj\u00f6rk fighting with a gorilla for re-obtaining a diamond, and putting a bomb in a museum to free a boy.\n\nIn 2004, Bj\u00f6rk, to help the UNICEF released a charity benefit compilation entitled Army of Me: Remixes and Covers, which featured a series of covers and remix by artists from all over the world.\n\n\"Army of Me\" was written in 1992 by Bj\u00f6rk and Graham Massey, during one of the first recording for Debut, along with \"The Modern Things\", but Bj\u00f6rk decided to put the songs on hold and to wait for releasing them. Even so, Bj\u00f6rk performed the songs during some dates on her Debut Tour and on some dates \"Army of Me\" was called \"If you complain once more\".\n\nThe lyrics of the song are about Bj\u00f6rk's brother, as revealed by the singer and show Bj\u00f6rk daring him to move up and find a job to keep his life on, and also for him to not fall into bad things and learn to defend himself: \"It's actually written to a relative of mine who had been a bit out of order for a while. I'm not sure why I wrote it. Maybe I felt that Debut had been such a polite, shy album - there was a side of me that was so shy and such a beginner, I was very flattered when everyone loved Debut but also a bit confused because it wasn't really me. Maybe \"Army Of Me\" was an attempt to balance it out\".\n\nThe singer further explained the lyrics: \"Imagine you\u2019re in a club full of heavy metal types and grunge people; \"Army Of Me\" is like someone\u2019s granny blasting out over the PA and saying, \u2018Snap out of it! Stop whining! Wash your hair! Smarten yourself up!\u2019\".\n\nThe single was released on April 21, 1995 as a 2CD edition. The first CD contained the Icelandic version of \"You've Been Flirting Again\" and the cave version of \"Cover Me\", both from Post. The cave version of \"Cover Me\" was recorded in a cave in Bahamas, and sounds of flying bats can be heard in the background. The single also contained \"Sweet Intuition\", a song composed by Bj\u00f6rk and Black Dog, whose lyrics will be the base of the composing for another song written by Bj\u00f6rk for Madonna: \"Bedtime Story\". The second CD contained, among other remixes, a version of \"Army of Me\" which features the Skunk Anansie. The track was recorded and mixed in less than 7 hours, as recalled by the band and features Bj\u00f6rk making heavy use of screaming vocals.\n\n\n\u2014Bj\u00f6rk talking to Jon Savage about the song:\n\"I\u2019m a polar bear and I\u2019m with five hundred polar bears, just tramping over a city. The lyric is about people who feel sorry for themselves all the time and don\u2019t get their shit together. You come to a point with people like that where you\u2019ve done everything you can do for them, and the only thing that\u2019s going to sort them out is themselves. It\u2019s time to get things done. I identify with polar bears. They\u2019re very cuddly and cute and quite calm, but if they meet you they can be very strong.\"\n\n\nThe song is moderately low track, influenced by industrial rock and techno. The song partially samples the drum line of \"When the Levee Breaks\" by the Led Zeppelin. The drum track starts right after the beginning of the song, which starts with a sound of an explosion, and then it can be heard throughout the song.\n\nThe song is dominated by a heavy bass line and features synthesizer. Mim Udovitch has described the song as \"grinding techno fusion\"\n\nThe song was well received from music critics. Some noted that Bj\u00f6rk was distant from the \"pixie\" image of the first album, with Jen Appel praising the singer's attitude by saying: \"With lyrics such as \"If you complain once more / you'll meet an army of me,\" Bj\u00f6rk instantly proves she is a force to be reckoned with\". Eric Handerson of Slant Magazine found that the song \"provocatively merges a Weather Report-esque jazz-fusion bass riff with a heavy-timbered rock drumbeat to match her contemptuous vocal delivery (\"Self-sufficience, please!\")\n\nNatalie Curtis described the song as \"inelegant\", on a similar note, Mim Udovitch of Rolling Stone dubbed it as \"ominous, anthemic\", with Lou Stathis of MTV stating that \"Army Of Me\" is \"booming, martial-march techno\". According to Brantley Bardin of Details \"Army of Me\" is \"the album\u2019s straightest song, a manifesto about self-sufficiency\", while for Liz Hoggard of The Observer the track is \"brutal yet tender\". Stuart Maconie of Q praised the song by stating that its lyrics carries \"bold and refreshing sentiments for a rock song. Refreshingly Icelandic sentiments\" and further stating that \"\"Army Of Me\" not only sounds fabulous\u2014Led Zeppelin and techno welded together into a surging, operatic whole\u2014but possesses a briskly pull-yourself-together tone. \u201cStand up, you\u2019ve got to manage .../You\u2019re all right, there\u2019s nothing wrong/...get to work/and if you complain once more, you\u2019ll meet an army of me\".\n\nIn a very positive review, Heather Phares of Allmusic stated that \"Atypical in its relative starkness and darkness, \"Army of Me\" casts Bj\u00f6rk against type as a warrior goddess fed up with whining, instead of her usual cyber-pixie persona. The first single from 1995's otherwise buoyant Post and a featured track on the Tank Girl soundtrack, the song's pounding industrial beat, menacing synth bass, and unusually aggressive lyrics (\"And if you complain once more/You'll meet an army of me\") stand in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and to most of her previous work. However, \"Army of Me\" seems like a precursor of the dark, introspective tone and sparse electronica arrangements of Bj\u00f6rk's next album, 1997's Homogenic. The song was also turned into another video collaboration between Bj\u00f6rk and her longtime director, Michael Gondry. The clip depicts Bj\u00f6rk as a tank girl of sorts who goes to the dentist (which happens to be a gorilla) to have a sore tooth pulled\u2014only to have it turn into a giant diamond, which she uses to fuel her tank. Like the song, it all makes sense in Bj\u00f6rk's surreal, intellectually playful way\".\n\nAccording to The New York Times writer Joy Press \"\u201cArmy of Me\u201d is so menacing and inorganic-sounding it verges on industrial rock\", and in a review, Pulse! defined the song \"a staggering juggernaut of a track\". While reviewing Post, Andy Smith of \"The Providence Journal\" stated that \"Post is an eclectic affair, opening with the assertive industrial clang of \u201cArmy of Me\u201d\".\n\nIn 1995, \"Army of Me\" won an Icelandic Music Award for Song of the Year. The song was also ranked #316 in Blender magazine's The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902112","strTrack":"Pagan Poetry","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/yuxvvs1354203953.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Wwbw2gCcA","strDescription":"\"Pagan Poetry\" was the second single from singer Bj\u00f6rk's album Vespertine. The single peaked at number 38 in the UK and number 12 in Canada. It was written and produced by Bj\u00f6rk with additional production by Marius de Vries and mixed by Mark \"Spike\" Stent. The music box adaptation, featured in the song, was done by Jack Perron and the full version was later featured as a B-side song on the \"Cocoon\" single.\n\nReception\n\n\"Pagan Poetry\" has been highly praised by critics, with many citing it as a highlight of the album. Allmusic said of \"Pagan Poetry\" that it \"shares a spacious serenity with the album's quietest moments\" and included this song as a track pick. Rolling Stone said: \"In 'Pagan Poetry', she deploys the implied heaven of Zeena Parkins harp and a flotilla of music boxes with an Asian-teahouse touch.\" Blender said \"'Pagan Poetry' sounds like the prelude to a particularly exotic sexual interlude.\" In March 2006, in the number 77 of the Spanish edition of Rolling Stone, \"Pagan Poetry\" was ranked number 38 by Spanish music professionals and experts on a list of the best songs of the 21st century.[citation needed] Slant Magazine said of the album: \"Vespertine delicately traces the cycle of said relationship\" and called the song \"loss of personal identity and full possessive entrapment\". Pitchfork Media placed the song at number 227 on its list of \"The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s\"."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902113","strTrack":"Big Time Sensuality (The Fluke Minimix)","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wptypw1354204329.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_j3QjRRGZs","strDescription":"\"Big Time Sensuality\" is a song by Icelandic recording artist Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fourth single from her 1993 album Debut (1993). Written by Bj\u00f6rk and staple collaborator Nellee Hooper and produced by Hooper, \"Big Time Sensuality\" is a house-influenced song that helped boost Bj\u00f6rk's popularity worldwide, particularly the U.S., where she charted for the first time.\n\n\"Big Time Sensuality\" lyrics deals with her relation with her friends and Hooper. The song features house grooves and electronic bass-sounds. The single release was actually the \"Fluke Minimix\", which is a mix by Fluke, and the song was performed in this version in various occasions, including the inaugural MTV Europe Music Awards. Critics praised the song and the remix calling them \"saucy\" and commenting on their House and Pop flavors.\n\nA different edit of the Fluke remix was featured in the music video for the song, directed by St\u00e9phane Sednaoui, in which Bj\u00f6rk dances and sings on a truck throughout New York City. The video was praised by critics and fans and received heavy rotation on MTV channels.\n\nThe video edit of the Fluke remix was also featured in Bj\u00f6rk's Greatest Hits.\n\nAfter leaving The Sugarcubes, Bj\u00f6rk traveled to London where she began having contacts with electronic music, and that inspired her to change her musical style from the pop-rock sounds of the Sugarcubes to a more alternative and electronic style of music. \"Big Time Sensuality\" was one of the last song to be written for Debut, and was originally planned to be the first single from the album, but it got delayed by the release of \"Human Behaviour\". It was then intended to be the third single, but it got delayed again by the success of \"Play Dead\", and was finally released as the fourth single in November 1993.\n\nThe song was co-written by Bj\u00f6rk and Nellee Hooper and produced by Hooper, which helped her in writing and producing her first two albums. The singer's meeting with Hooper inspired her in writing the song: \"I think it's quite rare, when you're obsessed with your job, as I am, when you met someone who's your other part jobwise and enables you to do what you completely want\". The lyrics deals with enjoying life to its fullest and, in spite of its name, it was inspired by Bj\u00f6rk's friends. The lyrics deal also with braveness: \"I\u2019ve got a lot of courage, but I\u2019ve also got a lot of fear. You should allow yourself to be scared. It\u2019s one of the prime emotions. You might almost enjoy it, funny as it sounds, and find that you can get over it and deal with it. If you ignore these things, you miss so much. But when you want to enjoy something, especially when it\u2019s something you\u2019ve just been introduced to, you\u2019ve got to have a lot of courage to do it. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m more courageous than most people. I\u2019m an even mixture of all those prime emotions\".\n\nAfter the release of Debut, Bj\u00f6rk's songs received numerous remixes from different producers. \"Big Time Sensuality\" received three different remixes from the Fluke. One of them, called the \"Fluke Minimix\", was chosen by Bj\u00f6rk to receive a single treatment instead of the original, and the remix was performed on different occasions and a music video was made of it. An extended version of the \"Fluke Minimix\" was used as the \"single version\" of the song, and is also the version used in the video. However, this version was not available until the release of Bj\u00f6rk's Greatest Hits, as the version featured on the single was shorter.\n\nThe single also contained \"Gl\u00f3ra\" (\"Gloria\") and \"S\u00ed\u00f0asta \u00c9g\" (\"The Last Me\") as B-sides, two songs that were recorded by The Elgar Sisters, a group formed in the early eighties by guitarist Gu\u00f0laugur Kristinn \u00d3ttarsson and Bj\u00f6rk. \"Gl\u00f3ra\" is an instrumental track which features a flute-solo played by Bj\u00f6rk, that wrote and produced the track. \"S\u00ed\u00f0asta \u00c9g\" was written by Bj\u00f6rk, \u00d3ttarsson and \u00de\u00f3r Eldon J\u00f3nsson, a member of the Sugarcubes, and was produced by Bj\u00f6rk and \u00d3ttarsson, with guitar played by \u00d3ttarsson.\n\n\n-Bj\u00f6rk interviewed by David Hemingway:\n\"It's not erotic or sensual even if it may sound like that. As you know, you create pretty deep, full-on love relationships with friends. A lot of it is also about myself. I can be a coward a lot of the time and there comes a moment when I write a song when I get quite brave. It's a lot about me dealing with myself rather than attacking other people. Would I like to know the future? No. There's a side to me that likes to plan a little bit ahead and there's a side that just needs to be free. I've got problems with booking airline tickets - I always change them. Sometimes I wonder if it's just for me to feel free. To kind of not be nailed in is really important to me\".\n\nComposition:\nThe first two verses of the track are underscored by upbeat keyboards that lead into electronica and techno-influenced grooves that Sandy Masuo of Option defined as \"brooding\". Bj\u00f6rk belts out the first lines accompanied by a base of percussion, while the chorus features stronger electronic beats. After the first two verses, Bj\u00f6rk sings some sounds like moans or shouts. Ben Thompson defined the yells sequence as \"sinuous pop-funk squawk\". After the interlude \"I don't know my future after this weekend/And I don't want to!\" funk-like sounds lead the song to an end.\n\nThe \"Fluke Minimix\" is composed on a series of synthesizers and by slower vocals. The remix features electronic bass and heavily uses reverb. The track ends with the lines \"It takes courage to enjoy it/The hardcore/And the gentle/Of Big Time Sensuality\" whispered by Bj\u00f6rk.\n\nCritical Reception\n\n\"Big Time Sensuality\" was deemed as a highlight of Debut and was praised by critics. Sean McCarthy of the Daily Vault defined the track as \"insanely addictive\" while Vox journalist Lucy O'Brien called it \"saucy\". Simon Reynolds of the New York Times stated that \"the sultry \u201cBig Time Sensuality\u201d has her vaulting from chesty growls to hyperventilating harmonies so piercing she sounds as if she\u2019s inhaled helium\".\n\nReviewing Debut, Heather Phares of Allmusic, noted that \"Bj\u00f6rk's playful energy ignites the dance-pop-like \"Big Time Sensuality\" and turns the genre on its head with \"There's More to Life Than This.\" Recorded live at the Milk Bar Toilets, it captures the dancefloor's sweaty, claustrophobic groove, but her impish voice gives it an almost alien feel\". The website cites the track as a All Media Guide-pick, and in a track review, Stacia Proefrock defined the track as an \"aggressive, screechy dance number\" that \"While not scraping the top of the charts[...] was part of an album unusual enough to stand out among its fellow pop releases as a quirky and complex experiment that worked most of the time\".\n\n\"Big Time Sensuality\" was nominated in the Best Song category at the 1994 MTV Europe Music Awards, losing to 7 Seconds by Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902114","strTrack":"Venus as a Boy","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/usrxvq1354204568.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z5aPaDwAkU","strDescription":"\"Venus as a Boy\" is a song by Icelandic singer and songwriter Bj\u00f6rk. It was released as the second single from her 1993 album Debut (1993). The song was written by Bj\u00f6rk and was produced by Nellee Hooper, who produced the majority of her debut album. The single was released in August 1993, a month after the release of the album. The song was inspired by a boy who saw everything from a \"beauty point of view\".\n\n\"Venus as a Boy\" is a chillout song influenced by avant-garde sounds. The song features also an peculiar musical ensemble, made up of Indian instruments like Tablas. The song received mixed reviews from critics, who discussed Bj\u00f6rk's musical shift. The song didn't chart well in any nation but managed to enter the UK Singles Chart Top 30.\n\nThe accompanying music video was directed by the British music video director Sophie Muller. The clip shows Bj\u00f6rk in a kitchen while she's cooking some eggs and was inspired by the singer's favorite book Story of the Eye. Bj\u00f6rk performed the song on different TV appearances, including Top of the Pops, and sang it during the course of her Debut Tour.\n\nThe song was later chosen by fans to be included in her greatest hits album, Greatest Hits and also appeared in her Family Tree Box Set which contained a \"greatest hits\" disc on which the songs were chosen by Bj\u00f6rk.\n\nBackground and inspiration\n\nThe song was written by Bj\u00f6rk and was produced by Nellee Hooper. It was one of the last tracks to be recorded for the album. The song was inspired by a \"specific person\" but Bj\u00f6rk never revealed who it was. Although, it is supposed that this specifical person is Dominic Thrupp (also known as Dom T.) with whom Bj\u00f6rk had a relationship at the time of writing. Moreover, the song talks about a boy who saw everything from a \"beauty point of view, and not superficial beauty but the beauty of brushing your teeth and the beauty of waking up in the morning in the right beat and the beauty of having a conversation with a person.\" as revealed by the singer.\n\nThe B-sides were \"St\u00edg\u00f0u Mig\" (\"Step Me\"), a song originally recorded by The Elgar Sisters; a group formed in the early eighties by guitarist Gu\u00f0laugur Kristinn \u00d3ttarsson and Bj\u00f6rk, written by Bj\u00f6rk, \u00d3ttarsson and Th\u00f3r Eldon. The other B-side is \"I Remember You\", a cover of the classic love song written by Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer, that was recorded together with \"Like Someone in Love\", but didn't make the last cut as the latter. In both songs Corky Hale plays the Harp.\n\nBj\u00f6rk described the composition of the song in an interview with David Hemingway:\n\n\"I think I wrote it in my living room in Iceland and sang it into my dictaphone. Later, by accident, we were going through sounds and I found this broken bottle sound. It wasn't intentional but it sounded great. It was one of the last songs recorded for Debut - the album was ready to go. Sometimes the more unpredictable side of me does several headstands and flicks-flacks once the album has been delivered and the best song come out.\"\n\nThe song is influenced by different genres, like chillout, avant-garde and electronica. Since Bj\u00f6rk wanted the album to sound like an Indian soundtrack, many tracks including \"One Day\", \"Come to Me\" and the same \"Venus as a Boy\" features Indian instruments. The strings were accorded by Talvin Singh and recorded in Bombay. The track heavily uses Vibraphone.\n\nCritical reception:\n\nThe track received mixed reviews from music critics. Heather Phares of Allmusic complimented the song and its lyrics, stating that \"the album's romantic moments may be its most striking; \"Venus as a Boy\" fairly swoons with twinkly vibes and lush strings, and Bj\u00f6rk's vocals and lyrics -- \"His wicked sense of humor/Suggests exciting sex\" -- are sweet and just the slightest bit naughty\". A less flattering review came from Rolling Stone reviewer Tom Graves, who discussed the singer's shift from rock to alternative music, commenting that the Indian orchestra in \"Come to Me\" and \"Venus as a Boy\" \"[is] more intrusive than galvanizing\". On a similar note, Kate Narburgh of The Chronicle, citing the \"Mellow vibes accent \"Venus as a Boy\"\", hoped that \"Bj\u00f6rk won't waste her vocal talent on such talentless music\".\n\nThe song was nominated in the \"Song of the Year\" category at the inaugural Icelandic Music Awards in 1993\n\nThe movie L\u00e9on features the song in a wordless series of scenes between the two main characters."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902115","strTrack":"Hunter","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/rprrxr1354204706.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBVtC-Y3ek&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Hunter\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released in 1998 as the third single from Homogenic. The song peaked at number 43 in the UK Singles Chart and at number 55 on the French Singles Chart.\n\nThe song also appeared on the soundtrack to The X-Files movie.\n\nReception:\n\"Hunter\" has been brilliantly well-received by music critics. Some praised its for its elaborate production, its haunting melody and cryptic lyrics. The accompanying music video has been acclaimed, and is considered to be one of the best Bj\u00f6rk videos to date.\n\nMusic video:\nIn the video, a bald Bj\u00f6rk (actually wearing a bald cap) is shown from the shoulders up (as seen on the cover of the single). Over the course of the song, she shakes and convulses, and, with the assistance of computer-generated imagery, slowly and unwillingly transforms into an animated polar bear. By the time the video ends, she has shaken off her animal features and become human again before fading back into the white background. The music video was directed by Paul White from Me Company, the graphic design company in charge of all the Bj\u00f6rk album artwork since The Sugarcubes until Homogenic.\n\nMeaning:\nAccording to Bj\u00f6rk, the song is about others depending on her:\n\u201cI guess that song's about when you have a lot of people that work for you and you sort-of have to write songs or people get unemployed, you know? In most cases, it's inspiring but in that particular song I was pissed off with it. I was ready for a break but it didn't seem fair on the people I worked with at the time.\"\n"},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902116","strTrack":"Hidden Place","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/uspqqt1354204905.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMG51HDfr-A&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Hidden Place\" is a song by Icelandic recording artist Bj\u00f6rk, taken from her fourth English language (fifth overall) album, Vespertine (2001). It was written by Bj\u00f6rk, Guy Sigsworth and Mark Bell and produced by Bj\u00f6rk. \"Hidden Place\" was released as a lead single from Vespertine on August 3, 2001.\n\nBackground:\n\nBj\u00f6rk explains the song's title :\n\n    'Hidden Place' is sort of about how two people can create a paradise just by uniting. You've got an emotional location that's mutual. And it's unbreakable. And obviously it's make-believe. So, you could argue that it doesn't exist because it's invisible, but of course it does.\n\n\"Hidden Place\" has received positive reviews from critics and fans.\n\nMusic video:\nThe music video for the song was directed by art directors/graphic designers M/M Paris as well as photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. It featured various fluids flowing in and out of Bj\u00f6rk's facial orifices, such as her eyes, nose, and mouth. The idea was first thought for the \"I've Seen It All\" music video, but was later cancelled.\n\nThe directors of the video also designed the Vespertine graphics, and would design all the graphics for Bj\u00f6rk's next projects."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902117","strTrack":"Isobel","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wuxxww1354205088.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pevFTOi6_3Q&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Isobel\" is a song by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk. It was released as the second single from her 1995 album Post. The lyrics describe a primitive girl who seems to be a personification of Mother Nature, and who tries to warn the technological world of its potential dangers. The music is underscored by lush strings, electronic beats, and a cinematic, orchestral introduction that eventually fades into a jungle influenced beat. The song was rumored to have been inspired by the piece \"The Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs\" by John Cage.\n\nBj\u00f6rk has stated that a track on Homogenic, \"Bachelorette\", is a continuation of \"Isobel\". In an interview with Paper in September 1997, Bj\u00f6rk explains, \"So Isobel decides to return to the city and to take a train, like in the 30's, in South America somewhere. She decides to confront love with love and confronts the cowards that don't have the guts to fall in love with love. So you see - it's like Isobel has returned.\"\n\nThe lyrics to both \"Isobel\" and \"Bachelorette\" were penned by long-time collaborator, Icelandic poet Sj\u00f3n. The repeating phrase \"moth delivers her message/unexplained on your collar\" in the chorus is a reference to when Bj\u00f6rk found a moth on her favourite shirt. She wore the shirt all day, and even removed it to go swimming, but the moth remained.\n\nBj\u00f6rk had also declared that this song is dedicated to \"Elis Regina\", one of the most famous and talented Brazilian singer, dead in 1982. The name Isobel is maybe the mix between her first name \"Elis\" and \"B\" and\" \"O\" in Bj\u00f6rk's name.\n\nThe surreal music video was shot in black and white, near Dolgellau, by director Michel Gondry. It features a number of dream-like images. Bj\u00f6rk plays a piano that is full of pipes that fill it with water. Children play in the water, and wear masks. Bj\u00f6rk is later shown lying beside a river wearing a dress with lights in it. She pulls some light bulbs off her dress and plants them in the ground. The light bulbs grow and act as incubators or cocoons for toy airplanes inside them. When the airplanes grow big enough, they break out of the bulbs and fly away. At the same time, numerous skyscrapers grow out of the ground and eventually are covered in cockroaches. Bj\u00f6rk is also shown walking through the countryside, up a mountain, and beside a river.\n\nSpeaking on Eurotrash she explained the song this way: \"It's the story of Isobel. She was born in a forest, by a spark, and as she grew she realised that the pebbles on the forest floor were skyscrapers, and by the time she was a grown up woman and the skyscrapers had taken over the forest she found herself in a city and she didn't like all the people there so much because they were a bit too clever for her. She decided to send to the world all these moths that she trained to go and fly all over the world, to go inside windows of people's houses, the ones that are too clever, and they sit on their shoulders and remind them to stop being clever and start to function by their instincts. And they do that by singing 'Na, na na, na na na, na na..' to them. And they say 'Oh, sorry, I was being all clever there', and they start functioning on instinct.\" She told the programme that she worked well with Gondry: \"I guess I've got a soft spot for scientists. When I was in school I used to fall for the boys with the thick glasses who sat at the back of the class and had insect collections round their house, and I guess, in a certain way, Michel fits on to that.\""},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902118","strTrack":"Possibly Maybe","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/yyssru1354205221.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE11_5Spq1I&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Possibly Maybe\" is a song by Bj\u00f6rk, released as the fifth single from her 1995 album Post. It is a song with deep electronic tones and soft beats that reflects on potential love.\n\nThere were three different single releases, this was the first Bj\u00f6rk single to be released in three parts. Two of these three parts are rarities in the music world in that their A-side is not the first track. The first CD came with a slipcase that could also house the other two.\n\nBackground:\nThe song details different stages of a breakup. Bj\u00f6rk says it was \"the first unhappy song I wrote... I felt ashamed writing a song that was not giving hope\". The melancholic piece was dedicated to her broken relationship with St\u00e9phane Sednaoui, who, curiously, also directed the video. Rumours have persisted that Bj\u00f6rk recorded the song in the nude, although this has not been publicly commented on. Bj\u00f6rk was sued by British electronic musician Scanner for the uncleared sample of telephones ringing (from his album Mass Observation) at the start of the track. The situation caused her record label, One Little Indian, to contemplate the idea of destroying all current copies of Post in the shops, and of the remixing, remastering and reprinting of a new version of the album that included a version of \"Possibly Maybe\" which did not feature the sample.\n\nMusic Video:\nThe video shows Bj\u00f6rk in a variety of different rooms in an apartment. She is primarily shown in a large, stylish bedroom with modern d\u00e9cor. These scenes are intercut with shots in ultra-violet lighting (which subsequently causes everything to appear in day-glo colours). She is also shown in three other rooms: submerged in the bathtub of a bathroom; an Asian-themed room; and a room full of stereo equipment. These scenes are intercut with an angelic image of her dressed all in white, floating out of a blue sky with the sun behind her. The majority of objects appearing in the video were Bj\u00f6rk's own. The music video was directed by St\u00e9phane Sednaoui; curiously, the song actually talks about him. Short interviews with both St\u00e9phane and Bj\u00f6rk discussing the video are included on the St\u00e9phane Sednaoui Directors Label DVD. A short making-of for the single's B-side, \"V\u00edsur Vatnsenda-R\u00f3su\", was recorded as part of the corresponding album Chansons des mers froides by Hector Zazou."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902119","strTrack":"Play Dead","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/qyrusr1354205587.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCHnoVrtBU","strDescription":"\"Play Dead\" is a song by Icelandic singer Bj\u00f6rk, and was released as the only single from the soundtrack of the 1993 crime drama The Young Americans. The song wasn't included in the first edition of Debut but was later included as a bonus track, and the album was re-issued in November 1993. The song was written by Jah Wobble, Bj\u00f6rk featuring David Arnold, and was produced by Cannon, Arnold, receiving additional production and mixing by Tim Simenon. The song, inspired by the main character of the film, was released in October 1993.\n\nA mainly trip-hop-influenced track, the song became Bj\u00f6rk's first chart success, charting in the Top 20 in every nation it entered. An accompanying music video was released, featuring images from the film. \"Play Dead\" was included in Bj\u00f6rk's 2003 greatest hits album Greatest Hits.\n\nBacground & Composition:\nThe song was co-written by Jah Wobble, Bj\u00f6rk featuring David Arnold. Bj\u00f6rk was asked to write the melody and lyrics for the song, while Wobble wrote the bass part and Arnold composed the score, which Bj\u00f6rk described as a \"greatest hits of what's in the film\".\n\nBj\u00f6rk described the writing as \"very difficult\" because \"the character in the film was suffering and going through hardcore tough times and at the time I was at my happiest\". To help her in the writing, she asked the film director, Danny Cannon, to write her a whole page of phrases that represented the emotions of the characters in the film, but she used only one line that Cannon wrote: \"Sometimes, it's just like sinking\", and still she changed it to \"It's sometimes just like sleeping\" in the actual lyrics.\n\nThe song is underscored by moody strings and its lyrics about acting numb to prevent emotional pain. Bj\u00f6rk wrote it from the main character's point of view: \"In the film, he had a girlfriend who just wanted him to be happy and in love and he just couldn't get his head around it. It was just me trying to imagine what he would say to her. Things he never actually said to her in the film but things he would have said to her\".\n\nProduced by David Arnold and Danny Cannon, the song was originally a non-album track recorded for the film The Young Americans and intended as a single-only release, but eventually it was added as a bonus track to international pressings of Bj\u00f6rk's album Debut because Bj\u00f6rk's manager Derek Birkett convinced her to add the track. Bj\u00f6rk also sings on the tracks \"Opening Titles\" and \"Leaving London\" on the soundtrack CD of the film. In both the film and soundtrack, \"Leaving London\" crescendoes into \"Play Dead\" as a single arrangement. In both the album and the single version, the song is actually a remix by Tim Simenon. After the addition of \"Play Dead\" on Debut, about 100 people who already owned the album without the bonus track, called the record company and complained, pretending to be given new records as compensation.\n\nCritical Reception:\nDescribed by Derek Birkett \"one of the best things Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s ever done\", the track was well received by music critics. Mal Pearchey of Vox described the song as \"incredibly sophisticated after the eclectic drama of The Sugarcubes\". The Tech journalist Fred Choi, while reviewing Greatest Hits stated that the song is \"compelling but lesser-known\". On a similar note, Alexis Petridis of Blender stated that \"Play Dead\" \"boasts a chorus that\u2019s both original and implausibly epic\"."},{"idArtist":"111619","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb","idAlbum":"2124484","idTrack":"32902120","strTrack":"It's in Our Hands","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/rusxsv1354205777.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVRlxwwhpLg&hd=1","strDescription":"\"It's in Our Hands\" was a single released along with Bj\u00f6rk's Greatest Hits CD in late 2002. The song was previously heard during her Vespertine Tour in 2001. The song relies heavily on a sample taken from Gigi Masin's song Clouds from the album Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre. The single peaked at number 37 in the UK.\n\nMusic video:\nThe music video features a very pregnant Bj\u00f6rk shot at night with a night-vision camera amongst bushes. Her image is transposed against close-ups of flowers, plants, and bugs to make her appear as if she is smaller than them. There are also shots of underwater scenes interspersed throughout the video. The video was directed by Spike Jonze\n\nA second video was directed by Lynn Fox and set to the Soft Pink Truth remix of \"It's in Our Hands\". The remix received certain attention, also the music video."}]}