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Björk Is My New Music Babe!

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

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

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You Broke My Mood Ring?

Boogie til You Puke?

A friend of mine told me Root did a song with the lyric, "gotta be rich, gotta be white, gotta be Republican", or some such, but I couldn't find it.

Rootie was from my old DC stomping grounds. Total psycho...
 
My Mom's kind of music, now I can say that old song are way better than the new ones.
 
<alt>doxygen said:
You Broke My Mood Ring?

Boogie til You Puke?

A friend of mine told me Root did a song with the lyric, "gotta be rich, gotta be white, gotta be Republican", or some such, but I couldn't find it.

Rootie was from my old DC stomping grounds. Total psycho...
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There was a time when I was in DC frequently for a few years. Root, I was told, was a very bright and talented guy, but was also as crazy as a road lizard. He apparently had somewhat of a cult following in the Mid-Atlantic states. But, yeah, I heard much the same as you.
 
It's a Tues night at CBGB's, a dead audience, maybe half full, about 11 PM, expectations of mundane local wannabe punks, this demure little girl steps out on the stage in a single spotlight in a black frock, neon green and black striped leggings, an orchid in her hair, there's a mumbled collective moan, she starts with this:



three hours later, no other band has played, and the audience is enthralled. The Sugarcubes perform again Friday, and it is impossible to get in. The crowd outside is listening to two loudspeakers out by the front doors, milling and dancing in the street. Two drag ballerinas had their own audience. 4 police cars arrive, crowd control, they join the audience dancing in the streets. There was no place nearby selling doughnuts. The crew from the Tom Tom club arrives with pastries from Ferrara's for everyone. Some unknown guys were passing out bottles of Champagne from the back of a van with no license plates at 4am. A strange weed like aroma is abundant. About 5am the music ends and the crowd goes home. A nearby EMT ambulance leaves with no OD's on board. Shift change. A light drizzle has started and a mist has arrived. It's the sabbath, time to rest. We walk over to the Public Theater, sit on the steps drinking diner coffee before driving home. Everyone with us is quiet. Exhausted. We decide to go for pancakes on West Broadway in Tribecca. The place is packed, we sit at a table with people we don't know, the Sugarcubes are playing on the sound system. They're there, eating pancakes. I look out the window at the Statue of Liberty replica in front of the Odeon Diner. We're safe, the kids are with my folks. My wife falls asleep while she's eating, I carry her to the car and head home. We should have stopped at Tower Records, it wasn't open yet.
 
Risky Thicket said:
I visualize her singing nekkid.

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

All said, nothing excites me more than listening to Bjork's haunting voice while I'm gutting a bucket of fresh catfish. She's grand.
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You like her for the same reason I like Henry Rollins. Maybe?
I am big into musical virtuosity but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy someone getting crazy and screaming behind a big brass orchestra for fun.
I guess it's my junk food. Music to gut fish by? Sure, I bet some of the Rollins stuff is great fish gutting material, too.

Why are Icelanders so fond of farting? I have to ask my buddy Thor, he's from there.
 
Thor says that he has never heard of "socially acceptable farting" on an "anywhere at anytime" level.
He said it's more like Icelanders are silly people and they think farts are hilarious, but they usually try to be polite more often than not.
He says whoever told you that was messing with your head.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Many people don't know this but Bjork's uncle was the guy who invented that plastic spoon/fork combination you sometimes get with takeout food. It's called a Spork.

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Now I know you're ****ing with us :lamo
 
Iceland had no distinguishable upper class for 700 years, so they are not as bothered as the rest of the world about going about their natural business. Don’t be surprised if you find someone burping, slurping, or farting in your general company. This is just the natural order of things. Join in, or pretend not to notice.
9 Things Not to Do While Visiting Iceland
 
Risky Thicket said:
Not too long ago we took a 10 day trip to Iceland. Iceland is a different world with an impossible language. It isn't as cold as you might think it would be but with the wind blowing across the water not far from the Arctic Circle it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. We didn't see any monkies the entire time we were there.

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

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

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

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

Evil by Koko Taylor

Gene and Jean by the Filthy Thieving Bastards

The Good Stuff by Kenny Chesney


What are your favorite Björk songs?

What songs would you like to hear ​Björk cover?
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Bjork's version is good, but I enjoy Betty Hutton's version just a little bit more. :)

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

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

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

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

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

Evil by Koko Taylor

Gene and Jean by the Filthy Thieving Bastards

The Good Stuff by Kenny Chesney


What are your favorite Björk songs?

What songs would you like to hear ​Björk cover?
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Iceland is an awesome places, been twice, long before it became touristy.

Bjork is pretty damned cool, she was on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, hilarious.
 
RedAkston said:
I don't think I've ever heard anyone as bad as Bjork in my entire lifetime. I find it hard to believe that Risky is a fan.
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The more I read Risky's post the more I think how can he not be a fan of Bjork.
 
Risky Thicket said:
I visualize her singing nekkid.

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

All said, nothing excites me more than listening to Bjork's haunting voice while I'm gutting a bucket of fresh catfish. She's grand.
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OMG I just realized that I stepped on my own foot and tongue simultaneously, :doh

I never visualize Henry Rollins singing naked. :lol:

I meant, you like Bjork for the crazy things she does and the the way she puts herself out there.
I like Rollins for his brand of insanity.

Ay carumba.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
OMG I just realized that I stepped on my own foot and tongue simultaneously, :doh

I never visualize Henry Rollins singing naked. :lol:

I meant, you like Bjork for the crazy things she does and the the way she puts herself out there.
I like Rollins for his brand of insanity.

Ay carumba.
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Don't 'splain to me, Ricky. Your musical-sex fantasies are between you and Mr. Rollins. :shock:
 
Risky Thicket said:
Don't 'splain to me, Ricky. Your musical-sex fantasies are between you and Mr. Rollins. :shock:
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:lamo

I'll hide behind a smile
and understanding eyes
and I'll tell you things that you already know
so you can say
I really identify with you, so much
and all the time that you're needing me
is just the time that I'm bleeding you
don't you get it yet?
I'll come to you like an affliction
and I'll leave you like an addiction
you'll never forget me
you want to know why?
cause I'm a liar
yeah I'm a liar
I'll rip your mind out
I'll burn your soul
I'll turn you into me
I'll turn you into me
cause I'm a liar, a liar
liar, liar, liar, liar

 
RedAkston said:
I don't think I've ever heard anyone as bad as Bjork in my entire lifetime. I find it hard to believe that Risky is a fan.
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His taste is amazingly eclectic. :mrgreen:

Laughing myself sick at the idea of Bjork singing Koko Taylor.
 
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