History Music / Bjork

-->-- '''Björk''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y on her television]].

* ''Björk'' (1977, an Icelandic-exclusive album released when she was 12; Has since been considered long out of print, and is now obscenely rare.)

Her music cannot be [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly shoehorned into one category]]. She's not just an [[ElectronicMusic electronic]] artist; she has dabbled in many genres, including: {{a cappella}}, {{jazz}}, pop, {{alternative rock}}, {{classical}}, orchestral, folk, and [[AvantGardeMusic avant-garde]].

* ''Björk'' (1977)
** This was recorded when she was 12 and only released in Iceland. It's been out of print for decades and obscenely rare.
* ''Gling-Gló'' (1990, with Guðmundur Ingólfsson's trio)

* AnimatedMusicVideo: "I Miss You."

* CarefulWithThatAxe: She screams a ''lot'' in [[{{Irony}} "It's Oh So Quiet."]]

*** It also should be noted that in her ''Greatest Hits'', the video version of "All is Full Of Love" and "Big Time Sensuality" are in the compilation instead of the official ones.

* DreamTeam: Björk tends to collaborate with really awesome musicians.

* HiddenDepths: [[http://grapevine.is/Author/ReadArticle/Letter-From-Bjork-About-Magma-Energy She has dived]] [[http://grapevine.is/Author/ReadArticle/Bjork-Responds-To-Ross-Beaty-Again into Icelandic politics.]]

* {{Instrumentals}}: "Frosti" and "Batabid" from ''Vespertine'', "Paradisa" from ''Utopia''.

* LongTitle: "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)." Also, the remix compilation ''The Best Mixes from the Album Debut For All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels''.

* MamaBear: Björk is ''very'' protective over her children.

* PimpedOutDress: Everything she wears on stage and in the videos, from swans to bells to jellyfish and harps, with the utmost disregard towards functionality.

* PrecisionFStrike: If "Alarm Call" is anything to go by, despite not being a ''fucking'' Buddhist, she can recognize enlightenment.

* TextlessAlbumCover: Most of her albums fall under this trope.

* WordSaladLyrics: "Pagan Poetry".

* ''Telegram'' (1996; remix album)

* TrrrillingRrrs: She notably uses it as a default when talking, [[TropesAreNotBad not that there's anything wrong with that]].

** Back at it in ''Utopia'', where "Blissing Me" ends with the same flute melody that begins "The Gate".

* {{Instrumentals}}: "Frosti" and "Batabid."

** ''Utopia'' retains the production of ''Vulnicura'', albeit sparser, complementing it with real and synthesized woodwinds for a distinctly Icelandic sound.

** And ''again'' in "Sue Me".

* TitleTrack: Notably averted. 2017 release ''Utopia'' finally plays this trope straight.

** "Lionsong" is quite upbeat and you could dance to it, despite the subject matter.

* TranquilFury: One could say the whole of ''Vulnicura''. Its central track, "Black Lake", plays this trope very well.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: Her PimpedOutDresses are an integral part of her eccentric personality.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: {{Downplayed}}, but every main album's name [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness except ''Debut'']] has a Greek or Latin root and illustrates a scientific or philosophical concept.

** And, in a cappella sense, "Öll Birtan" and "Miðvikudags" from ''Medúlla'', also "Komið" from the Japanese edition.

** ''Utopia'' retains the production of ''Biophilia'', albeit sparser, complementing it with real and synthesized woodwinds for a distinctly Icelandic sound.

* MamaBear: The reason why Björk attacked a reporter in 1996 was because the reporter stuck a mic in her son's face and started asking him embarrassing questions. Lesson of the story: Don't get near Björk's children.

* TranquilFury: One would say the whole ''Vulnicura''. Its central track, "Black Lake" plays this tropes very well.

[[http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/bjork This report by Ethan Hein]] shows how unique she is: "Björk seems to be one of the only high-profile white musicians who understands that [[DeadHorseGenre rock and roll is over]]. There's almost no guitar in any of her work. There's a sample of distorted electric guitar on "Human Behaviour," nylon-string guitar on "So Broken," pedal steel on live versions of "Possibly Maybe" -- I think that's about it. Her stringed instrument accompaniment of choice is the harp." That's just one of the things that makes her one-of-a-kind.

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is a woman from UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}} who's famous for several things: Her voice, her weird (but [[CrazyAwesome awesome]]) music, her strange outfits, her unique music videos, her acting in the TearJerker ''Film/DancerInTheDark'', her cool accent, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick her habit of beating up paparazzi]]. From 1986 to 1992, she was in the alternative rock band called The Sugarcubes, who were the first Icelandic musical act to ''ever'' gain ''any'' sort of success outside of Iceland (mostly in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} UK]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] alternative radio), mostly from the endorsement of beloved Radio 1 DJ/indie tastemaker Creator/JohnPeel. After they broke up, Björk went on to have a more successful, arguably better solo career.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The swan dress in the page image is one of the ''least'' weird things she's done.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: ''Vespertine'' effectively marries classical music with IDM/Glitch and ''Medúlla'' is essentially a capella electronica. Its most notable track is "Triumph of a Heart", an a capella ''dance song''. And [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome it is awesome.]]

* SurrealMusicVideo: Really, any video of hers.

* PrecisionFStrike: Despite not being a ''fucking'' Buddhist, she can recognize enlightenment.

[[caption-width-right:307: Björk wearing her [[IconicOutfit infamous swan dress]] at the Oscars]]

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Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is a woman from UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}} who's famous for several things: Her voice, her weird (but [[CrazyAwesome awesome]]) music, her strange outfits, her unique music videos, her acting in the TearJerker ''Film/DancerInTheDark'', her cool accent, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick her habit of beating up paparazzi]]. From 1986 to 1992, she was in the alternative rock band called ''The Sugarcubes,'' who were the first Icelandic musical act to ''ever'' gain ''any'' sort of success outside of Iceland (mostly in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} UK]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] alternative radio), mostly from the endorsement of beloved Radio 1 DJ/indie tastemaker Creator/JohnPeel. After they broke up, Björk went on to have a more successful, arguably better solo career.