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anyone up for interpreting some of vespertine's lyrics? for starters, what the hell is "an echo, a stain" about?! sounds like a song about abuse (child? spouse?), which seems pretty incharacteristic for her. it's probably the darkest damn bjork song i've ever heard... there's something wrong about me being able to throw it in a mix with squarepusher's "mutilation colony." anyone have any questions about some of her earlier songs? i could probably handle those, been listening to her since like '95.. |
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first off, what the hell kinda of music is bjork, anyway? electronic? rock-electronic? satanic death metal? |
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Bionic ravecore. |
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have you been living in a box all your life? |
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vespertine is IDM |
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well i saw a poster of her in a record shop once and thought she looked shit so i never went near any of her stuff. |
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Bionic ravecore!??! Thats the style i've been searching for my whole life! |
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I think alot of the bjork lyrics are written by 'Sjon' which means 'vision' in Icelandic, try translating something how you would say it into say....african, then translate it back. That's a trick they use. |
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What is the meaning of the lines 'I thought I could organize freedom, how Scandinavian of me.' I could never catch that reference. |
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'talk strange like bjork' is a wu tang lyric to? |
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funny, that line was explained to me by someone on here a year ago.. i found it interesting cos i'm scandinavian in ancestry. i'll see if i can find the thread and paste it cos i'll mess it up otherwise. Sjon is an icelandic poet i thought, Jivver? co-wrote bachelorette, etc.? |
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yes! shit, i thought it'd be HOURS before someone (like jupitah) picked up on that! it's from rza's verse on "reunited". what i wouldn't give to hear bjork's unreleased songs w/ the wu! |
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Scandanavians see them selves as being unhibited as in they have communal changing rooms, nudity is 'normal' etc but they are quite mililtant with other things that others take for granted...I think. |
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(explained) what's next? *racks brain* |
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musically but lyrics are sjon i think |
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she has the cutest voice i've ever heard :) |
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is selmasongs fair game for discussing or did lars von trier write the lyrics? i could never figure it out, the liner notes are confusing. to me it seems like bjork wrote or co-wrote the music and lars wrote most of the lyrics? or maybe dictated what they'd be about? cos there are some strange lines on that album too. |
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she worked on the lyrics, probably based on trier's direction |
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you sussed it out, didn't you! aaaaahahaha. i'm skipping through tracks, it's like she's challenging me to figure things out. |
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Most of the lyrics are by Sjon and Lars, I haven't read the liner notes. |
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hey you haven't heard MINE!!!! =b |
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vespertine is so luscious and sad. or maybe I am just sad? regardless it is luscious. the lyrics remind me that the best poets learn english as a second language, yeah? |
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Isn't it your birthday soon...? I bought a box of flakes the other day, there's 28 I think!! |
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does the last track on vespertine remind anyone else of ernest hemingway? |
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you better ship that fast dude, it's in a few days ;) |
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Lots of the lyrics a re based on an english lady poet called.........I can't remember! I'll tell you tomorrow. |
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AHAHHAHA......MAYbeeeeeeeeee =b hummmm i can think of lots of places for those loverly flakes.....but several on my hips should do nicely!!! |
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"i'm a fountain of blood, in the shape of a girl" -- never got that one. i guess it's kind of literal though, girls for all their niceties are made up of blood, guts, fat, the five humours, etc.? |
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Hey, thats a stroke of comedic brilliance. I see that line as being central to the whole song now...makes sense considering how she screams out that line, as if her life depended on it. Brilliant lyric. Thanks for searching that out for me, titsworth. |
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i'd be interested in the name of that poet as WELL!!! |
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I took that line to represent that she was turning herself inside out, raw and bleeding, as a form of revenge. Kind of like Sylvia Plath's 'Lady Lazarus'. The theme figures in Pluto too. |
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also, what is she saying in icelandic at the end of "bachelorette"? |
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I am guessing that part has been translated in many lyrics. Something about life-string-pearls and tears. Lemme see if I can look that up for you. |
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That lyric is open to interpretation, it's a play on fertilization and the excess of a fountain. Try and finf Sjon's books, he's written two I think, he's the lyrical genious. |
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yea i can see that! especially with other metaphors in the song (eg: the tree lyrics) "all neon like" is another fucked up one... i'll heal you... with a razor blade?! i used to sing that one just to make myself laugh, it's so absurd. |
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i'll check into that |
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i take it to be literal... we are fountains of blood. our physiology is incerible, beautiful or horrible depending on your point of view, but absolutely incredible. |
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never thought vespertine to be sad, just the opposite. first time i heard it i had a renewed sense of hope... beauty will save the world. |
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"nourish your turtle hearts".. what's the significance of turtle here? slow? i think homogenic has some of the most abstract lyrics since a lot of the songs are so spacy |
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it's stated differently in various places, but sun in my mouth is either entirely of a poem by e.e. Cummings, or it incorporates a poem of his. bjork said that there are certain poets she reads over and over again, Cummungs being one of them. also, harm of will was written by harmony korine. i'm sure many of you know this already though. |
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vespertine is kinda bittersweet for me.. it's not a light album by any means (except for a couple tracks) and so restrained.. there's a kind of melancholy to it that's hard to put my finger on.. but it's not as overtly dark as a lot of homogenic and parts of post |
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it's not icelandic. I don't know what the hell she's saying |
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life is a necklace of fears (my love) your uncried tears on a string our love will untie them - come here (my love) loving me is the easiest thing I am guessing that since she does not sing these lines in English, this is what she is singing in Icelandic. |
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from that same song........i just LOVE the lyric 'love is a two way dream' man she hit the NAIL on ze HEAD on that one! |
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i don't try to decipher lyrics like that on an analytical level because who knows what aspect of the turtle bjork or lars refers to. since she is talking about the heart i just feel it... there is a certain feeling level of response i get when i hear it that doesn't really translate to anything specific, but the feeling provides a complete meaning to me. |
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AB you need to do some INvestigating for us......you're our INside connection cos you know that lovely language!!! |
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What does 'cloppi' mean alberto? |
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:D |
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What does...speak it aloud as my spelling will be terrible...'qvet ae hoppandi' and 'hellvidur koool' mean????? I know but it's fun |
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Man, believe it or not...that was the line that just slapped me into reality....I just adore that line. That and the imagery in 'I'm a path of cinders, burning under your feet. You're the one who walks me, I'm your one way street.' Very few songs can convey the hardships and beauty of love simultaneously like this one can. |
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