Bjork

Yeah well, in a sense you convinced me not to go on arguing since it's like beating a dead horse. Plus my argumentation would never get her a position here. I'd rather have a poll like this than have a meaningless online debate. So I usually give up

That being said, I do still feel the way I did in the last quote you posted, which is good enough for me. I can listen to her without her being on the forums. It's basically about what people think she deserves as an artist, and that's about it. I think she deserves to be positioned here, and apparently so do 13 more people

Bjork is one of those artists that defies categorization from a solo perspective. Her music quickley morphed from the avant art pop style of The Sugarcubes with her solo career initially spearheading her first fully fledged album Debut into a trip hop dance/eclectic mix.” Aeroplane” and “ The Anchor Song” showing hints at her more art/crossover material to come yet this album while setting the tone for future work probably her most commercial and least art/prog sounding as her collective output.

Post another commercial success but here is where the electronic/pop/crossover feel begins to take hold.” Hyper Ballad” and “ Isobel the stand out tracks where one can see her more artistic, experimental direction.

1997's Homogenic easily her first fully fledged crossover/electronic album. Allmusic describing this release as ..”

seamless fusion of chilly strings (courtesy of the Icelandic String Octet), stuttering, abstract beats, and unique touches like accordion and glass harmonica, Homogenic alternates between dark, uncompromising songs such as the icy opener, "Hunter," and more soothing fare like the gently percolating "All Neon Like." by far her most emotionally charged album to date and lyrically mature.

2001's Vespertine helped solidify her progressive pop and art/ambient music even further with more emtionally charged music, even minimalist.. Electronic themes overlayed with harp, orchestral strings and choirs. Definitely her most mature album to date and accomplished. “ Hidden Place” “Pagan Poetry” and “ An Echo A Stain” album highlights but the whole work stands up on it's own merits.

Which brings 2004's Medulla into the mix, progressive dark pop continued..... collaborating with an array of backing vocalists, Robert Wyatt to name but one but overall easily her most abstract work to date. In fact this album makes fellow Icelandics Sigur Ros appear almost prog lite at times, granted they are in post rock/math and another genre but those overlapping genre tagging neat little ' boxes' are impossible to compartmentalize.

I am not familiar with her latest work but in summary Homogenic, Vespertine and Medulla all help qualify this artist as crossover prog. Would Electronic or Eclectic be good fits too? Perhaps but that crossing of genre territory is unavoidable. Especially when assessing prog today as opposed to a “1970 time capsule” definition tool. Someone asked does the artist know about crossover prog and how would she feel being labelled as such? She would not care and it has not stopped us in PA assessing and categorizing nearly 6000 bands to date

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