Bjork go home! (the right one)

Disastrous add. Move her out

or else add Madonna, Christina Aguilera or every attention seeking eccentric female.

Neue regel wrote: Disastrous add. Move her out or else add Madonna, Christina Aguilera or every attention seeking eccentric female.

She's pop. Just plain old pop. If she is accepted, why don't we accept Lady Gaga? I mean that would be logical, right?

IMO, she is the Icelandic Lady Gaga (or Lady Gaga is the American Bjork?) Eccentric outfits, ridiculous pop (with some oddball crossovers), and a large following (well to the scale of Iceland). I'll give her an avant-garde tag, but her music is based more in pop than anything else. People might try to pull a "jazz" or "folk" influence, which is there, but not nearly as much as the pop. So no, I don't like this addition. No, I don't think it's "the worst possible thing that possibly could have happened to PA in the history of PA," but it's not good.

I don't know Lady Gaga's music well enough to know how much Bjork's art pop approach can be likened to Lady Gaga.  I would have thought her music more closely related to the likes of Laurie Anderson.  If Lady Gaga has released sufficiently similar albums to the ones that got Bjork included (say Medulla, but also I'd say Homogenic and Vespertine, I particularly like the live versions of those albums) then she can be considered. What are Lady Gaga's more experimental or art poppish albums? 

I really disagree about Bjork being plain old pop.  I think she's on the "avant pop" side, or at least art pop. And I find similarities to ones in Progressive Electronic and Krautrock in terms of employed techniques. You didn't answerme about which Bjork albums you have heard, by the way.

Xanatos, though Andy has expressed himself more intelligently. I suspect you'd agree with just about anything any detractor would say.  You also agreed with this, which is ridiculous and one might say rather sexist (why single out females?).

Xanatos wrote: Neue regel wrote: Disastrous add. Move her out or else add Madonna, Christina Aguilera or every attention seeking eccentric female. +1

Let's add Paris Hilton then. By the way, there are quite a few attention seekers amongst performers.

It would be helpful if more people would list which albums they are basing their opinions on (unless most of the people who have an opinion have heard most of her discography).


Edited by Logan - December 08 2010 at 20:37

I don't think Bjork is Prog, but I still think has merits for PA's so-called "prog" umbrella. 

Bonnek wrote: Negoba wrote: Bjork's Medulla is a multi-layered experimental nearly all-vocal album with complex rhythms, harmony, thoughtful lyrics and virtuosic performances. It is one of the most progressive albums put out by a major artist in the last 10 years.   That's why she's here. I'm not sure there's anything progressive at all about that album.Such vocal experimentation can be found all over the 90s, especially in avant/world music. I'm thinking of Iva Bittova, Mikhail Alperin, Dmitir Pokrovsky and probably countless others I don't know.It wouldn't surprise me if John Zorn has something similar as well.That being said I don't mind her being here.

I bought a VdGG album today when I could have gotten cool progressive vocal albums??? Dagbabbit.

I'll take Bjork over prog metal any day. Good addition!

Her music is not that progressive but a bit innovative.


Edited by Anirml - December 08 2010 at 21:16

8 Pages of ranting and he hasn't listened to a whole album...

Gandalff wrote: Anirml wrote: I'll take Bjork over prog metal any day. Good addition! Her music is not that progressive but a bit innovative. Progressive and innovative are almost synonyms!

almost