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FINALLY, A REASON NOT TO LISTEN TO BJORK

Yodelling! Yodelling will fix problematic things like civilisation:

[Björk’s] last album Medulla was certainly her most political - but in a unique way. She came up with an a capella album featuring only human voices: yodelling, beatbox, Icelandic choral music. It was, she says, a way to counter ’stupid American racism and patriotism’ after 9/11. ‘I was saying, “What about the human soul? What happened before we got involved in problematic things like civilisation and religion and nationhood?”

Try yödelling the Köran, Björk. During your next tour of Syria.

(Via reader Billy McCörmac)

Posted by Tim B. on 03/14/2005 at 09:14 AM

  1. What happened before we got involved in problematic things like civilisation and religion and nationhood?

    We were rolling around in our own excrement

    Posted by rexie on 2005 03 14 at 10:23 AM • permalink

  2. Rexie — Oddly enough, in the Middle East…

    And yes, nothing says “the human spirit” better than bugling like a beagle…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 14 at 10:26 AM • permalink

  3. I think I’d rather walk round with a six inch nail in my shoe that listen to Bjork.  She’s not even original - that a capella sounding like instruments stuff was done by Todd Rundgen 20 years ago.

    Posted by Craig UK on 2005 03 14 at 10:26 AM • permalink

  4. “FINALLY, A REASON NOT TO LISTEN TO BJORK”

    Like I need a reason.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2005 03 14 at 11:01 AM • permalink

  5. What happened before we got involved in problematic things like civilisation and religion and nationhood?

    Women were yodelling through their fifth childbirth before dying in labor at age 25.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 03 14 at 11:02 AM • permalink

  6. Funny thing happened to me the other day, I got a toothache from an old cavity.

    I went to the dentist and she fixed me up with a shiny new filling. Oh to live in the days when I could have died from an unproblematic septic tooth!!

    Posted by Amos on 2005 03 14 at 11:20 AM • permalink

  7. “She would never wear jeans and a T-shirt, she says, because they are ‘a symbol of white American imperialism, like drinking Coca-Cola’.”

    Is ANYTHING not a symbol of white American imperialism to these asshats?  Oh yeah, she lives in New York City.

    Posted by Blue on 2005 03 14 at 11:25 AM • permalink

  8. With all the wacky outfits she tended to wear to award shows, we stopped looking at her years ago; so not listening to her now just completes the deal.

    Posted by Easycure on 2005 03 14 at 11:26 AM • permalink

  9. I like the Rockapella Christmas album instead.  They can sound like musical instruments and are not complete idiots as far as I can tell.

    Posted by Iron Dave on 2005 03 14 at 11:40 AM • permalink

  10. Does she mean those blue jeans and t-shirts made in China and Singapore?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 14 at 11:56 AM • permalink

  11. The US Army occasionally plays loud heavy metal music to disturb enemies.  Bjork’s new record sounds like it might work better.

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 03 14 at 11:59 AM • permalink

  12. Personally I find Stimmhorn to be far superior when it comes to listening to a bit of yodelling.

    Download page is here for mp3 files if anyone is brave enough:
    http://www.stimmhorn.ch/english/e_download.html

    Posted by lemmy on 2005 03 14 at 12:03 PM • permalink

  13. ``...that a capella sounding like instruments stuff was done by Todd Rundgen 20 years ago.’‘

    And before that it was done by the Comedian Harmonists 75 years ago - still available on CD and fun to listen to, unlike Bjork.

    Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2005 03 14 at 12:27 PM • permalink

  14. My mistake.

    Today, they live in Noel Coward’s old house across the Hudson from Manhattan…

    This means she lives in New Jersey.

    Posted by Blue on 2005 03 14 at 12:50 PM • permalink

  15. Tim, thanks for the heads up. I’ve had one hell of a time finding Icelandic choral music here in Texas.

    Posted by Wallace-Midland Texas on 2005 03 14 at 01:16 PM • permalink

  16. It’s a shame - I personally think Bjork is a musical tour-de-force. She has a virtuoso voice (sounds the same live as it does in the studio) and manages to assemble world-class musicians around her. Her technical ability is impressive, to say the least. Pity she comes out with such lefty bollocks. Artists really should learn to leave politics to the grown-ups.

    Posted by James Waterton on 2005 03 14 at 01:36 PM • permalink

  17. Hey Amos, I had a filling replaced recently as well. It’s the same colour as my teeth, not that ugly silvery gray colour anymore.
    Amazing.
    What will they think of next?

    Posted by gubbaboy on 2005 03 14 at 01:57 PM • permalink

  18. FINALLY, A REASON NOT TO LISTEN TO BJORK

    Was there ever a reason to listen to Bjork in the first place?

    Posted by Baby M on 2005 03 14 at 02:18 PM • permalink

  19. Another thought just hit me: in recent years, Iceland has given us Bjork and “Lazy Town.”

    Don’t we have a squadron of F-15s in Keflavik to prevent things like that from happening?

    Posted by Baby M on 2005 03 14 at 02:20 PM • permalink

  20. What happened before we got involved in problematic things like civilisation and religion and nationhood?

    And before we got involved in problematic things like recording studios, and CD-manufacturers, and sound equipment, and…

    Never mind.  Idiots who run their mouths before their brains engage make me crazy.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 03 14 at 02:49 PM • permalink

  21. A study of both modern Stone Age tribes and the behaviors of chimpanzee troops shows the same thing—humans without civilization, organized religion, and nationhood are xenophobic murdering and raping animals.

    Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2005 03 14 at 03:24 PM • permalink

  22. Musically, I’m with Dariskun. Bjork’s a lovable ratbag.

    Posted by JAFA on 2005 03 14 at 03:27 PM • permalink

  23. Bon Jovi. Springsteen. The governor. Now Bjork. I gotta get out of here.

    Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2005 03 14 at 03:29 PM • permalink

  24. The first two or three Bjork albums are very, very good, actually.

    I’ve heard most of Medulla, and I swear there are some drums in there. Overall, not nearly as good as Post, or even Homogenic. The decline really started with Vespertine; now she’s doing frickin’ CONCEPT ALBUMS.

    And I wouldn’t listen to her about politics any more than I’d listen to any other musician. That is to say, not at all.

    (On the other hand, she’s Space Ghost’s wife, so hey…)

    Posted by Sigivald on 2005 03 14 at 04:09 PM • permalink

  25. Whatever happened to that ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ guy?

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 03 14 at 04:35 PM • permalink

  26. ‘I was saying, “What about the human soul? What happened before we got involved in problematic things like civilisation and religion and nationhood?�

    It was my understanding that civilisation and religion had its beginnings in the Middle East.  Sounds like she’s making fun of the Middle East to me.  And by extension, the people who live in the Middle East.  I’m rather surprise she didn’t throw in the words ” damn towel heads”.

    Posted by wronwright on 2005 03 14 at 04:39 PM • permalink

  27. What happened before we got involved in problematic things like civilisation?

    I dunno…stupid bitches like you were dragged half way around the world by Viking slave drivers and dumped on a piss-ant island in the North Atlantic…

    Posted by murph on 2005 03 14 at 05:36 PM • permalink

  28. A study of both modern Stone Age tribes and the behaviors of chimpanzee troops shows the same thing—humans without civilization, organized religion, and nationhood are xenophobic murdering and raping animals.

    Sounds very much like the manner of a certain person who went off in Bangkok airport.

    Posted by murph on 2005 03 14 at 05:54 PM • permalink

  29. It could have been worse: Imagine an a capella album with silly politics featuring the yodeling of Moby or Ani DiFranco…

    Posted by Wes S. on 2005 03 14 at 06:04 PM • permalink

  30. It is no accident that Bjork (byerk as it is pronounced) rhymes with perk. For those outside Aus, to perk is to “laugh at the ground”, “drive the porcelain bus”, “technicolour yawn”, “be on the phone to God”, “call Ralph”, “hurl”, “throw your guts up”, “chunder” or just plain vomit.

    Posted by Gibbo on 2005 03 14 at 07:15 PM • permalink

  31. World music is the aural equivalent of a vegan buffet- something you’ll indulge in to try to root a hippy, then bugger off afterwards for a steak and twenty pots.

    Posted by Habib on 2005 03 14 at 08:29 PM • permalink

  32. The fact that this CATERWAULING FREAK can only come up with America to criticise shows how narrowminded, bigotted, shallow and racist she herself is…Meanwhile, U.N. official Jan Egeland said yesterday that as many as 180,000 (black) people may have died in the Darfur region in the last 18 months as a direct result of Arab orchestrated genocide. Arabs armed by China and Russia. Don’t wail about these people sweety…that won’t sell to all those very fashion conscious, so-called bleeding hearts out there. And you can bet your life that Egeland’s latest comments won’t draw anywhere near the attention from the Left that his “stingy West/America” comments did earlier this year. To put it bluntly, the Left DON’T GIVE A FUCK about the suffering of others if they can’t exploit it! Now that’s RUTHLESS!!!

    Posted by Brian on 2005 03 14 at 08:42 PM • permalink

  33. Whatever happened to that ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ guy?

    I hear he’s in Gitmo, assisting the USMC with their interrogations.

    Posted by rosignol on 2005 03 14 at 09:00 PM • permalink

  34. Gibbo

    You forgot “Boot” or better yet “Power Boot”...

    The best (worst?) part of the story left out of the movie Animal House.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 03 14 at 09:17 PM • permalink

  35. 33.  He was involved in a diabolical attempt at world domination.  I hope no one you know ever got one of those Big Mouth Billy Bass plaques…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 14 at 10:42 PM • permalink

  36. (On the other hand, she’s Space Ghost’s wife, so hey…)

    Didn’t he divorce her before the end of that episode?

    And then try to re-marry her, only to snap out of it at the last minute and blast her off the screen?

    Before Zorak rabbit-punched him out cold?


    Anyway, maybe she’s gone all peacefreaky because of how Space Ghost kept avoiding her by saying there was an important war in space for him to fight.  I don’t blame him, considering how she kept peeing on his sofa.

    [/nerd]

    Posted by Sortelli on 2005 03 15 at 01:19 AM • permalink

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