I love every one of Björk's selections so far. It will be hard not to give every song a 10.
Waiting for the Homogenic picks.
Ask and ye shall receive!
In September 1996, a deranged fan went to Bjork's London home and posted an acid-spraying letter bomb to her door. It was intercepted by the police before she read it, thankfully. His actions, and his suicide, caused Bjork to leave London - and her cute image behind.
The result? Joga. Meant to sound like the hilly, rugged landscapes of her homeland, Joga was more expansive and jagged than any other single she had released thus far.
Bjork finally triumphed at the VMAs, winning Breakthrough Video for the stunning All is Full of Love.
Human Behavior
Big Time Sensuality
Army of Me
It's Oh So Quiet
Hyperballad
Joga
All is Full of Love
Myra Ellen Amos - better known as Tori Amos. Born in North Cacklacky, raised in the MD - at five, she became the youngest person ever admitted to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University. By age eleven, though, she was kicked out over her reluctance to read music instead of playing by ear, and her predilection for pop and rock and roll. No worries! She gigged in piano and gay bars at the tender age of thirteen, with her father by her side. She released her first single, "More Than Just a Friend," at twelve. She went by Ellen, but a friend's boyfriend told her she looked like a "Torrey Pine." It stuck.
At twenty-one, she moved to L.A. At twenty three, she formed a group - Y Kant Tori Read? Two years later, they released their first album; due to record label interference, it sucked. It sunk without a trace, and Tori became a backup singer.
In 1990, she took a ten-track demo to Atlantic Records; they liked what they heard, and scheduled release for the next year. The first single from the album, Little Earthquakes, was a song not on the demo - Me and a Gun.
The song, about her very own rape, struck a chord. It was the album's second single, however, that put her on the map.
Silent All These Years was written with another artist in mind, but Tori was greatly persuaded to keep it. Good thing, as the video was nominated for four VMAs a few months later.
Tori absconded to New Mexico to write her second album, Under The Pink. Its first single, Cornflake Girl, to aim at all girls who betray their closest friends - for the record, Tori is a raisin girl. (A girl with substance! Not a flip-flopper.)
A top five hit on the UK charts, and a top fifteen on the Modern Rock charts, CG is still remembered.
So is second single God, which TOPPED the Modern Rock charts and went all the way to #72 on the Hot 100.
