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    August 24th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

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    Flashback Friday: Björk

    Of course I couldn’t do a run of 1990’s music videos and not immediately feature the Icelandic Mistress, Björk. Featured here is one of her biggest hits, Human Behavior off of the Debut album, released November 18, 1993. Björk had several other hits after this release as well as receiving a nomination for a Grammy award in 2003, but I’ll always hold the highest regard for this particular song.

    I was but a scrawny 15 year old boy staying up late Sunday nights watching MTV’s 120 Minutes when I first saw this video. This was back when MTV was actually about music, not pre-teen staged reality TV. 120 Minutes was my adolescent introduction into the truly great music of my generation. It was there that I not only discovered Björk, but several others like The Pixies, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Nine Inch Nails, and many more that line my CD case and fill my hard drive to capacity.

    I truly miss that show. I believe that when they canceled 120 Minutes, and its sister show Alternative Nation (I love you Kennedy!), is when the MTV that used-to-be finally died. Later MTV2 brought the show back, but it was a shell of its former self and only lasted 2 years. If Matt Pinfield wouldn’t even host it, there was no saving it at all.

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    Comments on Flashback Friday: Björk

    • You're welcome! And Paint It Black is a damn good song, but so is everything else by the Rolling Stones.
    • I'm not sure what to make of the video, although Björk has both a decent voice, and some intriguing vocal techniques.

      Music seems to have changed, since my standards, like "Paint it Black," "Hotel California," "2000 Light Years From Home," "House of the Rising Sun," and "Incense and Peppermints" were recorded.

      Thanks for a look at what's happened more recently.
    • xian
      Wow, haven't heard that song in a while
    • Agreed. And Michel Gondry (who directed this video, as well as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep) also did Army of Me, so it makes sense that people usually compare the two.
    • MonaLisa
      OMG this is one of her best... sooo takes me back. The only video I liked better was for Army of Me. Jeez. Bjork rocks.
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