Greatest Hits (Björk album)
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Greatest Hits is a compilation album released in November of 2002 featuring the songs of Icelandic singer Björk. Although all of Bjork's singles are not included on this collection, all of the songs on Greatest Hits were released as singles.
The tracks were selected by fans through a survey on Bjork's website, except for the last two songs: "Play Dead" is a rarity from the Young Americans movie soundtrack (1993), while "It's In Our Hands" is a new single exclusive to this collection. Contrary to reports at the time of its release, Greatest Hits does not present the tracks in descending order of most-popular votes from the online survey. "Hyperballad" was the song receiving most votes from Bjork fans, but appears as the second track on Greatest Hits.
Several of the songs are presnted in their radio (or single) remixed forms, most notably "Big Time Sensuality" (the Fluke "Minimix" featured in the promotional video). "Possibly Maybe" includes the famous electronic sounds that were temporarily deleted off the Post version of the track, "Bachelorette" is presented in edited form and "All Is Full Of Love" is presented in its single version.
As with many greatest hits compilation albums, some of Bjork's biggest singles were absent. The most obvious omission is "It's Oh So Quiet", her highest-charting UK hit. Also missing are "Alarm Call", "I Miss You", "Cocoon" and "Violently Happy" and any pre-Debut material.
The tracks "Human Behaviour", "Big Time Sensuality", and "Venus As A Boy" are taken from Björk's 1993 album Debut.
"Hyperballad", "Army of Me", "Isobel", and "Possibly Maybe" are from the 1995 Post album.
"All is Full of Love", "Jóga", "Bachelorette", and "Hunter" are from her 1997 Homogenic album.
Finally, "Pagan Poetry" and "Hidden Place" are found on her 2001 Vespertine album.
The artwork on the CD was produced in collaboration with Icelandic contemporary artist Gabríela Fridriksdóttir.
Greatest Hits was released on the same day as Bjork's Family Tree box set, which contained a "greatest hits" disc on which the songs were chosen by Bjork. Greatest Hits and the greatest hits "as chosen by Bjork" have seven tracks in common.
Track listing
- "All is Full of Love" (Björk) – 4:46
- "Hyper-ballad" (Björk) – 5:23
- "Human Behaviour" (Björk/Nellee Hooper) – 4:13
- "Jóga" (Björk/Sjón) – 5:04
- "Bachelorette" (Björk/Sjón) – 5:17
- "Army of Me" (Björk/Graham Massey) – 3:56
- "Pagan Poetry" (Björk) – 5:14
- "Big Time Sensuality" (Björk/Nellee Hooper) – 4:56
- "Venus as a Boy" (Björk) – 4:41
- "Hunter" (Björk) – 4:15
- "Hidden Place" (Björk) – 5:28
- "Isobel" – (Björk/Nellee Hooper/Marius de Vries/Sjón) 5:48
- "Possibly Maybe" (Björk) – 5:07
- "Play Dead" (Björk/David Arnold/Jah Wobble) – 3:57
- "It's In Our Hands" (Björk) – 4:14
External links
| Björk |
| Discography |
| Albums: Björk | Debut | Post | Homogenic | Vespertine | Medúlla |
| Compilation Albums and Boxsets: Telegram | Greatest Hits | Family Tree | ' | ' |
| Soundtrack Albums and Live: | Live Box | Drawing Restraint 9 |
| Collaboration Albums: Gling-Gló |
| Singles: "Human Behaviour" | "Venus as a Boy" | "Play Dead" | "Big Time Sensuality" | "Violently Happy" | "Army of Me" | "Isobel" "It's Oh So Quiet" | "Hyper-Ballad" | "Possibly Maybe" | "I Miss You" | "Jóga" | "Bachelorette" | "Hunter" | "Alarm Call" | "All is Full of Love" "Hidden Place" | "Pagan Poetry" | "Cocoon" | "It's in Our Hands" | "Oceania" | "Who Is It" | "Triumph of a Heart" | "Where Is the Line" |
| Films |
| The Juniper Tree | Dancer in the Dark | Drawing Restraint 9 |
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