Basically, I just have one question: Which Bjork live discs, if any, are worth the plunge? Are there any good deals on them online?
― Robert Noll, Thursday, 27 January 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― stoleyourbike, Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)
since the DVDs are around the same price as the CDs, I can't think of many reasons to buy them as albums.
― (Jon L), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 January 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)
revive!
are all of her live versions of the studio albums worth getting? some more than others?
― omar little, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:07 (eight years ago)
Volta is good
Royal opera vespertine is essential
― Peaked redundancy (Ross), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:24 (eight years ago)
1993 tour:- Vessel DVD is not worth your money.- Debut Live CD is her MTV Unplugged session, some great rearrangements, recommended.
1995 tour:- Live at Shepherd's Bush DVD is so-so, not the best performances in my opinion.- Post Live CD mostly features tracks from the DVD (with some exceptions). TBH I think the way to go with this era are bootlegs, not official recordings.
1997-1998 tour:- Live in Cambrige DVD is great, one of her best.- Homogenic Live CD is also pretty good, a collection of performances from different shows, and it features some songs not included on the DVD ("So Broken"!)
2001 tour:- Live at the Royal Opera House DVD is, as Ross put it, essential.- Vespertine Live CD is also great. Tracks taken from different performances, more focus on Vespertine stuff, and some versions are pretty incredible.
2007-2008 tour:- Voltaic CD is live-in-studio, don't bother with it.- Voltaic DVD (live at Olympia) is good, even though she had vocal problems during that show and she sounds a bit raspy.
2011-2013 tour:- Biophilia Live the DVD is quite interesting. The CD features the exact same stuff as the DVD and is not as impressive without the visual component. Not essential but recommended if you liked the studio album.
2015 tour:- Vulnicura Live (audio-only) is a solid recording, but perhaps not essential.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 11 May 2018 21:19 (eight years ago)
Damn son ^
― Blood roses (Ross), Friday, 11 May 2018 21:25 (eight years ago)
valuable new posters
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 11 May 2018 21:40 (eight years ago)
singing mj during "i go humble" - classic or hero?
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 29 March 2024 07:05 (two years ago)
^ Love it!
My post from 6 years ago above just made me realize there hasn’t been a Bjork live release in almost a decade, which is a very long time for her.
And it’s not like she’s been keeping away from the stage; there was the Vulnicura Strings tour back in 2016/17, which featured—you guessed it—acoustic performances of songs from Vulnicura. Then there was the original Utopia tour, just a short run of European festival dates in 2018, probably cut short due to the death of her mother. Afterwards came Cornucopia in 2019, sort of expanding and improving on the utopian ideas, initially staged in New York, Mexico, the UK and northern Europe, and then put on hold due to Covid. Then, during the pandemic, she started the Orkestral tour, first as one-off streamable concerts in Iceland performed with local musicians, then morphing it into sort of a Vulnicura Strings redux, but focused more on the back catalogue—which after the world opened up toured intermittently alongside a new version of Cornucopia, updated with tracks from Fossora and adapted for larger arenas.
The word on the street is that a concert film of Cornucopia will be released later this year so perhaps a live album as well.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:45 (two years ago)