HOMOGENIC BY BJORK IS STILL AHEAD OF ITS TIME! Full Album Reaction/Review

Last year I was stoked to finally check out the legendary artist Bjork with her sophmore project "Post" Her sound was unlike anything I had ever heard before and definetly made me excited to check out more of her work. Flash forward to now and I have finally sat down to check out her follow up "Homogenic" Join me as I dive back into the trippy and truly adventurous sounds of Bjork
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0:00 Intro
1:09 Hunter
4:54 Jóga
8:54 Unravel
11:51 Bachelorette
16:36 All Neon Like
19:55 5 Years
22:59 Immature (Mark Bell's Version)
25:42 Alarm Call
29:08 Pluto
32:09 All is Full of Love
34:23 Final Thoughts

[@KayinAngel]

I was 16 when this album altered the course of my life in 1997. I discovered that music better than just "good" existed.

[@MrDemimonde]

Was 17 and just started my HS senior year; many great albums released '97-'98.

[@jasonsturrock7553]

VESPERTINE IS HER GREATEST ALBUM. THE LIVE VERSION AT ROYAL HALL IS UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING. GREAT REACTION

[@GhostlyEcheveria]

The Royal Hall concert is pure magic. That was the show that made me decide that I had to see Bjork in concert.

[@stonemiIker]

homophobic is better than vespertwink period

[@stefeuphoria6086]

It is subjective. I personally think Homogenic is her greatest album, but again, Vespertine is equally as legendary (especially Hidden Place) ❤

[@olyophogrific]

lol the first channel you are subscribed to how can you be homophobic and a björk fan

[@stonemiIker]

@@olyophogrific who

[@tallinsmagno4207]

homogenic and vespertine are def widely considered her best albums!!

[@robertskelly5]

In a 2006 interview with Spin, the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke said Bjork’s “Unravel" was his favourite song ever. Radiohead performed a cover of "Unravel" in a 2007 webcast.

[@aeriagloris4211]

I basically listen to music for a living and I make a supreme amount of money doing it. And Unravel hit me like.. Like a wave of Dark Sunshine. There is something very, very special about that song, even among her great works like Generous Palmstroke, possibly maybe, joga and many others. It left me speechless, genuinely. It makes me smile and doesn't surprise me at all that Thom Yorke would give so much weight and gravity to such a song! Rejoice!

[@B4r8ie]

are you planning on listening to all her albums? if so im so seated

[@juanmanuelvektor]

The fact that björk herself wrote all the String arrangements is otherworldly

[@jrpseriel]

Vespertine next??! That's my favorite album of all time along with Homogenic & Ray of Light by Madonna

[@SirHilaryManfat]

Great reaction to an amazing album. You really should follow this up with Vespertine, which I personally think is better.

[@Stephs_VibeRater]

I believe that Bjork wanted an organic feel to this album, as if it was a living entity with the sound of a beating heart but also having the feelings, desolate in nature yet with hidden beauty, akin to the plains of Iceland in order to make up the dna of its soundscape. There was a point where this clicked for me & I completely understood Bjork's intentions with this project and I don't think I have ever found anything that has come close to capturing similar.

[@uhuher]

So excited you’ve done this album! I remember after watching Dancer in the Dark (you should check it out, it’s amazing!), I read an article on how she gets inspiration for her music and she said she would hear rhythms and patterns in everyday things around her. Trains, a washing machine spinning, whatever it was, and she’d use those things in her music. A lot of Dancer in the Dark illustrates this as well.

[@AnActualWolf]

22:35 "I've never heard music like this." Yes, man. YES. That's what it felt like for us too!

[@TapestriMusic]

Hell yea! What an amazing album. Next one's her magnum opus imo vespertine is in my top 10 albums of all time probably

[@juanmanuelvektor]

Basically one of the greatest albums of ALL TIMES.

[@GhostlyEcheveria]

Unravel is my favorite on the album, as well. There is a video of Bjork rehearsing the song in her New York penthouse before a concert, and it's honestly one of my favorite versions of the song. Alarm call reminds me of her work with The Sugarcubes in some ways. And I love the lyric "I'm no f*cking Buddhist, but this is enlightenment".

[@Johro66]

Unravel is Radiohead Thom Yorke's favourite song.

[@GhostlyEcheveria]

@@Johro66 I forgot about that little bit of trivia. They also worked together on a song from Selmasongs, the Dancer in the Dark soundtrack. ♥

[@Johro66]

@@GhostlyEcheveria and this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYeUfaKsZrpso7csi=r6tUV6GSDh3eMLQJ

[@davided.4697]

Vespertine next😍😍

[@aleky_sundae98]

vespertine needs to be the next one 😭

[@gozzywozzy485]

Björk gets more and more experimental so her albums become more difficult to digest the deeper you go. I'd definately recommend going back to Debut, and then allowing each album to integrate with repeated listens before you feel that you are ready to explore the next one. Chrono sequence from herein for sure. You might want to check out some music videos as well, she's well known for mindblowing evocative visuals too.

[@noahboa3387]

YES MORE BJORK!!

[@gwakon]

bought this on cd when it dropped. you're absolutely right...in 2024 this album holds up insanely well and produced far beyond it's years. Mark Bell from LFO is responsible for the beats on this one. Great reaction, mate.

[@wozzab9136]

You need to watch the official video for All is Full of Love - stunning

[@Xxanderz]

It really is a very extraordinary album!

[@snarksss]

Love seeing people reacting to the genius of Bjork 🔥

[@SrKocretta]

Definitely after Homogenic you have to listen to Vespertine, the opposite sides. Really beautiful albums. Bjork's peak.

[@gigatoob]

Enjoyed ur experience with Bjork. I think my favorite album listen is Vespertine. Thanks again!

[@NocturneSoul]

Please react to Madonna. I recommend her albums True Blue, Erotica, Bedtime Stories, Ray of Light and American Life.

[@alenanga]

What I'd give to listen to this album for the first time again

[@TapestriMusic]

Oh and you should take your time with this album, it'll help you going forward with her works haha! Great, honest reaction man!

[@binkytube]

Love your appreciation of Bjork! I can't wait until you react to Vespertine and Vulnicura Strings.

[@antonhaq3503]

The single releases from Homogenic and other Bjork albums are always worth checking out. She's a knack for picking great electronic producers to remix tracks. Mark Bell is a key contributor to Homogenic, RIP.

[@Johro66]

I love all of Björk's albums, and each album has songs that truly stand out for me, but they're all beautiful. She's one of a kind, just an indescribable talent..

[@bashartrefi]

loved your reaction to one of my favorite albums or my favorite artists ever. You can check out the video version of "all is full of love" it's a masterpiece. Vespertine should be next ;)

[@juanmanuelvektor]

Vespertine vespertine! You will be MESMERIZED BY UNISON! remember this comment;) regards from argentina! Your reactions are AWESOME!

[@Mrs_People]

Like so many have said already, Vespertine next please, you’ll love it!

[@puddlefoot]

It's wonderful seeing someone moved by her music like I am. I listened to homogenic on heavy rotation when it came out (yes I'm old) and was still discovering hidden gems years later. Her sound is so complex and beautiful, she is one of a kind. You should check out her Hunter and All is Full of Love videos, again so ahead of it's time. Thank you for the great reaction.

[@pablopicasso3122]

Revisiting this album almost 27 years later, now as a middle-aged man... it just hits entirely different. This album is one of the most elegant treatise on love, and I really do feel that this album will continue to stand the test of time.

[@chocolate-teapot]

Have you listened to Aphex Twin?

[@JoyfulOrb]

YES. That's a glorious idea!

[@robertgrace6182]

I absolutely recommend Debut and Vespertine. I was waiting for you to have that WTF moment in this one. 😂 it is pretty much a given. So good on further listens and Bachelorette just seems to get better with every listen, an absolute masterpiece. Where Moloko were 10 years ahead of everyone else, Bjork was bordering on a century ahead of Moloko. I really enjoy your reactions so please keep doing what you’re doing!

[@studioterrible4444]

This is actually GREAT!!!

[@ja_govi]

Love your reactions. She purposely makes her music a challenge to listen. That’s why its so beautiful and interesting to me. I hope you listen to Vespertine and Fossora

[@pauljohnson8016]

All is full of love when wearing headphones and with your eyes closed feels like being back in the womb.

[@IainiaI]

I believe Unravel is more about making nee love with each other when they get together again, because when they're apart the devil collects their previous love (kinda the love they already have weakens being apart). Great video, I went through her releases at the time and of course I loved her but didn't realise just how visionary and ahead of her time she is, great to see reactions, it's weirdly emotional to see someone 'buzz' about her Also, watch her All Is Full Of Love video, different grittier mix and the video is mind blowing for the time.❤

[@kevenpeoples]

A masterpiece.

[@jefralvi]

Either Vespertine or Debut gotta be the next one, all her discography is so unique and captivating 🤌🏻✨️

[@storageheater]

I remember hearing Joga (the first single) on the radio before it came out, and although I'd got all her records up to that point (which had already included some really hard and weird remixes), it just didn't make sense to me. I mean, the quality wasn't great and I just heard garbled drums and not enough of the strings to get a vibe with it. It's definitely become one of my favourites now though. Bachelorette went the other way - addicted to it instantly, find it a bit wearying now. Unravel remains timeless though. She released all the singles for this album in stupidly huge VHS and 3CD boxes, which were pretty expensive* but really cemented her status as a visual artist - all her packaging had always been beautiful but now it was absurd, and she wanted people to absolutely know about those videos. That said, CD ROM singles with videos on them had been a thing for nearly 10 years by that point, so it was just a silly flex lol. I think the album I love the most is probably one of her least popular - Biophilia - it's so nerdy and abstract, and it was almost essential (at least for me, a very unmusical person) to read up on the specific mechanics of each song to appreciate them. They're absolutely bonkers, for example: "A group of pendulums were put together, creating patterns with their moves, transmitting the movements of the Earth to the sound of a harp, making the song "Solstice"." ""Solstice" features 7/6 and 4/6 time signatures, "Hollow", "Crystalline" and "Moon", all feature a 17/8 time signature" "Thunderbolt" contains arpeggios, inspired by the time between when lightning is seen and thunder is heard" but I swear once you get over it, it's one of her best and purest pop albums. how brave are you? * boring note on the cost of a CD single in the UK in the mid 90s so they'd been getting longer and longer, with artists releasing singles over an hour long (full of live versions, demos, new songs and remixes), so chart rules limited them to 40 minutes (bjork has several that are this long). prices rose from 99p to £3.99 fairly rapidly, and then chart rules limited them to 3 songs only at a maximum of 24 minutes long, at the same price, to enforce fairness, as not all bands could compete with remix costs or live recording setups. Fancy packaging was also outlawed by the charts and defined as "merchandise" - and Joga got caught up in all this and was never deemed an eligible single. The cost of the Joga box was technically pretty reasonable - 3 long CDs, several new tracks and remixes, and a video, for about £20, but it was still quite unpalatable in a world where other singles had recently cost £1.99, especially to a student... and the VHS was just not an attractive novelty at this point. They made sure to have boring normal versions of later singles, but man, what a golden age. If you didn't buy singles in the 90s you were missing out on so much! Still can't get over the fact that people are expected to buy one song without any bonus treats in the digital age.

[@seanstewart9896]

The music video version of all is full of love is MILESSSSS better than the album one

[@baal5244]

oh, what would I give for the experience of listening to Homogenic for the first time again!!!!! this album is re. influence on my musical taste one of the most important ones of my life... I listened to this in 1997 and it simply blew me away! fun fact: this album had a huge impact on the creation of Kid A.

[@vorspiel8]

I loviu meeen i love uuuuuuu❤

[@majorlybad]

There's a radio edit of Alarm Call that's worth checking out

[@user-xd5fm5hv7k]

"Unravel" is thom yorke's favorite song of all time!! Its also my wedding song!❤

[@jpskhale2425]

If you see the video of All is Full of Love with its remix it is even better, and in case you are interested he made an even more aggressive remix of this album called Telegram

[@jpskhale2425]

My favorite songs, although I like them all, are Bachelorette and All is Full of Love. Vespertine, her next album, is another leap, although that is normal for her.

[@nomi.hagen.]

The Telegram album is based on Post.

[@jpskhale2425]

@@nomi.hagen. You're right, I have it on CD but my memory failed me.

[@pvolt7]

just as hypnotized on its release. Nothing else really sounds like this album. Enjoy the next one! It's another thing altogether

[@divaexperimental]

REACT TO KICK I BY ARCA PLEASEEEEE!! 🩷🩷🩷

[@dayglowj0e]

make sure to check out the video for all is full of love, one of the best videos of all time, and it's actually the original version of the song. she remixed it for the album to give it a "calm after the storm" effect following the madness of pluto

[@MiguelMikeLopez]

Please react to All is full of love Music video 🤗 ❤ I love your reactions 😍.

[@milenabonino43]

The best version of All Is Full Of Love is the Music Video version... don't miss it!😉

[@pablopicasso3122]

It only is until you one day find yourself as the archetype of person that she wrote that song for. I'm at this stage of my life where I've been hurt one too many times so as to allow me to stay jaded for the rest of my life... and the opening lines just feel like a tease from a naive woman that hasn't hurt much herself... but then she sings, "You'll be given love............. you have to trust it. Maybe not from the sources you've poured yours... maybe not in the direction you've been staring at..." And she closes the song out with an accusation -- I AM surrounded by love -- but I've closed myself off. There's a common saying, "Be the change in the world that you want to see." This song has given me the bravery to open up, yet again and not only accept what comes my way, but also to surround others in my love as well, in fulfillment of the promises and reassurances that Bjork offers. Without the beat, there's nothing but the words and the cocoon of strings, yangqin and bass pulses that envelope you like a warm hug or bath... I couldn't be more grateful for how much this song has healed me, and though the fuller mix is great, I feel like the groove kind of buries the message a little. For folks like myself who NEED to learn from this song, that's a problem.

[@jack_rabbit]

beauty is savage and wild

[@edjo7051]

Unrelated to this video, but if you ever plan on doing more Pink Floyd, I can’t recommend the album “Animals” enough. It’s right there with dark side of the moon and wish you were here for me

[@MartinoBadodi]

You need to listen to "my favourite faded fantasy" by Damien Rice, YOU WOULD LOVE IT!

[@peachesannndgravy]

You just have to close your eyes && let Björk take you.

[@musicbybackinnyc1]

Bachelorette is awesome

[@leesiddall4886]

Please react to sleep token - take me back to Eden - album

[@lecowboyaunplan]

I'm sûre someone already wrote this, but Radiohead covered Unravel, first on a webcast and sometimes as an opening for everyrhing in its right place.

[@jayg7920]

Do slaughter to prevail

[@CostilNicolas]

A the time, "fusion" and "world" music was the thing...(I was not a fan 🙂) Björk went the extreme other direction, and made and entire album based on a War between strings and electronic beats. Genius. Fun fact: all the the percussion you hear on the album are samples of Icelandic geysers she recorded and processed with co-producer Mark Bell.

[@omaribarra4384]

The next level is Vespertine album

[@kyondarko]

React To Vespertine ❤

[@dvus1977]

Just wait for what lies ahead 🤯. I'm not sure if you have watched any of her Music Videos. They are like another part of the song itself, if that makes any sense 🤷🤭. Guess what I'm trying to say is that she's also extremely focused on the Artistic Imagery as well and it shows.

[@braindeadbasil]

If you think this is experimental wait until you hear Medulla, Vulnicura, Utopia and Fossora!

[@justjoeagain2944]

VESPERTINE NEXT!!!

[@The_bleak_boy]

Please react to Brat by Charli xcx

[@WillWatts-os6mx]

The smiths already

[@PresidentHotdog]

Hunter is very Bloodborne

[@NebraskaGonvilleJones]

Haha, just wait. Bjork has much, much, much more up her sleeve than this 😉

[@okklidokkli]

Ahead of her time? This was mainstream music in the 90's. Personally I prefer Sugarcubes which has a more playful, young and fun attitude. This is kinda overproduced and all over the place. Her boyfriend Goldie in my book was better with "Timeless", and Anja Garbarek is a good alternative to Björk.

[@evandersolis5528]

I understand what you're saying but this was absolutely not mainstream in the 90's lmao

[@okklidokkli]

@@evandersolis5528 She certainly fitted right in to the "alternative" electronica music scene back then, and was one of the best selling female artists and one of the most played on radio. So much that if I heard "Human behaviour" on the radio, I had to turn it off.