Big Time Sensuality!!!

This cd is absolutley so creative and downright funky with dancable beats but also quite thoughful moments, for this to be a debut album its quite amazing! Bjork's voice carries you through a really long tunnel! making you wanna get out of your seat and dance!

Human Behavior- This song is really fun and down to earth, its a song to nod your head to or maybe dance to if u want to

Crying- this song is very cathcy and very easy to dance to, its very club like, with bjork singing about being in a city

Venus As a Boy- Is another great song were the chorus gets straight inot your head and is quite hard to get out "hes venus as a boy"

There's More to Life Than this- this is a very good song problaby her best song to dance to, its full of club beats, and really funky, with bjork sinsing about sneaking out of a party

Like Someone in Love- bjork slows it down with a wonderful harp, and sings about being in love and the crazy things you do and feel in a very shy manner

Big time Sensuality- she kicks it up again with a very sensual song, full of danceable beats and crazy lyrics

One Day- starts off to what appears to be a recording of baby bjork! and then enters into a very catchy repetitive beat, which enters anotehr layer of music very peaceful, and cool

Aeroplane- starts off really slow with some kind og magical misty music and then with a trumpet which enters some kind of mystical forest sounding beats!

Come To me- This song has a very sensual beat and bjork sings about being with a lover

Violenty Happy- Bjork goes back to the club scene by singing about non sense that makes you want to dance and be hyper

The Anchor Song- the last song on this album is very slow and it has what appears to be like a pipe or summin its very beach like!

get this album its very good!

Mesmerizing (never mind the dead swan dress ... )

Outward appearances can be deceiving -- this album proves it. If Bjork is a little off the wall, that must come with the territory of being a gin-yoo-wine artist, because she is the real thing.



I was growing out of 80's music when the Sugarcubes came along and annoyed me with their insta-success (just add water!), so at the time of this debut album (named, mysteriously enough, Debut, go figure) I didn't have much of an interest in giving it a listen. Fast forward a decade (give or take a few years), add Napster to the mix (oh joy, my PC is now a jukebox!) and oh, I see, NOW I'm getting what all the hoopla is about Bjork and why so many people on the "im"personals cite her as a favorite artist. Her voice is bright, expressive, expansive, beautiful -- how does a voice like that come out of such a little person? Beyond that, she is truly unafraid to explore virtually any musical styling which strikes her fancy, without sounding embarrasingly like a dilettante. Combine these two with her deceivingly pixie-ish persona and the mix is beguiling, surprising and fresh, fresh, fresh. This album, to my ears, sounds fresh even thirteen years after it was released. Bjork is one of a kind, strangely beautiful in many ways, but not so alien that you think she must be using a tonal scale from another planet. If you're noodling around for something new (or new to you), give this a listen. Bjork really is worth the price of admission ... she'll never make it to the top 40 (though Liz Phair did, so who knows?) but that's not necessarily such a bad thing.



Bjork, come to my house for tea and veggie delights. Please!!

She lost the Sugar, But this Album is Sweet

Bjork's "Debut" is certainly one of the finest albums of the early nineties. Mixing great dance beats with artful lyrics and her unmistakable voice, Bjork shed the punky sound of the Sugarcubes and really made her mark as a serious recording artist with this album. I have owned this album for well over ten years and continually return to it because it is amazing. The sound is careful to not sound too "dancy" even though many of the tracks certainly have a disco beat. Transcending any one musical style Debut has maintained its currency through its unique sound and well written songs.



Going from the bombastic "Human Behavior", which shows in itself the power of Bjork's voice, the album moves quickly to "Crying" which is poppy but terrific. The next notable is "There's more to life than This" which has a rowdy party sound complete with a bar room background

track and driving beats. While I don't want to list every track I think its notable to mention the cover of "Like Someone in Love" Which is serene and beautiful and "Violently Happy", a song that has more energy and confused emotion than should be legal.



To say that I like this album doesn't even approach my feeling toward it. Bjork's later recordings all don't seem to come close to this one. It is a great album and I think it would garner the same praise if it were released today as it had twelve years ago. The sound is fresh, artistic and beautiful. This is an album that will hook you on the first listen. Take my advice I am sure you will enjoy it too.



-- Ted Murena