CrisalidaBoy

After having listened to it basically all day long, I feel that the first 4 tracks are the clear highlights of the album, and that the songs in the 2nd half are just too similar and less 'melodically' defined, so for me it's kind of a 50% ok album. The lyrics are very direct and moving -you can really feel the pain in her voice, but they are also repetitive. I know the topic of the album is the end of love and having a broken heart but... idk, I can here a lot of 'universal', 'internal', 'eternal' and of course 'love'. I also don't really like the fact that 'Stonemilker' sounds like it could have been in Homogenic, 'Lionsong' has 100% Biophilia-like vocal moments and that the latter part of the album has this 'Hollow'/'Dark Matter'-ish feeling to it. Biophilia is by far my least fave Björk album, so that's not cool for me. Anyway!! The perfection of the first half of the album, even though it lacks the experimentation (real experimentation and evolution) of her previous work, makes it up for the songs that I don't like. Now I cannot wait to see the cover !

'Stonemilker' - Björk Alongside 'Lionsong', 'History of Touches' and 'Black Lake', the highlight of 'Vulnicura'.

^ For me, The Other Woman is in the Top 5, what a way to close the albummmm

I'm sorry if it sounded too harsh, it really wasn't my intention. I just wanted to post my ranking and when I saw that comment I kind of felt a bit uncomfortable. But that's all.

Here another casual fan... I understand all the emotion behind discovering and figuring out Lana's lyrics, topics, personal stories and blabla. I really do. I don't know enough things about her private (yeah, private) life to understand the references that you super fans find in her lyrics, but really, why is there always some of you pointing out that some people just like Lana because of her songs when someone says so? Isn't that the point after all? I'm not mad nor offended, I just don't get it. Maybe I've misunderstood the tone you want to use when you talk about a "casual fan", but it sounds kind of stupidly mocking to me. If you want to do Lana a favour, don't turn into Lana's Little Monsters ;-) It's OK to worship her, I have never done it because I don't have so much time to spend it reading and studying her, but I'm really starting to love her persona and her way to see the world we live in (and the world she inhabites). I like Lana, mainly because of her songs, but since West Coast I didn't become a Lana fan. Respect that... That said, that would be my ranking of the songs of the album, which I find x1000 more haunting than Born to Die (which is also super amazing) and almost equal to Paradise (UV is better, heh). BtD feels like an excellent recopilation album of her (at that moment) best songs, and that's what debuts usually are (not counting AKA as an official debut since it's not the album that "opened" here to the world), but UV sounds incredible, and it really feels as if it told a story. Amazing. 9/10. I think it would get a 10 if it had just ONE faster song durint the second half... But anyway, I embrace it because of what it is: a gem. TOP SONGS: - Cruel World - Shades of Cool - Brooklyn Baby - West Coast - Sad Girl - Old Money - The Other Woman - Florida Kilos VERY GOOD SONGS: - Pretty When You Cry - Money Power Glory - Black Beauty OK SONGS: - Fucked My Way Up To The Top MEH: - Ultraviolence - Guns And Roses Haven’t really properly listened to Flipside and Is This Happines, but I like them. Actually there is NO song I dislike, but well, that’s what my ranking would look like.

I personally LOVE it. I think it is my fave. Especially the "because you're young, you're wild, you're free, you're dancing circles around me" part. It gets me every time. And the very beginning of song -the guitar notes that actually open the album- sound so classic and classy...

"Ultraviolence" is missing

You have to click on the name of the file: UVVV.zip