Show Notes
For this episode I teamed up with Elijah Flores. You may know him as @thebjorkcollector on Instagram. Elijah’s collection is comprehensive. He has purchased every Björk release since Debut and is familiar with even the most obscure parts of her career. So I wanted to bring him on the show to talk about some lesser known, or maybe just underrated songs in her discography.
He’ll share 10 of his picks here, and I’ll add a few of my own. We’ll start chronologically with her work in The Sugarcubes and conclude around the Medulla period.
If you want to listen to any of the songs in full, check out this YouTube playlist: https://tinyurl.com/45hp9jpz
And here's a great Twitter thread if you want to discover even more obscure Björk tracks: https://tinyurl.com/cdvynw7f
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