Selmasongs [Enhanced] [Import] [Soundtrack]
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Album Description
A.K.A (Dancer In The Dark). This Japanese edition includes a bonus enhanced component. Bjork's stars & wrote the music for this Cannes Film Festival Winner. It includes her duet with Thom Yorke (Radiohead), 'I've Seen It', along with 'Overture', 'Cvalda', 'Scatterheart', 'In The Musicals', '107 Steps', 'New World' + the Japanese exclusive enhanced track featuring film footage of Bjork performing 'I've Seen It' with her co-star Peter Stormare. Also includes an exclusive English lyric sheet that will not be included with any other pressing. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
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- Great movie; phenomenal soundtrack!
- Can She?
- Dissapointing but still classic Bjork greatness
- An emotional WHALLOP!
- The Burden of Soundtracks
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Selmasongs: Dancer In The Dark (2000 Film)
Björk
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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ASIN: B00004Y6TQ
Release Date: 2000-09-19 |
Tracks:
- Overture
- Cvalda
- I've Seen It All
- Scatterheart
- In The Musicals
- 107 Steps
- New World
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Inspired by the film Dancer in the Dark's Broadwayesque emotional sweep, Björk stretches herself with orchestral mood swings and a darker, more experimental palette. The result is the most difficult record she's made since her Sugarcubes days, but a few listens reveal the thrilling heart of a truly multifaceted and immensely brave composer. --Matthew Cooke
Amazon.com
In Dancer in the Dark, Björk plays Selma, a Czech mother who labors furiously in order to save her son from an inherited disease that will cause blindness. In the midst of all her hardship, the one thing that keeps her spirits up is musicals. Here lies the premise of the Selmasongs EP. The seven tracks sound like something straight out of a Gene Kelly movie but with one major addendum: Björk's wildly imaginative, postmodern songwriting. The movie's theme of fantasy coexisting with urban industrial bleakness is represented in two recurring elements: mechanical friction (expressed rhythmically in the sounds of train tracks, car engines, chains, and even chalk) and dreamy escapism (manifested in enormous orchestral swells of strings, harp, and other fanciful instrumentation). "Cvalda" is typical of the EP's duality. Industrial noise bleeds into Björk's scatting "Clatter! Crash! Clack! Rattle!" then dives head first into a wonderful tap-dancing-on-a tin-roof, big-band cacophony. The EP's showstopper, the rousing "In the Musicals 1 & 2," sounds like it was conducted with a magic wand. Beginning with Aphex Twin-inspired beats bouncing like a ball bearing dribbled hard on pavement, the intricate rhythmic choreography tromps, flits, and changes direction with seamless angularity. These aren't just songs to dance to, these are songs that dance. --Beth Massa
Customer Reviews:
Great movie; phenomenal soundtrack!.......2007-07-23
If you like Bjork, you will love this movie soundtrack as she continues to set new trends in style. The duet with Thom Yorke of Radiohead is brilliant. Check out the version she sang at the Oscars in her swan outfit on youtube. Bjork is simply an awesome talent!
Can She?.......2007-01-23
Can bjork do any wrong? Not in my book! she takes on a new style, replacing her drum machines with stomps, taps, industrial noises and melancholy as an accompniament. On its own, this is a beautiful precursor to Vespertine, inkling here and there to the microcosmic noises to come on the next album. In her style, it sends you from whispers to guttaral soars, but more punctually and neccessarily than on her other albums. gorgeous!
Dissapointing but still classic Bjork greatness.......2006-12-09
These songs are great n all like everything Bjork does (in my opinion), but i fell in love with the film and the film's soundtrack and this is not the film's soundtrack. All of the songs are redone. My favorite song for instance is "I've Seen It All" and i get Thom Yorke instead of Jeff(Peter Stormare). Love Thom and all but prefer Jeff for sentimental ties i have with the film. and Scatterheart?!? None of the lyrics are even the same and Bill(David Morse) and Linda(Cara Seymour) are not singing! The others are the same story.. Isn't the whole point of a musical the fact that a bunch of people in the movie are singing in context with the plot? If you listened to the soundtrack you'd never guess it was the soundtrack to a musical.. Anyway the songs are great but it's not really a soundtrack to me and i can't help but be very dissapointed and sad that i can't have the songs i want other than having to listen to the film.
An emotional WHALLOP!.......2006-07-07
If you cried your eyes out in DITD then this CD will wrench your heart as well. I had this CD in my car and found myself crying non stop!!! Probally not the best thing to do while driving? I even had a friend borrow my car once with this cd in it and he confided to me that after a few songs he started to cry as well..and he hates Bjork!!! In a nutshell - YOU WILL CRY when you hear this cd AND keep tissues in your car when you listen to this cd.
The Burden of Soundtracks.......2006-07-06
For an artist like Bjork to make a soundtrack to a film in which she stars seems a little off-putting. All told, I actually saw the movie after listening to the soundtrack. I've been a Bjork fan for a while, and when this CD came out in 2000, I was shocked by how real it was, even as a soundtrack. Not all of the songs immediately made perfect sense, due to their dependence on the actual film; however, Bjork seems to always find a way to make each track uniquely hers. "Cvalda" and "In the Musicals" are musically full-bodied expressions of the musical, which for Bjork seems to always divide the real world from the one in which we always live.
"I've Seen It All" is beautiful, in its own quiet way. Bjork sings here with Peter Stormare, who also stars in the film. This song is important, in that it embodies the duality of the film, with its many contrasts in characters and especially camera-work, which changes whenever one of the "musical" numbers starts.
All in all, Bjork used "Selmasongs" as an album and a project to further her avant-garde intentions while not getting wholly lost in them. Each track captures some of her original verve, which only continues to strengthen with such new projects as "Drawing Restraint 9."
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Selmasongs + postcards
Bjork
Manufacturer: universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00004Y5Y2 |
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Selmasongs
Björk
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00004W3MD
Release Date: 2000-11-28 |
Tracks:
- Overture - Vince Mendoza
- Cvalda - Bj Catherine Deneuve
- I've Seen It All - Bj , Thom Yorke
- Scatterheart - Bj Vince Mendoza
- In the Musicals - Bj
- 107 Steps - Bj Siobhan Fallon,
- New World - Bj Vince Mendoza
- [CD-ROM Track] - Bj
Album Description
A.K.A (Dancer In The Dark). This Japanese edition includes a bonus enhanced component. Bjork's stars & wrote the music for this Cannes Film Festival Winner. It includes her duet with Thom Yorke (Radiohead), 'I've Seen It', along with 'Overture', 'Cvalda', 'Scatterheart', 'In The Musicals', '107 Steps', 'New World' + the Japanese exclusive enhanced track featuring film footage of Bjork performing 'I've Seen It' with her co-star Peter Stormare. Also includes an exclusive English lyric sheet that will not be included with any other pressing. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
Album Details
Japanese Version Featuring 2 Bonus Tracks.
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Selmasongs
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000J2354C
Release Date: 2006-12-26 |
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Selmasongs
Björk
Manufacturer: Universal Japan
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ASIN: B0002ZEUGI
Release Date: 2005-01-18 |
Tracks:
- Overture
- Cvalda - Bj Catherine Deneuve
- I've Seen It All - Bj Thom Yorke
- Scatterheart
- In the Musicals
- 107 Steps - Bj Siobhan Fallon
- New World
Album Details
Japanese limited budghet re-issue featuring enhanced material.
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Selmasongs
Björk
Manufacturer: Polydor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000QX114
Release Date: 2000-08-30 |
Tracks:
- Overture - Vince Mendoza
- Cvalda - Bj Catherine Deneuve
- I've Seen It All - Bj , Thom Yorke
- Scatterheart - Bj Vince Mendoza
- In the Musicals - Bj
- 107 Steps - Bj Siobhan Fallon,
- New World - Bj Vince Mendoza
- [CD-ROM Track] - Bj
Album Description
A.K.A (Dancer In The Dark). This Japanese edition includes a bonus enhanced component. Bjork's stars & wrote the music for this Cannes Film Festival Winner. It includes her duet with Thom Yorke (Radiohead), 'I've Seen It', along with 'Overture', 'Cvalda', 'Scatterheart', 'In The Musicals', '107 Steps', 'New World' + the Japanese exclusive enhanced track featuring film footage of Bjork performing 'I've Seen It' with her co-star Peter Stormare. Also includes an exclusive English lyric sheet that will not be included with any other pressing. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
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Selmasongs
Björk
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000G75AQG
Release Date: 2006-07-25 |
Tracks:
- Overture
- Cvalda
- I've Seen It All
- Scatterheart
- In The Musicals
- 107 Steps
- New World
Tracks:
- Overture
- Cvalda
- I've Seen It All
- Scatterheart
- In The Musicals
- 107 Steps
- New World
Album Description
2000's Selmasongs (music from the motion picture soundtrack Dancer In The Dark) presents music from the Lars von Trier-directed film in which Björk starred as Selma, a role for which she was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. In addition to Björk-composed score segments, selections with vocals include "New World," "Cvalda," and "I've Seen It All," a duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke. DVD side features 5.1 sound for all songs and score, no video content.
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Selmasongs-Music from Dancer in Dark
Bjork
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000BRHSAW
Release Date: 2000-10-26 |
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Selmasongs (Enhanced)
Bjork
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00005R0SI
Release Date: 2002-02-11 |
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Enhanced Track: Video for 'i've Seen it All.'
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Selmasongs-Music from Dancer in the
Bjork
Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0000DENOE
Release Date: 2000-09-19 |
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