Product Details

* Audio CD (1993)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Import
* Label: Bapsi
* ASIN: B000007WMT
* Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | LP Record
* Average Customer Review: based on 138 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #102,001 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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Track Listings
1. Human Behaviour
2. Crying
3. Venus as a Boy
4. There's More to Life Than This [Live]
5. Like Someone in Love
6. Big Time Sensuality
7. One Day
8. Aeroplane
9. Come to Me
10. Violently Happy
11. Anchor Song
12. Play Dead
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
Her first album following the breakup of the Sugarcubes, Debut is Icelandic trickster Björk's statement of purpose: bringing curious experimentalism to the dance floor and putting her startling, expressive voice front and center. Her perspective is a little alien--it's no accident that the first song talks about "getting close to a human"--but her leveling of genre distinctions has some wonderful results, especially the eroticized easy-listening reggae sway of "Venus As a Boy." Paired with producer Nellee Hooper (of Soul II Soul), she comes up with a series of invitingly artificial settings for her pipes, built from late-night beats and peculiar timbres, and sings like she's overwhelmed with joy from all her senses. --Douglas Wolk

Product Description
International version of the Icelandic enchantress' 1993 album with the bonus track, 'Play Dead'. Universal.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Violently Happy, April 15, 2004
Reviewer: MoonGoddess (Ontario, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Bjork has refined her sound and evolved as an artist, inspiring others since her first album, released in '93, but 'Debut' is a treasure that's just as priceless and definitely worth having in one's collection. She impressed and showed much potential here, suggesting more to offer in the future, and is one of few that manages to outshine the previous endeavor with the next. She blew many electronic fans away with her refreshingly innovative style and wacky video ideas, staking her claim as a force not to be reckoned with.

On latter albums such as 'Homogenic' and 'Vespertine', the songs were deeper and ultimately darker but most of the material here is playful dance tunes. The music, however, is creatively unique with Bjork's vocal prowess and groovy atmospherics. She became a household name with club hits like "Big Time Sensuality" and "Violently Happy" but, for me, the true highlights include the emotionally-charged "Venus As a Boy" - a striking melody with hypnotic beats and lush strings that have a slight Middle Eastern feel, and the beautifully crafted "Come To Me", which may just be my all-time favorite Bjork song with its delicate, melodic rhythms and gentle yet achy cooing. ( )