Typically unconventional, Björk's Greatest Hits gives the people what they want: Fans voted on Björk's web site for their favorite tunes, and the winners filed onto this disc, which traces the Icelandic chanteuse's career arc from her post-Sugarcubes Debut through 2001's Vespertine. With a few exceptions, such as her popular, Broadway-flavored number "It's Oh So Quiet," the singer's best-known songs are here: the clanging synth-pop of "Human Behaviour," the passion-filled "Hyperballad," the soaring "Isobel," the intense, strings-and-synths collision on "Joga," and so on. A few surprises, however, do crop up, including the hard-to-find "Play Dead," a collaboration with electronica wizard David Arnold for the film The Young Americans, and "It's in Our Hands," the long-awaited studio recording of a live show staple. The song's highly textured backdrop, comprised of skipping computer blips and clanging, whirring, industrial-sounding noises, allows Björk ample space to stretch out her elastic voice. Both a neat introduction to one of contemporary music's most singular voices and a sweet treat for the already converted, Björk's Greatest Hits is not to be missed.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 All Is Full of Love 4:46
2 Hyper-Ballad 5:23
3 Human Behaviour 4:13
4 Jóga 5:04
5 Bachelorette 5:17
6 Army of Me 3:56
7 Pagan Poetry 5:14
8 Big Time Sensuality The Fluke Minimix 4:56
9 Venus as a Boy 4:41
10 Hunter 4:15
11 Hidden Place 5:28
12 Isobel 5:48
13 Possibly Maybe 5:07
14 Play Dead From the Young Americans 3:57
15 It's in Our Hands previously unreleased 4:14
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