Björk "Violently live"

Track-list: "Human behaviour", "The habour" (this is actually "Atlantic"), "One day", "Venus as a boy", "Come to me", "Aeroplane", "Play dead", "Crying", "Violently happy", "There's more to life than this", "Big time sensuality", "If you complain once more" (this is actually "Army of me"), "Modern things", "Human behaviour" (again), "The habour" (again), "One day" (again), "Come to me" (again) and "The anchor song".

Track 1-13 recorded live 1993.

Track 14-18 recorded live on tour 1993.

The major reason why you should get this bootleg is the second (and the 15^th) track "Atlantic". Except from several "Debut"-bootlegs that song is only available on the Japanese cassette-single-version of "Human behaviour" and as a bonus-track on the Japanese version of "Debut". I must say that Björk has a tendency to make some of her most glorious works hard to get for us normal lethal people. "Atlantic" is a song that is too beautiful to be described in words. You just have to hear it to understand what I mean. Except from that this bootleg also brings us an interesting version of "Play dead" played on pipes and flutes where Björk is singing lots of syncopes and a wonderful, haunting version of "Violently happy" with a church-organ and some really cool djunglist- noises. The early version of "Army of me" reminds me a little bit of Sugarcubes' own "Coldsweat"-remix that you find as a bonus-track on "Life's too good" and the early version of "The modern things" is a truly beautiful one with Björk singing along to a keyboard. "Violently live" also brings you two versions of "Human behaviour". The first one just sounds like the original album-version but the second one has got some really interesting echo-effects. Björk is singing the bootleg's last five tracks with a sadder tone of voice and that fits "Human behaviour" perfect. I'm not that positive to the live-version of "There's more to life than this", though. It sounds nothing but hasty to me.

The sound quality at track 1-13 is as magnificent as if it was an official recording. Björk's voice doesn't get disturbed by the cries from the audience. Track 14-18 is recorded with a little bit worse sound-quality and the cries from the audience is spoiling many of the intros. Björk is talking to the audience a couple of times but most of the times she's just saying "Thank you very, very much". There's a flute that follows her voice in many tracks and that sounds interesting sometimes but I could have made it without that flute. One thing I like with Björk's music is that live-performances doesn't mean "stick to keyboards". Some of the songs has got even more instruments than on the original "Debut"-album. That makes a Björk-bootleg interesting even if it only contains original album-tracks and as long as there isn't an official Björk-live-album you can regard this bootleg as an alternative without any problems. But there is still a way to go before you can regard a Björk-bootleg as an alternative to a Björk-remix-album.