Working/Alternative Titles (albums, songs) - UPDATES

martin · Postby **martin** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:26 pm

sorry, i remember there was a list of tentative album & song titles (like domestica/vespertine, etc.) but i can't seem to find this anymore... can anyone help?

i recently read in a björk biography that the temporary title of volta was apricot... is that true???

odduck · Postby **odduck** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:41 pm

I don't have the list saved and I can't think of all of them right now.
As for Apricot, which biography? Does it have reliable sources?

Magnetar · Postby **Magnetar** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:58 pm

Here's a few Martin ...

5 Years = Dare
Alarm Call = Jacko / Joy
All Is Full Of Love = All Is Real
All Neon Like = April / Techno Prayer
An Echo, A Stain = Crave
Ancestors = Piano II
Army Of Me = If You Complain Once More
Atlantic = The Harbour
Bachelorette = Bertolucci / Shape Shifter
Batabid = Bati
Charlene = Shiny / Surprise Me
Cocoon = Mouth
Cosmogony = The Solar System Song
Dark Matter = Pneuma
Desired Constellation = Opended
Domestica = Lost Keys
Generous Palmstroke = Palmstroke
Heirloom = Crabcraft / New
Hollow = Double Helix
Homogenic = Homogeneous
Human Behaviour = Murder For Two
Hyperballad = Appreciate / Cowboy Lemmings
I Miss You = Gail Biffen
It's In Our Hands = Our Hands
It's Oh So Quiet = Blow A Fuse
Medúlla = Ink / The Lake Experience
Mutual Core = Organ Plaid
Nature Is Ancient = My Snare
Pagan Poetry = Blueprint / A Different Kind of Love
Show Me Forgiveness = A Capella
Solstice = Solar Eclipse
Storm = Nameless
The Anchor Song = Um Amir
The Modern Things = Modern Things
Thunderbolt = Tesla
Verandi = Chess
Vespertine = Domestica
Who Is It = Embrace Fortress
? = Coba #1
? = Inside

m.thr.n · Postby **m.thr.n** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:45 am

'Apricot' was a fake title floating around back in 2007. It was made up by someone here.

michaeldj84 · Postby **michaeldj84** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:12 am

Stonemilker = Junk Punch

stupidfambaloo · Postby **stupidfambaloo** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:14 am

I was just googling 'april' earlier. it was an Alec empire collaboration. they had some lyrics at moma what I assume were for it, I have some photos but not on my phone at the moment.

martin · Postby **martin** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:18 am

Here's a few Martin ...

THANKS! This is what I was looking for... maybe we could post additions to this list in this thread...

New:

Volta = Voltage/Voodoo (<-- can anyone approve this?)

Dot · Postby **Dot** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:21 am

Here's a few Martin ...
THANKS! This is what I was looking for... maybe we could post additions to this list in this thread...

New:

Volta = Voltage/Voodoo (<-- can anyone approve this?)

"I am always looking for words that have some sort of energy. Usually the name just comes, from a magazine or somebody says something. I had waited for years while working on the album but it didn't come. In the lyrics there are words like "voltage" and "voodoo", which I found to be too common somehow.

I have always tried to choose titles which are kind of latin or something, which aren't english, which is a little funny because we europeans find latin to be sort of neutral language... But I found Volta... I don't recall how it came about, but I Googled it and found that it is both the name of a scientist in Italy who invented the battery, and also a river in Africa which had been built by men, and a lagoon built by men called Lake Volta. So several parts come into it"

— from the bjork.com Volta album special.

So I suppose they weren't alternative titles, just keywords for the theme of the album.

shapeshifter · Postby **shapeshifter** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:01 pm

martin · Postby **martin** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:54 pm

The Best Mixes from the Album Debut for All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels = Björk Affairs
Verandi = Chess
Stonemilker = Soundfield

Thanks. Where did you get this info from (source)?

martin · Postby **martin** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:01 pm

I was just googling 'april' earlier. it was an Alec empire collaboration. they had some lyrics at moma what I assume were for it, I have some photos but not on my phone at the moment.

look what I just found...

http://web.archive.org/web/200106221932 ... ws/116.htm

and here's more (so All Neon Like used to be called 'April'!):
http://web.archive.org/web/200106222021 ... ws/151.htm

shapeshifter · Postby **shapeshifter** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:18 pm

stupidfambaloo · Postby **stupidfambaloo** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:18 pm

I was just googling 'april' earlier. it was an Alec empire collaboration. they had some lyrics at moma what I assume were for it, I have some photos but not on my phone at the moment.
look what I just found...

http://web.archive.org/web/200106221932 ... ws/116.htm

a-HA!! thank you!!

martin · Postby **martin** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 9:17 pm

I don't have the list saved and I can't think of all of them right now.
As for Apricot, which biography? Does it have reliable sources?

björk music by per nielsen... well, there are quite a few other mistakes in that book,so i wouldn't be too sute re. liability....

martin · Postby **martin** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:46 am

UPDATED LIST

107 Steps = 141 Steps
5 Years = Dare / I Dare You
Alarm Call = Jacko / Joy
All Is Full Of Love = All Is Real
All Neon Like = April / Techno Prayer
An Echo, A Stain = Crave
Ancestors = Piano II
Army Of Me = If You Complain Once More
Atlantic = The Harbour
Bachelorette = Bertolucci / Shape Shifter
Batabid = Bati
Bath = Aposiopesis
Charlene = Shiny / Surprise Me
Cocoon = Mouth
Cosmogony = Solar System Song / Melody
Dark Matter = Pneuma
Declare Independence = Declare
Desired Constellation = Opended
Domestica = Lost Keys
Generous Palmstroke = Palmstroke
Gratitude = Giftwrapping
Heirloom = Crabcraft / New
Hollow = Double Helix / DNA
Holographic Entrypoint = Field Inversion
Homogenic = Homogeneous
Human Behaviour = Murder For Two
Hyperballad = Appreciate / Cowboy Lemmings
I Go Humble = Shove Piggy Shove [LFO]
I Miss You = Gail Biffen
It's In Our Hands = Our Hands
It's Oh So Quiet = Blow A Fuse
Jóga = State Of Emergency
Medúlla = Ink / The Lake Experience / The Lake Album
Miðvikudags = Wednesday
Mutual Core = Organ Plaid
Nature Is Ancient = My Snare
Oceania = Olympia Sirens
Pagan Poetry = Blueprint / A Different Kind Of Love
Prayer Of The Heart = Jesus Prayer
Quicksand = Apologies [SPACES]
Scatterheart = Smith & Wesson
Show Me Forgiveness = Acapella
Solstice = Solar Eclipse
Sonnets/Unrealities XI = E E Cummings
Stonemilker = Soundfield
Storm = Nameless
Sun In My Mouth = Sun In
The Anchor Song = Um Amir
The Best Mixes From The Album Debut For All The People Who Don't Buy White Labels = All The Remixes From The Same Album For Those People Who Are Not Into White Labels / Björk's Affairs
The Dull Flame Of Desire = Dull Flame
The Modern Things = Modern Things
Thunderbolt = Tesla
Trance = Now
Unravel = Ball Of Yarn
Verandi = Chess
Vertebræ By Vertebræ = Energy
Vespertine = Domestica / Domestika
Who Is It = Embrace Fortress
? = Coba #1
? = Inside

RECENT UPDATES in red!

Magnetar · Postby **Magnetar** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:30 am

Hope it's ok when I add to your list, Magnetar...

Of course it is.

digitalsky · Postby **digitalsky** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:30 pm

vertebrae by vertebrae = energy
the dull flame of desire = dull flame
delcare independence = declare

original volta tracklist was:

wanderlust
declare
dull flame
earth intruders
energy
hope
i see who you are
innocence
my juvenile

martin · Postby **martin** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:02 pm

vertebrae by vertebrae = energy
the dull flame of desire = dull flame
delcare independence = declare

original volta tracklist was:

wanderlust
declare
dull flame
earth intruders
energy
hope
i see who you are
innocence
my juvenile

great... thanks! where did you get this from?

mandrake · Postby **mandrake** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:39 pm

Lol, "Smith & Wesson"

michaeldj84 · Postby **michaeldj84** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:47 pm

isn't 'Smith & Wesson' the official title for the track on the DITD dvd? If it is then it wouldn't be a working title..more like an alternative one. I kinda feel like they are two different songs (

& DITD)

martin · Postby **martin** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:54 pm

Lol, "Smith & Wesson"

well, this is how the song is called in the movie...

as it was massively altered for Selmasongs (You just did what you had to do --> You are gonna have to find out for yourself, etc.), it also got a new name(Scatterheart)...

martin · Postby **martin** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:55 pm

isn't 'Smith & Wesson' the official title for the track on the DITD dvd? If it is then it wouldn't be a working title..more like an alternative one. I kinda feel like they are two different songs ( & DITD)

yeah, changed the thread title to "Working/Alternative Titles (albums, songs)"...

michaeldj84 · Postby **michaeldj84** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:57 pm

isn't 'Smith & Wesson' the official title for the track on the DITD dvd? If it is then it wouldn't be a working title..more like an alternative one. I kinda feel like they are two different songs ( & DITD)
yeah, changed the thread title to "Working/Alternative Titles (albums, songs)"...

oh

i'm not paying attention. ANyhow...I like 'Smith & Wesson' better than 'Scatterheart'

pigeonboy · Postby **pigeonboy** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 5:56 pm

If I remember right at the time

felt that there should be a lullaby style song in the movie between Selma and Gene but either Lars disagreed or it just never made it into the film. Scatterheart is the lullaby which was reworded (or vice versa) to Smith and Wesson which is the type of gun used in the film.

mandrake · Postby **mandrake** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 6:22 pm

isn't 'Smith & Wesson' the official title for the track on the DITD dvd? If it is then it wouldn't be a working title..more like an alternative one. I kinda feel like they are two different songs ( & DITD)

Now you got me! I bought Selmasongs but not the DIDT DVD, because I cannot watch this movie again

Never knew therefore how Scatterheart is called on the DVD.

digitalsky · Postby **digitalsky** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:26 pm

vertebrae by vertebrae = energy
the dull flame of desire = dull flame
delcare independence = declare

original volta tracklist was:

wanderlust
declare
dull flame
earth intruders
energy
hope
i see who you are
innocence
my juvenile
great... thanks! where did you get this from?

leeebling posted it waaaay back in the day.
i wish i had this version...i do have i see who you are with the horn fade from the end of hope, but that's all i could find of this version
i think it was an internal promo office stream...does anyone on here have it?
on last.fm there are some streams counted for "dull flame" "declare" and "energy"...

Dot · Postby **Dot** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:58 pm

Just a question. Do we have an official source on Trance?
I've seen it being referred as To Lee, With Love, Nick on a few sites, mostly because of the Alexander McQueen video the song was made for, so I'm wondering if Trance is its actual title or if someone came up with it to replace To Lee, With Love, Nick...?

mandrake · Postby **mandrake** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 4:02 pm

Just a question. Do we have an official source on Trance?
I've seen it being referred as To Lee, With Love, Nick on a few sites, mostly because of the Alexander McQueen video the song was made for, so I'm wondering if Trance is its actual title or if someone came up with it to replace To Lee, With Love, Nick...?

It was mentioned in one interview (don't remember where, but the info came from

herself)
Update: it was in some Rolling Stone interview, but the link or article is gone. Bjork.fr has some info.

Dot · Postby **Dot** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 4:40 pm

Just a question. Do we have an official source on Trance?
I've seen it being referred as To Lee, With Love, Nick on a few sites, mostly because of the Alexander McQueen video the song was made for, so I'm wondering if Trance is its actual title or if someone came up with it to replace To Lee, With Love, Nick...?
It was mentioned in one interview (don't remember where, but the info came from herself)
Update: it was in some Rolling Stone interview, but the link or article is gone. Bjork.fr has some info.

Oh okay, thank you!

martin · Postby **martin** » Wed May 06, 2015 8:13 am

Just a question. Do we have an official source on Trance?
I've seen it being referred as To Lee, With Love, Nick on a few sites, mostly because of the Alexander McQueen video the song was made for, so I'm wondering if Trance is its actual title or if someone came up with it to replace To Lee, With Love, Nick...?

well, I think the video (incl. music from Björk) is called To Lee, With Love, Nick because it was made by Nick Knight... the Björk track itself is called Trance.

digitalsky · Postby **digitalsky** » Wed May 06, 2015 5:57 pm

oceania was originally olympia sirens, at least according to that weird instagram post of all those medúlla/vespertine demos. does anyone still have that photo?

shapeshifter · Postby **shapeshifter** » Wed May 06, 2015 9:28 pm

martin · Postby **martin** » Wed May 06, 2015 9:29 pm

oceania was originally olympia sirens, at least according to that weird instagram post of all those medúlla/vespertine demos. does anyone still have that photo?

I found the photo... thanks, you're right! added!

Simontreal · Postby **Simontreal** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:29 am

The Archive book (N. Dibben section) mentions that Cosmogony was first called "Melody".

martin · Postby **martin** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:53 am

The Archive book (N. Dibben section) mentions that Cosmogony was first called "Melody".

oops... this got lost somehow...

JamieH · Postby **JamieH** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:13 am

oceania was originally olympia sirens, at least according to that weird instagram post of all those medúlla/vespertine demos. does anyone still have that photo?
I found the photo... thanks, you're right! added!

link?

venus · Postby **venus** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:39 pm

i have this one

and neptune turns out to be

. and

was once ad lib 1 before having lyrics from sjón.

faber · Postby **faber** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:49 pm

^ How do you?

Can you share them?

venus · Postby **venus** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:07 pm

is already visible on the wall in

live. but my exracted midi files from the old app bundle have those titles. i can share screenshot when on my mac.

odduck · Postby **odduck** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:25 pm

So can you confirm what Different Kind of Love is?

martin · Postby **martin** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:30 pm

Pagan Poetry = Blueprint / A Different Kind Of Love

see page 1 of this thread...

odduck · Postby **odduck** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:31 pm

Thank you. Dunno how I missed that

venus · Postby **venus** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:07 pm

i have this one

well i meant that i had the photo, not the demos!
this was posted on instagram by someone related to mark bell when he passed away. im not the owner.

sorry

odduck · Postby **odduck** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:18 pm

Well, you almost gave us a heart attack

Thanks for posting the pic anyway, I didn't have it saved.

Apex · Postby **Apex** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:59 pm

GOSH I would give my everything for that demos!

Lionsong · Postby **Lionsong** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:36 pm

I think I remember seeing a photo that showed that the Tracklist for medulla was changed last minute
These three tracks were the difference:
8 Oceania
9 desired constellation
12 Komið

But In the final studio version we have now, Oceania and desired constellation switched places and Komið was completely removed off the album and made a b side.

martin · Postby **martin** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 6:27 am

∆ we still don't know what KANTOS is, right?

digitalsky · Postby **digitalsky** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:28 pm

i would assume E.E. Cummings was the original title of Sonnets...
should be added?

martin · Postby **martin** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:41 pm

i would assume E.E. Cummings was the original title of Sonnets...
should be added?

done!

mrain · Postby **mrain** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:52 pm

I think I remember seeing a photo that showed that the Tracklist for medulla was changed last minute
These three tracks were the difference:
8 Oceania
9 desired constellation
12 Komið

But In the final studio version we have now, Oceania and desired constellation switched places and Komið was completely removed off the album and made a b side.

Komið is such a good ender or a hidden track, I miss the era of her singing gibberish..

Komið and Oxygen is ny fave fave. Can she do those again? In the future... A Vulnicura Gibberish song