Every song on this playlist has a connection to Björk, though only a few actually feature her voice. I recently wrote a book about Björk’s album Homogenic, and part of the fun of research has been rediscovering and retracing that web of collaborations and connections, from remixes I’d forgotten about to obscure albums by Björk’s former bandmates. Her musical tastes, she’s always said, are extreme, and her role is to be a bridge between those outer limits and her beloved world of pop. In her career, she’s crossed paths with artists from Stockhausen to Timbaland to Steve Coogan, and called my attention to some things I’d never have been drawn to on my own. Since I discovered her album Debut at the age of 12, Björk has helped expand my tastes, with nudges sometimes gentle, sometimes forceful the ever-adventurous, sometimes challenging nature of her music led my own curiosity onward, through interviews, covers, remixes and most often, though collaborations.ījörk is, as the opening track of Homogenic affirms, a Hunter: her quarry is the magic extra element that comes from two different minds meeting and creating together, “1 + 1 = 3” as she describes it. Today’s Memory Taper is Emily Mackay, a writer and music-lover from Southend-on-Sea.Įmily says: “One of the best things about music obsession is how your favourite artists introduce you to other musicians who've inspire them, lighting up a web of connections you’d never have made otherwise. David Bowie - China Girl / Heroes / Sound and Vision.The Last Shadow Puppets - Meeting Place.Arctic Monkeys - 505 / Cornerstone/ The Hellcat Spangled Shalala- any of them.The Rolling Stones - ALL OF THEM obviously but especially Waiting On A Friend & Can't You Hear Me Knocking.It's a long playlist - over seven hours of music - below are the most important of all important tracks." We were as close as its gets, we been together through lots of things, and she taught me to be strong, to work hard, be nice to people and to always believe that good times will come back to us and laughter is the best when enjoyed together.įor the gathering after her funeral I created the playlist I knew she would enjoy, made of most of the songs we loved. Yes, my mum had three tattoos, I only have two and both of those I made when she was sitting on bed next to me getting her new one done. I'm really lucky to be her daughter and really lucky that we had this connection, we have so many memories of us just enjoying life, enjoying music, movies. We loved Bowie so much and she watched me discovering him after he appeared in the film Christiane F. We both read all the books there are about them and discussed in details what we just discovered. My mum was absolutely in love with Keith Richards and I'm all about Mick Jagger.
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I’m Polish so obviously we had our favourite old bands like Myslovitz or T.Love etc but our love for UK music was really strong. She absolutely loved London and said that the UK was always making the best music in the world - with only few exceptions like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nat King Cole, Santana or Frank Sinatra. Sometimes we rebelled together - listening too loud, too late in the evening to all favourite guitar riffs, whilst screaming out the lyrics. Since I remember we were always listening to stuff, on vinyl (until I broke the needle), on tapes, on CDs and then by sending each other links, and back to the vinyl. “Maybe some people will be surprised why I’m sending you this Memory Tape but music was everything for both of us. Today’s Memory Taper is Olga Casablancas (originally from Poland) who’s paying tribute to her much-loved mum.