Hi, my name is Manny.  I remember the first time I heard Bjork.  I was born in 1984 and I still remember the first tape I ever bought.  It was the Sugarcubes "Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week".  I put it in my tape player for the first time and heard the most beautiful voice i have ever heard in my life.  Of course, it was Björk's voice.  It was like i was hypnotized when i heard it.  it was so new to me and i absolutely loved it.  From that point on i became a huge Bjork Fan.  I followed the Sugar Cubes for most of the 80s and bought all their tapes.  Then Bjork went solo and I went crazy for her first solo CD, DEBUT.  It was the best CD I have ever heard!  The lyrics, the music, her voice.  It all came together wonderfully.  Eventually I got on the internet and saw all her CD's and groups she has been with.  I bought tapes and CD's from Bjork, Tappi Tikarrass, KUKL, and the Sugar Cubes.  I was a huge fan.  I bought "Post" the first day it came out, and that CD completely changed my view on music.  It was incredible.  Then, the greatest thing happened.  Bjork came to Tower Records by my house to promote Post.  I was so excited, but when I got there, the line was enormous!  I stood at the end of it with my cousins, but when we got up to the front of the line, she had to go.  We were only about 5 people away.  It was devastating.  I was so sad because of that.  Following that, i bought telegram, and many more imports.  Than Homogenic came, and like Post, I never saw music in the same way again.  She was on tour for this CD, but she cancelled Chicago shows twice.  I bought tickets for those shows and everything, but i was disappointed yet again, but finally i got to see her Homogenic tour at the House of Blues on May 18th, 1998.  That was the most beautiful day in my life and i remember every moment of the show.  I have always and still consider myself the biggest US Bjork fan, and possibly her biggest fan in the world.
  

I was watching ALTV2K and He happened to play I MISS YOU on there (the cut one of course) and My immediate thought was that it looked to me like something stupid(Forgive me please!!!) because of the artwork.  But my friend insisted that I watch it, He told me how he wanted me to see how horrible it is, and so I watched it, and BOOM!! I'm in love!!  Then I had to go out and get the CD with that song on it, and My friend tells me he'll buy it for me, if I SHAVE MY HEAD FOR IT.  so of course, I DID.  stupid?  hair grows back, and now I'm a die-hard Björk fan!  I guess though, that it was her beautiful voice
that really hooked me. 
  

First time I ever heard of her was when I was 13 or so. I was watching this show, more like a want to be MTV, and they showed the video for Walkabout. I could not believe mine eyes! I was so ecstatic to see the different transitions. I was in complete awe! I looked at Bjork very closely and thought, she has the sweetest voice. Like the type of voice that can lure you into a stage of hypnotism. Or however you spell that word.  And too, she was the prettiest girl I had ever seen. When I saw each of the members, I just knew they could not have been American. I did tons of research!  I wrote down the name of the song and I went hunting for it. That was and will always remain my favorite Sugarcubes song.  Now, I am a huge Bjork collector! Magazines, cut outs, articles, stickers, shirts, posters, books...you name it! I am very honored to say that I have seen her in concert 2 times here in Chicago. I have also met her face to face 2 times as well...here in Chicago.  Ever since that sweet day, I have looked at life in a whole different perspective. And Bjork must take the credit for that TAKK!
  

Winter Vacation 1995
One day, when i was about 12 or 13, i felt so lifeless and dull. I had just spent about a week of my vacation laying' around in my bed mostly eating and watching the telly.  I was so depressed about it too. Since there was nothing on TV (or so i thought), i just watched MTV then clicked to Vh1 when there was a crappy song. So, as i was watching Vh1, there was a new video on. It was "It's oh so quiet" by Bjork. I didn't know who it was at the time, but i continued watching it. I started to laugh. I laughed some more (i hadn't laughed in days). I thought "Who's this little Chinese girl jumping on my screen???? And this song is so funny and weird!!!!" Whatever i thought. I continued leading my boring summer. That afternoon, the little Chinese (or so i thought) girl was on the screen. Same song. The day after, same song. Vh1 continuously put Bjork on. After the 5th time, i was starting to adore this song that i had once thought corny. After i rounded up enough courage, i walked to Virgin Mega store down my street. And there it was: The beautiful, the radiant, the crazy Post CD!!!!!!!!!!! NEW NEW NEW! Since it was new, i listened to it on those little headphones. The CD was nothing like "it's oh so quiet" (because, i learned later, it is the only Bjork song she did not write). The song on the cd were superb!!!!! I was Hyper!!!!!! All my energy came back!!!!!!!! I quickly bought the cd as a X-mas gift for myself. I was so happy!!!!!!!!!  This story could go on forever, because i could tell u how i got the other CDs and how i became the N#1 Björk fan in the universe with all the other Björk stuff i got, but i won't because it'll take up too much space. But E-mail me for the rest of the story if u want to hear it.
The small moral of this story is that Bjork gives u energy to be hyper.  The big moral is: Björk is the best best best best person and music in the world. I can't tell u how i truly worship it. It's more than what my words can say (maybe if u have a wire of some kind, i can transfer my thoughts into our brain to show u how i feel). Anyways, before i was introduced to Björk, i liked different kinds of music, but i didn't have one that i really loved. Now i do, and i can tell u, nothing compares to Bjork music. It is one of a kind and it strikes up a match inside of me. It makes me laugh, cry, hyper up, scream, etc. And i would just like to say, that it seems Björk is the only one who really works on her music to make it perfect. Unlike Britney spears b**** who prolly doesn't write her own songs and doesn't do shit to makes 'em better and doesn't use her brain much (but i could talk about that forever)
Anyway i really don't much like any other artist than Bjork. She's the one and only.
And that's what true fanship is all about.  Please contact me, i love arguments, good or bad. Also contact me if u can find music almost as good as Bjork or if u agree with me.
  

My introduction to Björk came via the song "eat the menu". a friend had made me a mix-tape for my birthday.... i was enamored of the lyrics at once: "h-h-have some SAL-ad!". I soon bought all the Sugarcubes albums and the rest is history. her music was very important to me during my years at a stifling new England college where most everyone loved beer, L.L. Bean and Dave Matthews. Björk was my only escape... and a sort of affirmation that it was ok not to wear plaid. :-)
  

First time I heard Björk was on this show on MTV about the new movie Wayne's World, and they were showing odd videos that not many people have probably seen and they showed snips from Human Behavior, and I thought Bjork was just the weirdest thing ever. I mean the name, the background, I thought it was funny, until about 1997 when I heard the songs that were to come out on Homogenic from something about the Tibetan Freedom concert. Since then I've been hooked, I have a ton of stuff and know a lot about her. She is the greatest!
  

Judging by the stories so far, Björk's hit us all quite by accident. "I was watching MTV", "I was at a friend's house," "The radio was on" And all of us was bewitched by Ms. B's presence as well. Blimey, it was the same for me, too. I couldn't have been much more than seven and I was supposed to be getting showered for bed. Thankfully I rebelled and turned on MTV. I don't think I realized what was going on, but I remember this girl with black, black hair and a sweet heart-shaped face, singing. She was dressed like a puppet or doll, and I couldn't quite make out what she was singing or take my eyes off her. But she was swaying and cooing, crawling about on the floor; it was like a fairytale, really. Then the name came up, "the Sugarcubes"; I laughed, thinking it was so European and cool.  Later when I was twelve, I caught 'Human Behaviour'and was completely overjoyed. It was so fresh and original that I would wait for it sometime and be disappointed if it didn't come on. But in the swirl of early adolescence, I forgot about Bjork, but would be pleasantly
surprised if I saw her in a magazine or on TV. That strangely magnetic presence.  Finally, I asked for Debut for Christmas and listened strictly to it for months. I couldn't get over it, still can't actually. I bought Telegram soon afterward, because it had just been released, adored it enough to want the originals, so I bought Post; then any single I could lay my grubby hands on. I bought biographies, hunted for posters, pictures and scorned MTV for ignoring her so much for less than memorable musicians.  I nearly ran over people to buy Homogenic, the Tibetan Freedom Concert CD, anything. Yeah, it seems silly. But in a way, not so strange at all. *wink*
  

It took me a while but I remember when I first heard her. I was randomly download mp3's I think, when I came across a Hyperballad she performed at some club. Anyway, although the song is filled with jeering voices, I still loved the song and the beat. I listened to it A LOT! I then went into a CD store one day and saw Post and with the intention of buying it (after downloading and repeatedly listening to the real audio music video of "Hunter") and did. Later I got Homogenic and then debut..all of which I love. Well, I haven't met her yet, but I plan on it. We'll see how that goes!
  

Dearest Fans,

The first time I heard Bjork I was living in El Paso, Texas and so was my mom. I was in eighth grade. I heard "Human Behaviour" on 120 Minutes and had to get it. I fell in love with Bjork and with her voice. I remember my mother picked me and my friends up from the mall and I played the "Human Behaviour" single and we were all raving about it. Well, since then my mother passed away and I remember that night after the mall that I sang so loud in the car and she just laughed. I sometimes say, jokingly, that Bjork is my mom. After my mom passed away I would listen to Bjork a lot and cry a lot and Bjork just gave me so much courage. She made me feel like I could do anything if I wanted to. Bjork consoled me and counseled me in many ways and I hope that one day I can let her know how much she means to me.
  

Hey there,
     I first heard Björk singing my name (Regina) in my sister's car, back in the 80's when she was still w/the Sugarcubes. -But I didn't know it was her! ( i was a little kid). Years later, I saw Björk on MTV on that fashion show they had...and i thought..."Wow, she's amazing!" She was so awesome! She made her own clothes, and her style was so unlike any other female artist's in the music industry! They had her awesome music playing in the background, and it blew me away! I had to hear it again! So i bought Debut, and thus started my interest in this wonderful and intriguing person. -And today, (ten Björk CDs later!) I am still a HUGE fan!
  

In 1987, I was in 7th grade and listened to nothing but The Cure. I remember reading an article about Robert Smith and he was saying how there was this Icelandic group with a lead singer who was being compared to his style of voice and movement. Curious, I had to hear this group. I listened to the LP of "life's too good" and enjoyed the siren screaming and stuttering her words..and on purpose, too! (I never cared much for female singers who screamed a lot, but this was way different.) In 1989, I got the chance to see The Sugarcubes live. it was exciting to see a female singer so free with herself and natural! When Björk went out on her own, I just had to get "Debut." Then came "Post"-an album like no other! we all can relate to it on every level I'm sure: think about it-it captures EVERY emotion known to man. Even though it's a woman expressing her words so uniquely, a typical guy can still identify. But what really turned me on were and are the REMIXES! (Especially the "hardcore" ones) The remixes allow us all to take a favorite song and hear multiple versions which then allow us to interpret whatever way we want the song to mean for us as individuals and THAT'S what makes Björk's work so amazing and respected. Thanks Björk :) PS. Uh, I forgot to mention one last thing: SHE'S FUCKIN' HOT!!!
  

I was a freshman in high school, taking the dreaded bus ride to school. The radio was softly humming in the background, and most of the other students were sleeping. Suddenly I hear this gorgeous voice coming from the radio, and it was all that my choosey ears could hear at that moment, it was the Sugarcubes, "Hit". Course, I didn't know who it was at the time, but I yelled to the bus driver to "Turn it up please!" I was ecstatic. I'm a singer myself, and am very picky about voices. About a month later, I was at the house of this crazy guy I was dating. He had the best taste in music, and loved Ren & Stimpy (as does Bjork). He played "Cold Sweat", and there it was again! That voice! I went right out and bought that CD. About a year later I was at a concert and, while waiting on the band, heard that girl singing with very different music. It was Debut, which I bought about a week later, now I'm nearly 22, and I've been deeply Bjorkian ever since.
  

Well, it all started three years ago when I was 14 a little freshman in high school. I use to get a ride to school with my sister and her best friend, we would all dance and sing in the car, drink our coffee and I would listen to tales of what the older kids did. normally we listened to bikinikill, the cure, bratemobile and some local music. I still remember the day Shannon put in "its oh so quiet" the car broke out in dance. I was in love, the music variation the pure sincerity of it. I asked Shannon to make me a tape of Post, and she decided to make me one of debut as well. I played those tapes nonstop, made my friends listen to it (some feel in love...others didn't) and then I began searching for the her other CDs and Sugarcubes stuff (which I had yet to hear but had heard quite a bit about by then).
  

My first visions of Björk was of the "Birthday" video in the late 80's, around that time I was a young teenager into acid house and stuff. I carried on raving for a few more years and eventually, I began to realize that Björk was more than "just another artist". Unfortunately I missed the big craze thing when "Debut" hit the stores but as soon as "Post" was released, that was it! I went bonkers! I have since bought loads of CD's & vinyl (inc the original '77 album) and visited gorgeous Reykjavik last year.  To sum it all up, there will never, ever, ever, be anyone like Björk!
  

I remember being in college my junior year and hearing Birthday on the radio for the first time. That long guttural wail just enthralled me, and still remains my favorite 10 seconds in recording history. Being a poor, starving college student at the time, I wasn't in the market for CD's, so I didn't go out and purchase the Sugarcubes' album. That Christmas I went home and saw MTV for the first time in months (no cable in my college dorm) and ran across a Sugarcubes concert. I can remember them performing Cat and making little motions with their hands to suggest cat ears on their heads. Their sound was just so different. However, what really captured me was Debut. I happened to walk into the record store the day the were unpacking it and putting it on the shelves. I didn't know the 'cubes had broken up, but figured I would like Björk's solo stuff. The CD didn't leave my player for several weeks. I had quite by accident stumbled upon magic.
  

When I was 8 MTV debuted Björk's video "Human Behaviour".  It was so weird and cool so I went out and bought the "beejork" album "debut".  I'm 14 now and I still have that tape, but its worn way out. I hesitated to buy "Post" but soon fell in love all over again. Now I have been listening to Björk for 6 years, and I still think she's the best and most talented artist out there
  

The first time I heard Bjork was on the radio and they were playing Human Behaviour.. I REALLY loved the song and at the time I had no idea who she was and all that, so I went out and bought Homogenic thinking maybe it was on that cd, ( I didn't even know the title of the song at the time) then fell in love with Homogenic, went and bought Post, still searching and at the same time falling in love with Post, then found Debut and found Human Behaviour and fell in love again, this occurred maybe over a one month period, by that time I was OBSESSED and now..well I'm a little further than obsessed I suppose, you get the idea.
  

The first time I had exposure to Björk was when a friend of mine and I saw the "Human Behaviour" video. It was fabulous! New! Weird! She was so kooky! But I'm seldom convinced at first glance. Shortly after, the dance troupe at my high school had been choreographed by the instructor to "Violently Happy". It was fabulous and I must have seen it at least 30 times. That is what actually made me wonder if I should buy this girl's CD. But finally, I saw her MTV Unplugged special. For some reason, I was crying and shivering when I watched her; I'd never experienced that before! About a week later I finally bought "Debut".  Since then I have bought her other albums without hesitation
  

I was about 19 years old, at a friend's house, in his room, when I saw a cut out magazine picture of Björk hung next to his desk. I looked at the picture in recognition of my own face. I saw we had the same Asian almond eyes, high cheeks, and full lips, dark straight hair...etc. I asked him who that was and he said oh that's the chick from the Sugarcubes, "oh yeah," I said like I knew who she was. Then later on in the week, MTV played, her song "Hit" . whoa! Is what I thought, "this wasn't supposed to happen..." rang through my ears for about a month and then I forgot about her for awhile ( I was distracted by rave music back then). Next my housemate bought Debut, and said this is some boring shit! And threw it on the floor...my housemate is psychotic, and is into 9 inch nails...any way, I took her tape into my room and played, track 9 over and over again. I wore out Come to Me...for the rest of the day...I then went nuts for violently happy and pretending I was a DJ for her beats...I got this Björk quest and started passing her around to everyone I knew like religion...When Hyperballad hit my ears...I knew I was hooked for life.
  

Well, it was way back in the old days. I can't exactly remember the time, but I remember seeing this video of a woman with really short hair sitting on top of an airplane singing he hea! Regina! But I had no idea it was The Sugar Cubes. I realized later when I heard a sound clip from gideon's ftp site. A few years later down the line, I saw the Isobel video on and thought...."Hey, this sounds different...and kind of interesting..." I knew I had to find out more info on who this was...and bam! I become a Björk (byerk) fan. Strange enough though, I am also a big NIN fan. A completely different and dark kind of band.
  

When I was a junior I lived with these three girls. One of them had post. We would get a bit tipsy and she'd play It's Oh So Quiet. We'd all run around apartment in a congo kind of line singing and screaming and laughing along. Up on the couch, coffee table, the beds, through the bathroom, kitchen, everywhere! It was so much fun. I never really thought about it too much after that.  I had been involved at the school's student run radio station. I tried my best to have a techno show (little did I know at the time!) and found hector zazou's songs from the cold seas. That did it! now I'm obsessed along with the rest of you.