kyle

just so there isn't any confusion, Oceania is the 2004 Athens olympic theme song, and New Order's World in Motion was the theme song to the World Cup over 10 years ago. Hopefully that clears up the goofs in the review. Sorry.

rickter

Tagaq is a female if you please, Tanya Tagaq Gillis, an visual and performing Inuit artist from Iqualuktotiak (place of good fishing) in Nunavut, Canada.

kyle

my apologies for the mistake. It happens from time to time, even though I like to think I'm never wrong (which usually leads me into trouble). Thank you so much for the correction.

Brianna Jenkins

Bjorks Medulla is challenging but worth it - once you get you'll get into it. I once saw Elizabeth Frazier when it was just her and Guthrie and nothing else and this album reminds me of that evening.

Jeff Hubbard

Kyle, I couldn't agree more with the sum intent of your review, but I do personally find the notion that this album is truly challenging a little misleading. I think that if any listener has really followed Bjork's career to this point, "challenging" is a relative term, and in some ways I would say that I find the comparitively sedate "Vespertine" more difficult, if only because of its lack of dynamic variation. Frankly, my astonishment with the new one is at least partially because of how accessible I think the project is. Here, again, "accessible" is probably relative, but we're talking about Bjork, not Beyonce. "Triumph of the Heart" might be the only thing verging on a traditional "pop" tune, but I had cottoned to this album, as a whole, by the second listen. Again, I don't disagree with your high regard for the album; I only question the notion that the average Bjork fan would find this work tougher to get with than her other work. With this artist, it pays to expect the unexpected.

Don't worry, B (jork) Happy!

Medulla is astonishing. I haven't heard the likes of this since Bobby McFerrin!

George Blanda

Fall is now upon us and I see that Mrs. England has come out of her cave to see her shadow. This review of Bork's new recorded offering is the sort of comfort you offer someone when they get chlamydia: "I see you have no minimum standards as to where you put your dick." And so Madame England has placed herself snuggly between Bork's frosty snow mounts to rub out another 4-star review. Hush, hush--England works herself up to 4.5 stars in this case. Mistress England, keep taking Viagra for music reviewers and listening to albums while you mop floors and we'll keep expecting reviews written on a scale from 4-5.

kyle

dear George,

If I was to pop my head out to see my shadow, it would be on February 2nd in WINTER you fucking moron. At least you finally got one thing right on your idiotic rants. I would stick my head (which ever head doesn't matter to me) between Bjork's snow mounds. But if I did that then I guess I would have to give her a 5 instead of the measly 4.5 aye Geroge?

yours truly,

Jeff Hostetler

George Blanda

Mrs. England likes life to be so literal. Do you read the old testament as news reportage? Sure you do. What else would keep you stiff during that sad life? Another day, another stolen cd and short, unoriginal review. I speak from experience--I actually thought someone gave a shake about my opinion on MUSIC. Now better judgement has shown that America cares not. Hang up your AOL account and your self-important cd collection and read a book.