Björk - History of Touches

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  • @stevegraham6970
    @stevegraham6970 7 ปีที่แล้ว +347

    I don't know why, but the beats in this song make me think of something flickering in malfunction, trying to absorb any vital energy in order to stay alive, trying to stand up but not being able to and crumbling down, then gradually dwindling out of weakness until it's completely dematerialized and non-existent.

    • @pawecech4919
      @pawecech4919 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      i feel like it's somehow a synth made of disorted choirs from vespertine and combined with your view, whole concept is incredibly saddening.

    • @seagreentangerine2065
      @seagreentangerine2065 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ...related to Bjork's personal life, the track is all about disintegration of what went before...

    • @sky-zc3uz
      @sky-zc3uz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      i can pretty much calculate how the instrumental was made. its just a slowed down sample (or synth) with a really low transient envelope, this is just how ableton processes the speed. it can come up with some really cool sound if you play with it for a while.

    • @valentinomiller6251
      @valentinomiller6251 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What do you mean "I don't know why"? The music is exactly as you describe it. It's the glitches of the music that conjure this image.

    • @ZanzibarWizard
      @ZanzibarWizard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me after an orgasm:

  • @everyhandlesalreadytaken
    @everyhandlesalreadytaken 6 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    The duration of this MASTERPIECE is a great example of “quality over quantity”

  • @buried4430
    @buried4430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    “This is our last time together.” Even though I’ve heard this song many times that line for some reason always makes me feel such deep sadness in my chest.

    • @esmeesmeralda701
      @esmeesmeralda701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same, it truly encapsulates the loss of love

    • @Loose_System
      @Loose_System 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      burial hehehe hiii :3

    • @buried4430
      @buried4430 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Loose_System ;3

  • @KELE02000
    @KELE02000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    I wake you up
    In the middle of the night
    To express my love for you
    Stroke your skin and feel you
    Naked I can feel all of you
    At the same moment
    I wake you up
    In the night feeling
    This is our last time together
    Therefore sensing all the moments
    We’ve been together
    Being here at the same time
    Every single touch
    We ever touch each other
    Every single fuck
    We had together
    Is in a wondrous time lapse
    With us here at this moment
    The history of touches
    Every single archive
    Compressed into a second
    All with us here as I wake you up

    • @tomschult133
      @tomschult133 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I'm glad you put these here so I could make sure i heard the lyric right. Damn Björk, holding nothing back I see.

    • @eevypeter4459
      @eevypeter4459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      👍

    • @belladonna1032
      @belladonna1032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The lyrics are just nuts and bolts.
      Yep you heard me right.
      Just nuts and bolts.

  • @martinlang181
    @martinlang181 8 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Maaan Bjork was ahead of her time in the 90's and she is still ahead of our time now, this just sounds like music from the future to me

  • @tokyoghost3236
    @tokyoghost3236 8 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    arca's contribution to this album really stands out in some of these tracks, absolutely sublime, i really hope they do more work together in the future

  • @giuseppecirciello356
    @giuseppecirciello356 8 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    All through this record you can feel her sorrow... and then realize how much her husband hurt her...
    I really hope that Vulnicura has helped her to heal her wound.
    A love that ends can be excruciating.

    • @WMonicaW13
      @WMonicaW13 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      bjork made me feel like my man left me

  • @esmeraldabarajas6355
    @esmeraldabarajas6355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This song is so simple but it’s so profound. It’s truly the only thing you can feel at a moment like this. It’s heartbreaking

  • @_chary990
    @_chary990 7 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    this one of the best she's ever written, how does she keep going like this?

    • @valentinomiller6251
      @valentinomiller6251 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Right. Great artist, for me, always tend to dwindle. Bjork keeps being super-creative.

    • @inkajoo
      @inkajoo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Pain is a bottomless well few dare to plunge.

    • @SillyStupidHead
      @SillyStupidHead 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@inkajoo this song doesn't even sound like it's painful. You are just saying pseudo intellectual shit that sounds deep

  • @user-xn9bw2es3x
    @user-xn9bw2es3x 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Btw. In my opinion, it's one of the best lyrics written by her. It always moves me so much

  • @Duplanmodular
    @Duplanmodular 9 ปีที่แล้ว +237

    It's incredible how her voice has not changed at all in 20 years

    • @tashacook7376
      @tashacook7376 8 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      She's lost a tiny bit of her upper register, but yeah mostly the same. Crazy.

    • @pxblx
      @pxblx 8 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      +Tasha Cook but she gained beautiful dark tones, I wish we could hear more of those

    • @yolas1299
      @yolas1299 8 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      The little she's lost in register she's won in vocal control

    • @devoneduhmusic
      @devoneduhmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well... I feel the change in her voice... But yeah, still amazing and beautiful 💜

    • @angelgonzalez5766
      @angelgonzalez5766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@yolas1299 Indeed, she now expresses way more complex emotions beautifully

  • @TrueGojiraFan
    @TrueGojiraFan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Going through a breakup. This song hits home.

    • @Depplova81
      @Depplova81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hey, how are you a year later? I hope you've been well x

    • @TrueGojiraFan
      @TrueGojiraFan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Depplova81 I am in good health, and in good, loving company thankfully. That breakup was an arduous transition in my life, but a necessary one, and I am back on my feet again. I have good hopes for life now, thanks to my loved ones. I hope this update finds you in good health and gives you hope as well.

    • @esmeesmeralda701
      @esmeesmeralda701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@TrueGojiraFan I’m so happy for this update, hope you are still doing well

  • @caixapreta2
    @caixapreta2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    this one always had me torn apart.

  • @seagreentangerine2065
    @seagreentangerine2065 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    There's something very profound about the use of stitches and colour... the embroidery stitches in the art work for this... it's as if the spring like colours reflect a new awakening from what has died before...when I think about the ancient way of producing purple involved the death of thousands of mollusks, I can relate that to Björk's feelings about the death of her marriage... extremely painful and protracted...

    • @nataliawn7547
      @nataliawn7547 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Seagreentangerine
      Your absence has gone through me
      Like thread through a needle.
      Everything I do is stitched with its color.
      -WS Merwin

  • @Androlaxy1776
    @Androlaxy1776 8 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    Am I the only one who changes shapes when I listen to this song?

    • @elcarlos0101
      @elcarlos0101 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Motoko Kusanagi that happens to me with mouths craddle

    • @140patito
      @140patito 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Motoko Kusanagi Totally. The chords looks geometric in my mind.

    • @10mimu
      @10mimu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      it sounds more like water to me

    • @BABERZZZ619
      @BABERZZZ619 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes. (No)

    • @venusblu2168
      @venusblu2168 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I literally ascend to this song

  • @lolzalot44
    @lolzalot44 9 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Absolutely gorgeous song. I listened to this right before passing out on a plane, it was perfect.

  • @jjukijjuki
    @jjukijjuki 8 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    This track brings me straight back to homogenic. Reminds me of all neon like

    • @enricoanderlini5928
      @enricoanderlini5928 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I found something "Hyperballad" there, perhaps because of the opening notes.

    • @t.r.parsons1070
      @t.r.parsons1070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same @ Homogenic, but like... I see more of Unravel/Cocoon here. The intro to Family, though, feels hella All Neon Like 💛

  • @MickAneworderfan
    @MickAneworderfan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Absolute masterpiece!

  • @sarahwilson976
    @sarahwilson976 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I can’t read notes but I think Björk’s use of melody and notes is one of the most unique ever, is this even sung in a key or is she just hopping back and forth in different ones? Also in “The Gate”, it just sounds like nothing else ever made.

  • @jacksweeklymusicreviews3411
    @jacksweeklymusicreviews3411 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    you know, when jork talks about sex, she often talks about it an a very poetic way which I completely admire about her.

  • @vertical_parallel
    @vertical_parallel ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this song is absolutely beautiful

  • @Buc-eesGurl
    @Buc-eesGurl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This song still brings me to tears.

  • @dglsldrh4166
    @dglsldrh4166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I don't know why exactly I have to come here listen this song when I need to cry. I don't have yet any experiences like this, like the dying love and its compression in one second in a bed, a sacred and self-explained place of love, but somehow, this music interpretates me, my pain, something that I don't know how to understand but I feel. Maybe I'm identifying with the dying of a construction planned and espontaneous, maybe its melancholy brings me here. It's completely strange to me, but I feel this song describe me, better, alegorize my life, my whole life.

  • @redmission1984
    @redmission1984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I listened to "Lionsong" and liked it, but just heard this track after it now that I just got the full album. It was such a trippy experience to hear for the first time. The music is so intense and deep.

  • @notearslefttocryy4194
    @notearslefttocryy4194 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    one of her bests

  • @matiascastillo4383
    @matiascastillo4383 9 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I wake you up, in the middle of the night...

  • @adamvargas1793
    @adamvargas1793 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This ties with Stonemilker as my fav song on Vulnicura😍👌

  • @pradiptakundu1638
    @pradiptakundu1638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Arca's contribution is prominent

  • @belladonna1032
    @belladonna1032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I have never felt this depressed.

  • @maungarakei
    @maungarakei ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love is timeless

  • @skinny9283
    @skinny9283 8 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    This tune is WAYYY too short, too gorgeous to end so soon! (and it's not on the 'strings' album?!?!)

  • @offbeathat5219
    @offbeathat5219 8 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    arca is a hero

  • @DizzyOtaku
    @DizzyOtaku 8 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I get a big Earthbound feel with this song. Really awesome. :)

    • @everythingyoufear1538
      @everythingyoufear1538 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      yeah, me too, i thought i was the only one hearing some similarities

    • @inkajoo
      @inkajoo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      i think the producer assisting her on this album was a young guy, i heard influences from the Rez soundtrack on Quicksand for instance (final boss sequence)

    • @TheRealActualBryanFerry
      @TheRealActualBryanFerry ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah it sounds like a mix of Moonside and Cave of the Past

  • @SilverKnobsHMDT
    @SilverKnobsHMDT 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So painful yet so beautiful

  • @esmeesmeralda701
    @esmeesmeralda701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i could loop this song all night

  • @miriamramoscampos4123
    @miriamramoscampos4123 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sé que algún día llegarás a esta canción y me recordarás. Te quiero siempre.

  • @pishtac0861
    @pishtac0861 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Always I hear this song I feel an earthquake inside my head

  • @kpdelaney6460
    @kpdelaney6460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    so beautiful

  • @Antonio-yr8km
    @Antonio-yr8km ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Esta canción me parece la mejor del álbum!! BJÖRK es una genio!!

  • @user-xn9bw2es3x
    @user-xn9bw2es3x 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Perhaps it's weird but sounds from this song somehow remind me of aurora. It's like something
    intangible...

  • @cardiovas.curder
    @cardiovas.curder ปีที่แล้ว +1

    bjork is great sweet

  • @migueldiaz8221
    @migueldiaz8221 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    beautiful music :)

  • @AkakiuszAkakiewicz
    @AkakiuszAkakiewicz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hats off

  • @crashbill523
    @crashbill523 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    See you soon. Luv from Kenya.

  • @lucyarque2946
    @lucyarque2946 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    so deep.

  • @jane-wing
    @jane-wing หลายเดือนก่อน

    The most devastating song she has ever written

  • @selintuzlan2309
    @selintuzlan2309 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    there's almost no emotion in her voice in this song, lyrics are quite simple and touching but her tone is quite dull, as if she is trying to distance herself from it all

  • @JamesHunterRoss
    @JamesHunterRoss 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow!

  • @yaibisalki
    @yaibisalki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a masterpiece

  • @enricoanderlini5928
    @enricoanderlini5928 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful to fold intimately on a love at the end, you can not give it better to the listener.

  • @jean5416
    @jean5416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good. I really love the stranges sounds . My dream instrumental version ^^ I hope one day to a reissue of all the album of bjork , instrumental .

  • @devoneduhmusic
    @devoneduhmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This song should be longer

  • @christiansarrazin8564
    @christiansarrazin8564 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This song sounds like the OST of a Futuristic movie

  • @calliespltn
    @calliespltn ปีที่แล้ว

    beautiful name

  • @virusdumonde
    @virusdumonde 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love it

  • @luismendes3397
    @luismendes3397 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Para mim o melhor disco da Bjork depois dos Sugarcubes

  • @haustreviance
    @haustreviance 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    best song on Vulni for sure.

  • @jamante6746
    @jamante6746 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    breakinng

  • @AudioHugsbyMyster_yvan
    @AudioHugsbyMyster_yvan 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The best song to dedicate to an ex.

  • @julianyepesangel3635
    @julianyepesangel3635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A juxtaposition in fate
    Find our mutual coordinates
    Moments of clarity are so rare
    I better document this
    Across the view is fears
    All that matters is
    Who is open-chested
    And who has coagulated
    Who can share and
    Who has shot down the chances?
    Show me emotional respect, oh respect, oh respect
    And I have emotional needs, oh needs, oh ooh
    I wish to synchronize our feelings, our feelings, oh ooh
    What is it that I have
    That makes me feel your pain?
    Like milking a stone
    To get you to say it, and
    Who is open?
    And who has shut up
    And if one feels closed
    How does one stay open?
    We have emotional needs, oh needs, oh needs, oh ooh
    I only wish to synchronize our feelings, our feelings, ooh
    I'll show some emotional respect, oh respect, oh ooh
    A juxtaposition in fate
    Find our mutual coordinates

    • @rub5066
      @rub5066 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Baby, this is History of Touches

    • @almondmilc3381
      @almondmilc3381 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rub5066 lmao

  • @danijuanda2911
    @danijuanda2911 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    wait, did i just hear "fuck"?

  • @chevvers
    @chevvers 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Modest viewing figures surprise.

  • @eevypeter4459
    @eevypeter4459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Please dont go..

  • @Mikkk005
    @Mikkk005 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Black Lake

  • @Nat-kv1hc
    @Nat-kv1hc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ouch

  • @kanakomusicchannel246
    @kanakomusicchannel246 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Splendid beautiful...inspectors detected beloved dog Tora wanted to touch my mother when her risk of life.. they now simulated.

  • @hemingh8869
    @hemingh8869 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

  • @lazarj
    @lazarj ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this where Porter Robinson got his inspiration from?

  • @welcometothedollhouse1268
    @welcometothedollhouse1268 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    my boyfriend broke up with me im drunk and smoked half a pack of virginia slims

    • @duckyduckje4613
      @duckyduckje4613 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I hope you are doing fine

  • @miguelbrunoo
    @miguelbrunoo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Really.... She said FUCK in her song... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Amazing!!! I was listening.... And then... "EVERY FUCK TOGETHER" Hhahahahahahahahhhahaha Jesus I'M LAUGHING ULTIL MY LAST PARENTS DIE!!! Hahahahahahahahahah

    • @blabberandsmoke
      @blabberandsmoke 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Not the first time she has said fuck in a tune.

    • @miguelbrunoo
      @miguelbrunoo 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes.. is true! kkk

    • @cirom296
      @cirom296 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      os gringo n entende q kkk é risada

    • @miguelbrunoo
      @miguelbrunoo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      O minha querida.. isso é verdade mesmo.

    • @eyes1184
      @eyes1184 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Miguel Bruno "I'm no fucking Buddhist but this is enlightenment" - Alarm Call, Homogenic
      Trust me, she's not shy about swearing in a song.

  • @lachlanjesser9661
    @lachlanjesser9661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I might be the only person that thinks this is her worse song. I feel like the melody could have been written by a three year old. Stone milker is heart wrenching and then there's this.

    • @rvufo
      @rvufo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lachlan Jesser björk is about emotional honesty and the starkness and blandness of a lot of very vocal delivery in this track is what makes it disturbing. it highlights the bleakness of the soundscape that accompanies her. she’s definitely being intentional with her output choices.

    • @lerc3690
      @lerc3690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You have to go through something like this to understand. Every sound relates to the experience. I went through this, and everytime I hear the song I feel like she understood perfectly everything I felt. Like you're witnessing the dead of love as you slide inside someone. You cry, you cum... It's disruptive.

    • @orquito7710
      @orquito7710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      this is one of her best works in my opinion
      i can imagine her on bed with her ex lover in the middle of the night trying to revive their love and then accepting its already dead so their last intercourse in like a ritual for all the years and moments together

    • @esmeesmeralda701
      @esmeesmeralda701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lerc3690 yesssss I agreee you have to experience it

    • @esmeesmeralda701
      @esmeesmeralda701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@orquito7710 and it’s heartbreaking

  • @Brendan-Black
    @Brendan-Black 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Meh...this is one of the few Bjork tracks where her lyrics come across as lame and forced, and her vocals could use some reverb or something... Dig that glitchy arpy backing track though.

    • @rvufo
      @rvufo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Brendan Black nah this song is incredibly disturbing and stark! very powerful imo

    • @esmeesmeralda701
      @esmeesmeralda701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I disagree, it feels like that clarity you get when you know it’s over but your emotions don’t want to let go/ they are in erratic arrays of sorrow, I love this song so much, it reminds me of every time I could pin point the exact moment a lover would end.

  • @peternorthgerrara650
    @peternorthgerrara650 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bjork has done nothing interesting or worth listening since Vespertine; some songs from her later albums are ok but for me the later albums are absolutely boring, no melodies, no concrete rhythms or beats, I was a huge fan up to Vespertine, not anymore.

    • @nik8099
      @nik8099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Hmm, I think you might give it some other tries later or in a different state of mind. They are growers for some.

    • @opuimor
      @opuimor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and you not wanting to listen to her is fine ...but saying that she hasn't done anything interesting or worth listening to since vespertine is insane...

    • @esmeesmeralda701
      @esmeesmeralda701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You must be young or a boring boomer, I used to skip vulnicura when I was younger but now it’s one of my fave albums, these albums were very intentional and beautiful to me, I understand the emotions

    • @almondmilc3381
      @almondmilc3381 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      so ignorant and dumb of you to say

    • @Nkluer
      @Nkluer ปีที่แล้ว

      Who?

  • @aldys92
    @aldys92 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wake you up in the middle of the night
    To express my love for you
    Stroke your skin and feel you
    Naked I can feel all of you
    At the same moment
    I wake you up in the night
    Feeling this is our last time together
    Therefore sensing all the moments
    We've been together
    Being here at the same time
    Every single touch we ever touch each other
    Every single fuck we had together
    Is in a wondrous time lapse
    With us here here at this moment
    The history of touches
    Every single archive
    Compressed into a second
    All with us here as I wake you up