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"I guess that song's about when you have a lot of people that work for you and you sort-of have to write songs or people get unemployed, you know? In most cases, it's inspiring but in that particular song I was pissed off with it. I was ready for a break but it didn't seem fair on the people I worked with at the time."

This song is written by Björk and produced by Björk in collaboration with Mark Bell of LFO. The hunting song of Homogenic (1997). The video was directed by long time collaborator Paul White of Me Company. It was his first video for Björk and it used complicated 3d animation by Digital Domain.

see more at the Hunter page on the Greatest Hits special.

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"I was doing a lot of experimenting with beats trying to make them sound volcanic. With this song, I really had a sort of National Anthem in mind. Not the National Anthem but certain classic Icelandic songs - very romantic, very proud."

Jóga was written by Björk. It was produced by her and Mark Bell at the El Cortijo studios in Spain. The lyrics for it were written by Björk's long-term collaborator Sjón. Jóga became the first single from her third studio album 'Homogenic'. The video was shot on location in Iceland by the French videodirector Michel Gondry, using a 16mm handheld camera, and it was subsequently digitally processed into luscious computer-animated landscapes, alive and moving in synkronization with the beats of the song.

The extra verse was never performed anywhere, only featured in the documentary of the recording of Vespertine known as "The Southbank Show".

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"Isobel decides to return to the city and to take a train, like in the 30's, in South America somewhere. She decides to confront love with love and confronts the cowards that don't have the guts to fall in love with love. So you see - it's like Isobel has returned. "

Bachelorette is the sequel in this epic tale written by Björk with lyrics by Sjón. Released on her third album "Homogenic", it was also chosen as one of the first singles. A tall adventure. Produced by Björk. The video to the song was realised by - once again - Michel Gondry, who now had done 6 videos for Björk.

Regarding the extra lyrics in the booklet that are unsung in the song, Sjón said this in a bjork.com interview september 2004: "I think the artwork for Homogenic was at the printers before the final vocals were laid down, so you were never supposed to see the extra verses for Bachelorette. But you did and I'll never recover from being exposed like that ... ;-)"

see more at the Bachelorette page on the Greatest Hits special.

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"Isn't the perfect relationship about filling in those holes in each other, so that two people become one? Yeah, that's what I thought (sadly). But I don't know, really. I used to have all these opinions about love because I'm fierce, a helpless romantic. What happened is my expectations about romance were there (motions to one side of the table, then the other), but what was really happening was here. The elastic stretched so much, it cracked. And now I'm more realistic about things.

I love so many people. Your mate doesn't have to replace everything. I don't know and I'm not going to pretend I do. It's back to basics, being self-sufficient. Now I'm back to how I was as a kid when I used to spend most of my time alone. So I'm spending time by myself and enjoying it very much. It sounds sad, but when I was a kid I didn't really have friends. The most magical moments I had in my life I had alone. Like climbing mountains or swimming or singing or listening to music."
- Raygun, September 1997

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Released as a single in december 1998.

Due to the production-title "Jacko" as found on the Homogenic demo tape, it is rumored to be a song in tribute to Michael Jackson.

"I do believe in the power of music to change things. I do sometimes feel like I'm the only one left who believes that."
- Record Collector, August 2002

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"It's about getting plastered, that need to destroy everything so you can start over again. Having a lot in the planet Pluto, which I do, means you want to cut the crap, throw all the rubbish away No extra baggage. It's death and birth."
- Raygun, September 1997

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Written by Björk and produced by Howie B. Released in June 1999 as the last of five singles taken from Björk's third album, 'Homogenic'. The Greatest Hits album contains a different version of the song than the orginal version which can be heard on album. This because this mix was used in the video and was included on the singles.

The video is directed by Chris Cunningham, who became famous in 1997 with the scary video "Come to Daddy" for Aphex Twin. He was also responsible for Madonna's "Frozen" and "Only You" for Portishead. "All is Full of Love" got nominated for a Grammy and won several awards including the Best Breakthrough video and Special Effects at the 2000 MTV Video Awards.

see more at the All Is Full Of Love page on the Greatest Hits special.