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"It's probably the most realistic way of expressing what situation I'm in - all these people trying to take things away from me, and the gorilla finding a diamond that I don't know I have and then stealing it. 'Army of Me' is so much about me actually learning that I have to defend myself. I have to stand up and fight the fucking gorilla. Once I've got the diamond and I run away with it, it becomes massive 'cos it's mine. But if the gorilla had kept it, it would have gone really tiny. That's surrealism for me."

Written by Björk & Graham Massey. Produced by Nellee Hooper & Graham Massey and Björk. This is the second video directed by Michel Gondry (1995) for Björk.

see more at the Army Of Me page on the Greatest Hits special

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"Basically, 'Hyper-ballad' is about having this kind of bag going on and three years have passed and you're not high anymore. You have to make an effort consciously and nature's not helping you anymore. So you wake up early in the morning and you sneak outside and you do something horrible and destructive, break whatever you can find, watch a horrible film, read a bit of William Burroughs, something really gross and come home and be like, 'Hi honey, how are you?'."

Written by Björk, Nellee Hooper & Marius De Vries. Produced by Nellee Hooper and Björk. Released in February 1996 as the fourth single from Björk's second album, 'Post'. In June 2002 bjork.com organised a webvote, in order to compile the tracklist for the current 'Greatest Hits' cd, and 'Hyperballad' was voted as the most popular track. The video is directed by Michel Gondry, born in Versailles France. 'Hyperballad' was his fourth videoclip for Björk since their first project 'Human Behaviour' back in 1993. Resulting in a imaginary clip which is almost impossible to interpret the first time you see it. "Will my eyes be closed or open?".

see more at the Hyperballad page on the Greatest Hits special

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"It's about how the modern things like cars and such, or computers and all that, have always existed. They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment, and have been listening to the irritating noises - dinosaurs and people outside - and now it's their turn to come out and multiply. I thought it was really funny. I don't know - I might be the only one laughing."
- Details, july 1994

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Written by Hans Lang and Bert Reisfeld, recorded by Betty Hutton in 1948 as "Blow a fuse".

"It was sort of a joke really. It was a song Guy Sigsworth used to play on the bus when we were touring. Ever since, I almost regret doing it bacuse I wanted to put so much importance on making new music. So many people are doing old music and you've even got new bands doing old music. If I put something out in this world, it would be the courage to go ahead and invent things, so it's ironic 'It's Oh So Quiet' became my biggets song. The best bit was the video."
- Record Collector, August 2002


"Isn't that the best song you've heard for five years? In a way it was against my principles to do an old cover version because I'm so anti-retro. But it has this story, this narrative: there's a beginning and something happens in the middle and the ending is different. So many pop songs, especially with English lyrics, are just 900 different ways of saying 'she left me!' Which i actually love because it's pop, just one idea, very simple, but it doesn't mean it's cheap. I can relate to it, but I belong to the storytelling group."
- Raw, 17-30 january 1996

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"This is the story of Isobel; she was born in a forst by a spark, and as she grew up, she realized that the pebbles on the foret floor were actually skyscrapers. And by the time she was a grown-up woman and the skyscrapers had taken over the forest. She found herself in a city, and she didn't like all the people there so much, because they were a bit too clever for her."

Isobel was written by Björk, Nellee Hooper and Marius De Vries, and the lyrics were made by Sjón - his very first songlyric in fact. Nellee Hooper and Björk produced it together, and released it in 1995 on Björk's second album "Post". To direct this video, Michel Gondry was once again called in for his unique visual style.

see more at the Isobel page on the Greatest Hits special

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"The first unhappy song I wrote was 'Possibly Maybe.' That was very hard for me. Usually I write all the time, but that was like nothing happened for months. Then the song came out. I was ashamed writing a song that was not giving hope."

Possibly Maybe is written by Björk, Nellee Hooper & Marius De Vries. It was produced by Björk and her longtime collaborator Nellee Hooper and released in 1995 on her second album, Post. When it was time to make a video for the single, she contacted 'Big Time Sensuality'-director Stéphane Sednaoui, who once again created stunning visuals, this time of Björk bathing in milk and eating both watermelon and neonglowing dust!

The extra verse was included in some live performances.

see more at the Possibly Maybe page on the Greatest Hits special

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Released as a single off 'Post' in february 1997.

"It's not about anyone in particular because it's about someone I haven't met. It's like a word game: 'I miss you but I haven't met you yet'. It's about looking forward to something that hasn't happeed."
- Record Collector, August 2002