björk: thunderbolt live

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  • čas přidán 1. 11. 2011
  • download the app: bitly.com/biophiliaapp
    written by björk and oddny eir
    director: thirtytwo
    producer: dan bowen
    production company: pulse films
    2011 wellhart ltd / one little indian ltd / nonesuch records / universal music operations ltd
    thunderbolt was filmed live at the manchester international festival. the original version of the thunderbolt is taken from the album 'biophilia'.
    to buy biophilia: www.bjork.com / www.indian.co.uk/shop
    to buy north america: www.nonesuch.com/artists/bjork
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Komentáře • 436

  • @marka.m.kramer3309
    @marka.m.kramer3309 Před 3 lety +223

    Nikola Tesla would probably be dancing up on stage during this epic performance!

    • @derekelivros
      @derekelivros Před 2 lety +4

      Of course he would!

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 Před 2 lety +2

      probably watch it from home uoutube me thinks idk

    • @TheDemzar
      @TheDemzar Před rokem +2

      now we understand björk's source of unlimited energy

    • @-AAH-
      @-AAH- Před rokem

      Is this supposed to be more of a drama student thing? WTF don't I see in this music lol. Where do people start liking it?
      I'm very open, I'll listen to songs purely for them sparking a bad emotion or something. But this confuses me. I don't even understand her voice and all I hear is a vibrating beep noise from inside the faraday cage etc

    • @superfuckinghotfem
      @superfuckinghotfem Před rokem +6

      @@-AAH- it’s really hard, in the beginning for me it was yuck, it made me ill when I listened to her music because it was so hard to digest, i think you need a retrospectively wide look on what you can really do with music, I started with listening to more easily digestible tracks of her, then slowly became enfolded and consumed by how creative she is and how she composed music, slowly you travel into the abyss that is her discography, I’m not really sure how I started to like this music, but I guess it’s what connects with the listener and man do I connect with this music, it’s beyond what I’ve ever heard, so human, so surreal, so visually psychedelic, and in reality at the same time..I just love her artistry 💀

  • @varese1977
    @varese1977 Před 10 lety +203

    I saw it live in Stockholm. Everybody was speechless because of this greatness. A real miracle.

    • @KaliCoriaCMWSOT
      @KaliCoriaCMWSOT Před 6 lety +17

      For real! Near tears. For me Bjork, the dance of the lighting, the containment of it all and the echos of the live choir represent humanity at its worst and best: The feats and majesty within our own grasps of destructions all in one musical and technological tour de forcé!

    • @-AAH-
      @-AAH- Před rokem +1

      @@KaliCoriaCMWSOT What part of the song sounds good? I seriously want to know if there is any useable data I can gather here, but I do not understand this artist

    • @kaeta5833
      @kaeta5833 Před rokem +2

      @@-AAH- you might need to listen to some of her more… easily digestible songs. Try Pagan Poetry, Frosti or maybe Bachelorette. All of her different albums have very different feelings. I didn’t like her music immediately. It took time and finding the right song that hits and the right time, then I keep finding more and more things that I love, and it has expanded my idea of what music can be. It makes me a better musician.

    • @CairoBraga
      @CairoBraga Před rokem +3

      @@-AAH- you are just a troll, replying to a lot of comments with the sole intention of invalidating someone else's art. the thing is that this specific someone is held in extremely high regard by her peers and her fans in terms of affection, admiration and respect, due to her rich and varied 4-decade-long career in music as a songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, singer and performer. go do something better with your time, Björk does not need you to understand her work.

    • @LUANCOSOUL
      @LUANCOSOUL Před rokem

      @@-AAH- ALL THE SONG SOUNDS REALLY GOOD, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT BECAUSE YOU ARE SLEPPY HEAD

  • @MrCosmicHeart
    @MrCosmicHeart Před 12 lety +382

    I hope that in 200 years time students will have to learn about Björk in their Music and art classes

    • @Pheojix
      @Pheojix Před 4 lety +37

      we already are :)

    • @thewhisper4269
      @thewhisper4269 Před 2 lety +17

      Students are currently learning about Bjork

    • @sanvlz
      @sanvlz Před 2 lety +3

      we are :))

    • @alphalax7747
      @alphalax7747 Před 2 lety

      We wont be alive in 200 years

    • @kaeta5833
      @kaeta5833 Před rokem +6

      I am a music student that has already learned so much from her and she continues to be an inspiration for me. Her biophilia project is genius.

  • @ZeRoRuLeS561
    @ZeRoRuLeS561 Před 8 lety +108

    5:13 when she turns away is just beautiful, like a planet hiding from view

  • @jackoftraes2122
    @jackoftraes2122 Před 2 lety +41

    It's already been 10 years?!? This video is still so fresh in my mind.

  • @search4insomnia
    @search4insomnia Před 9 lety +380

    "My romantic gene is dominant, and it hungers for union..."
    Wonderful ❤

    • @leovdy
      @leovdy Před 5 lety

      search4insomnia best part of the song ❤️

    • @miguelaraujo4595
      @miguelaraujo4595 Před 2 lety

      @@leovdy yeah, specially cause that’s the part the beat kicks in! i also like the part she says ‘I am inviolable!’

  • @jeromesweet5047
    @jeromesweet5047 Před 9 lety +57

    Saw it live... pretty hard to describe the feeling of being there, bjork is a true artist.

  • @Wartimelabor
    @Wartimelabor Před 12 lety +26

    That use of the Tesla Coil and those vocals harmonies are just amazing. One of my favorites from Biophilia.

  • @ShearsOfAtropos
    @ShearsOfAtropos Před 9 lety +52

    three years and I still get chills all over from this song.
    no one imagines the light shock I need
    and I ll never know

    • @1WEareBUFO1
      @1WEareBUFO1 Před rokem +1

      Did you get that shock, bruh? I did 🥴

  • @ShearsOfAtropos
    @ShearsOfAtropos Před 12 lety +30

    for me this is the saddest song in the world, but in such a raw, powerful, organic way, no sentimental bullshit. love her so much

  • @jsaavedr1
    @jsaavedr1 Před 12 lety +10

    I love the complex harmonies of her female choir!

  • @BjorksMusic
    @BjorksMusic Před 9 lety +84

    What a great tour this was, Bjork is such a wonderful artist and person, Love and Light.

  • @silenteyesspy
    @silenteyesspy Před 12 lety +26

    she always puts so much into her live performances, this is a true artist and I'm glad I've grown up with her.

  • @oliaslives6986
    @oliaslives6986 Před 12 lety +52

    I am beginning to think that Iceland is actually a section of another planet that came to live on Earth, and its artists were meant to show us new forms of aesthetic & entertainment that the average schmoe on the street will never be able to relate to. Long live original entities such as Bjork, Sigur Ros, and mum.

  • @felixmarques
    @felixmarques Před rokem +5

    The way the choir arrangement mimics the lyrical content in “waaaves irregularly striiiking… striking!”. It's the high point for me every time.

  • @kevinblank1333
    @kevinblank1333 Před 9 lety +54

    Björk... Björk... I'll never get tired of saying her name. She made me cry with this one, what an interpretation, a musical legend, no doubt.

  • @ursulaforever
    @ursulaforever Před 6 lety +19

    remember this concert like yesterday. when i heard Sir david attenborough's voice, had goosebumps. i was absolutely possesed during the entire show.

  • @moonbathing2146
    @moonbathing2146 Před 3 lety +13

    seriously the best live performance everrrrrrr, no debating necessary

  • @3xgangers
    @3xgangers Před 5 lety +5

    "all my body parts are one as lightning hits my spine, sparkling" is something i tell my singing students to imagine is happening to them. it works miracles!

  • @jacobstawicki1380
    @jacobstawicki1380 Před 8 lety +18

    I didn't really appreciate this song until I saw Biophilia Live. I fucking love this now.

  • @pxblx
    @pxblx Před 8 lety +44

    How you dare to dislike this? ART MUSIC AND TECH JOINED TOGETHER TO MAKE MORE ART!

  • @GabrielSantos-er3le
    @GabrielSantos-er3le Před 8 lety +182

    this has to be biophilia`s best song. so powerful, like a thundershock. I dunno if much of the lyrics are too obvious for most people but anyway I imagine she`s by the ocean(as she mentioned waves, wind irregularly striking and barnacles) and is really craving to be struck by a lightning(a dangerous gift sent from the hands of whoever (a god, an angel?) which would be a miracle by itself if she didn't die. but the real miracle would be to revive her wish of loving(because her romantic gene is dominant, and it hungers for union) I imagine another human being being hit by another lightning at the exact time as her so as to consolidate this union. It`s as if the lightning was
    her envisioning of a cupid's arrow. Or maybe she's craving to achieve something bigger with the shock. The eerie choir, the tesla, the irregular beat, all too mysterious to be about ordinary human love. Maybe her wish is to become a goddess? She already mentioned electric shocks in Possibly Maybe( "electric shocks, I love them, with you dozen a day, but after a while I wonder where is that love you promised me, where is it?"), and mentions joining a cult("who know what could happen, lottery or car crash, or join a cult?") so perhaps she is doing some magical ritual involving love and shocks. I know it is far-fetched, but I have nothing better to do right now lol.

    • @mattheusdbb311
      @mattheusdbb311 Před 8 lety +16

      +Gabriel Santos I've always personally thought that she sings "craving miracles" while referring to the low probability of one being stroke by a lightning. Even though she craves it hardly, it has small chances of happening.

    • @davidibarra9276
      @davidibarra9276 Před 8 lety +1

      +Gabriel Santos the mixing of the album version is poorly done :(

    • @GabrielSantos-er3le
      @GabrielSantos-er3le Před 8 lety +1

      Yeah, but why would she want to be struck by a lightining? that's the question. and what do romantic gene, romance, and hungering for union have to do with a lightning? how do you tie this together?

    • @mattheusdbb311
      @mattheusdbb311 Před 8 lety +20

      I think she's talking about something idealistic or quixotic when she sings that her "romantic gene" is dominant, not trying to evoke an erotic relationship, you know? It makes sense for me, since this union she is craving might be the intersection between nature and technology, one of the main themes in Biophilia. In her own words: "I’ve always had this romantic ideas about uniting different worlds, like uniting nature and techno. It doesn't necessarily have to be opposite."
      I guess she's using "thunder" and "lightning" as a metaphor for the strength she needs for such a task (lightning is, after all, one of the strongest forces in nature).

    • @GabrielSantos-er3le
      @GabrielSantos-er3le Před 8 lety +10

      your theory makes more sense.Thanks

  • @BioBassBoom
    @BioBassBoom Před 12 lety +13

    Thunderbolt has come to be my favorite song from Biophilia and this particular performance of it puts me in such a trance at times.

  • @Fueledbychapstick
    @Fueledbychapstick Před 12 lety +4

    I wish she said "I am inviolable" like that in the studio recording! Loooove it.

  • @kellyshpeley
    @kellyshpeley Před 10 lety +12

    Bjørk still my favourite. Still true to her path. Excellent.

  • @EmanuelGaldr
    @EmanuelGaldr Před 9 lety +27

    This is my favorite Björk song.

  • @becsaighead
    @becsaighead Před 12 lety +7

    Can't get enough of this woman's work! What a breathtaking artist.

  • @irinagonzalez9939
    @irinagonzalez9939 Před 2 lety +5

    Te amo björk !

  • @nightdreamer0000
    @nightdreamer0000 Před 11 lety +16

    waves irregularly striking
    wind stern in my face
    thunderstorm, come!
    Such great lyrics!

  • @mr.griffe9202
    @mr.griffe9202 Před 8 lety +64

    I didnt like this song at first but it grew on me after the second listen.
    first I want to say I look up to tesla and I have always been facinated by tesla coils and plasma and for Queen Bjork to use them in a song is amazing.

  • @user-vg3uy3lr8m
    @user-vg3uy3lr8m Před 9 lety +66

    the voice at 4:35 is just incrediable

  • @musicapsiconautas77
    @musicapsiconautas77 Před 11 lety +59

    A quién se le ocurriria usar bobinas de tesla como instrumento muy brutal!

  • @derraldsegue7967
    @derraldsegue7967 Před 7 lety +10

    She is just so amazing !!!!

  • @hdtv00
    @hdtv00 Před 11 lety +2

    I got tickets for Hollywood Bowl excited beyond belief. A long long time friend I actually met on Bjork's forum passed away recently , he'll be looking down on that night with a smile. Love you Bjork.

  • @Ndriana
    @Ndriana Před 7 lety +15

    To think I saw her live in 1995 in Paris, I was at the front row she was barely a meter away from me...

  • @scarlettcow
    @scarlettcow Před 12 lety

    Incredible performance. I love the way she looks straight into the camera at the end, almost unsettling!

  • @TremblayNathalie
    @TremblayNathalie Před 8 lety +3

    Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your great work of art ! We just got your Biophilia App and I can't wait to show it to my litle 3 1/2 years old boy ! :D Thank you, thank you Bjork !

  • @WhiteDwarfVR4
    @WhiteDwarfVR4 Před 8 lety +9

    I've never considered myself a Bjork fan, mainly because I couldn't understand much what he says(until recently). But she always gives me the vapors :P

  • @indiagrove
    @indiagrove Před 12 lety +3

    I wish it got shown in one of the videos of this gig, but when I was standing infront of Bjork in the audience in the pause of a song, she made her eyes look all wide and suprised whilst sticking her tongue out. It was the funniest thing!

  • @Moonstone115
    @Moonstone115 Před rokem +4

    I was there and this bit was magical! 🎵💜

  • @mackychloe
    @mackychloe Před 7 lety +3

    Amazing as always!!

  • @xxsundown
    @xxsundown Před 11 lety +2

    Why not? out of those numbers, Björk has a sound that's her own and forever changing, and her lyrics hug your soul. For many, like myself, have grown with her music. She's an amazing artist that fully deserves a part of history.

  • @joaquin4d
    @joaquin4d Před 10 lety +6

    Her concerts are crazy. I have seen her in Mexico and Hollywood

  • @jvlurry
    @jvlurry Před 12 lety +2

    just wonderful. my favs on the album are mutual core, virus, and crystalline (single version). but live, thunderbolt is my fav. i love this video/live representation of the song. björk is an artist in every sense of the word. i listen to her for her art and nothing else.

  • @bulletproofisobel
    @bulletproofisobel Před 12 lety +3

    I love everything that Bjork represents and is.

  • @jawoody9745
    @jawoody9745 Před 10 lety +3

    Stunning and beautiful!

  • @kumaboris
    @kumaboris Před 10 lety +4

    First time I miss a bjork and it had to be this beauty :-(

  • @CelestialGalaxy7
    @CelestialGalaxy7 Před 12 lety +1

    i can feel the chills running up and down my spine. Biophilia=album of the year.

  • @wwggppff
    @wwggppff Před 4 lety +2

    One of the best acoustic live perfomances I´ve ever seen.

  • @dawggonecrazee
    @dawggonecrazee Před 12 lety

    love this girl! she never fails to please with her sound.

  • @KarenHeilner
    @KarenHeilner Před 12 lety +2

    This is a great video! Bjork is so amazing and creative!!! Thunderbolt is an amazing song, as is all her work!! I love Bjork!!!

  • @juanbjork
    @juanbjork Před 12 lety +2

    i luv the album version, its very warm and analogy, and what...

  • @kaiorenan6745
    @kaiorenan6745 Před 8 lety +38

    amém bjork

  • @juanbjork
    @juanbjork Před 10 lety +2

    Cannot wait. I got tickets to the tribeca film festival in ny to see the biophilia live film!

  • @3uphobria781
    @3uphobria781 Před 2 lety +7

    Una de las mejores canciones que he escuchado en toda mi vida ❤

  • @MrTynanDraper
    @MrTynanDraper Před 12 lety

    She's the best live performer I've ever had the luck to see. Put's on a great show!

  • @kahnjugaming
    @kahnjugaming Před 5 lety +2

    One, if not, her best song. Love you BJORK!

  • @jubjubesmcsmushy
    @jubjubesmcsmushy Před 12 lety

    Amazing rendition of one of my favourite Biophilia tunes. Still killing it, Bjork!

  • @ritatatam3068
    @ritatatam3068 Před 3 lety +3

    Björk make me so emotional...Thank you so much to give us dis...
    Electronic music daughter: Aphex Twin was my dad, Björk was my mother.
    I didn’t say I had a simple life 🤪

  • @bernadotte913
    @bernadotte913 Před 12 lety +2

    i need to see the whole live show so bad

  • @aterbla8919
    @aterbla8919 Před 11 lety +2

    AMAIZING!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @enricoanderlini5940
    @enricoanderlini5940 Před 4 lety +1

    A popular fable of the Gallura mountains speak of a shepherd and a wild goat completely in love with each other. But when they went to get married they could not because they were already brothers.

  • @karmacoma1976
    @karmacoma1976 Před 12 lety +3

    Bjork hace lo que quiere sin importar la opinion de nadie, y obtiene resultados increibles, de las 3 veces que he podido verla en vivo, asistir al Tour Biophilia fue una experiencia alucinante. GRANDE BJORK! Ojala siempre siga compartiendo su talento con todos nosotros.

  • @Librosphere
    @Librosphere Před 12 lety

    WOW ! Many thanks ! wonderful !!!

  • @jsaavedr1
    @jsaavedr1 Před 12 lety

    The harmonies give me goosebumps, so haunting!

  • @kokusmusprensamk
    @kokusmusprensamk Před 11 lety +4

    what a pronounce for 'thank you'.. I was craving miracles to björk then i listened you.. thank you..

  • @glitter_bombed
    @glitter_bombed Před 12 lety

    So. SO. AWESOME.

  • @user-ou3op2rv9i
    @user-ou3op2rv9i Před 6 dny

    the bridge to this song is one of her best🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽⚡️⚡️

  • @0xf8
    @0xf8 Před 8 lety +4

    wow it was perfect

  • @marcosvini3
    @marcosvini3 Před 11 lety +2

    Masterpiece....

  • @Ilikemajorasmask
    @Ilikemajorasmask Před 12 lety

    beautiful

  • @tellygz
    @tellygz Před 12 lety

    Craving this.

  • @santionthebeach8471
    @santionthebeach8471 Před rokem

    Love this live

  • @deadrisy
    @deadrisy Před 11 lety +2

    She is truly an amazing artist and of the greatest of our time for her originality,creativity,innovation,uniqueness.She is one of the most unique voices on this planet and her ambition and desire results in her making musical ventures most wouldn't dare to try or be able to pull off.
    I just wish that in my life I'll be able to se her perform her art.Thank you Björk

  • @jhpaulsen
    @jhpaulsen Před 12 lety +3

    5 minutes and 39 seconds full of goosebumps

  • @jestoti01
    @jestoti01 Před 12 lety +3

    i saw her live in mexico last weekend she is amazing :D

  • @silenteyesspy
    @silenteyesspy Před 12 lety +3

    I love Bjork, she's a real artist, and her live performances are never the same as the Albums =)

  • @Ieoshua
    @Ieoshua Před 11 lety +3

    I love how she stares at lightning at the end of the song like it was a living creature. Can't wait to Paris vids!

  • @Bluebuthappy182
    @Bluebuthappy182 Před 12 lety

    I love the little "Thank you" right at the end.

  • @lashmiit8739
    @lashmiit8739 Před 10 lety +2

    te adoro bjork !! sos mi gran maestra de vida!! siempre y siempre!!

  • @TheDreamerSy
    @TheDreamerSy Před 12 lety

    This is... Beautiful.

  • @vandibber8221
    @vandibber8221 Před 3 lety +3

    I like the look on the girl's face at 4:06. It's like she's thinking, "That thing looks like its about to blow up"

  • @bernadotte913
    @bernadotte913 Před 12 lety +2

    totally the best album of the year

  • @juanbjork
    @juanbjork Před 12 lety

    Obssessd with this now.

  • @GalionSilevion13
    @GalionSilevion13 Před 5 lety +1

    ahhhhh one of her best songs

  • @redcatredcat8172
    @redcatredcat8172 Před 6 lety +2

    Amazing, wonderfull. Thank you Bjork. Merci pour ton génie artistique.😍

  • @juanbjork
    @juanbjork Před 12 lety +2

    BJORK IS A REAL RECORDING ARTIST, WHO DOES IT FOR THE LUV OF MUSIC AND SOUND.

  • @Animebe95
    @Animebe95 Před 12 lety +2

    Bjork you will always inspire me! When I was a young girl, I looked up to you instead of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera because you were special and a real artist. You inspired me to be the person I am today. Big love to you, Bjork. Keep being amazing :)

  • @alluringshadowsss
    @alluringshadowsss Před 12 lety

    Love this!

  • @novodsc
    @novodsc Před 12 lety +2

    Phenomenal Björk! I'm also in love for Sacrifice!

  • @monptitblabla
    @monptitblabla Před 12 lety

    amazing

  • @MatheusGoblet
    @MatheusGoblet Před 12 lety +1

    I'ts Wonderful! There's so much power in this performance! Björk, the Queen of AvantGarde Pop!

  • @shiningdahlia
    @shiningdahlia Před 11 lety +2

    After watching some singers doing live performances... Seeing Björk in the middle of lightning and an amazing choir makes me imagine that finally I'm seeing a true live performance.

    • @ganifraterdogan1062
      @ganifraterdogan1062 Před 7 lety +1

      shiningdahlia i doubt if this is pure live. read the description

  • @EJS611
    @EJS611 Před 12 lety

    omg that would be AMAZING!

  • @andrewpittaway3023
    @andrewpittaway3023 Před 4 lety

    This is just astounding. Björk is one of the worlds greatest talents.

  • @m3cinco452
    @m3cinco452 Před 6 lety +2

    Thunderbolt. Lightning. And awesome wigz!

  • @hedonismoreal
    @hedonismoreal Před 12 lety

    espectacular ...... say no words

  • @2280WILLIAM
    @2280WILLIAM Před 12 lety

    björk: me le quito el sombrero!

  • @Vindrag
    @Vindrag Před 12 lety

    She just made me me appreciate this song slightly more, Great live arrangments! I want her to do a massive tour, people need to hear this album live.

  • @mayazusue
    @mayazusue Před 12 lety

    unbeliavebely heart taking