Debut (album)

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Debut

Studio album by Björk
Released	July 13, 1993
Genre	Dance, Electronica, Deep House
Length	48:26
Label	One Little Indian (UK) Elektra (US)
Producer(s)	Nellee Hooper Björk
All Music Guide link NME July 1993 p. 35 Q July, 1993 p. 85 Rolling Stone RS 664
Björk chronology
Björk (1977)	Debut (1993)	Post (1995)

Debut, released in July of 1993, is an album by Icelandic singer/songwriter/musician Björk. It was her first solo project after leaving The Sugarcubes, but far from her actual debut, which was released in 1977. The record was produced by Nellee Hooper and established Björk's audience outside of Iceland and cult followings in the UK, US and elsewhere. Sonically, the album is a mix of dance beat-driven pop ("Violently Happy", "Big Time Sensuality", "There's More to Life Than This"), earthy, new age ("One Day", "The Anchor Song", "Aeroplane", "Human Behaviour"), and seductive rhythm based songs ("Venus as a Boy", "Come to Me"). Debut has been certified platinum in the U.S.

Debut topped Billboard's Heatseekers chart and peaked at #61 on the Billboard 200 chart. It peaked at #3 in UK album charts

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Debut the 74th greatest album of all time.

1 Track listing
2 Samples
3 Personnel
4 Singles
- 4.1 Singles (U.S. Charts)
5 Charts
6 External links

[edit] Track listing

"Human Behaviour" (Björk/Hooper) – 4:12
"Crying" (Björk/Hooper) – 4:49
"Venus as a Boy" (Björk) – 4:41
"There's More to Life Than This" (Björk/Hooper) – 3:21
"Like Someone in Love" (Burke/VanHeusen) – 4:33
"Big Time Sensuality" (Björk/Hooper) – 3:56
"One Day" (Björk) – 5:24
"Aeroplane" (Björk) – 3:54
"Come to Me" (Björk) – 4:55
"Violently Happy" (Björk/Hooper) – 4:58
"The Anchor Song" (Björk) – 3:32
"Atlantic" (Japan only track) – 2:04
"Play Dead" (Björk/Arnold/Wobble) (UK/Portugal/Japan only track) – 3:58

[edit] Samples

"There's More to Life Than This" (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- "There's More to Life Than This" by Björk
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[edit] Personnel

Garry Hughes - Keyboards, Organ (Hammond), Programming
Oliver Lake - Arranger, Brass
Corky Hale - Harp
Björk - Arranger, Keyboards, Producer
Gary Barnacle - Brass
Paul Corkett - Engineer
Marius DeVries - Keyboards, Programming
Nellee Hooper - Percussion, Drums, Producer, Engineer
Howie B - Engineer
Luis Jardim - Bass, Percussion, Drums
Hugoth Nicolson - Engineer
Brian Pugsley - Engineer
Talvin Singh - Director, Tabla
Bruce Willie Smith - Percussion, Drums
Al Stone - Engineer
Martin Virgo - Keyboards, Programming
Mark Warner - Assistant Engineer
Paul Wertheimer - Engineer
Goetz Botzenhardt - Assistant Engineer
Jim Abbiss - Engineer
Dave Burnham - Engineer
Jean Baptiste Mondino - Photography
Pete Lewis - Assistant Engineer
Paul Waller - Keyboards, Programming
Jon Mallison - Guitar, Assistant Engineer
Mike Marsh - Mastering
Mike Mower - Brass
Tim Dickenson - Assistant Engineer
Jhelisa Anderson - Vocals (bckgr)
Andy Bradford - Assistant Engineer
Oggy - Assistant Engineer
H. Shalleh - Engineer

[edit] Singles

[edit] Singles (U.S. Charts)

Year	Single	Chart	Peak Position
1993	"Human Behaviour"	US Modern Rock Tracks	#2
1993	"Human Behaviour"	US Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#2
1993	"Violently Happy"	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#4
1994	"Big Time Senusality"	Billboard Hot 100	#88
1994	"Big Time Sensuality"	US Modern Rock Tracks	#5
1994	"Big Time Sensuality"	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#1
1994	"Big Time Sensuality"	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	#19