List of songs recorded by Björk

Björk performing in Japan with the Sugarcubes

This is a list of songs recorded by Icelandic singer Björk, including collaborations and alternate versions that have not appeared on any of her studio albums, aside from those recorded by her as a member of one of her bands.

Björk era

• "Arabadrengurinn (The Arab Boy)"
• "Búkolla (Your Kiss is Sweet)"
• "Alta Mira"
• "Jóhannes Kjarval"
• "Fúsi Hreindýr"
• "Himnaför"
• "Óliver"
• "Álfur Út Úr Hól (The Fool on the Hill)"
• "Músastiginn"
• "Bænin (Christopher Robin)"
• "I Love to Love"
• "Minun Kultani Kaunis On (My Darling is Beautiful)"
• "Langt Ude i Skoven (Far Out in the Forest)"

Debut era

• "Human Behaviour"
• "Crying"
• "Venus as a Boy"
• "There's More to Life Than This (Recorded Live at the Milk Bar Toilets)"
• "Like Someone in Love"
• "Big Time Sensuality"
• "One Day"
• "Aeroplane"
• "Come to Me"
• "Violently Happy"
• "The Anchor Song"
• "Play Dead"
• "Atlantic" ("Human Behaviour" cassette single / Debut Japanese edition)
• "I Remember You" (Venus as a Boy single)
• "Army of Me" (later released on Post)
• "The Modern Things" (later released on Post)
• "Karvel" ("I Miss You" single / Family Tree)
• "Síðasta Ég" ("Big Time Sensuality" / "Violently Happy" singles / Family Tree; song originally recorded by The Elgar Sisters in 1986)
• "Glóra" ("Big Time Sensuality" single / Family Tree; song originally recorded by The Elgar Sisters in 1986)
• "Stígðu Mig" ("Venus as a Boy" single; song originally recorded by The Elgar Sisters in 1986)
• "Moðir" (unreleased, performed live once during the Glastonberry festival in 1994)^[1]

Post era

• "Hyperballad"
• "It's Oh So Quiet"
• "Enjoy"
• "You've Been Flirting Again"
• "Isobel"
• "Possibly Maybe"
• "I Miss You"
• "Cover Me"
• "Headphones"
• "Sweet Intuition"/"Sweet Sweet Intuition" (two versions of the same song; "Army of Me" / "Isobel" / "It's Oh So Quiet" singles)
• "Charlene" ("Isobel" single)
• "I Go Humble" ("Isobel" single / Family Tree)
• "My Spine" ("It's Oh So Quiet" single / Telegram / Evelyn Glennie: Her Greatest Hits)
• "Oxygen" (Evelyn Glennie: Her Greatest Hits)
• "Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu" ("Possibly Maybe" single)

Homogenic era

• "Hunter"
• "Jóga"
• "Unravel"
• "Bachelorette"
• "All Neon Like"
• "5 Years"
• "Immature"
• "Alarm Call"
• "Pluto"
• "All Is Full of Love"
• "Sod Off" ("Jóga" single / Homogenic Japanese version)
• "So Broken" ("Jóga" single / Homogenic Japanese version)
• "My Snare" / "Nature Is Ancient" ("Bachelorette" single / Family Tree / Homogenic Japanese version)
• "Scary" ("Bachelorette" single)

Selmasongs/Dancer in the Dark era

• "Overture"
• "Cvalda" (with Catherine Deneuve)
• "I've Seen It All" (album version with Thom Yorke / film version with Peter Stormare)
• "Scatterheart" (album version) / "Smith & Wesson" (film version) (with David Morse, Cara Seymour and Vladica Kostic)
• "In the Musicals" (album version) / "In the Musicals I & II" (film version) (with Joel Grey)
• "107 Steps" (with Siobhan Fallon)
• "New World"
• "My Favorite Things" (film version only)
• "The Next to Last Song" (film version only)

Vespertine era

• "Hidden Place"
• "Cocoon"
• "It's Not Up to You"
• "Undo"
• "Pagan Poetry"
• "Frosti"
• "Aurora"
• "An Echo, a Stain"
• "Sun in My Mouth"
• "Heirloom"
• "Harm of Will"
• "Unison"
• "Verandi" ("Hidden Place" single)
• "Generous Palmstroke" ("Hidden Place" single / Family Tree/ Vespertine Japanese bonus track)
• "Mother Heroic" ("Hidden Place" single / Family Tree)
• "Foot Soldier" ("Hidden Place" single)
• "Domestica" ("Pagan Poetry" single)
• "Batabid" ("Pagan Poetry" single)
• "Amphibian" ("Cocoon" single / Being John Malkovich soundtrack)

Greatest Hits era

• "It's In Our Hands"

Medúlla era

• "Pleasure Is All Mine"
• "Show Me Forgiveness"
• "Where Is the Line"
• "Vökuró"
• "Öll Birtan"
• "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)"
• "Submarine"
• "Desired Constellation"
• "Oceania"
• "Sonnets/Unrealities XI"
• "Ancestors"
• "Mouth's Cradle"
• "Miðvikudags"
• "Triumph of a Heart"
• "Komið" (iTunes Store album / Medúlla Japanese edition)
• "Synchronicity" (Chocolate Skateboards' skate video Hot Chocolate, directed by Spike Jonze)
• Flute instrumental recorded for the soundtrack of a 2004 Icelandic short film titled "Með mann á bakinu" (Man on the Back)^[2]

Drawing Restraint 9 era

• "Gratitude"
• "Pearl"
• "Ambergris March"
• "Bath" / "Aposiopesis" (by Akira Rabelais)
• "Hunter Vessel"
• "Shimenawa"
• "Vessel Shimenawa"
• "Storm"
• "Holographic Entrypoint"
• "Cetacea"
• "Antarctic Return"
• "Haf"
• "Host" / "The Ice Song" (The Inner or Deep Part of an Animal or Plant Structure)
• "Nisshin Maru" (Valgeir Sigurðsson)
• "Repose"
• "Field Inversion"
• "North" (for 'Versations/Tetralógia' by Gabríela Friðriksdóttir)
• "Petrolatum" (Surrounded / Drawing Restraint 9 DualDisc Release)

Volta era

• "Earth Intruders" (featuring Konono Nº1)
• "Wanderlust"
• "The Dull Flame of Desire" (featuring Antony Hegarty)
• "Innocence"
• "I See Who You Are" (featuring Min Xiao-Fen)
• "Vertebræ by Vertebræ"
• "Pneumonia"
• "Hope" (featuring Toumani Diabaté)
• "Declare Independence"
• "My Juvenile" (featuring Antony Hegarty)
• "Work in Progress" (MySpace teaser released online as part of the online Volta viral marketing campaign - although this was seen as a 'joke' track, using features of Ableton Live)
• "Now" / "Trance" (Soundtrack for the video "To Lee, With Love, Nick" by Nick Knight,^[3] was viewable before, in the first iTunes Volta Podcast)
• "Softly" (Performed with Toumani Diabaté on August 10, 2008 at the Zaragoza Expo in Spain, was also viewable on the Volta Podcast)
• "Náttúra"
• Tracks were recorded with producer Timbaland that have not been released, although both Björk and Timbaland have given conflicting accounts of the number of tracks that were recorded. Björk has since said that these tracks are unlikely ever to be released^[4]

Biophilia era

• "Moon"
• "Thunderbolt"
• "Crystalline"
• "Cosmogony"
• "Dark Matter"
• "Hollow"
• "Virus"
• "Sacrifice"
• "Mutual Core"
• "Solstice"
• "The Comet Song"

Vulnicura era

• "Stonemilker"
• "Lionsong"
• "History of Touches"
• "Black Lake"
• "Family"
• "Notget"
• "Atom Dance"
• "Mouth Mantra"
• "Quicksand"

Other songs

• "I Love to Love" (1975)
• "My Funny Valentine" (1990)
• "Cry Me a River" (1990)
• "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (1990)
• "Misty" (1990)
• "You Don't Know What Love Is" (1990)
• "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1994, with PJ Harvey)
• "Travessia" (1996)
• "Nu Flyver Anton" (for the 1996 Danish film "Anton")
• "You Only Live Twice" (1997) (see David Arnold James Bond Project)
• "Le Petit Chevalier" (1998)
• "Gloomy Sunday" (1998)
• "The Love That Went Out of Style" (1998)
• "What Is This Thing Called Love" (1998)
• "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1999)
• "Downtown" (1999)
• "Why?" (1999)
• "Who Do You Think You Are" (1999)
• "No Limit" (2007, performance viewable on YouTube)
• "The Boho Dance" (2007)
• "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (2010)

Collaborations

• "Afi (Örugglega / Tvær í Takinu; with Björgvin Gíslason)
• "Jólakötturinn" (Hvít er Borg og Bær)
• "Ó Borg, Mín Borg" (Sódóma Reykjavík; with KK Band)
• "Takk" (Sódóma Reykjavík; with Þórhallur)
• "Ooops" (Ex:el; with 808 State)
• "Q-Mart" (Ex:el; with 808 State)
• There is a demo-tape of The Elgar Sisters circulating on the internet. Notably, this features the vocal-only tracks that were alluded to in interviews during the Medúlla era as early inspiration for the album concept.
• "Yoga" (Nearly God; with Tricky)
• "Keep Your Mouth Shut" (Nearly God; with Tricky)
• "Lilith" (Not for Threes; with Plaid)
• "Short Term Affair" (Comic Relief promotional single; with Steve Coogan in the character of Tony Ferrino)
• "Prayer of the Heart" (with John Tavener)
• "Roses and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein" (The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast; with Matmos)
• "Surrender" (Innundir skinni; with Ólöf Arnalds)
• "Flétta" (Swanlights; with Antony and the Johnsons)
• "On and Ever Onward" (Mount Wittenberg Orca; with Dirty Projectors)
• "Sharing Orb" (Mount Wittenberg Orca; with Dirty Projectors)
• "All We Are" (Mount Wittenberg Orca; with Dirty Projectors)

Unreleased sessions

• Franne Golde 1993 sessions^[5]
• Talvin Singh sessions^[6]
• Evelyn Glennie 1995 sessions^[7] (6 songs were recorded, only 2 released)
• RZA/Wu-Tang Clan session^[8]
• Timbaland 2007 sessions^[4] (aside from the 3 tracks released on Volta)
• Meredith Monk sessions

Written

• Bedtime Story (for Madonna's 1994 album Bedtime Stories)

Remixes

These are remixes which Björk herself has done.

• Violently Happy (Domestic Mix) (Venus as a Boy)
• You've Been Flirting Again (Flirt Is A Promise Mix) (Telegram)
• Immature (Björk's Version) (Jóga)
• A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out (Björk's Married To The Mob Mix)
• A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out (Björk's Dandelions Mix)
• A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out (Björk's Say Dip Mix)

Björk was also rumoured to be doing a remix of Peaches in 2003 but this did not materialise.^[9]

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