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So broken, mostly quoted from alwaysontherun |
So Broken is perhaps the most emotionally abject track Bjork has ever recorded |
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So Broken appears on the Jóga single CD2, as well the pre-release promo.
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An excellent instrumental version also appears on the Its In Our Hands single CD2, the Live box and the Jools Holland DVD. It was recorded October 16, 1998.
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What Bjork Says about So Broken: I recorded 'So Broken' that infamous week for me, the week of the bomb. The only way for me to write a song about it was just to take the piss. I wrote it in my house hitting the table singing, 'I'm so broken (in corny, overwrought voice), ole!' I was going to have the sound of washing dishes and three kids screaming; it would be a soap opera. Then I went to the studio in Spain and met the flamenco guitarist who plays on the track and stayed there for six months recording.
More about So Broken: --The flamenco guitarist featured in the studio version is Raimundo Amador. The live version with Jools Holland features Raimundo Amador and Juan Luis.
--Most Bjork fans prefer the live version because of Bjork's depth of feeling. Her voice in the studio version is distorted to perhaps fit better with the concept of the album. Since it is on the promo disc we can surmise that it was originally going to be on Homogenic.
--Bjork twice performed a fabulous 10 minute improvisation of So Broken. One was at the 4th International Indie Festival in Spain on August 19, 1998.
--You can listen to So Broken at these locations Your MP3.net (warning: lots of popups)
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