Why Bjork's "Post" is one of the greatest albums of all time

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🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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"Canonball" is a segment on Bullseye that gives us a chance to take a closer look at albums that should be considered classics, to find out what makes them great. This time, Margaret Wappler makes the case for why Bjork's 1995 record "Post" deserves to be added to the canon of classic albums.

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0:54.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. It's time once again for Cannonball.
1:13.7	Cannonball is a chance for us to take classic albums or albums that should be considered
1:19.2	classics and find out what makes them so great. This week we're joined by the pop culture critic
1:24.8	and writer Margaret Woppler. I'm Margaret Woppler and I'm going to be talking about Bjork's post.
1:31.6	There's kind of a narrative out there about Bjork and it started way back at the beginning of
1:36.0	her solo career, 1993. I wanted to talk about Bjork in this album in particular because I feel
1:42.8	like this is when she really cemented this kind of range that she would continue to play with
1:50.5	throughout her career. On one side there's the Bjork that often gets called like a pixie or a
1:56.8	sprite or something light and airy a wooden imp. I mean I was reading reviews of posts from Rolling
2:04.0	Stone and Ellie Times and other venues at the time and almost every single journalist calls
2:10.8	her a pixie or a sprite at some point. Those are words that can feel a little condescending,
2:14.8	or diminutive. Margaret has another word she uses. It's true that she does have this kind of persona
2:21.5	of being this light little Gremlin but then you know I use the word Gremlin because Gremlins are also
2:27.6	a type of monster. They're also this kind of menace. They're mischievous. They break things and all
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