Björk Guðmundsdóttir - Björk

Sound quality of this version is great! Awesome album :)

hast du das noch? wenn ja lass mal rippen oder?

Even unofficial, is far the better cover version.

Does anybody have and can upload the other side of the cassette?

Official? Who knows? Even the owner maybe has been trapped by a counterfeit release.

Official? Who knows? Even the owner maybe has been trapped by a counterfeit release.

Before all this, so, you can upload the other side of the cassette.

no, it won't be uploaded to prevent counterfeits on the market

Is hard to say that it's really the official cassette tape, cause on the (http://77island.bjork.info/early/index.htm) official old version Björk's site, appeared another version with black or dark blue cover containing more elements of the original LP cover.There, some person related to Björk thanks for the donation of that cover.Nobody directly related to Bjök or herself saved a copy of the original release cassette tape.The fact is that Björk kind hates this album and don't remember properly of the original cover. So any cover that would sent, would be accepted as original. Unless, this or that be a re-release.The site says: "...the scan was sent to us in june 2004 by an icelandic man who says 'you say on the discography that rumour says björk´s first lp exists on casette. that is true. i have one such, bought by myself long time ago, my children was listening for years. thank you, b.g.' this is the first real evidence ever of this release".The cassette format of this album was some kind of legend even between the related people to Björk before that image appear.

> this is the first real evidence ever of this release.Here's some other real evidence: I remember seeing it listed in the Bad Taste/Smekkleysa "for sale" catalog back in 1989/1990, when I first made contact with them. You could buy it from them in LP or cassette format. IIRC, it was only about $20. I clearly remember they still had LPs for sale even in 1992, because I nearly also bought one for my gf at the time, a fellow Bjork/Sugarcubes-lover. As this was years before Bjork had her solo career (ie, before she released "Debut"....the point at which she began to be (somewhat) of a household name), there definitely existed zero bootlegs of the 1977 solo album then. I read every article on the Sugarcubes I could get my hands on back in those days and believe me there wasn't ever any mention of this album in any of them I can remember.....so most people in the late 80's, even Sugarcubes fanatics, didn't KNOW about the '77 album, and so since not many knew about it and also since there didn't exist that many fans that would have wanted to buy it at that point (being pre-Debut days), there would have been no real reason to bootleg it anyway. And, even if a bootlegged cassette of the '77 album DID exist in 1989 (hypothetically/theoretically speaking -- it didn't actually exist), I think we can at least imagine that the people that owned and ran Bad Taste (ie, the members of the Sugarcubes) would not have been selling them. As a side note, I first learned of the existence of the '77 album shortly before I finally got hold of one thru Bad Taste.....I'll never forget seeing the ad for it in Goldmine (a record collector newspaper/tabloid). This was the pre-internet days, when there wasn't as much knowledge outside of Iceland about the rare, Icelandic-only releases and videos by Kukl, Tappi Tikarrass, Theyr, etc and of course Bjork...it was some record seller in the midwest, I think, and the price was something like $60 or $80, which at the time seemed high for a record but of course I had no way of knowing then that she'd REALLY go solo in just a few years, people would start knowing about the record, and the few copies out there would easily fetch $500, $600. Some time after that, the bootlegs came on the scene. I never saw or specifically heard about a bootleg cassette, but they could exist. At first as I recall it was just CDs....easy to know those were not vintage or from the 1970s, but then they started pirating it as an LP, and putting out ads that claimed (or implied) they were truly from 1977. That was infuriating as a collector, to watch happen, to see people getting ripped off. I think most people know what they are doing nowadays though, there is just so much darn info out there online -- a lot more than even in 1995 when I first got online thru 1998 when I stopped actively collecting Bjork. The 77island site is a good one, I remember when it came into creation. On a related note, if anyone knows what happened to the "Blue Eyed Pop" mailing list, if it still even exists, and if it doesn't for whatever reason, where the heck all those listmembers (over a thousand of them, back then?) went, I'd be mighty appreciative....I unsubscribed long long ago, but have thought of checking in from time to time, but can find no trace of it....it was great, great forum for fellow Sugarcubes/Bjork/Icelandic music fans, infinitely better and more useful than alt.music.bjork ever seemed to be....> The cassette format of this album was some kind of legend even between the related people to Björk before that image appear. Really? Anyone dealing with Bad Taste back before Bjork went solo in 1993 or so would have known it was/is not a legend....but I guess there aren't that many of us old geezers around anymore...! I do remember once in awhile someone on the mailing list would ask about the cassette (was there one originally, etc) but there were plenty of people who would help out and answer that there was one.