Debut
Album by Björk
Released	July, 1993
Recorded	???
Genre	Dance music
Length	52 min 12 s
Record label	One Little Indian
Producer	Nellee Hooper
Professional reviews
AMG review	5 stars out of 5	link
Rolling Stone review	2 stars out of 5	link
Q review	4 stars out of 5	July, 1993 p. 85
NME review	9 out of 10 (Excellent Plus)	July 1993 p. 35
Björk Chronology
Gling-Gló (1990)	Debut (1993)	Post (1995)

Debut is a dance music album by Icelandic singer/songwriter/musician Björk, released in July of 1993 (see 1993 in music). This album, her first after leaving The Sugarcubes, was produced by Nellee Hooper and established Bjork's audience outside of Iceland and cult followings in the UK, US and elsewhere.

Debut topped Billboard's Heatseekers chart and peaked at #61 on the Billboard 200 chart.

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

Contents

1 Sound 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 Chart positions 5 External links

Sound

Sonically, the album was 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"), and seductive rhythm based songs ("Venus as a Boy", "Come to Me").

Track listing

1. "Human Behaviour" (Bjork/Hooper) - 4:12
2. "Crying" (Bjork/Hooper) - 4:49
3. "Venus as a Boy" (Bjork) - 4:41
4. "There's More to Life Than This" - 3:21
5. "Like Someone in Love" (Burke/VanHeusen) - 4:33
6. "Big Time Sensuality" (Bjork/Hooper) - 3:56
7. "One Day" (Bjork) - 5:24
8. "Aeroplane" (Bjork) - 3:54
9. "Come to Me" (Bjork) - 4:55
10. "Violently Happy" (Bjork/Hooper) - 4:58
11. "The Anchor Song" (Bjork) - 3:32
12. "Atlantic" (Bjork) - 2:04 (Japanese Import)
13. "Play Dead" (Arnold/Bjork/Wobble) - 3:58 (UK + Japanese Import)

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

Chart positions

1993       Human Behaviour         Modern Rock Tracks                      No. 2
1993    Human Behaviour         Hot Dance Music/Club Play               No. 2
1993    Violently Happy         Hot Dance Music/Club Play               No. 4
1994    Big Time Sensuality     The Billboard Hot 100                   No. 88
1994    Big Time Sensuality     Modern Rock Tracks                      No. 5
1994    Big Time Sensuality     Hot Dance Music/Club Play               No. 1
1994    Violently Happy         Hot Dance Music/Club Play               No. 4
1994    Big Time Sensuality     Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales      No. 19

External links

• Debut mini-site