Song · Björk
“Venus As a Boy” by Björk
From the album Debut (1993)
“Venus As a Boy” by Björk appears on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 1993 on the album Debut. Its best result is #561 on The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,574 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Venus as a Boy" followed "Human Behaviour" as the second single from Debut, Björk's 1993 album, arriving in August through One Little Indian a month after the record. She wrote it alone, and Nellee Hooper, who produced most of Debut, produced it. It grew out of a boy who saw the whole world in terms of beauty, and it floats on an ambient, chill-out groove carried by an ensemble of Indian instruments, tablas among them, with Talvin Singh credited on strings.
Critics were split, chewing over how far she had moved, but Iceland sent it to number one. Sophie Muller's video has Björk cooking eggs in a kitchen, an idea drawn from her favorite book, Story of the Eye, and fans later picked it for her Greatest Hits.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1240 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2023 | 561 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2023 | 1110 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2026 | 752 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
Also listed as: Venus as a Boy.
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