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Lifes Too Good [VINYL]

The Sugarcubes | Format: Vinyl

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Vinyl (18 Aug 2008)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: One Little Indian
ASIN: B001AQWF88
Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 390,614 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Rare is the debut that displays such fully formed talent as Iceland's Sugarcubes' first album. Highlighted by the Cocteau Twins-influenced single "Birthday", two other provocative singles, "Deus" and "Coldsweat", and by the incredible vocal gymnastics of Björk Gudmundsdottir, Life's Too Good brilliantly shows a new band staking out its own sonic space. Einar Orn contributes an electronically reprocessed trumpet, and a few awkwardly charming and ranting vocals as well, but this is clearly Björk 's show: her vocal range is absolutely staggering. The CD reissue adds six extra tracks, several of which are sung in Icelandic. --Rob O'Connor

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80s Masterpiece 26 Aug 2003

By "paolohippi"

Format:Audio CD

Trawl through the history of Bjork and you'll get to the Sugarcubes, from whom this is their best (and debut) album - a fun album, bouncier than an inflatable castle which rips along your stereo in a joyous 30 minute frenzy.

Of course, being Bjork, its a quirky affair but lacks any semblence of the overblown pomposity of her character now. In short this is laugh out loud stuff. Some times you feel something has been lost in the translation (The utterly bizarre 'Birthday') but mostly its just stupid stories, ranging from a woman tempting a naked man off her roof with some strawberry cake to a description of God, whose most remarkable features are his quiff and sideburns. This is one of the most charismatic records of its decade and as upbeat as you can get. And with a continual sex subtext and the pop version of The Shamen's Mr C, what more can you ask for. Put it on and have a smile. Dare you.

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Sensational! 19 Aug 2006

By Muso

Format:Audio CD

Listened to this for the first time in a long time recently and have to admit it still sounds as fresh as it did when it first came out. Put it quite simply there are no weak tracks on this album. 'Motorcrash' and 'Birthday' are classics and 'Blue Eyed Pop' being poptastic! For anyone who has never heard The 'cubes then get a copy of all their albums as they were underrated at the time although it made Bjork a superstar!

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What a sound! 16 Jan 2002

By zoemchugh@foxconn.co.uk

Format:Audio CD

I first saw The Sugarcubes on the Chart Show in about 1985, I fell in love with Bjorks voice. Its completely unique, not to everyones taste but I loved it! I bought this LP soon after, and I made all my friends listen to it. They hated it. My favourite track is by far "Cold Sweat", its slow and quite sleazy with a sexy sound. "Birthday" was the first track I'd ever heard, so I do have a soft spot for it. "Delicious Demon" is fun and funky, "Deus" is quite dark, the lyrics don't make much sense, in fact the whole albumn is quite surreal. Bjork is one of my favourite female artists, thankgod for the crazy chick from Iceland!

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simply sublime

This album is one of my all time favourites-full of spark and humour. Bjork's voice is simply sublime. Even after so many years it brings a smile to my face. Buy it!!!

Published on 20 Feb 2008 by A. Morse

We put him in a bathtub. And made him really clean! Squeaky Clean!

I'd forgotten about this album until I was recently trawling through Last.fm for gems. And what a gem this is! Read more

Published on 7 Oct 2007 by Teleute

Album is too good

'Life is too good' is a masterpiece and definatly best work to come from the Sugarcubes. To the listener it brings an interesting combination between commercial pop, jazz, echoes... Read more

Published on 10 Dec 2003 by C. Bonsall

Brilliant - everyone should own a copy of this.

A fantastic debut album full of memorable tracks. These tracks had TUNES - something the band forgot about by the time they got to their third album. Read more

Published on 23 Sep 2000 by stuart@fraser56.freeserve.co.uk

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