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Life's Too Good

~ The Sugarcubes
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (11 May 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: One Little Indian
  • ASIN: B000024Z88
  • 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,104 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Traitor
2. Motorcrash
3. Birthday
4. Delicious Demon
5. Mama
6. Cold Sweat
7. Blue Eyed Pop
8. Deus
9. Sick For Toys
10. Fucking In Rhythm And Sorrow

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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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 80s Masterpiece, 26 Aug 2003
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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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a sound!, 16 Jan 2002
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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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Album is too good, 10 Dec 2003
By C. Bonsall "Tai-san" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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'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 from the Icelandic punk-scene where all the band-members have their roots and inimitable vocalizations from both Björk and Einar. With such Punky songs like 'Traitor' and 'Sick for Toys' to the fantastic 'Birthday' this album is simply a fundamental album for any punk/Bjork fan - i doubt you'd be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 20 months ago by A. Morse

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational!
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. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2006 by Muso

5.0 out of 5 stars 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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