Life's Too Good
Life's Too Good, released in April 1988, was the first album by the Icelandic alternative rock-pop band The Sugarcubes, which brought fame to lead vocalist Björk. Through the first single, "Birthday", the Sugarcubes received attention in Europe and the United States.
"Ammæli", afterwards released in English as "Birthday", entered the charts outside Iceland, leading the band to put Icelandic music on the world map. "Birthday" was chosen as "single of the week" by both NME and Melody Maker in August 1987 and was also selected Number 1 in John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1987. The album was featured as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Besides the regular green sleeve, the UK and American LPs were released in blue, yellow, orange, and pink.
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Podcasts:
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by Sugarcubes
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by Threshold
Life's Too Good
by: Sugarcubesshe lives in this house over there, has her world outside it.
grapples with the earth with her fingers and her mouth--she's five years old.
thread worms on a string, keeps spiders in her pocket, collects fly-wings in
a jar scrubs horse flies and pinches them on a line. she's got one friend
he lives next door, they listen to the weather, he knows how many freckles she'sgot, she
scratches his beard. she's painting huge books, glues them together,
they saw a big raven; it glided down the sky--she touched it. today's a birth-
dat--they're sucking cigars, he got a chain of flowers, sows a bird in her
knickers, they're sucking cigars, lie in the bathtub, chain of flowers.