sugarcubes - 'i want...'

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From the album that changed completely how I thought about music.

sugarcubes - 'blue eyed pop'

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Oh yes! What a fine track. From the album that changed completely how I thought about music.

the sugarcubes - 'birthday'

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This tune, the album 'Life's Too Good' changed forever the way I listened to music. I still get goose-bumps listening to it now.

the sugarcubes - 'birthday (icelandic version)'

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I still remember the first time I heard the 'Life's Too Good' album for the first time at Uni. Ground-breaking. It still sends shivers up my spine. The quality on this video isn't too good but I fancied playing the Icelandic version for a change.

sugarcubes - 'blue eyed pop'

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I have no idea why but this song was stuck on loop in my head all morning today. Taken from their debut album. An album that changed my life.

sugarcubes live in concert alabama 1988

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I spent a large part of my student grant following them around the UK leg of this particular tour and it was money well spent in my opinion. It was following the release of their sublime first album, 'Life's Too Good'. I think that along with Depeche Mode, New Order, St Etienne and possibly Portishead no other band has changed my life in such a big way as the Sugarcubes. To me they were the Captain Beefheart for my generation. They weren't just off the wall, they were away from the floor and off to some place too surreal to describe and they opened my eyes and ears for the first time to Scandinavian music and it's been a passion of mine ever since. 

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