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Certain Songs #2554: The Sugarcubes – “Birthday”

February 15, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: Life’s Too Good
Year: 1988

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35 years down the pike, it’s hard to express just how weird The Sugarcubes sounded when we first heard them in 1988. Back then, they sounded like aliens who had been what popular music sounded like without actually playing those aliens any popular music as a reference.

And given that they were from Iceland, that might have been the case, but my real guess was that being from Iceland meant that they really didn’t give a fuck about the rules, and so their debut, Life’s Too Good featured fractured fairy tales of songs like the utterly stunning “Birthday,” which announced to the world that lead singer Björk Guðmundsdóttir was a sui generis talent.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Birthday, Life's Too Good, The Sugarcubes

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