i have a friend who saw The Sugarcubes live --- how lucky was he... i know how wonderful that must have been because i too have seen Bjork live and the experience was something i will never forget..
i thinks she's weird and a genius at the same time. When you say bjork, you cant say rock, r&b, pop, etc. because her music is a gerne on it's own, and i can't think of any other artist ever who achieved the same.
I just realised an influence on this - Yoko Ono. The screams while not being as piercing and intense as hers are definitely from the same place. She even looks a bit like her. Does anyone know whether Ono was an influence on Bjork?
@thanx01 Believe it or not Yoko did have a nice voice occasionally, along with the caterwailing ( that Bjork does here). Not too often but it was there. It's not beyond the realms off possibility Bjork turned over Lennon's Happy Xmas War is over, and listened to the link below. There are similarities.
These dudes really come left of field for the day. A day filled with hair spray pretentiousness and puffed up peacocks and pollyannas. This was rebelliousness in a stoned funny way. Unique still today.
@6himhim Yeah, Björk's awesome. And having a talented, flaky bird isn't out of the question: get yourself a talking parrot with eczema and you can live your dream, man!
Listening to this song is like watching a storm - a force of nature - passing by
I remember seeing this on MTV Alternative around 1990, it has always stuck in my mind and after hearing it again now, it's still as good as I thought is was then...
This was released the same year I graduated high school - I asked, "WTF just hit me?" when I saw this live on SNL and NOBODY knew. It's now 2012 and still no answer.
some guy from Iceland I was working with back in 1988 ask me if I ever heard of this band. I didn't tell he pulled out his cassette tape and played them for me. Love it!
Bjork did a live Q&A on the Guardian website, someone asked what the lines "Sews a bird on her knickers" meant, and she replied "Thank you. Obviously it is about haberdashery ... and embroidery of course ..."
I do wish Bjork would have kept the door shut on what this song is about. As much as I have adored her for over 20 years (esp. w The Sugarcubes), I would prefer thinking this song is about a grandfather & his granddaughter and the sweet and lovely (non-sexual) relationship they have... when I 1st heard it in 87' or 88' that's what I thought, cuz I absolutely loved my grandfather. But I still think of it that way which is the cool thing about good songs, they are what you want them to be...
This song is about molestation? I read the lyrics and didn't really see anything to that effect. For such a beautiful song, I'd rather not associate it that way.
i still love this song,though i preffered the origanal icelandic version.but i still havent decided whether this is a song about peodophilia or a song about childlike love.dont know still love it though
AFAIK Björk has said it was a tasteless pop song about a five-year-old girl who has a love affair with the man next door, who is celebrating his fiftieth birthday. Not sure I like that theme, but I love the song. IMO it's way better in Icelandic than in English :)
I don't think, it's about molestation, they are smoking cigars. I do agree with those who say that "she's five years old" refers to a certain child-like innocence, or a memory of her childhood in the things she does.
So Björk either composed one of the most beautiful songs ever about the most heinous crime imaginable, or she used lines like "She's five years old" as a metaphor to describe the main character's childlike nature. I'm torn.
Again, and just because it really doesn't seem clear to most of those who post here, it's a song about a child that suffers abuse and the effect on this child, lines like: "Scrubs horse flies and pinches them on a line" or "She's painting huge books
and glues them together" and "He's got a chain of flowers and sows a bird in her knickers" should make that pretty clear...
@JoyGrenade you think the single most romantic line ever is about a 5 year old getting molested? that's pretty disgusting. this is a great, powerful song, but it's not really supposed to be romantic. you should really listen to the lyrics.
This song is sheer beautiful perfection in every way. One of my favorite songs of all time. I've loved this song since I first heard it back in 1988 or '89. Thank you to whoever put this up! Also, thank you Bjork & The Sugarcubes (as if they'd ever read this, but anyway) for creating such sonic brilliance.
QUOTATION:The artist must be an egotist because, like the spider, he draws all his building material from his own breast. But just the same the artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.
ATTRIBUTION:Rheta Childe Dorr (18661948), U.S. journalist. A Woman of Fifty, 2nd. ed., ch. 3 (1924).
This song is great, and its sooo 80's which is what I love about it. I heard it for the first time on XM Radio last night, and I said to myself "Whoever does this song, they did it in the late 80s or early 90s" I just love the atmosphere that late-80s/early-90s music gives off. It feels like its filled with a lot of teen angst. I bet my aunt, who was in high school during the time of this song, loved the Sugarcubes. Anyways, I'm rambling. Great song!
@KickMeAndCancel OMG you are kidding - you FIRST heard it three years ago? I was about to finish HS when they did this on SNL and Mtv talked about possibly banning it because at best it's 'much older guy/young (maybe underage) girl' and at worst it's an incest relationship being described. The 'bad' was in the tone of the song, the girl 'victim' liked it. I think they played it late at night for a while.
took me years to find this song back becouse i didnt know the titel and the group. but always knew bjork whas the lead singer! happy i found it here by pure luck. :)) a happy girl am i now.always loved this song! and still!!
A friend of mine once described The Sugarcubes as "Bjork does her thing, then the guy who can't sing or play the trumpet sings and plays the trumpet." I always thought that summed it up pretty well.
Thanks, watashiwanachodesu! But, anyway, forget about sunshinebutmorerain's replies and enjoy the video (after all, that's what we're here for). Besides, we're not getting any original reply from sunshinebutmorerain, who wastes his time babbling about nothing. I'd rather be in my caveman state than being a jerk like you!
J-E-R-K! Got that?
I hate people like you - showing off intelligence and by so doing showing your stupidity.
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Another great band. I love them so much. I have all 3 albums. Birthday is my favourtie song. Meet & saw them play in Sydney, Australia back in the 80's thought back then this band would be huge. They didnt get as much recognition as they should of....
I have Sugarcubes 3 albums and one 12"; Deus, on vinyl... cherish them.... I like Bjork,since Kukl.. but the 3 albums,and Homogenic.... for me it is perfection.... thanx for up
fignewtons321, what is music?. music to me is a person expressing themselfs through sounds and lyrics and instruments, no matter how it sounds, everysong, and even every sound made in the world can be classed as music, if it has meaning behind it. bjork writes whatever the hell she wants, and expresses herself so effectivly that i think she is about the only artist alive that really can make music.and i think every person that see's bjorks talent will back me up!its so inspiring and beautiful!!
What about Metallica's 'Orion' or their 'Call of Chutulu'? What about Death Angel's 'The Ultra-violence'(godly)? What about Trivium's 'The Crusade'? These are songs.
Retarded. Which summates a great deal of casual understanding of...well, anything. It seems the proletariat are only becoming more illiterate as their numbers increase.
you were funny till u mention the "proletariat" then u turned pseudo-intellectual... who uses that kind of lenguage these days? college students and snobs
I didn't realize that language was only applicable by the measure of a popularity floor.
That "standard" only circles back around and underpins my point anyway -- that the proletariat are indeed mediocrity defined or looked down upon.
As far as being "pseudo"-intellectual, it's my experience that this is the answer of the halfwit in response to language and points they either don't understand, or don't like but have no substance to countervail with.
It takes even more intelligence, understanding and comprehension to adapt yourself to other people that don't master your way of speaking to be understandable, not the other way around. That is one of the examples that would illustrate the word "humility", a virtue you lack. Words, if said your way, are empty. You are just showing off that you know the vocabulary, not the meaning of it(which is the thing that really matters). Pity...
By your standard, upward mobility in a society, or general evolution -- whether Darwinist or self-improving -- is pointless.
Which would mean that the real ideal is to be as low as possible.
Base idiocy (below that word's existence) as your view: to still be at the caveman stage.
After all, if not everyone, or the "right" someone (the right nobody, in your case), can understand, then there's no intrinsic or explicit meaning at all. Solipsism 101 -- it deoesn't get any more elitist than that.
Taken to apex or finality, then, your argument itself, one way or the other -- with or without -- is pointless by the very nature of what it's arguing.
I love people like you -- bright enough to present a message or chain of thought, but by doing so only demonstrating how inept and dim you are.
Typical. Dim. Average. P-R-O-L-E-T-A-R-I-A-T
Implosively stupid -- your mind, and your message here.
If quality doesn't matter, it's only about popularity, then why are you watching Sugercubes videos?
matsuyama desu is right dude... besides proletariat means "to have sons" and to me saying that "are only becoming more illiterate as their numbers increase" sounds like you are a bit despective being in your little intellectual plateau. besides, like woody allen once said "you should meet some idiots, you might learn something". Cause, indeed, "the brain is the most overrated organ". But whatever man, peace out.
this song has got so beautiful atmosphere... it's happy, crazy, but a little bit sad and sentimental song, too... i love it!
ReyZore 1 week ago
The Icelandic version is much better
Starkardur 1 week ago
Eyarfjarllaryokul :)
tweepixie 1 week ago
She sounds nervous in this one.
staunton01 1 week ago
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I really love their sound, it's dissonant but beautiful
Uktrayf 2 weeks ago
Put a bird on it!
illogicaltongue 2 weeks ago
@illogicaltongue I'm putting a bird on toast.
nat4u235 2 weeks ago
i have a friend who saw The Sugarcubes live --- how lucky was he... i know how wonderful that must have been because i too have seen Bjork live and the experience was something i will never forget..
pagandude1 3 weeks ago
i thinks she's weird and a genius at the same time. When you say bjork, you cant say rock, r&b, pop, etc. because her music is a gerne on it's own, and i can't think of any other artist ever who achieved the same.
3DPeter 1 month ago 5
240p? Ah, Bjork, breakin' my balls here.
jpastuch 1 month ago
Sorry to rudely interrupt. But isn't the Galaxie 500 version of 'listen the snow is falling' better?
nearlyeverything 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
@nearlyeverything Um...no
staunton01 1 week ago
Sugarcubes i love this happysong,m.f.g from Germany
Pantherfalter 1 month ago
Bjork, why the fuck do I love you so much?
xXxTwiggyzLovexXx 1 month ago 3
i hope when i die, bjork is there ... and she likes me!!
thanx01 1 month ago
I just realised an influence on this - Yoko Ono. The screams while not being as piercing and intense as hers are definitely from the same place. She even looks a bit like her. Does anyone know whether Ono was an influence on Bjork?
genericgeorge 1 month ago
@genericgeorge God I hope not. I hate Yoko's "singing"
Cheeso888 1 month ago in playlist SONGS THAT I LIKE
@Cheeso888 I know it's shite. I do hear a bit of her style in her vocal though. Bjork is a singer though. Yoko just screeched & squealed
genericgeorge 1 month ago
@genericgeorge i would venture to say that john lennon was probably the only person yoko ever influenced.
thanx01 1 month ago
@thanx01
genericgeorge 1 month ago
@thanx01 Believe it or not Yoko did have a nice voice occasionally, along with the caterwailing ( that Bjork does here). Not too often but it was there. It's not beyond the realms off possibility Bjork turned over Lennon's Happy Xmas War is over, and listened to the link below. There are similarities.
genericgeorge 1 month ago
@genericgeorge Bjork's scream is actually more a jazz/r&b/soul's singer type of scream, with that growl.
Cheeso888 1 month ago
I couldn't post the link. It's Listen The Snow Is Falling. Do a search you'll find it.
genericgeorge 1 month ago
These dudes really come left of field for the day. A day filled with hair spray pretentiousness and puffed up peacocks and pollyannas. This was rebelliousness in a stoned funny way. Unique still today.
genericgeorge 1 month ago
do you think flaming lips "ripped this off" with 'rainin babies?'
LukaUsmiani 1 month ago
This song is just phenomenal. My life is complete.
coffeejelly17 1 month ago in playlist super sonic part 7 3
i concur. bjorks wailing on this still makes me cry 25 years later.
indoctrin8 1 month ago
aw wee bjorky yorky!!! she's a peach eh a lassie!!!!. didnt know sugarcubes were her band.she makes me smile with no effort what so ever.
76skelton 1 month ago 5
@76skelton damn straight there mr skelton...
pagandude1 1 month ago
Smile.
noiseisgood 1 month ago 3
That bass is absolutely cocteautwinesque
schef75 1 month ago
@6himhim Yeah, Björk's awesome. And having a talented, flaky bird isn't out of the question: get yourself a talking parrot with eczema and you can live your dream, man!
Ammaely 1 month ago 2
Great song with some great shots of the best country in the world.
allfantasticimages 1 month ago
you can hear the influence of the cocteau twins in this, great song
TalkToTheBody 1 month ago
She's so....nordic.
Tressiensia 1 month ago 2
Listening to this song is like watching a storm - a force of nature - passing by
I remember seeing this on MTV Alternative around 1990, it has always stuck in my mind and after hearing it again now, it's still as good as I thought is was then...
xOsbourneCox 2 months ago 2
i dream of havin a talented flakey girlfriend....bjork is awsome
6himhim 2 months ago 19
@6himhim hahahahha i hear ya !!!!!
phartzabit 1 month ago
This is so interesting, I must watch more!
Jorrrdddinnn 2 months ago
This was released the same year I graduated high school - I asked, "WTF just hit me?" when I saw this live on SNL and NOBODY knew. It's now 2012 and still no answer.
dieselscience 2 months ago
I've got really addicted to this song! It's so weird; i love it.
AtotheNtotheYtotheA 2 months ago 3
wow shes almost 50 years old now.
blaztradiouz666 2 months ago
she looks like my auntie suzzy...lol...
etornel79 2 months ago
Good song. What amazing vocals Bjork has.
Jenwelsh629 2 months ago
fantastic is she still living on that boat?
pattaya97 2 months ago
Hehe ryry
tyra256 2 months ago
@lMusicAndMadnessl Awww my pet, you need a cup of tea a bex and a lie down.
clumpft 2 months ago 2
@lMusicAndMadnessl i hope for your sake that youre just trolling
itsalexeverybody 2 months ago
@lMusicAndMadnessl You can learn to spell, and your grammer, wow. Creepy person alert:)
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Siouxsie Soux can eat 100 Lady Gagas for lunch, though she may throw up afterward.
hoibsh 2 months ago
i love her, i love her voice, i love bjork...peace be with everyone...
lucard001 2 months ago
This song is about a 5-year-old girl's sexual fantasy about her 50-year-old neighbor. Look it up.
ThisHasBeenAlex 2 months ago
@ThisHasBeenAlex
I think you are damn right
thedolcetto81 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Chick can sing.
wisconsindeathtrip 2 months ago
the best part of this video is watching her her face is so expressive i could watch her with the sound turned down
wall14gm 2 months ago
love this song
ingridpla 2 months ago
Oh, Bjork. You just really have it all, don't you?
KOLobsessed 2 months ago
its been that long,i am getting old but her music never does.
sharkclub1 2 months ago
wow.
sharkclub1 2 months ago
Is Good!
glaeken14 2 months ago
thumbs up if you've come here from 5 live's up all night ;-) gr8 tune from the pixie girl & co lol
whyyoulidl 3 months ago
@whyyoulidl hahhaa same reason i came. love up all night.
23kessuki 2 months ago
@23kessuki cool, you prob heard on listen again or podcast. love the virtual duke box slot :-)
whyyoulidl 2 months ago
some guy from Iceland I was working with back in 1988 ask me if I ever heard of this band. I didn't tell he pulled out his cassette tape and played them for me. Love it!
TheStrainers 3 months ago
Man... last time I saw this video... long long time ago. Incredible!
goisvet 3 months ago
I remember listening to this recording endlessly. It is diverse, powerful, quirk, and Bjork.
probrojeffro 3 months ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BJORK!
TMSreptiles 3 months ago
Bjork did a live Q&A on the Guardian website, someone asked what the lines "Sews a bird on her knickers" meant, and she replied "Thank you. Obviously it is about haberdashery ... and embroidery of course ..."
Some of her answers are hilarious.
steggy13 3 months ago
@steggy13 pedophilia..thats what its about. nothing 'sweet' bout the freckle lines'
smithefx1 3 months ago 2
@smithefx1 I didn't say a single thing about the freckles...
I posted something that Bjork said in a live Q&A about a different line of the song.
steggy13 3 months ago
What the hell is this song even about? "He sews a bird in her knickers"? What?
ChristieLoveNow 3 months ago
7 dislikes?? You MONGS !!
davedenisetigg 3 months ago
@Flozzerable Umm no, Bjork's gone on the record about this song. You aren't even close.
Oldshirt 3 months ago
Bjork is Iceland.
jdfc5 3 months ago
I do wish Bjork would have kept the door shut on what this song is about. As much as I have adored her for over 20 years (esp. w The Sugarcubes), I would prefer thinking this song is about a grandfather & his granddaughter and the sweet and lovely (non-sexual) relationship they have... when I 1st heard it in 87' or 88' that's what I thought, cuz I absolutely loved my grandfather. But I still think of it that way which is the cool thing about good songs, they are what you want them to be...
mojopin5 3 months ago
Those screams still hit my musical g-spot 24 years after I first heard this on John Peel's show, peace be upon him.
dmerhodes 3 months ago 76
This song is about molestation? I read the lyrics and didn't really see anything to that effect. For such a beautiful song, I'd rather not associate it that way.
chxngchxng 4 months ago
She scratches his beard....
BleuMikeYo 4 months ago in playlist BleuMikeYo's favorites
i still love this song,though i preffered the origanal icelandic version.but i still havent decided whether this is a song about peodophilia or a song about childlike love.dont know still love it though
MrAndplumb 4 months ago
@MrAndplumb Or Bjork just doing her Bjorkness =D
Lunabeam1 4 months ago
AFAIK Björk has said it was a tasteless pop song about a five-year-old girl who has a love affair with the man next door, who is celebrating his fiftieth birthday. Not sure I like that theme, but I love the song. IMO it's way better in Icelandic than in English :)
toLoudToSee 4 months ago
I don't think, it's about molestation, they are smoking cigars. I do agree with those who say that "she's five years old" refers to a certain child-like innocence, or a memory of her childhood in the things she does.
sickcellmate 4 months ago
I could watch 3:00 - 3:25 all day.
KissTheKupo 4 months ago in playlist KissTheKupo's favorites 2
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goldfishponyo 4 months ago
I want to be may birthday :)
indie9407 4 months ago
So Björk either composed one of the most beautiful songs ever about the most heinous crime imaginable, or she used lines like "She's five years old" as a metaphor to describe the main character's childlike nature. I'm torn.
JoyGrenade 5 months ago
björk so hot :))))
furkanurkmez96 5 months ago 3
TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!
simonlimon1 5 months ago
@simonlimon1 happy birthday!
catcrapinahat 5 months ago in playlist catcrapinahat's Favorited Videos
Again, and just because it really doesn't seem clear to most of those who post here, it's a song about a child that suffers abuse and the effect on this child, lines like: "Scrubs horse flies and pinches them on a line" or "She's painting huge books
and glues them together" and "He's got a chain of flowers and sows a bird in her knickers" should make that pretty clear...
PhilippeCa 5 months ago
ooh isn't she the one who sang 'we are the cheeky girls, we are the cheeky girls'?
fuckamericanidiot 6 months ago
ive been on a bjork spree, i've bought debut, volta, and vespertine...but now i see i need to buy a sugarcubes album because this song is amazing <3
Robotslovecake1 6 months ago 2
~today is my birthda-ay~
(if you count my freckles, i'll scratch your beard)
perhapssomeother 3 years ago 2
I love the song but I don't get the part with the "Lying in the bathtub".
ilikedrugs 3 years ago
yeah, this song is awesome, both in english and icelandic
Bigby08 3 years ago
This song leaves me speachless... It's just beauty at its truest form.
GHostR001 3 years ago 3
That is amazing, bjork is a angel !
colmmernagh 3 years ago
la voz...
pleynax 3 years ago
gracias!
paolossbertolini 3 years ago
MUY BUENO!
elmikhail 3 years ago
Brilliant, brings back many memories, what a voice Bjork has, classic.
DOAJAM 3 years ago
Þ How is this letter pronaunced?
Merdam9 3 years ago
It's pronounced like "th" in "thing".
Symphonyofflowers 3 years ago
Well thank you for that piece of information!
So Þingvellir is pronaunced like Thingvellir?
Merdam9 3 years ago
Yes, it is.
Symphonyofflowers 3 years ago
8=====Þ~~~~~
stasty 3 years ago
eccentric use of the letter Þ
Merdam9 3 years ago 11
@Merdam9 don't be Þilly
DaithiLacha65 2 months ago
Bjork is so adorable in this video.
starification 3 years ago 4
"He knows how many freckles she's got" - single most romantic line ever.
JoyGrenade 3 years ago 57
@JoyGrenade ew, they are talking about a father/child relation.
languedamour 5 months ago
@JoyGrenade you think the single most romantic line ever is about a 5 year old getting molested? that's pretty disgusting. this is a great, powerful song, but it's not really supposed to be romantic. you should really listen to the lyrics.
kryticaldv 5 months ago 3
@JoyGrenade It's a song about child molestation. But if the line were in a different context, yeah I'd agree with you.
VladdieAndSteffie 4 months ago
@JoyGrenade i hear "she knows how many freckles he's got" but on every lyrics site it says the opposite.
alienalex37 4 months ago
@alienalex37 yeah I heard it to. I think it's suppose to be she knows not he knows lol
AshasJourney 4 months ago in playlist American Music
@JoyGrenade NOT romantic when you realize it's an old man and a 5 year old child she's singing about.
OhioHarleyChick 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos 2
@JoyGrenade ..if yer a pedophile
smithefx1 3 months ago
This song is sheer beautiful perfection in every way. One of my favorite songs of all time. I've loved this song since I first heard it back in 1988 or '89. Thank you to whoever put this up! Also, thank you Bjork & The Sugarcubes (as if they'd ever read this, but anyway) for creating such sonic brilliance.
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^__^ she's so cute!
the song is so terrible that it's
the pwn to every other video!
love XD
FlyOutBoy 3 years ago
dam dam dam .... voll süß, björk in jungen jahren, endlich hab ich das lied gefunden!!! ein segen, danke
suesse1968suesse 3 years ago
QUOTATION:The artist must be an egotist because, like the spider, he draws all his building material from his own breast. But just the same the artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.
ATTRIBUTION:Rheta Childe Dorr (18661948), U.S. journalist. A Woman of Fifty, 2nd. ed., ch. 3 (1924).
egiappaige 3 years ago
I love the tight, slippery, sparkly hyper-bright sound of 80s music.
But then I did grow up with it... :D
jickerack 3 years ago 6
Me too. The 80's was a great decade for music!
portbalto 3 years ago
This song is great, and its sooo 80's which is what I love about it. I heard it for the first time on XM Radio last night, and I said to myself "Whoever does this song, they did it in the late 80s or early 90s" I just love the atmosphere that late-80s/early-90s music gives off. It feels like its filled with a lot of teen angst. I bet my aunt, who was in high school during the time of this song, loved the Sugarcubes. Anyways, I'm rambling. Great song!
KickMeAndCancel 3 years ago
@KickMeAndCancel OMG you are kidding - you FIRST heard it three years ago? I was about to finish HS when they did this on SNL and Mtv talked about possibly banning it because at best it's 'much older guy/young (maybe underage) girl' and at worst it's an incest relationship being described. The 'bad' was in the tone of the song, the girl 'victim' liked it. I think they played it late at night for a while.
dieselscience 2 months ago
Sugarcubes prevailed our music scene with thier uniqueness. Viva Björk! Shout! Shout! More and forever!!
Kikuko777 3 years ago
im only 11 years old and i still llove bjorks song she is sooo great and still at age 42 she is still great
cherisse1997 3 years ago 2
This song is really sad...but I love it. Sugarcubes= genius.
Paulosoy 3 years ago
took me years to find this song back becouse i didnt know the titel and the group. but always knew bjork whas the lead singer! happy i found it here by pure luck. :)) a happy girl am i now.always loved this song! and still!!
kittyforlive 3 years ago
i love her so so so much
cspice9 3 years ago
God, this song is amazing.
ArseBags 3 years ago
amazing song
cannibalembryo 3 years ago
1:09-1:11 LOL
TheWhiteBandana 3 years ago
A friend of mine once described The Sugarcubes as "Bjork does her thing, then the guy who can't sing or play the trumpet sings and plays the trumpet." I always thought that summed it up pretty well.
SeeLoganRun 3 years ago 5
LOL, sounds fairly accurate now i've listened to some more of their stuff.
In my previous post, i meant to put "Which means i've existed 18 years on this planet NOT knowing..."
Silly me.
ArseBags 3 years ago 2
Right! I always thought of the other guy as a sort of Icelandic Fred Schneider from the B-52's.
CeltColley 3 years ago 3
love this song. the video makes me think of Salvador Dali
dohertykaki 3 years ago
I've only just discovered this song and i absolutely love it.
Which means i've existed 18 years on this planet now knowing of this fantastic track. I could have listened to it a lot in that time.
Guess i've got some catching up to do.
ArseBags 3 years ago
i loved those times
detain88888 3 years ago
The Sugarcubes are good - but they would've been amazing if they would have booted Einar and all of his nonsensical bullshit.
Brownies79 3 years ago 5
a favorite for all time
whatnow30 3 years ago
wow bjork is hot
wra7h 3 years ago 4
What an amazing voice/talent! thats all i can manage to say at this hour, i think im going to have to watch this vid again
superdanno 3 years ago
I want to lick Bjork's cute little cheeks.
LambadLambadLambda 3 years ago
me too
drummerbell 3 years ago
Thanks, watashiwanachodesu! But, anyway, forget about sunshinebutmorerain's replies and enjoy the video (after all, that's what we're here for). Besides, we're not getting any original reply from sunshinebutmorerain, who wastes his time babbling about nothing. I'd rather be in my caveman state than being a jerk like you!
J-E-R-K! Got that?
I hate people like you - showing off intelligence and by so doing showing your stupidity.
Matsuyama 3 years ago
What a cute voice :)
wra7h 3 years ago
I played this and the Icelandic version to death when it came out. Great.
inshreds66 3 years ago
it's been 20 years. this is my bjork beginning. 20 years and she is still the master.
longleanleggy 3 years ago 14
@longleanleggy my sentiments exactly!!!! still makes me shudder (in a good way....) after all these years :)
ginnys2004 5 months ago
Outstanding .. such a great song !
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mozomboa 3 years ago
I´ve heard this song was first played around college radios around US and it broke thru into a worldwide success.
Beautiful tune.
Tiiluu 3 years ago
Another great band. I love them so much. I have all 3 albums. Birthday is my favourtie song. Meet & saw them play in Sydney, Australia back in the 80's thought back then this band would be huge. They didnt get as much recognition as they should of....
jo2518 3 years ago
I have Sugarcubes 3 albums and one 12"; Deus, on vinyl... cherish them.... I like Bjork,since Kukl.. but the 3 albums,and Homogenic.... for me it is perfection.... thanx for up
lotreamon01 3 years ago
such a delicious voice, she.
marokokisetter 3 years ago
fignewtons321, what is music?. music to me is a person expressing themselfs through sounds and lyrics and instruments, no matter how it sounds, everysong, and even every sound made in the world can be classed as music, if it has meaning behind it. bjork writes whatever the hell she wants, and expresses herself so effectivly that i think she is about the only artist alive that really can make music.and i think every person that see's bjorks talent will back me up!its so inspiring and beautiful!!
h4h5h6h7h8h9iku 3 years ago 7
The Sugarcubes another excellent band, they had their own musical signature and a great voice to backup the songs.
foxbatx 3 years ago
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What is a song without a voice?
sunshinebutmorerain 3 years ago
an instrumental
Danarbed 3 years ago 3
Which would mean it's no longer a song, but rather a composition or movement.
sunshinebutmorerain 3 years ago
What about Metallica's 'Orion' or their 'Call of Chutulu'? What about Death Angel's 'The Ultra-violence'(godly)? What about Trivium's 'The Crusade'? These are songs.
Danarbed 3 years ago
As a form of slang, sure. Technically? No.
Otherwise, Beethoven was a "song writer".
Retarded. Which summates a great deal of casual understanding of...well, anything. It seems the proletariat are only becoming more illiterate as their numbers increase.
sunshinebutmorerain 3 years ago
you were funny till u mention the "proletariat" then u turned pseudo-intellectual... who uses that kind of lenguage these days? college students and snobs
watashiwanachodes 3 years ago
I didn't realize that language was only applicable by the measure of a popularity floor.
That "standard" only circles back around and underpins my point anyway -- that the proletariat are indeed mediocrity defined or looked down upon.
As far as being "pseudo"-intellectual, it's my experience that this is the answer of the halfwit in response to language and points they either don't understand, or don't like but have no substance to countervail with.
Mediocre=normal. Feel free to bask in it.
sunshinebutmorerain 3 years ago 2
It takes even more intelligence, understanding and comprehension to adapt yourself to other people that don't master your way of speaking to be understandable, not the other way around. That is one of the examples that would illustrate the word "humility", a virtue you lack. Words, if said your way, are empty. You are just showing off that you know the vocabulary, not the meaning of it(which is the thing that really matters). Pity...
Matsuyama 3 years ago
By your standard, upward mobility in a society, or general evolution -- whether Darwinist or self-improving -- is pointless.
Which would mean that the real ideal is to be as low as possible.
Base idiocy (below that word's existence) as your view: to still be at the caveman stage.
After all, if not everyone, or the "right" someone (the right nobody, in your case), can understand, then there's no intrinsic or explicit meaning at all. Solipsism 101 -- it deoesn't get any more elitist than that.
sunshinebutmorerain 3 years ago
Taken to apex or finality, then, your argument itself, one way or the other -- with or without -- is pointless by the very nature of what it's arguing.
I love people like you -- bright enough to present a message or chain of thought, but by doing so only demonstrating how inept and dim you are.
Typical. Dim. Average. P-R-O-L-E-T-A-R-I-A-T
Implosively stupid -- your mind, and your message here.
If quality doesn't matter, it's only about popularity, then why are you watching Sugercubes videos?
sunshinebutmorerain 3 years ago
matsuyama desu is right dude... besides proletariat means "to have sons" and to me saying that "are only becoming more illiterate as their numbers increase" sounds like you are a bit despective being in your little intellectual plateau. besides, like woody allen once said "you should meet some idiots, you might learn something". Cause, indeed, "the brain is the most overrated organ". But whatever man, peace out.
watashiwanachodes 3 years ago
Wtf?
Bjork has a beautiful and wonderful voice.
how could you say it like that?
well, thats your thing so wuteva
TheWhiteBandana 3 years ago
ah .. she bought my grandmothers house!
kiddi900 3 years ago