Life's Too Good

Que falopa éste disco (y que linda tapa). En un tema estás escuchando Joy Division, en otros a Dolly Parton zarpada en azucar en un dueto con Björk. No digo que sea malo, pero no siento que haya una linea que una a todo el disco, probablemente sea intencional. Terminé el disco con ganas de escuchar Björk, no se si es un elogio.

Che... la voz se parece a la de... Bjork? Ah si, mirá vos... era Bjork. TIL 2/5

Really didnt like this - not a Bjork fan. I dont know how this would be a top 1001 album. Wont listen too again 2 stars

Didn't enjoy it much at all. The last song kinda went hard though. F***ing in rhythm and sorrow is the name of the song that went hard

It wasn't horrible, but the songs that weren't "bad" were certainly more "strange" than "good" to me. I can see some parts of the album being considered pretty interesting and I didn't mind it for one listen, but I'm certainly not interested in hearing more. Too chaotic, too unfocused, too unpolished.

Gotta say, not a huge fan. I can get by some of the weird experimental sounds and vocals from some bands, but I had no clue what was happening.

Just sounds dated and silly

Bjork's voice is ethereal. Much better than Sigur Ros, but I might only listen to this album once a year.

2

2

Im sticking with my 2/5 rating, it was noise rock, and while there were some ok songs, overall, it was a mess.

boring

B52s but More annoying

not really a fan, punky i guess not unpleasant just not my thhing

Not great

A lot of shouting

I had to turn this one off. Bjork's got a unique voice, and her wailing over rock tracks is the absolute worst application of it. I'm mad cause there's another version of this album with a different singer that I'd probably like! The instrumentals were nice and catchy, but that voice on top was nails on a chalkboard. I legitimately would go insane if I had to listen to another second.

I will never be safe from Bjork 😔

Does everything from Iceland have to have Bjork associated with it? I didn't know about this band before I started listening, but my first thought was, "the female singer sure sounds like Bjork." And yeah, I didn't enjoy this one. Definitely college rock, but the vocals weren't doing it for me.

Poor man's Cranberries

I couldn't hang on through the techno sound. :/

Something I didn’t think was possible - Bjork is the least annoying thing about this album. The male singer is beyond irritating, the song structure is painful, and their all-round contrived kookiness is too much to take.

Pretty dire!

My brain keeps expecting the B-52s, and keeps getting caught off guard by their weird, slightly off doppelgangers. The music is....fine. Not my favorite, but it works. But Bjork's vocals give me whiplash on whether I find them enjoyable, or they set my teeth on edge. "Motorcrash," for instance I find to be darkly entertaining and her vocals are perfectly fine. This is immediately followed by "Birthday," where her vocals give me the same reaction as nails on a chalk-board. Overall, the album sounds like an experiment of new wave and rock. Unfortunately, at least for me, it doesn't stick the landing and doesn't warrant another listen.

i do not like this kind of dissonant, off-putting stuff

What is too good??

shit

Really don't care for Björk.

I am aware of the Sugarcubes and know they are the band where Bjork came from before she started her solo career. I'm pretty sure my wife actually owned this CD back when it first came out - but don't really remember it as it never became part of my regular rotation. I have 1 song by The Sugarcubes liked on a different album - "Hit". I have 15 songs liked by Bjork from her solo albums. I didn't remember that they also had a guy singing in some of these songs, in addition to Bjork. That kinda reminds me of the B-52s - but in an annoying way. The song "Birthday" is pretty disturbing when you read the lyrics. Seems like its about a 5 year old girl being molested/raped by an older man - and she thinks they are friends. Pretty creepy. In "Deus" she fantasizes about god having sex with her - even though she doesn't believe in god. She mentions him putting her in a bathtub again (like in "Birthday"). In "Sick for Toys", a woman uses men/boys as her toys. And then she meets a "small boy" too. Again - pretty creepy. The lyrics to a lot of these songs seem strange - like it's a strained translation from Icelandic to English. Nothing grabbed me on this album as something I would want to listen to again. Sorry Bjork and crew - this didn't do it for me. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/11 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)

What the fuck is happening?? This is objectively bad

Bjork’s voice is so unique and attention-grabbing that it’s the sort of thing you have to purposefully craft your entire album to accommodate. Just slotting her into otherwise conventional music is disastrous, really doing her dirty. All of this is to say that I love her solo work but hated this album.

I'm not sure that Bjork deserves to be as well presented on this list as she is, I'm at 280 albums and she is 1.7% of them - there is a lot of far better music than she's involved in. That said - this is even lower on the totem pole than her solo stuff because *it was nothing new* when compared to other 'college rock' acts of the time. There were so many instances where they sounded like a disjointed (translation issue?) R.E.M. or The B-52s. They were just fine - nothing really worthwhile unless you're already a fan of Bjork, though.

Screaming, shrieking, chainsaws on aluminum roofing, thats this

Mycket stön och skrik

Quirky post-punk and art pop built on jagged guitars, bouncy basslines, off-kilter rhythms, and wildly contrasting vocals feels restless and unpredictable. Listening feels like stepping into a surreal cartoon where moods shift abruptly between playful chaos and eerie tension. Where is the exit again?

That wasn't enjoyable at all.

One song. I'm not sure how she's had such a fruitful career.

It's too quirky for its own good. Also it sounds like Bjork. I looked it up, it is Bjork.

Not for me. Björks voice is phenomenal but that's all that's good here which is shame.

If you drop it in hot coffee will they melt and go away? Please? 1

Did I enjoy this? No. Will I try to listen again to revise my opinion? Also no.

This list has too much Bjork. I cringed at the first two tracks and had to quit listening.

Malo como ninguno :)

I don't like the vocal and music too noisy for me.

Meh

This was awful. I had to force myself to get thru it. Just nothing I liked.

Very unenjoyable album, lots of jibberish and trying to seem weird for the sake of seeming weird.

Was this included on this list as a joke? What is this garbage? Oh, it's because Björk is in it. To be honest, I could have done without knowing her origin story.

Not for me.

Poop in my ears.

1/2

Borinnnggg

Det här kändes tyvärr som ungdomar som salmats i ett garage och bestämt sig för att starta band. Utan att snacka ihop sig så drar alla igång sina instrument.

Då har man hört detta. Ett album jag aldrig hade satt på om jag inte fått upp det i denna lista. Det sägs ju att man inte ska döma en bok utifrån omslaget men det gäller inte i fallet Life's Too Good. Precis som jag inte har den blekaste aningen om vad som pågår på konvolutet, fattar jag inte musiken alls. Ibland hör jag "artsy" musik och tänker att jag kanske är för korkad, oraffinerad, simpel, för att kunna uppskatta det jag hör. Men nej, det är inget fel på mig. Jag är ingen musikalisk barbar. Det är skivan, åtminstone i detta fallet. Björk ylar sig igenom en halvtimmeslång kakafoni av slagverk, blåsverk och annat som producerar ljud. Jag fattar ingenting och halvvägs genom skivan är jag utmattad. Men givet att The Sugarcubes har över 300K månatliga lyssnare på Spotify så får vi ändå dra slutsatsen att detta bara inte är min grej, helt enkelt.

my poor ears

NO MORE BJORK PLEASE

slightly better than solo bjork but, it’s still bjork

Nope

This has to be Bjork's side project. Wrong...Bjork's first band. The Icelandic guy talking throughout the album sounds like the inspiration for Gagnam Style. The Pet Shop Boys should probably get royalties from these guys. The songs where Bjork sings are fine...the songs where the guy talks over the whole song are awful, Sick for Toys is the worst of them. Those songs are Nada Surf's favorites though.

Couldn’t really warm to this

Didn't like dude's vocals

Not for me. 1/5

zodyn sie nie spodziewal post punka islandzkiego, a jesli islandia, to nie moze sie obyc bez bjork, ktora chyba ma mocnego fana w autorze tej listy, bo zeby wygrzebac taki album i umiescic go na liste, jest to pierwszy krazek w dyskografii tej bandy z roku 88, pomimo tego ze w skladzie jest piatka ludzi, to jedyna rzecza jaka mnie bedzie przesladowac z tego 33 miunutowego seansu beda, juz nawet wtedy, mocno krzyczane wokale bjorkowe, na plejke dodam otwierajacy kawalek traitor, jako jedyny ktory przesluchalem jeszcze bez swiadomosci, ze krzyki tam slyszane naleza do bjork, no i jest drugi wokal pana einara, ktory pomimo dosc zabawnego akcentu i tak jest przyjemniejszy dla ucha niz jeki i meki jakie oferuje druga polowa wokalu

Yuck

I don’t even know what to say about this. I just didn’t enjoy the experience listening to this.

has been discussed ad naseum on this site, Bjork requires decent backing to become tolerable/entertaining. This band have no redeeming features, tinny production and difficult to define song structures did not help. At best they sound like a really shit Teardrop Explodes. Mercifully it was a short album.

Meh

This is the group that Bjork was in, that's all I knew before listening. Of itself that is not a good start as I can't stand her. Putting aside the music, she is so far up her own arse she forms a human moebius-strip! Her music always annoyed the fuck out of me too, but maybe this album will be different as it's not just her.... Nope, fucking awful, made it to track 3, had to turn it off. Utter horse-shit.

WTF! Awful.

ugh so twee, and that fucking trumpet

hate it

'Life's Too Crap' w/ Bjork's shit sandwich of a voice. 0/5

Not for me.

Something about this just made me hate it. I think it was on Motorcrash when my jaw literally dropped because I was baffled at what the hell I was listening to. This album is the most European album I’ve ever heard. It’s more European than albums on this list that are sung in French. It’s so bad. I hate it. I don’t know why.

Strange band from the 90’s. Try to copy the B-52’s, not very successful.

Nicht meins, zu disharmonisch

Terrible. Awful. No good.

Terrible in all senses. Instruments sound awful, vocals are meandering and out of tune. Just a waste of time.

life was not good when I was listening to this. It was too weird. there is a song on here called motorcrash and it made me think if I were in a car crash right now I wouldn't have to listen to this crap

Somewhat interesting musically. Vocals in no way for me

Okay, album. Didn't enjoy it much.

Oof

Konnte ich nicht anhören. Björk macht mich fertig

I have never heard of this band before today. Sounds like a mash-up of the B52s with Rammstein in the worst way possible. First album I wanted to turn off.

I didn't enjoy it. I listened to the first several songs then checked out

nope

Forgettable

Screeching woman is not my genre

screaming. noise... Take Some Petrol is more than a track. It's advice.

Only got two songs in , this one is not for me . Is it Björk because it sounds like Björk

Lots of yelling 80s women. Pretty whacky avant-gard stuff.

Don't really like new Bjork, and apparently I also don't like old Bjork ⭐️

First listen Saved 2/11: Traitor Birthday

Not my thing. Dues and Toy I didn't get at all

Son of a... Listen, you can't just ambush a body with a Björk album like that! It's inhumane! You gotta give people time to prepare their minds and hearts for the vocal war crimes of Iceland's native drunk-demon-baby fairy princess! I hated that so much. Every damn second of it. I wish every single Björk album could be thrown into an Icelandic volcano and bleached off of every server on earth. Someone needs to be held responsible and make amends for this offense against music.

Wer Geschrei mag! Ich nicht! Gebt mir MUSIK!

I’m not a fan of Bjork

Oof. Early Bjork. Did not enjoy this. I can understand having Bjork on this list, but not an early pre-Bjork album.

eh

Apparently this album was never supposed to be taken seriously and was a surprise hit. Perhaps it was a mistake to ever take this seriously? I really hated listening to it.

Not for me thanks.

Björk has always felt like weird music for people who don't really like weird music. Take that away and this sounds like typical Eighties indie rock. Birthday is fun, and so this gets a star for that, but the rest I will be happy if I never hear again.

Bjork 😩 and then they added the annoying bastard in the background.

As stated in other reviews, not my cup of tea. Bjork sounds. No thanks.

Wow. Dit is ook een raar album zeg. Zang is niet altijd heel zuiver, beetje gillerig. Maar ook de muziek zelf veranderd regelmatig van snelheid en toon. **

Ok. Buckle Up... I'm sorry ahead of time for this super hot take. It's spicy and I hope it's taken tongue-in-cheek as it's meant. I hate this album with the flames of a thousand suns. There's nearly nothing about the album that I like. First, I don't like the songs. As compositions they lack any real potency of meaning or intent for me. I don't identify with them topically or emotionally, and I'm not even entirely convinced that there's a structure or meaning behind the them at all. Second, the recording is absolutely the worst. I've heard recordings of raccoons fighting in a dumpster that were easier to listen to. There's clipping throughout the tracks, it doesn't sound like it was mastered at all, the mix cuts the music when the voice track clips, the recording process was completely ignored. It literally sounds like they set up the instruments, plugged a single mic in the middle of the room, pushed the faders all the way up, and then hired a pack of screaming goats to have a karate tournament next to the drum set while the actual band fucked off and drank cheap wine out back by the railroad tracks. On a serious note, I'm not one to shy away from difficult music. I like art that challenges assumptions and disregards norms and breaks rules... That means it can deeply uncomfortable to listen to at times, and I appreciate that. But I genuinely don't understand this record's intent. Why were these choices made? What's the artistic expression here and why is music the choice of medium for it? What does this have to teach me? What conversation am I meant to have with this? What thoughts or emotion is it supposed to translate? I feel like someone is speaking a language I don't understand and then asking my opinion on the author's ideas.

I really don't know what i'm listening to... what the hell is happening. Musically, this is shit. How in the world is this album influential? I could easily die without hearing this. These songs are all over the place, musical anarchy. I will admit, there were a handful of bars that I was grooving to thanks to some neat percussion work. I'm gonna try to use Chris' cafe scale on this one: I walked out halfway through my scone and took back my tip from the tip jar on my way out.

Eeek, no. Like the cranberries but screachier.

Not my thing at all. Endured to track 5 then had to call it a day

09/10/2022 There’s probably nothing inherently wrong w this album, I just truly can’t stand the 1980s sound. Bjork’s vocals were fine, I can see how she found individual success after this, but overall this album just isn’t for someone like me. — Went to the maggiano’s yesterday :P very chill day. Hung out at boysville, ate the best pho of my life, and got some yummy cheesecake

eh

Lotta love for Bjork on this list.. There's a few songs that are almost tolerable on this album but it's still hard to get through.

This album has one song (Motorcross) that I sort of liked. But the entire rest of the album is fairly standard alt rock that is turned to complete shit by Bjork’s wailing. Absolutely unlistenable.

I like the female vocals on some of the songs like "F***ing in Rhythm & Sorrow", but I'm not a fan with the album as a whole.

Pas ouf mais bon j'aime bien Bjork

Absolute load of shite. I listened to about 1/3 of this drivel

I’m excited for this to be over already

This is just more Bjork garbage. Yeesh bad singing - I don't understand how anyone could like her music. 3/10.

Very unsure about this album at first listen. A little harmonica action and faint yelling at the beginning of Traitor. No idea what they are saying. It's really whiny and screamy. I don't think I like this.

1.5

Nah. I like bjork but this is shite.

It's just Bjork. Full stop. It's Bjork with messed up guitar twangs. Nope.

so so bad.

Trash

Kinda underwhelming - I guess Bjork had to start somewhere. Nothing really stands out - very standard alt rock

I'm Alright

I almost gave this a 5 because of how impressive it is to make something this bad.

"Birthday" unerträglich nervig zum Teil, aber dann zwischendrin auch wieder gut. Sehr eigenartig. Motorcrash absoluter scheiß Text. Insgesamt mehr Nervig als Funky. Die beiden Sänger*innen haben doch völlig einen an der Waffel. Thanks but no thanks. Machts euren Scheiß alleine. Der Letzte Track "take some petrol darling" hat dem Album grade die 1* Berwertung eingebrockt. Obwohl die Geräusche etwas an Rompeprop erinnern. Alles in Allem aber schon ganz schöne scheiße

Wenn punker versuchen Avantgarde zu sein kommt das dabei raus, unerträglich. einfach nur komisch, sogar für mich zu experimentell und verkopft. Wobei verkopft impliziert jemand hätte sich dabei Gedanken gemacht. ich glaube das nennt man dann einfach pfusch, schand und schluderei.