Sugarcubes - Live in Alabama (October 1988) (1/2)
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2012
- Sugarcubes - Live at the Olympic Stadium, Auburn University, Alabama, in October 1988. If you like this, support the Sugarcubes by buying their official recordings. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only. I don't own the copyright.
Setlist
Part 1:
01 Sick for Toys
02 Birthday
03 Köttur
04 Universe
05 Nail
06 Motorcrash
07 Deus
08 Traitor
09 Dream TV
Part 2:
10 Blue Eyed Pop
11 Coldsweat
12 Tidal Wave
13 Cowboy
14 Delicious Demon
This was originally broadcast on MTV. Thanks to BjörkFTP for the recording. 
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I was at this show. Some friends of mine and I heard there was a free concert for students at Auburn - and Mtv was filming it. It was The Godfathers (who we knew because they had a modest Mtv hit at the time), plus two other bands I didn't know: The Sugarcubes and Living Colour. We were attending Jacksonville State Univ. about 2 hours away. Five of us hopped in a tiny Honda hatchback and made the trek, only to find out it was free for AUBURN students. But the person at the window felt bad and let us in anyway. When The Godfathers played, the arena was full. When Living Colour came on, it was about half full. When The Sugarcubes came on, the place was all but empty. I don’t think people knew what to make of the latter two bands. The audience (what was left) crammed into the front to make it look crowded for the Mtv cameras. I thought The Godfathers were ok. But I was blown away by both Living Colour and the Sugarcubes - both of whom were largely unknown at that point. If anyone else tells you they were there and saw The Sugarcubes play, approach it with skepticism. There probably weren't more than 150 people there by the end of their show.
+Steve Scott Can you imagine how they kicked themselves later?
+Steve Scott Was this at the Basketball arena?
+Real.Piece.Of.Work. There were at the beginning of the night but not by the end of the show. If the video shows differently (I haven't watched every frame), I'd assume it falls under "creative editing."
+BAMADICK12. I believe that it was. Keep in mind I've only ever been to the Auburn campus once, and it was 28 years ago - that part of the memory is a little hazy.
Thanks for posting this! I knew it had to be the same show! As a kid up in Canada I saw the MTV broadcast of it (on muchmusic, most likely). It was called something like "The CMJ New Music College Assault" or something. I was kind of a Godfathers fan and major Living Colour fan, but I ended up recording this show on VHS because of this Sugarcubes performance. Just so....wow. They blew my mind. Watched the Living Colour and Sugarcubes performances for yeeeeeears afterward and feel like I noticed something new every time.
The whole point of the Sugarcubes was Einar/Bjork as a synthesis, it is art, it is bold, very Icelandic,and thankfully it's still taking the piss out of people decades later.
bravo!
..the piss!.
I can't stand the male vocalist. He's just barking over Bjork's beautiful singing. It spoils it for me; Bjork fan from the beginning of her solo career.
It's black coffee ☕ with sugar. Some people only consume sugar, it feels beautiful but rots the teeth and the quality of life is worse.
wow, bjork’s vocals on birthday are just... damn!
right? so fuken incredible.
i loved the band when i was a teen , i'm almost to tears listening to this again ... her voice cuts through the bones , makes me want to yell and jump off the roofs ... pure pop punk genius ...
Listen to fossora!
Her vocals. Oh my god they're perfect. There is so much talent just emitting from everyone on that stage. This is raw talent in it's purest form. Long live Bjork and The Sugarcubes!
'We are the Icecubes from Sugarland!"
❤❤❤sugarcube Bjorks original hit band!!!😅🎉🎉
"We have the icecubes drom sugarland." Lol
I love this recording
*NOW* you see why she's all-time best female singer/artist on my list.
Magga was quite a beauty.
That transition into Traitor is the nastiest!! Darkness and light; chaos and order. You feel like anything can happen in that moment and anything is possible. Pure ecstasy
Such a big voice from such a little thing! I forgot how much I love this most singular band.
agreed bro, i like em a lot.
..most..a short queue indeed as made of the like.
I saw the sugarcubes around this time. When they performed Birthday it was like a transcendental experience. Björk's voice on that song was just unlike anything I'd ever heard live before. Amazing! (Gonna save myself some time: 03:30)
One of my fav drummers ever.
Same here... he's reminds me of Budgie a little.
OMG! You're so right. Tinderbox!
Yup.... that's one of my favorite performances.
you2flaviusss yes!!!!
What a voice. Only Cocteau Twins can compare.
I have this on videocassette somewhere in storage. I saw the band just two months prior to this at The Roxy in Hollywood in August of 1988. Great band!
God thanks for Iceland ...and Bjork
mirosław Tolak No such thing as "god"
Äru is awesome.
Im23 now and I listened Bjork for the first time this week, I love it
Sorry to hear. You missed a lot. I'm 49.
16 here and I love it
I'm not even born yet and I love it
Birthday is the most beautiful song ever written!
i never realy know any of the sugarcube stuff, only the stuff Bjork did after, wow there briliant. great creative songs and performance, great musician's, i always love the way Bjork uses her voice, i like the screams, very emotional, great rapping.
Ver a BJÖRK tan joven y linda...los SUGARCUBES me traen tantos recuerdos, los empecé a escuchar en 1988 cuando estaba en un internado en Madrid, gracias a una amiga que le encantaban, que también era muy linda también...ABTR
Sime kind of emotional expressive freedom as The Cure. Sadness happiness, playfullness and every feeling that human is capable of feeling. She loves life more than anything
I was born 2 years after this concert took place. Now i'm a huge fan of Bjork and her early works with Sugarcubes.
Good music lives forever!..
Nope. Many others of us do too :). I find myself singing what I think Einar would have sung when I hear a Bjork solo track. It's amusing to me that the whole world kisses Bjork's butt now, but the Sugarcubes were by and large treated like crap on their first US tour. I saw them with Public Image Limited and New Order in Denver on that time and the audience was incredibly rude to them. And yet the band were the nicest people (met them after the gig).
I don't get people banging on Einar. The wonderful interplay between his stupid chaotic masculinity and the elfish power of Bjork's beautiful femininity was what The Sugarcubes were all about. Sexy Chaos.
Einar is an awesome person also :D a kind and a very funny guy :) , and a bit chaotic :P :P
his band Ghostdigital is pretty awesome :D ( more of that chaos :P )
exactly, brilliantly stated, so fucking true
people aren't into him because his poetry/delivery sucks, which makes him seem uncool.
jack smith well he is a bit special :P but in a good way :D
I didn't realize just how much I liked him or the other members of the band until Bjork went solo. While she was clearly the star and focal point of the band, I never liked any of her solo work as much as I did as when she was with the Sugarcubes (at least for their very first 2 albums).
WHAT!!! The Sugarcubes came to my area when I was 2 years old??!!!
haha bjork is magic en einar is too cool for school
every one hates Einar. I like him, he doesn't bother me.
jacob mejia same I really like Einar I wouldn't like the Sugarcubes as much if he wasn't in it
I think he gives the sugarcubes a punk edge
jacob mejia Yeah they wouldn't have the same sound!
actually, this is alchemy....he s destroying in a artistic way what Bjork is constantly repairing by her shining voice.... but people dont get it.....Bjork alone would be good but not as much like this
zataraaaaaa well she obviously agreed to be in the band, if she didn't want him to sing with her she wouldn't have been in it. If you don't like it don't listen to it. it's that simple.
Saw them live in Detroit , late eighties. About 2/3rds through the show someone threw a bracelet on the stage and it hit Einar in the eye. He threw a fit calling us all fuckers and he stormed off the stage. That ended the show. I was bummed because they were killing it on stage.
I can't imagine why someone would go to a SugarCubes concert if they don't like an entire half of the bands sound. Such bad energy.
possibly the best folk music ever
the only band that can match the b52s lick for lick. awesome. and man oh man, they are so tight, quality performance.
Einar is awesome, they would not be Sugercubes without him.
You got that right, Bjork's voice is exceptional but to me it is Einar who made the Sugarcubes unique.
rabbbie99 lol all the idiot haters.. no idea what an artist is.
CAT!
CAT!
CAT!
"We are the icecubes from sugarland"
I think he got those words mixed up a bit
No mate. You missed the joke. His command of the english language is well past a mistake like that
Now that's up there it looks like I've got an attitude. It wasn't meant to. All the best.......Ja
Maybe he was being ironic
Timeless...or when one just want to stop the time ! Pure vocal passion and feeling !
The musical genius at work thank you for your gift to true art!! Bjork will be recognized for her artistic genius!!! I'm kinda happy that we had her to ourselves before she's known as one of the greats like Mozart and Oscar Wilde!! I don't go a day without Bjork!!
Thanks so much for sharing. I saw them on this tour -- in a high school auditorium no less. It was a great show. Still remember it obviously. Hard to forget the talent that was Bjork.
Thanks for this. It took me back to a great concert. I saw them in Hollywood the following year. How we danced; it was so intimate & fun. Really, thanks for uploading this!
I taped most of this show off MTV back when it aired. Lost the tape ages ago. Thanks for posting! Some of this show is on the live Sugarcubes VHS/DVD (which I own), but I really like seeing this whole show.
These beautiful people came to the U.S the year after I was born..wonderful!
love this. Thanks uploader!
Thanks for posting this!
This is friggin' great! Thanks for posting this. Haven't really enjoyed them in years.
💟THANK YOU SO MUCH!💟
BJORK WAS IN MY STATE AT ONE POINT IN TIME? BLESSED
'We are the Icecubes form Sugarland' xD
Wow! Absolutely amazing! Bjork is such an amazing true artist in every aspect of the word!! Amazing!!!
Amazing Bjork! Just started the video, shivering comes to me with her solo singing...
thank you very much!!!
The drummer is on point!
*gorgous face-perfect voice*
Un millon de gracias...qué más se puede decir excelente aportación.
greatttttt band! bjork is a wonderfull singer and is so cuteee
BIKI--------YOUR A gODDESSS and I worship you.............peace and love.....2015
another one program youtube highscore this is hot lava pure Björk gold thank you Iceland!
Great concert, first saw them on a show called famous for five minutes, bought the album a few days later. Many thanks for this.
Both singers are great.
i like einar too mate. he's so outrageous and can't sing a single note properly to save the world from doosmday.
gotta love 'im.
absolutely cool thx!!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS! I have the VCR tape of this concert from Electra records from when I was in the music business but never got it online.
I saw them play in Atlanta with the Primitives only a few months after this. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
I love bjork hair in this
Birthday is so beautiful
Einar is essential for this band!
Also, that crowd is going off the freaking chain
No he is not. He’s a distraction.
God I love them
This is just so good.
debe ser el grito mas controlado que he escuchado. hermosa voz!!! ♥
just a small correction: song number four is called planet. thank you so so much for this video and all the other ones that you upload as well
Amazing!
Among many other things what's interesting about this stuff is to see how she later recycled, resp. probably reappropriated a lot of elements in her solo albums in a refined way.
This was a great experimental pop band honestly ahead of its time.live proformance wise the group wasnt very bombastic but they were powerful and very effective mainly in part due to bjork.i love them warts and all.
notre belle jeunesse !
sempre vanguarda
Bjork est comme un petit oiseau dans le ciel elle était belle elle est toujours magnifique et restera à jamais une beauté éternelle!!!!
20:09 DEUS
Awesome!
обожаю песню Universe
Muito fofa dançando, as pernas. Sobre as músicas: primeira vez que vejo Bjork cantando no ritmo.
💛
This was AWESOME!!!! She was coked out of her mind, though, as you could tell by her eyes, but that just makes Bjork more...BJORK!!!
Seriously, this was such a treasure! What makes it totally awesome was that not only were they in GREAT form, but that it put the spot-light on Alabama. This is just great!
What r coke eyes?
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what a voice,and such a cutie...
..I LOVE how Bjork jus sotra scream sometimes....a note I mean,..perfectly screamed😱...
I saw them in 1991. I swear she smiled at me. Just noticed she's wearing a NASA Apollo 7 patch on her dress. Oh man.
bjork in her younger days, iconic artist
..not to my soapbox or...but is only two things in all of Be...Darkness....and Light.
This is a masterpiece
"We're the Icecubes from Sugarland" 😃
The co-lead singers were part of the ethos of the 'Cubes, it was beauty playing off ugly.
Bjork la mejor💋💋💋
what a dope live showw Dx
This is so strange to see! I've lived in Alabama my entire life and only just learned that Björk was at Auburn University. War Eagle! lol
razrv3lc this makes me regret all the times I’ve said roll tide lmao
HOTTIE never regret that.....Roll Tide....
Yes! All the way back to Þeyr and especially in K.U.K.L. Sigtryggur Baldursson is one of the most interesting drummers I've ever heard!
That's fair enough, but I think we also have to except that he was a member, a valuable member of The Sugarcubes who played the foil to Bjork's wonderful vocals. These kids were virtually sonic anarchists in their bands before they turned into The Sugarcubes, they weren't meant to be all sweetness and light, they were designed to lure you with Bjork's alluring voice and then stab you in the back with some odd time signatures, themes and Einar's jabbing contributions.
It's what the Sugarcubes is.
Extraordinaria Bjork
Bjork before she was Bjork. Saw them in '90 in Miami with The Primitives. Awesome lineup
B'52 THANKS!!!!
Socio Del Desierto Son parecidas siiii.Pero Bjork es única.En sus discos solistas se nota más.
Si, mas bien! Decía especificamente por esta obra!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees that
19:08 I wish I could do this dance.
Björk
The only good thing about him is that he makes you appreciate Björk a lot more.
wow
I love sugarcubes.
Technically perfect. Amazing band.
Love you Einar! And, Bjork ... wow, what a woman!