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The Sugarcubes Coming to DVD

Back when "college rock" was still considered a valid genre title, there was a popular Icelandic college rock band called the Sugarcubes. Their lead singer was a spunky woman named Björk. You may have heard of her.

On February 7 (aka this coming Tuesday), Rhino/Elektra will release two DVDs chronicling the Sugarcubes' late 80s/early 90s existence. By Mjolnir's fury, what are the details?! Live Zabor contains fifteen live performances filmed between 1988 and 1989, as well as interviews with all of the band members. Sugarcubes: The DVD, collects nine of the band's most popular videos, with three "exclusive bonus videos" thrown in for good measure. If you were to purchase both of them, they would keep you busy for more than 104 minutes. Even longer if you decided to watch them twice.

Gimme gimme some:

Sugarcubes: Live Zabor:

01 Einar Interview
02 Planet
03 Cowboy
04 Magga Interview
05 Mamma
06 Siggi Interview
07 Cold Sweat
08 Bragi Interview
09 Cat
10 Birthday
11 Björk Interview
12 Delicious Demon
13 Thor Interview
14 Motorcrash
15 Plastic
16 Eat the Menu
17 Speed Is the Key
18 Deus
19 Luftgitar

Sugarcubes: The DVD:

01 Birthday - Icelandic
02 Cold Sweat
03 Deus
04 Motorcrash
05 Luftgitar
06 Regina
07 Planet
08 Eat the Menu
09 Birthday - English
10 Hit
11 Walkabout
12 Vitamin

While Björk has been keeping quiet lately, her former ‘cube-mate Einar Örn has been quite busy. His band Ghostigital appeared alongside Antony, Devendra Banhart, Thurston Moore, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Current 93 and others on the recent Jnana Records benefit compilation for Doctors Without Borders, Not Alone, and they have a brand new album coming out March 7 on Ipecac (Honest Jon's in the UK). It features contributions from the Fall's Mark E. Smith, as well as Icelandic superstar Mugison, post-punk/avant garde legend Steve Beresford, and post-rap hotshots Dälek and Sensational.

Tracklist:

01 Good Morning
02 Not Clean
03 Northern Lights
04 Totally Confused
05 The Heart
06 Green Lounge
07 Crackers
08 Black Sand
09 Strange As It Might Seem
10 Dream of Sleep
11 Sense of Reason

* Pitchfork Review: Sugarcubes: The Great Crossover Potential/a>
* Pitchfork Review: Björk: Drawing Restraint 9/a>
* Björk: http://www.bjork.com/

Ghostigital: http://ghostigital.com/
Posted by Timothy Najmolhoda and Amy Phillips in on Fri: 02-03-06: 12:00 AM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink
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