Sugarcubes "Life's too good" (the bonus-tracks)

When I write this review I act from that everyone who reads it already owns the One Little Indian-release of the album "Life's too good" and is planning on buying the Electra-release to get the six bonustracks. My mission is to find out if it's worth the money. Well, this is what you get if you buy the album once more for the bonustracks: Four non-LP-tracks (One non-LP-track is taken from the band's first single "Einn mol'á mann". The others are B-sides from the "Life's too good"-singles (I think)) and two remixes (I have no idea where they are from). The non-LP-tracks are all much punkier than the original album-tracks. The first one is called "Cowboy" and you've already got that track if you own the "Live Zabor"-video. If you don't own that video I can tell you that "Cowboy" is probably Sugarcubes' craziest song ever. It's not a song that comes creeping nicely to you, it's running over you like a wild maniac. Einar is really going to town at this one. He's screaming like somebody's trying to kill him. "Cowboy" is breaking every possible speed-limit a song can have. Even if Björk hasn't got many lines I really like it. The second one is called "I want...." and sounds very much like "Traitor", the opening track of "Life's too good". It's a little bit worse and it's in Icelandic but except from that there aren't many differences. The third non-LP-track has got the name "Dragon" and it's a really weird kind of "beauty and the best"-duet between Björk and Einar. If you like the punkier side of the band you will probably love this song. It's crazy Icelandic punk so pure that it could have been Kukl. The song is in Icelandic and it's really weird and really interesting. The fourth non-LP-track is called "Cat" and it also appears on Sugarcubes' first single "Einn mol'á mann" together with an Icelandic version of "Birthday" called "Ammaeli". "Cat" is also in Icelandic and it's original title is "Köttur". It's strange, really experimental punk-pop with a melody that sounds frighteningly much like a children's song. Not as good as the rest of the non-LP-tracks.

Two remixes can also be found as I told you before. The first one is a really mediocre "Coldsweat"-remix where all the original charm from the song has been erased and replaced with typical synthetic pop from the 80ths. The second one is much better. It's a "Deus"-remix that gives us an elegant theme-work between synthetic string-imitations and real string-instruments. Probably the best Sugarcubes-remix ever, at least much better than the insignificant remixes on the remixalbum "It's it". So my answer to the question if the bonustracks are worth one more album is finally yes. It's not often you hear bonustracks as good as these ones, at least not as long as they're not foreign single-hits from movie-soundtracks or something like that (the bonus-tracks on the re-release of David Bowie's "Tonight"). You can always try to sell the One Little Indian-release after you've bought this one. Then you won't loose to much money.