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Bad Taste (record label)

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Bad Taste (known as Smekkleysa in Icelandic, literally Tastelessness) is one of Iceland’s most important record labels; located in Reykjavík and known worldwide for being home to The Sugarcubes, it also publishes poetry books, short films, greeting cards and Icelandic gifts. [1]

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Bad Taste Records

Bad Taste Records is a record label based in Lund, Sweden.

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Birthday (The Sugarcubes song)

"Birthday" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic band The Sugarcubes for their 1988 debut album Life's Too Good.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar was an Icelandic jazz music band.

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Bragi Ólafsson

Bragi Ólafsson (born 11 August 1962 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is a musician and a writer.

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Einar Örn Benediktsson

Einar Örn Benediktsson (born 29 October 1962), often billed as Einar Örn, is an Icelandic popular music singer, trumpet player, artist and politician best known as a former member of the Sugarcubes and a current member of Ghostigital.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Gling-Gló

Gling-Gló is the first and only studio album by Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar, consisting of Björk Guðmundsdóttir on vocals, Guðmundur Ingólfsson on piano, Guðmundur Steingrímsson on drums, and Þórður Högnason on bass.

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Gramm (record label)

Gramm was an Icelandic record label created by Ásmundur Jónsson and Einar Örn Benediktsson in 1981.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Icelandic language

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Kukl (band)

Kukl (often stylized as KUKL or K.U.K.L.) was an Icelandic post-punk group in the 1980s, most notable for being one of Björk's first bands.

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Life's Too Good

Life's Too Good is the debut studio album by Icelandic alternative rock group The Sugarcubes.

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List of Bad Taste artists

This article is a reference to the artists signed by Bad Taste.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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Manifesto

A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.

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One Little Indian Records

One Little Indian Records is a London-based independent record label that rose from the ashes of punk rock record company Spiderleg Records.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.

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Reykjavík Summit

The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Höfði in Reykjavík, on 11–12 October 1986.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Sigtryggur Baldursson

Sigtryggur Baldursson (born 2 October 1962) is an Icelandic drummer and singer.

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Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós is an Icelandic avant-rock band from Reykjavík, who have been active since 1994.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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The Sugarcubes

The Sugarcubes (Icelandic: Sykurmolarnir) were an Icelandic alternative rock band from Reykjavík formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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1986 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1986.

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1987 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1987.

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1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.

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1992 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.

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2000 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2000.

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Bad Taste Ltd., Bad Taste SM, Smekkleysa, Smekkleysa Records, Smekkleysa/BadTaste.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Taste_(record_label)

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