Why the hate for Sigur Ros?

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Why the hate people?

― Gregg, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Because it's ambient noodling for fuck's sake. Use your ears.

― Julio desouza, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Fuckin relax chief.

― greggy, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

To think I've been using my mouth all these years.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

It's the videos, I think.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Ambient noodling would describe something like Bill Laswell's many self-indulgent projects. Use your own ears, and writing skills if you have them -- Sigur Rós would be better described as syrupy slowcore, or valium rock, or emasculated new age. I love them, myself. Feel free to hate them, of course ... it's just difficult for me to imagine the slow, deliberate tone of violin bow drawn across guitar strings as 'noodling.'

― Dare, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i agree with dare, i happen to enjoy them myself. Hate me too if you wish.

― Poops McGee, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

people hate sigur ros now because:

a) boring, clueless people now listen to their music thanks to media coverage and inclusion on the soundtrack to some wretched tom cruise movie

b) they're pompous about how good they are despite the fact that agaetis byrjun is now almost three years old. releasing a live ep (although very good) and appearing on some other soundtrack with some boring icelandic guy that sounds like enya is not proof of genius.

c) okay, maybe the voice and the non-english thing gets a bit tiring after a while.

d) rock music (according to shite but inexplicably powerful) music journalists everywhere is now "stripped down, raw, and bluesy" -- not "completely overproduced prog". maybe if the sigur ros were to sound more like the strokes they'd enjoy continued relevance.

ugh, that's a scary thought.

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I don't even like hearing real dolphins fuck.

― Yancey, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

'... it's just difficult for me to imagine the slow, deliberate tone of violin bow drawn across guitar strings as 'noodling.' '

But it is noodling. You must listen to Ram Narayan rendition of Raga Lalit. he plays the sarangi, an indian bowed instrument.

Across 72 minutes he produces these beautiful, slow drones whereas sigur ros produce noodling.

Comparing some indie band to an indian classical musician may not be wise but once you wrote the above, that's the first that came to my head.

'Use your own ears, and writing skills if you have them'

I didn't think the people at pitchfork had any writing skills. But this is the internet where amateurs like us can write what we like- and if you don't like it then that's your problem.

Fields of salmon- I just heard the music and thought 'this is shit' (just as the DJ said that their latest single was one of the tracks of the year).

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I finally heard Agaetis Byrjun the other day in full. Um, nice, I suppose. I kept thinking of In the Nursery, though, who I adore and frankly prefer.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Honest answer: they’re far more easily discardable than everyone would have you think. I do like the record—I was excited to buy it and on first listen it seemed massive and graceful—but after a week or two, I began to realize that there was hardly anything supporting that; it began to sound like a late-period Cocteau Twins record, once they’d dropped the high-camp goth-drama that gave them most of their tension and just dropped into flowy-pretty territory. I’ve had no desire to listen to it since then. I’ve probably also mentioned here that I spent pretty much the entire second half of the nineties listening to material in this wide vein, whether it be Millions Now Living Will Never Die or Pygmalion—meaning that the Sigur Ros was not only lacking in substantial thrills but that what thrills were there were hugely, crushingly familiar. Something of a turning point, really: the moment at which that sound found itself conventionalized to the point where despite seeming to be full of invention, it was actually quite by-the-numbers.

This doesn’t justify hatred per se: but if, unlike me, you don’t even go for this sort of thing in the first place, I can sympathize with the inclination to be provacatively dismissive of it.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I don't hate them...I think they can be glorious, in fact. The first listen was underwhelming, but then repeated listenings kept bringing out the beauty of it. What probably throws a lot of people is that the music doesn't exhibit a burning passion for getting from musical point a to point b, instead taking its time. I wouldn't call that noodling, myself.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i agree with nitsuh strongly about the discardability factor. i stopped listening to it except for a track or two more or less after a couple of weeks. then played it for friends but never really fell in love with it again. maybe i'll play it while i make dinner tonight and see what i think now that i've had more than a year away from it.

then again, maybe not ...

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Well, if I had to choose between Pygmalion and Agaetis Byrjun...I would pick Pygmalion every time.

― geeta, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Absolutely perfect to code to. No worries about typing random english words into, creates a little void around me to work away on headphones.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

whats the deal with sigur ros causing people to faint at the same time at their shows? is that justa rumour?

― chaki, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, this is a critical and undervoiced position: Agaetis Byrjun versus "Blue Skied and Clear." I'm really not one for the whole "someone did that ten years ago so it's not good now" arguments, but I suspect that on some level this is why Sigur Ros strike me as good but inessential.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

That supposedly happened at the NYC show I was at. I didn't see anything but would bet it had more to do with the prolonged standing around and waiting for the band, as well as the heat, crowd, and smoke. Great fucking show though.

This: "they're pompous about how good they are" flies in the face of what I've heard from people who hung out with the band afterwards, as well as how humble they seemed during their performance and how they come across in interviews.

― bnw, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

How do you know those dolphins are fake, Yancey?

Sugar Walls do remind me of all those bands mentioned earlier to an extent. It's fluffypuff precious art-twaddle and of course there aren't any 'tunes'. So yes, I understand completely why someone wouldn't like their records just as I understand why someone wouldn't like the Cocteau Twins.

They don't exactly hit me with that level of familiarity Nitsuh speaks of. I would think that the familiarity issue would work to the detriment of a guitar-based indie pop band more than it would a band like Sugar Walls. (This is an extreme situation, but I was even more perplexed by someone who told me they didn't like the Pernice Brothers 'cause 'it had been done before' right before they went back to listening to Sloan.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, but the more unusual a band's sound is, the more likely it is that a band sounding like them will find itself criticised. Unfair perhaps, but that's how it's seemed to work to me. Most people seem to carry around a mean of how music 'usually' sounds - music which does sound like that is then judged on things other than innovation; music which doesn't is judged for its innovation/novelty factor.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, but the more unusual a band's sound is, the more likely it is that a band sounding like them will find itself criticised.

Proof of sorts: Any band that sounded remotely like Joy Division shortly after the release of Unknown Pleasures was risking mockery. Now that all of those '80s bands that either emulated them or concurrently grew with them have long since vanished, it appears any band current band that incorporates something JD-like will be hailed for that quality. Off the top of my head, I can think of Low and Interpol (the Penguin).

― Andy K, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Said it before, will say it again: Sigur Ros=Icelandic Clannad. Or, as either Nick or Momus said, promises much delivers little. And I'm kinda kindly disposed to noisy shoegaze/noodle.

That's all I'm saying re this.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i'm with Yancey. ooooooeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh oooooooooooooooooooeeeeeee aaaaaaaaaahhhoooooeee haaaaaaaaoooooeeeee (<-- cut and paste)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Julio Desouza: "But it is noodling. You must listen to Ram Narayan rendition of Raga Lalit. he plays the sarangi, an indian bowed instrument. Across 72 minutes he produces these beautiful, slow drones whereas sigur ros produce noodling."

So Ram Narayan bows the sarangi slowly and creates drones that are beautiful, whereas Sigur Rós bows the guitar at a slightly faster tempo and is just noodling?

Nitsuh: "Something of a turning point, really: the moment at which that sound found itself conventionalized to the point where despite seeming to be full of invention, it was actually quite by-the- numbers."

Oh, I agree. I've never found Sigur Rós to be that inventive at all. Quite the opposite, what draws me to them is a simplicity that sounds very pure and renders the trappings of innovation unnecessary. Despite their claims that they're going to "forever change music" or whatever, I think they succeeded at the very specific goals they set for themselves on Agaetis Byrjun: record an album in which rich tones swell and swoon, over which Jonesi can issue his dolphin-mating cry. It's never an album I listened to often even when I first bought it, but it's absolutely perfect for the moments when it's needed -- wearied by the workweek, feeling sick, snuggle up in your bed, turn off the lights, and feel like you're being lulled in the womb again.

I just think that offhand, tossed-off comments are the bane of some good discussions. To me, 'noodling' is similar to jamming, just diddling around aimlessly on your instrument without much insterest in overall structure or even a conventional sense of 'emotion' in note-to-note progression. And accusing Sigur Rós of such is a weak justification to hate a band when the adjective doesn't even seem like the correct one.

Oh, and I don't think "Millions Now Living" really fits into the discussion that well! ;)

― Dare, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Noodling= a groove that goes nowhere and is just there to fill up space (just like concrete) is produced.

Jamming= Group improvisation that should break a groove.

'I think they succeeded at the very specific goals they set for themselves on Agaetis Byrjun: record an album in which rich tones swell and swoon, over which Jonesi can issue his dolphin-mating cry'

It sounds like your listening to New age.

'but it's absolutely perfect for the moments when it's needed -- wearied by the workweek, feeling sick, snuggle up in your bed, turn off the lights, and feel like you're being lulled in the womb again'

ambient chill-out: so this is what the electric guitar is reduced to.

― Julio Desouza, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Ambient chill-out = great! Reduction of the electric guitar to useless whalesong appendage = long-overdue! Sigur Ros = still no interest to me, wonder why.

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Ambient chill-out = great! Reduction of the electric guitar to useless whalesong appendage = long-overdue! Sigur Ros = still no interest to me, wonder why.

Because Sigur Ros are neither of those things. It's music to fall asleep to on long plane flights. I do not mean that in a complimentary way.

Hey, has Melissa W opened her mouth on this subject? I'm curious...

― EdwardO, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Sigur Ros is shallow and pretentious. I listened to their record once or twice and it is bloody unbearable. Jonsi's falsetto is maybe ok for dog's ears but not for mine. The music is like syrup constipating my auditory canals. I hate them for the record they made and I hate the critics saying it was the best album of 2000 who made me buy the record as well. And finally I hate myself as I thought in the beginning the music was brilliant after having heard one or two tracks on the radio.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

'Ambient chill-out = great!'

You're very very wrong there.

'Reduction of the electric guitar to useless whalesong appendage = long-overdue!'

Maybe for people who don't like what the electric guitar can do but that's not for me.

'Sigur Ros = still no interest to me, wonder why.'

Something we can agree on.

― Julio Desouza, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Smug Julio: you have some issues with "non-difficult" music, don't you? Mind elaborating those some? Or are you just content with bold, unsupported proclamations?

― Clarke B., Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

cos they sound like radiohead, just more credible. they are the band radiohead want to be. the singers voice makes me want to pull my fingernails off.]

― ambrose, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I see I have been called for on this thread! Well, hmmm... They seem far too comfortable with their sound, content to rely on Jonsi's voice and that bowed guitar. And the maximalist sound that they applied on Ágætis Byrjun is really dull, all swelling strings and triumphant horns. They sound better live, stripped down, his voice not layered in reverb. But this still leaves the fact that they seem to write songs to wrap their atmospherics around, instead of the opposite. Most criticisms of them are true. They're turgid and static, and seem to be quite afraid of any sort of dissonance. And I find it odd that they're so often described as "alien" or "ethereal" when aside from his voice, they're utterly terrestrial. Yet another pop band with bad orchestral arrangements and silly choirs.

― Melissa W, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

If I wanted to listen to someone using a violin bow to play a guitar, I'll stick with Led Zeppelin thank you very much.

At least Jimmy Page knew it was just a schtick for onstage. Maybe he should tell that to Jonsi.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Where is the love for SIGUR ROS?
;-P

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 February 2005 03:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

Where is Sigur Ros? Did they finally fuck off back to Haraybajargensberger?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

hhahahahahaha! ned hates the tweepeople like i hate the pumpkins!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

Where is Billy Corgan? Still doing "poetry readings"?

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

Someone told me that Sven-G-Englar was a brilliant song, the other day, and it just didn't occur to me that any reaction other than "Yes! Wow! Awesome!" was even like remotely possible. I mean okay yes yes sometimes they do go on a bit but Sven-G-Englar people!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

try playing that song on a piano or acoustic guitar and then tell me how 'great' it is

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

that does not happen to be the measure of a great song, thankfully.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

that acoustic guitar/good song theory has never really held water
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― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

Original text: rockist
Icelandic text: klettur, bjarg, hamar, berg, rokk, rugg, rugga, vagga, hrista, hristast

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

a piece of music can be interesting and even satisfying and not be a 'great song.' "Suzanne," "Thirteen," and "Tell Me Why" are great songs. "Four Violins," Disintegration Loops" and "Jerusalem" are all very awesome and amazing but not "great" "songs," ya dig what um sayin?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

and what exactly is the point of this argument?

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

nothing. Just that Sigur Ros has neither 'great songs' nor "very awqesome and amazing songs," but I'll accept someone having the opinion that they excel at the latter but not the former. Because I DO believe the "acoustic guitar theory" holds water. OK?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

Someone told me that Sven-G-Englar was a brilliant track, the other day, and it just didn't occur to me that any reaction other than "Yes! Wow! Awesome!" was even like remotely possible. I mean okay yes yes sometimes they do go on a bit but Sven-G-Englar people!

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

oops ok sorry substitute the word 'great' for the far more sensational 'brilliant,' then. Satisfied?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

Look closer at the word after "brilliant".

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 26 February 2005 05:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

i can mostly take or leave them but i Do love "Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa" (over "Svefn..." anyway).

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 February 2005 13:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

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I did mean the very first three posts of this thead fwiw. :(

― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 19 August 2010 08:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

I can't really express why, but this band had the quickest trajectory from "OMG they are AMAZING" to "GTFO of my face" for me. If they'd been a one-hit wonder that came up with Itchy Woo and then disappeared back to whatever Icelandic fairytale they emerged out of, they would be secure in "all time favourites" category but they just kind of hung around and outstayed their welcome and then became an irritant. Kind of like the first time you hear them do THAT THING it's the most astonishing trick ever, but it's like marzipan, it tastes great in small doses but any more than that and you feel completely sick.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

bands like this kind of make me envious of their fans

I mean, the fans LOVE these guys a lot and get rapturous joy from them. I would love to get that type of delirious joy from them; instead, I get aggravated that I find the actual music super annoying, which is then magnified by the feeling that I'm missing out on something and if I just looked at it like this I would get it and be just as mind blown as their fanbase, which prompts me to listen to way too much of something I really don't care for before giving up in frustration and proclaiming them the worst fucking thing ever.

I don't feel this way about every band I dislike (brokenCYDE, for example, could jump into a bonfire and it would be zero skin off of my nose) but Sigur Ros is a band that, on paper, I should really really dig, so it's frustrating when I don't and I don't have a concrete reason for it. (Well actually I do, I really hate the singer like to unreasonable levels, but it's not like he's super idiosyncratic or the worst singer in the world or anything like that.)

― Trouble-Making Foods (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

That's the thing. That I hate bands which I should by all rights like, but just leave me cold, way more than I hate bands in which I am completely uninterested and uninvested. It's almost more of an insult to do something I'm generally in favour of badly, or in a way that misses the mark, than it is to do something I would not otherwise like at all.

Mind you, I haven't listened to a Sigur Ros album since {} so I'm going to go on Spotify now and work out if I still hate them, or just hate the idea of them.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

For me it's fairly simple — their chord changes are boring and predictable, Jónsi's voice is irritatingly twee and their songs go on for far too long without any development. (I'm a former fan, fwiw)

― albino python on cocaine (corey), Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

I am now listening to the one with the naked butts on it. And timing how long it takes me to get cross, give up and go back to Altern8.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

We're really living in strange times. Who could've imagined Justin Bieber could trigger a Sigur Rós revival?

― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

Two and a half songs and I've started skipping. This doesn't even sound like Sigur Ros, it just sounds like generic indie. I'm gonna try another album because this doesn't even sound like what I started hating Sigur Ros for, it just sounds like Keane run through Babelfish.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'm still down with Agaetis Byrjun and a few other select tracks. But I've no desire to hear new Sigur Ros.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

the record with the naked butts is bad

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

but i'll def ride for agaetis, (), like half of takk, and that weird double ep they released

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

I was tempted by naked Nordic butt, alright?

Takk is sound more Sigur Ros-y but I think I have just completely burned out on this kind of music, possibly forever. I just reached saturation point with that sweeping-post-rock-soundscape stuff through overexposure and can no longer put any more in my ear holes.

Also, enough with the plinky plonky glockenspiel noises, argh.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

Ok, halfway through Glosoli they actually turned into Sigur Ros again and I actually quite like it.

Now if I could find a way to play this with Altern8 beats underneath, *that* would be the best thing in the history of the world forever.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

if you make half of takk all of takk, cad more or less otm

― markers, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

Mares -- ohhhhhkay, duh! just my own paranoia about sounding naive. haven't talked much about music in a while.

am ten years familiar with ILM, Bee. it has sometimes amazed me, yes. :)

(miss you too stinku!)

― Kim, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

That album cover is totally frightening, it's like something you'd expect from Billy Corgan. I think I'm over it now and I'm ready to give this album a chance. Thanks for the thread revival Kim!

I really really really don't understand people who were floored by "Agetis Byrjun" and then claimed to have stopped listening to Sigur Ros because they got boring. "Agetis Byrjun" is by far their most boring, least focused, most meandering album.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

^ OTFM

― StanM, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

you might have a harder time getting over it then Barry because it's not just the album cover. Jonsi seems to be into this whole woodsy birdman sprite "look" (check out some live performances and the vid for Go Do). it's like he's channeling the spirit of Jon Anderson circa Brother of Mine or Gowan's Strange Animal phase. yet, still i like it.

― Kim, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

agaetis byrjun contains their only truly brilliant song though (Nice Weather For Airstrikes)

― acoleuthic, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'm sorry, I can't do any more than 20 minutes, I'm back to Full On Mask Hysteria on Spotify.

Somewhere, my dirty dronerock past is weeping into its oscillator banks.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

Gowan's Strange Animal phase

I was cringing and having serious second thoughts until I read this, now I'm stoked to hear it again!

The acoustic song on the last Sigur Ros album was easily the worst thing on the record though.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/?utm_source=sr1108&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inni

― djh, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Icelandic post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós are releasing a concert film and double live album called Inni soon, and you can download a piece of the magic even if you don’t want to drop $79 on a deluxe package that includes a piece of band member clothing (for real!).

― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

I would be interested in a Lou Reed/Sigur Ros collab as long as Lou's the only one allowed to sing

― blank, Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

ok but Reed has to sing in hopelandish.

― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

I went to see the concert film at the cinema on Friday night and, though I don't pay much attention to Sigur Ros these days, I loved the film.

― Daniel Giraffe, Sunday, 6 November 2011 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Valtari (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈval̥tarɪ], Steamroller) is the sixth full-length studio album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós, to be released on May 28, 2012.

Track listing:
1. "Ég Anda" 6:15
2. "Ekki Múkk  " 7:45
3. "Varúð  " 6:37
4. "Rembihnútur" 5:05
5. "Dauðalogn" 6:37
6. "Varðeldur" 6:08
7. "Valtari" 8:19
8. "Fjögur Píanó"

― Bee OK, Thursday, 5 April 2012 06:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

single is a bit long:

― Bee OK, Thursday, 5 April 2012 06:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

so i like this song alright, it is just too long for a single and really go nowhere. i have hopes for the album however.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 April 2012 02:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Man, haters (or anybody left that's interested enough) are going to have a field day.
The entire record sounds like the keyboard players dog died so he listened to Arvo Pärt for a week straight then wrote the album while the rest of the band were on holiday.

― Dick Move's Wardrobe (MaresNest), Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Who's that rapper on track 4 ?

― StanM, Sunday, 15 April 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Really looking forward to this.

― djh, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Ding dong.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/shia-labeouf-naked-sigur-ros-video-fjogur-piano.html

Link SFW -- the video in it isn't.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Between this and working w Nick Cave, Shia Labeouf's "arty" period is going to be amazing.

― Cunga, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 05:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

You dislike this video. Thanks for the feedback!

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 05:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

jesus christ man is this like.. how did we even... like fuckin 500 years ago people were making beautiful art/... fuckin leonardo da vinci was doing amazing things... and now some lesbian in a jumpsuit is doing slow motion footage of naked sam witwicky murdering a babe while the sound of a slow motion plane crash goes on

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm not sure what's worse; his penis, his ponytail, or his sad eyes.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 05:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^ a sentence I never expected to read

― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

Popped up on blog view, mistook it for the cheesecake thread and was about to complain "why are you being so MEAN about Thom Yorke?"

Um never mind then.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

I like that this thread now has a definitive answer to the question posed.

― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha I was thinking that too

― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Why the hate for Sigor Ros? Shia Labeouf's ponytailed penis.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

just saw shia's la boeuf ... God, these Icelandic motherfuckers DEFY parody,

― notlih sirap (Eisbaer), Monday, 23 July 2012 04:16 (10 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Alack:

"Sigur Rós would like to apologise to anyone disappointed not to see the band's Bestival performance live online last night. Early in the day a decision had been made to delay broadcast till after the show to give the band a chance to review the footage ahead of webcast, since they were dismayed that their guaranteed 'darkness' slot had been pushed into daylight by the expansive demands of the headliner.
"The band's only UK show of the year, this would-be highlight of the 2012 calendar, would have to be conducted without proper lights or visuals. Sadly then, a perfect storm of production issues and technical problems conspired to mean that the band went on to have a thoroughly miserable experience onstage too. And to spare everyone’s blushes a decision was made to draw a discrete veil over proceedings."

All of which is their way of saying "We wish we didn't have to have photos like this taken of us in broad daylight oh god please delete":

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 14:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

they lost a member and got heavier and i find myself liking the new song, which would make it the first thing i've enjoyed from them in ages

here's the artwork for the new album, kveikur

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:42 (2 months ago) Permalink

Got a friend's ticket to their show at MSG last night, a more muscular performance than expected. Between that and this single, genuinely looking forward to this album.

― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 18:21 (2 months ago) Permalink

They played the title track on Jimmy Fallon the other night and it's pretty intense, too.

― Austin, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 19:04 (2 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

New album out today.

― djh, Monday, 17 June 2013 20:10 (2 days ago) Permalink

Have the vinyl on reserve for pick up on Wednesday. Oh yes, it will be a good day.

― Austin, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:13 (Yesterday) Permalink

album is great

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:14 (Yesterday) Permalink

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