Why the hate for Sigur Ros?

xpost: deluxe Heima only contains an extra picture book, disc content is exactly the same. Nice, but very much fan-only, to be honest.

dOES extra picture book COME WITH DFA BEAT?

lol

album stream

just bought new cd.
listening now.
sounds great.
no dfa beats.

I'm really liking this one so far. The Animal Collective bite on "Gobbledigook" is great, as is the really upbeat second track. Track 7 is my favorite of the bunch I think.

Revived this specifically to mention how much the new single is a flagrant Animal Collective rip. Because I just saw the video for it, which features lots of hot totally naked hipsters running through the forest (it looks like a specific Vice photoshoot I once mocked while ogling desperately).

I never had much interest in this band, but I loved the tune and the video!

Was just watching Heima on Pitchfork.tv - I used to play Agaetis Byrjun quite often back in the day. Everything they released afterwards made me fall out of love with the band and that album. I never realized how limited their sound palette and ideas are until I heard the rest of their catalogue. They do make a really strong impression on people not accostumed to slowcore tho.

I pick Svefn-G-Englar and throw away the rest.

Oh yes, that said, Heima is actually worth watching, if only for the very pleasant cinematography.

I love Heima, think its one of the best (and certainly most beautiful) music films I've seen.

nope, still a fan. can't hear you. lalalalala! ;-)

My favorite Sigur Ros songs are "Glosoli" and "Untitled #8."

I mostly agree, Moka. I think each subsequent album has one song that is pretty outstanding, in the sense that if you'd never heard them before it would bowl you over. (None more so than S-G-E though). But, yeah, the bigger the discography gets the less essential the band seems to become. Boy did I think they were the next big step back in 99-00, though.

Boy did I think they were the next big step back in 99-00, though.

I thought this as well very briefly back then, until I realised that "Svefn-g-englar" was precious, plodding, self-regarding twaddle. Nothing I've heard since has diminished my view that this seems to be their prevailing aesthetic.

i'll admit to really loving their latest album

They didn't really enter my listening sphere until Takk came out, ad so I find it impossible to dislike that album (not even that I'd like to). I love agaetis byrjun and (_), and can recognise their greatness, but preference just lies with Takk.

Songs like Glosoli, Andvari, heysatan, and of course the Takk singles, just can't be beat.

The most recent album hasn't struck me in the way any of the others have, yet at least.

Thoughts on the kompakt remixes?

i will always rep for these guys--maybe one of the best 10-15 shows i've seen.

The newest album is great, best thing they've done since SGE. Love pretty much all of it, except that very obvious Animal Collective "homage".

I thought this as well very briefly back then, until I realised that "Svefn-g-englar" was precious, plodding, self-regarding twaddle.

Someone's been reading my mind...

I still haven't heard the last album, though will probably check it out at some point. Takk was the album that, when I first got it, finally made me think I was done with these guys. That said, I listened to it a couple of months ago and it was better than I remember. I can see how if that was your first experience it would be your favorite. That might be true of all their albums.

And, yes - excellent live show. Saw them about... wow, maybe seven or eight years ago? I still remember the show, though.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Jonsi-go-cover.jpg

Go is the upcoming debut studio album by Icelandic musician Jónsi, frontman of the band Sigur Rós. The album is expected to be released on the week starting on April 5, 2010, through XL Recordings.

According to a late May 26, 2009 post on Sigur Rós official site, the album will feature predominantly acoustic music and string arrangements from composer Nico Muhly. The album was co-produced by Alex Somers, Peter Katis and Jónsi himself, during summer 2009, in Reykjavík and Connecticut. A worldwide tour across the US and Europe is also to take place upon the album's release from April-May 2010, featuring Jónsi performing songs from the album and a "unique, cinematic" performance stage designed by 59 Productions.

Track listing:

"Go Do" – 4:40
"Animal Arithmetic" – 3:23
"Tornado" – 4:15
"Boy Lilikoi" – 4:27
"Sinking Friendships" – 4:42
"Kolniður" – 3:53
"Around Us" – 5:16
"Grow Till Tall" – 5:17
"Hengilás" – 4:14

Okay I'm bailing out here

was Riceboy Sleeps worth a shit?

Depends, how many friends do you have who get snippy about Ziggy Ross?

Heard a song on Scott Mills last night called something like Hoppy Polar by Ziggy Ross?

i passed on Riceboy Sleeps, but i really like Sigur Ros, so i should check that and this out

Oh beautiful. There's a charty house cover of hoppipolla by the Bryan Adams dudes or somebody? It's pretty fucking nice if you're twotted in a pub and you suddenly get all "WTF can I hear ziggy ross or sump'n???" kind of perspextive.

It's on the last Now Music album but 1 I think. There's something instructive about how it bangs but doesn't satisfy like the orig. Foreplay's all well and good but y'know etc etc

lol at julio "improv" desouza's first post

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Jonsi-go-cover.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lEeR2OMliho/SXoFezick_I/AAAAAAAACso/eSmw0h248N0/s400/joaquin_gladiator.jpg

'go' sounds like what i fantasize a sigur ros album produced by owl city would be

uh is "fantasize" really the word you wanted to use there

the world where a collaboration like that could happen might be more interesting

That world would be called the Sixth Circle of Hell.

the Jonsi album is great!

Yes, it is, and so is everything by Sigur Rós, but ILM hates them, for the most part. :-(

i mean, this song (for example) felt like it actually reawakened some arcane variety of joy in me, which sounds way dumb i know, but is sincere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgPmw3JCN4

Being a fan I always check this thread when it comes back around and the first three exchanges never fail to bring the lols.

Apparently, their whole catalog is a hoax and is just Justin Bieber songs slowed down or something. :-(((

glad to be entertaining if not insightful. maybe is why i stopped posting here.

i think he meant the first three threads of this whole thread.

Kim you either sink or swim as they say. just talk about stuff you like and ILM will amaze you with its info and fandom.

threads posts

Well I for one miss ya, Kimmo.

band needs to put out a new record imo

Yes, markers, many bands do. Not this band, though.

RIP

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

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.

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.)

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.