philadelphia is a quality cream cheese
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Friday, 27 February 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm not disputing that, Jón.
― djh, Friday, 27 February 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
Because it's ambient noodling for fuck's sake. Use your ears.
Ágætis byrjun
live at íslenska óperan 1999
at 21.00 gmt friday, to mark the 16th birthday of their second album, ágætis byrjun, sigur rós will be streaming the release day concert played at the icelandic opera house on june 12, 1999. unless you were there, this 1hr 40min never before heard concert, will be streamed through once in its entirety. exclusively via agaetis.sigur-ros.co.uk, at 21.00 Icelandic time (14.00 pst / 17.00 est / 22.00 bst / 23.00 cet / 06.00 jst), the same time as the original reykjavík show all those years ago.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
missed it, but it's going to be in the box set anyway
― StanM, Saturday, 13 June 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
I'm liking this Circe thing a lot more than anything that's come out from them since 2008.
Circe = Sígur Rós members Georg Holm, Orri Páll Dýrason & Kjartan Holm with Hilmar örn Hilmarsson, instrumental soundtrack for an upcoming (2016?) BBC documentary film about vaudeville, circus acts etc with loads of old footage
― StanM, Saturday, 22 August 2015 08:55 (eight years ago) link
docu will be called "The Show Of Shows" btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFfyt6Hdmnk.
― djh, Saturday, 22 August 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Weird. Bought it having played that ... but now it is doing absolutely nothing for me.
― djh, Sunday, 4 October 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
I finally got around to buying Kveikur. It's got some good songs.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 5 October 2015 09:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU3TYFSNybg
― djh, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dooloop.tv/iframe/embed/?vid=4323187&as=0&ivw=specials/extern_as&
― djh, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
^^ 24 hour slow TV thing.
^ Curious new video.
― djh, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
3 nights in LA with an orchestra etc, April 2017
http://www.laphil.com/tickets/reykjavik-festival
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
I still like some of the early stuff but I still cant believe how badly the third album drops in the last three tracks. How unvarying the vocals are in them, it sounds like slight variations of the same sounds. Keep hearing "You sigh alone, you sign on a lot, you siphon a load".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 22 July 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
tbf those lyrics would be an awesome encapsulation of millennial anomie
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 22 July 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
Definitely sums up my issues with () quite well!! Felt very lazy
― octobeard, Sunday, 23 July 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
Disagree.
The words were never meant to be anything other than another instrument on that album.
Far and away their best work.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 23 July 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link
I knew the vocals were not proper words, the problem is those last three tracks and much of Takk isn't creative enough with the vocals to carry off this approach.
Less like Liz Fraser and Magma and more like When Dinosurs Ruled The Earth ("akita!") and Team America ("durka durka"). Although Fraser and Magma used made up words rather than sounds, or maybe a mixture?
This isn't a problem in the earlier Sigur Ros stuff, so it's more frustrating.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 July 2017 02:58 (six years ago) link
first album and eps all great. lost interest after that
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Sunday, 23 July 2017 08:17 (six years ago) link
First album is seriously great. Remember I was in a stage production of Little shop of Horrors and hearing that album was deeply therapeutic. Untitled was also good, but christ after that I fell off pretty deep.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 23 July 2017 08:28 (six years ago) link
Once a band becomes a peak and valleys catharsis and reprieve formula, it's time to jet. They were pretty amazing live in the early days
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 23 July 2017 08:29 (six years ago) link
So, wait, when you guys are saying "first album", are you referring to Von? Because that's a pretty brave statement, considering how dull most of that record is.
And I will still ride pretty hard for Kveikur, and especially Valtari.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 23 July 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
Agaetis Byrjun is the album everyone thinks is their first. it's like that with Mew's Frengers too.
― StanM, Sunday, 23 July 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
Von has some good tracks but Agaetis Byrjun was a massive step up.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 July 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
Always forget Von is their first, largely because Agaetis was pushed as their "debut" of sorts at the time
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 23 July 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
I looooooooooooved Sigur Rós circa 2001 - 2005 (the rooftop scene at the end of Vanilla Sky was my gateway). I also fell off hard after Takk, which I really liked. By the time the next record came out (2008?), their shtick and post-rock's schtick in general had already been completely exhausted and started showing up everywhere in movies, tv, commercials... proto-"epiphany core" music defined by Arcade Fire's "Wake Up." it was just like grunge, there was only so much you could do with epic quiet-loud-quiet instrumental rock. Same thing happened for me with Explosions in the Sky - I adored The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place, but the 2007 record was in one ear out the other for me. They're another band that was liscened a lot.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
yeah flappy bird, well said
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
lol didn't mean to italicize EITS...
also i gotta stick up for ( ), the first song and the one that was in Vanilla Sky are my favorite Sigur Rós songs. But R.A.G. is right - Jonsi recycles the same vocal melody and made up lines on the back half of the album. It's not that I don't dig him singing in a made up language - just that he's singing the same made-up phrase with similar inflection and melody on half the record.
xp thanks
― flappy bird, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
I’ve listened to new stuff from this band since the album where they’re all naked on the cover - maybe ten years ago now?
But for whatever reason I just gave their new one, “Route 1”, a try - it’s really nice. More of a straight ambient record than what I’d expect a Sigur Ros album to sound like. Jonsi’s voice doesn’t show up until the last track, and even then just barely.
I have a feeling this is an outlier in their discography but I’m inclined to try some more recent albums just to see.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 30 April 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
it's a reworking of the software-generated soundtrack to their 24 hour trip on Iceland's route one iirc (the 360° video is on youtube)
― StanM, Monday, 30 April 2018 06:32 (six years ago) link
Meant to say above I’ve NOT listened to new stuff for the last ten years...
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 30 April 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link
ísjaki off of 'kveikur' is one of my fav sigur ros tunes
― nxd, Monday, 30 April 2018 08:28 (six years ago) link
drummer orri accused of not just sexual assault but rape
i guess at the time the accuser was working at famed la stripclub the body shop
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 28 September 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
what do you mean by the latter?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 28 September 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
i don't know but she brought it up in her statement on her instagram
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 28 September 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
https://grapevine.is/news/2018/10/01/drummer-for-sigur-ros-quits-band-in-wake-of-sexual-assault-allegations/
― Alba, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/kjartan-sveinsson-rejoins-sigur-ros/
it just wasn't the same without him
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
the one record they released without him was pretty different
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
A welcome return.
― No Anal Staircase For You, Gotcha (I M Losted), Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hMsrhbjJkY
been gingerly revisiting the discog, think i skipped hvarf at the time which is a shame because i love metal sigur rós and here's a shining example of it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 18 February 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
I feel like some luster was lost once people started posting "Justin Bieber slowed down x800" videos.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 February 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link
i loved that hvarf/heim stuff. that was pretty much peak fandom era for me. pretty sure i'd love anything that has multiple versions of "von" on it, but that was perfect timing.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 18 February 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
i gotta say given how long sigur rós records traditionally are hvarf only being 37 minutes long is a real advantage, i've played it twice this morning already. every song is a stunner too. "hljómalind" is downright dream-pop
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 18 February 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
or slowcore? or both... at the same time.....
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 18 February 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
then again maybe these guys were always more of a slowcore dream-pop band than a post-rock band
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 18 February 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
Yeah, honestly, I always got more of a slowcore/shoegaze vibe from them. Don't know where the post-rock thing came from, maybe because it's in the same loosely similar dynamic neo-classical sheets of sound mode as, I dunno, Godspeed or something?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 February 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
Wrong link, oops -
I still really like Heima (the film) and watch it often, with that extra disc worth of footage, it's so beautiful. The outdoor version of Olsen Olsen, just great.
There's a 1080 version on their YT channel from last year, I wonder if it'll come out on BluRay at some stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvoi8urTzk
― Maresn3st, Friday, 18 February 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
then again maybe these guys were always more of a slowcore dream-pop band than a post-rock band― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, February 18, 2022 8:26 AM
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, February 18, 2022 8:26 AM
All of that, but they blended it so well with their own ideas of folk music. Their influences were on display pretty well, but nobody really sounded like them. I always just presumed them to be big Pygmalion fans, but mixed with whatever the Icelandic equivalent of goth is.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 18 February 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
the album with all the butts on it is very very very good, i'd forgotten
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 18 February 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
every melody on this album is perfect????
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 18 February 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link