from another thread:
sigur ros doesn't have an invisible touch in them
-- jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 28 February 2003 17:23 (5 years ago) Link
― Eisbaer, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Sugar Ray vs. Sister Ray
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
'fly' is great but i would still vote for sigur ros.
― omar little, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
they're very catchy warts tho
-- bernard snowy, Friday, March 28, 2008 8:18 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
no sigur ros are the warts
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
sigur ros could never write anything as good as "fly."
― Eisbaer, Friday, March 28, 2008 1:32 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark
i still stand behind this statement -- even more so now.
― keine Macht für dich mehr! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 23 May 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
It's in the Declaration of Independence iirc.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 23 May 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ anyone who fell for Sigur Ros. whadda crock of shit
― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
"YOU SAY LOOOOOOOOO"
"omg i'm crying"
― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― ksh, Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
another sugar ray plus: they don't have a "svefn-f-englar" video in 'em.
― keine Macht für dich mehr! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I am thoroughly disgusted at the sugar ray defense that's been sweeping ILM as of late.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I assure you I've been defending Sugar Ray since 97.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
a statue has never crumbled 4 me :-(
― ksh, Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
you have not been ALLLL ARRROOOOUUUUND THE WOOOOORRRRLLLD, obv
― The Reverend, Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
O_O u r rite
― ksh, Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not so much defending Sugar Ray (i really like only a few of their songs -- otherwise, i don't really have much of an opinion about 'em one way or another, they were really just a generic late 90s kinda-OK sorta-alternative group) as it is that if someone had a gun to my head and forced me to choose b/w them and Sigur Ros, then "fly" would win out every time over "svefn-g-englar" or whatever.
― keine Macht für dich mehr! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 23 May 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
the old "the simple pleasures of a simple pop song" vs. "the refined pleasures of a massive epic" debate all over again, in other words.
― keine Macht für dich mehr! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 23 May 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I jammed "floored" pretty regularly growing up :/
― Face Book (dyao), Sunday, 23 May 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
love hearing "fly", "every morning" while at the hardware store or whatever. the video for "fly" kind of warms my heart for some reason.sugar ray's stuff with metal guitars is really bad, though.
i like the dark frosty stuff on the "alien fetus" sigur ros album. not at all into the whole heavy orchestra syrupy Sound of Music thing.
so i pick sugar ray, because i rarely hear a bad song of theirs in public. sigur ros's whole rep now is due to their andrew lloyd weber style that i abhor so greatly.
― hobbes, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
replace "andrew lloyd weber" with "orchestras and emotive cooing" there
― hobbes, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Sugar Ray singles (never heard anything else tbh) were all really good by the standards of the era. Sigur Ros has bored me.
― Cunga, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
In 2000, Sugar Ray did a cover version of John Cale and Brian Eno's "Spinning Away" for the soundtrack to "The Beach".
Wait -- what?
― Cunga, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
not a bad looking soundtrack there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_%28film%29#Track_listing
― hobbes, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a pretty decent cover but can't compare w/ original
― iatee, Monday, 24 May 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"When It's Over": the soundtrack to American innocence in the days before 9-11. After that the world was too cynical and world-weary for a man like Mark McGrath to flourish in it.
― Cunga, Monday, 24 May 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
It's surprisingly terrific, actually. McGrath nails the vocal.
And, yeah, The Beach soundtrack was essential for me in the pre-Napster days when all I wanted was the new New Order song, Orbital, and UNKLE.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
McGrath is flourishing as a host for Extra or Entertainment Tonight these days, isn't he?
― hobbes, Monday, 24 May 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i doubt that Jonsi would be a good TV show host, at least not after Sigur Ros's infamous NPR interview.
― keine Macht für dich mehr! (Eisbaer), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc Mr. McGrath did not do poorly the time I watched his performance on "Celebrity Jeopardy."
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
you mean "rock n roll jeopardy?" i think it saw that one.. he was wayyy schooled, iirc, like he killed the competition.
― hobbes, Monday, 24 May 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Some fake Jeopardy for good-looking, well-known people, yeah.
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I need to get on that one then.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
mcgrath has def spent his career - I dunno if 'playing dumb' is the right way to put it, but...
― iatee, Monday, 24 May 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
sugar ray probably could never make a credible appearance on "game of thrones."
― 빨간 럼 ఎరుపు రమ్ רום אדום (Eisbaer), Monday, 11 April 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
If that sack of turds that call themselves Coldplay could, anyone can.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 08:20 (seven years ago) link
This is actually a hard question.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:38 (five years ago) link
"All around the world statues crumble for me" is a great opening line
― brimstead, Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:50 (five years ago) link
Sugar Ray and it’s not close.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 10 February 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
i don't recall sigur ros releasing work as essential as "someday" and "when it's over"?
― dyl, Sunday, 10 February 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
what the hell pic.twitter.com/hJ4qk0QlyP— stefan heck (@boring_as_heck) August 30, 2018