Why the hate for Sigur Ros?

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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

the record with the naked butts is bad

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

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.

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.

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

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!)

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.

^ OTFM

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.

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

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.

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.

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

http://prettymuchamazing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/SIGUR-ROS-INNI.jpg

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!).

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

ok but Reed has to sing in hopelandish.

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.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Sigur_Ros_-_Valtari.jpg

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"

single is a bit long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INWZy3-Vw80

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.

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.

Who's that rapper on track 4 ?

Really looking forward to this.

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.

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

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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

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

^^^ a sentence I never expected to read

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.

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

haha I was thinking that too

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

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

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":

http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/2012BestivalSigurRosDB100912.jpg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc6zXSdYXm8

here's the artwork for the new album, kveikur

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/kveikur.jpg

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.

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

New album out today.