Sigur Ros thread (for random Googlers only)

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Do they FUCKING SUCK SHIT or what? Dud beyond dud! Does anyone ever learn?

― dave q, Saturday, 9 November 2002 09:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i found ilm by a 'sigur ros' google search!!!!! for real.

i think they kind of suck, i guess.

― d k (d k), Saturday, 9 November 2002 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know what ppl see in them. i was mystified that a lot of ILM likes their new alb (that's the impression i got from reading the threads on them).

d k- if you didn't like them, why did you google them (just out of interest)?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 November 2002 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Callum to thread!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think they suck shit, but I can understand why people would hate them. I'm actually surprised by how many people like them.

I *would* like to know what "Does anyone ever learn?" was supposed to mean though.

― Callum (Callum), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Its Ivo Watts Russell in disguise!!!!!

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Who, Callum or Sigur Ros?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Check out "Staalfar" off "Agaetis Byrjun". Herein lies the genius of Sigur Ros. Incredibly beautiful, I think I might listen to it now, actually. The rest of the album is cool enough, but nothing can match that one. My desire to play the Sigur Ros album is VERY reliant on me being in a particular mood (obviously my desire to play ANY album is mood-related, but ESPECIALLY that one). Haven't heard any new stuff, but I'd be interested.

"(for random Googlers only)"

Obviously I'm not a random googler, but I decided to post anyway. Sorry!

Agaetis Byjrun is also my fave album cover of all time. There's a piece of useless info for you.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't want ''beauty''. I want ''ugly beauty'' as ornette coleman might have said.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Good for you! But I like a dash of beauty to go with my ugly beauty!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

here's the REAL debate. Do you see an anus or a vagina on the cover of their new album? I vote anus.

― Anthony Miccio, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Even though Im not a random googler, (however I did find ILM doing a google search of "Dinosaur Jr"), I did see them live last night so I feel I have the right to post.

I had never heard a full song of theirs before-hand, but my friend won 2 free tickets through the radio, and I know a lot of people who are in love with them, so I decided to see them.

I really disliked the lyrics, I don't speak the language, but the lyrics still sounded really repetitive and annoying. The sound also was boring at times. But when they decided to turn up the energy, they were brilliant; and his use of the bow on his guitar was great as well. He also sang into his guitar pickups which made a weird echo sound that I liked. He also had a great voice.

So, Im torn, still.

― David Allen, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Who, Callum or Sigur Ros?

Thats for you to figure out. Detective Ragget

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 9 November 2002 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Now what we have here, Watson, is an album made some strange band of Norse throat-garglers...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I *would* like to know what "Does anyone ever learn?" was supposed to mean though.

Though I don't speak for Dave Q., I imagine that he's referring to any, or all, of: (a) Sigur Ros's schtick has been done before and done better (cough! MY BLOODY VALENTINE!); (b) another band that is, at best, mediocre gets hyped to high heaven by the usual suspects in the print and Internet media (cough! THE STROKES!); and/or (c) another band with an EXTRAORDINARILY high bullshit quotient and who hold themselves in MUCH higher regard than is plainly warranted (too many bands to mention).

My advice to those who are enthralled by Sigur Ros. Put aside whatever Sigur Ros CD you have for a few months, don't listen to it at all for several months, and then listen to it again. If yer still enthralled, bully for you. If yer like me and yer less-than-enthralled after doing the foregoing, you'll see what I'm getting it.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:02 (twenty-three years ago)

here's the REAL debate. Do you see an anus or a vagina on the cover of their new album? I vote anus

It's obviously a really grody toilet seat.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah, re the guitar-with-a-violin-bow schtick -- i hope Jimmy Page is getting paid serious royalties for that one.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimmy Page didnt invent the guitar with a bow thing, the guy from The Creation did.

― David Allen, Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimmy Page didnt invent the guitar with a bow thing, the guy from The Creation did.

Fine -- then Jonsi can send the royalty checks to him and not to Mr. Page.

My basic point still stands.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Who's getting royalty checks for playing the guitar with a pick then?

Arguing about the merits of Sigur Ros here are pointless because it's been done repeatedly on other threads, and because dave q is just being a provocateur anyhow, probably less to stir up random Googlers than to see which of us take the bait.

By the way, it's two unhappy faces glued to each other by the chin, with the tops of each face lopped off, then tilted on its side. I was going to say two smiley faces with the tops lopped off, with the two mouth-halfs glued together, but that ain't anything to smile about.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

royalties for guitar technique????

― kephm, Sunday, 10 November 2002 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

chuck berry would be a very rich man

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 10 November 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow tad, what a load of bullshit. Sigur Ros don't hold them selves in high regard, and anyone who thinks that has clearly been reading too closely the shitty, out-of-touch, over-hyping publications you claim to dispise. Your first two points (that My Bloody Valentine are better and that Sigur Ros don't deserve the attention they're getting) are simply personal opinions, and as such cannot be used as arguments that 'people never learn'.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 10 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

reasons i hate sigur ros:

1. they're trying to be innovative/interesting... i mean, what the fuck? why can't they stick to a sound that's been done repeatedly and often better... you know, like interpol... that's where it's at...

2. the singer's voice: it's beautiful... so obnoxious... it should be a bit more monotone with a hint of semi-retardedness... then they could get in on the resurgence of "garage rock"...

3. the music is elaborate... hasn't anyone ever told them you only need 3 instruments and 5 chords to rock?

4. the production is way over the top... couldn't they find a basement with poor acoustics and an old 4-track ?

5. the lyrics suck sooo much.... granted, i don't speak the language, but i'm sure he doesn't mention anything about smacking his hoes around or about all the money he makes... what else could there possibly be to sing about?

― ko hsüan, Sunday, 10 November 2002 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly. But this is what you get when foreign homosexual people try to make rock'n'roll. Let's go listen to The Pattern instead.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 10 November 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

aren't all foreigners homosexual?

― ko hsüan, Sunday, 10 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone is someone else's foreigner. Now maybe Mick Jones and Lou Gramm should be requesting royalties from everyone in the entire world.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 10 November 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly. But this is what you get when foreign homosexual people try to make rock'n'roll. Let's go listen to The Pattern instead

?????

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 10 November 2002 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

What? Ain't you ever seen sarcasm before? You must be a foreigner too...

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 10 November 2002 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Well it says it all that given your other postings you might as well have been serious

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 10 November 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Erm... no. You're wrong. When I said "disco sucks" I mean it literally. I'm not xenophobic or homophobic. It's just that disco music sucks, that's all.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 10 November 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah Sigur Ros suck cause their not disco.

Back to The Two Towers I go hiho

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 10 November 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

That wasn't what I meant, but anyhow.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 10 November 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

One time, when I was in high school, this guy got up on the stage at the Christmas assembly wearing jeans and a santa hat - with his guitar and a bow - and made lots of noise for about five minutes. At the end came the most confused round of applause I've ever heard - everyone was looking around at everyone else to see what they should be doing. Just sayin'.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 10 November 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, that's a GREAT idea. I'm SO stealing that.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 10 November 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

i knew sigur ros was ripping someone off... did the santa hat guy speak gibberish, also?

― ko hsüan, Sunday, 10 November 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

My crazed hypothesis: there may just be enough room on the planet for records by Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins AND it may be possible to like all three.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 10 November 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking the language or not, the new lyrics are repetitive. As Pitchfork put it (and please, nobody bring up the credibility of Pitchfork, they obviously are biased and blah blah blah, but they had a point here), the lyrics are all pretty much: "You xylo. You xylo no fi lo. You so," over and over.

But, the music is great.

― David Allen, Sunday, 10 November 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Wasn't there a Sweat Marie commercial in the 80s with an ebow freak out?

Royalties are due to the chocolate bar!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 10 November 2002 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

(I forgot, the rest of the sane world calls it Sweet Marie).

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 10 November 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Sweat Marie! Hahaa! You've made me cry! oooh... must calm down...

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 10 November 2002 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds like a gym teacher I used to have. I think she was married to the principal, Mr. Big.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 10 November 2002 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend Amy used to go to have classes with that "That's Mr. Geek to you" guy from the Mr. Big commercials. We worked out with him one time in the gym up at York.

DJ is looking at me laughing at my laptop like this and seems to think I've gone nuts... oh wait... ok, now that I've explained myself - he seems to think a Pocari Sweat anecdote is apropos.

(are you guys hearing that thunder outside?)

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 10 November 2002 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm SO doing that bowed guitar noise at a school Christmas concert thing...

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 10 November 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry, nope.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 10 November 2002 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay we got it now.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

YO U FAGGOT ASS MOFO SIGUR ROS HATIN FAGGOTS ANYONE UP IN THIS BITCH WHO IS HATIN ON SIGUR ROS IS A FAGGOT ASS COCK SUCKING MOFO YA GET ME?
THEY HAVE DOPE ASS LYRICS AND ARE NOT FAGGOTS AT ALL IN FACT I SUSPECT CALUM IS A FAGGOT ASS BYATCH JUST LOOK AT HIS FUCKING EMAIL ADDRESS! FAGGOT ASS MOFOS.

― RANDOM GOOGLER, Monday, 11 November 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"My advice to those who are enthralled by Sigur Ros. Put aside whatever Sigur Ros CD you have for a few months, don't listen to it at all for several months, and then listen to it again. If yer still enthralled, bully for you."

I may be the only person on this side of the pond that has been listening to them since the album Von, and, hearing that Agaetis Birjun was about to come out, I dug it out and listened once again and loved...and that album is FAR more "boring" than Agaetis Birjun or (), which I am also a devout listener of.

They're one of my favorite bands, not cause of some trendy shit or whatever...cause their music makes me feel good. It makes me feel like I'm floating on a comet at light-speed through the vacuum of space. It makes me feel like I was having sex and the orgasm decided to continue on indefinitely. It makes me feel in touch with The Universe in ways going to church never did.

And you know what? Knowing that they are so despised only increases my love for their music. Have a nice day, y'all!

― nickalicious, Monday, 11 November 2002 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

It makes me feel like I was having sex and the orgasm decided to continue on indefinitely.

I get this vision now of Sigur Ros doing porn soundtracks, and I am disturbed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

oeeeeeewwwoooooooeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooo UNGH!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I get this vision now of Sigur Ros doing porn soundtracks, and I am disturbed.

So are the children in the feature.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigur Ros doing porn flicks... yes, I like this idea. Finally, someone makes a porn flick for Kate. All dirty dronerock boys, all the time. Yum.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigur Ros pornos = shagging very, very slowly...which is a good thing

― nickalicious, Monday, 11 November 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Remind me never to shag you, Nick. ;-)

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay. Never shag me.

Wow, that was WAY easier than I thought it would be! :D

― nickalicious, Monday, 11 November 2002 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Dear god! I reject my idea and all that it has brought forth. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate does wierd Acid Mother Style balletdance to Itchy Woo, slowly removing white shawls from clouded figure in the icen fields of Scotland till the camera reveals its Bobby G in leather pants.

Jay Fergusion wanders in with pizza delivery box...

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Find a way to work in Julian Casablancas' ass and it might just be the Best. Movie. Ever.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Jonsi can run his bow across Joolz ass.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

uuuuuuuhhhhhhh... oh the ethereal angel drones dear gott in himmell help me...

WHAT IS THE MOST UNACCEPTIBLE THING TO EVER COME OUT OF YOUR ASS?

answer: Sigur Ros.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

or between joolz cheeks.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate is in the evil clutches of Peaches and Princess Superstar who have clipped Jay's wings and blinded him. Now chained to a wall in a very fake dungeon. After a short whipping/leather demostration Julian and Courtney Taylor Taylor break in, CTT distracts the girls with tales of buttsweat while Julian wiggles him bum in Kate's face till she gains mythical powers to break the chains.

Afterwards, Jay appears and lends Kate his magical green sneakers, which after clicking three times and saying "No Place Like Home" brings Kate and Julian to Saint Marks Place, but for some reason (due to the NYCPD) with clothes.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently my (insert sex scene) isn't showing up cause I used angle brackets.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

You've thought this out a little too much, Mr. Noodles. You're starting to scare me.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

its all rehashed donuts I guess.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

You shouldn't make me laugh so much. Laughing brings on the coughing fits!

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Its like that Peaches picture, her airpad/MD player looks like ALF playing a keyboard which cracked me up.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

no, not the only one.

>>I may be the only person on this side of the pond that has been listening to them since the album Von

― kephm, Monday, 11 November 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Von is actually quite good, despite being boring as hell.

― Callum (Callum), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I am listening to ( ) now. It feels like watching a movie where there's this really melodramatic serene sunset moment and the swirly strings swell up and the image of the director shedding a tear comes into your head while you sit thinking that you *completely* missed catching the wave and find the whole silly scenario to be unwarranted and rather overwrought and, soon, cringe-inducing. I am on track 1 so maybe the rest will improve (?).

If I remember correctly, Von was all reverb airy sounds whisping around, more ambient less whale-song. I find that better than what they're doing now.

― Honda (Honda), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

It seems to me to be more rhythmic than the first and for me, easier to listen to. I've only been listening to samples though, I'm not sure how the whole album sounds.

― kimera, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

So, am I the only who thinks () is Sigur Ros's first tolerable album?

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 04:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup. Treasure your unique status.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

god this band are shit

― Let's Fight Saddam by Bombarding Baghdad with Tapes of Jonsi Yodelling (llamasfu, Monday, 10 February 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I have had sex to Sigur Ros on many occasions. It is good. Probably preferable to concentrating on just the music.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 February 2003 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

if i had to choose between sex with jonsi and listening to sigur ros i would go for the latter. it's a tough choice though.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 10 February 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Where they good?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 10 February 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigur Ros is alright, I guess, but the problem is that people have begun acting like they're the first band ever to make slow, deliberate delayed-guitar atmospherics music.

I mean, any new band that plays something quiet and atmospheric people are all "they're like Sigur ros, bla bla bla"

Sigur Ros are no more inventive than Interpol.. sorry, but its true...

― tinobeat (tinobeat), Monday, 10 February 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

they STILL suck!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I get this vision now of Sigur Ros doing porn soundtracks, and I am disturbed.

A Sigur Ros song was the backing music for part of that Fr3d DurS+ pr0n clip! (during the "montage" at the end)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

blimey, it's an even smaller world than i pheared...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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