Sigur Ros

Undertoad · 05-08-2006, 11:38 PM

In case you need more pure beauty in your life - and if you don't, what is your life for anyway - listen to Sigur Ros.

Throw away all your preconceptions of what music should be. Here is what you needed it to be all along.

Put the ipod phones on, because this is the soundtrack to your life you were always hoping for. No matter where you go, for what purpose, it will make more sense with this music playing.

This is the sort of thing radio will never ever play for you, because it would cause half the listeners to scream rushing to turn it off, and the other half not wishing to ever listen to anything else, ever again.

This is the sort of thing half the people will shudder to call "experimental", and the other half will wonder how their soul became the subject of the experiment.

lumberjim · 05-09-2006, 07:48 AM

no link?

thrillhouse · 05-09-2006, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

no link?

http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/

Pangloss62 · 05-09-2006, 08:25 AM

Icelandic band with its own language. From the land of Bjork.

When I first heard them I too embraced their sound. Good stuff. Ethereal. I agree that some folks would not "get" their music, or discount it as elitist, but its got a certain purity that can raise the hair on your back.

I can't listen to it all the time, however. It can be a bit draining in large doses.

Pi · 05-09-2006, 11:13 AM

Seems that I listen to the best radio in the world because they play Sigur Ros

glatt · 05-09-2006, 01:31 PM

I like them. Thanks.

grazzers · 05-09-2006, 02:36 PM

I'd only heard of them by name but never the music until recently, when the BBC made a documentary and used a Sigur Ros song (hoppipolla? Dunno if that's how it's spelt) for the intro, and I just thought, Wow! Now I've heard a bit more of them I think I'm becoming part of the half who are left stunned by them, but in a good way!

Spexxvet · 05-15-2006, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Pangloss62

Icelandic band with its own language...

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it took sigur ros, an experimental band from iceland that sings songs with no titles in a made-up language, to shake up the cmj music marathon and bring the focus back to the power of music.

http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/articles/newsd0.php

I listen to Sigur Ros every day at work, as background msic. Lots of people ask about it.

mrnoodle · 05-15-2006, 10:42 AM

This is amazing stuff. It's already made an intolerable day tolerable, just by coming through my headphones.

Pangloss62 · 05-15-2006, 11:31 AM

You guys like Goldfrapp? Goldfrappe is pretty cool.

05-08-2006, 11:38 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Sigur Ros In case you need more pure beauty in your life - and if you don't, what is your life for anyway - listen to Sigur Ros. Throw away all your preconceptions of what music should be. Here is what you needed it to be all along. Put the ipod phones on, because this is the soundtrack to your life you were always hoping for. No matter where you go, for what purpose, it will make more sense with this music playing. This is the sort of thing radio will never ever play for you, because it would cause half the listeners to scream rushing to turn it off, and the other half not wishing to ever listen to anything else, ever again. This is the sort of thing half the people will shudder to call "experimental", and the other half will wonder how their soul became the subject of the experiment.

05-09-2006, 07:48 AM	#2
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	no link? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

05-09-2006, 08:25 AM	#4
Pangloss62 Lecturer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 768	Sigur Ros Icelandic band with its own language. From the land of Bjork. When I first heard them I too embraced their sound. Good stuff. Ethereal. I agree that some folks would not "get" their music, or discount it as elitist, but its got a certain purity that can raise the hair on your back. I can't listen to it all the time, however. It can be a bit draining in large doses. __________________ Things are never as good, or bad, as they seem.

05-09-2006, 11:13 AM	#5
Pi desperate finder Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 437	Seems that I listen to the best radio in the world because they play Sigur Ros __________________ Complex simplex

05-09-2006, 02:36 PM	#7
grazzers Aim for the Best Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posts: 134	I'd only heard of them by name but never the music until recently, when the BBC made a documentary and used a Sigur Ros song (hoppipolla? Dunno if that's how it's spelt) for the intro, and I just thought, Wow! Now I've heard a bit more of them I think I'm becoming part of the half who are left stunned by them, but in a good way! __________________ "Only a person who risks all that he cannot keep, to gain that which he can never lose, is truly free." Anonymous Poet

05-09-2006, 01:31 PM	#6
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I like them. Thanks.

05-15-2006, 10:42 AM	#9
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	This is amazing stuff. It's already made an intolerable day tolerable, just by coming through my headphones. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

05-15-2006, 11:31 AM	#10
Pangloss62 Lecturer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 768	You guys like Goldfrapp? Goldfrappe is pretty cool. __________________ Things are never as good, or bad, as they seem.

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