Sigur Ros anyone?

Cafe Society
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Band site
Wikipedia site

I’ve been a fan for a couple of years now, but have likely enjoyed their music for years without knowing who the artist was. A friend of Mrs. WeHaveCookies recommended them to her, and I believe the first experience either of us had with them was watching the video for Hoppipolla and we have been hooked ever since. Another favorite video of mine is (forgive the lack of proper characters) Glosoli.

We were talking about them to my cousin who attends UCLA, and turned him onto them. A few months later, they ended up doing a live performance and screening at UCLA, of the documentary about their world-tour-closing-celebratory-free-Icelandic shows, which he got to see. Lucky boy. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sigur Ros is, among some of my friends and me, a favorite music for…cough cough…special occasions. :cool:

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I find them interesting - they create big open spaces in their music.

I have yet to hear anything that I find *compelling *- that makes me want to invest a ton of time really getting inside their work. But I feel that way about a lot of more progressive bands, including Radiohead, so clearly my tastes don’t run in that direction…

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I like to stand in the pouring rain with my rain gear and headphones slowly sipping beer as I listen to their music and watch the day slowly end. Quite amazing, really.

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I haven’t listened to much Sigur Ros but I’m a big fan of Hammock, an American duo who were very strongly inspired by them. Check out their main website or their Myspace page. The main website includes all sorts of interesting quotes, poetry, etc.

Talk about wide open spaces…for an experiment I made a playlist mixing some of their stuff with U2’s Joshua Tree album, and it worked really well!

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I used to have their ( ) CD and it was very good. But I lent it out and never got it back.

Good trance type music.

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TRANCE?? I’d have to disagree there mate. Seriously. :slight_smile:

Anyway, Sigur Rós is like the best band ever IMHO. Did you guys know they are working on a new album now? Cant wait. Hope they go on tour after it’s released, I haven’t seen them live yet…

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Their videos always make me cry, no matter how many times I watch them. It also makes me happy that they seem to have the same effect with their music and their videos all over the globe. Reading through the YouTube comments, you see “beautiful!” and “wonderful!” in all different languages.

Would their music still be a fitting soundtrack for having sex while drinking beer in the rain? I’m thinking yes…

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Google Ad: “Sigur Ros Ringtone”. I can just imagine my phone lulling me to sleep with five minutes of “Njosnavelin” when it rings…

Another “post-rock” band that a friend turned me onto is Explosions in the Sky. It doesn’t have vocals, so it sounds like a movie score–and in fact, they did the score for Friday Night Lights.

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I like Sigur Ros. They are a generous band with the fans too - if you fancy downloading live stuff and rarities via FTP go to this site

ftp://sigur-ros.serveftp.com - login and password is anonymous

This is linked to from their official UK site, in case any passing mod is concerned about copyright.

Here’s another link from the site for a subset of stuff if you can’t/won’t use FTP

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I suppose because I never see any music videos my visual associtaions with music may vary from the norm. I enjoy AIR (10000 hz Star) when the telescope is out and Digur Ros when it’s raining. I can’t read Tolkien without thinking of AC/DC and vice versa. Live Ray Charles is for the setting sun. Preservation Hall Jazz Band and campfires. Drive By Truckers and house rebuilding. The Velvet Underground and driving.

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I haven’t listened to any of my AIR in a really long time. I think the cd’s may have been misplaced when we moved, and they aren’t on my iPod yet. :frowning:

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I still love Moon Safari. It has good memories for me.

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They’re one of my favorite bands. When I listen to them they make whatever I’m doing feel epic and extra special.

I was once listening to it at the office at full volume when I thought I was the last one in the building when a cow-orker came in and asked if I was listening to “whale music”. Oh well, its still special for me.

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I’m refreshing this somewhat dead (but short) thread to discuss their latest album, which we’ve been enjoying very much over the past few weeks.

NSFW(nudity) Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Delicious to the ears, I must say.

According to the wikipedia page, they have the whole album available for streaming on last.fm, where they also have a wonderful video to one of their new songs available, NSFW(nudity) Gobbledigook NSFW(nudity)

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Doesn’t one of their songs play in the background during the climax of Vanilla Sky?

Is all their music like that?

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I’ve seen the film, but it was a long time ago. Per IMDB, these are the Sigur Ros songs on the soundtrack:

“Svefn-g-englar”
(1999)
by Orri P. Dyrason, Kjartan Sveinsson, Jon Thor Birgisson, Georg Holm and Agust Aevar Gunnarsson
Performed by Sigur Rós
Courtesy of Fat Cat / PIAS Recordings

“Agaetis Byrjun”
(1999)
by Orri P. Dyrason, Kjartan Sveinsson, Jon Thor Birgisson, Georg Holm and Agust Aevar Gunnarsson
Performed by Sigur Rós
Courtesy of Fat Cat / PIAS Recordings

“The Nothing Song (Njosnavelin)”
(2001)
by Orri P. Dyrason, Kjartan Sveinsson, Jon Thor Birgisson and Georg Holm
Performed by Sigur Rós
Courtesy of MCA Records
under exclusive license from PIAS
under license from Universal Music Enterprises
As for whether all of their music sounds the same, I would say no. There is diversity in each album. That being said, there do seem to be similarities between the pieces that tend to get international attention.

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(didn’t see this thread the first time) I like Ágætis byrjun and the parentheses album, but haven’t heard the rest yet. Nice stuff. I’m also really loving Explosions in the Sky, who someone else mentioned (saw them on Austin City Limits and thought ‘ooh, pretty!’).
Meanwhile, apparently My Bloody Valentine has a new album out.

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Wow. Another great video of theirs that I had previously missed.

Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása

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Not yet, although they have been playing dates. Extraordinarily loud dates.