So Sigur Ros is a pretty good band

Szechuanosaurus

I mean, they're the sort of guys who would just skip the sex and go straight to the cuddling.

Szechuanosaurus

Maybe have a pre-filled cup of bodily fluids so they can still fall asleep in a damp patch.

NotASenator

Szechuanosaurus wrote: »

Maybe have a pre-filled cup of bodily fluids so they can still fall asleep in a damp patch.

Don't joke around about that.

I'm taking little pre-filled baggies since I won't have time to pleasure everyone individually at PAX.

Jedoc

NotACrook wrote: »

Jedoc, I don't really know much about you, but you continue to impress me with your postings.

Well, we aim to please. Thanks.

Szechuanosaurus wrote: »

Guys do that?

"Hey baby! Get ready for the most boring sex of your life" *puts on Sigur Ros* "OH YEAH!"

According to a couple of my female friends, it's the liberal arts major's version of the yawning-shoulder-grab.

Rpeg

that is completely miscalculated. the only thing less sexy than Sigur Ros is, like, yakkety sax

awful totp.

Walrus

I'm going to see Sigur Ros in december I think, which is pretty good.

Jedoc

If your roommate has a Gettin' Some Playlist, it is your patriotic duty to put Yakkety Sax about fifteen minutes in. Or the loser horn from Price is Right.

2 Marcus 2 Ravens

I hear these guys are super dicks to tour with. Then again, I'll never tour with them, so I guess it doesn't matter.

darleysam

I was just listening to them yesterday, such a good band. I especially love the version of Njosnavelin they did for the BBC's Culture Show and Electric Proms.

edit: also, I saw them about.. 8 or 9 years ago maybe, when they supported Radiohead. All I recall was some guy playing his guitar with a bow and singing into its pickups. Just recently I saw a video of them playing Svefn-g-Englar and realised it was that, and suddenly it was the best thing ever.

Dublo7

Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa is Sigur Ros' best song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ZtT4Th9Ys

Great video.

NotASenator

Eh, it's ok.

Weaver

nas let's grab callius and go start up a gobbeldigook style commune

We'll need hot chicks though

beta_angel

Every friggin' time they're in Seattle, I miss them. I've been wanting to see them for the past few years. I seriously dig them.

darleysam

Oh, anyone who has Audiosurf and a copy of Takk, I can't stress enough how much you need to try playing Glosoli in it.

There is a point where it feels like the game was designed specifically for that one song.

NotASenator

Weaver wrote: »

nas let's grab callius and go start up a gobbeldigook style commune

We'll need hot chicks though

Gook commune?

Phonehand

They have a few good songs but they are mostly background music.

gollygee

Dublo7 wrote: »

Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa is Sigur Ros' best song.

I'm still a sucker for Hoppipolla.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkP_NaMsrMM

bongi

For anyone with Audiosurf, One Month Off and Trojan Horse from the new Bloc Party album are really awesome to ride

Fabricate

I fucking love Sigur Ros goddamn.

gollygee

bongi wrote: »

For anyone with Audiosurf, One Month Off and Trojan Horse from the new Bloc Party album are really awesome to ride

I still need to get that. Sigur Ros would be badass in that game, from what I've seen.

Dardrax

I always think of Sigur Ros as sleeping music until I get to Saeglopur then i'm all fuck yeah

Khavall

I've been listening to Staralfur like crazy recently.

Holy fuck that's awesome.

AWinnerIsYou

I feel like I am missing something. I'm a music person and it seems like I should be way into this band. I've tried many times but I feel like Sigur Ros is kind of boring and often sounds the same. What I've heard of the new album seems kind of promising but I still feel like it's nothing too new from them. I'm blaming this all entirely on me though, because like I said, I've got to be missing something. They wrote music for choreography by Merce Cunningham for fuck's sake, and he's fucking awesome. He worked with/had sex with John Cage for crying out loud, it doesn't get cooler than that. What do I need to do to enjoy Sigur Ros?

In other news, my studio put on a composition recital a few years ago of arrangements for percussion ensemble and Glossoli was one of the tunes we performed.

Zzulu

This is a pretty strange kind of music

but I like it

Khavall

AWinnerIsYou wrote: »

I feel like I am missing something. I'm a music person and it seems like I should be way into this band. I've tried many times but I feel like Sigur Ros is kind of boring and often sounds the same. What I've heard of the new album seems kind of promising but I still feel like it's nothing too new from them. I'm blaming this all entirely on me though, because like I said, I've got to be missing something. They wrote music for choreography by Merce Cunningham for fuck's sake, and he's fucking awesome. He worked with/had sex with John Cage for crying out loud, it doesn't get cooler than that. What do I need to do to enjoy Sigur Ros?

In other news, my studio put on a composition recital a few years ago of arrangements for percussion ensemble and Glossoli was one of the tunes we performed.

Two things.

One: Have you listened to much Glass, Reich, Adams, or other minimalistic composers?

Two: How are you classifying Sigur Ros in your mind? Classical, minimalist, rock? Post-rock is a really weird mix of romantic/pre-romantic/"pop-contemporary"(Think Whitacre) and Rock. And really if you're wanting them to be classical then they'll sound unsophisticated, and if you're wanting them to be rock they'll sound completely not connected to anything.

Dublo7

Khavall wrote: »

AWinnerIsYou wrote: »

I feel like I am missing something. I'm a music person and it seems like I should be way into this band. I've tried many times but I feel like Sigur Ros is kind of boring and often sounds the same. What I've heard of the new album seems kind of promising but I still feel like it's nothing too new from them. I'm blaming this all entirely on me though, because like I said, I've got to be missing something. They wrote music for choreography by Merce Cunningham for fuck's sake, and he's fucking awesome. He worked with/had sex with John Cage for crying out loud, it doesn't get cooler than that. What do I need to do to enjoy Sigur Ros?

In other news, my studio put on a composition recital a few years ago of arrangements for percussion ensemble and Glossoli was one of the tunes we performed.

Two things.

One: Have you listened to much Glass, Reich, Adams, or other minimalistic composers?

Two: How are you classifying Sigur Ros in your mind? Classical, minimalist, rock? Post-rock is a really weird mix of romantic/pre-romantic/"pop-contemporary"(Think Whitacre) and Rock. And really if you're wanting them to be classical then they'll sound unsophisticated, and if you're wanting them to be rock they'll sound completely not connected to anything.

None of that is important.

AWinnerIsYou

Yes, I'm a big fan of those composers. Not Glass so much though. Nonetheless, I don't consider Sigur Ros related to those composers by any stretch and especially not Eric Whitacre. I can kind of see where you're coming from with the minimalist thing by how Sigur Ros kind of sits on stuff for a long time and has slow developing harmonic movement, but I don't really consider it minimalist. It's just kind of boring to me. Something like Violin Phase can hold my attention for quite a while, but it's a struggle for me to even make it through Ageatis Byrjun. (I probably butchered that spelling).

I don't mean to get too academic, maybe they're just not my cup of tea. I want to like them though.

To answer your second question, I don't really classify them as anything. If I had to compare them to anyone, I hear hints of Aloha, maybe some Bjork, The Verve, Arts & Crafts-type stuff, but that's a stretch too.

L|ama

Man I hate when bands try to claim that building up really slowly in songs is being 'progressive'. More relevant to dream theater and the like, but that comment about slow developing harmonies just made me think of that.

Ivar

Sigur Rós is beautiful. I've seen them live twice - a couple of years ago at Oslo Concert Hall, and earlier this month at the Øya festival (also in Oslo). The only album of theirs I have is Ágætis Byrjun, I should probably do something about that.

Iskander

Rpeg wrote: »

that is completely miscalculated. the only thing less sexy than Sigur Ros is, like, yakkety sax

awful totp.

I imagine yakkety sax would be the best music for giggly-funny type sex

awful totp

bongi

That new Franz Ferdinand track is pretty catchy aside from the faux vinyl pops

gollygee

I'm not really a big Franz Ferdinand fan. Dunno, why, most of my friends are. Who knows. No accounting for taste, eh?

bongi

Take Me Out is basically the best pop song of the last decade and if you disagree you're a fag

Spacehog85

Thank you Planet Earth and Discovery Channel/BBC for introducing me to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptdBbKpKhbU&feature=related
Fucking song gives me goosebumps every time.

Typhoid Manny

Saw them a couple years ago in Philly. Basically, any price they feel like charging is how much it's worth to see them. Best show i've ever been to.

MindLib

Yeah, this band is amazing. I saw them in Maryland a couple years back. Was also a big regular on the boards over there

"982 Cosmic_Amnesis Member New York State 10-8-2003 1468"

Forgot the fucking password though.

Faricazy

DUDES

DUDES

SOMEONE FUCKING QUOTE ME

OH MY GOD

satansfingers

that is entirely too much money to pay to see nearly anyone

Snork

Faricazy wrote: »

DUDES

DUDES

SOMEONE FUCKING QUOTE ME

OH MY GOD

you son of a bitch
you fucking son of a bitch
They're playing in Boston like three weeks before I'm going to be there. And Stars the week before that. I want to cry.

Faricazy

i really like them k

welcome to new york