Sigur Ros's most recent album was okay, but I was hoping they would completely abandon their more quiet, scenic style and move into the direction of awesome destructive post-rock, which they have proved they are very capable of:
Listen you guys, there's this band known as Sigur Ros.
They are awesome. Wikipedia says they are an "Icelandic post-rock band with melodic, classical and minimalist elements" This is not important at all. All you need to know is they're fucking incredible and better than you at everything.
You know what, fuck it. They sing in crazy, and "Vonlenska"(A pseudo-language they fucking made up). Sometimes the words are backwards. This amplifies the awesome.
They have eight albums. These albums are:
Von
von brigði
Ãgætis byrjun
( )
Takk...
Heima
Hvarf-Heim
Með suð à eyrum við spilum endalaust
These albums all contain more awesome than all of you combined.
They were also used in the recent Prince of Persia trailer. This was I guess because Ubisoft realized that they needed an extra shot of the best thing on earth and used them.
If you try to listen to their music and feel like you're high, it just means you're listening to them right.
Some people don't like them. These people are known as tools. I have a friend who doesn't like them because the indie kids like them. That's right, she doesn't like them because it's cool to like them because it's not cool to like them. Once again, tools.
If you don't like Sigur Ros you're a tool too.
Let's all talk about how great they are. Though I guess if you have other bands that are also less known and equally as awesome you maybe can talk about them.
But let's face it they're not as cool as Sigur Ros
I just had my composition professor tell me to watch bootleg recordings of Sigur Ros performing live. Best fucking professor ever
the last one is cool because it's all happy sounding and shit but they lyrics are really bitter and about the christianization of scandinavia. Bad translation follows:
Brothers and sisters,
gather around the table!
A chalice we have to raise
to a god of an unknown faith.
The one born under a star
now joins our company.
He eats all yield of the festive table
and declares himself our savior.
Who did arrange the celebration of their holy
always on the days of our feasts?
And again and again they dare speak of us as blasphemers!
Drunkards never step out of the door,
observing masters alone taking turns.
For every passing day in human life
is followed by an endless dark of night.
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Maybe you need your everything inspected.
Because you see, if you can see the name Sigur Ros, and not see the awesome, your awesome sensor is fucked all to hell.
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Well it would help if you pointed me in the right direction to hear something instead of just yammering on
They invented a pseudo-language so that even to people who speak icelandic/norwegian/whatever, it would still be gibberish.
Sometimes they play their shit backwards so that even to people who speak icelandic/norwegian/whatever, it would still be gibberish.
It's not about the language or the words.
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I have their discography listed in the OP.
Go on Itunes or wherever and buy that shit like a not-tool
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takk is the best album by them i think
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Are we happy? We know what it is. Let's get over it.
Sigur Ros is not about Umlauts, it's about the best thing ever.
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well not totally. in swedish the ä has evolved to be pronounced like a regular short e...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AZIFmkogY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxMQaMqsig
Norway's version of the middle finger?
nah i looked it up and apparently its only used in some roman texts and shit.
Fine, Rome's version of the middle finger?
FUCTURUS EST
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/10/when_good_interviews_go_bad.html
The end is kind of sad too, for all people who believed they made up a language.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8jmLec_wEc
Just wait up to the 2 minute mark and you will see the beginnings of one of the craziest build ups which eventually reaches a godly, epic climax.
Just a dude essentially singing whatever phonetic sounds he wants while some nice music plays.
I thought the same thing once
then I did, and wasn't really impressed
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oh wait this is what happened to me....
because sigur ros is fucking coma music, shit
so, do you listen to any other post-rock, or ?
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and the raddest, Pakanajuhla
the last one is cool because it's all happy sounding and shit but they lyrics are really bitter and about the christianization of scandinavia. Bad translation follows:
gather around the table!
A chalice we have to raise
to a god of an unknown faith.
The one born under a star
now joins our company.
He eats all yield of the festive table
and declares himself our savior.
Who did arrange the celebration of their holy
always on the days of our feasts?
And again and again they dare speak of us as blasphemers!
Drunkards never step out of the door,
observing masters alone taking turns.
For every passing day in human life
is followed by an endless dark of night.
Into a wolf's dream
we soon may fall again...
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