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So Sigur Ros is a pretty good band

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    anyone can recognize icelandic immediately because it is the only [living] language that uses þ and ð

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Monkeyfeet wrote: »
    I keep seeing the word awesome. But not hearing it

    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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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    also... the norwegians cross their ø's but icelandic adds a dieresis... this is simple stuff really

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    bibble what is a dieresis

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    an umlaut (technically not but it's close enough for you simpletons)

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    it's that thing where they take your blood out of your body and filter it with umlauts

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  • OmegaTofuNinjaOmegaTofuNinja Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    bibble sounds like a goddamn language scientist

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Khavall wrote: »
    Monkeyfeet wrote: »
    I keep seeing the word awesome. But not hearing it

    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.

    Well it would help if you pointed me in the right direction to hear something instead of just yammering on

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Bibble who cares about the language.


    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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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    bibble what is an umlaut

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Monkeyfeet wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Monkeyfeet wrote: »
    I keep seeing the word awesome. But not hearing it

    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.

    Well it would help if you pointed me in the right direction to hear something instead of just yammering on

    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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  • Uncle LongUncle Long Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Sigur Ros is fantastic. Their live shows are amazing. Anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong and also dumb.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    i love sigur ros so much

    takk is the best album by them i think

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Veretas wrote: »
    bibble what is an umlaut

    ¨

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    An umlaut is when you form the "ee" sound while your lips form another sound.


    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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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    oh it's the eyes that go on the happy face

    ¨u

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Khavall wrote: »
    An umlaut is when you form the "ee" sound while your lips form another sound.


    well not totally. in swedish the ä has evolved to be pronounced like a regular short e...

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    and explain this


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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    sckseeeeeeeeeeeeee

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  • The_RatThe_Rat Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Bibble wrote: »
    and explain this



    Norway's version of the middle finger?

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Khavall wrote: »
    Bibble wrote: »
    and explain this



    Norway's version of the middle finger?

    nah i looked it up and apparently its only used in some roman texts and shit.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Bibble wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Bibble wrote: »
    and explain this



    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?

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    you know i should probably listen to sigur ros sometime

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  • WallhitterWallhitter Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Khavall wrote: »
    Bibble wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Bibble wrote: »
    and explain this



    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

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  • Cowboy-BebopCowboy-Bebop Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Worst interview ever.
    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.

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I think the commentary on that interview is amazing.

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  • WiseguyWiseguy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    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:

    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.

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  • RanxRanx Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    WHY WOULD I WANT TO LISTEN TO THIS IT IS NOT ENGLISH

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    A lot of it isn't really Icelandic either.

    Just a dude essentially singing whatever phonetic sounds he wants while some nice music plays.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Bibble wrote: »
    you know i should probably listen to sigur ros sometime

    I thought the same thing once

    then I did, and wasn't really impressed

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    L|ama wrote: »
    Bibble wrote: »
    you know i should probably listen to sigur ros sometime

    I thought the same thing once

    then I did, and wasn't really impressed

    oh wait this is what happened to me....

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited August 2008
    so it's post rock because this is what happened when everyone who knows how to write intriguing melodies dies or something, or what?

    because sigur ros is fucking coma music, shit

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Khavall wrote: »
    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
    Ágætis byrjun
    ( )
    Takk...
    Heima
    Hvarf-Heim
    Með suð í 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
    I hope you're fucking happy, bibble

    so, do you listen to any other post-rock, or ?

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    are you sure these guys aren't just speaking some scandinavian language and not their own

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Agaetis Byrjun is their only album worth giving a shit about.

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  • InconsistentInconsistent Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm going to see them live in two fucking days. I'm so excited. Untitled #8 is going to be amazing.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'll take this as an invitation to post other overly long music from almost Scandinavian countries.

    Moonsorrooooooow

    Aurinko ja Kuu

    Tuuleen Tytar / Soturin Tie

    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:
    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.

    Into a wolf's dream
    we soon may fall again...

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