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Sigur Rós — Við spilum endalaust
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rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jan 29, 2012 - 13:58
 
 mediamon wrote:
album cover
Question for fans: Ágætis Byrjun is the only Sigur Rós album I own.

It's one of my favourite finds of the past few years and it's often on my headphones when I write.
Is there another Sigur Rós album you'd recommend that's similar in tone?
 

I have them all.  The answer is, unfortunately, no.  Ágætis Byrjun is their only great album, one of my very favorites.  The others are so so.


KevinM
(Long Beach, Ca)
Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 08:25
 
 mediamon wrote:
album cover
Question for fans: Ágætis Byrjun is the only Sigur Rós album I own.

It's one of my favourite finds of the past few years and it's often on my headphones when I write.
Is there another Sigur Rós album you'd recommend that's similar in tone?
 
Try ( ) or Takk...


mediamon
Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 11:39
 
album cover
Question for fans: Ágætis Byrjun is the only Sigur Rós album I own.

It's one of my favourite finds of the past few years and it's often on my headphones when I write.
Is there another Sigur Rós album you'd recommend that's similar in tone?

michaelgmitchell
(Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 19:20
 
I discovered these fellows here on RP a couple years back. Quite intrigued with those first few tracks - who knows what they were called. But frankly, I'm tired of the sound. This particular track is just slurp. Drivel. Spilum. Whatever that means. The album cover? Childish.

chyk5
(Florida)
Posted: Aug 24, 2011 - 10:30
 

I bought this when released and was not overly impressed with the album as a whole. I listened again recently and it is one of those rare records that get better with each listen. I'm glad I gave it a second chance as there are some beautiful songs here.



Shaker
(Canada)
Posted: Jul 02, 2011 - 14:05
 
 EssexTex wrote:
He's never going to make it over that barrier, he's too close and his left legs too low.....the potential damage horrific...like the song.
 
{#Lol}

kcar
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 12:16
 
 blotto wrote:
fkn garbage
 

Or in Iclelandic: "Fuck sorp."

Agreed. 

meadowwoods
(Dane County, WI)
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 12:15
 
Thanks for playing Sigur Ros.  There are better songs than this one, but still nice to hear on Radio Paradise.


stackarukk
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 12:15
 
this one sounds kind of normal...

blotto
(127.0.0.1)
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 12:13
 
fkn garbage

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 17:58
 
 yamamiwami wrote:

It didn't! (The previous two singles from this album, "Gobbledigook" and "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" reached #9 and #8, respectively.) This song reached only #4 on the Ultratip chart (something like Bubbling Under Top 50) in Belgium (Flanders).
 
That's what I was thinking. :-)
Thanks!


yamamiwami
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 - 09:50
 
 Carl wrote:
Maybe it did in Iceland.
 
It didn't! (The previous two singles from this album, "Gobbledigook" and "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" reached #9 and #8, respectively.) This song reached only #4 on the Ultratip chart (something like Bubbling Under Top 50) in Belgium (Flanders).

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 09:20
 
 westslope wrote:
I just don't understand why this song didn't make the top 40.....
 
Maybe it did in Iceland.


westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 09:15
 

Love it!

 

I just don't understand why this song didn't make the top 40.....



Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Dec 25, 2010 - 16:04
 
...and stupid covers are TERRIBLE on Mars too!

AlienRelic
(east of Eden)
Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 13:55
 
I guess bad pop songs are bad pop songs no matter what the language.......

Jazbo
(Beautiful Valparaiso IN.)
Posted: Sep 11, 2010 - 12:04
 
Wow.... Thought I was having a stroke....

CoYoT51
(Lima, Perù - Château-Thierry, France)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 13:16
 
 martinc wrote:
juoi2342iy##Q$oh good )(*)&*lkj234hjd*Y(*_H and maybe •ª•¶§¶•¥††††ƒ guiTr!! 
 
Tyürt flüghn klôfengh flourflourfh klúgh ? {#Lol}

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 11:36
 
juoi2342iy##Q$oh good )(*)&*lkj234hjd*Y(*_H and maybe •ª•¶§¶•¥††††ƒ guiTr!! 

Dave_Mack
(Five bus, Jive bus!)
Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 14:50
 
 vit wrote:


Then if you re-reverse it, it plays as Norwegian.

Wanna here something hypocritical though? I disapprove of their stuff in gibberish, but generally like their stuff in Icelandic, so I have to go and try to look up the @$! song before I can rate it "appropriately."

 
I feel the same way.  I don't have to understand what people are saying, but I feel a lot better knowing it means something.  Maybe it just shows they put some effort into the lyrics, rather than just saying, "Screw it.  'blah-de-blah-de-blork!'  Yeah, that'll work."


Det
(Lower Saxony Germany)
Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 14:36
 
thats not Bruno Coulais - beating drums - cool....

socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Jun 07, 2010 - 18:13
 
 a_genuine_find wrote:
I have a sweet tooth for Sigur but this tune tastes sour * 2 *
 
I totally agree — I LOVE their "(  )" album, but this song is just an unpleasant cacophony......  {#No}



(former member)
Posted: Jun 07, 2010 - 18:08
 
 nagsheadlocal wrote:
I thought all Sigur Ros songs were simply some fellow strangling a cat. This actually has structure and melody. Surely some mistake.
 
Heh. Came to post the same thing, basically. Structure and rhythm? WTF?


nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 04:35
 
I thought all Sigur Ros songs were simply some fellow strangling a cat. This actually has structure and melody. Surely some mistake.

a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: Apr 05, 2010 - 08:09
 
baby carrots


KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Jan 10, 2010 - 13:33
 
 vit wrote:
I'm starting to think Iceland was a lot cooler when people went around setting each others' homesteads on fire and having duels on little islands and stuff.
 
Or volcanoes ripping it apart. {#Mrgreen}

I still like the poppiness of this one.


a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: Dec 10, 2009 - 05:21
 
I have a sweet tooth for Sigur but this tune tastes sour * 2 *

EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee)
Posted: Nov 30, 2009 - 09:42
 
He's never going to make it over that barrier, he's too close and his left legs too low.....the potential damage horrific...like the song.

dggeek
Posted: Nov 30, 2009 - 09:41
 
 blotto wrote:

Sometimes when I've eaten something I know I shouldn't have, and I'm trying to purge, I will listen to SR as an alternative to sticking my finger down my throat.
 

Sometimes when I've eaten something I know I shouldn't have, and I'm trying to purge, I will read blotto's comments as an alternative to sticking my finger down my throat.

{#Mrgreen}


Limpopoking
(The Parish of St. Alfonzo)
Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 00:26
 
 blotto wrote:

Sometimes when I've eaten something I know I shouldn't have, and I'm trying to purge, I will listen to SR as an alternative to sticking my finger down my throat.
 

That's a puerile comment...

FamilyMan
(Continent's edge)
Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 07:04
 
 markoirl wrote:

I like the way they've got some icelandic bank managers on the cover.



 

I heard they lost their shirts in some flimsy mortgage-backed security deal.  I see it's worse than I heard.

vit
Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 06:44
 
I'm starting to think Iceland was a lot cooler when people went around setting each others' homesteads on fire and having duels on little islands and stuff.

blotto
(here, at the moment)
Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 10:29
 

Sometimes when I've eaten something I know I shouldn't have, and I'm trying to purge, I will listen to SR as an alternative to sticking my finger down my throat.

ugly
Posted: Sep 06, 2009 - 18:26
 
 jadewahoo wrote:
I really enjoy the music of Sigur Ros, this piece amongst them all. Sometimes I will put on SR to guide me into a dreamy sleep.
 
ME TOO!! I am so glad RP turned me on to this music... I absolutely love it.


blotto
(here, at the moment)
Posted: Jul 27, 2009 - 08:46
 
blech, still horrible.

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Jul 05, 2009 - 13:53
 
 markoirl wrote:

I like the way they've got some icelandic bank managers on the cover.

 

Yes!  The only thing missing is the angry mob of ordinary Icelanders running after them.

Easy prediction:  lower reserve ratios and less leverage going forward for the Icelandic financial sector (what's left of it).



Jack_Jefferson
(Columbus, OH)
Posted: Jun 03, 2009 - 18:25
 
I never understood the appeal of the streaking phenomenon.


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 24, 2009 - 20:11
 


This be good for the ears...



openears
(Near a big port, The Netherlands)
Posted: Apr 23, 2009 - 04:10
 
The Killers singing Icelandic {#Cool}

Mandible
Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 12:25
 
 markoirl wrote:

I like the way they've got some icelandic bank managers on the cover.



 
hahahaha good one!


jimbaca
(Albuquerque)
Posted: Feb 22, 2009 - 11:12
 
I spent a year in Iceland.  Beautiful country, beautiful people and beautiful music.  If you have never seen the Aurora Borealis rippling across the sky from horizon to horizon, then you have to visit this country.

cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Feb 22, 2009 - 11:05
 
Okay, I was joking about the Oasis song, but we both were certain this was Death Cab for Cutie.

markoirl
(Dublin)
Posted: Feb 17, 2009 - 10:40
 

I like the way they've got some icelandic bank managers on the cover.




blotto
Posted: Feb 17, 2009 - 10:37
 
this would be a good time to go take a crap, and miss this song.

jadewahoo
(NoMad Lifestyle)
Posted: Jan 28, 2009 - 09:46
 
I really enjoy the music of Sigur Ros, this piece amongst them all. Sometimes I will put on SR to guide me into a dreamy sleep.

Dior
(Sherbrooke, Quebec)
Posted: Jan 23, 2009 - 08:20
 
Voted number 2 for best album of 2008 by Paste magazine. Yeah!

http://www.pastemagazine.com/

Here's the excerpt :
2. Sigur Rós - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
This record’s most exhilarating peaks are found in its hushed sonic valleys, especially the anguished opening strains of “Festival.” The first half of the song scrapes away all sonic clutter, featuring a minimalist aria of keyboard swells and lead singer Jónsi Birgisson’s falsetto soaring beyond heaven to an even more blissful plateau.



blotto
Posted: Jan 23, 2009 - 08:19
 
 Jacob_Kalkan wrote:

Try to widen your small eye seight and you might actually enjoy it. Can you imagine... there are actually other languages?? {#Group-hug}



 

I have opened my small eye sight and it still sounds horrible. The only thing that helps is earplugs for my ears, fiddling with my eyes doesn't help.

vit
Posted: Jan 23, 2009 - 08:19
 
ziggytrix wrote:


The interesting thing about Icelandic is when you run it backwards on a record player it comes out as English.



Then if you re-reverse it, it plays as Norwegian.

Wanna here something hypocritical though? I disapprove of their stuff in gibberish, but generally like their stuff in Icelandic, so I have to go and try to look up the @$! song before I can rate it "appropriately."


tm
(Atlanta)
Posted: Jan 23, 2009 - 08:18
 
Is this song about death? 

We were on a roll there... 

Jacob_Kalkan
(Sweden)
Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 21:57
 

Try to widen your small eye seight and you might actually enjoy it. Can you imagine... there are actually other languages?? {#Group-hug}