Wow what a hipster paradise. Boring, hem hawing music that would put a rabid baboon to sleep… played by uninteresting looking guys from a far away icy tundra. I used to hear morons and douche bags rant about how incredible these guys were. Id never heard them before so I gave them a listen. I went from curious… to bored… then directly to confused. Really? THIS is what everyone was talking about? THIS is amazing? I’m sorry but I feel like the emperor is wearing no clothes here… and I’m calling him on it.
Sigur Rós sucks.
Hipsters love to feel fucking unique and interesting. This band allows them to do just that. All the lyrics are in a strange language that regular people just wouldn’t understand… or care about. Icelandic song titles and albums that make conversing about them almost impossible. Ohhh i can feel the cool just seeping out of the speakers.
Ive also heard that its their live experience that really captures them and their genius. Yeah Ive heard that before. Ive heard it from filthy hippies who love Phish and Widespread Panic. Its all about the visceral experience of the live show. I don’t have to tell you how dishonest and scheming hippies are, so this excuse just doesn’t work for me. So I have to buy a 30 dollar concert ticket to see if these guys suck or not? No thanks. Ill stay at home and learn how to fart my name before that happens.
So I call shenanigans Ive had assholes in lines a mile long tell me I’m crazy and that I don’t understand. Well the crazy part is still up in the air… but they are right about me not understanding. After they discover that I’m right or I wont listen to their poop shooting mouths, they all have that same expression on their face. An expression with a smirk or a negative shake of the head that says loud and clear… I AM A HISPTER DOUCHEBAG. This process is actually negative due to the fact that it re-enforces their individuality and status as a musical know it all. They walk away thinking they were right in telling that this mundanely epic band is amazing, which makes it that much more special… because fuckwads like me just don’t get it.
Well this fuckwad knows better than that.
Wanna know what else is amazing and lush with a foreign background?
My shit after Ive eaten Indian food. Eat it.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Big Red Angry!! Big Red Smash!! // May 31, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Well now the gauntlet has been thrown down! Call me a douchebag if you will but I am a great admirer of these fellas. I don’t consider myself a hippie and for the record I care not for Phish or Widespread Panic, so in my opinion lumping Sigur Ros in with this mess is Shear Madness! And you name me one show you attended where there were no hippies and I will eat your poop and call it chocolate mousse. As far as the indistinguishable lyrics, I know I’ve heard ‘fuck nintendo’ somewhere in one of their songs. Anyway there’s my two cents- sorry you don’t care for them Danny but to each his own…and I hate (insert your favorite band name here) ,so face!!
2 madsilver // Jun 1, 2008 at 1:34 am
its true they suck balls, i feel the same, phish is actually better than this by far, and i hate phish. but i love shrimp, i know weird.
3 Jared: Agaetis Byrjun // Jun 1, 2008 at 12:20 pm
The songs are slow, but they don’t make albums that you listen to while you drive to work, you put them on in the background while you are having a conversation. If you pay attention to the music, then you can feel the emotion that the artist has created. You don’t need to speak Italian to understand an opera, and for most of their catalog, they don’t sing in Icelandic either, but rather it is a secret language invented by the singer.
This is only to say that not understanding the words is a reason to hate something.
The fact that it is slow is part of the point of the music. Allow your self to feel the movements of the music as you would the currents in the ocean and you may change your mind.
Sigur Ros, the band
Paints with sound and audience
Reads feeling through dance
*Haiku*
4 Emily // Jun 1, 2008 at 3:29 pm
FYI their lyrics are in no language at all. They are merely vocal sounds.
5 Lardy Be // Jun 1, 2008 at 4:01 pm
They are soooo 2001. (And not of the Stanley Kubrick variety.)
6 Ah whatever Matthew Zager // Jun 1, 2008 at 8:10 pm
but rather it is a secret language invented by the singer.
Allow your self to feel the movements of the music as you would the currents in the ocean and you may change your mind.
I have never listened to this band, but given the two comments from someone i assume is a fan of theirs, I can honestly say I would rather sit around and listen to a lo-fi recording of my dick slapping againgst my thigh.
7 Danny Anus // Jun 2, 2008 at 10:14 am
A secret language? Fuck them up thier stupid asses with a giant Flying-V guitar playing blues riffs.
8 Jessica // Jun 2, 2008 at 11:20 am
I don’t even know who the F these people are. Does this show how uncool I really am? I looked them up but couldn’t understand a damn word that they where saying. I’m with Danny on this one, they suck.
9 dave // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:04 pm
While I’ll agree with your assessment of their music, I can’t really agree with you calling Iceland a “frozen tundra.” Although Iceland has a very cool climate, Greenland is actually the frozen tundra.
10 Danny Anus // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Dear Dave,
I cant believe that it took that long for anyone to comment about that. You got me.
Love Danny Anus
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