Excerpts from the SR MB:
( ) i find to be very isolating. I come out feeling very disconnected from the world, like, un-earthed.
I would say that their music intensifies whatever I'm feeling at the moment. The same track that gives me giddy chills one day might make me feel like crying the next.
yeah, listen to sigur rós hurts. just raw pain, nothing else that usually comes with it.. like anger all jealousy or somesuch. i usually get angry when i get hurt, it's a self defense mechanism. but i never get that with sigur rós, just the lonliness kind of pain, the kind that doesn't make you bawl but just makes single tears roll down your face.
Next day I got agaetis byrjun, just wanted to have a glance at it that evening and got completely taken away for the next 4 hours, listening to it again and again, wondering how it could be, that that wonderful song I heard was accompanied by so many even more and more beautiful tracks.... well, that's about it...
svefn-g-englar was one of six recommended downloads. I sat there with the headphones on and tears streaming down my face. then I had some serious trouble adjusting to the later knowledge that Jónsi was a boy, cos I thought that was the sexiest voice I'd ever heard!
Sigur Rós is the energy to my life
Is anyone here trapped in a reclusive circle of pain?
i have no friends..but really, i am not going to depress myself no more...
ive never really had any friends. it gets boring. (more boring than meaningless chit-chat and posturing/manipulation i dont know)
But people like me sure get a bad wrap don't we? We get strange looks, and we stand alone in crowds. And we wonder why people don't want to talk to us.
just put on () , go to untitled #3 and start reading. Time will fly, and your imagination will soar!
I've been feeling so alone that... I created a sort of imaginary friends and now I'm writing a soap opera.
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack someone else couldn't describe in words why this song is so incredible, and really neither can i. something to do with the soul-filling gorgeousity of that first harp chord though.
I feel your pain man. This excerpt from my journal mirrors your own feelings check it out:
I can't keep myself from playing the fool. I wander around in a
daze of retarded fervor for everyones giddy amusement. When I am low
everyone is higher. I give myself willingly to the collective of human
thought and temperment. All those around me shall benefit. I am the pit
of despair. I am the fool's fool. I am the dirt one scrapes off their
shoe before entering a putrid outhouse. I am in last place. Humanity
will benefit from this. I give myself openly, prostrating everything I
am to everyone around me, showing my scars and begging them to reopen
them with their sharp eyes and slicing tongues. I grovel beneath the
feet of the most foul urchin and beg him to give me his pity. I drink
it all in from a neverending well of this mutilated, nasty, disgusting,
source of energy. I breathe in the smog of a thousand nuclear power
plants gloriously languishing within its sweet abyssal rancid benefits
of machoism.
My insides shrivel and die as I relentlessly return to this
state of mind. I fight back the tears as they pile up to the top of my
skull, my head titled backwards and my teeth nashing with feral
intensity. My breath is long and sounds like a sick dog panting away
its last shallow but heavy sighs. And I despise myself for claiming
this to be a selfless cause for all others. I despise that I can lie to
myself so easily and take it for golden truth. I cry because I do not
know how to distinguish what true gold looks like. I ramble on and on,
in a continous state of self denial. Denying that I exist amongst
others and hating that I am not a god. I must have this special talent
in order for my life to take place. If I don't find it I will never get
out of this sickening swamp of pity, despair and reckless abuse of my
own good-will.
*sigh*
I'm nearly drowning in their heavenly music. Wanna have more interaction with all ppl who love the band.
well...this might not appear to be sigur ros related, but it is...first off, i really started getting in sigur ros when ( ) came out...it change something about my life. reading about how the band doesn't use drugs with their music made me realize that their music is genuine...genuine emotion, rather than, well, superficial emotion i suppose.
i try and live this life of...well, a life that's slightly inspired by ( ), if that makes sense...
The thoughts that accompany the music are often too beautiful for me to accept and I must admit that I must let some pass on into the night and wait for me to come back to someday. Sometimes its just too overwhelming. The thoughts that I do catch to their music though are devastatingly strong portraits of beauty, hope and love. They are the eternal beautiful moments that have been with all of us since birth and will remain there until death and somewhere beyond.
Seems to open a broader expanse in my own personal consciousness. Certainly they magnify any particular mood, but I too, feel a release, even an awakening of my faculties during and afterwards.
i'm hyper ventalating. and i feel like merging into it now. I'm doomed and reborn in the same instance. If you save me your damning me. But please, please save me...
Yesterday while you were playing in Athnes, I travelled through the time, I travelled back to my childhood.. Some tears left from my eyes while I was listening to your magical, elf-dreming music and I saw myself 5 years old again laughing, playing, being happy, like your little girl in the video. What else can I say? There are no words to describe the feeling of the yesterday night Wish you love and hapiness
Someone had just turn in on through the store speakers outloud.. Usially I don't buy things I don't know, but that..... I've heard it and it had fit so much to the things I was into those days... Like faith, existence, meaning of life and spirituality and that kinda stuff..
Purely Enlightening, Music that can change your perception
As
a pure lover of music and as a professional musician myself, there is
no music that is more beautifully constructed like Sigur Ros. The whole
band sounds as if one instrument, Jonsi's brilliant hopelandic singing
is like a heavenly voice, and his guitar bowing, although not
revolutionary, really adds to their sound, and has inspired me so much
that I now bow my electric bass in the same style as Jonsi
I have to say that their film clips, especially untitled #1 has moved
me so much, that i almost have to include that song in my daily
routine, and i have shown the video clip to so many people it has
changed their lives entirely too.
P.S. are you making fun of my potentialy debilitated mind?
Is it just me or can life seem fucking empty sometimes? u listen to music that often has the ability to lift u emotionally more than anything in real life ever can.... or do i lead a shitty depressing life? sigr ros create music so beautiful - will life ever be that good........ heavy stuff - and a load of bollocks think i need to lighten up
Music is a big part of my life, 'cause the rest of it fucking sucks.
sigur ros- svefn-g-englar...i cried the first time i listened to it... the humanity of it all was overwhelming for me.
Me and my (ex)boyfriend went over to see sigur ros in tokyo last april (he's from bangkok, me from the uk)...met jonsi backstage after waiting after the show for about 3 hours....we both fell in love with him instantly...heartbeats were racing....made compete idiots of ourselves in front of him...had our photo taken with him and have photographic evidence that he was touching both mine and my boyfriends ass....we have both been fighting since about who jonsi fancied from the 2 of us...We have been split since a week after the show.
hmmm............who could be able to answer to this question.......................why it is so that sometimes there are days when I can hear it and sometimes not? It means - sometimes I turn on the cd and I just can hear it and not be able to do something else, but sometimes my thoughts take me away and then there is the moment when I recognize that the cd is ''done'' and there is silence............why my thoughts and brain hear the music soometimes and sometimes not? it is hard to understand...
i love vaka, but sometimes i dont know whether to smile or weep. its immeasurable beauty penetrates the recesses of my heart and soul with luminous radiance. the video is enough to make anyone burst with the exuberance of a miraculous life.
just wanted to say that ok computer is my favorite album of all time, but when i listen to ( ) it means more than music to me. Im sure theres people who know what im on about. ( ) is a drug for me.
does anyone think this song is the best listening-ocassion of their life? Like, I think its in the drumming, but, nah. Its the bowed guitar... And I thank god for this, cos I understand now- bowed guitar is the princess step thro any song. Still cant believe the precision thats got here, cos its real hard to play guitar with a bow. Is it a tuning thing? Or just heaps of love?
I'm very happy I found the srmb, because it's like finding a meadow full of fantastic unicorns that want to prance and celebrate along with me the music from this tremendous band.
Within minutes of listening I found that my limbs were going numb, my fingers and toes got all tingly, my head got a little dizzy, my heart started racing, and my face became flush.
thank you Sigur Ros for making music and taking my mind off to a level of inconciousnes and extasis that can only be compared with sex.
for example, i remember when i first heard glosoli i nearly burst (sexually and emotionally). but that's life :)
tell me about it man, sr is just like, so inspiational, i wish i could be brisked off by elves to a natural spring water source, bottle my own water right there and pour it all over my naked body, then i cry.
Too blown away by the beauty of the words and the meaning he seems to be so eloquently elucidating throughout this absolute masterpiece. Looking forward even more now to cranking up the old SE530's and just bathing in the exquisite & delightful recording/mixing & mastering of this multi layered blisscake
I lost my virginity to Ny Batteri.. so it's epic and calming for me.
I fell in love with Sigur Rós @ Latitude Festival 2008, you made me cry my heart out in front of people i would never cry in front of. I now own all Sigur Rós material i can find. I can't believe music can penetrate so many hearts and minds.
I get the sense their music has the power to tranform ones life. That if one were to never have heard the band before and you were to play Vaka or Untitled 8 for them, they would say their lives was changed forever.
My most enduring SR experience was when I saw them live at Glastonbury circa 2003. Last song I was in tears, slumped to the ground.
I'd known of the band for years before, but this was my first time seeing them live. It was mesmerising.
Afterwards I returned to my tent with friends equally affected and after about 30 mins I realised I had lost my wallet and phone. Frantically, I went back and begged to be let into the arena to look at main stage / they refused before I wore them down... Went back and stage still had their stuff, and it was me and The memory of the show. Had a look around and wallet and phone were sitting, I can only imagine as dumbfounded by The beauty and intensity of The show as the thousands watching who clearly cared more about The show than nicking a fellow festival goers stuff, or even notice it.
This song is like lying supine in a crystalline stream in the woods with warm spring water washing over your body while watching stars twinkle in the night sky above.
music like this is for me personally like jumping off a cliff, flying, very much like these kids in Glosoli do. you just have to conciously let go, and dream.
Imagine they all died after the last album. In that case, this is like out from beyond the grave.
(if you find one of your own comments there and can prove to me that it was indeed sarcastic, i may remove it, just ask nicely)