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Seriously, give it up.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28771

Lol opinons, but you're wrong.

Aside from that, I don't understand your point. Like all these I hate whatever-band threads. Good for you, well done.

You know, 'The Pussycat Dolls'.

Shame on you Everett. Shame on you...

It's all T&A innit? [/safety wink]

Sigur Ros/Air/Moby/Doves/Elbow etc all those bands that have their music used on television are far too easy targets, it's the modern day equivalent of dissing Sting. Everett True needs to slay some sacred cows and generate some real controversy.

and doesn't really understand the function of music.

well i suppose you are Sigur Ros fans, so it does kinda tie up. The guy doesn't like a band you like. The guy doesn't feel any emotion or meaning behind the music whilst you do. Big whoop. You could argue that such subjective things as emotional resonance shouldn't be framed as a fact piece, but music journalist in stating opinion as fact shocker etcetera. I happen to think that SR are flat, emotionless, irritating and dull, a worthless facsimile of proper music.. but hey, that's just me. Maybe you should all stop crying about what some guy on the internet thinks about a band you like and instead go cry at the "glacial beauty" of your favourite Icelandic knobjockeys

what a pile of fuckin' bilge.

I quite like some Sigur Rós though

Seriously Ev, give it up, stick with the underachieving indie piffle you've loved all your life, you are a grumpy old man and no one cares.

Some of that article is brilliant as Sigur Ros are shockingly poor. I like the rockist comparisons, also.

thanks

I really dont understand how they became so sucessful, their first album showed promise but by the time of their 2nd they were kind of laughing stocks, post rock try hards, but then made it in america and everyone forgot, weird

..."series" is seriously the most mind-numbingly pointless thing i've seen on this board in a while. seriously, there is absolutely nothing revolutionary in you not liking two or three of the biggest bands on the planet.

....vitamin B, starved of sunlight, living so far up his own bum hole.

He's probably happy with that...

Now I'm waiting for :
Defending The Indefensible – 5: Johnny Foreigner...

When you're just moaning on about it like some drunken grandad? BRILLIANT DEFENCE

apx. eleven funnier and more worthwhile ways to slap Sigur Ros around. First of all, their own language? what are you, 4? I've never gotten over how idiotic that sounds.

and I really like sigur ros.

NEXT

god they're shite/boring

'fine, so what?' band you could say you hate. i don't get why you're doing this.

I liked that. And I hate you.

In what sick world are Sigur Ros considered "indefensible"? Is it from getting their music featured in kitschy television shows? Last time I checked Agaetis Byrjun and to a lesser extent () were considered classics.

See, the fact that it’s none of these things is why I love it. I love that it’s overblown and ridiculous, for the same reasons I love Muse. I love that it’s as cringey as a Miranda July short story about butterflies jizzing over grannies. The wishy-washiness, the utter naivety of it all is what gives it such wonder. Like Justice and HEALTH and The Hold Steady, they make modern day alt- stadium rock.

Yeah their gigs now feel like class//art//wanker tourism. Yes, the whole concept of Hopelandic is as bananas as Peter Gabriel and I don’t disagree that they verge on background muzak but, and this is a big wobbly but, I don’t see nothing wrong with their Eno-ish background beige-ness because often it’s ‘nice’ (Lydon’s least favourite word) for things to just drift away in the background, occasionally brushing your ear like a cat that’s just come in from the snow.

Maybe it’s because it’s gateway music, designed to captivate as many people wot-don’t-usually-like-that-kinda-fing as possible, that makes them so appealing, especially to cretinous fools like me trying to find an audience for the OTHER music I love. They’re a magazine editor’s creamiest of dreams because people, people who don’t usually get drawn left of centre of the road, actually (have the potential to) like them. It’s almost worth celebrating them, like Busted or Silverchair or The Spice Girls as less hateful-than-the-average fly traps.

Me, I like them but not as much as I did 8 years ago.

or the words are stuck together with such acidic vitriol that the anger becomes quite balletic in its flow

but this is neither of those things.

i'll make the lad a template so he can just c&p instead of writing another one out

'hey...you know....(successful 'indie' band that no one has really been bothered to disuss the merits off for the last four years)

they are so fucking shit? why doesn't everyone think they're so shit? i think they're shit? god i HATE them SO much

id much rather listen to (successful pop bad that would'nt raise a single eyebrow if someone admitted to thinking they were a good pop band with catchy songs)

god...how topsy turvy is that?...me rather listen to the pop band? IS THE SKY FALLING!!111!!'

what a bloody hero.

And I wouldn't have much trouble writing a more cogent panning of them than this blog post.

Uber-troll.

whether Everett really cares about some of these little blogs he posts links to... they're not really articles so much as short opinion pieces designed to get a click and a rise out of people. Following him on twitter and occasionally reading his blogs, he seems to be constantly fretting over whether enough people are reading them, like maybe he misses the rise more than he misses the writing. I accidentally stumbled across a Screaming Trees interview he did in the 90s and I thought "fuck, this is brilliant". I know he's isolated in Melbourne with a young family and a degree to be thinking of, but I wish a little of the old True would come back instead of just trolling for hits.

As for Sigur Ros - er, I dunno, good live, find it quite hard to care otherwise? I like that one about animals.

...think Mr Lukowski is missing the point.

Incidentally, I've updated the blog post to include a well-argued reply from someone on the Sigur Ros message board.... um, if anyone's interested....

...posted a great reply on my PhD blog.

but how good are "Grizzly Bear"? "

FAIL

I remember reading a crappy review somewhere that mentioned that they had various celeb fans such as Brad Pitt and have kept a wide birth since then. Doesn't sound like I'm missing much!

I think Everett may have a point:)

think the bit that said 'its like radiohead...' kind of proved a point seeing as sigur rós are nothing like radiohead. they annoyed me with takk and most things they have done after ( ) but whatever

yeah

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as is Vio Spilum Endalaust

:)

SPOT ON!!!!!

The bed wetters that you mention have posted above.

(now where was that Bloc Party thread)

make beautiful music. Most people still wouldn't care if they hadn't been picked up by the TV/Movies. They didn't start making music to make a buck, it's clearly from some gutteral/emotional place....It aint prog its something more refreshing than that, it may be over blown but its not pretentious.You're aiming your fire at the wrong target, you should be looking at nu-sigur ros fans and not blaming the band themselves.

Coldplay are the act that make overblown music for people who don't want to think.Sigur Ros make beautiful music that leads people to expand their usical horizons, I for one think that makes them very defendable....

Everett, you crack me up. I think we are as bitter as each other maybe.