Wouldn't Sigur Ros be 50 times better if they sang in English?

xSmackSoundx
xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
edited June 2008 in Other Music
Nobody can even understand WTF he is even saying... That is what turns me off to most of their music... it has good emotion but it means nothing to me in any way... and its not even beautiful (just the language, Not the music)... at some parts the language actually sounds kind of nasty with the german "ch" sound
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    If they did that, you'd find out most of their songs aren't about glaciers after all, but about haddock.
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Wouldn't it be better if everyone everywhere just spoke and sang in English?
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  • Benzor
    Benzor Posts: 886
    wow
  • xSmackSoundx
    xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Wouldn't it be better if everyone everywhere just spoke and sang in English?

    Yes.
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    Yes.


    Wouldn't it be better if everyone was also white while they spoke and sang in English?
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  • xSmackSoundx
    xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Wouldn't it be better if everyone was also white while they spoke and sang in English?

    I see what your getting at... and no I'm not racist... I just like to understand what i'm hearing..
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    I see what your getting at... and no I'm not racist... I just like to understand what i'm hearing..


    So, of course, everyone should sing and speak your language?
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  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    i don't think it would be as good

    there's a chance that the lyrics wouldn't be awesome

    i think they are perfect the way they are
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    its not even like its pure icelandic theyre singing in... from what i understand they even take liberties with their own language... dr. suessian type shit... so its more about the audio experience and less about you or anyone else understanding it

    personally i like it... i cant fall asleep to music with clear lyrics cause i get too caught up listening and interpretting and shit... with sigur ros i just turn it on and relax so easily

    im a fan of italian opera and shit though... so i can care less if i understand something... as long as i like the sounds
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQcVXBynXs
  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    No no no!
    They have songs about jumping in puddles! I'd rather not understand the lyrics, they're beautiful sounds :) Understanding them would be the biggest anticlimax ever; instead of thinking how cool it'd sound I'd be thinking about how lame the lyrics are!
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  • xSmackSoundx
    xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    eyedclaar wrote:
    So, of course, everyone should sing and speak your language?

    Yes, but it doesn't have to be english... I'm just saying it would be nice for everyone to understand everything anyone else says... Universal language or way of communicating... I wish I could understand Sigur Ros but I can't so the music is virtually meaningless
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    Yes, but it doesn't have to be english... I'm just saying it would be nice for everyone to understand everything anyone else says... Universal language or way of communicating... I wish I could understand Sigur Ros but I can't so the music is virtually meaningless

    I thought music was a universal language?
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  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    they'd be 50 times better if they never picked up any instruments again.
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  • xSmackSoundx
    xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I thought music was a universal language?

    Music has limited meaning... words have unlimited meaning...
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    lol...self centered much? :D
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    Music has limited meaning... words have unlimited meaning...

    Actually, it's probably the other way around. Which is pretty much the entire point of your thread, surely?
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  • xSmackSoundx
    xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Actually, it's probably the other way around. Which is pretty much the entire point of your thread, surely?

    No, i'm right... just think about it...
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    No, i'm right... just think about it...

    If words had unlimited meaning, then Sigur Ros' music could have meaning to you no matter what language it was in.
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  • LongRhode
    LongRhode Posts: 93
    Guessing you are not a Cocteau Twins fan then.... they pretty much made up a language for the majority of their existence.

    Beautiful music though so it never really mattered..
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