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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 04/29/2013 14:00
- Post subject: World album of the day (#243): Takk... by Sigur Rós
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Today's world album of the day
Takk... by Sigur Rós (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2005.
Country: 
Overall rank: 222
Average rating: 81/100 (from 241 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Takk
2. Glosoli
3. Hoppipolla
4. Meo Blodnasir
5. Se Lest
6. Saeglopur
7. Milano
8. Gong
9. Andvari
10. Svo Hljott
11. Heysatan
About world album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com world album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours, but not including albums from Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom or United States. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of world album of the day can be viewed here.
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- #2
- Posted: 04/29/2013 14:04
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This is one band that just does absolutely nothing for me. I just think they're incredibly boring. It's pretty, but it's also inoffensive and lightweight. I don't dislike them, per se, but I find it a chore sitting through a whole album. This was the first one I heard (I've given at least two of their others a fair chance too), and I went out and bought it following a friend's recommendation. I just... I just don't see what everyone else sees in them, I guess. Ah well, my loss.
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meccalecca
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- #3
- Posted: 04/29/2013 14:14
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| lethalnezzle wrote: | | This is one band that just does absolutely nothing for me. I just think they're incredibly boring. It's pretty, but it's also inoffensive and lightweight. I don't dislike them, per se, but I find it a chore sitting through a whole album. This was the first one I heard (I've given at least two of their others a fair chance too), and I went out and bought it following a friend's recommendation. I just... I just don't see what everyone else sees in them, I guess. Ah well, my loss. |
You're one of the ones here I have the most respect for when it comes to taste, so I think you'll wanna give this more time. What seemed to be pretty, inoffensive and lightweight is actually one of the darkest, most tense listens I've ever experienced. Sigur Ros has a very strange effect that way. Jonsi's vocals and some of the elements have a way of making it seem delicate. This album in particular is absolutely haunting. I've seen this band 3 times, and in the live setting this music makes far more sense. It's the closest thing to a religious experience I've had.
There are times I cannot listen to Takk because it's so emotionally impactful, which is why it's not #1 on my chart. But if based only on live experience, Takk would be #1 without a doubt.
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Dingerbell
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Age: 29
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- Posted: 04/29/2013 14:21
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Stunning, beautiful and transcending. When listening to this, you feel like you just slip out of time.
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- #5
- Posted: 04/29/2013 14:56
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Meh. This album is really just meh. Agreed with Lethal.
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Norman Bates
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Age: 53
Location: Paris, France 
- #6
- Posted: 04/29/2013 14:58
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| lethalnezzle wrote: | | I just think they're incredibly boring. |
This, with the occasional very nice song (here, "Glosoli").
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- #7
- Posted: 04/29/2013 15:29
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One man's boring is another one's exciting; so the dichotomy is useless in discussing music even as a subjective view because there's no plausible way of connecting these two poles. As for Sigur Rós I would say that with a pop listener in mind it can't get any more offensive than incorporating unintelligible lyrics with extreme falsetto voice after testing everyone's patience with 10-minute-long electronic or cello/string drones making listeners easily set the scene for upcoming events (or just merely setting a scene; I bet you wouldn't mind looking at a sea or an autumn scenery for 10 minutes and you would certainly not dismiss it as being dull) but at the price of being called "boring" or using cello bows on highly echoed/delayed guitar making somewhat cacophonous sound but equally defining a band's unique/unprecedented sound and from a cultural point of view, being openly gays and nudists. That's shaking the habitual done right there again.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Paris, France
- #8
- Posted: 04/29/2013 15:34
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| tekin wrote: | | One man's boring is another one's exciting; so the dichotomy is useless in discussing music even as a subjective view because there's no plausible way of connecting these two poles. As for Sigur Rós I would say that with a pop listener in mind it can't get any more offensive than incorporating unintelligible lyrics with extreme falsetto voice after testing everyone's patience with 10-minute-long electronic or cello/string drones making listeners' easily set the scene for upcoming events but at the price of being called "boring" or using cello bows on highly echoed/delayed guitar making somewhat cacophonous sound but equally defining a band's unique/unprecedented sound and culturally being openly gays and nudists. That's shaking the habitual done right again. |
Er... this means you like Takk, right?
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- #9
- Posted: 04/29/2013 15:38
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Er... this means you like Takk, right? |
That doesn't say anything like that but there are other ways of checking that out.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Paris, France
- #10
- Posted: 04/29/2013 15:39
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| tekin wrote: | | That doesn't say anything like that but there are other ways of checking that out. |
Clue taken, way found, point checked out successfully.
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