This was the last song i played for my grandmother as the nurses unplugged her from life support in her comatose state. She opened her eyes for a brief moment (the doctors explained that these movements were all involuntary reactions) but it felt like an eternity. I could see the universe in the glisten of her stare. I could see her entire life in the tears that slowly streamed from her pupils. Although she went too soon , it was a beautiful death. RIP Mami Bita. I miss you everyday
:( I hope she's resting in peace. And I hope you're okay too. Be strong. Im glad this was the last thing she could listen to, as this is so very beautiful that im sure she must be at peace too.
Rest in paradise my love #bita the woman/human to show me the purest form of love I've ever known and likely to understand the rest of my days on earth. Can't wait to tiptoe the clouds holding your hand ❤️❤️❤️
I remember one time I was sitting in my car in the parking lot of my university in between classes. This song came on my phone and I zoned out completely for the entirety of its duration. Just staring at the trees and listening. It’s been 6 years since that, I don’t see my friends from that time period very much anymore, I got a job and I’m happy. But this song will always remind me of that time and how much simpler life was back then. When I could zone out in my car and then go back to my friends. I miss those guys.
This is my favorite song. I have no comparison; I have little by which to gauge it. But I have yet to hear another song with this level of emotional gravity. Damn.
esto es hermoso, sufro depresión, pero al escuchar esta música siento que puedo volver a ponerme de pie, a creer de alguna manera en la vida. Sin duda una obra de arte magnífica
@@DiegoSLLC La musica ayuda con subir nuestro animo, pero no puede sanar la depresión, dado que es un trastorno mental y necesita terapia y medicina. No hay nada de malo en buscar ayuda.
@@DiegoSLLC es simplemente un recordatorio pa ti, y pa cualquier persona que vea tu comentario, que substituto pa ayuda profesional no hay. No te ralles.
I remember I was sitting home one day at the end of grade 9 feeling really bummed about a lot of things, marks, parents relationships and all. Then I stumbled across this song and for 6 minutes and 47 seconds I just stared outside my window and had some peace. 6 years later still listening to this song.
lying at the bottom of the deep tunnel of depression, broken and mangled. But instead of seeing no way out I see a slight bit of light creep in that illuminates me with hope that there might be a way of out of this treacherous place in life. That is what I hear when I listen to this song.
the day i finally nailed this on the piano was one of the prouder days in my life. screw graduation. this song is...just so exquisite. i play it all the time, but even then, the emotions i feel whilst playing are no where near the amount that i feel when i just close my eyes and surround myself with the intense sound that is this song.
"And there, in front of them, in the room with us, stood the family, their outlines barely visible within the weight of the room's light. It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn't, and we weren't."
This has got to be one of my favorite clips/videos ft. good music of all time.. Great cinematography (not the right term, but I think you get the idea). Just lovely.
I wrote the following whilst switching between this and another song. Hope it resonatesd with someone. In a blanket of soft white crystal light across the darkest oceans and coldest night I'll take you Let go, release the fear and we'll fly I'll take you in to the dream A space of limitless devine In this place, love defies death Take my hand We'll fall in like a feather In love, forever...
@ssaiyan3 thats just how i feel. ive been crying these last couple cuz I finally found true love but the distance keeps us apart. we stopped talking less and less this couple of days but before when we started noticing that it was getting complicated because of the distance we made a promise that if we ever stop talking to find each other in 3 years. God bless Sigur Ros for helping me get thru this
A song with such emotion, yet not a single word. It's just amazing. I agree try listening to this when your high, it gives off a different perspective. But this video, its amazing. Fantastic job.
Most beautiful song I have ever learned to play on my piano. It s so beautiful.. Life itself in the form of a song. Samskeyti is so amazing. Sigur Rós, how did you create something so full of emotion? I am jealous. Sigur Rós has more passion in one song than I have in my whole entire being:( Sigur Rós is amazing!
this song just makes me feel... happy inside. even though it reminds me the hard parts of my life (and there are few) it makes me feel happy in a way i just can't describe.. this is the only song in the world that does it to me... and like "djrea4815' said, it washes away all my fears and troubles. it is amazing how one song does it to you. thank you sigur ros.
one of my favorite instrumental songs...one of the best ever written, in my opinion. thank you sigur ros, you are such an amazing and talented, beautiful band.
This is the best song of all time. I've gone through every song I've ever loved, written it forwards, backwards and sideways, picked them apart and listened to them all hundreds of times, and I can confirm that this is my all time favorite, because it is the only song to give me an unbreakable sense of peace and beauty. It takes me to another place where I can be calm and clear and thought in ways that I never could otherwise.
Quelle musique qui s'adresse directement aux personnes qui sont mort comme mon père il y a 5 ans c'est magistral et d'une puissance émotionnelle rare et surtout ne jamais les oublier.
ive read lots of comments here and its funny how many of us burst into tears while listening to this song, but most important, many of us feel this strange and sickening emotion of huge hope and deep sadness at the same time. its just magical, I feel myself running both sides of this spctrum of feelings, I want to cry and shout and yet smile and love. This is pure genious, what every musician out there tries to do their entire life; fuck up someone from inside with just a melody.
Great locations and very well shot! The only thing I find a little bit disapointing is that it's in black/white. To me colors symbolise the mood of the song and the album () more. A Clear blue sky, white snow, leaveless trees, and and orange sun just coming over the tops. This of course is my own interpetation, and was Sigur Rós' intention.
@sarahlikesramen @sarahlikesramen me too!!!!!!!!!, but i already listen sigur ros, in fact the "()" album is great, but when i see the song in this movie... , i think "THIS IS SIGUR ROS... ". I wanted to cry but i couldn't, the movie is a little heavy, is a great movie, but i little hard, the history is... you know :P My favorite Sigur ros's song from my favorite Sigur ros album. Cheers for the movie and Sigur Ros!.
@sarahlikesramen me too!!!!!!!!!, but i already listen sigur ros, in fact the "()" album is great, but when i see the song in this movie... , i think "THIS IS SIGUR ROS... ". I wanted to cry but i cannot, the movie is a little heavy, is a great movie, but i little hard, the history is... you know :P My favorite Sigur ros's song from my favorite Sigur ros album. Cheers for the movie and Sigur Ros!.
Same here. Altho i know them longer than 1 week i only know them for a year or so. DIdn't like the songs of them that they played on the radio. But then i saw a documentary of their country Iceland and it was full of this kind of music by sigur ros and i was instantly sold ! Try "Von" wich is also a great song like this.
10.11.23 Holy Moses this is odd. Not knew that song before, but ur video hit hard to home. All I can imagine is my other half. We met the first official time in 1998/1999 in a comic store. Smart like a crow and funny as well.YT counts here: 17 years ago
@invisibleninjakitty yeah but the combination between chords and notes is just godlike. the piano part I think is in 3/4 timing while the chords are in 4/4 so the chords hit on a different note each time during the loop. i wish i could've written this.
I thought of all the grief and sadness... and fucked up suffering in the world... and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just... Ieave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear. - Mysterious Skin
From a musical standpoint, I feel like no matter how many instruments they add to accompany this, the feeling of the song will not be added to or taken away from in the least. This is truly what is meant when they say something is transcendent.
I am confident if we played this song world wide, from the furthest city to our closest neighbors most of us would stop, some would cry, others would wonder why but the smartest would realize emotions like these are one of the most amazing gifts we can feel.
This song is on our playlist at work. It took me hearing the song five times before I was able to go to the back to see what it was. I think this song sounds so beautiful, and it's one of my favorite songs that plays at work. I always listen for it. This one and Falling Slowly from the movie Once but I don't know which version of the song it is. Anyway, I love this song. It's amazing.
It's funny how people describe this song as making them ponder things. I find it to be Dettol for the brain. Wipes away every unnecessary thought for 6 minutes 47 seconds. I'm relaxed. Yet, at the same time (0.59) something inside me is screwing up into a knot, scarcely able to believe the power of a single piece of music to reduce this supposedly cold unemotional young woman to just her rawest and most bare emotions. Each of us here, we can count ourselves lucky that we found this masterpiece
That doesn't sound lame. I think what bray was trying to say is "I am too young to understand the beauty of emotions that songs can bring out." Song makes me think of a star-y sky. And the last lines of the movie Mysterious Skin. "I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear." So that's what I imagine. Disappearing into the night sky.
@on3w1ng4ng3l Pianos shake and move me more than anything. Especially when they're either by themselves or accompanied by an orchestra, hopefully a mostly "backgrounding" one that shapes around the piano. Cellos are amazing in this way. I'm in love with Joe Hisaishi's piano and orchestrated music, and this is right up my alley even though it's a very different mood/sound than Hisaishi's. Can you tell it's almost all I listen to? Haha. This is beautiful though, truly.
The music of Sigur Rós is the most meaningful i can imagine. I have been to several concerts here in Norway, and they all gave me the moment of my life. Their music is so powerful and mentally challenging. If you need to be cheered up, then listen to Gobbledigook, Glosoli or Festival, and if you are down and want to cry a little..Samskeyti, Ara Batur or most tracks on the Untitled album will give you a little push.. Thank you Sigur Rós for being the best band in the world!
we live in a global society full of selfish power hungry people. Never will they stop and see what a starving, helpless half dead african family is going through in their life. The hunger and pain they go through. If only those powerful selfish people can put themselves in their shoes and imagine how it would be like for himself to be in that horrible situation. Thats what makes this world fucked up, the selfishness greed for our own needs. =/
" I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate... how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness...and fucked up suffering in the world...and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just... Ieave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear."
listening to them can always take me to somewhere in my mind... not like a memory, but, like you say, within yourself... this happens all the time, but when im high it is really stronger... i dunno what it is but if im blazed and focused on listenin to them my whole body can tingle; like goosebumps, but for mintues on end and over my entire body. i dunno if thats some meditative stuff or what but music is the only thing to create this effect, and none do so more strongly than Sigur Ros
parachutes, riceboy sleeps(jonsi from sigur rós and alex from parachutes), emiliana torrini, steindór andersen, hilmar Örn hilmarsson, johann johannsson, and amiina. they are all icelandic, and most have collaborated with sigur rós a few times. if you're interested in learning more about the icelandic music scene, there is a pretty good documentary that came out not too long ago called screaming masterpiece.
One of the most moving and breathing taking songs by Sigur Ros!! For similar uplifting inspiration, search for this new song: The Inituition - Life Changing Moments HD
uhm well interesting discussion. But...I'm disturbed right now. I'm classically trained in music...I play...I compose...among other things. I have not since Radiohead seen such an amazing band. I don't know how it could be that I am just discovering Sigur Ros this week. CHRIST, HOW MUCH AM I MISSING OUT ON! AND WHAT ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!!!! lol ~Is.
This song is beautiful and the video and images while this song was playing only enhanced it even more! I first heard this at the end of Mysterious Skin, and I have to say that I actually cried, which is unusual for me, because I've never cried at a movie before! This song is just that unbelievably.......beautiful!! (for a lack of a better word...)
It's on "()", aka brackets or the untitled album. It's a tricky album to get to grips with as there are no liner notes of any sort, or even track titles. If you haven't already, have a listen to track 4 from the same album, known either as "untitled 4" or "Njosnavelin". Along with Saeglopur, it's my favourite Sigur Ros track.
I'm somewhat sicked in these days and it still takes me a couple of weeks to get recovered... but this amazing clip makes me realize how happy I am to be alive, able to listen to this and enjoy this world. I can't wait to be healthy again, and I'll keep working hard for it.
I experienced something very sad today, and this song helps me cleaning myself of those emotions. Even though I'll be more sad while listening to this song, it helps me get those emotions out of me and feel better afterward. I will never forget you because you meant so much to me...
This song is so amazingly captivating and intense I just can't see how someone would dislike it. Although we are all entitled to our own personal taste and opinion, whoever doesn't like this song must have to be empty inside not to feel anything when listening to it.
samskeyti means 'attachment'.. the song tells you you have to let go attachment to people,things,etc... and be free... it fills my soul.. thoughts and words are nothing,they cannot compete with the infinity of the song (which is composed on a single arpeggio, only a few notes)...
4:44 in. This song means so much to me, not ashamed to admit it i well up when it gets to that point, It is so powerful, i cant think of any other sound that could make me feel like that. Im not sad, im happy that im given a chance to see al these awesome things...
@gudmundurtomas I'm MORE .... proud to be NOT Icelandic & LOVE & UNDERSTAND Sigur Rós's ideas & masterpieces...that's more valuable...I guess...? also LOVE Björk !!!! She is my fav. female ARTIST ! Can't stop listen her recent masterpiece : WONDERLUST !
Hopelandic is not a speech. It is a set of sounds based on those we utter while pre-figuring or remembering songs. It has no dilectic concepts, no grammar, no words and no othography. it could be described as a Language of the Soul, no practical meaning, but a lot of emotion and feeling. D.R.
15 people were feeling soo good about themselves they closed their eyes and accidently hit the dislike button instead of the like button. this song makes me feel soo happy on the inside and full of emotion that it needs to be put into dance!
Aw, thanks....believe me, I am so grateful to be among like minds and hearts all overflowing for Sigur....seems to be what they do best is fill us with such beautiful music, music unlike anything I have ever heard in my whole life :) THANK YOU!!!
I wished with all my heart that we could just... Leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically disappear.
You have a great taste in movies :)
I also thought that
mysterious..........
This was the last song i played for my grandmother as the nurses unplugged her from life support in her comatose state. She opened her eyes for a brief moment (the doctors explained that these movements were all involuntary reactions) but it felt like an eternity. I could see the universe in the glisten of her stare. I could see her entire life in the tears that slowly streamed from her pupils. Although she went too soon , it was a beautiful death. RIP Mami Bita. I miss you everyday
+soulamazingIRS
my condolences
:( I hope she's resting in peace. And I hope you're okay too. Be strong. Im glad this was the last thing she could listen to, as this is so very beautiful that im sure she must be at peace too.
+soulamazingIRS deep bro, deep
Rest in paradise my love #bita the woman/human to show me the purest form of love I've ever known and likely to understand the rest of my days on earth. Can't wait to tiptoe the clouds holding your hand ❤️❤️❤️
Perfect💗
Almost 15 years since I saw your video here and I still come to listen again and again.
Mysterious skin, saw the movie a few years ago. That ending scene left a hole in my chest, but it also left me this song. I love you, Sigur Ros.
Mysterious Skin. Haunting.
yeah no homo
5:18 i don't know why but this part always gives me goosebumps..
Same Here. IT First Looks Like a Person is appearing in the Field Gazing for one to find,, than I realized ITS a Flower Being touched.
I remember one time I was sitting in my car in the parking lot of my university in between classes. This song came on my phone and I zoned out completely for the entirety of its duration. Just staring at the trees and listening. It’s been 6 years since that, I don’t see my friends from that time period very much anymore, I got a job and I’m happy. But this song will always remind me of that time and how much simpler life was back then. When I could zone out in my car and then go back to my friends. I miss those guys.
This is my favorite song. I have no comparison; I have little by which to gauge it. But I have yet to hear another song with this level of emotional gravity. Damn.
Harold Budd has a few collabs with Brian Eno and Robin Guthrie, you should check those, sure to find something on the same level. ;)
esto es hermoso, sufro depresión, pero al escuchar esta música siento que puedo volver a ponerme de pie, a creer de alguna manera en la vida. Sin duda una obra de arte magnífica
Imagino que en fin no funciono pk solo es una pista de musica, verdad?
Ayuda te reconstruye
@@DiegoSLLC La musica ayuda con subir nuestro animo, pero no puede sanar la depresión, dado que es un trastorno mental y necesita terapia y medicina. No hay nada de malo en buscar ayuda.
@@Mscape7Estás en lo cierto, ¿Alguna otra obviedad que quieras decir?
@@DiegoSLLC es simplemente un recordatorio pa ti, y pa cualquier persona que vea tu comentario, que substituto pa ayuda profesional no hay. No te ralles.
mysterious skin. amazing.
- Chelle.. I'm so lonely.
+ I know.
SKINS ♥
omg
i wonder what happened to brian and neil. i'd like to think something better
Anon Anonymous i hope so. i hope so.
who are they??
@@Nobody-qs3fu they're characters from a film called mysterious skin.
I remember I was sitting home one day at the end of grade 9 feeling really bummed about a lot of things, marks, parents relationships and all. Then I stumbled across this song and for 6 minutes and 47 seconds I just stared outside my window and had some peace.
6 years later still listening to this song.
lying at the bottom of the deep tunnel of depression, broken and mangled. But instead of seeing no way out I see a slight bit of light creep in that illuminates me with hope that there might be a way of out of this treacherous place in life. That is what I hear when I listen to this song.
Sopro de vida, um grito acústico que denuncia o meu sentir...
Explosions in the sky and Sigur ros are two of the most inspirational bands. I cant even begin to explain how greatly appreciated there music is.
Skins - Sid & Michelle
No words can describe how this band makes me feel. I'm proud to be Icelandic.
"Deseé con toda mi alma que pudieramos dejar atrás este mundo, elevarnos como dos ángeles en la noche y desaparecer."
the day i finally nailed this on the piano was one of the prouder days in my life. screw graduation. this song is...just so exquisite. i play it all the time, but even then, the emotions i feel whilst playing are no where near the amount that i feel when i just close my eyes and surround myself with the intense sound that is this song.
I am walking down the isle to this song this summer when I marry the love of MY LIFE! SO AMAZING!
"Posted 10 years ago"
Well shit.
So beautiful , no words .....namaste
Now i know where Porter Robinson got his inspiration for "Sea of Voices."
"I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear."
the boys are back.. amazing movie and soundtrack
End scene, yes!
"And there, in front of them, in the room with us, stood the family, their outlines barely visible within the weight of the room's light. It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn't, and we weren't."
My dad heard this song and he was stunned. He just sat on the couch, motionless, for 6 minutes long
my fave song since I was a teenager xD
honestly the best ambient of the 2000s so far
henrik b kryonics is the second
no doubt that samskeyti will be played for me in my final travel ...
and i hope that eternity sounds like that.... forever
It's beautyful... I love this song and it makes me cry almost every time I listen to it :(
Every time I hear this song I just picture the beach with Sid and Michelle :-) x
This has got to be one of my favorite clips/videos ft. good music of all time.. Great cinematography (not the right term, but I think you get the idea). Just lovely.
I wrote the following whilst switching between this and another song. Hope it resonatesd with someone.
In a blanket of soft white crystal light
across the darkest oceans and coldest night
I'll take you
Let go, release the fear and we'll fly
I'll take you in to the dream
A space of limitless devine
In this place, love defies death
Take my hand
We'll fall in like a feather
In love, forever...
@ssaiyan3 thats just how i feel. ive been crying these last couple cuz I finally found true love but the distance keeps us apart. we stopped talking less and less this couple of days but before when we started noticing that it was getting complicated because of the distance we made a promise that if we ever stop talking to find each other in 3 years. God bless Sigur Ros for helping me get thru this
This is probably my favorite from (). The Hvarf/Heim version is great too.
A song with such emotion, yet not a single word. It's just amazing.
I agree try listening to this when your high, it gives off a different perspective.
But this video, its amazing. Fantastic job.
Soothing!!!
So beautiful...thank you!!!
Inspirated such a lovely concept, it instantly made me think of being inspired and respirated all at once. Quite fitting.
This song is so amazingly beautiful. It makes me sad, but somehow also uplifted.
And why is everyone saying those quotes? I don't get it..?
i feel like im being reborn when i listen to this.. simply breathtaking
Most beautiful song I have ever learned to play on my piano. It s so beautiful.. Life itself in the form of a song. Samskeyti is so amazing. Sigur Rós, how did you create something so full of emotion? I am jealous. Sigur Rós has more passion in one song than I have in my whole entire being:(
Sigur Rós is amazing!
i always listen to this song when i write dramatic parts to my fanfiction stories. some parts make me cry, and it's just.. wow. i love sigur rós. (:
This song will be at my graduation from high school and college, my wedding, and my funeral. It is one of the most important songs in my life.
instantly bawling if the mood is perfect with the drama associated.
No piece of music had ever brought a tear to my eye.. in my life.. untill today
this song just makes me feel... happy inside.
even though it reminds me the hard parts of my life (and there are few) it makes me feel happy in a way i just can't describe..
this is the only song in the world that does it to me... and like "djrea4815' said, it washes away all my fears and troubles. it is amazing how one song does it to you. thank you sigur ros.
It's EXACTLY that. "Huge hope and deep sadness at the same time". It's just beautiful.
This song really knows how to tug at your heartstrings.
This is the most beautiful music I have ever listened to. Stunned by its beauty!
I wanna meet them, not to get an autograph or a picture. But to thank them.
I am crying my eyes out...emotive...evocative...stunning!
I fall asleep and wake up to this song every single day and night.
one of my favorite instrumental songs...one of the best ever written, in my opinion. thank you sigur ros, you are such an amazing and talented, beautiful band.
This masterpiece made me cry. And it was good! Thank you, Sigur Ros!
One of the most beautiful songs ever I can't stop listening to it...its so haunting ^_^
skins brought me here...Lovely song,so powerful.
This song is an absolute GEM!
2017?
My heart cry .... ♥
Mysterious Skin :'(
This is the best song of all time. I've gone through every song I've ever loved, written it forwards, backwards and sideways, picked them apart and listened to them all hundreds of times, and I can confirm that this is my all time favorite, because it is the only song to give me an unbreakable sense of peace and beauty. It takes me to another place where I can be calm and clear and thought in ways that I never could otherwise.
if god exist... its in this song
It is so relaxing! I love it!
Quelle musique qui s'adresse directement aux personnes qui sont mort comme mon père il y a 5 ans c'est magistral et d'une puissance émotionnelle rare et surtout ne jamais les oublier.
ive read lots of comments here and its funny how many of us burst into tears while listening to this song, but most important, many of us feel this strange and sickening emotion of huge hope and deep sadness at the same time. its just magical, I feel myself running both sides of this spctrum of feelings, I want to cry and shout and yet smile and love. This is pure genious, what every musician out there tries to do their entire life; fuck up someone from inside with just a melody.
Great locations and very well shot! The only thing I find a little bit disapointing is that it's in black/white. To me colors symbolise the mood of the song and the album () more. A Clear blue sky, white snow, leaveless trees, and and orange sun just coming over the tops. This of course is my own interpetation, and was Sigur Rós' intention.
And while i listen I have my cat snuggled in my arms with its paw upon my cheek while sleeping :)
@sarahlikesramen @sarahlikesramen me too!!!!!!!!!, but i already listen sigur ros, in fact the "()" album is great, but when i see the song in this movie... , i think "THIS IS SIGUR ROS... ".
I wanted to cry but i couldn't, the movie is a little heavy, is a great movie, but i little hard, the history is... you know :P
My favorite Sigur ros's song from my favorite Sigur ros album.
Cheers for the movie and Sigur Ros!.
@sarahlikesramen me too!!!!!!!!!, but i already listen sigur ros, in fact the "()" album is great, but when i see the song in this movie... , i think "THIS IS SIGUR ROS... ".
I wanted to cry but i cannot, the movie is a little heavy, is a great movie, but i little hard, the history is... you know :P
My favorite Sigur ros's song from my favorite Sigur ros album.
Cheers for the movie and Sigur Ros!.
Same here.
Altho i know them longer than 1 week i only know them for a year or so.
DIdn't like the songs of them that they played on the radio.
But then i saw a documentary of their country Iceland and it was full of this kind of music by sigur ros and i was instantly sold !
Try "Von" wich is also a great song like this.
10.11.23 Holy Moses this is odd. Not knew that song before, but ur video hit hard to home. All I can imagine is my other half. We met the first official time in 1998/1999 in a comic store. Smart like a crow and funny as well.YT counts here: 17 years ago
@invisibleninjakitty yeah but the combination between chords and notes is just godlike. the piano part I think is in 3/4 timing while the chords are in 4/4 so the chords hit on a different note each time during the loop. i wish i could've written this.
I thought of all the grief and sadness...
and fucked up suffering in the world...
and it made me want to escape.
I wished with all my heart that we could just...
Ieave this world behind.
Rise like two angels in the night and magically...
disappear.
- Mysterious Skin
From a musical standpoint, I feel like no matter how many instruments they add to accompany this, the feeling of the song will not be added to or taken away from in the least. This is truly what is meant when they say something is transcendent.
I am confident if we played this song world wide, from the furthest city to our closest neighbors most of us would stop, some would cry, others would wonder why but the smartest would realize emotions like these are one of the most amazing gifts we can feel.
and now I will go watch Mysterious Skin. I hope it is half as good as this song.
brought here from Travis Clark's proposal video!!
This song is on our playlist at work. It took me hearing the song five times before I was able to go to the back to see what it was. I think this song sounds so beautiful, and it's one of my favorite songs that plays at work. I always listen for it. This one and Falling Slowly from the movie Once but I don't know which version of the song it is. Anyway, I love this song. It's amazing.
It's funny how people describe this song as making them ponder things. I find it to be Dettol for the brain. Wipes away every unnecessary thought for 6 minutes 47 seconds. I'm relaxed. Yet, at the same time (0.59) something inside me is screwing up into a knot, scarcely able to believe the power of a single piece of music to reduce this supposedly cold unemotional young woman to just her rawest and most bare emotions.
Each of us here, we can count ourselves lucky that we found this masterpiece
That doesn't sound lame. I think what bray was trying to say is "I am too young to understand the beauty of emotions that songs can bring out." Song makes me think of a star-y sky. And the last lines of the movie Mysterious Skin. "I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear." So that's what I imagine. Disappearing into the night sky.
@on3w1ng4ng3l Pianos shake and move me more than anything. Especially when they're either by themselves or accompanied by an orchestra, hopefully a mostly "backgrounding" one that shapes around the piano. Cellos are amazing in this way.
I'm in love with Joe Hisaishi's piano and orchestrated music, and this is right up my alley even though it's a very different mood/sound than Hisaishi's. Can you tell it's almost all I listen to? Haha. This is beautiful though, truly.
The music of Sigur Rós is the most meaningful i can imagine. I have been to several concerts here in Norway, and they all gave me the moment of my life. Their music is so powerful and mentally challenging. If you need to be cheered up, then listen to Gobbledigook, Glosoli or Festival, and if you are down and want to cry a little..Samskeyti, Ara Batur or most tracks on the Untitled album will give you a little push.. Thank you Sigur Rós for being the best band in the world!
we live in a global society full of selfish power hungry people. Never will they stop and see what a starving, helpless half dead african family is going through in their life. The hunger and pain they go through. If only those powerful selfish people can put themselves in their shoes and imagine how it would be like for himself to be in that horrible situation. Thats what makes this world fucked up, the selfishness greed for our own needs. =/
" I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do.
So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate... how sorry I was about what had happened.
And I thought of all the grief and sadness...and fucked up suffering in the world...and it made me want to escape.
I wished with all my heart that we could just... Ieave this world behind.
Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear."
listening to them can always take me to somewhere in my mind... not like a memory, but, like you say, within yourself... this happens all the time, but when im high it is really stronger... i dunno what it is but if im blazed and focused on listenin to them my whole body can tingle; like goosebumps, but for mintues on end and over my entire body. i dunno if thats some meditative stuff or what but music is the only thing to create this effect, and none do so more strongly than Sigur Ros
parachutes, riceboy sleeps(jonsi from sigur rós and alex from parachutes), emiliana torrini, steindór andersen, hilmar Örn hilmarsson, johann johannsson, and amiina. they are all icelandic, and most have collaborated with sigur rós a few times. if you're interested in learning more about the icelandic music scene, there is a pretty good documentary that came out not too long ago called screaming masterpiece.
One of the most moving and breathing taking songs by Sigur Ros!!
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uhm well interesting discussion. But...I'm disturbed right now. I'm classically trained in music...I play...I compose...among other things. I have not since Radiohead seen such an amazing band. I don't know how it could be that I am just discovering Sigur Ros this week.
CHRIST, HOW MUCH AM I MISSING OUT ON! AND WHAT ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!!!!
lol
~Is.
This song is beautiful and the video and images while this song was playing only enhanced it even more!
I first heard this at the end of Mysterious Skin, and I have to say that I actually cried, which is unusual for me, because I've never cried at a movie before! This song is just that unbelievably.......beautiful!! (for a lack of a better word...)
It's on "()", aka brackets or the untitled album. It's a tricky album to get to grips with as there are no liner notes of any sort, or even track titles. If you haven't already, have a listen to track 4 from the same album, known either as "untitled 4" or "Njosnavelin". Along with Saeglopur, it's my favourite Sigur Ros track.
I'm somewhat sicked in these days and it still takes me a couple of weeks to get recovered... but this amazing clip makes me realize how happy I am to be alive, able to listen to this and enjoy this world. I can't wait to be healthy again, and I'll keep working hard for it.
I experienced something very sad today, and this song helps me cleaning myself of those emotions. Even though I'll be more sad while listening to this song, it helps me get those emotions out of me and feel better afterward. I will never forget you because you meant so much to me...
This song is so amazingly captivating and intense I just can't see how someone would dislike it. Although we are all entitled to our own personal taste and opinion, whoever doesn't like this song must have to be empty inside not to feel anything when listening to it.
samskeyti means 'attachment'.. the song tells you you have to let go attachment to people,things,etc... and be free...
it fills my soul.. thoughts and words are nothing,they cannot compete with the infinity of the song (which is composed on a single arpeggio, only a few notes)...
4:44 in. This song means so much to me, not ashamed to admit it i well up when it gets to that point, It is so powerful, i cant think of any other sound that could make me feel like that. Im not sad, im happy that im given a chance to see al these awesome things...
@gudmundurtomas I'm MORE .... proud to be NOT Icelandic & LOVE & UNDERSTAND Sigur Rós's ideas & masterpieces...that's more valuable...I guess...? also LOVE Björk !!!! She is my fav. female ARTIST ! Can't stop listen her recent masterpiece : WONDERLUST !
Hopelandic is not a speech. It is a set of sounds based on those we utter while pre-figuring or remembering songs. It has no dilectic concepts, no grammar, no words and no othography. it could be described as a Language of the Soul, no practical meaning, but a lot of emotion and feeling. D.R.
15 people were feeling soo good about themselves they closed their eyes and accidently hit the dislike button instead of the like button. this song makes me feel soo happy on the inside and full of emotion that it needs to be put into dance!
Aw, thanks....believe me, I am so grateful to be among like minds and hearts all overflowing for Sigur....seems to be what they do best is fill us with such beautiful music, music unlike anything I have ever heard in my whole life :)
THANK YOU!!!