Ágætis Byrjun

No, no es para mí! Me pareció horriblemente aburrido y largo, parece música de película indie de los 2000. Seguro a mí ex le gustaría y diría que es una obra maestra de la música.

I am unable to appreciate classical music instruments used so superficially, like they are there to give some classical veneer. I feel judgemental, but that's how I hear it. Just gimme well-written classical music then!

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1 out of 5 Could not make it through this album. Weird instrumental

Bizzaro comes to mind. I didn't know the band and I don't much care for their music. Bad album.

I'm not sure if this is music for when you are in a melancholic/vegetative state, or, arent satified with being happy in life & want to be put into a melancholic/vegetative state. Regardless this Icelandic language malarkey its far too out-there/niche/soundscapey for me & unless I ever decide to take a lot of drugs whilst laying under the Northern lights, its irrelevant to both my ears. Side note : Cmon, how does niche stuff like this end up on a 1001 greatest?!

It took me 10+ tries to get through this.

Boring

Shite.

Langweilig.

Ew no thanks

Langweilig.

Not my thing

Modern version of sleepy songs before bed

Ah, guys, you made a mistake, this one actually belongs in the 1001 most boring albums of all time list.

slow and experimental

Awful

I feel bad saying it, but this had me going back and forth between boredom and outright irritation. Sometimes the music just doesn't seem to work together in a way that makes sense to my brain. It's like they're shoving disparate parts together. And the vocals and drums and horns just don't have pleasing tones. A lot of the ambient stuff just isn't pleasant. There are moments where I can get into it and I'm like "hey maybe this song is gonna work for me!" and then the vocals come in or something and knock it back down. It's just very much not for me, I suppose.

Not for me. Sounded like random sounds

Ah, my first DNF of this project. Look, I'm doing my best over here. I'm pushing against my comfort zones, I'm trying to keep an open mind, trying new things. But my patience for extended pretentious wankery is limited. Obviously there is talent here, but these are ambient soundscapes more than actual songs, and I cannot make myself care. Miserable.

Not for me. DNF

Meh. Very ambient

Almost got in on a couple songs then the singing started. Who plays this shit for company or anyone?

Nah

Didn’t care for

Interesting and appreciate it's something different but not really for me. I'm probably missing something massive here. I'm OK with that.

Da je neko komponovao album iz čiste namjere da mene namuči do granice ludila, to bi bilo nešto ovakvo. Svaka pjesma kao da traje godinu dana. Sve zvuči identično. Živne jednom u 20 minuta a i tad je iritantno. A tek ovaj glas. Jedan od najmanje podnošljivih albuma dosad.

Sigur Rós: Ágætis Byrjun: This was an hour and eleven minutes. It SUCKS. It is super boring, unengaging, and just not interesting at all. The entire thing just keeps droning on and on and on and on and I cannot recommend it at all. Its a different flavor of boring from yesterday but boy its getting the same score. 1/10

I hate you post- whatever genres, just call yourself something else and I would have enjoyed it more. 1 star

Sounds like whale or birth music. From the depiction of of the cover, the latter would be about right. Wasn't like any of my kids being born, it was lots of swearing and cursing. Next time I'm suffering from insomnia I'll put this on. Trouble is, it's so forgettable that I don't think I will.

I don't understand why this one is considered so good. I found it to be terribly uninteresting.

Felt like an intro the whole album

This is awful lmao, I don’t get how this is something you need to hear before u die

Infumable encima largo como esperanza de pobre, perdón escuché hasta la mitad, pista 6 si no me equivoco y lo dropee. BIYIUUUHHHJUUUUU Aaaaaaaa que re mil poronga

Worst piece of shit ive ever heard

Dull and boring. Not my thing at all. I don't enjoy this type of atmospheric, melancholic music

I got this when it was released. The CD packaging was unique. It was one of those paper jewel cases with a single color silver ink. This was heavily promoted on KCRW and a friend of mine LOVED this so much that when he was a camp advisor / counselor at some swanky summer camp for kids he built a breakout session around listening and enjoying Sigur Rós and similar Icelandic music. But as the summer camp filled up he was forced to cancel the offering for lack of interest. This is one of those albums that you either love or hate. For me, it tics all the boxes. It’s unique, has lost of white space, soft and relaxing, otherworldly, even (and had cool packaging). But for whatever reason I am repulsed by this. It makes me wanna crawl outta my skin. Nothing ever seems to happen and the repetitiveness gives this feeling of boundless purgatory. I had a visceral reaction to this on par with Gotan Project, Limp Bizkit, Gunfighter X and Duck Stab.

It's because I wrote that I had respect for Bjork, isn't it. That's why I'm being punished with this? The recording is obviously purposefully poor. They seem to think it's a good effect to jump in and out of quality. I see what we're doing with the strings, but at the end of the day this is way too far towards "art" and away from "music."

Bryan zigs and I zag. This album sucks, multiple unlistenable/grating songs and the others are just boring. Staralfur used to get heavy airtime on xrt and I liked it then (read, middle school), but it holds nothing for me now.

Twee, sacharine tosh

Im sure its fine if i spoke the language

Not sure which drug is required to enjoy this one

Bad

I don't know whether i liked it or not, fell asleep at the first half

ANOTHER album that I just don't know when people would choose to listen to it. Who is for???? 1hr 12 minutes of noise and someone whining unintelligibly

This is one that just isn’t going to be my cup of tea. It’s one of those albums and one of those bands that people really rave about for some reason, but I just don’t get it.

Woof. This album is a mood. My personal take is that it was a terrible, painful listen. It made me irrationally angry. I don't get this style of music. It's like Björk meets Radiohead in all the wrong ways. At times it's just noise. At best it's a dramatic movie score. Did I need to hear this before I died? Absolutely not. But, was it at least an interesting and horizon-broadening experience? Also no.

Not for me

boooo

Not for me

Ambient music at best. There's nothing to indicate why it should be included in such a list. Failed to engage. One wonders whether people who think this stuff is "worthy" ever step outside the limited musical world of Rock and Pop. Broaden your horizons a bit, listen to some contemporary "classical music" (although I mislike the term). 1/5.

необычайной красоты оркестровая эмбиент музыка - все как я люблю) а любовь моя к таким штукам выражается в единичке

1 hour lo fi pretentiousness to fall asleep to

A bit weird! Listening to at least 25% of each track, and some of the actual musical elements were OK, but not for me!

ew

Slow and agonizing almost painful. Not my genre at all. Felt more like noise than music.

This album “gave me hope that was a disappointment” An alright start to a terribly boring album. Dollar store Enya. I fought so hard to stay awake thru incredibly long boring, sound alike songs. 1001 album worthy: No - 37/65

If this is the music they play in heaven then send me to hell where all the good blues is. Anyway, if I wanted to listen to trippy music I'd put on Pink Floyd. If I want to hear some great music in a language I don't understand then I will put on the Hu Band.

thought it would be better and i would enjoy it. glad i listened tho and experienced something new.

I had been wanting to listen to Sigur for years, but never got around to it. I didn't miss much.

Really didn’t like very ethereal, thought to listen to

I figured I'd be in for something unusual based on the name's weird characters and accents, but was kind of let down by the blah-ness of the album. Yeah it is not English words, but I've had fun with those in the past. This is a snoozer. I'm glad I wasn't driving today or else I'd fall asleep. On the other hand, I could be saying it was a nice and peaceful trance of an album, but I literally think the the singer is yawning during the title track. That actually is an interesting technique for a album to make you sleepy --just yawn while singing. Anyways, not for me. I'm going to go take a nap now. It's noon on New Year's Eve 2024. I want to make sure I'm awake to see the light leave this horrible year. Favorite track: I guess the title track 1/5

Strange music

The generator gave me the wrong album on the wrong day. I am feeling under the weather and have zero patience for this level of dreary ambient nothing.

Tried, but couldn't finish it.

A nice enough album that I'm glad I heard, I guess, but I'm good with just this once through from the band. No need to revisit or delve further. Sounded a bit like a very slowed down Icelandic Enya/Radiohead. It moved with the speed of a glacier. Could be a better, shorter album if they cut half the dead space. Cover got a cool baby alien angel though...1.2.

Today was a really happy day, which prevented me from enjoying this album fully. I’ll give it another try when I’m melancholic.

I get why some people might like it, but it's intolerably slow with annoying vocals. At its best, its background music.

Nails on a chalkboard.

This shit sucks. No stars

Bit boring

Background music for movies. Muita pretensão. Boring. Iceland music. I need a energetic galoon to stay wake up during this audience

Sloooooow

Snoozefest

lame

DNL

This isn't Taylor Swift?? Why would I care to listen to this crap. 1/5. For real though, I'm sure the story is cool but I don't wanna translate lyrics and stuff. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

wtf I couldn't finish this I'm sorry

Super slow, boring

Sounds like whales on acid. No ta.

Pretentious arse chants.

Sung in Icelandic. Bit strange.

Außer des Titelsongs zu experimentell. Mag ich gar nicht

God, this is boring as fuck.

This list is suspect. This is a nice album, but nowhere near the greatest 1000.

I didn't get this one at all.

fa sboccare

At first I was like I’ll let it cook. It burned. What is this?

i hated this goodbye

Far too long and incoherent. One song was just loads of tapping in different rhythms. Can understand why others like them, but this was a chore.

Pass

Ah eu queria ser o tipo de pessoa que curte Sigur Rós mas infelizmente tô muito longe disso ainda

Felt like I was being gaslighted. No.

So that’s where that song svefn-G-Englar came from. Now I know…

Vibes: Ambient

No.

Nope

High pitch voice, scandinavian

Not for me ..

Not a fan of this at all

Apparently they are more well-known than I thought. Wasn't for me...

No

Nice sounds but didn't gel for me. Too experimental. 1/5

Horrible boring and annoying. I never understood the appeal of this band. I think it’s a band that you say you like to be cool.

This album just didn’t do it for me.

Hated. Too ethereal// taking music too seriously.

Some of this is really beautiful, but I could not finish the 10 minute long falsetto track at the beginning. It was really bad and I can only assume that this album is famous for some of the other tracks? Okay, now it is a bunch of weird experimental sounds and noise. Not good.

Horrible. Unlistenable.

Didn't enjoy

nicht das meine

One song that could be called such. The rest sounds like experimtal failure...

Eurotrash

nix für mich

Isn't my music style

Idk

Too ambient and slow or passive for me, not much melodic content

Could not get into it. Dark, dull, slow.

J'aime pas

Why would they try to undo all the musical rep Björk has earned for Iceland by putting out something so devastatingly boring? Every song is the intro to a better song that never begins, drawn out to 10 minutes. You keep waiting for something engaging to happen and it never does.

Not my jam. I can understand the appeal though and why it's here

One drawn out album. Makes for good background noise. But just drags.

Nope

Maybe I was in the wrong mood for this… but no. Just completely not my thing

unique different melodic background high monolithic consistent slow rock sad nordic melancholic

It's not my cup of tea but I listened to the complete album to give it a chance. I understand how other people can enjoy this album but it did nothing for me. Slow, uninspiring and quite boring.

Meh

Super not my jam. Slow, plodding 10 minute opuses in a foreign language. The songs are in Icelandic as well, so no connection via lyrics for me either. Oh well, not everything is for everybody. Top 3 N/A

Imagine this scene: You're at a bar at the W Hotel in Miami, it's late in the evening and the purple lights are low and all the beautiful people are sitting in small groups on plush sofas talking quietly and drinking vodka cocktails with orchids in them. This garbage music is what will be playing in the background. Repetitive, unoriginal and uninspired. But that's just my opinion.

really not for me

you call this music? i don’t want to listen to wailing sorry

0 stars

# 21: electronic leads, dreamy in its delivery, but weird. Music to fall asleep by. Over 1 hour of suffering! I guess it's good if you can understand it?

p853, 1999. 1 star I like Sigur Rós , but this one... meh. Left me cold. Strays dangerously close into pretentious, over-long prog-rock wankage. Not sure why this one is on the list, as Valtari is a far better album.

this album started to put me to sleep. its very boring and every song is entirely too long. "bamm bamm" was ok. the album cover is cool.

unlistenable

Waste of time to listen

Sorry but no. Want to give 0 stars but I guess 1 will have to do. Found myself losing the will to live while listening but that probably says more about me than the album.