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Sep 12, 2005 12:03

I've been meaning to update for a whlie and everytine something bad happends i decide not to write in here and vent like i normally do b/c no one wants to hear it and when something good happens its not all that spectatuclar or i am not around to do so b/c i have been so bussy and when i am not doing something i am sleeping to catch up on my rest.....working nearly full time and taking a full load is tiring for a man in my old age...

the sigur ros show which i was planing on writing a review for was orgasmic. and that is the only word that i can describe them but i will try....At some points, the beauty was almost too much to bear. When you get chills for the 5th time in two minutes and you can't bear to see Jonsi break his heart on yet another note, you know it's definitely an emotional night.

it’s not often that you go to any event with astronomically high expectations only to have them reached and surpassed, much less rock concerts. the crowd is surly, the singer can’t hit the notes, the band can’t keep time and the spectacle is underwhelming as a whole. to go to a show and have the band sound better than they do on their albums, to have them improvise, interact and utterly blow you away as a spectator, it changes your impression of live music and makes you wonder “why can’t all bands play like this?”

they closed with “popplagið,” my friend leaned over and said, “is this what i think it is.” and i simply replyed with an nodd... it was the loudest, farthest-reaching and most captivating thing i had ever seen. did i mention rocking hard? hearing a song like that would make you think twice about describing sigur rós with the well-used classification of “music to fall asleep to” - most of us were standing with our mouths agape, and it wasn’t because we were yawning .this was music to wake up to, music to make you realize just how much you could be touched and at the same time battered by a band’s efforts. it wasn’t just that sigur rós was showing how well they played - they were putting every band unable to perform without overproduction to shame. sigur rós played with intensity and passion, and the music was soft yet destructive, happy yet arresting. dreamy, yes, but sleepy? no, dear god, not in the slightest.

ohter than the fact that they played too many new songs almost half maybe about 4 out of 11 songs, ok so thats closer to a quarter but whatever the show still rocked harder than you could imagine and everytime i see them they get better
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