Stellastarr* roll call...

[alex]

Originally posted by Bags:
  September 13, 2005
 New CD's
 
 By THE NEW YORK TIMES
 
 Sigur Ros
 "Takk..." (Geffen)
 
 Sigur Ros revisits its familiar empyrean realms on "Takk...," this Icelandic band's fourth album. "Takk" means "Thank you," and it's another set of awestruck, shimmering songs that circle through a few stately chords while evolving from near silence to unabashed pomp. On past albums, Sigur Ros has forged songs into hermetic sanctuaries, but on "Takk..." it expands its music toward both the abstract and the corporeal.
 
 This time, Sigur Ros lets pop choruses rise out of the mists, and Jonsi Birgisson sings words rather than the invented language on the band's previous album, "()." The lyrics are in Icelandic, and Sigur Ros has said they are about "moments and small adventures." The production adds abstraction with surreal electronic effects, from carefully placed bits of static to elaborately manipulated instrumental passages. But it is also grounded in physical sounds, from bell tones and ratchety noises (possibly the music boxes Sigur Ros used for its collaboration with the choreographer Merce Cunningham, "Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do") to marching feet to symphonic arrangements.
 
 The band is augmented by strings and, in one hallucinatory stretch of "Se Lest," an oompahing brass band. Sometimes more is less; there are passages in songs like "Hoppipolla" where the music turns earthbound, even kitschy, as bombast replaces grandeur. But for most of "Takk..." Sigur Ros continues to contemplate the sublime with rapture, melancholy and grace. The band performs tonight at the Beacon Theater. JON PARELES

Wrong thread, boss.

[xneverwherex]

Originally posted by Relaxer:
 *snip*
 Okay, the asterik after the name is pretty dumb. But is it any more dumb than putting umlauts over the Husker and the Du?
 
 

cant believe you didnt mention Maximo Park when it comes to umlauts  

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
   

Originally posted by Relaxer:
 *snip*
 Okay, the asterik after the name is pretty dumb. But is it any more dumb than putting umlauts over the Husker and the Du?
 
 

cant believe you didnt mention Maximo Park when it comes to umlauts    [/b]

True enough. It was hard enough not to mention the Crue.

[Jaguär]

But all of those examples use it to accent in some way a vowel sound. The * is just decoration. And mine is just because I lost my password for my original account.

[ggw]

I <3 Wikipedia:
 
 Entry for "Heavy Metal Umlaut"

[ggw]

Originally posted by Relaxer:
 But is it any more dumb than putting umlauts over the Husker and the Du?
 

"It's like a pair of eyes. You're looking at the umlaut, and it's looking at you."

[markie]

Brilliant link, thanks GGW,
 
 "At one Mötley Crüe performance in Germany, the entire audience started chanting "Moetley Crueh!""
 
 and
 
 "Deathtöngue, fronted by the depraved and unwholesome singer/'lead tongue' "Wild" Bill Catt and infamous for the songs "Let's Run Over Lionel Richie With a Tank""

[amnesiac]

Just heard this on WOXY:
 
 Apparently, Cedars (the band formerly known as Cartel.dc formerly known as Cartel) are opening this show?

[poorlulu]

whooooooo.......
 
 nice one fico.........

[ggw]

Originally posted by amnesiac:
  Just heard this on WOXY:
 
 Apparently, Cedars (the band formerly known as Cartel.dc formerly known as Cartel) are opening this show?

Are you sure it isn't the Cedars from Fargo?

[poorlulu]

well cartel.dc has changed their name to cedars look.......
 
 http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=9454024&Mytoken=20050816100514
 
 although it could be interesting if there is another band called cedars..........the whole damn thing's gonna start all over again.

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by poorlulu:
  well cartel.dc has changed their name to cedars look.......
 
  http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=9454024&Mytoken=20050816100514
 
 although it could be interesting if there is another band called cedars..........the whole damn thing's gonna start all over again.

See here

[brennser]

it could be  very interesting

[amnesiac]

Jinx!

[brennser]

damn you to hell!!!!  
 
 

Originally posted by amnesiac:
   

Originally posted by poorlulu:
  well cartel.dc has changed their name to cedars look.......
 
   http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=9454024&Mytoken=20050816100514  
 
 although it could be interesting if there is another band called cedars..........the whole damn thing's gonna start all over again.

See here [/b]