History YMMV / Ulver

* FaceOfTheBand: Although the band insists on being a collective, most fans can only seem to recognize the name of Krystoffer Rygg (better known as Garm). It doesn't help that he's the only original member left in the band.

* BrokenBase: Averted, for the most part; most of the fans have stuck with the band throughout their evolution. However, you will get disagreements on things like what their best album is. There are a few albums that have divided the fan base (''Wars of the Roses'' in particular), but not as many as you'd probably expect.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: MASSIVELY subverted; even the die-hard black metal fans of the first few albums seem to readily embrace the band's later work.

* SpiritualAntithesis: Almost certainly unintentional, but ''Childhood's End'' can be seen as one to the album ''Stars on ESP'' by experimental dream pop group Music/HisNameIsAlive. Both are {{Genre Throwback}}s to the music of the 1960's with a theme of lost innocence made by GenreBusting musical collectives, but their approaches to this concept are quite different from each other. ''Childhood's End'' is a CoverAlbum with a focus on hard rock and psychedelic rock featuring exclusively male vocals that focuses on the "loss of innocence" theme in a very abstract way, using its song choices to convey the idea of a collective, societal loss of innocence. ''Stars on ESP'', meanwhile, is an album of original songs with a focus on BaroquePop, folk, and soft rock, drawing heavy influence from Music/TheBeachBoys in particular, which features exclusively female vocals. It also has a more personal, nostalgic atmosphere, with a strong theme of GrowingUpSucks, and has a more unified feel due to its use of RecurringRiff and FadingIntoTheNextSong.

* EarWorm: Most of ''Assassination'', but especially "Rolling Stone".

* BrokenBase: Averted, for the most part; most of the fans have stuck with the band throughout their evolution. However, you will get disagreements on things like what their best album is.

* BrokenBase: Averted, for the most part; most of the fans have stuck with the band throughout their evolution. However, you will get disagreements on things like what their best album is.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: MASSIVELY subverted; even the die-hard black metal fans of the first few albums seem to readily embrace the band's later work.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Doubles with BilingualBonus. On the aforementioned remix track (called "Der Alte"), the German conversation is about an old man lamenting about how useless he is to his family, and a younger man assuring him how much he'd be missed when he finally does pass on.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Despite being significantly more "accessible" than most of their material, many fans will cite "Nowhere/Catastrophe" to be among their favorite selections from their discography.
** Most of their music, really. For a band that switches styles so often, Ulver are amazingly consistent. Nearly all their main discography and quite a few of their side releases are worth checking out.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Despite being significanty more "accessible" than most of their material, many fans will cite "Nowhere/Catastrophe" to be among their favorite selections from their discography.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: MASSIVELY subverted; even the die-hard black metal fans of the first few albums seem to readily embrace the band's later work.

* MagnumOpus: Due to how abstract Ulver is, ''any'' album can be considered an opus. However most will say that from ''The black trilogie'', it's ''Bergtatt''. For later fans, it's either ''Perdition City'', ''Shadows of the Sun'', or ''ATGCLVLSSCAP''.

* MagnumOpus: Due to how abstract Ulver is, ''any'' album can be considered an opus. However most will say that from ''The black trilogie'', it's ''Bergtatt''. For later fans, it's either ''Perdition City'' or ''ATGCLVLSSCAP''.

* FaceOfTheBand: Although the band insists on being a collective, most fans can only seem to recognize the name of Krystoffer Rygg (better known as Garm).