History Music / SigurRos

* NonIndicativeName: "Viðrar vel til loftárása" is Icelandic for "Good weather for an airstrike", which title-wise is in a completely different universe from the [[{{Gayngst}} song]] [[TearJerker it]][[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming self]]. The band got the title from a local weatherman sarcastically reporting "Today: good weather for an airstrike" ("í dag viðrar vel til loftárása") while NATO was conducting a bombing campaign against Serbia during [[TheYugoslavWars the Kosovo War]]. (In a freaky coincidence, ''Ágætis byrjun'' was actually released on 12 June 1999, the day Slobodan Milošević agreed to withdraw the Serbian forces and UN peacekeepers began being deployed in Kosovo.)

* LighterAndSofter: After the success several heartwarming songs in Takk..., their last album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust is considerably more upbeat and poppy.

* LyricalDissonance: At least, for English speakers, one might be disappointed to look up translations to many of their songs' lyrics and find that they are [[MundaneMadeAwesome oddly mundane, contrasting with the grandiose of their music]]. Especially "Ágætis Byrjun," which is about the bands' disappointment after [[OldShame they found that their first album sounded crappy.]]

* NonIndicativeName: "Viðrar vel til loftárása" is Icelandic for "Good weather for an airstrike", which title-wise is in a completely different universe from the [[{{Gayngst}} song]] [[TearJerker it]][[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming self]]. The band got the title from a local weatherman sarcastically saying "Today's good weather for an airstrike" during the Kosovo war. The same goes for "Með blóðnasir", which is awfully cheerful for a song named literally "With a {{Nosebleed}}". And "Popplagið" isn't what you could in any way call a pop song.

* DarkerAndEdgier: In November 2012, they premiered a new song live called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPEhKNlPLBo "Brennisteinn"]] (Icelandic for "Brimstone") which is very much this. The whole song is over a [[VideoGame/MassEffect Reaper-esque]] bass line and Jonsi plays his guitar like a VideoGame/SilentHill siren. It's also extremely awesome.

* GenreBusting: They're categorized as "PostRock" because that's the only thing that comes even remotely close.

After recruiting classically trained keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson, the band released ''Ágætis byrjun'' in 1999. It was with this album that the band perfected its SignatureStyle, fully integrating Kjarri's lush orchestration with their DreamPop[=/=]{{Shoegazing}} sound and introducing Jónsi's method of playing his guitar with a cello bow (a method previously popularised by [[LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]]) for a more atmospheric sound. The replacement of drummer Ágúst with Orri Páll Dýrason shortly after the album's release proved not to be too dramatic. They recorded two more albums with largely the same musical style, ''( )'' and ''Takk...'', swinging between DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter, before settling for a more stripped-down, direct sound with ''Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust''.

* NonIndicativeName: "Viðrar vel til loftárása" is Icelandic for "Good weather for an airstrike", which title-wise is in a completely different universe from the [[{{Gayngst}} song]] [[TearJerker it]][[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming self]]. The band got the title from a local weatherman sarcastically saying "Today's good weather for an airstrike" during the Kosovo war. The same goes for "Með blóðnasir", which is awfully cheerful for a song named literally "I Have a {{Nosebleed}}". And "Popplagið" isn't what you could in any way call a pop song.

** The entirety of Jonsi's solo album ''Go''.

* AlbumTitleDrop: "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)" has not only an title drop for its parent album, but also the two previous ones: ''með '''von''' að vin ég vinn upp smá tíma/leita að '''ágætis byrjun'''/en verð að '''vonbrigðum''''' ("With hope as my friend I make up some time/I look for a good beginning/But it becomes a disappointment").

** ''Von brigði'' (1998) - "Hope Alteration", contains remixes of ''Von'' tracks. Nicknamed "Recycle Bin" due to its cover, and is also a pun in Icelandic, because ''vonbrigðum'' as one word means "disappointment".

There are also two [[{{Rockumentary}} documentary]]/concert DVDs:

* ''{{Inni}}'' (2011), which was filmed at a concert they did in London in 2008, shot in black-and-white with arty camera angles, and interspersed with some archive footage of the band.

There's also a [[{{Rockumentary}} documentary]]/concert DVD named ''{{Heima}}'', which came out in 2006.

* AlbumTitleDrop: Two of the tracks from ''Ágætis byrjun'' have not only an title drop for their parent album, but also the two previous ones:
** From "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)": ''með '''von''' að vin ég vinn upp smá tíma/leita að '''ágætis byrjun'''/en verð að '''vonbrigðum''''' ("With hope as my friend I make up some time/I look for a good beginning/But it becomes a disappointment").
** From the track "Ágætis byrjun": ''Ég gaf ykkur '''von''' sem varð að '''vonbrigðum'''. Þetta er '''ágætis byrjun'''.'' ("I gave you hope which became a disappointment. This is a good beginning") This line is also in the liner notes to the album.

** ''Von brigði'' (1998) - "Hope Alteration", contains remixes of ''Von'' tracks. Nicknamed "Recycle Bin" due to its cover.

* AlbumTitleDrop: "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)" has not only an title drop for its parent album, but also the two previous ones: ''með '''von''' að vin ég vinn upp smá tíma/leita að '''ágætis byrjun'''/en verð að '''vonbrigðum''''' ("With hope as my friend I make up some time/I look for a good beginning/But it becomes a disappointment").

* TheTropeSong: Some of the alternate names used by the band for the songs on ''( )'' -"Fyrsta" ("First Song"), "Dauðalagið" ("The Death Song") and "Popplagið" ("The Pop Song").