Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sigur 1 (untitled) a.k.a "Vaka"
2. Sigur 9 A (untitled)
3. Sigur 9 B (untitled)
4. Sigur 9 C (untitled)

Disc 2:

1. Svefn G Englar (Video)
2. Vidrar (Video)
3. Untitled (Video)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29291 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-03-31
• Rating: Exempt
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Single, Import, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .12 pounds
• Running time: 23 minutes

Synopsis
Features the opening untitled track from the Sigur Ros album.

Customer Reviews

worth it just for the dvd
if you like Sigur Rós but you've never seen one of their videos before, you must buy this single. it has two discs, one with the single Untitled #1 ( or 'Vaka') and a new three-piece 12 minute track, and another which features all three of the band's videos.

the videos are like no other music video i've ever seen and are really much more like professional short films. they are beautifully shot and a perfect accompaniment to the music. they don't feature the band (apart from as extras, specifically Jónsi as a football/soccer coach in Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása), and mainly star children and teens, showing sad, happy, jubilant and horrific moments. the videos are very poignant, and are the main reason to buy this dvd/single set.

however there is the music, and the music is good; very much the sort of thing people have come to expect from a band like Sigur Rós - slow moving, emotive and stunningly beautiful.

buy this, and you will not be disappointed.

untitled
this record is much less layered than all their other songs. i actually have the feeling that all three b-sides are meant to be played simultaneously, that's how sparse they are. the 7" comes with an awesome stencil of the cover artwork, and the 5"cd comes with a dvd that has all their filmclips. the a-side song itself is from their album (), and although is not the kind of song i would have released if i were sigur ros, serves as an ample reminder of the kind of textured and melodic nu-gazer that sigur ros have become known for. as for the b-sides, the second song is a more bizarre facsimile of the first, only it relies on jonsi's sampled and layered vocals to carry it instead of melody. the third track is essentially a piano solo, with a weird backwards sample of jonsi's voice, and the final track is simply a loop of a slowed-down string chord that stays the same for 4 minutes save for a short note on trumpet at the very end. the songs are so quiet you could forget they were ever there, although this almost fits with their "no titles, no lyrics" get up of late. as a whole, the record isn't groundbreaking nor is it very enjoyable really, but they get extra marks for the stencil and dvd :)

Now, I love the music....
.... and I do think these videos are brilliant, but they remain stagnant because they seem the same. Slow and gentle as the music suggests, but I still think the imagination of some of the vids should go a little further in the way the songs are magestic and full blown. I know that money comes into play, but imagination comes not from the wallet but from the mind and spirit. So I think that although the videos do give the songs credit, it is perhpas not what Sigur Ros is what I protray them at.

But hey, I am wrong most probably...