NY Batteri

[Cynical2012]

I ripped this song off of a comp years back, heard it in the background of a home video, luckily found it again to re download!!!

[nickysyx11]

The language is called Hoplandic, the singer of Sigur Ros, Jonsi, created it, its has elements of Icelandic in it though

[ploothable]

Oh my fucking god. This is Ken Lee all over again. There is no difference.

This cover does NOT do justice to the song. Come on! At least put some effort into it. At least try to learn the lyrics, At least try to find out what language it is!

Listening to this indifferent American voice butchering a song with dark poetic lyrics into these bits and pieces of indiscernible guttural sounds is torture. Have you got no shame?

Oh god why does this have so many thumbs up? Oh god. This is just insane...

[Chrisuser8]

Must say, I love Sigur Ros and really don't like Thursday at all, but this cover is really rather impressive, Sigur Ros is not at all easy to cover, and they rose to the challenge rather well....

[joeveenstra90]

i'm really upset that i'm just finding out now that one of my favorite bands ever covered another one of my favorite bands ever.

[thatcrazyartist]

@joeveenstra90 agreed. same thing happened to me.

[breedingthespawn]

this is a extremely hard song to cover and i think they did a great job

[RussellThePumpkin]

This is a pretty good effort. They've managed to capture most of the depressing vibe, whilst also putting their own spin on it.

[theforsakenpiggies]

They did a good job. It's hard to cover Sigur Rós.

[uwoodyjk]

thanks for this. I have been looking for this on youtube for so long.

[iguyhappykyd]

this is song from sigur ros, islandic post rock band

[FLCL07]

I love both of these bands, but I honestly think Thursday butchered Sigur Ros' song...

[NeonFoxLetsPlays]

it's a pretty good cover of this song, one of my favorites from Ágætis Byjrun. but it sounds like they guessed on some of the lines, especially the last few.

yeah it's kinda hard to sing in a song in a language you're unfamiliar with but you might want to look up the lyrics first.

[ColorfulHyena]

to be honest this is actually one of my favorite songs by Thursday. Maybe it's partially because I love Sigur Ros as well, and how post-hardcore and post-rock are like two of my favorite genres, I love Thursday for doing this cover, Thursday did a beautiful cover, mixing post-rock with post-hardcore, it's amazing :')

[earzmundo]

it's hopelandic...if u listened to jonis and sigur ros, you would know he improvs and freestyles this song

[TheSaucyAuto]

@earzmundo You're thinking of "Olsen Olsen".

[Bechaz123]

@earzmundo No, this one is definitely in Icelandic.

[ploothable]

@Bechaz123 THIS IS NOT ICELANDIC. Period. It's an auditory impression of what he thinks it sounds like. There are no lyrics. There is no meaning. By all means this is complete horseshit.

This is exactly what it sounds like to people who understand Icelandic:

/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

[Bechaz123]

@ploothable You've mistaken me, sir.

Someone posted that the original song is not in icelandic and that it is sung in the hopelandic gibberish language, and I was correcting them. This cover, however, fails at the pronunciation, I agree.

[ploothable]

@Bechaz123 Okay, let's just agree to disagree. It was clearly an attempt at Icelandic, but it never quite got there...

:P

[Bechaz123]

@ploothable I'm confused, I thought we agreed? The original song by Sigur Rós is in perfectly good icelandic, icelandic being Sigur Rós' first language. I absolutely love the original, and I'm completely with you, this cover tries its hardest... but just seems half assed in the pronunciation, no research into it, he just sang what he heard after 4 listens. When I said "this one is definitely in icelandic", i meant Sigur Rós' original is definitely sung in icelandic.

[kavo456]

Quite good but the lyrics are murdered at times, cringing....

[ggandyman40]

Awsome cover!! Do you know where i can get this song? itunes dosnt have it cause itunes sucks!

[Hecante]

@ggandyman40

Give me your email and I'll send it to you.

[thedeptstar]

its called Ný batterí, not NY batteri, it sounds like New York, so NY should be Ný.

[ohaipeyton]

Pretty damn ballsy covering Sigur Ros.

Being a huge Sigur Ros fan, I'm pretty bias because I think all Sigur Ros covers suck because I'm always comparing them to the original. :p But this one isn't bad and I do like this WAY more than I like We Are Scientist's cover of Hoppipolla.

[StarwolfTsuname]

Wow I was not expecting ANY band to do a cover of Sigur Ros let alone this song. how cool!

[ohboyscott]

sweet

[Shobecool]

This song is in Icelandic. You guys are lazy as shit.

[lambsanger]

@Shobecool

sigur ros sing in a made up language called 'hopelandic' which is just altered icelandic..

[Shobecool]

@lambsanger

No, this song IS in Icelandic dude. They only sing in hopelandic on some tracks.

[Froggenell]

@iskimvb Being a Sigur Ros fan, the only albums to contain Hopelandic are Von and ( ), ( ) being sung in "hopelandic". This song is off Agaetis Byrjun, which imo really kicked off their career....

[johanthepirate]

@Froggenell Olsen Olsen off Agaetis Byrjun is entirely in Hopelandic, as are some tracks on Takk. I'm not sure about the latest one.

[buckleygeneration]

Needs someone who understands how to pronounce the language. Otherwise, a fine cover.

[TheAstronomican]

Needs more broken cymbal

[maxtonstenstrom]

@TheAstronomican I AGREE.

[iknowme]

what the fuck is this i dont even

[ohranc]

this is as gold as the original, why do people always go after "the most" things.. It's just NICE

[lostinmilw]

I like the cover, it's an interesting take on Sigur Ros's song. I'm surprise that Thursday covered them, but then again, it makes sense. Geoff seems like the type of person that would listen to them.

[dmkonstantinov]

Sigur Ros should cover Understanding in a Car Crash! Both bands own. It is only the Japanese bonus track, but a pretty valiant attempt.

[Soldier0Cross]

Awful cover, you shouldnt touch sigur ros.

[StageAScene]

I definitely disagree, there is alot more energy in this cover, there is no comparison to sigur ros but this is pretty boss.

[anormalnick]

go fuckyour self..this cover rules..Sigur ros owns and you are a dickface...

[Soldier0Cross]

I love sigur ros, what are you talking about?

[anormalnick]

go fuckyour self..this cover rules..Thursday owns and you a re a dickface..

ok?¿?

[xXxAdelaidexx]

isnt it icelandic?

thank u so much 4 posting this tho :)

[Hecante]

Not sure what you're asking. I think Sigur Ros is an icelandic band, I'm not sure. The song itself was a bonus track on the Japanese version of War All the Time, though.

[anormalnick]

yeah man...

[TheOctoJon]

@xXxAdelaidexx yeah the language is icelandic

[WordsYouForget]

omg i was just researching sigur ros and had no clue thursday covered it. thanks for posting it

[sv3rige]

So good!

[jonK013]

could you send this to me?

[Hecante]

Yeah, are you the same person that just emailed me?

[ckreticeland]

thanks a BUNCH for posting. been wanting this for a while. oh and how'd u find that pic?