Ágætis byrjun (A decent start) was a 1999 album released by Icelandic musical band Sigur Rós. See also: 1998 in music, other events of 1999, 2000 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music Events January 7 - After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Iceland - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ... Sigur Rós is an Icelandic post-rock band. ...

The ten songs on the album include some self-referencing: the introduction contains backmasked parts from the title track, and the last song, "Avalon", consists of an instrumental passage from "Starálfur" slowed down four times. A backward message (otherwise, but incorrectly, known as Backmasking) is a supposed message hidden in an audio recording that is revealed by playing it backwards. ...

Track listing & English translation

1. Introduction (1:36)
2. "Svefn-g-englar" [sleepwalkers] (10:04)
3. "Starálfur" [staring elf] (6:47)
4. "Flugufrelsarinn" [the fly freer] (7:47)
5. "Ný batterí" [new batteries] (8:11)
6. "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)" [the heart pounds (boom boom boom)] (7:11)
7. "Viðrar vel til loftárása" [good weather for airstrikes] (10:18)
8. "Olsen Olsen" (8:03)
9. "Ágætis byrjun" [a decent start] (7:56)
10. "Avalon" (4:00)

External link

• Samples of the album can be heard at http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/index.html