Sigur Rós

The band is from Iceland. "Sigur Rós" in Icelandic means "Victory Rose." It also happens to be a very popular girl's name in that country. Lead singer Jón ór Birgisson's little sister is named Sigur Ros.

Their songs are in Icelandic and the lyrics are a made-up gibberish language that they have created and called "Hopelandic." Jon Jonsi Birgisson told Uncut magazine: "I don't like to go into much detail about the songs, but as a broad rule the faster ones are the happy ones and they are mostly about achievement. And the slower ones are sad, and they are mostly about failure."

Three of their songs were featured in the soundtrack to the Tom Cruise movie Vanilla Sky.