neutral milk hotel

good article about aeroplane over the sea

http://audiogalaxy.com/articles?&a=116

Great article, amazing album. The author's band, Okkervil River, are one of my favorites - highly influenced by NMH.

Originally posted by amnesiac:
highly influenced by NMH.

I dont think that comes through that much in their music.

Originally posted by pdx pollard:

Originally posted by amnesiac:
highly influenced by NMH.

I dont think that comes through that much in their music.

Really? I feel like their lyrical styles and instrumentation are pretty similar. But Will Sheff's singing reminds me more of Conor Oberst (though less "emo") than Jeff Mangum, so I tend to think Bright Eyes meets NHM when listening to Okkervil.

Originally posted by amnesiac:
so I tend to think Bright Eyes meets NHM when listening to Okkervil.

more power to you, i will now try and wipe that from my memory so I dont hear that when listening ;)

saw Will Sheff solo on Tuesday night, very good show, West Falls was fantastic

Originally posted by pdx pollard:

Originally posted by amnesiac:
so I tend to think Bright Eyes meets NHM when listening to Okkervil.

more power to you, i will now try and wipe that from my memory so I dont hear that when listening ;)

saw Will Sheff solo on Tuesday night, very good show, West Falls was fantastic

Haha, sorry…I'll admit I'm a Bright Eyes fan. I'd put Lifted up there as one of my favorite albums.

Very disappointed he's not playing solo around here. The last Okkervil River show at Iota was outstanding.

anyone have the last NMH show (basically just mangum solo), from new zealand in 2001 for some flying nun tribute show or something? he talks about his nervous breakdown, it's pretty amusing, but the performance is really fantastic, especially considering how completely isolated an event it was. there's a really intense cover of john lennon's "mother" w/chris knox to end the show.

neutralmilkhotel.org is a great site, it's updated pretty regularly with different live sets.

Originally posted by amnesiac:
Haha, sorry…I'll admit I'm a Bright Eyes fan. I'd put Lifted up there as one of my favorite albums.

I was at one point, I still think Lover I dont have to love is a very good song and I still consider his first 9:30 show one of the better shows I have seen, but the other 2 shows I have seen of his have been awful and I just cant take the music anymore, made a nice chunk of change selling his albums on ebay as a package

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
made a nice chunk of change selling his albums on ebay as a package

Nice…taking the emo kid's allowance ;)

Yeah, that first 930 show was really good. I also liked the Wide Awake show, but not so much the Digital Ash.

But back to NMH - I only have Aeroplane. Any thoughts on On Avery Island?

Originally posted by amnesiac:

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
made a nice chunk of change selling his albums on ebay as a package

Nice…taking the emo kid's allowance ;)

Yeah, that first 930 show was really good. I also liked the Wide Awake show, but not so much the Digital Ash.

But back to NMH - I only have Aeroplane. Any thoughts on On Avery Island?

Some good stuff on On Avery Island but nowhere near Aeroplane.

you need to get "on avery" if only for "song against sex," "gardenhead" and "naomi" which are all essential NMH songs.

Thanks, it's been added to my list.

<a href="https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-became-a-polarizing-cult-classic/">How Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Became a Polarizing Cult Classic</a>

was thinking about them as I watched the Stephen Colbert episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and SC quotes a line from one of their songs

excontradiction wrote:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-became-a-polarizing-cult-classic/&quot;&gt;How Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Became a Polarizing Cult Classic&lt;/a&gt;

Pitchfork reposts this to their FB account at least once a week.

Julian, wrote:

excontradiction wrote:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-became-a-polarizing-cult-classic/&quot;&gt;How Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Became a Polarizing Cult Classic&lt;/a&gt;

Pitchfork reposts this to their FB account at least once a week.

Ha…Not sure what made extradiction post this, but I was thinking the same thing.

I also could never get into that album… at all.

Yada wrote:

Julian, wrote:

excontradiction wrote:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-became-a-polarizing-cult-classic/&quot;&gt;How Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Became a Polarizing Cult Classic&lt;/a&gt;

Pitchfork reposts this to their FB account at least once a week.

Ha…Not sure what made extradiction post this, but I was thinking the same thing.

At this point, the comment section every time they repost it is just people calling them out for it.

It’s a very good album, particularly if you only give it a listen every couple of years. But I can see why folks hate it.

Yada wrote:

Julian, wrote:

excontradiction wrote:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-became-a-polarizing-cult-classic/&quot;&gt;How Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Became a Polarizing Cult Classic&lt;/a&gt;

Pitchfork reposts this to their FB account at least once a week.

Ha…Not sure what made extradiction post this, but I was thinking the same thing.

I also could never get into that album… at all.

It was a tossup between this and the Cinnamon Shrimp Toast thing, or whatever.

Like how excontradiction has somehow managed to avoid Dinosaur/Dinosaur Jr. for 35 years, I have to admit I don't know any Neutral Milk Hotel songs. I mean, the guy's voice is probably distinctive enough that I'd be able to pick it out of a lineup but that's as far as i get with them.