neutral milk hotel were fucking awesome when i saw them open for superchunk long long ago.
― adam, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
my gf listens to 'aeroplane' at least once a week but wasn't too excited by the idea of seeing dude solo. we'd both go see the full band though.
― shit tie (Jordan), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Not much of a "tour." Too bad no Cali dates...
― schwantz, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if they'll be another album...
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
picturing a sleazy executive from merge, chomping on a cigar and encouraging them to "go electric," saying it'd be "like sufjan."
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Tom Scharpling is already on the hook to direct that very video.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
― schwantz, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:07 (Yesterday) Permalink
It's sort of blowing my mind that they're bothering to call this a tour, and that the headlines are going with it.
― mox twelve, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
It's sort of blowing my mind that you guys didn't notice the part that says
Only a handful have been announced so far, but apparently there is "more to come,"
― bish don't kmt (some dude), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, my bad. Crossing my fingers...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
are these tickets going to be really expensive?
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
probably not if you buy them at face value. i think my mangum solos were 30 bucks apiece or so
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
pretty stoked for this, was listening to the new a hawk and a hacksaw last week and thinking how unlikely it was i'd get to see that band lineup again, when barnes moved out of town that's when it started to be apparent that this 'break after a year of touring' might turn into something more. nmh plus elf power, 1998 all over again, gonna be fun to see mangum pop up to sing in 'the arrow flies close' again.
― balls, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
Enormous honking dud.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
If there's one thing I've learned from the oughts, it's that breaking up / losing your mind / retiring forever at some point is the best thing one can do for one's career.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 07:48 (eleven years ago) link
I saw the last ever NMH gig. There were maybe 50 people there. I imagine more people will want to see them this time round.
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
Was that the Camden Underground show? Where they improvised that song in tribute to the sun at the end? One of the best shows I've ever seen.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
That was indeed the Underworld. Brilliant gig. I'd loved In the Aeroplane so much I was convinced everyone else in the world must feel the same, so I was genuinely shocked at how sparsely attended it was. I don't remember the improv, just being bowled over by the whole thing - so ramshackle yet hurtling forward without doubt.
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
The ramshackle thing was key - I remember the drummer would tumble into these epic drum rolls, and not be able to roll back into the songs, so he'd just stop playing, listen along for a couple of bars and then jump back in. And they were just so joyous, laughing, drunk, a wonderful mess. I couldn't get the Melody Maker to cover them back in the day, but The Times let me mention them in my roundup of the year, and I wrote something about how they played like a Salvation Army Band after their first taste of the demon booze.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
The Maker rejected them because an office wag said they sounded like "the panpipe band off the Fast Show".
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
Got Mark B to write about them for me a couple of years ago. I always wanted to get Simon Schama to do something on them - did you know he's a fan?
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
Ha! Simon Schama?? Well, the album is steeped in history, I guess...
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
Get Bieber to write about them.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
ITAOTS was very ~important~ to me but at the ATP JM curated I was pretty cynical about seeing him play for a variety of reasons, and then when he actually played I was a blubbering hysterical wreck from the first note till the last. Dunno how he did it it was just a bloke with a guitar playing some songs I don't have particularly intense feelings for any more ffs.
― the kind of man who best draws girls' eyeballs (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
stalled out on missiontix tryna get a ticket rn...
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
nvm no one i know got tickets
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
there are still tickets in columbia mo. for now, at least.
― mike a, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
oops. sold out too. fortunately i got one.
― mike a, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRvC0jYOzE
― 乒乓, Monday, 13 May 2013 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
seems like it would be hard to play the ukulele wearing fur gloves. sometimes i feel like my fingers are already too big. kudos to that guy.
― Treeship, Monday, 13 May 2013 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
Tickets for the January 2014 D.C. show sold out too quick for me. I tried but couldn't get through. Stubhub already has some-- not sure I want to pay $80 a ticket
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 August 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw them in Jersey City. Thankful there was no gigantic singalong. Such an odd band to become so big.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
Hey, me too! I was behind the bar loading drinks for the bartenders. Got to watch the show in full afterwards too! Yeah the audience was not as sappy as I'd imagined they'd be.
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 05:16 (ten years ago) link
i remember a feeling of dread when i checked that indiepop list in the late 90s , that band was "happening" there. i bounced as they say.
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 05:19 (ten years ago) link
Don't forget dying, that's still a classic move
― L'Haim, to life (St3ve Go1db3rg), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
Friend tweeted from that show "Yes, everyone is old."
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
saw them over the weekend and it was pretty magical. a surprising number of young kids there, who apparently waited out in the cold all day to get up front (which, it turned out, was totally unnecessary since all the olds were happy to hang out in the tiered seating). i was really impressed at how tight they were, the level of musicianship on that stage is super high. i'll bet they're a way better band than they were in the '90s.
JM was rocking a giant grey beard and kept his hat over his eyes the whole time but sounded spot-on.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 10 February 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
"I was really impressed at how tight they were, the level of musicianship on that stage is super high."
Yes! Much more commanding and professional than I was expecting, and I've seen them all perform in other projects over the years.
― Evan, Monday, 10 February 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
the drummer and the multi-instrumentalist (jeremy & julian iirc) are particularly great.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 10 February 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Recent DC show sold out fast, but they're coming back to a big shed this summer.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 February 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Saw them last night - echoing the comments above, couldn't believe how well they played. I was pretty dubious about seeing a band that I'd cared so much about in 2000, but it was still amazing.
― toby, Thursday, 22 May 2014 09:46 (ten years ago) link
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Seahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH3CRVVBL9oI cried all day long after I saw this music video for the first time.didn't care for any other songs on this album, haven't heard any of their others.
my playlists cataloging the best songs of each decade http://postmusicindustry.blogspot.com
― TabForaCause.com, Thursday, 22 May 2014 10:13 (ten years ago) link
we laughed, we cried, we spammed
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Thursday, 22 May 2014 10:23 (ten years ago) link
http://the-toast.net/2014/10/22/songs-neutral-milk-hotel-album-reference-holocaust/
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
i was really impressed at how tight they were
well, if you only write, like, 22 songs over the course of a quarter century, I assume you get those songs down pretty good at some point
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 25 October 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
Who wouldn't get off on being revered like a Christ figure? Dude does not need to write another song in his life. ITAOTS is perfect and only gets better.
― Pentenema Karten, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
huh I could've sworn its stayed p much exactly the same since it was released
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
its so strange that he doesn't write songs anymore. I figured some new stuff would emerge after the tours he did, but he's still playing all old stuff isnt he?
― prince moth mothy moth moth (cajunsunday), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
that well is drty
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
also dry