Neutral Milk Hotel: Classic or Dud?

okay wow 1:12-1:14 in that video

Jeff Mangum was on Jeopardy the other day, I wonder if this means there's going to be an NMH reunion.

http://9001chan.org/mus/220/Courage-Wolf-hate-her-when-she-gets-up-to-leave-then-devour-her-with-your-two-heads.jpg

so Jeff Mangum is playing at the September ATP / Portishead I'll Be Your Mirror event in Asbury Park. This'll be his first 'official' performance in over a decade, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieeL9FWURM

got tickets for the boston show

http://www.southernsouls.ca/jeff-mangum/

^^some good audio from the current tour

really kicking myself for not getting tickets to one of the new england shows. :/ bummed

ty for the link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BYbmckk9mU

^ shocked how close this sounds to the original!

hahaha i've seen that before

http://www.walkingwallofwords.com/

offical website announced today- theyre still working on it by the looks of it

but a holy fudging unreleased stuff boxset! and like loads of other awesome shit blah blah this band is my life.

awesome he's wearing a Municipal Waste shirt!

are the unreleased/unfamiliar things here "new" songs or archival? wondered if the guy actually still writes music. he's not playing anything except old stuff at these shows, right?

Wow, what the hell did I just watch?

But I'm gonna run off and put a SUNN 0))) sticker on my amp right now.

For the record, I like both NMH albums and nothing else of Elephant 6. Or the Fiery Furnaces.

Interesting to see Mr. Mangum is still playing live tracks, disappointed that they're all old stuff.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trivia-Woody/218485604853038?v=info

so here's jeff's whole 'set' (i think) from his appearance at #occupywallst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvLm01ruV00

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz05eq01Gm1rp2lhyo1_500.png

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvb5nmmx714&context=C34b6f99ADOEgsToPDskJ-PzjSA9vjwPaNAnZzdfB0

I failed to see Mr Mangum at the just finished ATP.

http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/peoples-bailout/

i love this album, but i think it could definitely stand to be a bit less embarrassing.

― aaron d.g., Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:46 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is perfect, hahaha

http://i.imgur.com/fzdMLQV.png

one of ILM's best threads:

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Poll

Back!

http://pitchfork.com/news/47783-neutral-milk-hotel-reunite-for-tour/

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

mangum was great last time i saw him. not sure how necessary the band is tbh

pretty necessary imo

i'd fucking go that's for sure

neutral milk hotel were fucking awesome when i saw them open for superchunk long long ago.

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.

Not much of a "tour." Too bad no Cali dates...

i wonder if they'll be another album...

picturing a sleazy executive from merge, chomping on a cigar and encouraging them to "go electric," saying it'd be "like sufjan."

Tom Scharpling is already on the hook to direct that very video.

Not much of a "tour." Too bad no Cali dates...

― 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.

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,"

Yeah, my bad. Crossing my fingers...

are these tickets going to be really expensive?

probably not if you buy them at face value. i think my mangum solos were 30 bucks apiece or so

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.

Enormous honking dud.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Maker rejected them because an office wag said they sounded like "the panpipe band off the Fast Show".

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?

Ha! Simon Schama?? Well, the album is steeped in history, I guess...