RIP, heaven needed, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I said "don't like or don't get." Some people don't get it because it's not the most accessible album, while I allow that other people may get it and still not enjoy it.
But with an album so weird and unfiltered and rapturous, there's a certain barrier to entry. You have to embrace all of that "embarrassing" stuff. If you're not on board with that, it makes sense that you'd see the weird, unfiltered, rapturous reactions to the album in the same cynical way.
Argue with my premise if you want, there's no need to make it personal.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i love this album, but i think it could definitely stand to be a bit less embarrassing.
― aaron d.g., Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I get this album.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the song about the girl in spain or whatever and a few others, don't think its hard to get, dont think its be all end all, at the time thought it was a better elephant six album and was surprised when all the emo girls put it on in photography class. I guess if I thought melody driven poppy songs with punk/indie recording quality was the best kind of music out there Id think this album was the best ever too
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuckin fuck. I get the album. I like the album. It's EXTREMELY accessible. I just draw the line at liking it.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
never got the love. but on avery island is pretty great. i still remember the first time i heard it, and it reminded me a lot of the madcap laughs, in spirit, if not necessarily sonically. and then all sorts of people seemed to find the second one the greatest thing ever and i'd ask what they thought of the first one and most would say they'd never heard it. i always thought that was pretty weird. such is life
― kamerad, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 06:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Why the fuck do people like this shit. They sound like Cake.
― S-, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link
On Avery Island is great
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I embrace embarrassing stuff in music all the time, but this isn't embarrassing, it's just grating to my ears. Nails on a chalkboard. Makes me physically ill.
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm siding with Steve here. Do we always have to look at everything through a lens of cool, critical detachment? Of course everyone's absolutely entitled to say "I prefer their first album" or "there are two or three good songs on Aeroplane, but that's it" - but you then surely need to accept that for a small percentage of the population, this record has an extraordinary, emotional power. Half the time I have no idea what Mangum is really singing about, but when this record catches me at the right time it has the power to reduce me to a quivering wreck and my response to it is one of pure and magical love. Is that "embarrassing"? Not to me.
― Emily S., Wednesday, 13 February 2008 07:56 (sixteen years ago) link
ya i accept it. what do you want me to do about it, never think about this album critically because some people really like it a lot? that's true of a lot of albums! i'm sure people love lionel richie albums as much as you love neutral milk hotel!
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 08:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure they do, too! I'd just humbly suggest that if "this guy's voice makes (you) want to jump out the window", you might perhaps not want to waste your time thinking about the album critically - in the same way that I don't want to waste my time thinking about the album critically because it fills me with a sense of wonder and purity.
― Emily S., Wednesday, 13 February 2008 08:58 (sixteen years ago) link
It sounds like campfire songs with Jeff's see-saw voice. I can't get over how much I hate his voice and the vocal rhythm. However, his voice sounds like all the popular indie singers of today and even the nu-rock nasal screaming I hate.
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 09:25 (sixteen years ago) link
sounds like all the popular indie singers of today Really?
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 09:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this album to pieces, if anyone doesn't, that's fine. I remember trying to write more about them when it came out, and they came over, and the response from the Melody Maker was that they sounded like the panpipe band in The Fast Show. I sort of understand peoples' ire against those who don't 'get' it, as a result, but it doesn't bother me much. one of the things I love about the record is that its unafraid to be 'embarassing'.
― stevie, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I still love In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, but I never thought it was perfect.
I think the opening track, "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One," is perfect. The stretch of songs from 6-9, "Holland, 1945," "Communist Daughter," "Oh Comely," and "Ghost" is also pretty awesome.
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
so good
― Surmounter, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
good yes, overrated also yes
― stephen, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
hearing neutral milk hotel at ear-splitting volume was what made me decide never to go back to Soda (the bar) on indie rock night, no matter how good the burger is.
― ian, Thursday, 8 May 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/284/114/070/11407007/600x600.jpg
― abanana, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
fyi
― a steak of romanticism (country matters), Friday, 10 April 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
^^i saw this the other day. i don't know what to make of it, but i laughed
― k3vin k., Friday, 10 April 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
the sunn o))) thing totally makes it imo
― a steak of romanticism (country matters), Friday, 10 April 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
well that and the fact it is pure lol
― a steak of romanticism (country matters), Friday, 10 April 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
― d20 riot tard (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 10 April 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
okay wow 1:12-1:14 in that video
― mark cl, Friday, 10 April 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeff Mangum was on Jeopardy the other day, I wonder if this means there's going to be an NMH reunion.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Friday, 10 April 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://9001chan.org/mus/220/Courage-Wolf-hate-her-when-she-gets-up-to-leave-then-devour-her-with-your-two-heads.jpg
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Sunday, 12 September 2010 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieeL9FWURM
got tickets for the boston show
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 26 February 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― mark (er) s (k3vin k.), Sunday, 21 August 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
ty for the link!
― markers, Sunday, 21 August 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BYbmckk9mU
^ shocked how close this sounds to the original!
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Sunday, 21 August 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha i've seen that before
― markers, Sunday, 21 August 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jumpskins, Friday, 26 August 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
awesome he's wearing a Municipal Waste shirt!
― little dog (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― tylerw, Friday, 26 August 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt M., Friday, 26 August 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting to see Mr. Mangum is still playing live tracks, disappointed that they're all old stuff.
― Matt M., Friday, 26 August 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trivia-Woody/218485604853038?v=info
― 69, Friday, 26 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
so here's jeff's whole 'set' (i think) from his appearance at #occupywallst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvLm01ruV00
― k3vin k., Saturday, 8 October 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz05eq01Gm1rp2lhyo1_500.png
― mizzell, Friday, 10 February 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 10 February 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvb5nmmx714&context=C34b6f99ADOEgsToPDskJ-PzjSA9vjwPaNAnZzdfB0
― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
I failed to see Mr Mangum at the just finished ATP.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/peoples-bailout/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
― aaron d.g., Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:46 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is perfect, hahaha
― Clarke B., Friday, 9 November 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fzdMLQV.png
― 乒乓, Saturday, 2 March 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
one of ILM's best threads:
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Poll
― Bee OK, Saturday, 2 March 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link