Comments on: Have You Heard of This Band Called Neutral Milk Hotel…?

By: Carter

Carter — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:24:00 +0000

can’t believe i missed the recent elephant 6 surprise tour where jeff magnum of Neutral milk hotel made some pretty rare appearances on stage (or on the floor). totally bummed i missed them.

but i’m lobbying hard with my bid for a reunion show on notpaul:
http://notpaul.com/event/29/neutral-milk-hotel-nyc-reunion

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:55:37 +0000

[QUOTE]i will openly admit here & now that the vocal melody from ‘pissing/kissing’ was borrowed/lifted/ripped off from ’song against sex’. not something i make a habit of, but i think it’s allowed as long as it’s in moderation & not done shamelessly.[/QUOTE]

Fair enough that. Isn’t the internet a wonderful thing? Where you can make spurious accusations against your favourite band, and actually get an answer back!

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:20:04 +0000

if everyone shied away from borrowing/lifting/ripping off music they love, we would get nowhere. music isn’t born of isolated genius – it builds on itself.

By: mr bear

mr bear — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:56:57 +0000

i will openly admit here & now that the vocal melody from ‘pissing/kissing’ was borrowed/lifted/ripped off from ’song against sex’. not something i make a habit of, but i think it’s allowed as long as it’s in moderation & not done shamelessly.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:41:00 +0000

I don’t think, coming at this as late as I have, that I will ever really experience the love of this album that many people here seem to have. I think there might be an emotional momentum that comes with catching something at the right time that I may have forever missed. I think if, like The Ledge, I had caught them before they’d been recommended to me a hundred thousand times, I might have fallen for it more deeply.

Still, it is a really lovely album, but as it is I feel like a naughty child handing in their homework late – however well it is done it will always be late homework.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:51:23 +0000

I’m afraid Drunk Cowboy doesn’t have the same pleasing mouth shape..

I always imagine you with a very pleasing mouthshape, DC.

By: cdv1971

cdv1971 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:07:36 +0000

I love Neutral Milk Hotel, they’re from my former home of Athens, GA and are really indicative of some of the quirky stuff that’s coming out of that part of the world. Glad you stumbled upon them.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:05:25 +0000

All this time I’ve been reading this blog, and had just assumed you’d been an NMH fan! As it stands, Gav’s howl of disbelief stands alone and so, technically speaking, is not a collective one as yet. So I’ll add my own: Hooooowwwwl!

Why does one howl when disbelieving something? It seems an odd response. I tend to just get kind of sarky and exaggerate my eyebrow movements, personally.

Anyway, yes, Neutral Milk Hotel, right. Among my favourite albums ever I’d say, and certainly the album I become most obsessed with from time to time. It’s one of those albums you can lose yourself in for weeks on end, with almost no desire to listen to anything else.

PS. Does anyone else think that Meursault song from the session is just a little close to “Song Against Sex”? Not that I don’t love it, and everything they’ve done, to death. But the similarity is a bit hard to ignore.

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:36:48 +0000

I like Neutral Milk Hotel, but I've never really loved them for some reason. That whole Elephant 6 Collective has kind of passed me by to be honest. Song Against Sex from On Avery Island is NMH's best tune I think. And I think the best tunes from Olivia Tremor Control's Dusk At Cubist Castle probably beat anything by NMH. But that's just me.

By: The Ledge

The Ledge — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:54:22 +0000

I was an early convert to the NMH cause. Saw them supporting Sparklehorse back in 1998 in Manchester and they blew Mark Linkous off the stage so I ended up going to the Leeds gig the following night as well. A Hawk And A Hacksaw’s Julian Barnes was on drums and he was fucking awesome.