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Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:15 am
by Norah
I lump it together in my mind with Mad Season's Above, Bon Iver's For Emma, and The Postal Service. Not in terms of overall quality or impact or anything, but those are records that to me just exist as a moment in time. Those albums are examples of circumstances and the will of the universe just working perfectly to make a singular thing. They're not albums that should be considered relative to their peers or within the scope of an artist's discography.
In fact, I really wish Bon Iver never made a second record for this reason.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:18 am
by epilogue
Kevin Davis wrote:I don't think there has been another record released in my lifetime whose appeal is so profoundly mystifying to me.
I don't think there has been another Kevin Davis post in my lifetime so profoundly mystifying to me.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:18 am
by McParadigm
Kevin Davis wrote:I don't think there has been another record released in my lifetime whose appeal is so profoundly mystifying to me.
If only it mentioned Peoria
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:19 am
by epilogue
cutuphalfdead wrote:I lump it together in my mind with Mad Season's Above, Bon Iver's For Emma, and The Postal Service. Not in terms of overall quality or impact or anything, but those are records that to me just exist as a moment in time. Those albums are examples of circumstances and the will of the universe just working perfectly to make a singular thing. They're not albums that should be considered relative to their peers or within the scope of an artist's discography.
In fact, I really wish Bon Iver never made a second record for this reason.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:20 am
by Kevin Davis
McParadigm wrote:Kevin Davis wrote:I don't think there has been another record released in my lifetime whose appeal is so profoundly mystifying to me.
If only it mentioned Peoria
Apparently every lyric on this record has 452 different meanings so are you so sure that it doesn't?
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:20 am
by Norah
durdencommatyler wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:I lump it together in my mind with Mad Season's Above, Bon Iver's For Emma, and The Postal Service. Not in terms of overall quality or impact or anything, but those are records that to me just exist as a moment in time. Those albums are examples of circumstances and the will of the universe just working perfectly to make a singular thing. They're not albums that should be considered relative to their peers or within the scope of an artist's discography.
In fact, I really wish Bon Iver never made a second record for this reason.
I was hoping that made sense.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:21 am
by McParadigm
Kevin Davis wrote:McParadigm wrote:Kevin Davis wrote:I don't think there has been another record released in my lifetime whose appeal is so profoundly mystifying to me.
If only it mentioned Peoria
Apparently every lyric on this record has 452 different meanings so are you so sure that it doesn't?
453.
What a low brow and pathetic individual you must be to have missed the last and most important one. I bet you don't even have a beard.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:24 am
by epilogue
cutuphalfdead wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:I lump it together in my mind with Mad Season's Above, Bon Iver's For Emma, and The Postal Service. Not in terms of overall quality or impact or anything, but those are records that to me just exist as a moment in time. Those albums are examples of circumstances and the will of the universe just working perfectly to make a singular thing. They're not albums that should be considered relative to their peers or within the scope of an artist's discography.
In fact, I really wish Bon Iver never made a second record for this reason.
I was hoping that made sense.
Makes total sense to me. And I completely agree. And it's the reason I kinda hope NMH never releases another record.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:25 am
by McParadigm
And Pearl Jam
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:26 am
by Norah
lol
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:40 am
by Kevin Davis
Because Lightning Bolt was such a transcendent moment in which the universe aligned to create a singular burst of organized noise that the five mere humans in the band were helpless to stop?
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:42 am
by epilogue
That's the joke, yes.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:44 am
by McParadigm
They're a big part of my history and I've followed them a long time so I have low expectations and really as long as there's guitars and some of the mumbling breaks into yelling I'll probably find something to cling to and feign like it's good because that's what you do when you've given up on passion and creativity and secretly ache for death.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:44 am
by Norah
durdencommatyler wrote:
, yes.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:47 am
by Gods' Die
McParadigm wrote:Kevin Davis wrote:McParadigm wrote:Kevin Davis wrote:I don't think there has been another record released in my lifetime whose appeal is so profoundly mystifying to me.
If only it mentioned Peoria
Apparently every lyric on this record has 452 different meanings so are you so sure that it doesn't?
453.
What a low brow and pathetic individual you must be to have missed the last and most important one. I bet you don't even have a beard.
KD's over-looking of this record makes me so mad I could eat my scarf, that I wear year round, with tight pants, and thick dark framed glasses.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 2:48 am
by Norah
I nearly spit out my PBR in shock.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 4:03 am
by oasisfan35
Gods' Die wrote:McParadigm wrote:Kevin Davis wrote:McParadigm wrote:Kevin Davis wrote:I don't think there has been another record released in my lifetime whose appeal is so profoundly mystifying to me.
If only it mentioned Peoria
Apparently every lyric on this record has 452 different meanings so are you so sure that it doesn't?
453.
What a low brow and pathetic individual you must be to have missed the last and most important one. I bet you don't even have a beard.
KD's over-looking of this record makes me so mad I could eat my scarf, that I wear year round, with tight pants, and thick dark framed glasses.
He didn't over-look it, he merely looked it over.
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 4:23 am
by malice
durdencommatyler wrote:That's the joke, yes.
potd
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 4:26 am
by Jorge
Kevin Davis wrote:I don't think there has been another record released in my lifetime whose appeal is so profoundly mystifying to me.
yuppp
Well, no, I like it OK, it's just the overwhelming widespread acclaim that confuzzles me
Re: Neutral Milk Hotel
Posted: Mon March 31, 2014 6:44 am
by zeb
theplatypus wrote:I like it OK, it's just the overwhelming widespread acclaim that confuzzles me