Greatness

[FattyWompus]

I believe Jeff Magnum has a 100% success rate with Neutral Milk Hotel. This post has been edited due to my recent falling in love with On avery Island

[Edited on 11/WedWed/2005 by FattyWompus]

[FattyWompus]

I believe Jeff Magnum has a 100% success rate with Neutral Milk Hotel. This post has been edited due to my recent falling in love with On avery Island

[Edited on 11/WedWed/2005 by FattyWompus]

[boyindrag]

i didn't like On Avery Island first, but when i listned to it several times i started to like that cd to. it's not as good as ITAOTS it think, but it's still a good record.

[boyindrag]

i didn't like On Avery Island first, but when i listned to it several times i started to like that cd to. it's not as good as ITAOTS it think, but it's still a good record.

[birdman]

Is it appropriate to view itaots as sperate from his other material. its not like he went into a studio and boom, it was made. there are parts of Aeroplane that were made through jeffs collageing of songs, so really, its as much of his early material as his later. i dont think we can say it "was the only good thing he had in him."

Personally, i love some of his earlier songs, oh sister, engine, sailing through, more than i do some of the material on aeroplane.

And as for on avery island, its different, and we shouldnt view it as to hold up to aeroplane. it was made before, which is why it is so different, but its just as much a part of NMH cannon. Songs against sex, baby for pree, gardenhead, naomi, essential and just amazing songs. and come on...how could you not enjoy the field recordings?

[birdman]

Is it appropriate to view itaots as sperate from his other material. its not like he went into a studio and boom, it was made. there are parts of Aeroplane that were made through jeffs collageing of songs, so really, its as much of his early material as his later. i dont think we can say it "was the only good thing he had in him."

Personally, i love some of his earlier songs, oh sister, engine, sailing through, more than i do some of the material on aeroplane.

And as for on avery island, its different, and we shouldnt view it as to hold up to aeroplane. it was made before, which is why it is so different, but its just as much a part of NMH cannon. Songs against sex, baby for pree, gardenhead, naomi, essential and just amazing songs. and come on...how could you not enjoy the field recordings?

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[defgav]

i've grown to love pree-sisters. it's all mysterious and meditative. i usually listen to that album at night, and that's a good track to fall asleep to.

[The Sad Witch]

I love Avery Island! Gardenhead and Naomi and Song Against Sex are some of my favourite NMH songs. I like Aeroplane more as an album, but I find Avery easier to listen to more often and goddamned fantastic to have a big singalong to! :P

[greenroots]

Originally posted by FattyWompus
I believe Jeff Magnum has a 50% success rate with Neutral Milk Hotel. ITAOTS was a great album and I have listened to it since I picked it up in college in 1999. On Avery Island on the other hand I got in 2000 burned from a friend and I listened to it for about two days and realized it was nothing compared to ITAOTS. I dont understand this craving for more material from Magnum because for all we know ITAOTS was the only good thing he had in him. Dont get me started on that Bavarian crap. If we count that he only has a 33% success rate. Im happy with ITAOTS and hope he never releases anything that would lessen its value.

Maybe you should stop doing so much math, and just listen to music.

[okinomiyaki-sensei]

Since most people would have done just about anything, including eating human flesh and becoming a prostitute in Sri Lanka, to have written and recorded ITAOTS, I think it`s forgiveable that OAI wasn`t such a masterpiece.

[ollie]

Originally posted by William
"In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" bores me to death nowadays. "On Avery Island" I find to be a much more rewarding and personal album. I consider it one of my all time favorites.

That's probably because you listened to it too much.

[tackledspoon]

Yeah, Pree Sisters is a questionable choice, but On Avery Island is still a great album. If it weren't constantly stacked up against ITAOTS, it'd be appreciated for its full value. It's not as much of a cohesive piece, but the song writing is brilliant and the production is nice, too.

[()()()()()()()()()()()]

nothing is wasted...only repuuuurrrchaaased

[finch]

I don't think the Beatles started to get interesting until Rubber Soul, but would you slag off everything they did before it? I don't think OAI is as cohesive or perhaps accessible (in a pleasing pop kind of way) as Aeroplane, but it's still an album that is leaps and bounds above other albums that I own.

I haven't heard too much of the unreleased stuff prior to OAI, but hell, any album that starts with something as raw as "Song Against Sex" is okay in my book.

[Lusitania]

By the way, the field recordings were in Bulgaria, not Bavaria.

[jaimi]

I actually prefer On Avery Island to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, depending on my mood. I love both albums. But that's just my opinion.

[birdman]

on avery island reminds me of the essence of a child's blissfully innocent perception of summer.

[Politician]

Is the first post a troll?

I mean, WHAT?

[Lusitania]

Originally posted by Politician
Is the first post a troll?

I mean, WHAT?

no, i've talked to him and he's quite nice. he just has an unusual opinion.

[FattyWompus]

it is good

[the hurdy gurdy man]

i think On Avery Island, as a whole, is a much better album than ITAOTS, which is probably the most overrated album of the whole E6 catalogue. no, it's undoubtedly the most overrated album. Although the most overrated band is of Montreal.

and now, since I'm in such a horrid mood, I'm going to go eat babies and suck the juices out of every form of flora and fauna I pass. grrr.

[Peach]

Joel, I love that quote under your bizarre photo.

Well I first discovered NMH because I was "kazaaing" the word peach - as you do - and I found Three Peaches obviously and just fell in love with it's melancholy. So ran at HIV, ordered On Avery Island ( probably took a month or two ), and I couldn't believe me ears, well, you know what I meant.

Maybe that's why I love it more than In the Aeroplane over the Sea because it was my first love and I always am fond of first albums, for some strange and unknown reason.

I know, I'm such a softie.

[the hurdy gurdy man]

thanks, Peach. I can't remember what it's off of... I just remember watching TV late at night (the time when little boys shouldn't be watching tv) with my friend when we were 10-ish, and these guys did a Vaudeville routine and sang (in a dirty French accent) "I eat babies!" and then another guy sang "I drink pee!" and then together "We must be French! French! French!" and we laughed till we cried.

[Peach]

I can imagine very well. Not the whole context but yeah, mocking the frogs is always something quite amusing.

[Peach]

Lollerz?

Now who's worst here ;)

[athula]

i've been in LOVE with on avery island lately. it's fcuking insane. i've been listening to naomi on repeat-repeat-repeat. that's one of the most beautiful songs ever made. i can't get over it. i've been listening to that and jeff's live performances of it and jesus christ. what a pretty song. i love that song so much.
on avery is some sort of flower of it's own. i def. like itaots, but sometimes the beauty of the lyrics on on avery just speaks for itself.

so pretty.

[Christophe dininski]

The energy from the get go , is something else . I like both albums fairly equally.

But probably get more of a buzz ( at present listening) out of the fuzzing bass lines rambling throughout On Avery Island.

[clouds-chan]

Both are excellent.

[MaxMunch]

I think his collage work (Orange Twin Field Works, WFMU sets) is his best.

[Edited on 11-10-2005 by MaxMunch]