How do you explain it?

[Pompadork]

When some one ask... "what's this NMH like?"

How do you guys and gals describe it?

[Harnk]

Originally posted by Pompadork
When some one ask... "what's this NMH like?"

How do you guys and gals describe it?

I usually reply with something like "Neutral Milk Hotel is to music what panthers are to sweatpants, and that all these are beautiful when your tongues are paved with squirrel bait... some hate and some just wait, like waiting on line at a deli, you think you want ham but you know it's real smelly..but so good in the belly, and yeah"

[Pompadork]

coo-coo

[clouds-chan]

neutral milk is like a crab.

[Pompadork]

orange looking?

[deepthought42]

Small, salmon pink, and acoustic.

[Pompadork]

You claim to be big fans, but you don't have a better description than that?

[clouds-chan]

no; a scuttling crustacean with claws.

[Pompadork]

hmm

[Edited on 2-23-2006 by Pompadork]

[paulpaul]

at least they dont make supercillious bird calls!@:mad:

[conall]

what the fuck

[Lusitania]

I usually say it's good music.

[infinite_walrus]

I have told people good angst-ridden indie rock

[King_Nee]

I usually tell people to just listen to it, and make their own damn minds, for it defies most forms of verbal description

[Pompadork]

hmm

[deepthought42]

Neutral Milk Hotel are like a tall glass of milk: good with cookies.

They also can sound a bit like John Cale-era Velvet Underground, in the sense that John Cale-era Velvet Underground sounds like a church organ falling onto a pile of accordians while Lou Reed sings off to the side (in a good way). Except it's not Lou Reed, it's Jeff Mangum, which is a bit like saying "it's not a light-bulb, it's a cruise liner". And plus that's only on "Everything Is" and "Song Against Sex". The rest of the time, Neutral Milk Hotel sound like an accordian falling onto a pile of sleeping Jeff Mangums.

[Edited on 2-24-2006 by deepthought42]

[46578456]

I say "It's like Bob Dylan on speed fronting a psychedelic marching band who got there instruments from an abandoned novelty music store"

[Pompadork]

We're not talking about Syd Barrett here.

[call me hi]

Originally posted by Pompadork
We're not talking about Syd Barrett here.

syd barret sounds like bob dylan on speed? i'm not sure what you're listening to.

please just avoid using "it sounds like so and so meets so and so on acid and they're doing something funny and weird". just say it's good music and tell them to listen.

[SlowCoreSadness]

Neutral Milk Hotel sounds like a good place to stay if you're tired!

[Ignatius]

don't drink the milk though, it's a little funny tasting.

[FattyWompus]

I'd say it is not good milk....not bad milk...kinda neutral...

[clouds-chan]

the kind you'd get in, say, a hotel.

[King_Nee]

Originally posted by deepthought42

The rest of the time, Neutral Milk Hotel sound like an accordian falling onto a pile of sleeping Jeff Mangums.

If people had never heard Nutral Milk Hotel before, how would they know what anything falling into Jeffs would sound like? That is like telling a blind kid that the red candy bar is the one without the razor blades.

[clouds-chan]

well, it narrows it down to describing what jeff sounds like, and we can all agree that that definitely soundd something like a jellyfish.

over 90% water, flowy, and with a sting.

[thesteveinator]

Neutral milk hotel is like a folkier Dave Matthews mating wtih Bob Dylan and a little bit of jimmy hendrix!!!

[thesteveinator]

ON ACID!!!

[conall]

i usually tell people that im in this pretty cool rock and roll band called neutral milk hotel.

[conall]

and we play rock music

[plymouth.rock]

I tend to tell people it's the kind of music you'd put on if you were bedding Louise Brooks circa 1929.

[birdman]

youthful desperation in the attempts of one to come to terms with what it means to live.

[Pompadork]

Have any of you ever tried..... Gogol Bordello?

[plymouth.rock]

I love Gogol Bordello.

[Pompadork]

I should have known. :P

[Edited on 3-1-2006 by Pompadork]

[Pompadork]

I guess you and only you Sara.
I like it, but it's a tit bit to outragoues for me. (And that's crazy!)

[plymouth.rock]

I love it.

I'm addicted to anything involving the accordion.

[clouds-chan]

http://www.makingbooks.com/accordion.html

[Big-H]

I once told a kid at school they are "a folky Pink Floyd"

Don't really know what that means, or for that matter how it relates...

[clouds-chan]

If Michael Jackson turned into Jeff Mangum, started playing folk music, and then formed a band, this would be it.

[Lusitania]

Gogol Bordello are obnoxious.

[deepthought42]

Gogol Bordello are gypsies.

[Lusitania]

True. And they will make sure you know it.

[Pompadork]

Have you seen them live, Lusitania?

[sandman]

Originally posted by plymouth.rock
I tend to tell people it's the kind of music you'd put on if you were bedding Louise Brooks circa 1929.

Louise Brooks is damn fine! And if I was bedding her, NMH is exactly what I'd put on. ;)

[Lusitania]

No, I really wanted to for a while, but then friends who knew them better convinced me it wasn't worth it.

[Pompadork]

Hmm...

[plymouth.rock]

Originally posted by sandman
Originally posted by plymouth.rock
I tend to tell people it's the kind of music you'd put on if you were bedding Louise Brooks circa 1929.

Louise Brooks is damn fine! And if I was bedding her, NMH is exactly what I'd put on. ;)

Agreed. I love Louise Brooks.....She's the queen of my mastabatory fantasies....

[Pompadork]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

[deanna]

Originally posted by 46578456
I say "It's like Bob Dylan on speed fronting a psychedelic marching band who got there instruments from an abandoned novelty music store"

winning comment!

[deanna]

Originally posted by Lusitania
Gogol Bordello are obnoxious.

i wholeheartedly agree!

[sandman]

Hey don't distract from the real topic...masterbatory fantasies.
Also the first person to say Jeff Mangum LOSES! Don't be so predictable.

[deepthought42]

John Cale-era Velvet Underground reunites and plays a show with Neutral Milk Hotel in my basement.

With synthesizers.

[plymouth.rock]

Louise Brooks lights my cigarettes while we get drunk off bathtub gin and have an insane threeway with Clara Bow.

[Pompadork]

I'm still waiting on you to say something vulgar and raunchy.

[plymouth.rock]

Me?

[clouds-chan]

How about something ranchy?

I can do ranchy.

[Pompadork]

Duhh...you.

[plymouth.rock]

I didn't now I was supposed to be saying something foul or filthy...

[Pompadork]

Chicken.

[sandman]

Man, he wants to hear about how hot it would be to tie Louise's hands to the headboard with a necktie while she's on all fours with 4 inch heels and white stockings on.

:D hmmm now where's my girlfriend at?

[sandman]

Hahaha I guess I killed this one off. According to the Calvin and Hobbes system of how to win a conversation it means that I got the verbal equivalent of a touchdown!

[Lusitania]

mine involves neutralmilkmoustache.

[kylewilliam]

acoustic lo-fi goodness with a hint of amazing