I just listened to "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel
 

for the 1st time.

I thought it was very good. I liked the whole album. I'd read and heard about them for years but I never bothered to listen. Now I kind of wish I had.

Thoughts?

i find them annoying.

Same. Never got into them at all.

I like them but I have to be in a weird mood to listen to them.

Judging by your latest thread, what's weird for you?

Like when I'm not having crazy sex while snorting hot lines off a stripper's ass.

How did you know what I was doing at this very second?

It's just what I'm doing too.

Co-incidence?

Fucking amazing album.
Perfect.

I like one song on it, but christian rock is not for me.

Ha, me too, sort of. This is the first album in like forever I actually felt "pressured" to buy. The hype is unbelievable.

But I have to admit I only listened to it twice, so maybe I'm not giving it enough time. Anyway it didn't leave my genitals tingling the way Boris's Pink did the first time I heard it.

Christian rock?

I tend to think of it this way: How does it compare to, say, Daydream Nation, Exile on Main Street, or even Revolver?

Enough said?

That guy's voice is really irritating.

hell yeah christian rock

read about it!

Yeah, I'm not putting it anywhere near the same league as those. Notice I said "very good" and not "great" or "amazing". I would use those words to classify DDN and Revolver. Some of the novelty has worn off of it. I see it as something I might dig out every once in a while, not something that I use as a template to judge things by, as with DDN or Revolver.

Where? I haven't heard this in ref to this album before.

I listened to it once and hated it to the point of never wanting to give it a listen again...

Rob is referring to the lyrics of the song "The King of the Carrot Flowers Pt. 2"

http://www.neutralmilkhotel.net/lyrics.html

The King of Carrot Flowers

Part Two

I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do
I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do
And on the lazy days
The dogs dissolve and drain away
The world it goes
And all awaits
The day we are awaiting


I was a contemporary of these fellows in Athens; I didn't like them all that much then as well as now. That's not to say it's all bad because a lot of it is worthwhile. Unfortunately the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies never saw any of the media attention that the E6 bands did. Many of the E6 titles from the nineties are very influential on "alternative" music to this day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ele...ording_Company

Kind of bores the shit outta me. And Neutral Milk Hotel fans are fucking annoying.

I personally love it, but I could easily see why someone wouldn't.

I don't like to think of myself as a fan of the band, but I think it's interesting to dig the album out now and then.

I like Holland, 1945, but other than that, I don't like NMH at all.

they are about the only ones on Elephant6 that I can't stand.

I prefer The Olivia Tremor Control on the whole as far as Elephant 6 bands are concerned.

i love it.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.

It's good, but not worthy of the hype it gets. Love "Oh Comely" and "Two-Headed Boy". Avery Island is a bout a million times better. Not sure of the straight-up hate on here, NMH is about a million times better than some of that "freak psych new weird folk" shit you cats dig....

Love this album.

i've heard it once or twice, i wasn't really that struck by it, and i can quite happily live the rest of my life without hearing that guy sing again

Yeah I don't really dig his voice. It's too "new indie" for my liking. Bring back the days of Frank Black and Steve Malkmus style singing, people!
Imperfection is perfection in that sense.

It's one of my favorite albums, how indie-cliche. But it goes like this: people who like them usually REALLY like them, people who don't hate them.