On first impressions of hearing about the band Neutral Milk Hotel, you'd think that the band name is pretty ridiculous. It's just a bunch of random words jumbled together. When you listen to the album you wouldn't see the band name correlating with the type of music they make though.
I rate this album 9 anne franks out of 11 jeff mangums.
For those who haven't heard of Neutral Milk Hotel, or haven't listened to anything from the indie scene well, here's the perfect album to start with. It is the epitome of every album that everyone in the music scene would call "So indeh me likey" music that most plebs would listen to. If you don't know what pleb means it means the regular man/woman, commoner, filthy scoundrels of the earth. In other words you don't wanna be a pleb.
So if you haven't heard of this album or haven't listened to it i would stop reading and download the next free album torrent as this album. Whilst this album is not the greatest album ever or even that memorable it was the turn point for music in the sense that it became famous in a cult like way.
Songs like Two headed boy, revered by hipsters as the "best song evah" and "this is my shit" is one of the most popular songs to come from this album, but in all honesty all of us who heard all of the music Neutral Milk Hotel has made agree that the best album is On Avery Island. With Ferris Wheel on Fire being their second best work.
For the next part of this post i would recommend listening to the album while i review every single track.
Track review:
King of carrot flowers pt 1: It's about sex yo. Listen to that fucking hook. Listen to magnums voice, you are now a slave to his voice, you want to suck his- wait, hold up... what? It's a song about "who-can't-play-this-on-guitar-core" that's all. White teens losing virginity in a bad situation.
King of carrot flowers pt 2: That intro/transition is legit yo! Listen to that guitar and plucking all the no-I LOOOOOOOOOOVEEE YOU JESSSSSSSSSUUUUSSS CHHHRRRRRRIIIIIIIIISSSSSTTT!!!!! I bet your atheist though. hypocrita! In this song he's going back in time to go save annie. OK?
In the aeroplane over the sea: It's a love song that i sang in front of people once. It's a great song but for now we are young let us lay in the sun... i mean, listen to those horns man, listen to that guitar strum fuck up that wasn't covered up by computer software. lol dave grohl would approve this album he'd be all like "dude what's up with all these hipsters with syntheziers lol make real music with guitars you nerds!!! listen to nutral milk hotell bros"
Two headed boy: In case you were wondering yes all the songs sound pretty much the same musically, really shitty guitar playing, shitty vocals, shitty lyrics about Anne Frank and sex. Yep it's classic indie.
The fool: nah nahh nahhhh nah nah nah nah nahhhh nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nahhhhh nahhh nahhh nahhhhhh nahhh nah nah nah nahhhh nahhhh nahhh nahh nah nah nah nahhh #trumpetswag oh shit there's a fucking accordion on this song holy mother of fucking shit babies.
Holland, 1945: OH SHIT A PUNK SONG ON ACOUSTIC GUITAR!!!! HOLY SHIT NEVER DONE BEFORE!>?!
Communist daughter: Hur duer i'm so commie. yeah... if you are into history, cringe. Your soft vocals are staining mountains with semen. pick up line: hey baby you wanna be the mountain tops to my semen stains? Wanna be my communist daughter and commit incest? ...yeah.
Oh comely: If you aren't bored by the time i'm at this point then you weren't listening to the album you bastard. Oh comely is about sex about the feeling of cumming all over your anne frank picture that you printed off google images at the library for 10 cents each. Magnums voice is a euphemism for him masturbating. ok his name is mangum not magnum but still... he sounds like a condom.
Ghost: Sounds nothing like the song title i expected a morbid sad tune but its actually really upbeat. i don't really want to listen to this song anymore though -skip. wait i gotta wait till it's half way done so it can scrobble lol.
Untitled: The best song on the album. It depicts two English men having sex together with an organ and one with bag pipes. That is the magic of this song.
Two headed boy pt 2: The worst song on this album. it's boring i hate you. you suck. i'm talking about you reader.
In case you're wondering i'm not being serious. It is a good album and if you really like the album that's great.
I rate this album 9 anne franks out of 11 jeff mangums.
