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by Phil McMullen

Neutral Milk Hotel isn't so much a band as a concept. The
product of the singulary imaginative mind locked inside
Jeff Mangum's head, it's been a band in the past and will
be a band again, but at the same time it can just be Jeff
and a few friends or even just Jeff and some odd bits of
furniture with peculiar acoustic properties. The
peripatetic Mr. Mangum has rarely stayed still long enough
in the past three years to hold a stable line-up together
anyway, and talking to him I came to realise that it's the More...

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FREAKIN AMAZING | Reviewer: Gabe

------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

This song is one that can be interpreted differently by anyone, because in all truth, music is based completely on your (the interpreters) opinion, thus is music, but for me I feel joyous and yet a sting of guilt when listening to such an amazing piece of art, for we exploit the life of a young dead jewish girl for our own entertainment or even self-pity.

Correction | Reviewer: Anonymous

------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

Well, NMH is kinda a willy wonka band (in a good way) Jeff Mangum(the lead singer for all the NMH Noobs out there) based the entire In The Areoplane by the Sea on Anne Frank. Read his stuff at www.NeutralMilkHotel.net/.com. Oh Comely is based on lyrics from other songs The song Oh Sister uses "Some Pretty, Bright and Bubbly" lyrics in it too. Anyways, Jeff Mangum,Julian Koster are the "bomb" as they would say in the States.

reference | Reviewer: kid vesuvius

------ About the song Naomi performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

"No deeper meaning, just some vague bullshit for angsty teenagers." - man, that's bullshit in itself.

It may supposedly be about Naomi Yang but everything in the lyrics reference Junichiro Tanizaki's novel 'Naomi'. Set in 1920's Japan, it's about a man in his late 20's who falls in love with a 15 year-old girl and takes her as his wife, it then follows their relationship for 8 years as she grows into a beautiful woman and learns how to use his growing obsession for her own gains. That's a very simplistic synopsis but it's a great novel and the song captures one element of it brilliantly.

Burning Apartment Building? | Reviewer: Marco Scibelli

------ About the song Ghost performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

Hey I just wanted to input my thoughts about the "Burning Apartment Building." I interpreted it not as the Triangle Fire or the image that the drummer recalls, but as a reference, again, to Anne Frank. Anne Frank was killed in the holocaust (in which many people were burned tragically) and the fire image of the burning apartment building speaks to me on that. Also, the "fourteen stories high" seems to parallel the age at which Anne died: fourteen. I feel that the building is a metaphor for Anne's story as read through Mangum's eyes.

Great song. | Reviewer: bartleby

------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

Lots of vibrations. And while I'm at it I find I need to say, or else I probly wouldn't, that art isn't even a little tiny bit about "love of the vague." Any art worth the name is explicit, concrete and immediate as a crack in the sidewalk or a punch in the gut. It might not be all that literal but that has VERY LITTLE to do with being vague and a WHOLE LOT to do with being ambiguous, redolent with many meanings, some more and/or less meaningful (at the very same time) to some than others.

Grigori had 2 sweet Marie's - Anastasia's sister and the iha who tamed tigers.. | Reviewer: fisharmean

------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

The first time machine arrived the night the mystic performed @ the opera house, you know where the semen stains the mountain tops.

if Grigori was actually the ghost in the mystic's story, then another time machine is to hit pretty soon, but on a green field.

Does anybody know WHAT I MEAN???

fisharmean

Response to triangle shirtwaist reviewer | Reviewer: Hwhl

------ About the song Ghost performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

For a long time I too interpreted the last verse of this song to be about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, but it's not actually written about that. The factory fire actually occurred in 1911, fitting in somewhat with the WWII aesthetic that occupies the album but is actually several decades off. But nor is it talking about WWII itself either. That verse was actually inspired by something that Neutral Milk drummer Jeremy Barnes saw in the late 1990s during the band's time in New York City- a fire in an apartment building in the West Village. I think the parallels between that actual event and the interpretations of Triangle and WWII demonstrates the true timelessness of Aeroplane.

Danny | Reviewer: Bob Lang 2/6/13

------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

I just started writing again, and came back to this site on the internet to get lyrics to " Aeroplane Over The sea" and saw your letter.. Thank You for such kind words, really appreciate your heartfelt letter. thanks, Bob

Beautiful song | Reviewer: Eliza

------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

I've been obsessing over this song for the last couple weeks. every time i hear it i get something new out of it. Sometimes this song makes me feel happy, or nostalgic even. It is a very bittersweet song and takes me to a different world every time i hear it. The lyrics can be interpreted in so many different ways its a beautiful vague piece of art, that is more than a song. It's a memory, it has meaning.

Another great song by NMH | Reviewer: Eliza

------ About the song Holland, 1945 performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

WOW! Whenever i hear this song i just want to belt it out at the top of my lungs just like jeff does. The lyrics still make you think, but the song is a lot more upbeat than 'In the aeroplane over the sea' the song is very nice it just makes you want to jump and sing it, or even cry sometimes... that is why i love NMH making such great songs with meaning.

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