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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 extraordinary breadth of his experiences which are lending such a melancholy and dream-like quality to his songwriting. If great art is born of suffering then Neutral Milk Hotel is high art indeed; and if it ain't, then it still makes for won More... (Submit New Neutral Milk Hotel Lyrics) (Submit New Neutral Milk Hotel Lyrics) Review about Neutral Milk Hotel so | Reviewer: serk ------ About the song Two-Headed Boy performed by Neutral Milk Hotel This song is about getting raped and getting jizzed on. Two Headed boy is referring to...another head. It didnt come to me until this line "Watching spirals of white softly flow Over your eyelids and all you did" holyjebus | Reviewer: nanc-ayyy ------ About the song Ghost performed by Neutral Milk Hotel i love this album/song/band. "She goes and now she knows she'll never be afraid To watch the morning paper blow Into a hole where no one can escape" best part; jeff's voice is like perfect when he hits afraid and on. From Holland | Reviewer: J Rizzo ------ About the song Holland, 1945 performed by Neutral Milk Hotel "At the bottom of everything" by Bright Eyes has a similar feeling. Mixing extremely sad lyrics with exciting and joyous music. Funny enough, I live in Amsterdam, and I rode by the Anne Frank house today on my bike while this song was blasting on my iPod. Inspired me enough to google it and see what turned up. :) NMH | Reviewer: June ------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel This band is truly amazing. Their lyrics are breathtaking and unbearably beautiful. The lead vocals are fantastic and the music creative. If you havent already, definetly give them a listen, you'll fall in love. SONG AGAINST SEX!! | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Song Against Sex performed by Neutral Milk Hotel This is one badass song. I, too, am disgusted with the sick and crass concept of pretending to love someone to just have sex with them. To the point of burning myself alive I guess, like Jeff here. Seems like a common concept in his songs; different scenarios of suicide. Burning himself alive, walking in front of busses, jumping off cliffs, falling from burning buildings, getting buried alive, etc. Pretty awesome song. I like the way his frustration about the situation just escalates into elaborate metaphors and scenarios. yo. | Reviewer: jeez ------ About the song Sailing Through performed by Neutral Milk Hotel At first I got the feeling that this song is about a relationship between two gay men, but I know that it could be any sort of couple. I think the narrator's lover becomes somewhat of a whore and contracts AIDS, and passes it to the narrator who figures if he's going to have this disease, he might as well live through it with his love. I could be way off, but this is just a little projection of my ideas. For what it's worth... | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel I think another read is that Jeff himself has a crush on Anne Frank, and that's always the way I hear the songs on this album--that reading her diary touched him so deeply that he actually felt a kind of love for her, and the love songs are from him to her. (Note: "I wish I could save you in some kind of time machine...Will you remember me fifty years later...") Regardless, it's a remarkable album, and this song is the centerpiece. I'll simply leave it up to the engineer and his reaction at the end of the song to sum it up: "Holy S---!" Addendum | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel From an interview with Mangum: "While I was reading the book ["The Diary of Anne Frank"], she was completely alive to me. I pretty much knew what was going to happen. But that's the thing: you love people because you know their story. You have sympathy for people even when they do stupid things because you know where they're coming from, you understand where they're at in their head. So here I am as deep as you can go in someone's head, in some ways deeper than you can go with someone you know in the flesh. And then at the end, she gets disposed of like a piece of trash. I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine, having the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank." im about to kill myself | Reviewer: juan cabron ------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel every time i listen to NMH I think i want to kill myself. I start looking through the kitchen drawers for razor blades, with the intention of swallowing a box of them. And I know if I did that I would feel so much better... Maybe they should title one of their songs- a box a razor blades for you. or maybe they should include a razor blade in the jacket of their cd covers. i think | Reviewer: shawn maccoy ------ About the song Holland, 1945 performed by Neutral Milk Hotel i think the entire album is a double entendre: it is about both anne frank/the holocaust and also of love, either unrequited or lost. in other words, the impetus and inspiration of the entire album was of lost love, and the death of an innocent beauty, anne frank, becomes the metaphor through which mangum expresses his profound sorrow... or maybe i'm just projecting :) Beautiful | Reviewer: KrepEZ ------ About the song Where You'll Find Me Now performed by Neutral Milk Hotel This is a truly moving song and while the true vocal climax arrives at the 3:09 mark the transcendental glory of the song, for me, is the line: "All I could want is silver and spinning/Out from your arms and into the pretty pit of your heart, so simply and softly we'd flow." I really like the song | Reviewer: Marina ------ About the song Two-Headed Boy performed by Neutral Milk Hotel I think that the emotions with which the performer sings the song are important. And I think the one who wrote the song can often put the most emotions in it. (sorry if my english is hard to understand, I'm not a native speaker, I just learn it at school) Gorgeous | Reviewer: Erin ------ About the song Communist Daughter performed by Neutral Milk Hotel A friend of mine sent me a Neutral Milk Hotel song a couple weeks ago, it was "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea," and since then I've been absolutely hooked on them. This song is so lovely in its simplicity, it makes me feel so free. previous reviewer hates music | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Naomi performed by Neutral Milk Hotel you're a dumbass...on avery island is great...what about Gardenhead/Leave Me alone, A baby for pree, song against sex? This is a great album, not near as good as in the aeroplane over the sea, but he had a different band for those two albums, and his songs are damn pretty. Indeed | Reviewer: Nick ------ About the song Communist Daughter performed by Neutral Milk Hotel This is in response to the previous, and only comment. I found it very insightful, and I agree completely with your analysis. I also found it interesting that someone with creative writing skills such as Kurtis Repstock's would actually comment on the website sing365.com. I searched for the lyrics of this song to find out what they were and what exactly he was talking about. Thanks. Forever | Reviewer: Kitty ------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel My fiance's cousin turned me on to NMH, and we have loved them ever since. His amazing wonderful soul of a cousin passed away over a year ago, but we are using this song as our song at our wedding in august. It takes you to a very specific place at a very specific time in your mind. | Reviewer: Kurtis Repstock ------ About the song Communist Daughter performed by Neutral Milk Hotel The visual imagery created in this song has a capacity to completely take you to another world; to sweep you away in its majestic yet reserved sound. The structure of the lyricism and the direct, almost monotone delivery of the vocals accompanies the music in such a way as to sustain its impact on your ears and leave you in a state of nirvana as you begin to look upwards, past the mountain tops, to see, standing as flesh colored monoliths supplanted between wispy clouds: fully erect penises ejaculating snow-like cum all over said mountain tops. The surreal nature of the song makes it hard not to interpret the lyrics in anything but a direct, "face value" approach. Memories | Reviewer: Danny ------ About the song Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2 performed by Neutral Milk Hotel I always listen to "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" to officially end the summer, and "Two-Headed Boy" is the perfect song to end off on. The summer is always an amazing, memorable four months, and when the end rolls around, many of my friends are off to different schools in different cities. The album and this song in particular always force me to reflect back on the past few months. Always brings a tear to my eye. Delightful | Reviewer: K Repstock ------ About the song 2:16 performed by Neutral Milk Hotel As if this album couldn't produce anything more in its air tight, ethereal 40 min. run time, they go ahead and throw in a bad ass bagpipe jam before closing it off with Two-Headed Boy, Pt. II. Great decision. Peter Van Daan | Reviewer: SarahN ------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel I think to try to understand the entire album of The Aeroplane Over the Sea, you have to actually read the Diary of Anne Frank. I don't think you can really dissect this song line by line; I have a vague idea that this song is supposed to be Peter Van Daan speaking to Anne. Logically it doesn't make sense...Edith Frank didn't die in the same time or place as Anne, Peter didn't survive at all, but in an esoteric way it sounds like it's a tragic love song to Anne from Peter, who she loved. You could review the artist/band Neutral Milk Hotel in Biography page You could review Neutral Milk Hotel album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Neutral Milk Hotel song by clicking the song which you like  Download "Neutral Milk Hotel" Music | |
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