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Neutral Milk Hotel is...scholarly?
spoon_of_grimbo:
^this fella is right, generally speaking, but seriously, don't waste your time on this album.
De_El:
Or! Waste your time however you like.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Cernunnos on 04 Feb 2009, 11:51 ---
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 04 Feb 2009, 10:27 ---To be fair, I've never listened to this album, but that's because I can't stand all the wank written about it on this board.
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To be fair, that's an attitude that will close you off to a lot of good music. People actually praise things that are worthwhile quite often, believe it or not. Even hipsters. Either way, if you haven't listened to it, it's not really fair to complain about it, or even complain about the praise it is given. how would you know if any of us should praise it profusely or not? Quite honestly, none of us should; it's good, but not anywhere near that good, but that's beside the point. Green Eggs and Ham, man.
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I don't just ignore all music that gets praised, it's this specific album, because I never hear about it anywhere else, only on here, and it's incessant. Loads of my favourite bands - Pink Floyd for one - are hilariously overpraised. I don't close myself off to other things due to overpraise, it's just this record, this forum.
Scandanavian War Machine:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 04 Feb 2009, 03:11 ---Anyone with a passing familiarity of American independent music in the last thirty years has listened to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea at least four times.
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ah ha!
i've only listened to it once! it was pretty uninteresting.
however, some of my favorite bands contain members of NMH so it's not like they're bad at music. i just wasn't excited by that album.
_yoda:
Every time NMH is brought up I get a good few minutes' entertainment, specifically because of the ITAOTS fanboys that seem to consider it the Most. Important. Album. Ever. Now, notice I am not debating the claims of "Best Album Ever" - that's subjective - but "Most Important" is entirely laughable. Even "one of the most important albums ever" is a laughable claim.
As already discussed, this album is insanely tiny in the scheme of influential albums. To be important, it needs to have cultural saturation and, even more importantly, have an influence on a broad cross-section of culture (or at least a significant demographic)
ITAOTS has none of this. It is an album whose primary demographic is music critics and extreme record nerds. In fact, I know a *lot* of record nerds with a fairly in-depth knowledge of music and they know little or nothing about this album.
Now, this isn't to say your appreciation of this record is invalid. But geesh guys, this album is really not that big a deal in terms of who it has affected. It's had a major influence on only the smallest slice of the music buying population.
And far out, if an album *can't* break beyond an audience of music critics and extreme record nerds then that, in and of itself, is a flaw.
I am not a person to judge music by sales - far from it - but this is one of those albums that has been blown out of proportion.
All IMHO, of course.
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