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Neutral Milk Hotel is...scholarly?

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Inlander:

--- Quote from: _yoda on 04 Feb 2009, 14:54 ---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.

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Everything you said is reasonable except for this, which is rather absurd.

Cernunnos:


--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 04 Feb 2009, 10:27 ---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.

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So, because "we" like it, and "nobody else"(ha.) does, it must suck? Do you really think the rest of the forum has such bad taste? Also, if this thread makes anything clear, it's that this forum does not actually jump on Mangum's nuts like you say. Even if that were the case, there are still plenty of voices claiming this to be a good album that are not, in fact, quite so vehement, prone to exaggeration, or talking out of their ass.

It's painfully obvious this album has been talked about too much anyways. So I'm gonna stop now.

JediBendu:
Dudes it's a pretty good album. To refuse to try it out is probably more pretentious than talking about it too much.

@DK: Where the hell have you been living, man? In my social circles a good deal of people who've never even seen this forum have known about and generally like ITAOTS a lot more than I do. I'm constantly meeting people who are big NMH fans. From music nerds to attractive college girls to the odd, average Joe Blow.

Seriously if you think people don't really know and praise this album all the time outside of this forum then I wouldn't really trust your appraisal on the importance or popularity of any album.

Edit: Yeah that essay is pretty bad.

MrBlu:

--- Quote from: Inlander on 03 Feb 2009, 21:01 ---I'm not arguing with the content of the thesis - I'm hardly in a position to do so, I could barely handle reading the first section. I'm saying that the manner in which the thesis is written - or at least the bit that I read - is unnecessarily pretentious and jargonistic, which seems to be a frequent problem in Academia.

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Fact: when you hit that stage and start using superfluous language, it doesn't make you special, it makes you look like you have a chronic case of explosive logorrhoea.

Cire27:
Yes the album is highly overrated, but the people hating on it because of that are, frankly, being stupid.  Hell, I like the album.  It's in my top ten favorites, even.  But people, it's just a pop album. Some people are going to like it, some are going to hate it, and some people are going to write shitty papers on it.  Hating it for its popularity, though, is just one of the biggest damn fallacies I can imagine.

I'm really starting to hate this whole arguing over it thing.  Can we not?

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