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Neutral Milk Hotel is...scholarly?
Hat:
I would love to see this guy write a paper on the Decemberists.
billiumbean:
I heard Neutral Milk Hotel once and it sucked.
So there's my argument.
el_loco_avs:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 04 Feb 2009, 10:27 ---This might be just because they're American, but I've never heard of either Nude or Magnet (who does a top 60 anyway? 100 or 50, yeah, maybe even 75, but 60???). And as for Pitchfork, Lord knows if you just sing out of tune and have shitty production you'll probably have a 10.0. 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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Sounds like your mind is pretty set without any first-person experience of this album.
--- Quote from: _yoda on 04 Feb 2009, 14:54 ---*snip*
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.
*snip*
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Well then their knowledge is not that in-depth. I know people that *don't* have in-depth knowledge and they're quite aware of this album's existance.
--- Quote from: Cire27 on 04 Feb 2009, 22:19 ---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.
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I'm mostly amused that the detractors of this album come from the "noone knows about this, it's irrelevant" and the "it's too popular to be any good" groups. :-D
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: Hat on 04 Feb 2009, 22:35 ---I would love to see this guy write a paper on the Decemberists.
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I would like to see Colin Meloy write a paper on Jeff Mangum
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Cernunnos on 04 Feb 2009, 16:58 ---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.
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I don't recall saying I thought it was a bad album. I just have no interest in becoming one of this gibbering mass.
--- Quote from: el_loco_avs on 05 Feb 2009, 01:59 ---Sounds like your mind is pretty set without any first-person experience of this album.
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That's 'cause it is.
--- Quote from: JediBendu on 04 Feb 2009, 18:05 ---@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.
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And what social circles do you frequent?
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