RE: the greatest album ever
Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Mon, 01 Nov 1999 20:20:05 -0800 (PST)
I went to a Halloween Rave in Oakland last saturday
and had a blast! I've been checking out the rave scene
and stumbled across some great groups through friends:
Underworld, Roni Size, DJ Soulslinger, DJ Shadow,
Fila Brazillia,
There's some great music out there in the underground
scene that often goes unoticed because either MTV
ignores them or they refuse to stoop to MTV's level;)
--- Joe Cross <JCROSS@CTMSINC.com> wrote:
> Matty Kluzuski wroteth:
>
> <<As compelling as the lyrics themselves may be to
> some, the
> accompanying music rather transforms them, in this
> case. >>
>
> Yeah, I thought about that after I transcribed the
> lyrics to 'Holland 1945'.
> I thought some of the folks on here who had never
> heard Neutral Milk Hotel
> might think they were, well tasteless. Such as the
> line "and it's so sad to
> see, the world agree, that they'd rather see their
> faces filled with flies"
> (an obvious reference to the holocaust documentaries
> we've all seen where
> piles of dead jewish humans lie about with flies
> covering their mouths and
> eyes). But really, it's all quite beautiful.
>
> I kept reading on this music list (for another great
> band) all these
> recommendations for 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'
> by some band called
> Neutral Milk Hotel. I was in Nashville one weekend
> and decided to pick it up
> on vinyl (because it's cheap) and give it a listen.
> I'm wary of new bands
> and getting into new stuff. A lot of stuff folks
> want me to listen to ends
> up being a bit stinky. I gave it an initial listen
> and found the first three
> songs rather pleasing to my ear. Nothing great. But
> pretty nonetheless.
>
> Then one day I was listening to the album while
> driving to work (I had taped
> it off) and it got to the song 'Holland 1945' and I
> had the realization that
> this song had big time allusions to the holocaust.
> Then I got on over to the
> song 'Ghost' and realized, this could be about Anne
> Frank. I had read her
> diary as a youngster and thought she was absolutely
> one of the most
> beautiful people that ever lived if only for her
> normalcy. I kept listening
> and trying to figure out what he could be alluding
> to in songs. Lines like
> 'goldaline my dear, we will fold and freeze
> together, far away from here,
> there is sun and spring and green forever, but now
> we move to feel, for
> ourselves inside some strangers stomach, raise your
> body high, let your skin
> begin to bind itself to mine' definitely had me
> thinking of concentration
> camps and cold nights and living inside your own
> mind to get away from the
> evil. Then I read an interview with the front man
> and he talked about
> reading the secret annex right before he went to
> record the first album they
> put out and how he cried for days and felt sad and
> in love all at the same
> time. He wrote all the songs for the second album
> and they went and recorded
> it. He said they were so excited about the songs.
> They would record a song
> and then go outside and jump around with joy. In
> fact, the best vocal
> performance on the album is a song called 'Oh
> Comely' which reminds me of a
> funeral dirge. As it finishes, if you listen real
> close, in the back ground
> you can hear someone yell in amazement "holy
> shit!!!!" as if they just
> witnessed some great feat.
>
> And don't worry folks, this ain't some rock'n'roll
> bullshit. this is
> acoustic guitar, drums, distorto bass, singing saw,
> horns, etc. It's beauty.
>
>
> <<I have a feeling I wouldn't agree with Joey on
> many things, but for now,
> and
> perhaps just for this once,>>
>
>
> Matt baby, I thought we had something?? Dude,
> where's the love???
>
> << I can be seen in the background of the
> photograph, smiling and nodding
> cautiously, as in tepid assent, to the implicit
> recommendation. >>
>
> Oh okay.
>
> <<Now, as far as the supposed universal appeal of
> the band...well,
> perhaps that's a topic we should avoid, it having
> recently been proved
> (conclusively) on this list that even the great JDS
> himself is not
> universally appealing. >>
>
> My roommate is a top 40 listening fewl. His
> girlfriend a techno freak. I
> played this album nonstop for months and they both
> loved it!! I turned tons
> of friends onto it. They all loved it!! Even if they
> didn't know what it was
> about.
>
> When I first met my now girlfriend I liked her so
> much. And she liked me
> too. BUT she wanted to date this other guy. It hurt
> so bad. I would wake up
> at night in distress and go out and drive around
> listening to In the
> Aeroplane Over the Sea. My roommates would ask
> 'where did you go at 4 in the
> morning?' and I would tell them how I felt and that
> I needed to hear that
> album and they would agree that it would soothe any
> aching soul.
>
> Now I'm finally dating this girl and she's a big
> dave matthews, hippy music
> fan, yet, she likes that album and borrows it from
> me.
>
> Hell folks, just go buy the damn album. You WON'T be
> sorry!!!
>
> JoeySLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>
>
>
> <<How many of you can resist the temptation to offer
> a contesting
> "greatest album ever"? How long before the thread
> turns into
> "greatest book ever"? >>
>
> Isn't that the Holy Bible??
>
>
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