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Time for a Neutral Milk Hotel break
Submitted by imaginary liz on April 11, 2007.
It's turning out to be a Neutral Milk Hotel retro kinda week!
I've found TWO ultra-rare Neutral Milk Hotel mp3s, and an awesome YouTube video of one of Neutral Milk Hotel's last performances. And I love them all so much, I have to share.
Yesterday the Elephant Six blog, Optical Atlas, posted an mp3 of "Bucket" - a Neutral Milk Hotel song from long ago (and I think only available on an out of print 1994 Yoyo Records compilation, Periscope). You should go download it now (before they take it down).
Listening to that song (6 times in a row) inspired me to go YouTubing... and I found this incredible video of Neutral Milk Hotel performing "King Of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3" in Athens, GA. After a bit of research, it might have been their last show as a full band (Jeff has played some shows solo... but this is the last time on record of them performing as a full band). I nearly wept it was so... spectacular.
Over the weekend I was introduced to a new blog named I'm Not Always So Stupid which is written by a smart cutie named Nancy (of Cher Doll Records fame). So far she's been posting something everyday and each post is a short tale related to indie-pop or vintage britpop complete with a (usually ultra-rare) mp3. Nancy's Saturday post kicked off Neutral Milk Hotel week with a tidbit about NMH's Jeff Mangum's time in Seattle and an mp3 of the song "Up and Over We Go" which is from the 1993 Cher Doll EP The Amazing Phantom Third Channel. Perhaps you will recognize this song as an early version of a song you know and love? Again, go download it now, you never know how long this good fortune will last.
Now hit repeat.
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imaginary embracey said on April 11, 2007:
Is there a vegan version called Neutral Silk Hotel?
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Lawrence Winnerman said on April 11, 2007:
OK, KOCF 2&3 is a kick ass song, but I *EFFING* love KOCF part 1...is is wrong that I'm always going for the sappy acoustic version of everything?
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jan-i-licious said on April 11, 2007:
These songs are really really really good. Does anyone else know of other missing Neutral Milk Hotel mp3s?
Did any one else read that interview? They should have broken it up into installments. So informational though. A must read.
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Imaginary sero(tone)in said on April 11, 2007:
back in the heyday of napster & other sharing sites (and i'm still active on dimeadozen), i downloaded a ton of live nmh... including the only i time i saw them in chapel hill :) they're all still socked away on an external hard drive.
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imaginary liz said on April 11, 2007:
And *weird* -- I just checked the indieRSS and saw this was posted on The Day Jobs (an Athens, GA blog) just a few hours ago. The transcript of a 2002 Jeff M / Pitchfork interview.
Old Mangumnese indeed!