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Catching signals that sound in the dark...

Name: kevin
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles
Favorite NMH Song: april 8th
Favorite NMH Lyric: all alone - another twisted moment's gone that will never pass this way again and through it all i thought there'd be some shred of hope but faith i've found will do you in
Best Records of Last Three Years:
Site Suggestions: I would like to see an area where we could talk about what each song means to us. maybe have a list of all the songs then you can click on the songs to see what others have said about them and add your own ideas and thoughts.


Name: low
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs, demos, singles
Favorite Band: against me
Favorite NMH Song: little birds
Favorite NMH Lyric: and now we ride the circus wheel / with your dark brother wrapped in white / says it was good to be alive / but now he rides a comets flame / and wont be coming back again / the earth looks better from a star / thats right above from where you are / he didnt mean to make you cry / with sparks that ring and bullets fly /on empty rings around your heart the world just screams and falls apart
Shows Seen: how i would love to see jeff &/or the band live
Best Records of Last Three Years: radiohead - ok computer, against me! - crime as forgiven by against me!, smashing pumpkins - melancholy and the infinite sadness, pink floyd - wish you were here
Site Suggestions: wishful eyes lyrics
Other Comments: none, just figured i would add a comment to the hundreds.


Name: Joel
Discovered NMH through: the monroe street house circa 1994, ruston la. i flopped there alot
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs, demos, singles
Other Comments: On a tape I have that circulated thru the art students in college (and the various other misfits poets and musicians...) a song with the lyrics "go to sleep my darling...go to sleep my dear...its late in the evening....and sleepy time is drawing near....my mind is growing tired, of december rains and winds....so lets sleep by the fire of orange-apple-cinnimaon....yes I know its hard to wait so long....and you will be waiting...i know its true...a dead dog will reveal himself to you....a dead dog will save us all...." Im not tech savy....so im not sure how to get these 4 track recordings of jeff's into digital format...does anyone have this song already in mp3 format? id gladly send out a copy of the demos i have in exchange....


Name: Spencer Lee
Contact: http://www.fightingmailmen.cjb.net
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane...
Favorite Band: Neutral Milk Hotel or Black Flag
Favorite NMH Song: Two Headed Boy Part 2
Favorite NMH Lyric: But Oh, Comely, There is not such one friend that you would find here standing next to me he's only my enemy I'll crush him with everything I own.
Best Records of Last Three Years: Neutral Milk Hotel- On Avery Island, In The Aeroplane Black Flag- Who's got the 10 1/2? The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow
Site Suggestions: mp3's? [There are some on the official site. -K]
Other Comments: I know that they buried her body with others her sister and mother and 500 families but will she remember me fifty years later I wish I could save her in some sort of time machine know all your enemies


Name: dylan
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs, demos, singles
Favorite Band: that's a hard question
Favorite NMH Song: Two Headed Boy Part 2
Favorite NMH Lyric: your father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies while you and your mother were asleep in the trailor park
Shows Seen: i DO go to a lot of elephant six concerts in Athens, GA
Best Records of Last Three Years: Aeoplane over the sea-NMH, i see a darkness-bonnie prince billy,and Black Foliage animation music-Olivia Tremor Control,The Frosted Ambassador
Site Suggestions: seems good to me
Other Comments: im only 13 and everytime i go to concerts i hang out with guys from elephant six; everyone always tells me how lucky i am :) it makes me a happy boy


Name: Vox
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: In the Aeroplane...
Favorite Band: NMH
Favorite NMH Song: Where You'll Find Me Now
Favorite NMH Lyric: And out in the dark, the world is still rolling, kids in their cars cigarette smoking. And all that they are just reeks with the sweetest belief. -- and -- All still believing to tear out your heart would send all your secrets to me.
Shows Seen: I really wish i'd heard of them sooner.
Best Records of Last Three Years: In An Aeroplane - NMH, Swagger - Flogging Molly, Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly
Site Suggestions: I'd like to know more about what they're doing now [Nada - K]. I've only known of them for a year now, so it'd be nice to find out if they're coming out with anything else, or if they're completely over...
Other Comments: Well, everyone knows that Neutral Milk Hotel is a strange band. I suggest people check out Flogging Molly, and irish punk band. They're almost as super as NMH. almost...


Name: kathleen kim
Discovered NMH through: friend
Favorite Band: blonde redhead, radiohead, beck, zombies
Favorite NMH Song: oh but i couldn't...
Favorite NMH Lyric: pluck all your silly strings and bend all your notes for me.
Best Records of Last Three Years: Radiohead's last three releases, Yeah Yeah Yeah's- fever to tell; Liars - they threw us on a trench...; i download so much i don't know anymore...
Site Suggestions: fan forum? [Here's an external one. -K]


Name: Jeff
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs
Favorite Band: Hayden, Elliott Smith, NMH
Favorite NMH Song:
Favorite NMH Lyric: and if theres a taste in this life more inviting, than wake up your window and watch as those sweet babies crawl away.
Best Records of Last Three Years: Mars Volta lp was interesting. Aesop rock is very creative. Ben Harper, live from Mars. I guess NMH because I've only been listening for a year. Joseph Arthur is fairly decent. Hayden Desser, anything by Hayden.
Site Suggestions: Hope, that one day Jeff will crawl out of his slumber.
Other Comments: I took a piss with Hayden. We shook hands without washing. Kind of gross, but a memory I'll never forget.


Name: milap dixit

Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., demos, bootlegs
Favorite Band: neutral milk hotel, bob dylan, my bloody valentine, modest mouse, xiu xiu, velvet underground, olivia tremor control, other E6 bands
Favorite NMH Song: naomi, two headed boy pt. 2, april 8th
Favorite NMH Lyric: how strange it is to be anything at all
Best Records of Last Three Years: modest mouse's the moon and antarctica, jeff's bulgarian field works part 1, magnetic fields' 69 love songs, flaming lips' the soft bulletin, chan marshall's you are free
Site Suggestions: looks very nice, kristin.
Other Comments: I think jeff should come to nepal and take a trip around the himalaya, record some stuff along the way. he will absolutely love it here. and the band too. i think they're often under-recognized, which is criminal, 'cause they're wonderful!


Name: nico
Discovered NMH through: internet
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles, demos, bootlegs
Favorite Band: neutral milk hotel
Favorite NMH Song: oh sister
Favorite NMH Lyric: he comes to me whenever I am locked inside my room burried in the tomb that i call love she sings to me. the words i cannot hear but then the melody so clear it makes me cry. her love is so beautiful her love is so real
Best Records of Last Three Years: every few weeks i pick a band and devour the band inside and out. this is hard to say. recently a great album would be the mountain goats, we shall be healed.
Site Suggestions: i would love to seen nmh. that is all. if you ever hear of jeff mangums return or a solo album, i would love to be one of the first to know.
Other Comments: if you ever hear of jeff mangums return or a solo album, i would love to be one of the first to know.


Name: Jonathan
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs
Favorite Band: Neutral Milk Hotel
Favorite NMH Song: Holland 1945
Favorite NMH Lyric: Now how I remember you -- How I would push my fingers through your mouth to make those muscles move that made your voice so smooth and sweet
Best Records of Last Three Years: Want One-Rufus Wainwright, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea, Exhile to Guyville-Liz Phair
Site Suggestions: hmm...monkeys interpreting NMH lyrics?
Other Comments: i once had a dream that i was in NMH..it was odd, but Jeff and I were one in the same, i was in his body and could sing like him, but i knew i was me, i wish i could remember the song that was made up by us.


Name: Daphne
Contact: http://humanzoo.eternalvoid.net
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: In the Aeroplane...
Favorite Band: NMH
Favorite NMH Song: Oh, Comely
Best Records of Last Three Years: 1) NMH - aeroplane over the sea. 2) Ani DiFranco - So much shouting, so much laughter. 3) radiohead - ok computer
Site Suggestions: poetry by fans
Other Comments: my art teacher lent me the aeroplane over the sea album when i was in grade 9. i loved it, i didnt take it off my cd player for a week. she asked for it back, so i taped it. it was lost, sadly for a year, but then i found it!! i became re-obsessed and learned the entire album on guitar (except track 10). now, i tell everyone i can about NMH and a couple of my friends have become NMH junkies as well. i hope they pass it on too.


Name: Thiago Ramires Carmignani
Discovered NMH through: internet
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles
Favorite Band: Oh, so much ... but i think that Bad Religion still is the first one. But Jackson Do Pandeiro and Neutral Milk Hotel surely stays with them at the top
Favorite NMH Song: Snow Song Pt.1
Favorite NMH Lyric: For I am an engine and I'm holding on Through endless revisions to state what I mean. For sweetness alone who flew out through the window And landed back home in a garden of green -- fucking love it ... is so sweet and: Mother they're within me every moment I'm awaking Bodies multiplying till they finally overtake me Open up my mouth but all you'll ever hear is singing Put your hands within me and you'll know what I am feeling I just want to swallow up and promise to protect; these too
Best Records of Last Three Years: XO - Elliot Smith, Shadows Collide With People - John Frusciante, Oh ... it's not fair ... in the last three years? Come on!
Site Suggestions: Informations about Jeff Mangum ... biography, you know ;)
Other Comments: Oh ... fuck it. It's 2:09 in the morning ... i'm not in the mood to tell any story. Maybe next time


Name: Jason Kirk
Contact: http://spacemansabode.jasonkirk.net
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: In the Aeroplane..., singles
Favorite Band: It's time for Modest Mouse in this rotation
Favorite NMH Song: (tie) In The Aeroplane.../Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two
Favorite NMH Lyric: God is a place where some holy spectacle lies... or ... I'll be laughing with everyone I see, can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all
Best Records of Last Three Years: The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow", The Libertines - "Up The Bracket", Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", Modest Mouse - "Good News For People Who Love Bad News", S.M. + Jicks - "Pig Lib", Yo La Tengo - "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out," Built To Spill - "Perfect From Now On", Spiritualized - "Live at Royal Albert Hall", Spoon - "Girls Can Tell", Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots", Smog - "Supper"
Site Suggestions: A magic spell to channel Mr. Mangum's poeticism into my own writing.
Other Comments: NMH makes me cry - very few bands can do that.


Name: Kayla Sarian
Discovered NMH through: Sister
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles, demos, bootlegs
Favorite NMH Song: Communist Daughter
Favorite NMH Lyric: and your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder and your dad would throw the garbage all across the floor as we would lay and learn what eachothers bodies were for
Shows Seen: I would LOVE to see Jeff and the band live. They should come to Athens G.A. or Jacksonville F.L.!
Best Records of Last Three Years: All of N.M.H's records, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Super fury Animals
Site Suggestions: I like the site.
Other Comments: My older sister told me about Neutral Milk Hotel. I fell in love with it immediately after hearing In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. And Jeff Mangum is amazing.


Name: Sam Cole
Discovered NMH through: Was helped along the way by the Apples in Stereo and Dressy Bessy, bless 'em
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles, demos, bootlegs
Favorite Band: The Decemberists - at the moment, that is
Favorite NMH Song: A choice between Engine, Biscuit, Two Headed Boy Pt. 2, and Marching Theme
Favorite NMH Lyric: God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life
Best Records of Last Three Years: If we're talking about best records since 2000, then: The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts, Cornelius - Point, Jeff Mangum - Live At Jittery Joes, Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2, Aimee Mann - Magnolia, Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, easyworld - Kill The Last Romantic, OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Beulah - Yoko, Of Montreal - Aldhil's Arboretum, I Am The World Trade Center - Out of the Loop, Mull Historical Society - Loss
Phew... But I guess, my 5 favourite records of ALL TIME (at the moment :) ) would be thus: Apples in Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie, Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island, Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts, Of Montreal - The Gay Parade. Cornelius - Fantasma Site Suggestions: erm, it seems fine :) Maybe extra linkage...
Other Comments: Sorry that was so damn big - I'm bored and it's late, I'm going to bed. I think I might have posted this twice. Bugger. Sorry if I did. I'm going to bed now.


Name: Joe
Contact: http://www.idealbraintonic.com
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles, demos, bootlegs
Favorite Band: Neutral Milk Hotel
Favorite NMH Song: Oh, Comely / Two Headed Boy pt. 1 & 2
Favorite NMH Lyric: There are beads that wrap around your knees that crackle into the dark, like a walk in the park, like a hole in your head, like the feeling you get when you realize you're dead. This time we ride roller coasters into the ocean, we feel no emotion as we spiral down to the world, and I guess it's worth your time because there's some lives you live, and some you leave behind
Best Records of Last Three Years: One Beat; - Sleater-Kinney, Yanqui U.X.O. - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Argument - Fugazi
Site Suggestions: I think this site's pretty good and thorough


Name: Icepick Jones
Discovered NMH through: someone long gone
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles
Favorite NMH Song: three peaches, please!
Favorite NMH Lyric: someone is waiting to swallow all the halos out of you
Best Records of Last Three Years: Game Theory - Lolita Nation; Lilys - Precollection; The Zephyrs - When The Sun...; Interpol - Turn On...
Site Suggestions: Interviews, bandmember recipes, fan art, not fan farts
Other Comments: Lovely to see so many youths+elders folding into NMH, since they've been all awol for so long now!


Name: emily
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: singles
Favorite NMH Song: In the Aeroplane...
Favorite NMH Lyric: but for now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see


Name: kyle harrell
Discovered NMH through: internet
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs
Favorite Band: neutral milk hotel
Favorite NMH Song: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Favorite NMH Lyric: Little birds born without a mother or a father / I can watch their bodies forming in the running water
Best Records of Last Three Years: In the Aeroplane...
Site Suggestions: bootlegs or information were to get more bootlegs


Name: wez gonzalez
www.theloners.co.uk
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane...
Favorite Band: the pixies, sebadoh, the stooges, neutral milk hotel and elliot smith
Favorite NMH Song: king of carrot flowers pt1
Favorite NMH Lyric: your mum would stick a forkl right through daddys shoulder
Shows Seen: i wish i had
Best Records of Last Three Years: in an aeroplane over the sea -nmh, its the ones whove racked who shine through-jeffrey lewis, 111-sebadoh, surfer rosa-the pixies, 1st edition-pil, pauls boutique-beastie boys


Name: Lara
Discovered NMH through: friend
Favorite Band: can't possibly have one
Favorite NMH Song: bucket
Favorite NMH Lyric: and they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
Best Records of Last Three Years: in an aeroplane over the sea-NMH, never ending math equation-modest mouse, the feeding of the 5000-crass
Site Suggestions: im going to be a nerd and ask for tour dates....tour dates? where where!! no one ever comes to canada!
Other Comments: so..i learnt how to play two headed boy pt.1. probly because its incredibly easy...so heres my story...yesterday..in canada..in february..it was actually warm and me and my friend, her with her bongo, and me with my accoustic went and sat in the park and belted out two headed boy...it was awesome. just sitting there on a blanket in the park singing and playing. ahhh...


Name: Rosemary
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles, demos, bootlegs
Favorite Band: NMH, Bright Eyes, Belle and Sebastian, the Smiths, the Microphones, Radiohead, Nikaido Kazumi
Favorite NMH Song: Two Headed Boy pt. II, Gardenhead, Little Birds
Favorite NMH Lyric: she will feed you tomatoes and radio wires
Best Records of Last Three Years: NMH-In the Aeroplane, Radiohead-Amnesiac, Bright Eyes- Lifted, Now It's Overhead- s/t, Arab Strap- The Red Thread
Site Suggestions: seems fine as it is; keep up the goodness!


Name: Sam Cole
Discovered NMH through: Was helped along the way by the Apples in Stereo and Dressy Bessy, bless 'em
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles, demos, bootlegs
Favorite Band: The Decemberists - at the moment, that is
Favorite NMH Song: A choice between Engine, Biscuit, Two Headed Boy Pt. 2, and Marching Theme
Favorite NMH Lyric: God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life
Best Records of Last Three Years: If we're talking about best records since 2000, then:The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts, Cornelius - Point,
Jeff Mangum - Live At Jittery Joes, Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2, Aimee Mann - Magnolia, Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, easyworld - Kill The Last Romantic,
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Beulah - Yoko, Of Montreal - Aldhil's Arboretum, I Am The World Trade Center - Out of the Loop, Mull Historical Society - Loss ... Phew... But I guess, my 5 favourite records of ALL TIME (at the moment :) ) would be thus: Apples in Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie, Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island, Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts, Of Montreal - The Gay Parade, Cornelius - Fantasma
Site Suggestions: erm, it seems fine :) Maybe extra linkage...


Name: Joe
Contact: http://www.idealbraintonic.com
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles, demos, bootlegs
Favorite Band: Neutral Milk Hotel
Favorite NMH Song: Oh, Comely / Two Headed Boy pt. 1 & 2
Favorite NMH Lyric: There are beads that wrap around your knees that crackle into the dark, like a walk in the park, like a hole in your head, like the feeling you get when you realize you're dead. This time we ride roller coasters into the ocean, we feel no emotion as we spiral down to the world, and I guess it's worth your time because there's some lives you live, and some you leave behind....
Best Records of Last Three Years: "One Beat" - Sleater-Kinney, "Yanqui U.X.O." - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, "The Argument" - Fugazi
Site Suggestions: I think this site's pretty good and thorough...


Name: Icepick Jones
Discovered NMH through: someone long gone
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., singles
Favorite Band: The Cure
Favorite NMH Song: three peaches, please!
Favorite NMH Lyric: someone is waiting to swallow all the halos out of you...
Best Records of Last Three Years: Game Theory - Lolita Nation; Lilys - Precollection; The Zephyrs - When The Sun...; Interpol - Turn On...
Site Suggestions: Interviews, bandmember recipes, fan art, not fan farts.
Other Comments: Lovely to see so many youths+elders folding into NMH, since they've been all awol for so long now!


Name: Stephen
Contact: http://www.dashtabs.com
Discovered NMH through: internet
Owns: In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs, singles
Favorite Band: Dashboard Confessional \ Neutral Milk Hotel \ Modest Mouse
Favorite NMH Song: Oh Comely \ Ghost \ King of Carrot Flowers
Favorite NMH Lyric: And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine / And when all is breaking everything that you could keep beside / Now your eyes ain't moving now / They just lay there in their cloud
Best Records of Last Three Years: A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (DC), Words Fill Time (One-six Conspiracy), Elephant (White Stripes)
Site Suggestions: A forum


Name: Jason Rodriguez
Contact:
Discovered NMH through: internet
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs, demos
Favorite Band: Neutral Milk Hotel
Favorite NMH Song: Little Birds/Ferris Wheel on Fire
Favorite NMH Lyric: Now how I remember you, How I would push my fingers through, Your mouth to make those muscles move
Best Records of Last Three Years: Sunny Day Real Estate- LP2, Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane, Grateful Dead- All


Name: Alfredo Torres
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs, demos, singles
Favorite Band: Neutral Milk Hotel
Favorite NMH Song: Song Against Sex,Naomi,Everything Is,Oh Comely
Favorite NMH Lyric: And all the drugs that I don't have the guts to take to soothe my mind so I'm always sober


Name: matt atkinson
Contact: http://matt.smellzgood.com
Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: In the Aeroplane..., demos, bootlegs, singles
Favorite Band: les savy fav, neutral milk hotel
Favorite NMH Song: two headed boy part two
Favorite NMH Lyric: your prettiness is seeping through, out from the dress i took from you
Other Comments: i wished i could save her in some sort of time-machine


Name: [none given]

Discovered NMH through: Saw a girl with a NMH pin...downloaded a song and fell in love
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., demos
Favorite Band: NMH, Radiohead, Flaming Lips
Favorite NMH Song: Holland 1945
Favorite NMH Lyric: [a gigantic wad of] Holland, 1945
Best Records of Last Three Years: Radiohead- the bends, Flaming Lips- Yoshimi, NMH-In an Aeroplane, The Coma Lilies- Laughing Gas Opera (friends band...so amazing)
Site Suggestions: t-shirts [available at http://www.orangetwin.com]
Other Comments: I love you, Jesus Christ.... Jesus Christ I love you, yes I dooooo....for making Neutral Milk Hotel


Name: missouri

Discovered NMH through: friend
Owns: On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane..., bootlegs
Favorite Band: Widespread Panic
Favorite NMH Song: King of Carrot flowers pt.2
Favorite NMH Lyric: Your father made fetuses / With flesh licking ladies / While you and your mother / Were asleep in the trailer park
Best Records of Last Three Years: Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus, JJ Cale: anyway the wind blows, Phil Ochs: Farewells & Fantasies
Site Suggestions: I'd like to see a list with pics of the various instruments that NMH uses.


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