correction; i love jeff mangum more
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So i've been thinking about this lately, and i've officially decided and declared to my friends that My Favorite Band of All Time is no longer Led Zeppelin. This has nothing whatsoever to do with Zeppie, because I love them, but more to do with my accepting that despite the fact that this band has only ever actually released two (2) albums, I love them. Adore, really, if I'm honest. Anyhow, the band that will be replacing Zeppelin as My Favorite Band of All Time is:Neutral Milk Hotel.After many months of bordering-on-obsessive listening, and years before that of semi-obsessive-listening, I've come to realize that I love a lot of bands. Lots. But I love NMH in a compltely different way - that is to say, I fucking love their fucking music more than anything fucking else. If I could, I would have babies with the music. That's right. Little babies made of music. Rawr.I mean, obviously I will from time to time still say, "The Decemberists are my favorite band." But what I will mean is, "The Decemberists are my favorite band that's making music right now, but not my favorite band of all time, because that position is filled and they're about five down on the list. But I do love them and they are my favorite band of the moment, but I love them in a semi-casual-but-sometimes-also-obsessive-way, as opposed to the cosmic, deeply soulful way in which I love Neutral Milk Hotel."How much of this is sarcasm, you ask? I can't be exactly sure.Oh yeah, and PS - I'm an asshole. DCFC was my favorite band for so long and I started to kind of hate them because of their sudden "oh my god i'm on the oc!" bullshit, but I've also realized that I was being an asshole and that I love them, really, just not as much as I used to. But fuck, I'd still drive 8 hours to see em, so whatever.Anyhow, listen to some music by My Favorite Band of All Time.(if you listen at the very end of this song, you can hear one of the guys in studio scream, "holy SHIT!" because jeff mangum went in there and played this all at once, just fucking laid it down in one take, and fucking added some horns or whatever later, but seriously, the song is fucking uncut and fucking brilliant and do you see what i mean by "obsessive adoration" now?)also, i have a ton of bootleg/unreleased NMH shit on my "multiply site":http://lylais.multiply.com/tag/neutral%20milk%20hotel (that i haven't used in months except for today) that's up for downloading, if you're into that sort of thing. lots of demos and shit.
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