Jeff Mangum - Gardenhead - Live at Jittery Joe's

[weevil3582]

heres just one reason i love NMH.. my roommate is an absolute antithesis of myself, and this song applies to each of us in a completely different way, but for each of us, its a good mother fucking song.

[FlaminFingaz]

"some lives you live and some you leave behind"

Would I be suprised that Jeff Mangum has been reincarnating into different forms over history? Not one bit XD

[ineedanewtubeaccount]

@FlaminFingaz "now she's a little boy in spain, playing pianos filled with flames" i think he's into reincarnation.

[toymachinethunder]

"uhh i dunno what to play next"

"Gardenhead!!!"

haha

[Swiftlygothedays]

Oh my. Just when I though I couldn't love this song more. Perhaps I like this version a bit more than the one on Avery.

A bit more sped up. But showcases Jeff's lovely voice. Excellent.

[depismyname]

*the gardenheaaad knoows myy naaame*

love him.

[cathhherinemo]

love this

[sMC193]

lol the baby claps at the end

[lrobe27]

jealous of child in tutu.

[adv1k]

jesus fuck this makes me want to cry

such a sick performance.

[twinoak170]

For you know this isn't the first time, in fact this is twice in a row. What a great line.

[dnon75]

That line always stood out to me too.

[MrEdgill]

Brilliant!

[futoncat]

hahahaah i love the beginning

[maxiemumu2]

Haha if he made strudel's his name would not be Hitler, he had it changed. His real last name is Schicklegruber. True story, look it up.

[billiumbean]

Very true, though he'd probably be in the same league as more Picasso or Van Gogh, as we was a pretty talented painter.

[billiumbean]

Er, '"he" was', I meant.

[billiumbean]

That's saving Anna and everyone other Jew in the Holocaust. I approve.

[thesunkenship]

guys, he didnt like the spotlight. and all the attention

[billiumbean]

No.

[Zygiro]

never

[Zygiro]

No, I'm 100% sure.

[SgtSanchez]

well, it's not 100% correct, but that is near enough. Just don't be expecting any NMH albums anytime soon.

[d2god09]

No honestly, you're dead wrong. He just recorded Sign the Dotted Line.. A cover of a Chris Knox song of who it is a tribute for. so. "sauced"

[Zygiro]

He's not dead and he's not preforming anymore. Sadly, there will never be another NMH album. The reason is because he has some immune system problem and gets sicks like every month, thus hindering his ability to play and passion to play.

[sebytheman]

Dude was right, that is not the reason. Aeroplane just took too much out of him artistically, he is creatively burned out.

[Zygiro]

And where's your source? I read a letter he wrote himself. BUT, he did appear at an E6 concert so there's hope!

[Blackwaterdesigns]

It was the publicity that took him out, the fact that it's such a good album would only make him more creatively sound.

[spotpilgrim]

@sebytheman Not really, I've read the 33 1/3 book about the making of ITAOTS. Keep in mind that it was a solid few years between the recording of the album and Jeff not playing shows anymore. It's largely attributed to him having a nervous breakdown, something that he said he'd experienced before - you can hear him talk about it in chatter sections on one of the best known live recordings (it might be this one, before or after he plays 'Naomi').

[burythehatchet72]

i agree

[deekay629]

greatest voice of all time

[BooniesBomber1]

if i was to make a time machine and go back in time only once, i would go back to see this show.

then brag about it for the rest of my life.

[testytestytest]

Wait, what, wouldn't you save Anne Frank?

[billiumbean]

Well, if this time machine option was an option to everyone, Jeff would have already saved Anne Frank.

[lemonclay]

Hah. Kinda brings him down to Earth in my mind.

[SpOoOokyGhost]

Right, Pitchfork hunted him down. But, he's doing his own thing now.

[Vin2241]

Did a GREAT noise record with the singer from Of Montreal like 2 years ago.

[dontheman001]

i like how you cant see him at all

[SheenZulaTheMicRula]

this song still sends chills down my spine

[t3mpusfugit]

Haha... the baby? Whatever. I love Jeff Mangum. It's upsetting to know I will never get the opportunity to see him live, and these people had know idea how luck they were...

[ExtraFaggot]

a genius. love his solo album.

[otterpop3000]

One of my favorite songs... though so many of them are from Jeff Magnum...

[ignoranttwat]

actualy it's mangum

[DxMonkey]

no shit.

[miaokatze]

one of my favorite versions of gardenhead

[joshman800000000]

ditto.

[miaokatze]

i am so jealous you got to see this

[joshman800000000]

don't be too jealous... because i didn't. oh how i wish i had, but this is a segment from a video someone took of this entire performance. it was on the CD, Live at Jittery Joe's. i put these up because they were some of my favorite versions.

[miaokatze]

oh, i thought you had recorded this yourself. i'm not jealous anymore!

[joshman800000000]

told you. i did try to be forthcoming about that in the description though.

[miaokatze]

oh, i didn't even read that. maybe i should start reading the descriptons.

[hcram]

also ditto

[waynepayne]

"I don't wish to taste of your insides or call out your name through my phone." That's the line that knocks me

off my chair (though there are plenty of other good ones). Has anybody spoken that way in a song before? The combination of crudity and puritanism, saint/sinner my god Jeff come back to us and give us more songs. But I guess he's found other things to do. "There are somme lives you live and some you leave behind."

[JBisthebest]

i have to say...this is probably my favorite neutral milk hotel song. i don't know why. it's not even as epic as some of jeff's other songs, but it's delivery is just so beautiful. well, all of JM's songs are beautiful, really.

[granap]

i think his singing is better on this version that on avery island

[joshman800000000]

i like the versions of Gardenhead and Baby for Pree on the Jittery Joe's album much more than those on Avery.

[JBisthebest]

both versions are good in their own right. i kind of like the drums and horns on gardenhead on on avery island. whateve'

[joshman800000000]

that's true. i think it's the faster tempo that i like better.

[mynameistyler]

She's sweet. I think it's fine that they filmed her.

[meg4man]

you know you'd be looking at the baby anyway... pivital roll on the cd...

[cloudstastemetallicC]

let's see, I could keep the camera on Jeff Mangum who's playing an awesome song.... naa...I'll film a baby. yeah..

[joshman800000000]

yeah really. i'm not too sure why either.

[rokbom]

The funny thing is that baby is probably at least 10 years old now.

[rockernino]

That's exactly what I was thinking right now rokbom.