Neutral Milk Hotel - Rubby Bulbs

Jeff Mangum showing signs of psychosis

4-12-1998

Category:

Music

Tags:

• neutral
• milk
• hotel
• nmh
• jeff
• mangum

[worstjazzer]

I feel morally corrupt just mentioning Mangum and Bellamy in the same sentence without the words "long live" and "fuck" included in there somewhere. Respectively of course.

[Vaiseoquan]

Okay, I had no idea who this "Bellamy" fellow was, so I had to look him up. He seems pretty badass at music theory, which Jeff Mangum isn't so fluent in, since let's take this song as an example, is just one chord. HOWEVER, Jeff Mangum can fit 1000000000000 times more feeling and soul into one chord, than Mr. Bellamy could ever hope to find in complex scales and arpeggios.

I rest my case.

[DeliciousCake777]

Jeff Mangum is the greatest IRL music troll ever.

[DeliciousCake777]

@AubynStafford I'm not killing myself. If you feel that way, remember, it's across the tracks, not down the river. I recommend you shoot yourself full of insulin. That's the way to go. DO IT!!!

[BarneyFrankCarswell]

This is pretty far from entertaining.

[MrGrunge88]

@LeBaronDePropane Jeff Mangum + Guitar = Neutral Milk Hotel...I'm not really sure why this is so hard a concept to grasp. You could replace any musician that has accompanied him in the various NMH tours and nobody could tell the difference. You remove Mangum from the equation and the whole thing falls apart. Jeff isn't the "brain" of NMH's "body", he's the "Ego", the inextricable essence that makes NMH, NMH. Anyone who has listened to his music for any length of time would tell you that.

[LeBaronDePropane]

@MrGrunge88 I can't help but say that i strongly disagree. I must agree with you that this a pointless argument, we're both delusional about music. But honestly, music without instruments isn't instruments comrade. Plus the band was called "Neutral Milk Hotel" not "Jeff Magnum". Neutral Milk Hotel is Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeff Magnum is a separate entity entirely. That's like saying "The brain IS the human" completely disregarding the other necessary parts that make up an organism.

[MrGrunge88]

@LeBaronDePropane He's not just the "lead singer", he's the songwriter..the only songwriter. Clearly you don't know anything about writing music or even the Elephant 6 Collective scene in general so arguing any further would be a moot point, but you don't need all of those extra instruments to create amazing music. All of the songs were written by Mangum, every other part was recorded simply for the sake of varied instrumentation. His songs don't need other instruments to sound good.