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I remember the first time I heard my first NMH album, I was in the car with an ex and we both kind of sat in silence for almost the entire album. We were in a car, and that same night we found a carnival on the road and went to it.
It was kind of a magical night, and the music certainly had something to do with it.
To me, listening to Neutral Milk Hotel, especially in "Aeroplane", is like listening to a dream. It holds the same strangeness, but also the strange emotional intensity and accidental honesty as a dream might have. It mixes the surreal with the things you feel most deeply, and it expresses them in a way your subconscious understands more than your logical side. And then, on top of that, every once in a while it just expresses something really beautiful and almost universal, that's deeply touching.
Honestly I can't even listen to "Aeroplane" without listening to the whole thing, because it's like waking up in the middle of a really amazing dreaming.
Fuck, all of this has made me decide to go put NMH in my top 10 bands list here on SG.