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Neutral Milk Hotel Neutral Milk Hotel Biography News Mon Artist Main: Neutral Milk Hotel neutral milk hotel Biography News Mon. March 02.1998 11:17 PM EST Albums TV Appearances Live: Neutral Milk Hotel Opens For Message Boards Business Radio VH1 Jeff Mangum leads crowd on a strange and eclectic journey into his weird Web Sites musical world. Free Artist Updates Related Artists by Addicted To Noise correspondent Matt Carmichael "This is the first crowd on the tour that has heard any of these songs," Mangum told the audience. CHICAGO -- As Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum stepped up to the mic in the dark, packed, sweaty club Lounge Ax, he took a step back, then forward again. He seemed unsure, if not hesitant. Finally, he moved toward the mic and stared with some awe at the size of the crowd. The crowd of several hundred, who had obviously come to build up a sweat and burn up the dance floor, waited for Mangum to say the word. Sign up to get Artist Then Mangum, in all his musical Alerts from vh1 2 go glory, began to strum his guitar, Receive Free Music News working his way ever so cautiously Daily into "Oh Comely" off the new album, In the Aeroplane Over The Sea. Backed by a steady undercurrent of drone from a flugelhorn and bowed saw, the crowd stood perplexed, Are you a fan site listening for the inspiration to dance webmaster? Add a link to or move to the beats. your "Neutral Milk Hotel" fan site on VH1.com! And while Mangum's slightly overdone vocal on this sonically barren, danceless track failed to hook the audience at first, time Janet Jackson Watch "I Want You." would tell the true story of this night. That is, the story of a band that has N.E.R.D. chosen a path that demands more Watch "She Wants To Move." thought, less mosh. Sign up to receive FREE UPDATES for Neutral Milk Hotel ! OutKast As Mangum began to pick up steam, Watch "Roses." with his bandmates and other E-Mail this story to a friend Avril Lavigne musicians taking their places on the Watch her perform Live cramped, foot-high stage, the @ VH1.com Chicago crowd out on this Sunday night pricked up their ears. Their feet would soon follow. Tamia (R&B) Watch "Questions." When the first notes of "The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two & Three" sounded, a murmur of cheers rumbled through the audience. Mangum again paused to remark that halfway through their mini-tour opening for Superchunk, this was the first audience that had obviously been listening to Neutral Milk Hotel's new CD. "This is the first crowd on the tour that has heard any of these songs," he said. The A B C D E F G band's new CD was released in February. H I J K L M N As the drone was replaced with a frenzy of accordion, horns and electric organ, those closest to the O P Q R S T U stage began to bounce with delight. V W X Y Z # The band themselves took to moshing, almost hitting their heads on the aging acoustic padding of the low ceiling. But that's as wild as it got. Neutral Milk Hotel segued into "Two-Headed Boy" (RealAudio excerpt), and the words were carried away in the fuzz-fused current, swirling from Mangum in forcefully sung torrents. With all of its strange instruments, there was no way the band was going to keep the audience on their toes. NMH's sepia-toned music doesn't really lend itself to a consistent mood, and that's the problem for anyone looking to generate a sweat at their show. It's also what makes them so intriguing to see onstage. NMH is rarely, if ever, poppy and often schizophrenic, moving from here to there in a more or less rhythmic manner. At times, the music holds together, but at others, it falls deliciously apart. And as the band lurches and veers from the beat path, it becomes harder for the audience to follow. Still, the crowd's attention was held during the softer songs, despite a palpable release of energy, even as Mangum belted out his stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Some songs, such as the opener "Oh Comely" and the title track, are mostly slow, quiet numbers with a heavy emphasis on Mangum's vocals and guitar work. On these numbers, Mangum delivers his lyrics so forcefully as to border on grating. Others, such as "Two-Headed Boy" and the untitled instrumental track simply listed as "10" on the CD, exploded as bandmember Julian Koster moved to an electric bass, sometimes bowing it on the floor. The actual lineup of the band was in constant flux during the performance. Sometimes the brass section filled out the left side of the stage on flugelhorn, trombone, trumpet and sax. Mangum stayed right of center stage. The organist was in the back left corner, facing the wall as if out of punishment. Koster bowed almost everything he played, not just the saw, but the banjo and the bass guitar as well. And the live arrangements adhered largely to those found on the CD, making for a musical masterpiece of an evening. [Tues., March 3, 1998, 9 a.m. PST] Neutral Milk Hotel The Best Of SonicNet '98: The New And The Cool Critic's Pick: Melissa Price's Top 10 Albums Of 1998 '98's Best: Neutral Milk Hotel's Boisterous Easter Parade New Neutral Milk Hotel Single Due Get Breaking News Stories Anywhere On Your Mobile Phone With vh1 2 go! Receive Free Music News Daily Via Email Receive Free Artist Updates Via Email for Neutral Milk Hotel All news for Neutral Milk Hotel Breaking Music News Divas Radio (VH1 Divas 2004) Frasier Trivia Quiz Videos, shows & more! Make your day more fabulous by singing Test your Niles, Daphne, Roz & Frasier along with today's greatest Divas. Listen knowledge with our Frasier trivia game! Britney Spears - In the Zone now! 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