Neutral Milk Hotel - Little Birds (LIVE EARLY VERSION)

A slightly more mellow version of Little Birds, performed at Chris Bilheimer's Birthday Party in Athens, GA on May 12th, 1998
It includes very slightly altered lyrics, but it mostly sounds like the final draft, but with a much softer playing style and calmer atmosphere.

[@anilin6353]

This was the first NMH song I ever listened to

[@jerrywhoomst1116]

Woah that's really unusual, how'd you come upon it?

[@anilin6353]

@@jerrywhoomst1116 I was looking for a French song called hotel on a p2p network . I stumbled across this one . little birds and my dream girl doesn't exist. Were the only songs I knew about from NMH for years.

[@jerrywhoomst1116]

@@anilin6353 man that is crazy, I can't imagine stumbling on the rest one day.

[@anilin6353]

@@jerrywhoomst1116 when a girlfriend showed me the rest of NMH, rather recently, was an experience

[@jerrywhoomst1116]

@@anilin6353 damn, I'll bet.

[@ElaineRadfordpf]

Wow.

[@amber0808]

Thank you for this version! I was going crazy trying to find it, only finding the other versions that have been released, and that weren't this one, which is the one I'm familiar with! It's the only one I've known. So thanks! Maybe someday I can find my ancient iPod that has the MP3... 🤔

[@gawrgurafan1257]

Sometimes i wonder is Jeff purposefully makes fake meanings to his songs in performances to throw people off, or if they are the actual meanings of the songs and they can just be taken as something completely different

[@MrBrightside390]

Was this the version on the little birds ep? I think they just cut off the intro.

[@DexterousDiggs]

Where do you find these awesome recordings?

[@positivejuicemotel2358]

I keep it a secret for now, I may say later in another video.

[@clydeg4274]

i downloaded this version back in like 2005 from frostwire lol this was the only version i had heard until recently

[@noamont9936]

th-cam.com/video/-k9ONNRLSnk/w-d-xo.html heres the filmed version!!