The finally, fully fixed version. Neutral Milk Hotel's fantastic multi-part song, complete with no jump. From the album "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
Ruben Chapman I learned how to play and sing when I learned in the aeroplane over the sea! I’m on a mission to learn all of their songs. Ive learned engine, in the aeroplane over the sea and pt.1 of this masterpiece next on my list is three peaches
JustAnotherBoredRedditor great choice! They have some good beginner songs. Keep at it and next thing you know you’re gonna be ripping up king of carrot flowers
@@bradynbassett8814 Jeff Mangum has a tendency to sing very drawn-out lines that take a lot of vocal stamina-- dude sings like he's got three lungs. Good training for aspiring singers.
+hopscotchoblivion In an interview he said he isn't specifically talking about religion. ;) my interpretation is that he is talking about the girl in part one saying that he loves her.
I love how people insist the song is about Jesus, that would imply the singer had his first sexual experiences with Christ of all people and that Holy Mary stabbed Joseph with a fork while drunk
Exactly, this song reminds me of my old local church "youth group" I used to go to so I could avoid going home after school because it was Like That. It's whole purpose was to keep miserable teens out of trouble because there was fuck all else to do. You listen to some "Jesus loves me" bible stuff for a bit then you got to go fool around for a few more hours.
Hello fellow homan. Just a normal. question between two fellow homan units. How does one circulate O2 and Co2 while inputting the H20 we homans all love to consume so much?
The lines "I love you Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ I love you" are replaced in the booklet with a small explanation by Jeff. "...and now a song for Jesus Christ. And since this seems to confuse people I'd like to simply say that I mean what I sing although the theme of endless endless on this album is not based on any religion but more in the belief that all things seem to contain a white light within them that I see as eternal."
Morgan Flowers I literally couldn’t have said it better. He is touching on an esoteric understanding of our true nature that transcends person, creed or background. We are all eternal regardless of what we believe in
"and this is the room one afternoon I knew I could love you and from above you how I sank into your soul Into that secret place where no one dares to go" I love that part so much.
@@34weaselsinatrenchcoat11 Wasn't saying anyone was complaining. It's still the same pretentious energy as people talking about how they are so off mainstream. It's like when you are talking to dysphoric/nonbinary people who are super insecure about their identity so all of them will say they wore high heels at age four or wanted to wear mommies makeup. I know a lot of them are bullshitting about it to seize social validation and it just feels robotic as fuck.
My parents were extremely abusive to us and each other. Alcohol and drugs and mental illness it was a nightmare. This was my existence growing up until they went to prison. This song always reminds me of growing up
Me too. This album is very special to me because I would escape my parents house to hang out with my childhood sweatheart and her family when things went insane at the nuclear yoshida house. As with most people i loved in my life she is dead. Anyone who knew blind, young love in the sun and that first touch of skin can connect with this album
You also won't plummet toward anything. The moment your scattered particles cross the event horizon, they distance, direction, push and pull become meaningless. "You" exist in all directions and over all distances.
Same. After my first listen I thought: "this is the most pretentious indie shit I've ever heard." Then I gave it another shot and was so entertained by the lyrics that I realized the music was pretty good.
Found out about this band from Parks and Rec because April said they were her favourite band and I had to know what a band called Neutral Milk Hotel sounded like. Awesome name.
"And now a song for Jesus Christ and since this seems to confuse people I'd like to simply say that I mean what I sing although the theme of endless endless on this album is not based on any religion but more in the belief that all things seem to contain a white light within them that I see as eternal" - Jeff Mangum
1. King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1. When you were young You were the king of carrot flowers And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for And this is the room One afternoon I knew I could love you And from above you, how I sank into your soul Into that secret place where no one dares to go And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking And dad would dream of all the different ways to die Each one a little more than he could dare to try
The King of Carrot Flowers Pt 2-3 I love you Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I love you Yes I do I love you Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I love you Yes I do And on the lazy days The dogs dissolve and drain away The world it goes And all awaits The day we are awaiting Up and over We go through the wave and undertow I will float until I learn how to swim Inside my mother in a garbage bin Until I find myself again again Up and over we go Mouths open wide and spitting still And I will spit until I learn how to speak Up through the doorway as the sideboards creek With them ever proclaiming me me oh Up and over We go the weight it sits on down and I don't know I will shout until they know what I mean I mean the marriage of a dead dog sing And a synthetic flying machine machine Oh-oohh-oh-oh Oh-oohh-oh-oh Oh-oohh-oh-oh Oh-oohh-oh-oh (Okay)
Is he saying "I love you Jesus Christ" (addressing Jesus) or "I love you, Jesus Christ!" addressing the girl he was clearly singing about in part 1. Toked enough joints to this album oh my brothers and sisters
Helvetica Neue I'm afraid the heyday of Imperial Rome has faded.... You're not a Patrician, no matter how badly you wish to have an excuse to think you are superior to everyone else.
a a Called artistic freedom. Why do you sperrate books in Chapters when there are not even other books between these chapters? Ever seperate movies into scenes when there are not even other movies between these secenes? Why seperate series into episodes when there arent any diffrent storys told between these episodes?
They're essentially three different songs. Each can be enjoyed on their own, or in sequence, but because they're so distinctively different, yet share similarities, they're split into three songs
I too was intrigued by the doomslayers angelic voice and wished to find this enchanting Christian music. In which I have indeed come across a treasure trove
Seriously one of the best rock songs ever. Carnal and spiritual and sad and exuberant and weirdly brilliant. Play the 3 parts together and play them as loud as you can take it. You will be transformed.
+Johnny West 1) Our parents fight constantly 2)That means we as stepsiblings needed to have sex 3)Oh Christ all I did was bang a family member please spare me please spare me please spare me please spare me
The backround of the song actually has very little to do with christianity, but rather the contrast between older, adult relationships, and innocent, young ones. Coupled with the devide between the security youth provides, and the freedom of adulthood, whilst lacking the previously mentioned security*
The whole controversial “I love you Jesus Christ” thing - Jeff was from an abusive chaotic family and my interpretation of it is he will sometimes revert to a belief that helps him deal with how bad he feels It doesn’t mean that either it’s a completely true belief or that he’s religious , he just goes there hoping it will fix something in him that it ultimately can’t. I am a recovering abusive victim who has done this myself and that’s what I feel Jeff transmitting here, whether it was his deliberate intention to when he wrote it or not. Probably just some powerful subconscious shit because he was an amazing songwriter and I imagine he just wrote what came to him. If you listen to the chaos of the lyrics and music versus that one random line about Jesus, it fits together I fucking love his music 💯💚
and lately ive been thinking about how i love jesus because jesus, he was a dirty homeless hippie peace activist and he said "drop out and find god" to anybody who would listen turning water into space bags with lowlifes and anarchists
crazy how people have to apologize and explain away the name of Jesus in a song! He was a real, living person and He came as God in the flesh to show us how to get to God: repent and believe in His sacrifice. He said He is the way, the truth and the life and that no one can come to God except through Him, and He loves us so much He made Himself our bridge back to our Creator. look into it yourself, friends. Jesus loves you and He will not turn back anyone who sincerely comes to Him
@@slick_Ric no man it’s an artistic take you obviously don’t know about this guy he ain’t religious he said it in interviews so it’s odd for him to say “I love you Jesus Christ” it symbolizes his desperate hope as he came from an abusive family, he was looking for something to cope and all he knew was Jesus.
Jeff is a very private person so I don't want to seem like i'm peering too much into his windows, but- has he ever brought up being from that sort of background? I don't seem to recall anything like that
***** Yeah - that is the way I see it too. I *think* it's supposed to be able to be read both ways depending on you. You as in the collective you not you personally ;)
***** Quote from Jeff about the song "…and now a song for Jesus Christ. And since this seems to confuse people I’d like to simply say that I mean what I sing although the theme of endless endless on this album is not based on any religion but more in the belief that all things seem to contain a white light within them that I see as eternal." It is about Jesus Christ but he means and he doesn't mean it as well. Christ is a figure of eternity
I still yell "EACH ONE A LITTLE MORE THAN HEEE COULD DAARE TOO TRYYYYYYYYYY-AAAAAAAAIIIIIIII" every time in the car. cant believe this came out that long ago now
This album saved my life recently, The day my great grandmother died (June 13th 2021) I decided to listen to this album for the first time, When I listened to The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 was the time my great grandmother died. I was depressed and stopped listening and went into a depressive state. I was very suicidal since she was like my acutal grandmother to me. I decided to listen again, started from the first song to the last. I listened to it everyday for about 8 days and I felt so much better. reminded me that there is better stuff in life. I want to thank the band (Neutral Milk Hotel) for making me better again after a depressing moment in my life.
This song reminds me of times long past, love lost, and memories to be forever cherished. Life was great then, I was young and carefree. Now I'm just an old junky, reminiscent of better days.
Except it's written on the CD booklet that is "a song for Jesus Christ. And since this seems to confuse people I’d like to simply say that I mean what I sing although the theme of endless endless on this album is not based on any religion but more in the belief that all things seem to contain a white light within them that I see as eternal."
When I hear people talking about these songs I often hear people saying that part 1 or part 3 is their favourite. Don’t get me wrong their strong contenders but for me part 2 is my favourite. Just how it (at least instrumentally) serves to transition from the calmness and homey feeling of part 1 to the energetic feeling of 3, but does it in one of the most non conventional and interesting ways ever... amazing.
***** but thanks for the information and telling me to kill myself. very nice way to handle it, go back to eating your Doritos and washing the grease out of your neck beard. xoxo
***** if you think this is shit music, why did you click on the video, listen to the song, and continue to complain about the song. did you come on here to tell everyone Metallica and the Beatles are way more superior? were you "born in the wrong generation"?
When an anime rendition of Jeanne d'Arc and the literal face of violence for video games that is the Doomslayer brought me here because of a Jesus line, you know the song is good.
Oh man, this song holds a new special place in my heart. I saw Jeff Mangum on Tuesday and he prompted us to all sing along with him on this song. Such a beautiful, uplifting experience, hobo beard and all.
Its an honor and a privilege to inhabit this planet at the same time as Jeff Mangum who so exquisitely captures the human condition with the rise and fall of his voice and the poetry of his breath.
Me plus 36 college pals around a campfire 🔥 during a canoe trip with guitars and bongos belting out “I love you Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I love you yes I doooooio!” On 🍄🍄🍄🍄 talk about a time to remember!!🎶🎶❤
First time I listened to ITAOTS I thought it was ok Second time I listened to ITAOTS I realized how good the lyrics and production are Third time I listened to ITAOTS I cried
I mean idk if this song was really ever popular sure it’s well known among music circles but among the general populace if you we’re to ask someone that listens to only Taylor swift drake or The Weeknd they would have no idea what you’re talking about
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. The flow of it all is one of the most flawless things ever, and Part 3 is my favorite song off it. No bad songs either. I tend to listen to it with headphones, but I recently brought my CD and boombox to work and listened to it while cleaning, and it gave me chills when I played it out loud. Jeff’s voice has a specific reverb effect on it that I guess can’t be heard on headphones, which makes the album a million times better than it already is. This album is only beaten by one other album for favorite though, but it’s in my top 3.
@@sobersplash6172 So is it a sort of love that is supposed to transcend between time as with the whole Anne Frank thing? The way you phrased it actually may make more sense than the way anyone else phrased it
@Jsqure 456 I mean he literally said that it wasn't a Christian thing, this is not me discrediting anything those are the man's words; whether you believe it makes sense or not, that is what he said
This album was my first true comfort album. Sure, I had other comfort albums, but this was always a comfort album for me, whereas my other comfort albums were only comfort albums because of certain songs, or certain memories/things that I associate with the album. This entire album just makes me feel comfortable, like nothing can keep me down. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a top 10 album for me.
My first tattoo was a king of carrot flowers that one of my really talented friends made. He's sitting on a throne holding a carrot scepter with carrot flowers all around him. It's amazing.
This song almost perfectly represents youth All the shit the youth is plumetted into yet the simple dreamy state of their newly forned cognition brings almost bliss as the wonder and learning of the world happens as the issues come.
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Neutral Milk Hotel is perfect for trying to learn how to sing and play guitar at the same time.
Ruben Chapman I learned how to play and sing when I learned in the aeroplane over the sea! I’m on a mission to learn all of their songs. Ive learned engine, in the aeroplane over the sea and pt.1 of this masterpiece next on my list is three peaches
@@joshbryant3776 I started learning the guitar a few weeks ago and it's the first song I'm learning altogether! :))
JustAnotherBoredRedditor great choice! They have some good beginner songs. Keep at it and next thing you know you’re gonna be ripping up king of carrot flowers
@@bradynbassett8814 The guitar chords on a lot of Neutral Milk Hotel songs are *very* simple, yes.
@@bradynbassett8814 Jeff Mangum has a tendency to sing very drawn-out lines that take a lot of vocal stamina-- dude sings like he's got three lungs. Good training for aspiring singers.
This blew my angsty 8th grade mind.
This is blowing my angsty 8th grade mind
This is blowing my semi angsty 12th grade mind,
Wow its doing the same for me
This is blowing my ptsd ridden 69 year old mind
Blew my 45 year old mind
IIIIIIIIIIII LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU JEEEEEEEEEEEEE-SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS CHUUUUUUUU-RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST
JEEEEEESUS CHRIST IIIIIIIIII LOOOVE YOUUUU YEEEEEES IIIIIIII DOOOOOO OOOOO OOOOO
notbenny lmaooo
+notbenny edgy
You are the reason Jeff Mangum went into hiding
i dont
2:21 The moment you realize this isn't just any typical folk album.
+hopscotchoblivion or 2:47
0:00
+hopscotchoblivion In an interview he said he isn't specifically talking about religion. ;) my interpretation is that he is talking about the girl in part one saying that he loves her.
+hopscotchoblivion Allahu akbar.
+hopscotchoblivion IKR other folk stuff doesn't talk about banging your step-(sibling) as a kid
i love you cheese and rice
asian jeff mangum
coolnate02 *asian and french Jeff magnum
I died when i read this.
Cheese and rice I love you, yes I do.
@@nyeh7205 mangum*
I love how people insist the song is about Jesus, that would imply the singer had his first sexual experiences with Christ of all people and that Holy Mary stabbed Joseph with a fork while drunk
I dont know that sounds pretty catholic.
Rahavin1 legend
People like blood sausage, people are morons!
I dunno...I grew up near a Lutheran church and it was a great make out spot for rural teens with nowhere else to go.
Exactly, this song reminds me of my old local church "youth group" I used to go to so I could avoid going home after school because it was Like That. It's whole purpose was to keep miserable teens out of trouble because there was fuck all else to do. You listen to some "Jesus loves me" bible stuff for a bit then you got to go fool around for a few more hours.
‘And dad would dream of all the different ways to die, each one a little more than he could dare to try’
Powerful, powerful stuff
Hey my dad did the same!
Yep.
Reminds me of my childhood nearly every line of that first song
Neutral Milk Hotel is perfect for trying to learn how to breathe and play human at the same time.
Hello fellow homan. Just a normal. question between two fellow homan units. How does one circulate O2 and Co2 while inputting the H20 we homans all love to consume so much?
Well said, 2 years late. But still, heard.
The lines "I love you Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ I love you" are replaced in the booklet with a small explanation by Jeff. "...and now a song for Jesus Christ. And since this seems to confuse people I'd like to simply say that I mean what I sing although the theme of endless endless on this album is not based on any religion but more in the belief that all things seem to contain a white light within them that I see as eternal."
Morgan Flowers I literally couldn’t have said it better. He is touching on an esoteric understanding of our true nature that transcends person, creed or background. We are all eternal regardless of what we believe in
It seems really to resonate the same ideology as Emperor X's Allahu Akbar.
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot discern the reign of God.
Syriac Christianity my sibling in Christ , I pray God bless you. Continue to proclaim the gospel! Love you
your copies came with a booklet?
"and this is the room one afternoon I knew I could love you
and from above you how I sank into your soul
Into that secret place where no one dares to go"
I love that part so much.
Me too!!!!!!
So... sex?
Me and the person I love have exchanged literally thousands of songs, but this is the only one I've given him, make sense?
i think he's talking about anal
Ngl one of the most poetic lyrics I have ever heard
You know you have found a great album when not a single person is complaining that they were “born in the wrong generation”
This is one of the most obscure songs on you, so I'm not surprised.
Well now that you say it...
the top comment's reply chain is literally a circle jerk to see who listened to this at an earlier age though.
@@fire2fireable just cuz people are talking about to older doesn't mean they're complaining about it
@@34weaselsinatrenchcoat11 Wasn't saying anyone was complaining. It's still the same pretentious energy as people talking about how they are so off mainstream. It's like when you are talking to dysphoric/nonbinary people who are super insecure about their identity so all of them will say they wore high heels at age four or wanted to wear mommies makeup. I know a lot of them are bullshitting about it to seize social validation and it just feels robotic as fuck.
My parents were extremely abusive to us and each other. Alcohol and drugs and mental illness it was a nightmare. This was my existence growing up until they went to prison. This song always reminds me of growing up
Me too. This album is very special to me because I would escape my parents house to hang out with my childhood sweatheart and her family when things went insane at the nuclear yoshida house. As with most people i loved in my life she is dead. Anyone who knew blind, young love in the sun and that first touch of skin can connect with this album
may this play while, after crossing the event horizon, I plummet toward the singularity
You also won't plummet toward anything. The moment your scattered particles cross the event horizon, they distance, direction, push and pull become meaningless. "You" exist in all directions and over all distances.
Plummet towards singularity- My Bands name
Matt Higgins that presupposes singularities only exist in the gravitational variety. It's my hot infinity; I'll divide by zero however I want.
Thank you for making me laugh. I’m having a horrible life and brainy people do help.
i avoided this record for a really long time due to annoying mu kids, but this is one of the best albums ive ever heard, 100% worth the hype
Same. After my first listen I thought: "this is the most pretentious indie shit I've ever heard." Then I gave it another shot and was so entertained by the lyrics that I realized the music was pretty good.
if u can't beat them, join them
@@SunnyExMusic all music is pretense
Same lmao, I'm still avoiding Twin Fantasy like it's the plague or smth, those mu fuckers are really fucking annoying
@@joseharo8495 listen to Twin Fantasy, it's great
Found out about this band from Parks and Rec because April said they were her favourite band and I had to know what a band called Neutral Milk Hotel sounded like. Awesome name.
Really?! 😂 I love her even more now.
Me. Right now.
Same
Some days I'm king of carrot flowers pt 1 other days I'm part 2
“And then.... the next day happened.....”
-Jeff mangum
seeing them live last week was one of the greatest experiences of my life
I saw them two days ago and I feel like a changed person. It was incredible.
Jennifer Frederick did you see them in KC? lol. I went... I was like the only black dude there ROFL
Haha! I saw them in Dallas. It was fucking surreal.
Please tell me I wasn't the only one crying through out the entire show
I was shaking for half of the show, you're not alone.
I mean, if you don’t listen to all 3 together, it’s literally a sin
@KyleAugie no it doesnt mate
@@citrus4419 wow for real?
@@Mowxel lmao
i use part 1 to sleep to and 2/3 as an alarm
@@ur4niumc4t55 That must be a short nap
this is my “everything will be ok” album
I care
@@loscopihues2343 I also care :)
@@Johnny-mp2ew Same here
And I just discovered this beautiful album today
@Monkey Balls we do not care about your opinion
"And now a song for Jesus Christ
and since this seems to confuse
people I'd like to simply say that I
mean what I sing although the
theme of endless endless on this
album is not based on any religion
but more in the belief that all
things seem to contain a white light
within them that I see as eternal" - Jeff Mangum
Wise words
1. King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1.
When you were young
You were the king of carrot flowers
And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet
And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder
And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor
As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for
And this is the room
One afternoon I knew I could love you
And from above you, how I sank into your soul
Into that secret place where no one dares to go
And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking
And dad would dream of all the different ways to die
Each one a little more than he could dare to try
The King of Carrot Flowers Pt 2-3
I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do
I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do
And on the lazy days
The dogs dissolve and drain away
The world it goes
And all awaits
The day we are awaiting
Up and over
We go through the wave and undertow
I will float until I learn how to swim
Inside my mother in a garbage bin
Until I find myself again again
Up and over we go
Mouths open wide and spitting still
And I will spit until I learn how to speak
Up through the doorway as the sideboards creek
With them ever proclaiming me me oh
Up and over
We go the weight it sits on down and I don't know
I will shout until they know what I mean
I mean the marriage of a dead dog sing
And a synthetic flying machine machine
Oh-oohh-oh-oh
Oh-oohh-oh-oh
Oh-oohh-oh-oh
Oh-oohh-oh-oh
(Okay)
Is he saying "I love you Jesus Christ" (addressing Jesus) or "I love you, Jesus Christ!" addressing the girl he was clearly singing about in part 1. Toked enough joints to this album oh my brothers and sisters
OH. MY. GOD.
Double entendre
It could be a reference to Anne Frank who was essentially martyred.
@@roboxking1 Anne Frank was Jewish
@@RoboBoddicker so was Jesus
Why does everybody have to argue? Just listen to the freaking music and enjoy it.
Only plebs actually enjoy music.
Helvetica Neue I'm afraid the heyday of Imperial Rome has faded....
You're not a Patrician, no matter how badly you wish to have an excuse to think you are superior to everyone else.
*thank you.*
Splitting songs on an album into three parts when the songs aren't even fucking separated by other songs.
a a Called artistic freedom. Why do you sperrate books in Chapters when there are not even other books between these chapters? Ever seperate movies into scenes when there are not even other movies between these secenes? Why seperate series into episodes when there arent any diffrent storys told between these episodes?
They're essentially three different songs. Each can be enjoyed on their own, or in sequence, but because they're so distinctively different, yet share similarities, they're split into three songs
@@knecht6974 very true :)
Two headed boy
Bruh it was obviously to facilitate all the radio play this got. /sarcasm
I played this at my 18th birthday and everyone sang along. Great moment.
Adam Wegner where did you find your birthday attendees and how can I get them to sing along to this album with me
TurboFromThatDumbSnailMovie good question
that's sick, tell thor to be nicer to me, yeah?
God I would love to be in that room
This never happened Adam wake up Adam
I confess. I came because I saw a video about the doom slayer singing.
I too was intrigued by the doomslayers angelic voice and wished to find this enchanting Christian music. In which I have indeed come across a treasure trove
Don't forget Jeanne with the guitar!
link
Cheddar Cheese God th-cam.com/video/y8JtxVGvyOY/w-d-xo.html
@@markjt.1371 thank you 🙏🏻
Seriously one of the best rock songs ever. Carnal and spiritual and sad and exuberant and weirdly brilliant. Play the 3 parts together and play them as loud as you can take it. You will be transformed.
I bet they split this into three to reflect the Trinity
+Johnny West 1) Our parents fight constantly 2)That means we as stepsiblings needed to have sex 3)Oh Christ all I did was bang a family member please spare me please spare me please spare me please spare me
The backround of the song actually has very little to do with christianity, but rather the contrast between older, adult relationships, and innocent, young ones. Coupled with the devide between the security youth provides, and the freedom of adulthood, whilst lacking the previously mentioned security*
TrollenBros Well put.
@Jack Burton im pretty sure thats the way its supposed to be. The lyrics didnt make me think of incest either
@Jack Burton This particular song has nothing to do with Frank.
The whole controversial “I love you Jesus Christ” thing - Jeff was from an abusive chaotic family and my interpretation of it is he will sometimes revert to a belief that helps him deal with how bad he feels
It doesn’t mean that either it’s a completely true belief or that he’s religious , he just goes there hoping it will fix something in him that it ultimately can’t.
I am a recovering abusive victim who has done this myself and that’s what I feel Jeff transmitting here, whether it was his deliberate intention to when he wrote it or not.
Probably just some powerful subconscious shit because he was an amazing songwriter and I imagine he just wrote what came to him.
If you listen to the chaos of the lyrics and music versus that one random line about Jesus, it fits together
I fucking love his music 💯💚
subliminal rhetoric. it’s like when someone says “jesus christ” as an unconscious reaction.
and lately ive been thinking about how i love jesus
because jesus, he was a dirty homeless hippie peace activist
and he said "drop out and find god" to anybody who would listen
turning water into space bags with lowlifes and anarchists
crazy how people have to apologize and explain away the name of Jesus in a song! He was a real, living person and He came as God in the flesh to show us how to get to God: repent and believe in His sacrifice. He said He is the way, the truth and the life and that no one can come to God except through Him, and He loves us so much He made Himself our bridge back to our Creator. look into it yourself, friends. Jesus loves you and He will not turn back anyone who sincerely comes to Him
@@slick_Ric no man it’s an artistic take you obviously don’t know about this guy he ain’t religious he said it in interviews so it’s odd for him to say “I love you Jesus Christ” it symbolizes his desperate hope as he came from an abusive family, he was looking for something to cope and all he knew was Jesus.
Jeff is a very private person so I don't want to seem like i'm peering too much into his windows, but- has he ever brought up being from that sort of background? I don't seem to recall anything like that
I"m agnostic but i'll be damned if i don't yell out I LOVE YOUUUU JESUSSSSS CHRIIIIIIIIST every time i hear this song
***** Yeah - that is the way I see it too. I *think* it's supposed to be able to be read both ways depending on you. You as in the collective you not you personally ;)
***** Quote from Jeff about the song "…and now a song for Jesus Christ. And since this seems to confuse people I’d like to simply say that I mean what I sing although the theme of endless endless on this album is not based on any religion but more in the belief that all things seem to contain a white light within them that I see as eternal." It is about Jesus Christ but he means and he doesn't mean it as well. Christ is a figure of eternity
Diggo00 I just look at it with a comma..Like I love you, Jesus Christ!
+Dustin D. same
Well, Jesus is Alpha and Omega so yeah, he is eternity.
I sing this to my infant son.
??!!
Profit
+Green Man Doing parenting right!xx
+Green Man Is his name Jesus Christ?
Surely there are some dads with the guts to commit suicide
I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIST
*CURRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST
Dets65 ayy mang nice profile pic, i love that album
Jesus Christ is your only friend, he's not your only friend, but he's a little glowing friend
Flood is a fantastic album, nice pfp
I love They Might Be Giants and Flood is absolutely amazing. props to you
This album will always hold a special place in my heart.
That "OK" at the end lives rent free, its so nonchalant and hilarious.
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i can see your comment without scrolling; whatchu gonna do?
No I'm to much of a webel
+TheScottish Potato brother! we meet at last!
Soviet Potato I have amased a potato army!! Take over the world!
TheScottish Potato we must gather our brethren from other parts in the motherland.
I still yell "EACH ONE A LITTLE MORE THAN HEEE COULD DAARE TOO TRYYYYYYYYYY-AAAAAAAAIIIIIIII" every time in the car. cant believe this came out that long ago now
Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
This album saved my life recently, The day my great grandmother died (June 13th 2021) I decided to listen to this album for the first time, When I listened to The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 was the time my great grandmother died. I was depressed and stopped listening and went into a depressive state. I was very suicidal since she was like my acutal grandmother to me. I decided to listen again, started from the first song to the last. I listened to it everyday for about 8 days and I felt so much better. reminded me that there is better stuff in life. I want to thank the band (Neutral Milk Hotel) for making me better again after a depressing moment in my life.
Hope your doing okey mate
Yeah man hope your doing fine now
didnt happen
This song reminds me of times long past, love lost, and memories to be forever cherished. Life was great then, I was young and carefree. Now I'm just an old junky, reminiscent of better days.
We may all turn out to be losers, but at least we’ll have sick music to listen to while we think about how we’ve failed everyone we love
It's expressing an emotion to someone! Not an expression of faith.
Jesus christ, I love you so much!
Frederick Mueller You're free to interpret the lyrics however you'd like, but that's not what Jeff Mangum has said.
Except it's written on the CD booklet that is "a song for Jesus Christ. And since this seems to confuse people I’d like to simply say that I mean what I sing although the theme of endless endless on this album is not based on any religion but more in the belief that all things seem to contain a white light within them that I see as eternal."
this is my same thought
No he’s saying he loves Christ. Atheists are so fucking annoying worse than vegans
@@ecasey91 vegans arent annoying they are right
TRIVIA: Apparently, Arcade Fire signed to Merge because NMH was on that label.
My buddy Max told me about this band when I was in 6th grade circa 2005 or 6. Max was probably the coolest kid I knew, hope he's doing alright.
Max was clearly the coolest kid in your grade!
When I hear people talking about these songs I often hear people saying that part 1 or part 3 is their favourite. Don’t get me wrong their strong contenders but for me part 2 is my favourite. Just how it (at least instrumentally) serves to transition from the calmness and homey feeling of part 1 to the energetic feeling of 3, but does it in one of the most non conventional and interesting ways ever... amazing.
I wish the TH-cam app would continue playing when I exit out of it :)))))))
***** I am 14 years old. I don't have money. I mean, at least I'm not a brony
***** but thanks for the information and telling me to kill myself. very nice way to handle it, go back to eating your Doritos and washing the grease out of your neck beard. xoxo
***** I'm not going to argue with you about music. there is no superior music. please. grow up.
***** if you think this is shit music, why did you click on the video, listen to the song, and continue to complain about the song. did you come on here to tell everyone Metallica and the Beatles are way more superior? were you "born in the wrong generation"?
***** three claps for you
Why would anyone play these songs not back to back? It's so much better with all 3 linked together
I sometimes just listen to part 1
It’s just creative composition, there’s a reason for everything on this album
I prefer just 2&3
A cafe I used to work at had a playlist they used to put on all the time and this song was on it, but ONLY PART 1, and it used to drive me INSANE.
@@mandersmanders probably because part two doesn’t really fit the chill indie vibe they were likely going for
This song made me start crying in the middle of a graphics lesson, and i don't even mind. So emotional.
When an anime rendition of Jeanne d'Arc and the literal face of violence for video games that is the Doomslayer brought me here because of a Jesus line, you know the song is good.
the same video brought me here as well
Oh man, this song holds a new special place in my heart. I saw Jeff Mangum on Tuesday and he prompted us to all sing along with him on this song. Such a beautiful, uplifting experience, hobo beard and all.
Love this song. How can anyone dislike neutral milk hotel. It's amazing! Some people don't appreciate the genius in music.
id like to see you naked please
Fck. 10 years ago 😮. I still love the music. I hope you do to, fellow grandpa 👴
I almost forgot to listen to this today
This got one like every year
@@filth315 you're kind of right...
Its an honor and a privilege to inhabit this planet at the same time as Jeff Mangum who so exquisitely captures the human condition with the rise and fall of his voice and the poetry of his breath.
happy 25th bday to the album that changed my life
So is it a tambourine or a potato?
Zach Eagan i've heard it's a drum skin
It's a tambourine, you can see the small cymbals if you look close.
so why is her face a pie?
+Zach Eagan ah, the biggest debate in indie music
+Homeless angry black man no debate. I can smell the potato through the screen.
I love how southern Jeff sounds when he says “sank into your soul” at 1:02
Me plus 36 college pals around a campfire 🔥 during a canoe trip with guitars and bongos belting out “I love you Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I love you yes I doooooio!” On 🍄🍄🍄🍄 talk about a time to remember!!🎶🎶❤
All three together create the greatest song ever made, I will die on that hill
_What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling around the sun..._
Wrong song buddy
>>implying
Implying
Imblying benis X-D
First time I listened to ITAOTS I thought it was ok
Second time I listened to ITAOTS I realized how good the lyrics and production are
Third time I listened to ITAOTS I cried
I LOVE YOU JESuUUS CHARISSSSSSSST 🗣📣🔥🔥🔥
i'm literally doing a tattoo of a king of carrot flowers in a throne.
this is the room one afternoon i knew i could love you
+stupidyutube9 what song is that from?
+bill smith idk
I googled it but came up with death grips??
-jimmy neutron
Why isn't mucsic like this more popular? People really have no idea what they are missing.
I mean idk if this song was really ever popular sure it’s well known among music circles but among the general populace if you we’re to ask someone that listens to only Taylor swift drake or The Weeknd they would have no idea what you’re talking about
One of my desert island tracks. A perfectly strange gem, like an alien sunset in reverse.
i was so stunned by the lyrics when i first heard this.like a reborn syd barrett.love them
Not as fun, though. Jeff Mangum has way less humour to him.
Finding out that carrot flowers are the result of waiting too long to harvest adds a lil somethin to the meaning of the lyrics.
3:35 makes this song fucking awesome.
2:22 Doomslayer is such an amazing singer
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. The flow of it all is one of the most flawless things ever, and Part 3 is my favorite song off it. No bad songs either. I tend to listen to it with headphones, but I recently brought my CD and boombox to work and listened to it while cleaning, and it gave me chills when I played it out loud. Jeff’s voice has a specific reverb effect on it that I guess can’t be heard on headphones, which makes the album a million times better than it already is. This album is only beaten by one other album for favorite though, but it’s in my top 3.
Brilliant gig in Dublin last night,thanks guys
One of the Top 10 greatest songs ever written.
I think at the end the singer was in full control. He could have kept going singing forever. Superb!
protip: he actually means "I love you jesus christ!" he stated it years ago.
he stated that he doesn't mean specifically "Jesus" but it was a general spiritual love
@@sobersplash6172 So is it a sort of love that is supposed to transcend between time as with the whole Anne Frank thing? The way you phrased it actually may make more sense than the way anyone else phrased it
@@jbdbibbaerman8071 makes sense
@Jsqure 456 I mean he literally said that it wasn't a Christian thing, this is not me discrediting anything
those are the man's words; whether you believe it makes sense or not, that is what he said
as a mu kid in middle school this was a silly meme album but as adult it's all too real for me now
I always thought this band was shitty pretentious hipster bait but this is actually pretty good
Story of everyone who likes this
The band was for real, it's the fanboys that make them look stupid with that nonsense. They were just average guys making music
It’s both
Thinking that about music youve never heard is shitty and pretentious. No wonder u are captain imperialism
Don’t know how I got here, but I’m glad I’m here
i swear words can not describe my love for Neutral Milk Hotel.
I don't love Jesus Christ but I love this song. Blessed to have witnessed this band.
WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG YOU WERE THE KING OF CARROT FLOWERS
AND HOW YOU BUILT A TOWER TUMBLING THROUGH THE TREES
@@spitgorge2021 IN HOLY RATTLESNAKES THAT FELL ALL AROUND YOUR FEET
This album was my first true comfort album. Sure, I had other comfort albums, but this was always a comfort album for me, whereas my other comfort albums were only comfort albums because of certain songs, or certain memories/things that I associate with the album. This entire album just makes me feel comfortable, like nothing can keep me down. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a top 10 album for me.
Got drunk tonight before I’m deployed. Don’t know why, but it was a drunk maelstrom. But we were all laughing
My first tattoo was a king of carrot flowers that one of my really talented friends made. He's sitting on a throne holding a carrot scepter with carrot flowers all around him. It's amazing.
My friend Isolde showed me this song Dec.29.19 She is sweet. I love this song.
This song gives me chills every time i listen to it. Such a perfect way to start an album omg
I'm laying in bed with a fever and this is making me feel a little more dalerius
Sounds like something you’d hear on the radio in 2011 but came out in the 90s
This song is a piece of art and you can interpret it how you see it personally
the nostalgia washes over me, I almost can't contain it. RIP innocent childhood.
This song really sticks with you when you hear it on acid.
hdkepon I can only imagine brother, I plan to listen to the whole album while peaking sometime soon 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
The lyrics for this whole album were written while on an acid trip, in the margins of the diary of anne frank
Someone else gets it!
are you now catholic?
Dammit, I wish I would of thought about that! Must of made a fun trip.
Real lofi is when you scream JEEESUS CHUUUUUURRRIIISSTT
it might be a meme but its a damn good one
this is no meme this is music.
meme is up for interpretation, as is music.
Troncoso what makes me sick is that you feel the need to broadcast your political leanings via your profile pic. how fucking self righteous can you be
i like to eat poop
If you didn't listen to meme albums like joy division and NMH you wouldn't have a problem
I introduced my 16 year old son to neutral milk he loves them and bands like bent makes me proud
He's saying I Really love you! Like: Jesus Christ, I really love you Snoopy.
Jeff literally loves Jesus.
I agree but why did you use a dog as an example
This song almost perfectly represents youth
All the shit the youth is plumetted into yet the simple dreamy state of their newly forned cognition brings almost bliss as the wonder and learning of the world happens as the issues come.
1945 was 12 years ago :(
Come on, my dudes, keep up the memory of this song and band.
I don't care if this is a meme i fuck with it
100 years from now meme wont mean shit. The music will cut through via its undeniable force.
It won't.
You know it's a good song when the singer literally yells "I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST" and no one from other religions/no religion are complaining
Thank you Vsauce, Michael Steven! I love discovering music, and especially meaningful sounds like this!!
I LOVE YOU JESUSSSS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIST
Love your profile picture