Neutral Milk Hotel :: Ghost
I know many of you have been listening to and singing or playing Neutral Milk Hotel for years; it’s nothing new so I won’t analyze. I ask you humbly to listen again, repeatedly (if necessary) and purposefully. I chose this song for the end of winter. Today is the first day of spring, but there’ll be snow tomorrow (last week to you, dear readers). The land has cracked and thawed enough for me to smell the stink of the city again and the cold has left my bones, but we need that extra push: a triumphant song of life and death and ghosts and never being afraid… with trumpets that bear down and the kind of beat that grandmothers and Baptist preachers warn you about. The devil’s beat, the beat that works against and with our natural rhythm. We need our blood to pump and boil so the collective heat of our beating hearts will finally force the end of this godforsaken winter. Spring will rise again! The ghosts of winter will spook us no more! The world will turn into a wonderland where people roam free without the tethers of coats and boots! I bought flip flops yesterday! Let’s do this!
Ghost
Neutral Milk Hotel (Elephant Six site)
Kirk said on thursday, march 27th, 2008
Rob said on thursday, march 27th, 2008
Oh jeez, this song is probably my favorite Neutral Milk Hotel song. Spring will rise again!
joshua said on friday, march 28th, 2008
Mark, Rob, my memory is crummy so I am holding you both responsible for telling our readers about the time we saw Neutral Milk Hotel at the Magic Stick. They were opening for Butterglory! While that is one of the universe’s great injustices, it is also the only reason we got to see them in the first-place…
anika said on saturday, april 05th, 2008
kelly, you stole my posting (though i was going to do 2 headed boy) maybe i’ll still do it. humph. it just proves that we have connections. little wires and things in the nether. i learned ghosts on the guitar and make jason listen to me playing it (and singing). he’s good for that. once on a road trip i sang that album all the way through twice. the next day my throat closed up and hurt really bad. two headed boy was the biggest challenge (long held notes and little room for breathing pauses), hence it is my favorite.
and a week later it snows again. I am on my knees praying with you sista. Thanks for bringin’ forth a great song. It’s been a while. I want jump up and down!!