first time listener here
>Album 1: In the Airplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
I honestly don't understand how you can call this stuff music. It's garbage for the most part, that pretentious little faggots like to wave around symbolically to show that they're smart or better than you or more sophisticated or whatever. It has no meaning. Almost all the tracks can be summed up with two words - "amusing noise". What pisses me off are the vocals, they sound TERRIBLE, like a preteen with chlamydia. I would score it just a LITTLE higher if it was sung by literally anyone else. The lyrics make no sense, they really just sound like AI gibberish most of the time. The only decent and listenable track was the one title "[Untitled]", and not because it was good in any way, but because it was an interesting listen (and because it doesn't have any singing). But then the final "song" comes on and makes you want to just chuck this garbage into the "never listening again" bin.
2/10, honestly.

I think the reason ITAOTS didn't cross over to the zoomer zeitgeist is because it's an extremely lore-heavy album. There's really not much to appreciate if you don't talk and read a lot about it and the context that goes into it. It's an album that can't really exist in a world of algorithms because as a set of songs isolated from context it's not that impressive or interesting. No one ever talks about the record without talking about Mangum's obsession with Anne Frank, nervous breakdown and subsequent withdrawal from society. People don't really talk about music much anymore outside of cursory memes. Blogs are irrelevant. Forums are dead. Spaces don't need to exist anymore. There's a digital conveyor belt that just kinda serves you endless content divorced from peripheral information and in a situation like that, the only records that flourish are the ones that stand out on the surface level and make an immediate and lasting impression. ITAOTS is not one such record.

fuck you i liked it

>>126943161
>redditors don't like my normie tier shit
you do realize that there was period of time when this album was spread around everywhere like a virus anon? In fact part of the marketing was
>"look guys. this one jap was able to produce a mediocre album after just learning how to play the piano"
Scenery is the jazz equivalent to In the Aeroplane over the sea in how jerked off it was
That being said, why do you take the opinions of others so seriously?

It clicked.

>>211707533
https://youtu.be/82GmKPbF4XM?si=ge3iKUTBDzNu9AIK

>I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIST
Stopped listening there.