Piss Me Off

The best way to wind up anyone on a music forum is to take a pop at NMH.
But seriously though, what riffs? Also I know NMH are somewhat of a cult band but is that enough to say they're popular? Ask most people you know and they wouldn't have a clue who they are.

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WaspStar

I don't know how unpopular it is to say these days, but I really hate guitar solos. There are only a few songs that actually benefit from lengthy solos. This includes Clapton and Hendrix alongside ELP, Yes, and the like.

boo boo

Of all the Indie bands that are hyped into oblivion, you had to pick on one of the good ones.

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boo boo

Hate solos? Thats like saying you hate chords. I'd say a great deal of the music I listen to has a pretty big emphasis on soloing.

Great solos can go on forever. Maggot Brain goes on for 10 minutes, and at no point does it really bore me, it's just a very intense amazing guitar solo.

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The Unfan

I'll second the NMH hate, and boo boo is wrong. NMH is probably among the worst sounding bands in history. They're just so insufferably terrible that its hard to put into words. Everything that made Tiny Tim a bad vocalist exists tenfold in Mangum's voice and vocal style. His lyrics are decent though. The music sounds like it was composed by a bunch of 10 year olds who figured out how to play their first two chords, and they play those chords in a way that would make even Kurt Cobain sound semi-talented. Its just bad. Like Kimya Dawson bad, but worse.

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variatingmule

And it's like saying you hate virtuosity.

I'm with you on that one, boo boo. And on Neutral Milk Hotel too.

Loser

Ouch, that's harsh
How do you hate Kimya Dawson, she is a true breath of fresh air in a toxic musical industry of today
And Kurt Cobain is talented

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I also hate most guitar solos

they bore me to tears.

The Unfan

This is actually a really hard question to answer since it isn't for any technical reason. I just feel so disconnected from her music that its beyond unenjoyment. For me its like listening to a wall of sound thats the equivalent of a talking mom with a guitar.

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Piss Me Off

I can't say i'm much of a solo man. It's one of the low points of bands like Metallica, they feel the need to put a solo in every song as if it's a necessity. I'd much rather just stay with the riffs half the time thanks.
Maggot Brain is incredible, but very few songs pull off what that song does.

I'm not sure about that, when i listen to songs like KOCF Part 2 it's hard to say it's badly composed. It's a well thought out piece of music. The stage is set and everything escalates into a full blown rock song where everything feels like it's in the right place.
It's low-fi yes, but at no point do i doubt they are capable with their instruments and Mangum knows how to write a proper acoustic ditty.
Then again a voice like his always splits people. Fair enough, i wouldn't take it away myself but i can understand where you're coming from. In the same sort of way i feel about Billy Corgan and Neil Young i suppose the voice adds that extra feeling of character to the music and it grows on you.

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