Neutral Milk Hotel is from Ruston, dammit. Their first album is called On Avery Island, for crying out loud. He had 10 older siblings. But after his father and the two brothers closest to him in age died in a plane crash when he was 10 and the older kids went off to college, he said, he was “pretty much left to himself, with a lot of books.” He said he loved the “strange, sad poetry” of a song called “Holland 1945″ by an indie band from Athens, Ga., called Neutral Milk Hotel and sent me the lyrics, which included this heartbreaking bit: “But now we must pick up every piece Of the life we used to love Just to keep ourselves At least enough to carry on. . . . And here is the room where your brothers were born Indentions in the sheets Where their bodies once moved but don’t move anymore.” consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/heres-why-stephen-colbert-played-neutral-milk-hotels-holland-1945-to-close-the-colbert-report/
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 21:01:03 +0000
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