Bro film "quality" was basically figured out and in higher definition than this by 1945... color film didnt become really feasible until the 50s and looked like dog shit (like this) for quite a while. Bad joke moron... get a life!
Two headed boy part 2 is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Jeff is such an amazing songwriter, his lyrics hit me in a way that very few other musicians can do. I hope I'm able to see him perform sometime in my life.
My cousin would always babysit me, and I was only 5. She would always play on the guitar and I remember her singing this song. Her parents never like this type of music, and my parents never like it either (Note to self: I live in a Hispanic community so my family only like Spanish/ Mexican music). Anyway I always love how she would sing, even if I did not knew the lyrics, it was so relaxing until one day I heard she passed away in a car accident. I was sad, and as a kid I never heard and found the songs she sang. That was until I age 22, I was helping my uncle move stuff around since they were moving, and I saw a large collection of CDs that really caught my attention (The Smiths, The Cure, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes and so many more). I told my uncle if I can keep the CDs and so he let me. Unlucky the cd were weathered out and scratch, so I looked it up in Spotify, and then I heard it again, Two Headed Boy: the nostalgia chill down my spine and I felt like crying.
This seems kind of silly to say, but after listening to both albums for some time without having any real idea how Mangrum looked & performed in real life, he's exactly what I would sorta hope for... Unassuming yet possessed, channeling a kind of unadulterated emotion that maybe he even doesn't always understand. Anyways, thanks for the post.
Sometimes I think about the shows back then, there was something so much simpler about it all. I'm glad for the handful of VHS recordings we have. Looking back sometimes I wonder if any of it happened at all.
Blitz Krieg probably the hiss and blurriness that when compared to today’s recording equipment seems homemade and personal(warm) like it was recorded by a younger version of ourselves(nostalgia)
@@bgl11 Yeah, just like the vhs tapes by Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. To this day the sounds and images on those recordings hold a lot beauty in my heart. I will forever cherish.❤
Incredible. They were so ahead of their time. Lots of bands came about in the late 00s that pretended like they were from another era. It wasn't a cool thing to do in 97'. But they set a spark which took forever to turn into a fire. And of course it did. They were greatness.
This song (Two Headed Boy) saved my life.... Seriously. About five years ago, I cracked. No joke. I was a professional who went to work on a daily basis--I did everything I was supposed to do--but it was a cage. See... I snapped like a twig. The doctors called it a "psychotic break." I was forty at the time, and I'd never experienced anything like psychosis or delusions, but suddenly I found myself lost in a jungian world of symbols and synchronicity. How amazing and wonderful and terrifying! Don't believe me? Wait and see... Anyhow, they sent me to four different psychiatric hospitals. My poor family.... They worried about me, but I was lost. I would sing this song (Two Headed Boy) aloud, screaming the lyrics, hoping that something in the universe would respond or recognize the tune. One time, another patient in the hospital recognized the lyrics, and he came up to me and sang, "Two headed boy... creating a radio play just for two..." Ughh! We cried together.... (Daddy please....) and he kissed me on the lips. (I'm a man, so I was shocked that another man kissed me, but I kissed him back and I loved him in that moment.) We. (Through the music that sweetly displays....) We two "crazy" people bonded over this particular song in a mental hospital and we sang this song.... Madness begets madness, eh? In a brief moment, we saw behind the veil. This song has a message that "crazy" people get. Do you get it? Do you belong with us? If you do, you're one of our kind.
yevrey i doubt the people who liked this comment was in /mu/ in 2005 This is so shitty "/mu/ was better in 2001 when there was nobody there and the site didn't even exist now it's god people with opinions muh patricianship"
I've been writing an album for 2 years already. Every time I write about history and retell the tales of others, there comes the point that your so into it that the lyrics just blur up into a hazy mess of emotions. The point where if the question "Who are you talking about?" was asked, the person in the lyrics could be an ex, the Nazis, the victims of the Nazis, your sister, your brother, that one really messed up serial killer, because before you were even born, people already felt the same exact emotions and said the same exact things you now say and feel for those who live today and in that sense we are all "one and the same" The past and the present merge. The "only girl he ever loved" who died in 1945 became a "little boy in Spain" and lives even today among us. In all those pure of heart who will be taken by the monsters of this world.
This album came out a month after i was born, and i just discovered this band a few months ago. I feel so blessed and i'm not even religious. This speaks to me in a spiritual way.
Um, are you joking? This was filmed in '98. How old were you then? I was old enough to go to this show WITHOUT my parents and I sure as hell would have moshed to Holland 1945 if I was there. In fact, look at Jeff when Holland 1945 starts. HE'S HEAD BANGING! *gasp*
@@doughboywhine this comment is so old that there wasn't a proper reply function at that point in RU-vids history. Presumably responding to someone who wrote another comment 10 years ago lol
@TheRosettaStoned Sounds like the kind of thing a Tool fan would say. Hateful reception, without any constructive reasoning on why you dislike something.
I've been listening to Itaots and other random nmh songs every day for 6ish months. I listen to other music too, but it just seems boring in comparison. I have reached the stage where I'm mad that there isn't more NMH albums. Why, Jeff, why??? They had the potential to be legends.
Yeah, the songs are kinda stream of consciousness and summing them up in a couple of words doesn't really work. The Anne Frank theme is kinda the thread through the entire album, but Holland, 1945 is also believed to reference a friend of the band who committed suicide. And yeah, that's a super literal interpretation of just the title "Two Headed Boy", but we really don't know what Jeff Mangum was thinking. Don't even think he does.
Two headed boy pt 2 is abt the 2 boys Anne liked who were both called Peter. Some of the lyrics are directly lifted from her descriptions of them she describes both Peters as "one and the same", for example. The same is true for pt 1
Man, back in the days when people actually danced to Jeff Mangum. Now you're lucky if the people at the concert know any other songs besides "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
@TheRosettaStoned That's right, I am. Obviously leagues ahead of you in the English subject. You know, at least I'm one to understand and comprehend inspiration. Which is why he's in my username, he's inspired me to play music, and have a stronger passion for it. How exactly did you stumble across such a grand video, only to mock it with your poorly written attacks? I suggest you take your immature fallible arguments elsewhere.
I know that feel bro. I saw him back in February, when I was talking to everyone about all these different albums like the early stuff, like the 1992 release's when he called himself "Milk" nobody had any idea what that was! Some people even didn't know what On Avery Island was! Their first album! And nobody knew about it. It makes me sad that these "hipsters" (hate that word) think they know all about NMH and don't know anything except for ITAOTS... Sad really.
