# Any Decemberists fans here? (Thought so) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2004, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decemberists-fans-here-thought-so/279290 "2004-12-11T09:14:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decemberists-fans-here-thought-so/279290/21 "2004-12-12T06:58:36Z")
I have the two LPs and the two EPs in mp3 format downloaded from emusic. I like them, but none of them as much as Neutral Milk Hotel’s _In An Aeroplane Over the Sea_ which is a little crunchier and more experimental. I much prefer _Castaways and Cutouts_ right now, especially the song “A Cautionary Tale.” Interestingly enough, I was at a wedding a few weeks ago and the guy sitting next to me mentioned he was in a band. My ears perked up a bit. Then he mentioned he was just signed to Beggar’s Group/Matador. My ears perked up a lot. Then he mentioned that he shared a manager with The Decemberists and The Walkmen… ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decemberists-fans-here-thought-so/279290/22 "2004-12-12T07:19:56Z")
Alright I just listened to “Aeroplane over the Sea” and “Oh Comely” (which my roommate plays all the time - I just never knew who it was by.) Oh Comely is kind of boring, monotonous guitar strumming and under-instrumentalized (for my taste at any rate.) Aeroplane bored me also. Neither were bad songs, but just not as eccentric and anachronistic-sounding as the Decemberists. I kind of see the similarities between Jeff Mangum and Colin Meloy, but Meloy’s voice is higher and his accent more eccentric (apparently a Midwesterner trying to imitate an Irishman.) Meloy pronounces his R’s in the weirdest way (you know what I mean.) NMH isn’t bad. I’ll have to listen to some more. ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decemberists-fans-here-thought-so/279290/23 "2004-12-12T17:41:58Z")
In The Aeroplane Over the Sea works very well as a complete album, which is one of the things that makes me prefer it to either Decemberists albums. Like I said before, I find both Decemberists albums sort of inconsistent, and I get very bored through the middle of Her Majesty… but In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is a wonderfully complete cohesive album that manages to cover a lot of musical territory. If you get a chance you should sit down and give the whole thing a listen. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decemberists-fans-here-thought-so/279290/24 "2004-12-12T21:36:59Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > In this case, ignorance is not bliss - please, please, please if you ever get a chance pick up or listen to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. So far, I have yet to find one person despise that album; there just doesn’t seem to be anything to hate. All my friends think I’m joking when I tell them _Aeroplane_ is a masterpiece. I thought I was the only person alive who liked NMH. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decemberists-fans-here-thought-so/279290.md?page=1)