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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.❤
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
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.
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 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.
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"
Daddy, please hear this song that I sing In your heart there's a spark that just screams for a lover to bring A child to your chest that could lay as you sleep And love all you have left like your boy used to be long ago, wrapped in sheets warm and wet Blister please with those wings in your spine Love to be with a brother of mine, how he'd love to find Your tongue in his teeth in a struggle to find Secret songs that you keep wrapped in boxes so tight, sounding only at night as you sleep And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet Rings of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love you For the rest of your life when you're ready Brother, see we are one in the same And you left with your head filled with flames and you watched as your brains Fell out through your teeth, push the pieces in place, make your smile sweet to see Don't you take this away, I'm still wanting my face on your cheek And when we break, we'll wait for our miracle God is a place where some holy spectacle lies When we break, we'll wait for our miracle God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life Two-headed boy, she is all you could need She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires And retire to sheets safe and clean But don't hate her when she gets up to leave
Awesome!!!
This is my favorite neutral milk Hotel song
wish i was alive here
my dad went to this show
Classic
Love the callback to part 1 in the second half of the song.
0:00 Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 4:39 Holland 1945
This song always makes me cry. 😢
Just don't hate her when she gets up to leave
síii
I think this is possibly the greatest video I’ve ever watched
"And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying"
I’m moved more than from any church service
This song always breaks me.
He keeps on sending out higher level vibes. He is for real.
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.
❤️
long story bro this isn't reddit. 😂
Great story ❤ thanks for sharing. I enjoyed that.
@@AI-Consultant YO FUCK OVERSIMPLIFICATION lets have have real lives
May she rest in peace. She sounds like she was a beautiful influence on you
I really like the transition from a really calm crowd to a mosh pit lol
Hard to get chaos sounding that good.
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.
Has your album been released?
2 years late, but as a songwriter and NMH fan, this is the best way I’ve ever heard someone describe Mangums lyrics and songwriting in general.
I'll never understand why American crowds feel they need to make noise in the quiet bits?!?!?!
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.
Listened to radiohead b4?
@@oscarriley9265 no bro I haven’t heard of them who are they?
if they never disbanded, we’d probably get an album sort-of-like Ferris Wheel sometime early-2000s
Holland 1945 has a bit of a punk edge, done live. I like it.
no please two headed boy part 2 already breaks my heart but now in a *different key???* i can't take it
Can't believe this song was so ahead of its time back in the 40s. Hollanders must have been psyched to have an English band tour through back then.
It's a joke ^^°
Amazing! Thanks for sharing. greatest album ever!
hahah 1945
With all the shit that's going on I really hope Jeff gets a spark of inspiration to make new music again. His catalogue is way too small.
the Bottom of the Hill is a godly venue
Stephen Colbert played Holland 1945 for the end credits at the end of his final taping of The Colbert Report
Goosebumps
crowd is jumping just like minecraft avatars in the pit
When we break, we’ll wait for our miracle. God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.
pavement!
Very good quality for a video filmed in 1945 Holland
Funny hpw they maneged to make a rock concert even though they were at war at the time and rock wouldn't be invented in like, 10 years or so
@@Rauraurauuuuu yeah it's so amazing how they wrote a song about anne frank, when she just died then
@@AaronKaiMCDNLD are we rly going to have the fight that not all NMH songs are about Anne Frank
@@billsux2139 bro if you think Holland, 1945 is not about Anne Frank I don't know what to tell you
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!
#gayforjeffmangum
#gayforjeffmangum
One of the greatest songwriter in my books!
I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH
How did you record him
Camera 🗿
I got all teary eyed all of a sudden. Two Headed Boy Part 2 is such a beautiful song.
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.
Geometric Allegory Amazing story
Geometric Allegory we aren't meant for work
Sounds like you got the gay
How are you now?
Would like to know how you’re doing these days
..one of your favorites..Missing you brother Steve-
wes anderson looking ass
this gives me fucking chills
There's something magical about video recordings on VHS tapes. A very nostalgic warm feeling to it
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)
Looks more like a memory
Absolutely , I just wish VHS re-re-re-recordings could retain the same audio quality. Video degradation adds, but leaves audio way behind.
@@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.❤
comment sections like these make me afraid to bring up NMH in real life
holla
For those who don't know, Holland 1945 is a based on the diaries of Anne Frank And Two Headed Boy (part 1 and 2) is about Siamese Twins.
I don't think 2 headed boy is literally about twins. In a way the first part is also about Anne Frank, as well as lines in part 2.
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
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.
Agreed
I almost cried when the outro hits. It hits really really hard gosh
@@jacksoninc.4062 The opening lines never fail to make me cry
and all without making any sense
ayo
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.
It’s like they don’t belong in this timeline
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.
That's the way it got all of us.
You're about a month older than me :') I only just realised today I'm a couple of weeks younger than the album.
They're not religious themselves. Magnum said in the interview he uses Jesus Christ through the album as an idea. He's not a christian himself.
This song is 3 years older than me
So what does it say to you?
/mu/: the audience
+Fook off, Griffith. lol
2005 moo maybe. post 2006 mu is literally reddit, full of lame fuckwads that cannot even play any instrument
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 don't like fraternities
Daddy, please hear this song that I sing In your heart there's a spark that just screams for a lover to bring A child to your chest that could lay as you sleep And love all you have left like your boy used to be long ago, wrapped in sheets warm and wet Blister please with those wings in your spine Love to be with a brother of mine, how he'd love to find Your tongue in his teeth in a struggle to find Secret songs that you keep wrapped in boxes so tight, sounding only at night as you sleep And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet Rings of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love you For the rest of your life when you're ready Brother, see we are one in the same And you left with your head filled with flames and you watched as your brains Fell out through your teeth, push the pieces in place, make your smile sweet to see Don't you take this away, I'm still wanting my face on your cheek And when we break, we'll wait for our miracle God is a place where some holy spectacle lies When we break, we'll wait for our miracle God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life Two-headed boy, she is all you could need She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires And retire to sheets safe and clean But don't hate her when she gets up to leave
Jose De Marco Cueva Flores Thx alot
Thanks Jose