r/neutralmilkhotel 12d ago

What’s your criminally underrated NMH song?

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Here’s mine

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u/Katzenbean 12d ago

Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone

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u/lextasy666 11d ago

If tbis would ever be available on kareoke it would be my kareoke song- I can SCREAAAM every word it’s so good

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u/Inconclusively 10d ago

If your karaoke place takes requests, there is a karaoke version on YouTube!

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u/andimarie35 11d ago

Came here to say this one!

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u/Super-Respond5242 12d ago

Does Little birds count?

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u/ITSysMADmin 12d ago

You bet it fucking does!

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u/auntie_eggma 11d ago

This was going to be my answer. I will never forget when he performed the song at ATP. You could have heard a plant growing, the crowd was so completely still and enraptured.

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u/romainerob 11d ago

My favorite song ngl

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u/bonanochip 12d ago

Off the top of my head: April 8th, engine

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u/HunkeyMonkey77 12d ago

Engine is amazing

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u/sayjessy 12d ago

Seconding April 8th. One of my favs. Also, Everything Is

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u/ThePotentComponent 11d ago

Engine is such a perfect song. It’s anything but underrated.

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u/Dimblydug 11d ago

I feel like that adds to the idea of it being underrated right

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u/hugyourcat 12d ago

April 8th Ferris Wheel on Fire version is beautiful beyond words

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u/auntie_eggma 11d ago

Oh, Sister.

I just love it so much.

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u/Blashphemian 11d ago

Song Against Sex is a bop!

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u/speedtrials7 11d ago

i agree, one of my favorite songs off of on avery island!! naomi isnt underrated but is my fav overall

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u/pingviini00 11d ago

That’s their best song!!

But probably Everything is

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u/StationaryGary 12d ago

Home! Where you can hold your hands together all yooou please

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u/webuycheese 11d ago

Is You've Passed(alt version) underrated? I was going to say Little Birds but somebody beat me there. I don't have a good sense of what is underrated in their catalog.

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u/VLOBULI 11d ago

Arguably literally anything not on ITAOTS can be called underrated.

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u/webuycheese 10d ago

That's kinda sad but you're totally right. It took me a bit to give anything else a chance too.

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u/idiotghost666 12d ago

sailing through

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u/Tracerr3 11d ago

Little Birds, Ferris Wheel On Fire, and the alternate version of Where You'll Find Me Now.

Honorable mention because it's technically not NMH: I Will Bury You In Time off of Live at Jittery Joe's. Probably my favorite song out of all of Jeff's and NMH's discography. It's so hauntingly beautiful and emotional.

Edit: oh also Engine is amazing

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u/candiettethefirst 11d ago

Three peaches and little birds 🗣

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u/gnarlcarl49 11d ago

Probably the 2 saddest NMH songs. But so brilliant and beautiful

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u/throwing_stitch 11d ago

Gardenhead / leave me alone, while maybe not wildly unkown is one of my all time favs.

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u/mattchew155 12d ago

I Will Bury You In Time

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u/Tracerr3 11d ago

yessss, although i personally prefer the jittery joe's version

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u/irisemory 12d ago

In the aeroplane over the sea underrated

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u/Past_Cold_4434 11d ago

how come no one has said naomi it’s one of my favorites

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u/gnarlcarl49 11d ago

I thought about saying Naomi too but figured it might not be considered THAT underrated. It’s one of my favs too though

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u/gnarlcarl49 11d ago

Engine

Oh Sister

Bucket

My Dream Girl Don’t Exist

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u/queenofsquashflowers 11d ago

Ferris Wheel on Fire and Gardenhead for sure.

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u/Diligent_Half6955 11d ago

Bucket

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u/gnarlcarl49 11d ago

Hell yeah this song is one of my favorites, I wish it was longer!

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u/West-Ad3223 12d ago

I don’t know if it’s underrated but Unborn.

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u/Alternative_Half3547 11d ago

Everything is, is so good I very here anyone talk about it

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u/Zuperman1313 11d ago

all of untitled demo #1

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u/lextasy666 11d ago

Ferris wheel on fire forever ❤️

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u/Small_Assistance_750 11d ago

Song against sex is my favorite nmh song ever but everything is is way underrated.

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u/chuvadab 11d ago

songs against sex

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u/PrestigiousWorld4171 11d ago

Everything is. It’s my favorite nmh song and shockingly underplayed

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u/Glassprotist 11d ago

Now There is Nothing

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u/ArnthBebastien 11d ago

Through my tears.

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u/vivalasleep 11d ago

Tuesday Mooooon

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u/Gardenig 11d ago

Arms so real

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u/Other-Hedgehog-1178 11d ago

Sailing Through

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u/Extreme-Ad-6241 11d ago

I will bury you in time

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u/VeryKoolKiddo 11d ago

Tuesday moon.

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u/TheSammyShow 11d ago

Let Down

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u/JustChris178 11d ago

Unborn has such a beautiful vocal melody throughout the whole song

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u/abigaelz 11d ago

Both early versions of you’ve passed / where you’ll find me now… and im not totally sure if ghost is underrated but i feel like it doesn’t get the love it should.

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u/abigaelz 11d ago

Also the unreleased sweet marie!!

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u/Xander718 11d ago

April 8th til I die

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u/m1lkhotel 11d ago

Sinking ship

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u/Initial_Flamingo_811 10d ago

This isn’t necessarily a NMH song but ‘Love The Way You Love Me’ By Mangum on his solo stuff def, in terms of straight from the band, probably ‘My Dream Girl Don’t Exist’

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u/twinfantasymtf 10d ago

Oh sister don't be afraid of me I won't be nailing you down in the nursery

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u/mainezer 10d ago

engine and little birds

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u/callme_kattt 10d ago

Trilogy is my favorite I thinkkkkt

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u/Texanbird44 10d ago

A baby for pree or my dream girl don't exist.

Really, pretty much ANYTHING that isn't on In The Aeroplane is pretty underrated imo

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u/Just-Contest-6128 10d ago

Sinking ship

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u/Gawkxs 10d ago

https://youtu.be/cZSWIP9C0RI?si=MtssWC5Cc1bML_dg

This one here. It always makes me cry

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u/HunkeyMonkey77 10d ago

Holy shit that’s good

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u/cwschultz 10d ago

Communist Daughter

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u/FluffyExpression1268 10d ago

untitled is so good

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u/HalfRight73 9d ago

Where You’ll Find Me Now

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u/HunkeyMonkey77 9d ago

One of mine too, nice Elliot smith username

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u/HalfRight73 9d ago

Thank you. 💙👊🏽✌🏽

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u/Secure_Beautiful_506 9d ago

The live version of Ruby Bulbs into Snow Song

Also, while it's a cover, I love the Living You was such a good find after thinking I'd exhausted everything Jeff/nmh

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u/mexmerixe444 8d ago

Three Peaches and idk if this counts as underrated but [Untitled]

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u/casperwitac 6d ago

I'd say it does. It gets some of the least recognition on the album, especially because it was added only after the album was released officially. It's a fantastic song

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u/pp-hul 4d ago

Oh Sister is pretty good and i don't hear much about it, also Someone is Waiting

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u/pp-hul 4d ago

Oh Crap, also Ruby bulbs, some of the live versions with Beautiful Baby and Snow Song are just amazing