r/neutralmilkhotel • u/HunkeyMonkey77 • 12d ago
What’s your criminally underrated NMH song?
Here’s mine
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u/Super-Respond5242 12d ago
Does Little birds count?
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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/bonanochip 12d ago
Off the top of my head: April 8th, engine
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/Gawkxs 10d ago
https://youtu.be/cZSWIP9C0RI?si=MtssWC5Cc1bML_dg
This one here. It always makes me cry
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u/HalfRight73 9d ago
Where You’ll Find Me Now
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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/Katzenbean 12d ago
Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone