I found this debate amusing. I got a recommendation for the wrens from a friend of mine here in b some years ago and I was totally bored.
then I read about neutral milk hotel on some random place on the internet, in several message boards in the u.s. and again, I was totally bored after listening. though I found the latter better.

NMH is better, but it's also more over-hyped.

The irony of this thread is ironic.

you should have a third option for "both".

I like the NMH album, but agree it is overhyped. Don't like the Wrens

on obner or in real life?

does anyone else have a nagging suspiscion that berliner is Dalen? i have since day one and have bit my tongue this whole time. i just want to throw my hat in the ring here as being the first to say so when it finally comes out i get all the glory.

<---cluemaster in training.

also, apologies in advance to berliner if i'm way off base.

I've listened to Meadowlands a few times, and I was pretty much indifferent about it. I didn't think it was awful, and could see why people like it but that's about it. That NMH album, on the other hand, I love. Hype be damned.

i think neutral milk hotel has been more overhyped in general but the wrens have on obner.

Where's the "Trout Mask Replica" option?

Yeah, what's the context?

Just on here?

Overhyped in terms of people talking about how great it is and then you listening and being underwhelmed?


In real life, I've met one person who'd heard of NMH and nobody who's ever heard of the Wrens. So a slight nod to the former.

i like both these records and havent ever 'hyped' either. is that an option?

goddamn it there are two choices, you illiterate jerk. pick one.

i'll vote by not voting!

i pick none

http://www.obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=672973#672973

All right, that solves that mystery.

If people want to create different identities, I welcome it. Keep it interesting.

This thread fails without the 'In Rainbows' option.

I think the correct answer is Guns N' Roses-Appetite for Destruction

Shut the fuck up.

You can't include In Rainbows without including YHF.

Hype only about 50% related to the actual music.

That's true. You'd need stuff like the Strokes and Coldplay too. You could probably have an infinite number of options.

okay. when was mass media invented? I would make a poll with every single album which came out after the invention of mass media.
everybody here is very funny, congratulations.

how about no, and fuck you...