On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:10 PM, John Gulick wrote:
> Did Neutral Milk Hotel have any cachet whatsoever until Pitchfork (whoops, pop! goes the "hipster" again) came along?
Yeah, loads & loads of it. I used to belong to a silly secret indie-rock email list called Chugchanga, which was stocked to the gills with cool kids (Steve Albini! Lou Barlow's girlfriend!!). They loved NMH.
I signed off when they started a discussion of the best Joni Mitchell albums, though.
Doug