Albums In Which

What if no one drowned in a Decemberists album? What if Sufjan Stevens made it through an entire record without singing to a ghost? We tackle the big issues, and then we stop tackling them.

  1. Songs From A Neutral Milk Hotel Album That Does Not Reference The Holocaust

    ByDaniel Mallory Ortberg

    in Music

    Previously: a Decemberists album where nobody gets murdered. "Everything In This Song Is Spelled According To Modern Convention" "A Girl Who Is Alive And Not Anne Frank Plays A Piano Without Any Semen On It" "No One Visited The Penny Arcade That Day" "The Characters On This Old-Timey Postcard Have Not Come To Life To Comfort You About Your Parents' Divorce" "The Boy With One Head On His Body" "I Have Pictures Of My…

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  2. Songs From A Decemberists Album Where Nobody Gets Murdered

    ByDaniel Mallory Ortberg

    in Music

    "What A Successful Harvest This Was, Let's Not Rape Anybody"

    "The Sailor Who Died Of Old Age (Not Because Of A Weird Old-Age Curse Either, He Really Lived To A Naturally Old Age)"

    "The Summer Nobody Died"

    "This Lighthouse Isn't Haunted"

    "The Chimney That Wasn't Stuffed With The Bodies Of Murdered Women"

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