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Kim Cooper

Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - 33 1/3

    Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called "Elephant 6", Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. "Magnet" magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and "Creative Loafing" recently devoted a cover story to one fan's quest to understand why bandleader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after "Aeroplane's" release. The record sells steadily to an audience that finds it through word of mouth.

    Weird, beautiful, absorbing, difficult, "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea" is a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors. Mangum sings his dreamlike narratives with a dreamer's intensity, his creaky, off key voice occasionally breaking as he struggles to complete each dense couplet. The music is like nothing else in the 90s Indie Underground a psychedelic brass band, its members self-taught, forging polychromatic washes of mood and tribute.

    The songs stick to one narrow key, the images repeat and circle back, and to listen is to be absorbed into a singular, heart-rending vision.

    Neutral Milk Hotel

    On Avery Island (Deluxe Edition)

      Neutral Milk Hotel‘s explosive 1996 debut, On Avery Island, receives the deluxe reissue treatment with a yellow and red vinyl 2xLP press, complete with revised artwork and cut at 45RPM.

      Jeff Mangum’s songs are cryptic and crazed, his ideas fast and furious, and together they force the home-recording concept out of the basement and into a brave new world, a fuzzy masterpiece of experimental lo-fi recording.

      Full of rapid-fire wordplay with true and heartfelt experimentation, both ambitious and eclectic, it’s not hard to see why this has been such an influential album.

      Part of the fabled Elephant 6 collective, Neutral Milk Hotel won over many a music critic with this cult classic. The band are recognized as one of the most influential alternative acts to come out of the mid-90s and sowed the seeds for everything from anti-folk to the likes of Arcade Fire, Caribou and even Franz Ferdinand

      TRACK LISTING

      Side A (45RPM)
      A1 Song Against Sex
      A2 You've Passed
      A3 Someone Is Waiting
      Side B (45RPM)
      B1 A Baby For Pree
      B2 Marching Theme
      B3 Where You'll Find Me Now
      Side C (45RPM)
      C1 Avery Island/April 1st
      C2 Gardenhead/ Leave Me Alone
      C3 Three Peaches
      Side D (33RPM)
      D1 Naomi
      D2 April 8th
      D3 Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye

      Neutral Milk Hotel

      The Collected Works Of Neutral Milk Hotel

        The two full-length records that Jeff Mangum made as Neutral Milk Hotel sound both in and out of time. Like translations of a shared subconscious, 1996’s On Avery Island and 1998’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea give voice to the perennial spirit of youthful epiphany, of beginning to see the world clearly, to process and express it—no matter when you encounter them. With lo-fi indie rock, accordion, singing saw, tape collages, the so-called “zanzithophone” and beyond, Neutral Milk Hotel created an eternal entry into their Elephant 6 scene and an enduring feeling of possibility. Mangum was born in the small city of Ruston, Louisiana, coming of age within the ’80s and ’90s indie and punk undergrounds, a movement of teenagers recording in their bedrooms, sharing zines and trading tapes, listening to hardcore and experimental music on college radio. For all the mythology Mangum’s elusive persona has accrued, it’s the beguiling songs themselves that have resonated so deeply for generations. In 2011, Mangum collected nearly all of the band’s recorded output in a limited-edition box set (self-released under Neutral Milk Hotel Records, a small operation helmed by Mangum and his mother) which is now being updated for wide reissue by the band’s longtime label Merge RecordsBlack matte box is a 2-piece telescoping casewrapped package.

        Outer shrinkwrap includes a front sticker with “Neutral Milk Hotel,” and a back sticker listing box contents.

        Full Contents:
        In the Aeroplane Over the Sea LP is 11 tracks pressed 33RPM to black vinyl in a gatefold jacket.

        On Avery Island 2LP is 12 tracks pressed to double black vinyl in a gatefold jacket + 11 x 11 printed insert.. Sides A, B and C pressed 45RPM. Side D pressed 33RPM.

        Live at Jittery Joe’s 12” picture disc is 11 tracks pressed 33RPM to a full color picture disc in a heavyweight poly jacket.

        Ferris Wheel on Fire 10” is 8 tracks pressed 45RPM to black vinyl in a printed jacket + postcard insert.

        Everything Is 10” is 7 tracks pressed 45RPM to black vinyl in a printed jacket + postcard insert.

        “Little Birds” 7” is 2 tracks pressed 45RPM to black vinyl in a printed jacket. 7” housed in a heavyweight poly jacket.

        “You’ve Passed” 7” is 2 tracks pressed 45RPM to black vinyl in a printed jacket. 7” housed in a heavyweight poly jacket.

        “Holland” 7” is 2 tracks pressed 45RPM to black vinyl in a printed jacket. 7” housed in a heavyweight poly jacket.

        2 folded posters, each printed one side and each 24” x 24” when flat.

        1 postcard, printed front and back with box set information and sized 3.75” x 5”

        All of above assembled in a 12" two-piece telescoping case-wrapped box.

        TRACK LISTING

        "On Avery Island" 2LP
        Side A (45 RPM)
        1 Song Against Sex
        2 You've Passed
        3 Someone Is Waiting
        Side B (45 RPM)
        4 A Baby For Pree
        5 Marching Theme
        6 Where You'll Find Me Now
        Side C (45 RPM)
        7 Avery Island/April 1st
        8 Garden Head/Leave Me Alone
        9 Three Peaches
        Side D (33 RPM)
        10 Naomi
        11 April 8th
        12 Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye

        "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" LP
        Side A (33 RPM)
        1 The King Of The Carrot Flowers Part One
        2 The King Of The Carrot Flowers Parts Two & Three
        3 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
        4 Two-Headed Boy
        5 The Fool
        6 Holland, 1945
        7 Communist Daughter
        Side B (33 RPM)
        8 Oh Comely
        9 Ghost
        10 Untitled
        11 Two-Headed Boy Part Two

        "Ferris Wheel On Fire" 10"
        Side A (45 RPM)
        1 Oh Sister
        2 Ferris Wheel On Fire
        3 Home
        4 April 8th
        Side B (45 RPM)
        5 I Will Bury You In Time
        6 Engine
        7 A Baby For Pree/Glow Into You
        8 My Dream Girl Don't Exist

        "Everything Is" 10"
        Side A (45 RPM)
        1 Everything Is
        2 Here We Are (For W. Cullen Hart)
        3 Unborn
        Side B (45 RPM)
        4 Tuesday Moon
        5 Ruby Bulbs
        6 Snow Song
        7 Aunt Eggma Blow Torch

        "Little Birds" 7"
        Side A (45 RPM)
        1 Little Birds
        Side B (45 RPM)
        2 Little Birds (Studio Version)

        "You've Passed" 7"
        Side A (45 RPM)
        1 You've Passed
        Side B (45 RPM)
        2 Where You'll Find Me Now

        "Holland" 7"
        Side A (45 RPM)
        1 Holland, 1945
        Side B (45 RPM)
        2 Engine

        "Live At Jittery Joe's" 12" Picture Disk
        Side A (33 RPM)
        1 A Baby For Pree
        2 Two-Headed Boy
        3 I Will Bury You In Time
        4 Garden Head/Leave Me Alone
        5 Two-Headed Boy Part Two
        6 I Love How You Love Me
        Side B (33 RPM)
        7 Engine
        8 Naomi
        9 King Of Carrot Flowers Part Two
        10 King Of Carrot Flowers Part Three
        11 Oh Comely

        Neutral Milk Hotel

        In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

          Neutral Milk Hotel is Elephant 6 co-founder Jeff Mangum, Julian Koster (of Music Tapes), Scott Spillane (of the Gerbils) and Jeremy Barnes (of Beirut, A Hawk and a Hacksaw). In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is one of the best-selling Merge titles of all time. In addition, annually, the album charts among the top vinyl titles sold industry wide in the USA. Originally released in 1998, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was named Best Album of the ‘90s by Magnet Magazine. Album rated 10.0 via Pitchfork at reissue (2005). 

          TRACK LISTING

          1. The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
          2. The King Of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two &Three
          3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
          4. Two-Headed Boy
          5. The Fool Holland
          6. 1945 Communist Daughter
          7. Oh Comely
          8. Ghost, [untitled Track]
          9. Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two


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