In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a brilliant album. I don't see how anyone could not enjoy the hell out of it. This album is the epitome on that you don't need great musicianship in order to create a masterpiece. All it takes, as Mangum powerfully shows, is putting all of the possible heart you have inside of yourself into the album you're creating.
From the first, passionate, acoustic, but electric strum of "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One", to the final, quiet footstep of "Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two", In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a perfect, enchanting sonic adventure!
Description:In the Aeroplane over the Sea is the second studio album by American indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, released in the United States on February 10, 1998 on Merge Records. The album was released in the United Kingdom in May 1998 on Blue Rose Records.
Jeff Mangum moved from Athens, Georgia to Denver, Colorado to prepare the bulk oIn the Aeroplane over the Sea is the second studio album by American indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, released in the United States on February 10, 1998 on Merge Records. The album was released in the United Kingdom in May 1998 on Blue Rose Records.
Jeff Mangum moved from Athens, Georgia to Denver, Colorado to prepare the bulk of the album's material with producer Robert Schneider, this time at Schneider's newly-created Pet Sounds Studio at the home of Jim McIntyre.
The album's cover was a collaboration between Mangum and R.E.M.'s staff designer, Chris Bilheimer.The general design reflects the taste of Mangum: Bryan Poole said that "[Mangum] was always into that old-timey, magic, semi-circus, turn-of-the-century, penny arcade kind of imagery".One particular piece Mangum showed to Bilheimer was an old European postcard with an image of people bathing at a resort, which was then cropped and altered for the cover.[2] Bilheimer also designed a broadsheet-style lyrics sheet for the album, and inadvertently titled "Holland, 1945" in the process; Jeff wanted to use either "Holland" or "1945" for the song, and Bilheimer suggested he use both.
The album continues to sell well, and was the sixth-best-selling vinyl album in 2008.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Merge Records Release date : 10 February 1998 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0361729436236 UPC: 036172943623
"A song that made you laugh
In a live version of The King of Carrot Flowers Parts 1-3 Jeff Mangum sang "This is the part of the song where I didn't write any lyrics," and I laughed."
"OH COMELY
by Neutral Milk Hotel
Oh Comely
I will be with you when you lose your breath
Chasing the only
Meaningful memory you thought you had left
With some bratty bright and bubbly
Terrible scene that was doing her thing on your chest
But oh Comely
It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess in your memory
You're drunk on your awe to me
It doesn't mean anything at all
Oh Comely
All of your friends are all letting you blow
Bristling and ugly
Bursting with fruits falling out from the holes
Of s"
"Oh comely, I will be with you when you lose your breath,
Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left.
With some pretty, bright and bubbly terrible scene
That was doing her thing on your chest.
But oh comely,
It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess
In your memory, you're drunk on your awe ,to me
It doesn't mean anything at all.
Oh comely,
All of your friends are all letting you blow,
Bristling and ugly, bursting with fruits falling out from the holes
Of some pretty, bright, an"
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“From the first, passionate, acoustic, but electric strum of "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One", to the final, quiet footstep of "Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two", In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a perfect, enchanting sonic adventure!” read more
blue_skies added this to a list 3 years, 2 months ago
"1998
Favourite song: "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
Favourite moment: And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see"
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