Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

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Label:	Merge Records – MRG136CD, Merge Records – mrg136
Format:	CD, Album
Country:	US
Released:	Feb 10, 1998
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Alternative Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Rock

Tracklist

1	The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. One	2:00
2	The King Of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two & Three	3:06
3	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea	3:22
4	Two-Headed Boy	4:26
5	The Fool	1:53
6	Holland, 1945	3:12
7	Communist Daughter	1:57
8	Oh Comely	8:18
9	Ghost	4:08
10	Untitled	2:15
11	Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two	5:13

Companies, etc.

Recorded At – Elephant Six Recording Co.
Pressed By – Americ Disc
Published By – The Egg As A Whole Music
Published By – BMG Songs, Inc.

Credits

Arranged By [Horns] – Robert Schneider, Scott Spillane
Art Direction – Chris Bilheimer, Jeff Mangum
Artwork [Flying Victrola] – Brian Dewan
Drums, Organ – Jeremy Barnes
Guitar, Voice, Organ, Tom Tom [Floortom], Bass [Bowed Fuzz], Tape, Effects [Shortwave Radio] – Jeff Mangum
Organ [Home, Air], Bass [Fuzz], Backing Vocals [Harmony Vocal], Piano [One-note] – Robert Schneider
Organ [Wandering Genie], Saw [The Singing], Banjo [Bowed], Accordion, Noises [White Noise] – Julian Koster
Producer – Robert Schneider
Saxophone [Zanzithophone] – Laura Carter
Saxophone, Flugelhorn – Marisa Bissinger*
Trombone – Rick Benejamin*
Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Trombone, Euphonium – Scott Spillane
Uilleann Pipes – Michelle Anderson
Written-By – Jeff Mangum (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 11), Barnes* (tracks: 2), Koster* (tracks: 2), S. Spillane* (tracks: 2, 5)

Notes

Recorded in the Elephant 6 Recording Company July-Sept. 1997.

All Songs © 1996/1997

Cat number is MRG136CD on spine and CD, mrg136 on barcode sticker

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text, From Sticker): 0 36172 94362 3
Barcode (Scanned): 036172943623
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Mirrored): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 158H2<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 1, Mirrored): IFPI L482
Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 8119
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 2XNR3<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI L481
Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 7708
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Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 81B0
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Mastering SID Code (Variant 4, Mirrored): IFPI L482
Mould SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI 81C0
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Mould SID Code (Variant 6): ifpi 7712
Matrix / Runout (Variant 7, Mirrored): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 158H2<0241>MRG136CD
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Mould SID Code (Variant 10): IFPI 7711
Matrix / Runout (Variant 11): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 2VZB1<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 11): IFPI L481
Mould SID Code (Variant 11): IFPI 8120

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (LP, Album)	Merge Records, Merge Records	MRG136LP, MRG136	US	1998
New Submission	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (CD, Album)	The Blue Rose Record Company	BRRC 10192	UK	1998
New Submission	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (LP, Album, Repress, Yellow Bias)	Merge Records	MRG136LP	US	1998
New Submission	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (LP, Album, Repress, Dark Bias)	Merge Records	MRG136LP	US	2000
New Submission	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (LP, Album, Repress, Blue Bias)	Merge Records	MRG136LP	US	2004

Reviews

invalidusername Feb 19, 2023
Well produced, vigorous folk punk with hints of REM throughout.
hunyalewterol99 Jan 22, 2022
They are like Sex Bob-Omb from Scottt Pilgrim Movie xd
krakeling Nov 5, 2019
Guess i'll step a bit out of line when i say that i believe this music and voice to be quite boring?
Teddy_lebt Oct 16, 2016
My version has the Matrix/ Runout
REWIGLP21 A2 BE39693-01 A3 on side one and
REWIGLP21 B2 BE39693-01 B3 on side two. Can anyone please confirm, that this is the 2005 US reissue by Domino?
r89756 Dec 30, 2014
This album is the greatest. I love it so much I need to get this on vinyl. Anyways great album.
geometrician Feb 27, 2006
Edited 17 years ago
I know a lot of people who hate this album, but I love it. Jeff Mangum's voice is definately an acquired taste. On first listen it sounds like whiney emo crap with some horns and acoustic ballads, but after a while the nightmarish and phantasmagoric lyrics worm their way into your brain in spite of the eerily "happy" music. Some of the songs here venture onto surreal hallucinatory planes that Syd Barrett only touched upon (the centerpeice, "Oh Comely," is particularly vivid). And yet it's all somehow hopeful and life-affirming. It's a concept album about life, death, rebirth, family life, the Holocaust and Anne Frank, I guess. I'll be damned if I can make heads or tails of it.