Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

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Label:	Merge Records – MRG136CD
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.

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

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

First CD version:
• The printed design on the disk face continues onto the inner ring.
• No barcode on the release.
• The back of the jewel-case has a clear "Made in Canada" sticker, bottom center.
A barcode sticker, if present, may be on the jewel-case back, lower right.

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, from sticker): 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
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 3HY61<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI L481
Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 81B0
Matrix / Runout (Variant 4, mirrored): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 158H2<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 4, mirrored): IFPI L482
Mould SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI 81C0
Matrix / Runout (Variant 5): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 3HY61<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 5): IFPI L481
Mould SID Code (Variant 5): IFPI 8142
Matrix / Runout (Variant 6): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 2XNR3<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 6): IFPI L481
Mould SID Code (Variant 6): ifpi 7712
Matrix / Runout (Variant 7, mirrored): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 158H2<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 7): IFPI L482
Mould SID Code (Variant 7): IFPI 8102
Matrix / Runout (Variant 8): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 2T3G3<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 8): IFPI L481
Mould SID Code (Variant 8): IFPI 7711
Matrix / Runout (Variant 9): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 06258<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 9): IFPI L489
Mould SID Code (Variant 9): IFPI 8118
Matrix / Runout (Variant 10): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 2FB02<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 10): IFPI L482
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
Matrix / Runout (Variant 12): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 2T3G3<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 12): IFPI L481
Mould SID Code (Variant 12): IFPI8113
Matrix / Runout (Variant 13): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 3V161<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 13): IFPI L481
Mould SID Code (Variant 13): IFPI 811G
Matrix / Runout (Variant 14, mirrored): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 158H2<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 14): IFPI L482
Mould SID Code (Variant 14): IFPI 8101
Matrix / Runout (Variant 15, mirrored): MADE IN CANADA BY AMERIC DISC 158H2<0241>MRG136CD
Mastering SID Code (Variant 15, mirrored): IFPI L482
Mould SID Code (Variant 15): IFPI8112

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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 (Cassette, Album, Promo)	Merge Records	MRG 136	US	1998
New Submission	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (LP, Album, Repress, Dark Bias)	Merge Records	MRG136LP	US	2000

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Reviews

newmanism17 Nov 12, 2024
Was difficult for me to judge which one I owned, all indicators pointed to 3 different Merge Records - MRG136LP pressings. Had to judge based off color. Think I own the 2018 pressing.
hawks_cds Oct 23, 2023
"male manipulator music😹" no this is tone deaf nursery rhyme music this shit sucks laaame

5.4/10
spiderfriend 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 19 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.