Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0036172943616
Label: Merge Records
Manufacturer: Merge Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Merge Records
Release Date: January 20, 2004
Studio: Merge Records

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Disc 1:

1. The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1
2. King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2 & 3 - Neutral Milk Hotel, Barnes, Jeremy
3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Two-Headed Boy
5. The Fool - Neutral Milk Hotel, Spillane, Scott
6. Holland, 1945
7. Communist Daughter
8. Oh Comely
9. Ghost
10. The Penny Arcade in California
11. Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com's Best of 1998:
Just from the opening seconds of Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, you know it's going to be special: the acoustic guitar strum is catchy beyond belief, and Jeff Magnum's intonation lends credibility even to a line like "When you were young, you were the King of Carrot Flowers." Listening to In the Aeroplane is like stepping through Alice's looking glass; you enter a fantastic new universe that, while it doesn't always make sense logically, feels like the home you never had. --Randy Silver

Amazon.com essential recording:
Led by Jeff Magnum, In the Aeroplane over the Sea finds the Neutral Milk Hotel assemblage loosely performing a series of narratives backed by folksy acoustic guitar. But from that springboard, a quiver of instruments (horns, organs, accordions, saws, banjo, zanzithophone, etc.) are layered into a sometimes rootsy, sometimes lo-fi, and often psychedelic mix. Contrary to most pop experimentalists, NMH songs stretch way past the two-minute mark: "Two Headed Boy" transforms from a Guided by Voices-ish romp into a New Orleans big band funeral march, "The Fool" is as catchy as anything Poi Dog Pondering ever produced, and "Holland" builds up to a crescendo of saw, Uillean pipes, a chorus of voices, and fuzzed-out guitar. Simply irresistible. --Jason Verlinde




Rating: - Ups and downs
Running up and down hills can make your legs tire real fast. There is no doubt that water will help this. So you drink until you feel like you might get sick, like on an airplane when it aborts a landing.

As you jog by images of your forgotten past and piles of garbage, you cannot remember what her name was. Rose? Or was that her sister?

If you have ever changed your mind, or played piano, or been to Spain, or felt the sting of childhood (or adulthood) abandonment, this ... Read More

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Rating: - Some People Will Never Get It
A lot of people hate Bob Dylan's voice too, but in so doing, they miss one of the greatest artists of the rock era. Am I comparing Mangum to Dylan? Hell yes I am.

For those who don't get it, just move on to something more accessible to you. But for those who understand, this is one of the best albums of all time, hands down.

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Rating: - One of my favorite albums of all time
The lyrics are poignant, the meaning behind them uplifting, the instrumentation frantic and the vocals strained and real. Some people seem to get caught up on the lead singer's voice; so he's not Paul McCartney, but I don't have a problem with it. CSNY didn't want to let Neil Young sing at first either, but he's had one of the longest and most successful musical careers in memory. A simply beautiful album if you have the capacity to listen to it (yes, musical snobbery. Egads!)

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Rating: - GAOAT
Greatest Album of All TIME. this album is simply the best album I've ever listened to. I have listened to it once a week for a few years now and don't plan on stopping.

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Rating: - Magnum's opus
A quintessential lo-fi masterwork of acoustic power and unrestrained vocal, this highly influential album helped pave the way for the broken-boy aesthetics of Bright Eyes and literate ballads of Decemberists to be the prominent independent music it is today. Sure, some of the production should have been tuned up a bit even if the overall quality of hearing the performance right in front of you is partly why this album still shines bright, but mostly it is because the sincerity and simplicity coupled ... Read More

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