| In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 
 enlarge | Artist: Neutral Milk Hotel
Label: Merge Records
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  429 reviews
Sales Rank: 1073
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 29436
UPC: 036172943623
EAN: 0361729436236
ASIN: B0000019PA
Release Date: February 10, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 | | • | King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2 & 3 - Neutral Milk Hotel, Barnes, Jeremy | | • | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | | • | Two-Headed Boy | | • | The Fool - Neutral Milk Hotel, Spillane, Scott | | • | Holland, 1945 | | • | Communist Daughter | | • | Oh Comely | | • | Ghost | | • | The Penny Arcade in California | | • | Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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
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 Ups and downs December 1, 2008
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 album is for you.
Some People Will Never Get It November 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
One of my favorite albums of all time November 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!)
GAOAT October 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Magnum's opus October 17, 2008
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 with thematic ambitions preserved this track listing better then it ought.
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