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    Daniel Spektor Lonsdale favorited and reviewed In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
    
    Even 12 years later this album is as emotive and powerful as it was when originally released in 1998. The album completely stole my heart and a million others, influencing musicians today like arcade... more
    
    Even 12 years later this album is as emotive and powerful as it was when originally released in 1998. The album completely stole my heart and a million others, influencing musicians today like arcade fire and Franz Ferdinand.
    
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    This is, simply put, the greatest album I've ever listened to. Other albums come relatively close--OK Computer and Doolittle come to mind--but just don't quite make it to the level Aeroplane is at... more
    
    This is, simply put, the greatest album I've ever listened to. Other albums come relatively close--OK Computer and Doolittle come to mind--but just don't quite make it to the level Aeroplane is at for me. It's passionate and emotional, aggressive yet vulnerable. Too much has already been written about this album for me to go into specifics, so I'll leave it with this: Anyone who listens to this album a few times and still doesn't get it is someone I'm probably not likely to understand very well.
    
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    joe favorited and reviewed In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
    
    If any other band tried crafting a musical love letter to Anne Frank, they would rightfully be accused of tasteless irony. But Neutral Milk Hotel makes it heartbreaking. Could anyone else turn lyrics... more
    
    If any other band tried crafting a musical love letter to Anne Frank, they would rightfully be accused of tasteless irony. But Neutral Milk Hotel makes it heartbreaking. Could anyone else turn lyrics like "I wished I could save her / In some sort of time machine" into a little moment of tragedy? This group captured something timeless yet ephemeral in this record. Definitely one of my favorites.
    
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    Daniel Lonsdale to be fair you stole this review off of the internet///
    
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    joe Nope, I wrote this myself, as far as I remember.
    
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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 SilverLed 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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By Neutral Milk Hotel, 1998

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