In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 25 Years Later｜Vinyl Monday

Soft, silly music is meaningful-magical.
Welcome to a special episode of Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I chat about albums in my collection that I love. My thoughts on Neutral Milk Hotel’s monolithic In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, released 25 years ago this week. Subscribe for Vinyl Monday and more vinyl/vintage fashion content!
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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
album art & personnel - 1:13
the story of Aeroplane - 6:01
release/legacy - 11:33
my thoughts - 17:56
thanks for watching! - 32:20
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommon...) Artist: audionautix.com/
Outtro Music: Ticket To Nowhere Man by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommon...) Artist: audionautix.com/
Excerpts from The Olivia Tremor Control - “Jumping Fences” (1996) and Neutral Milk Hotel - “I Will Bury You In Time,” “Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye” (1996,) “King of Carrot Flowers (Parts 1-3,)” “Holland, 1945,” “Communist Daughter,” “Oh Comely,” and “Two-Headed Boy Part 2” all protected under fair use.

[@abigaildevoe]

i apologize for editing abby Weezering you all. can’t promise it won’t happen again :)

[@vonroretz3307]

You remind me of this song. Bert Jansch - Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning

[@edvonblue]

You seem to have a good grasp of Indie Rock - why don’t you do more Indie Rock album reactions on your channel?

[@fromtheashes2794]

I feel like everyone discovers this album in their freshman year at college, regardless of age.

[@zacharyrogers5537]

Can confirm.

[@HangandHung]

true

[@ThomasBaxter]

BUT IT WAS 1998! What was I supposed to do?!

[@colinmoreillon5970]

It was sophomore year of high school for me

[@iaincowell9747]

never heard it.

[@TheZatrahc]

Once in highschool a guy I only vaguely knew cause his sister was in my grade came up to me and said "hey I heard you like Neutral Milk Hotel" and I was like uh, yeah totally. Definitely heard of that band. And he was like, "What's your favorite song" and I was like "uh. . . .untitled?" and turns out there actually was an untitled song and I came off as cool. Nice. That guy is in jail now for threating to do a mass shooting at a hospital. So. At least he thought I was cool in highschool.

[@Alderath989]

That last part totally caught me off guard lol

[@heyimvee]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@oneandonly-oatmeal]

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT LADY'S HEAD HAS BEEN A DRUM AND NOT A COCONUT THIS WHOLE TIME !?!

[@SampleFilmsLtd]

Your channel is like a lavish super deluxe anniversary box set that includes unreleased tracks, mono mixes, 100+ page book, poster, stickers, guitar pick with band logo, and extra anti-static inner sleeves.

[@abigaildevoe]

wow thank you!! i could only hope to have stickers someday, let alone enough lore for a super deluxe box set

[@JohnDoe-vc5qb]

One of those albums where it's impossible to tell when it's from just by ear. I remember hearing it in like 2003 and I thought it was from the 70s or something. Absolute gem of a record.

[@abigaildevoe]

a record where it's hard to pin it to a specific era...i believe they call that timeless :)

[@kierstanfaulks]

when i first heard it in around 2017 i assumed it was around the 2010's

[@baileyyyyyyyyyyyy]

i used to think the album was new before i listened to it before learning it was released in the 90s and being shocked

[@jasonnewby]

I first heard this album in 2001 and became obsessed with it. There is just something so transcendental about it. I tried to turn on everyone I could to it but only a few got it. Most just looked at me strangely. Oh well, its not for everyone but I still love it today.

[@possessedslig]

Most people these days listen to shit. It's a sad fact I've come to accept.

[@frabybell7332]

"This is the writing of someone who lives life like an open wound" sums the whole album up so succinctly

[@concars1234]

Incredible album. It only became a meme because it's so moving

[@ictogon]

I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIISTTT

[@horubeeevans]

you calling oh comely a cry that brings you out of breathe is the greatest description ive ever heard

[@969omo]

That's it. "This is a record that sticks with you the rest of your life" well said

[@pigguy]

I was lucky enough to see NMH on their reunion tour in 2014, which was incredible of course. But the bigger flex is that I saw Jeff on his brief solo acoustic tour the year before. It's the closest thing to a religious experience I've ever had. The entire crowd sang along, but not in your typical rock show way. It felt like a sacrament, like an emotional exorcism. Genuinely the most moving experience I've ever had

[@adamfields1809]

April Ludgate's favorite album in parks and rec. For some reason I looked it up and it changed my life :)

[@Narokkurai]

There's a lot of media that gets hyped up due to nostalgia, or its association with a very specific subculture, or even just for its memeability, and ITAOTS has all of that, but it is also a transcendentally good album. Beautifully written, beautifully recorded, massively influential but has never been surpassed, it really is one of those rare treasures that continues to be relevant because new generations of listeners keep finding it and realizing how good it is. My brother first heard it in 2002, and it's one of his favorite albums. I first heard it in 2010, and it's one of my favorite albums. My father first heard it in 2017, and it's one of his favorite albums. Taste and time have practically no effect on it.

[@ryanmoore7283]

I’m so thankful that she explained the whole Anne Frank part in more detail, any time I tried to look up any meaning or context for some of the lyrics I only ever found people claiming the entire album is exclusively about Anne Frank and nothing else and I always knew that couldn’t be true and was just misinformed mythologising.

[@__0000___]

Im 15, and everyone else discovers this album much later than me. But it doesn't change the love I have for it, it is so phenomenal

[@DSRacer]

I constantly worry Jeff Mangum is going to emerge from the shadows and play on some small club in LA and I am going to miss it, but hear how great it is after the fact. Thank you for reminding me to be vigilant and keep an eye out for a show that may never happen

[@bitonho2646]

I listened to this album about a year ago and I was 15 years old, and I still listen to it often, it seems that with time I understand more about it

[@andrewyoung4844]

I've watched this video twice now and both times I've got really, really emotional. Much like the album itself makes me feel. Your passion and enthusiasm for ITAOTS is absolutely beautiful. You totally get it. I was lucky enough to work in a now sadly defunct record shop here in Scotland which was where I first heard it and I had to make my excuses and leave the shop for a few minutes to compose myself as Two Headed Boy pt.2 came to a close. It completely broke me which, in general, doesn't happen very often but as you intonated it's an absolute emotional rollercoaster and I don't think I've ever heard anyone describe it as perfectly as you have. Thank you.

[@sylvisorex]

I have that same box set! Got it as a birthday present too, funnily enough. I adore everything in it, NMH is one of my favorite bands ever. I also love Ferris Wheel on Fire :) great episode

[@leomilani_gtr]

I really dived into this album. I guess what caught me was the resemblance to Syd Barrett's solo carreer.

[@jasonshort1437]

Oh this one means a lot to me and yet I can't really put into words what it is that makes it so special. There have been times while driving and listening to it where I've had to pull the car over because I was crying so hard. My wife loves it as well. She listened to it in her car for most of 2020, nothing else. I had to take it away because I was starting to get concerned haha. God bless Mangum for making such a mysterious and bewildering masterpiece. Nothing quite like it, it deserves all the love it gets.

[@whyloechoedome8122]

Two headed boy pt. 1 always was my favorite. The lyrics are blunt and haunting

[@jennydeaf9O9]

oh my god YES dood let's gooo this album changed my life for the better forever i'm so glad to be celebrating it here < 3

[@marydarko3380]

I’m so excited for this episode! This is one of my favourite albums ever and ‘In the Aeroplane over the Sea’ was one of the first songs I learned on the guitar!

[@abigaildevoe]

yes! one of the coolest things about this album is how it's so easy to play (aside from that pesky B chord in two-headed boy)

[@charlesfarley28]

Not familiar with your channel until today, but that is the power of a top quality thumbnail in action. I laughed myself silly and had to check it out. Pay attention, aspiring KZbinrs out there.

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

Olivia Tremor Control are fantastic, Jumping Fences is one of the greatest songs ever written. nice for them to get a shoutout here, most people when talking about NMH neglect any of those other E6 bands which is a shame.

[@abigaildevoe]

yes the rest of the 6 doesn’t get anywhere near enough appreciation! same with julian koster’s other projects, he’s a wildly creative guy

[@ThomasBaxter]

Just happy to hear a mention of OTC in the comments.

[@WDRhine]

@@abigaildevoe In it's way OTC's "Black Foliage" is a companion piece to "Aeroplane". It's more classic "art school guys form a band" than NMH but one can hear the many ties.

[@HONSTLYTASTYGARBAGE]

now I'm expecting an American football album review

[@flying13machine]

Just one show offered by Michael. They did a 3 night run in Atlanta and wanted Elf Power, Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control to open 1 each of the three nights. Jeff backed out but was backstage on the third night. No beef between Michael and Jeff. Michael totally understood. Jeff was subject to a lot of record people saying ‘we’re gonna make you the next big thing’ to which Jeff answered (blank space) He was done at that point with ‘the industry’

[@andrewcarney4810]

Russell would say..."when did you become so professional "..ha! It's unreal how good you are at this. You must love music.

[@cbot72]

YES This is my favourite album of all time and I am very happy, thank you so much, Abby. You have made my day

[@ananda2459]

used to listen to this album all the time in highschool, I understand how it sticks to memories and can make it hard to listen to down the line. love all the albums you compared it to because I can totally see what you mean but wouldn't have ever expected the comparisons haha I'd love to see more reviews of this era and the 2000s/2010s!

[@abigaildevoe]

i'll be doing some 2010s and 2020s albums down the line!

[@leomilani_gtr]

Speaking of aeroplanos and beautiful cover arts and booklets, one of my all time favourite - and also dark - albums is One Hot Minute. That would be the hell of a video!

[@g.f.farina2733]

it´s funny to think what certain communities on internet can do to the general perception of an album on pop culture. that´s probably the great example of an album estabilished as a classic by the forces of internet discussions on music. great video with great content - and overall great album

[@rodrilefou2091]

Thank you for introducing me to this jewel, I did not know about this group, so I decided to check them, they are amazing. Loved your outfit by the way!

[@abigaildevoe]

so glad you checked them out! and thanks!

[@psychobilly42069]

I was so fully enthralled in the elephant six in high school I can't believe this album is 25 happy birthday

[@psychobilly42069]

This video made me cry bro

[@Lukronius]

Right there with you!! Apples In Stereo, The Minders, OTC, Of Montreal, and of course NMH… the soundtrack to my late teens. I was kind of obsessed, and still really love it!!

[@friendlyfloatything]

idrk anything about music i just like listening to it so it kinda blew my mind when you said that NMH is akin to johns contributions to the white album because when i found NMH at 14 i was also very obsessed with the white album! thinking about it i really do see the similarities

[@abigaildevoe]

i don’t know much about music either - i just love it a lot

[@thecla1343]

When I listen to this record a dim light is shining through even the saddest of its moments. Two headed boy, for instance, ends with this little feeling, longing creature being left alone, but as if it was a movie, Jeff also points us to look around. It's snowing. The pillowy, tiny crystals are falling quitely, absorbing the sound. The guitars and his voice is soft compared to how it sounded previously. The christmas trees, with presents, put there by some unknown circumstance are all covered. Jeff speaks quitely to the two headed boy, like he's leaning down towards him. He knows the boy is afraid and talks to him accordingly, like a parent or guardian: "I have to go but everything will be alright. All the things that await you will wait for you when you're ready to let go". The spirals of white flow softly over the child's eyes, like he's falling asleep. It's an intimate scene of a parent sharing last moment with his child, comforting him before he has to go. It's sad, but it's also beautiful, and I tend to see most of the album's moments in that way. And when the album is legitematly joyful like on the titular track, which is probably my favourite, it's just life-afriming. Everything around is so strange, oh so strange but it's beautiful. Jeff paints beauty into even the most sorrowful of moments. Almost all of them. I just can't help but imagine the two headed boy walk on, leaving little foot-shaped marks, where he walked through the Winter surrounding him into warm, and golden Spring. Anyway, I really enjoyed this review. And the outfit you put together was a great match! You can tell a lot of work was put into it and the results are great! Thank you

[@JacksonKillroy]

Having discovered neutral milk hotel before the vinyl revival craze i've only ever heard the digital version and the transition from communist daughter to oh comely is one of my favorite moments on the entire record. The fact that the vinyl version is split at that exact moment is insane to me, I think hearing the album on vinyl would give me an aneurysm.

[@Soulskater55]

Thanks for this, never heard anything about the album previously. New music to me and I'm obsessed, so good!

[@rafterman5072]

Great record. I listened to this a lot in high school and college, along with MGMT. The late 90s and 2000s Indie era doesn't get enough respect. lol

[@abigaildevoe]

much respect for the late 2000s indie boom!

[@zhylkos]

I love this Fantano bit

[@abigaildevoe]

trust me i loved making it

[@GoDrex]

Death Grips in the background 🤌

[@kazooplayer3]

This episode is what finally got me to listen to this album. I've known about it for years. It's obviously pretty big in the music nerd circles of the internet. Every time I get a vinyl Monday notification, I listen to the album before watching the video if I haven't heard it before and I've ended up listening to a lot of really cool albums from doing this. I feel like I'll need to listen to it again to understand it, but I'm really glad I checked it out! This was a great episode btw!

[@abigaildevoe]

i’m so glad to hear you do that with the vinyl monday albums! having this be a weird little book club for old albums was/is the dream. definitely give aeroplane a couple more tries and lmk what you think! it’s an album that grows on you

[@paulf.5261]

Yup.....not only Abby’s reviews but others too. It’s such a good way to discover music that maybe we’re not even aware exists, or just never taken the time to listen😉 Regarding this, I know of it.....maybe even heard a song or two, but never listened all way through..... maybe today’s the day 😮😉🙏😁

[@kazooplayer3]

@@paulf.5261 what other KZbinrs do you watch to get music recommendations? I've discovered a few from Todd in the shadows one hit wonder series. I don't normally watch Anthony fantano but I did listen to what is now my favorite album because of a video he made. Oh also the radio is actually a good way to find out about music. I've gotten into a lot of bands because I heard some of their songs on the radio.

[@rickstahl6839]

Love it when Abby goes full rage mode. Best transition ever!

[@waitsbian]

the pause after "amanda palmer..." i felt that in my soul

[@stoneyboyd]

Oh THIS is gonna be a GREAT episode. I’m only now seeing this on my recommended feed. I really like what you’re doing Abby. Keep it up.

[@zephead64]

I am so damn happy and amazed that you did a video on this unprecedented album. A good friend of mine, who is also a fan, and I attended a NMH live appearance in June 2015 here in Sacramento. It was truly incredible.

[@johnwelch5132]

Now, that’s an interesting summary. You’ve done wonders with this discovery. Thankyou and thanks for bringing this to us..

[@meesalikeu]

you wanna know what i think ms abby? i think this was so on the nose every word is a pearl right on i was just as stunned with your review as with this album. its not often where every single thing someone sez on the youtubes or anywhere is so factual, inciteful and so perfectly put. bravo m'lady so glad to you put the extra time in for this one it shows.

[@abrahamdrinkin4557]

You're only 3 years younger than I am so it's refreshing for me to see someone of my generation actually be passionate about music. Especially music of this kind. I've always felt like I was the odd one out for loving 80s college rock and psychedelic music.

[@concars1234]

>80s college rock there are thousands of us, probably

[@abrahamdrinkin4557]

@@concars1234 I guess I've been around the wrong people. Everyone I know in their mid-late 20s is on a big emo/mallcore nostalgia kick. Never been my thing, I've always been more into 70s-90s alternative and indie music.

[@concars1234]

@@abrahamdrinkin4557 I like emo revival and 80s 90s alternative for example Guided by Voices the cure early REM etc etc

[@klors]

This album was one that was in my Amazon recommendations, then Fantano'd, and then my Spotify recommendations and I still don't know if I've listened to it or not... looking forward to watching your video on it

[@abigaildevoe]

aeroplane is very distinct and divisive, people tend to have pretty strong opinions on it. for those reasons i'm kind of shocked that you don't know if you've heard it or not!

[@TheBrogmire]

Found your station randomly. 'bones of a bird ' was the exact moment I hit subscribe. Perfect.

[@flying13machine]

Jeff didn’t really do drugs. He just is that way…with integrity

[@rocknrollmandolin]

Elephant 6 and K Records are maybe sone of the most important collectives or record labels in american music, a shame theyve been forgotten in some ways.

[@OneMoreEpitaph]

So, let me start by oversharing. I'm not often a happy person, and because of that most people's optimistic and uplifting just doesn't hit the nail on the head for me. This isn't a dislike, but pure joyous stories don't grab my soul to the same degree as my more well adjusted friends. As someone who lives life defined by the claws of death, to pretend the shadows of pain and tragedy are anything less than eternal isn't truthful to me. What hits, is the things that look those in the face and can still say that this world is beautiful. That's what Aeroplane is to me. Dark, tragic, wonderful, and uplifting to the weight in my soul. I got into it under the impression that it was very out there and eclectic and hard to get and from the get go it was sonically my wavelength. The more time I spent with it the more I loved it. I had a bad breakup recently, and aeroplane helped keep my heart alive. I love this album so much. Also new viewer here and despite coming here for Aeroplane I'll be sticking around for the classic rock!

[@flying13machine]

Brilliant summation, Abby

[@wil...71]

This was amazing!! Thanks for reviewing this album, it is part of my entire life since i discovered NMH 2 years ago. I can say it's the most powerful and emotional thing i've heard in my life.

[@WhiteNucklin]

Yours is the only review of this album on KZbin that has ever made me want to actually listen to the album. Thanks. I’m genuinely excited to dive into as soon as I can. Thank you Good video!

[@abigaildevoe]

this is such a high compliment, thank you SO much :) enjoy discovering aeroplane, it's a doozy!

[@kavlara]

Wow. Had no idea it was that old.

[@larryzink8978]

Abigail, you are exceptionally picturesqe . Visually intoxicating, Today's costume's harmony hat texture, shapes, and fit are truly arresting, Henry James, and McNeil Whistler are fistfighting over the chance to describe you in paint and print.The Art of your presentations: content, delivery, etc., You are in a class of your own.Nothing comes close. You work at it and with your creative frame of reality, you're truly the funnest of tonics. Thanks Much.

[@lostmyedge_]

Poetic rizz

[@deanarberman2985]

rizz

[@nicoquet.]

underrated channel

[@Grass-seedling]

My mother used to play this album for me a lot when I was a baby but I didn't remember. The emotions that went through my brain when I discovered it for myself were something beyond everything.

[@connorfagan3574]

oooooh i am PUMPED yt recommended this channel, love the series already

[@syater2]

What a thoroughly articulated assessment, as usual. Great job ! I don't know how many copies NMH's single 'Everything Is' were pressed in 1993, but I suspect not many. I bought a copy, liked it, and went to see Jeff Mangum play solo in a small San Francisco venue, a former fire station, which must have been his first tour. I ended up talking to him afterward for quite a while. Interesting and friendly. We exchanged addresses. So I still have one letter or two letters from Jeff from way before 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' was released. An obscure but nice memory.

[@achtort]

This was really well done. You even helped me understand myself better with this video. Thank you.

[@John_Stookey]

great video! loved the v subtle mountain goats reference lol

[@flying13machine]

Thanks for this. Gonna share this with Jeff and Chris Bilheimer!

[@DerekPower]

True story: I actually attended a showing of that aforementioned Amanda Palmer musical back in 2009. I probably should revisit it at some point. I definitely appreciate the daring and earnestness of it. And in a way, Jeff Mangum is America’s Syd Barrett … at least to me =]

[@bienzoo]

got this vid on my homepage and my god i love your in depth exploration of this album

[@hunterjulian98]

Just found this channel and I'm in love with the style! 🥰

[@abigaildevoe]

thanks so much!

[@kingofthesnakes2396]

Recently listened to strange days after hearing how much you loved it. Can't wait for your review next week

[@abigaildevoe]

i’m excited for it too!

[@chriswhrtn]

more info than i got from the melon 🔥

[@mattday2656]

I have been listening to this album for over a decade and don't know how I feel about it.

[@lesterdiamond6190]

Very impressed with this analysis.

[@bitchboymghee]

My ex partner did a lovely cover of, in the aeroplane over the sea, when we were teenagers and it still sticks in my head all the time. The lyrics are so vague and mystical in a way that I adore.

[@abigaildevoe]

hahah reminds me of an ex who learned this on guitar for me. he got this pedal that had a steel drum effect, ran the trumpet solo through it to make in the aeroplane over the ska. hysterical

[@chaytondarst4143]

Can’t wait to watch when I get home, good video!!

[@russnator3217]

by some random chance, i found the song u use for your transitions. when i heard the original, i couldn't remember where i heard it from but i knew i recognised it from some youtuber. anyways, long story short, u drove me insane for 15 minutes and the song is circle sky by the monkees.

[@jordansatepauhoodle7728]

Seeing him live, acoustically, was awesome. Very intense dude

[@tadreadsbooksstuff]

I have recently found this channel and this is the absolute best VC channel on KZbin!

[@abigaildevoe]

hey thanks so much!

[@matthewmacdonald9851]

When the world has overwhelmed me, when I lose all faith in humanity, there are a very small number of albums that fit the mood I must fully embrace for an open-ended time period in order to process my thoughts and feelings and finally fumble my way back into the light. Along with The Cure's Disintegration, Nick Drake's Pink Moon, Townes Van Zandt's Live at the Old Quarter, Elliot Smith's self-titled LP, a handful of classical piano sonatas and Portishead's Dummy, this is one of them. I will often transition out of these emotionally taxing states via John Coltrane's A Love Supreme and The Sundays' Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Anyway, this record is ridiculously powerful and completely deserves its place in the indie rock pantheon. Highly emotional and sensitive artists often become unfairly pigeonholed and caricatured due to their work becoming known for a remarkable depth. In fact, sometimes in life, that is precisely the only sort of art that can truly touch the soul of its audience.

[@abigaildevoe]

you phrased all this so well. and you’re right: highly emotional, hyper-empathetic artists are prone to being pigeonholed. i think of phoebe bridgers and julien baker, two formidable and prolific writers respectively, being written off as “sad girl music.” increase that factor tenfold for artists with a really distinct sound like NMH! glad you mentioned a love supreme, it’s a staple of my everyday listening.

[@TheLordcasio]

You should've been there at the Elephant 6 Music Fest in 99 in Athens (it was called the"Kindercore Festival"). Magnum, Brock (Modest Mouse ) and many other 90's hero's played the 40-Watt in Athens as "Blue Hawaiin" (as far as I can remember). There were maybe 80 people there (tops) and they were all cool/gentle (no drunk guy ruining the feel). It was the pinnacle that era, for me. SO MANY good shows, so few jerks.

[@abigaildevoe]

that sounds lovely. sounds a lot like that scene from all i've heard: welcoming, many good shows, and few jerks to ruin the feel

[@olliepops1124]

@@abigaildevoe. Visit. Pretty much all the E6 names people can rattle off are around Athens still and active to varying degrees. I won’t sugarcoat everything (…yet heheheh), but there’s enough to see to keep fans loving whatever E6 they lived before, but in a different way. Maybe some new titles will become favorites of your collection afterwards!!! Edit: Jeff has been elsewhere for decades. I didn’t mean he lives in the frat bar that was a Jittery Joe’s a billion years ago. I assumed your knew all that though.

[@kurtliedtke1001]

I worked in the music industry for many years at major record labels, and "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" got regular rotation on my desk stereo. I've turned more people on to that album than I can possibly recount. Multiple times I had A&R guys walk by during my stints with Capitol and Universal, stop, come back, and ask who I was listening to and if they were signed..."Uhh, yeah, this album came out like a decade ago. It's Neutral Milk Hotel. Ya know, Jeff Mangum?" ...I would just get blank stares... "Jeff Mangum. Neutral Milk Hotel. Ya know, the band that influenced pretty much every indie rock artist you've ever signed." ...More blank stares... "You work in A&R and you seriously don't know Neutral Milk Hotel's magnum opus? Why are you even in A&R and I'm in radio promotion? I should have your job." Maaaaybe this is why I no longer work in the music industry.

[@colingillis5989]

Saw them on the Aeroplane album release tour at the Black Cat in DC and of all things they opened for Superchunk! One of the best shows I've ever experienced to this day. I was a huge "On Avery Island" fan already and then they dropped this masterpiece. Total brilliant game changer for sure! But seeing those songs live?! Transcendent! I was weeping tears of joy the whole time, especially when they did Oh Comely. Superchunk was and will always be another favorite band of mine... but I was so blown away by NMH that night, I left the club before Superchunks' set and wandered around around the city for a couple hours in a daze until the show was over. Met up with my friends and went on back to PA. It was just that good! I'll never forget that moment in my life. Pure bliss!

[@dominicpolcino1570]

Amazing review! Music that awakens the soul. I used to play it while painting, and when the album ended I'd say Hell, and play it again. And again and again.

[@chrismcgovern1647]

Great video! I have never even listened to NMH's stuff, this gives me so much impetus to check it out now

[@djpimashaps5747]

Can't wait to your review of The Money Store dressed like a dominatrix

[@abigaildevoe]

i'll do it dressed like the moth from that one photo of MC ride in the cemetery

[@djpimashaps5747]

@@abigaildevoe moth Will ve, but the footage happen in a light green bathroom

[@rockwren]

I spent my late teen years listening to Black Sabbath, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Queen, etc. and sometimes as much as I like new music can't find anything to quite match the sheer creativity that those represent. Still faced desert island disc style to limiting my albums to just a handful, one of those iconic bands would have to make way for Aeroplane! Great review. I couldn't have put it better myself, so I'll probably steal some of your descriptions when people ask me, "What the hell is In the Aeroplane Over the Sea?"

[@OWlsfordshire]

I never realized that was a drum as the woman's head.

[@808bunky]

OMG... This is one of those rare epiphany albums for me. It's so divisive too. I absolutely love it & my girlfriend is allergic to it. LOL. I picked it up at Barnes & Noble before the pandemic & couldn't stop listening. It must be added to Rolling Stone's Top 40 Stoner Albums of All Time. P.S. This video has some of your best comedy. LMAO. I'll watch it again later today.

[@abigaildevoe]

hey thanks! if it's any album that calls for the jokes it's this one

[@stereo999]

Dusk At Cubist Castle was the best album of 1996. Vinyl Monday on that one in the future?

[@stereo999]

Saw The Olivias and Neutral at Terrastock festival in SF in 1998, singing saw, horn section and everything for both bands. Back then I was more obsessed with Dusk At Cubist Castle but Mangum's performance that night and the way In The Aeroplane took on a life of its own in subsequent years kept me coming back to it.

[@abigaildevoe]

i would LOVE to have that one or any OTC in my collection. my best album of 96 would have to go to the fugees though, classic after classic

[@abigaildevoe]

wow that sounds like an INCREDIBLE gig!! were julian's band the music tapes there too?

[@alanclayton9277]

On my flight through the back vids again. I admire you Abigail so much for engaging with this music and for the convincing force of your argument. This was a wonderful video. I wasn't convinced by the music though: given the depth and the empathy you display here that doesn't make me feel confident, I feel kind of shallow for my response.

[@DanielLinfield]

Aeroplane sounds like it is going to fly off the rails and, while every player urgently wills it, their creation refuses to crash.

[@gregoryg3256]

🌠Hello Abbey with alotta Rcords..Never heard of this 1..@ least u mentioned F Zappa.. U Rock !!! Go Vermont !!!🦌⛰🌄

[@usquebaugh1]

That was an impressive encapsulation which obviously required a ton of preparation and research. Well done! Though I know this album, I learned a few things I didn't. I also haven't spun it in a while and so what better day then today; 25 years to the day. You're good at this 👍and you do this unlike anyone I've come across in the VC. I hope you continue to find the energy to put these together in what is clearly a "labor of love". EDIT: I should also give cReddit where cReddit is due; since you referenced it in your video. I'm a gen-Xer who discovered NMH from being exposed to all of the chatter on r/vinyl in the 2010s.

[@IndieRockerForever]

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is my third favorite album of all time right next to Kid A (Radiohead) & Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Wilco)

[@PinkertonLover]

Uh oh

[@ictogon]

u ok bro?

[@PinkertonLover]

@@ictogon yeah I jus

[@nugznmugz]

Ok man you just got yourself a new fan. I'm not a huge fan of this band but I am a fan of you already! The first thing I noticed on revisiting this album was the insane amount of compression, almost like they were trying to say "fuck you and fuck the space between your ears, you're gonna like it anyway" which is pretty cool, even if it's not my cup of sonic tea. Glad to hear you bring it up.

[@abigaildevoe]

thanks so much man! "fuck the space between your ears" is better than i ever could've put it. editing those audio clips was a STRUGGLE, even at 5% volume they were still drowning me out!

[@frugalseverin2282]

Never heard of the artist or the album but I'll give it a listen. Lennon was always my favorite of the Beatles so good reference point. I hope the vocals don't put me off. Btw Justin (JustJP) just listened to VU's 'Sister Ray' yesterday. He hated it, I laughed all the way through his reaction.

[@frugalseverin2282]

I listened to 3.5 songs and that was plenty. Nowhere in the same league as Lennon. If you like quirky and interesting try Robyn Hitchcock.

[@peterjetnikoff]

Thanks for this one. At the end of the '90s I had pretty much switched new guitar bands off and preferred electronica's comparative freshness (particularly trip hop). The reason I tried NMH is O Comely made it into someone's forum list of creepy songs which I was looking for for a party tape. I napstered the whole album (but, yes, bought a CD soon after) and this record entered my all time favourites. The musicality, arrangement ideas and eerie poetry of the lyrics are still with me (see also anything by The Handsome Family which is almost the same story for me). Funny you mention literary comparisons. Not Salinger, for me, but I remember describing the album a bit like this: imagine picking up a battered novel without a cover or title page in a second hand shop and finding out it was To Kill a Mockingbird. Dependably fun and informative vid, too. Oh, and the 33 1/3 book on it is one of the better ones.

[@abigaildevoe]

that is a wonderful description of aeroplane: stumbling on it, growing to love it, then discovering it’s a generation-defining record. someone in this comment section discovered it in that manner actually!

[@ThinkDifferentish]

Wow great review! Subscribed. Between this review and Siamese Dream, I think I found someone that loves music as much as me; possibly more. Your analogy that Aeroplane is Lennon’s White Album contributions if made in the 90’s was hauntingly accurate. Never considered that before, even though the White Album is my all time favorite album.

[@Swagner_Soar]

Great video on one of my all time favorite albums!