Crib Notes

The folks over at Merge Records have released some great recordings over the years, almost none of which* have sold as many copies as the locally-brewed, universally-lauded Neutral Milk Hotel classic In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. To put a yummy little cherry on top of their recent 180-gram vinyl reissues of both of that band’s albums (!), they recently posted two live videos of an exuberant Jeff Mangum tearing through two great NMH jams – Aeroplane’s “Two-Headed Boy” and “April 8th” from the underrated On Avery Island. The video was apparently shot way back in 1998 during a show at NYC’s famed Knitting Factory.

Alls I gotta say is what basically everyone has to say, which is where you at, Mangum?

*That shitty Arcade Fire album that everyone loved for a hot minute and then forgot about (thanks a lot for inundating a new generation of taste-challenged hipsters, Spike Jonze) has probably sold bajillions. And yes, it came out on Merge.

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Tags: 1998, April 8th, Arcade Fire, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Jeff-Mangum, Knitting Factory, Merge Records, Neutral-Milk-Hotel, On Avery Island, Spike Jonze, Two Headed Boy.