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Neutral Milk Hotel Neutral Milk Hotel was an American band formed by Jeff Mangum in Ruston, Louisiana, in 1989. They were active until 1998, and then from 2013 to 2015. The band's music featured a deliberately low-quality sound, influenced by indie rock and psy ...
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Ruston, Louisiana Ruston is a small city in and the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2020 population was 22,166. Ruston is near the eastern border of the Ark-La-Tex region and is the home of Louisiana Tech University. Ruston is the prin ...
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group, consists of two studio albums, two
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. Neutral Milk Hotel formed in 1989 as an offshoot of Milk, a high school musical project of singer-songwriter
Jeff Mangum Jeffrey Nye Mangum (born 24 October 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who gained prominence as the founder, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of Neutral Milk Hotel, as well for his co-founding of The Elephant 6 Recording Comp ...
, and the band was largely a Mangum solo project in the group's earlier days. The group was a part of
The Elephant 6 Recording Company The Elephant 6 Recording Company is a loosely defined musical collective from the United States. Notable bands associated with the collective include The Apples in Stereo, Beulah, Circulatory System, Elf Power, The Minders, Neutral Milk Hotel, ...
, a collective of musicians that includes, among others, notable indie rock bands
The Apples in Stereo The Apples in Stereo are an American indie rock band associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company, Elephant 6 Collective. The band is largely the project of lead vocalist/guitarist/producer Robert Schneider, who writes the majority of the ba ...
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Of Montreal of Montreal is an American indie pop band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontperson Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance between Barnes and a woman "of Montreal". The band is identified as part of the Elephant 6 collec ...
. The 1993 single " Everything Is" was the band's first release, and it would later be reissued as an EP with additional tracks. The band's first studio album, ''
On Avery Island ''On Avery Island'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Neutral Milk Hotel. It was released in the United States on March 26, 1996, by Merge Records, and in the United Kingdom on September 30, 1996, by Fire Records. At the time, Neutra ...
'', was released on the
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, and has sold a relatively high 5,000 copies. Afterwards, the band began to tour for the first time, and grew to include
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Scott Spillane Scott Edward Spillane (born September 26, 1965) is an American musician. He was part of The Gerbils and was one of the original members of the band Neutral Milk Hotel, for which he also served as a composer. He also has appeared on albums and i ...
, multi-instrumentalist
Julian Koster Julian Koster (born July 26, 1972) is an American multidisciplinary artist. As a musician, he is a member of the Elephant 6 Collective, the leader of The Music Tapes, and a member of Neutral Milk Hotel. He is known for writing, directing, and a ...
, and drummer Jeremy Barnes. In 1998 the band released '' In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'' on Merge, an album which has since become one of the most popular and acclaimed indie rock albums of the 1990s. Up until 2011's ''Ferris Wheel on Fire'' EP, the band had no new releases since ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'', though Mangum has said "I don't know what's going to happen, but I certainly want to make music a bigger part of my life in the future than it has been for the last couple of years." Fierma, Marci.
Interview: Neutral Milk Hotel
". Pitchfork Media, February 1, 2002. Retrieved on August 26, 2007.


Albums


Studio albums


Compilation albums


Extended plays


Singles


Demos


Miscellaneous


Unreleased songs

There are several songs which have been written and performed by Neutral Milk Hotel but have not officially released. These include songs that have only been performed
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and songs that have appeared on unreleased demo tapes. Mangum stated that he has written songs possibly intended for a future Neutral Milk Hotel release, although these songs went unnamed; the only known song written after ''In the Aeroplane over the Sea'' is "Little Birds". The following are titled unreleased songs by Neutral Milk Hotel. * "Sweet Marie"Bachner, Gavin.
Other Neutral Milk Hotel Rarities
. neutralmilkhotel.org. Retrieved on September 2, 2007.
* "Love You More Than Life" * "Candy Coated Dream" * "Through My Tears" * "I Hear You Breathe" * "Random Noise II" * "Random Noise III" * "Jennifer" * "All the Colors of the Rainbow" * "She Did A Lot of Acid/Beautiful Baby" * "Worms In The Wind" * "Goldaline"Cooper (2005). p. 75 * "Now There is Nothing" * I From the first untitled demo tape. "Candy Coated Dream" has since been released as "Unborn" on the 2011 re-release of "Everything Is". * II From the second untitled demo tape. * III Although never released in full, the last verse of "Oh Comely" is taken from "Goldaline".


See also

* The Apples in Stereo discography * ''
Live at Jittery Joe's ''Live at Jittery Joe's'' is a live album released in 2001 by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to combat the high prices of bootlegs on eBay. Filmmaker Lance Bangs recorded it at the Athens, GA venue Jittery Joe's on March 7, 1997, during a live ...
'' * '' Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I''


References

;General *
Neutral Milk Hotel: Recordings
. neutralmilkhotel.net. Retrieved on August 26, 2007. *
Neutral Milk Hotel discography
. Merge Records. Retrieved on August 26, 2007. * Bachner, Gavin.

. neutralmilkhotel.org. Retrieved on September 2, 2007. * Cooper, Kim (2005). ''In the Aeroplane over the Sea 33⅓''. (New York) Continuum International Publishing Group. . * DeRogatis, Jim (2003). ''Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock''. (Milwaukee) Hal Leonard Corporation. . ;Specific


External links


Neutral Milk Hotel's official site



Neutral Milk Hotel at Merge Records
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