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{{achtung|I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII}}
[[image:Neutralmilkhotelpic.jpg|thumb|right|Note the retard on the far left who must wear a helmet at all times. Also note the dude in the back who is pleasuring himself while wrapped in a blanket. That is your face when you hear "Naomi" for the first time.]]
[[image:Neutralmilkhotelpic.jpg|thumb|right|Note the retard on the far left who must wear a helmet at all times. Also note the dude in the back who is pleasuring himself while wrapped in a blanket. That is your face when you hear "Naomi" for the first time.]]
'''Neutral Milk Hotel''' is the worst band [[hipster|you've probably never heard of]]. Universally loved by hipsters it is the source of much butthurt among [[Mu/|/mu/tants]] who prefer more refined musicians such as [[Tyler the Creator]]. The band is most famous for their release of the album ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'', an album expressing lead singer and songwriter Jeff Mangum's misguided love for hide-and-seek champion [[Anne Frank]]. This album is considered a cult-classic among [[noob|entry-level]] hipsters, and merely posting the album cover is a sure-fire way to [[troll]] the denizens of [[4chan]]'s /mu/.  
 
'''Neutral Milk Hotel''' is the worst band [[hipster|you've probably never heard of]]. Universally loved by hipsters it is the source of much butthurt among music enthusiasts who prefer more refined musicians such as [[Tyler the Creator]]. The band is most famous for their release of the album ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'', an album expressing lead singer and songwriter Jeff Mangum's misguided love for hide-and-seek champion [[Anne Frank]]. This album is considered a cult-classic among [[noob|entry-level]] hipsters, and merely posting the album cover is a sure-fire way to [[troll]] the denizens of [[4chan]]'s [[mu/|/mu/]].  
 
==Behind the Jewsic==
==Behind the Jewsic==
[[image:Neutral Milk Hotel.jpg|thumb|left|From left to right: [[Pokemon|Gotta Mang 'em all]], Indie Santa, helmet retard and "the cute one"]]
[[image:Nmh animu.png|thumb|right|Now they are all the cute ones ^_^ kawaii]]
Neutral Milk was formed in the early [[90s]] by sweater-enthusiast and [[moot]] look-alike Joff Mongom who grew up in a trailer park outside of [[Louisiana]]. After graduating from high school in Bumfuck, Louisiana, Jeff roamed the country as a homeless hobo releasing solo projects [[nobody]] cares about. Much of these recordings consisted of audio static and conversations Jeff recorded with his friends while smoking a bowl. True art.  
Neutral Milk was formed in the early [[90s]] by sweater-enthusiast and [[moot]] look-alike Jeff Mangum who grew up in a trailer park outside of [[Louisiana]]. After graduating from high school in Bumfuck, Louisiana, Jeff roamed the country as a homeless hobo releasing solo projects [[nobody]] cares about. Much of these recordings consisted of audio static and conversations Jeff recorded with his friends while smoking a bowl. True art.
[[image:Nmh animu.png|thumb|left|Now they are all the cute ones ^_^ kawaii]]
 
From these early beginnings emerged the band Neutral Milk Hotel where Mangum released his first insipid shit-pile, ''On Avery Island'' and later ''Everything Is''. After the release of this album, Mangum assembled his full band, adding Scott Spilane on the french horn, Julian Koster on the [[wtf|musical saw]], and Jeremy "the cute one" Barnes on the drums. The band settled in Athens, Georgia, home to many better bands such as the Apples in Stereo and of Montreal.  
From these early beginnings emerged the band Neutral Milk Hotel where Mangum released his first insipid shit-pile, ''On Avery Island'' and later ''Everything Is''. After the release of this album, Mangum assembled his full band, adding Scott Spilane on the french horn, Julian Koster on the [[wtf|musical saw]], and Jeremy "the cute one" Barnes on the drums. The band settled in [[Wikipedia:Music of Athens, Georgia|Athens, Georgia]], home to many better bands such as the Apples in Stereo and of Montreal.  


{{squote|"I dreamt I was up in a forest somewhere, I don't know where but somewhere, and I was sitting on top of this huge tree. I don't know how I got there, like that tree over there at each point and I was sitting on it and I was afraid to move and I moved and the tree just moved with me and that was weird"|Lyrics from "Tuesday Moon", 2DEEP4U}}
{{squote|"I dreamt I was up in a forest somewhere, I don't know where but somewhere, and I was sitting on top of this huge tree. I don't know how I got there, like that tree over there at each point and I was sitting on it and I was afraid to move and I moved and the tree just moved with me and that was weird"|Lyrics from "Tuesday Moon", 2DEEP4U}}


During this period of the band's career, they would make quite possibly the greatest lolcow of an album if there ever was one: ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'' (ITAOTS).
During this period of the band's career, they would make quite possibly the greatest lolcow of an album if there ever was one: ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'' (ITAOTS).
==In the Aeroplane Over the Sea==
==In the Aeroplane Over the Sea==
[[image:In the aeroplane over the sea album cover copy.jpg|thumb|left|Start a blank thread on /mu/ and post this image. Guaranteed trolling or your money back.]]
[[image:In the aeroplane over the sea album cover copy.jpg|thumb|left|Start a blank thread on /mu/ and post this image. Guaranteed trolling or your money back.]]


In 1998, Neutral Milk Hotel released the album ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea''. The inspiration for the content of this album came to Jeff in a series of dreams, many of them presumably wet. Jeff [[cockmongler|Mongler]]'s creative processes were also spurred by ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', the titular character of which he wishes to "save in some kind of time machine". Despite his sympathy for Anne Frank as a Holocaust victim, he seems to have no problem with wanting to fuck her brains out when he sings "one afternoon I knew I could love you/ And from above you how I sank into your soul/ Into that secret place where no one dares to go" in "King of Carrot Flowers". The lyrical content exhibits Mangum's descent into psychosis which would ultimately become the undoing of the band and is also pretty lulzy.
In 1998, Neutral Milk Hotel released the album ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea''. The inspiration for the content of this album came to Jeff in a series of dreams, many of them presumably wet. Jeff [[cockmongler|Mongler]]'s creative processes were also spurred by ''The <del>Diarrhea</del> Diary of Anne Frank'', the titular character of which he wishes to "save in some kind of time machine". Despite his sympathy for Anne Frank as a Holocaust victim, he seems to have no problem with wanting to fuck her brains out when he sings "one afternoon I knew I could love you/ And from above you how I sank into your soul/ Into that secret place where no one dares to go" in "King of Carrot Flowers". The lyrical content exhibits Mangum's descent into psychosis which would ultimately become the undoing of the band and is also pretty lulzy.


===Track Listing===
[[image:Comely ohs.png|thumb|right|Mangum's lyrics are the inspiration for many great works of art as pictured above.]]
[[image:Comely ohs.png|thumb|right|Mangum's lyrics are the inspiration for many great works of art as pictured above.]]
#King of Carrot Flowers pt. One
#King of Carrot Flowers pt. Two and Three
#In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
#Two Headed Boy pt. One
#The Fool
#Holland, 1945
#Communist Daughter
#Oh Comely
#Ghost
#[Untitled Track]
#Two Headed Boy pt. Twp
The album opens with "The King of Carrot Flowers pt One", a possibly autobiographical song about Jeff's short term reign as King of Carrot Flowers. Following part one is "The King of Carrot Flowers pts. Two and Three", where Mango branches out into Christian rock singing "I LOVEEEEE YOUUUUU JEEEEESUSSSSS CHRIST". The next track and title song "In the Aeroplane Over The Sea" show how overtly batshit Jeff Manga is when he croons "now how I remember you, how I would stick my fingers down your throat to make those muscles move and make your voice so soft and sweet". Jeff moves into the main subject of his batshit elegy with "Two Headed Boy pt. 1", beginning the story of a two headed boy, allegoric for a penis, who falls in love with a girl inferred to be Anne Frank. As a pro-tip: when dat horn section in "The Fool" starts, you will cry like a little baby. No exceptions.
[[image:Piano filled with flames.png|thumb|left|NOW SHE'S A LITTLE BOY IN SPAIN, PLAYING PIANOS FILLED WITH FLAMES]]
[[image:Piano filled with flames.png|thumb|left|NOW SHE'S A LITTLE BOY IN SPAIN, PLAYING PIANOS FILLED WITH FLAMES]]
The next song, "Holland, 1945" is quite probably the most famous of the songs on ITAOTS and most overtly relevant to the [[Holocaust]] and [[Anne Frank]]. "It's so sad to see the world agree that" this is even a half decent album. The rest of the album is filled with sexual imagery such as semen stained mountain tops, etc... The batshit insanity of the album makes it a favorite of /mu/ in spite of its pro-Jewish slant.


==Indiefags love Neutral Milk==
==Indiefags love Neutral Milk==
[[image:Neutral center.jpeg|thumb|right|Critically acclaimed.]]
[[image:Neutral center.jpeg|thumb|right|Critically acclaimed.]]
Despite how obviously shitty this album, indiefags love Neutral milks. The 2005 re-release of ITAOTS got a 10.0 from notable indie hypemonger Pitchfork, and Arcade Fire front-man Guy Win noted Jeff [[Nomnom]] as both an inspiration for both his band and lame hairstyle. Despite their acclaim for the album, even the Pitchfork reviewer had to voice his disbelief at the content of the album, exclaiming "What the hell? A guy in a rock band saying he was emotionally devastated by a book everyone else in America read for a middle-school assignment?" [http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5758-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea/].
Despite how obviously shitty this album is, indiefags love Neutral Milk. The 2005 re-release of ITAOTS got a 10.0 from notable indie hypemonger Pitchfork, and Arcade Fire front-man Guy Win noted Jeff [[Om nom nom|Nomnom]] as an inspiration for both his band and his lame hairstyle. Despite their acclaim for the album, even the Pitchfork reviewer had to voice his disbelief at the content of the album, exclaiming "What the hell? A guy in a rock band saying he was emotionally devastated by a book everyone else in America read for a middle-school assignment?" [http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5758-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea/].


The Neutral Milkfags of the 90s were particularly creepy, as [[Pitchfork|Bitchfork]]'s crack journalists reported that "Jeff Mangum dealt with some guy who'd made, like, a magical sculpture depicting how great the band was, using his own chewed-up gum or something. Another cross-eyed girl with long hair held onto Jeff's forearms for 20 minutes, as she told him exactly how important his message was to the planet now and was he really a Christian and had he ever seen the UFOs over Arizona?" [http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6784-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea/]. Jeff most likely married that woman.
The Neutral Milkfags of the 90s were particularly creepy, as [[Pitchfork|Bitchfork]]'s crack journalists reported that "Jeff Mangum dealt with some guy who'd made, like, a magical sculpture depicting how great the band was, using his own chewed-up gum or something. Another cross-eyed girl with long hair held onto Jeff's forearms for 20 minutes, as she told him exactly how important his message was to the planet now and was he really a Christian and had he ever seen the UFOs over Arizona?" [http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6784-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea/]. Jeff most likely married that woman.


==/mu/ loevs and hates NMH==
==/mu/ loves and hates NMH==
NMH's fanbase since it's dissolution consists mainly of [[16 year old girls]] and trolls on [[4chan]]. The latter gains much pleasure from creating NMH and ITAOTS threads on /mu/. Although NMH's milks are supposedly neutral, they are quite a divisive subject on /mu/. An ITAOTS usually results in a 255 post thread consisting of shitflinging by indie hipsterfags who think ITAOTS is still underground or something and regular /mu/ users who can't stand people who like music they do not like on the internet. Between the carnage will be random outbursts of "I LOVEEE YOOOUUUUU JESUSSSS CHRISTTTTT" and "SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAINS TOPS". If Jeof Mongom were to see the strife created by his album he would most likely cry.
NMH's fanbase since its dissolution consists mainly of [[16 year old girls]] and trolls on [[4chan]]. The latter gains much pleasure from creating NMH and ITAOTS threads on /mu/. Although NMH's milks are supposedly neutral, they are quite a divisive subject on /mu/. An ITAOTS usually results in a 255 post thread consisting of shitflinging by indie hipsterfags who think ITAOTS is still underground or something and regular /mu/ users who can't stand people who like music they do not like on the internet. Between the carnage will be random outbursts of "I LOVEEE YOOOUUUUU JESUSSSS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" and "SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAINS TOPS". If Jeff Mangum were to see the strife created by his album he would most likely cry.
[[image:NMH back cover.jpg|thumb|left|Why is he drumming a potato]]
[[image:NMH back cover.jpg|thumb|left|Why is he drumming a potato]]
One area of contention on /mu/ surrounds the iconic album cover and whether the woman's head is a drum or a potato. Some have even gone as far as to say it is the "a moon across her face" from Two Headed Boy. To dispel the debate: it is in fact a potato.
One area of contention on /mu/ surrounds the iconic album cover and whether the woman's head is a drum or a potato. Some have even gone as far as to say it is the "a moon across her face" from Two Headed Boy. To dispel the debate: it is in fact a potato.


Notable better musician [[Andrew WK]] acknowledged the ITAOTS in his Q&A session on [[mu|/mu/]]. When asked which five albums he would take with him were he to be stranded on a desert island, he replied "I would bring 5 copies of Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Airplane Over The Sea".
Notable better musician [[Party hard|Andrew WK]] acknowledged the ITAOTS in his Q&A session on [[mu|/mu/]]. When asked which five albums he would take with him were he to be stranded on a desert island, [http://www.geekosystem.com/andrew-wk-wins-4chan/ he replied "I would bring 5 copies of Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Airplane Over The Sea]".
[[image:Itaots potato.png|thumb|right|Yep, its a potato]]
[[image:Itaots potato.png|thumb|right|Yep, its a potato]]


==Where you will find Jeff Mangum now==
==Where you will find Jeff Mangum now==
[[image:When we die.jpg|thumb|left|What Jeff has been up to all these years ;_;]]
{{quote|Catch me at the crib getting light to Jeff Mangum
{{quote|Catch me at the crib getting light to Jeff Mangum
It's fun to do bad things like rhyme about handguns|Underground rap duo [[Das Racist]]}}
It's fun to do bad things like rhyme about handguns|Underground rap duo [[Das Racist]]}}
After ITAOTS had become a critically acclaimed success, Jeff Magnum had a nervous breakdown, most likely out of shock that people actually liked his shit stain of an album. For the next ten years he disappeared from the public eye and spent his time on various projects such as field recordings at Bulgarian folk festivals, cameo roles in independent films and other [[hipster]]ish activities. As a result of the publicity drummed up by /mu/'s shitstorms, Jeff [[Mongol]] has recently come out of hiding and had played a few small venues.
After ITAOTS had become a critically acclaimed success, Jeff Magnum had a nervous breakdown, most likely out of shock that people actually liked his shit stain of an album. For the next ten years he disappeared from the public eye and spent his time on various projects such as field recordings at Bulgarian folk festivals, cameo roles in independent films and other [[hipster]]ish activities. As a result of the publicity drummed up by /mu/'s shitstorms, Jeff Mongol has recently come out of hiding and had played a few small venues.
==Gallery==
{{clear}}
[[image:When we die.jpg|thumb|right|What Jeff has been up to all these years ;_;]]
 
===Dat Album Cover===
==Lyrical Excerpts==  
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{{frame|{{morphquote|mqtest3|background-color:#ffffff; width: 700px; height: 210px;|font-weight: bold;
|And from above you how I sank into your soul. Into [[Vagoo|that secret place]] where no one dares to go.
|Jeff Mangum ''really'' likes [[Anne Frank]].
 
|Your father made [[Harlequin Fetus|fetuses]] with [[What the fuck|flesh licking ladies]], while you and [[Your Mom|your mother]] were [[Dead|asleep]] in the trailer park...
|The more you know.
 
|Can't believe how strange it is to be [[You|anything]] at all.
|Yeah me neither tbh.
 
|Now [[Transgender|she's a little boy]] in [[Spain]], playing [[KILL IT WITH FIRE|pianos filled with flames]].
|[[Bullshit|The epitome of lyrical genius]].
 
|border=#ffffff|background=#ffffff}}}}
</center>
 
 
==Galleries==
{{cg|Dat album' cover|gallery1|center|<gallery>
image:Aeroplane.jpg|It is always a good idea to have this album in multiple shades to get around the duplicate file detector on 4chan.
image:Aeroplane.jpg|It is always a good idea to have this album in multiple shades to get around the duplicate file detector on 4chan.
image:Calvin hobbes neutral milk.png
image:Calvin hobbes neutral milk.png
image:Gangsta NMH.jpg
image:Gangsta NMH.jpg
image:Nmh myspace.jpg
image:Nmh myspace.jpg
</gallery>|<gallery>
image:8bit nmh.png
image:8bit nmh.png
image:I M SO INDIE.png
image:I M SO INDIE.png
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image:When you were young.jpg
image:When you were young.jpg
image:Itaots hilton.jpg|real picture
image:Itaots hilton.jpg|real picture
image:Bobby hill mutant.jpg
image:Bobby hill mutant.jpg|Mother of god it's all toilet sounds!
</gallery>
Image:Neutralfarnsworth.jpg
===Mangum & Co===
File:Neutral Milk doge.jpg
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</gallery>}}
 
 
{{cg|Mangum & Co|gallery2|center|<gallery>
image:Jeffmangum.jpg|Notice the similarity to trollface
image:Jeffmangum.jpg|Notice the similarity to trollface
image:Mangum trollface.jpg|Seperated at birth?
image:Mangum trollface.jpg|Separated at birth?
image:Mangum deal with it.jpg
image:Mangum deal with it.jpg
image:Nmh comics.png
image:Nmh comics.png
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image:Nmh son i am.jpg
image:Nmh son i am.jpg
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image:Nmh its a potato.png
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image:Carrot flowers.jpg|when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers...
image:Carrot flowers.jpg|when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers...
image:Kingdedede.jpg|Dededede dee deeee
image:Kingdedede.jpg|Dededede dee deeee
</gallery>
File:Literally 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel meme.JPG
===Draw Jeff Mangum===
</gallery>}}
 
 
Atleast 100 years ago there was a shitty draw Jeff Mangum thread and these are a few of the good ones [http://chanarchive.org/4chan/mu/7774/draw-jeff-magnum].
Atleast 100 years ago there was a shitty draw Jeff Mangum thread and these are a few of the good ones [http://chanarchive.org/4chan/mu/7774/draw-jeff-magnum].
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{{cg|Draw Jeff Mangum|gallery3|center|<gallery>
image:Draw jeff 12.jpg
image:Draw jeff 12.jpg
image:Draw jeff 11.png
image:Draw jeff 11.png
image:Draw jeff 10.png
image:Draw jeff 10.png
image:Draw jeff 9.png
image:Draw jeff 9.png
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image:Draw jeff 8.jpg
image:Draw jeff 8.jpg
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image:Draw jeff 6.png
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image:Draw jeff 1.jpg
image:I lve you jesus.png
image:I lve you jesus.png
</gallery>
</gallery>}}


==Videos==
==Videos==
<center>
<center>
{{videoframe|BOTDFvids|background-color: #FFCC66;|font-weight: bold;
{{videoframe|ITAOTSvids|background-color: #FFCC66;|font-weight: bold;
 
|<youtube>yHlLWBs4dSE</youtube><center>Notice Mongnom's signs of psychosis</center>
|<youtube>yHlLWBs4dSE</youtube><center>Notice Mongnom's signs of psychosis</center>
|<youtube>8e-BgnZY5qg</youtube><center>/mu/ sings King Of Carrot Flowers</center>
|<youtube>8e-BgnZY5qg</youtube><center>/mu/ sings King Of Carrot Flowers</center>
|<youtube>iRarL_O24R0</youtube><center>Neutral Milk/Odd Future Mashup</center>
|<youtube>iRarL_O24R0</youtube><center>Neutral Milk/Odd Future Mashup</center>
|<youtube>NxhNZYCtb-g</youtube><center>"Holland, 1945" on ukelele by Neutral Uke Hotel</center>
|<youtube>NxhNZYCtb-g</youtube><center>"Holland, 1945" on ukelele by Neutral Uke Hotel</center>
|<youtube>o5FOZMFhFh4</youtube><center>"Two Headed Boy"</center>
|<youtube>qaZqqaOEfsk</youtube><center>"Two Headed Boy"</center>
|<youtube>uIdVXIvOGvM</youtube><center>Blooptral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Bleep </center>
|<youtube>uIdVXIvOGvM</youtube><center>Blooptral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Bleep </center>
|<youtube>FSBMEGMXYZU</youtube><center>"I will Bury You in Time"</center>
|<youtube>FSBMEGMXYZU</youtube><center>"I will Bury You in Time"</center>
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==External Links==
==External Links==
{{4chanarchive|10774110|Neutral Milk Hotel Listen-In|14688700|Draw Jeff Mangum}}
*{{fbid|9075158370|Their fanpage}}
*{{myspace|neutralmilkhotelband|Their Myspace}}
*{{twitter|NeutralMilkFans|A fan account}}
 
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Latest revision as of 11:47, 15 February 2023

I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Note the retard on the far left who must wear a helmet at all times. Also note the dude in the back who is pleasuring himself while wrapped in a blanket. That is your face when you hear "Naomi" for the first time.

Neutral Milk Hotel is the worst band you've probably never heard of. Universally loved by hipsters it is the source of much butthurt among music enthusiasts who prefer more refined musicians such as Tyler the Creator. The band is most famous for their release of the album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, an album expressing lead singer and songwriter Jeff Mangum's misguided love for hide-and-seek champion Anne Frank. This album is considered a cult-classic among entry-level hipsters, and merely posting the album cover is a sure-fire way to troll the denizens of 4chan's /mu/.

Behind the Jewsic

Now they are all the cute ones ^_^ kawaii

Neutral Milk was formed in the early 90s by sweater-enthusiast and moot look-alike Jeff Mangum who grew up in a trailer park outside of Louisiana. After graduating from high school in Bumfuck, Louisiana, Jeff roamed the country as a homeless hobo releasing solo projects nobody cares about. Much of these recordings consisted of audio static and conversations Jeff recorded with his friends while smoking a bowl. True art.

From these early beginnings emerged the band Neutral Milk Hotel where Mangum released his first insipid shit-pile, On Avery Island and later Everything Is. After the release of this album, Mangum assembled his full band, adding Scott Spilane on the french horn, Julian Koster on the musical saw, and Jeremy "the cute one" Barnes on the drums. The band settled in Athens, Georgia, home to many better bands such as the Apples in Stereo and of Montreal.

 
“ 		 
"I dreamt I was up in a forest somewhere, I don't know where but somewhere, and I was sitting on top of this huge tree. I don't know how I got there, like that tree over there at each point and I was sitting on it and I was afraid to move and I moved and the tree just moved with me and that was weird"
  		„
 

—Lyrics from "Tuesday Moon", 2DEEP4U

During this period of the band's career, they would make quite possibly the greatest lolcow of an album if there ever was one: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (ITAOTS).

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Start a blank thread on /mu/ and post this image. Guaranteed trolling or your money back.

In 1998, Neutral Milk Hotel released the album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. The inspiration for the content of this album came to Jeff in a series of dreams, many of them presumably wet. Jeff Mongler's creative processes were also spurred by The Diarrhea Diary of Anne Frank, the titular character of which he wishes to "save in some kind of time machine". Despite his sympathy for Anne Frank as a Holocaust victim, he seems to have no problem with wanting to fuck her brains out when he sings "one afternoon I knew I could love you/ And from above you how I sank into your soul/ Into that secret place where no one dares to go" in "King of Carrot Flowers". The lyrical content exhibits Mangum's descent into psychosis which would ultimately become the undoing of the band and is also pretty lulzy.

Mangum's lyrics are the inspiration for many great works of art as pictured above.
NOW SHE'S A LITTLE BOY IN SPAIN, PLAYING PIANOS FILLED WITH FLAMES

Indiefags love Neutral Milk

Critically acclaimed.

Despite how obviously shitty this album is, indiefags love Neutral Milk. The 2005 re-release of ITAOTS got a 10.0 from notable indie hypemonger Pitchfork, and Arcade Fire front-man Guy Win noted Jeff Nomnom as an inspiration for both his band and his lame hairstyle. Despite their acclaim for the album, even the Pitchfork reviewer had to voice his disbelief at the content of the album, exclaiming "What the hell? A guy in a rock band saying he was emotionally devastated by a book everyone else in America read for a middle-school assignment?" [1].

The Neutral Milkfags of the 90s were particularly creepy, as Bitchfork's crack journalists reported that "Jeff Mangum dealt with some guy who'd made, like, a magical sculpture depicting how great the band was, using his own chewed-up gum or something. Another cross-eyed girl with long hair held onto Jeff's forearms for 20 minutes, as she told him exactly how important his message was to the planet now and was he really a Christian and had he ever seen the UFOs over Arizona?" [2]. Jeff most likely married that woman.

/mu/ loves and hates NMH

NMH's fanbase since its dissolution consists mainly of 16 year old girls and trolls on 4chan. The latter gains much pleasure from creating NMH and ITAOTS threads on /mu/. Although NMH's milks are supposedly neutral, they are quite a divisive subject on /mu/. An ITAOTS usually results in a 255 post thread consisting of shitflinging by indie hipsterfags who think ITAOTS is still underground or something and regular /mu/ users who can't stand people who like music they do not like on the internet. Between the carnage will be random outbursts of "I LOVEEE YOOOUUUUU JESUSSSS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" and "SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAINS TOPS". If Jeff Mangum were to see the strife created by his album he would most likely cry.

Why is he drumming a potato

One area of contention on /mu/ surrounds the iconic album cover and whether the woman's head is a drum or a potato. Some have even gone as far as to say it is the "a moon across her face" from Two Headed Boy. To dispel the debate: it is in fact a potato.

Notable better musician Andrew WK acknowledged the ITAOTS in his Q&A session on /mu/. When asked which five albums he would take with him were he to be stranded on a desert island, he replied "I would bring 5 copies of Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Airplane Over The Sea".

Yep, its a potato

Where you will find Jeff Mangum now

What Jeff has been up to all these years ;_;
   
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Catch me at the crib getting light to Jeff Mangum

It's fun to do bad things like rhyme about handguns
 

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—Underground rap duo Das Racist

After ITAOTS had become a critically acclaimed success, Jeff Magnum had a nervous breakdown, most likely out of shock that people actually liked his shit stain of an album. For the next ten years he disappeared from the public eye and spent his time on various projects such as field recordings at Bulgarian folk festivals, cameo roles in independent films and other hipsterish activities. As a result of the publicity drummed up by /mu/'s shitstorms, Jeff Mongol has recently come out of hiding and had played a few small venues.

Lyrical Excerpts

   
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And from above you how I sank into your soul. Into that secret place where no one dares to go.


 

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—Jeff Mangum really likes Anne Frank.

   
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Your father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies, while you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park...


 

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—The more you know.

   
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Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.


 

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—Yeah me neither tbh.

   
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Now she's a little boy in Spain, playing pianos filled with flames.


 

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—The epitome of lyrical genius.

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Dat album' cover About missing Pics
  • It is always a good idea to have this album in multiple shades to get around the duplicate file detector on 4chan.
    It is always a good idea to have this album in multiple shades to get around the duplicate file detector on 4chan.
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  • It's that bad
    It's that bad
  • Sylviaaaa
    Sylviaaaa
  • WHEN I WAS young i was the king of carrot flowers...
    WHEN I WAS young i was the king of carrot flowers...
  • well it's not like i love you or anything, Jesus Christ
    well it's not like i love you or anything, Jesus Christ
  • some people like ITAOTS a little too much
    some people like ITAOTS a little too much
  • real picture
    real picture
  • Mother of god it's all toilet sounds!
    Mother of god it's all toilet sounds!


  • Notice the similarity to trollface
    Notice the similarity to trollface
  • Separated at birth?
    Separated at birth?
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  • when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers...
    when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers...
  • Dededede dee deeee
    Dededede dee deeee


Atleast 100 years ago there was a shitty draw Jeff Mangum thread and these are a few of the good ones [3].

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Videos

Notice Mongnom's signs of psychosis

/mu/ sings King Of Carrot Flowers

Neutral Milk/Odd Future Mashup

"Holland, 1945" on ukelele by Neutral Uke Hotel

"Two Headed Boy"

Blooptral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Bleep

"I will Bury You in Time"

"Naomi"

Andrew Jackson Jihad -- "2 Headed Boy"

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