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33 1/3 Ser.: Neutral Milk Hotel's in the Aeroplane over the Sea by Kim Cooper (2005, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10082641690X
ISBN-139780826416902
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038645995
Product Key Features
Number of Pages119 Pages
Publication NameNeutral Milk Hotel's in the Aeroplane over the Sea
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory & Criticism, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMusic
AuthorKim Cooper
Series33 1/3 Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight4.2 Oz
Item Length6.4 in
Item Width4.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-026672
Reviews"Much of the NeutralMilk story has been pieced together over the years, but never ascomprehensively as in Kim Cooper's Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Overthe Sea." Real Detroit Weekly ,December 7, 2005, "Cooper delves into the band's roots, setting up the relationships between all of the musicians that made up the Elephant 6 collective and banks like Apples In Stereo and the Olivia Tremor Control. With her easygoing narrative, Cooper achieves one of the hardest things to do when introducing readers to perfect strangers: she infuses each of the main players with a personality. When finishing In The Aeroplane Over The Sea the reader not only has a sense of who Jess Mangrum and friends are, but also what they were trying to accomplish with their music. Cooper explains why the album's audience and importance grow with each passing year while doing a fine job of also relating the music's immense charm and ...dare I say...magic." -Alt.Culture.Guide, "In her new book 33 1/3: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea... KimCooper... unravels the rumors and demystifies much of the legend that has wounditself around songwriter Jeff Mangum since the Athens band's 1998 breakup... Coopereffectively reminds the reader that Neutral Milk Hotel was a band of realpeople-dear friends- playing instruments, but reinforces the idea that Aerpolane and its songs are a uniquedocument of a time, place and creative community. After only six weeks, thebook has gone back to press for a second printing..."- Chris Hassiotis, Flagpole Magazine, Kim Cooper's book belongs to the 33 1/3 series, a group of books in which writers pay tribute to great albums that they love. Well - I assume they love them; at any rate, Cooper loves this one. She writes of its creation, reception, and unintended consequences with the care due a worthy subject., Much of the Neutral Milk story has been pieced together over the years, but never as comprehensively as in Kim Cooper's Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over the Sea., Cooper delves into the band's roots, setting up the relationships between all of the musicians that made up the Elephant 6 collective and banks like Apples In Stereo and the Olivia Tremor Control. With her easygoing narrative, Cooper achieves one of the hardest things to do when introducing readers to perfect strangers: she infuses each of the main players with a personality. When finishing In The Aeroplane Over The Sea the reader not only has a sense of who Jess Mangrum and friends are, but also what they were trying to accomplish with their music. Cooper explains why the album's audience and importance grow with each passing year while doing a fine job of also relating the music's immense charm and ...dare I say...magic., There is a treasure-trove of trivia for the NMH aficionado, and a contextual introduction and passionate advertisement for the newcomer. Also, with [Cooper's] detailed account of the NMH community, Cooper gives us a sort of normative sociology of the kind of scene that can produce great art., These books are individual love letters to the albums themselves, shedding light on the deepest, most tucked-away aspects of the creative processes that produced them. While reading about music is never quite the same as hearing it, and no prose could ever emulate the same carnival-like, haunting, shiver-inducing sound that is In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Cooper's billet doux comes pretty close., Kim Cooper's book belongs to the 33 1/3 series, a group of books in which writers pay tribute to great albums that they love. Well - I assume they love them; at any rate, Cooper loves this one. She writes of its creation, reception, and unintended consequences with the care due a worthy subject. John Kissane, Buenogato.com, Cooper has managed to write the best music book that I've read so far... Awe alongside simple, direct speech. It's a delicate balance, that Cooper's excellent writing manages to preserve throughout the whole book...And this book doesn't only give information and wrap this exemplary album with an excellent text, it also gives me, and the rest of the prisoners of Jeff Mangum's scorched and wounded world, the excuse and the opportunity to climb on the rooftops and shout: 'For crying out loud, people, you better get to know this album now, before the aeroplane over the sea crashes exactly on that island with the place for only one record., In her new book 33 1/3: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea... Kim Cooper... unravels the rumors and demystifies much of the legend that has wound itself around songwriter Jeff Mangum since the Athens band's 1998 breakup... Cooper effectively reminds the reader that Neutral Milk Hotel was a band of real people-dear friends- playing instruments, but reinforces the idea that Aerpolane and its songs are a unique document of a time, place and creative community. After only six weeks, the book has gone back to press for a second printing..., "Cooper's 2005 book on NMH and Aeroplane is part of the 33 1/3 series that treats cult-classic albums like dissertation fodder, and hers does a particularly stellar job of demystifying �as much as possible �the destitute and devoted dudes behind Neutral Milk Hotel's underground stardom. Her strengths as a social historian lend this read a certain depth that most Spin writers could never muster. Somehow, she miraculously manages to do an album of this ilk �as resistant to the bitter end as it's been to the spotlight �poetic justice." Los Angeles Alternative, February 2006, "Cooper's 2005 book on NMH and Aeroplane is part of the 33 1/3 series that treats cult-classic albums like dissertation fodder, and hers does a particularly stellar job of demystifying "as much as possible "the destitute and devoted dudes behind Neutral Milk Hotel's underground stardom. Her strengths as a social historian lend this read a certain depth that most Spin writers could never muster. Somehow, she miraculously manages to do an album of this ilk "as resistant to the bitter end as it's been to the spotlight "poetic justice." -- Los Angeles Alternative, February 2006, "There is a treasure-trove of trivia for the NMH aficionado, and a contextual introduction and passionate advertisement for the newcomer. Also, with [Cooper's] detailed account of the NMH community, Cooper gives us a sort of normative sociology of the kind of scene that can produce great art." -Ukula Magazine, Spring 2006, 'Cooper has managed to write the best music book that I've read so far... Awe alongside simple, direct speech. It's a delicate balance, that Cooper's excellent writing manages to preserve throughout the whole book...And this book doesn't only give information and wrap this exemplary album with an excellent text, it also gives me, and the rest of the prisoners of Jeff Mangum's scorched and wounded world, the excuse and the opportunity to climb on the rooftops and shout: 'For crying out loud, people, you better get to know this album now, before the aeroplane over the sea crashes exactly on that island with the place for only one record.'' ~ Guy Hajaj, Haoneg.com, 2006, "These books are individual love letters to thealbums themselves, shedding light on the deepest, most tucked-away aspects ofthe creative processes that produced them. While reading about music is neverquite the same as hearing it, and no prose could ever emulate the samecarnival-like, haunting, shiver-inducing sound that is In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Cooper's billet doux comes prettyclose." Chord Magazine , Winter2005/06, Cooper's 2005 book on NMH and Aeroplane is part of the 33 1/3 series that treats cult-classic albums like dissertation fodder, and hers does a particularly stellar job of demystifying--as much as possible--the destitute and devoted dudes behind Neutral Milk Hotel's underground stardom. Her strengths as a social historian lend this read a certain depth that most Spin writers could never muster. Somehow, she miraculously manages to do an album of this ilk--as resistant to the bitter end as it's been to the spotlight--poetic justice.
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SynopsisOf all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one fan's quest to understand why band leader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after Aeroplane 's release. The record sells steadily to an audience that finds it through word of mouth. Weird, beautiful, absorbing, difficult, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors. Mangum sings his dreamlike narratives with a dreamer's intensity, his creaky, off key voice occasionally breaking as he struggles to complete each dense couplet. The music is like nothing else in the 90s indie underground: a psychedelic brass band, its members self-taught, forging polychromatic washes of mood and tribute. The songs stick to one narrow key, the images repeat and circle back, and to listen is to be absorbed into a singular, heart-rending vision., A surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors., New to Continuum's acclaimed 33 1/3 series, this entry examines this cult-favorite record from the 90s--a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank. Major publicity and promotion planned., Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one fan's quest to understand why band leader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after Aeroplane 's release. The record sells steadily to an audience that finds it through word of mouth.....Weird, beautiful, absorbing, difficult, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors.....Mangum sings his dreamlike narratives with a dreamer's intensity, his creaky, off key voice occasionally breaking as he struggles to complete each dense couplet. The music is like nothing else in the 90s indie underground: a psychedelic brass band, its members self-taught, forging polychromatic washes of mood and tribute. The songs stick to one narrow key, the images repeat and circle back, and to listen is to be absorbed into a singular, heart-rending vision.
LC Classification NumberML421.N44C66 2005
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Very interesting read!
This book is a very fun read and the cpy I recieved was in great condition!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
