A few months after that Chris Knox benefit, Jeff Mangum’s gone and popped up again, this time for a longer showing. He did a 10-song Neutral Milk Hotel-themed set at the Schoolhouse in Brooklyn to an audience of 75 or so people. You can check out the set list below — then listen to the second half of it. This take on the “King Of Carrot Flowers Parts 1-3″ is a good place to start, I think: You get a decent sense of the room and the enthusiastic crowd and etc.
The full set list:
01 “Oh Comely”
02 “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
03 “Gardenhead”
04 “Engine”
05 “Ghost”
06 “King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 – 3″
07 “Song Against Sex”
08 “Naomi”
09 “Two Headed Boy”
10 “Two Headed Boy Pt. 2″
Hear “King Of Carrot Flowers, Parts 1-3,” “Song Against Sex,” “Naomi,” “Two-Headed Boy,” and “Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2″ at International Tapes, “bro.” Not sure what happened to the first part of the set, though. He got there late.
[Image via P4K]
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My first inclination was to remark at how good his voice still sounds, that he hasn’t missed a beat since the good old days, but really there is no reason it shouldn’t sound good. The mythology around him has built it up to seem like In The Aeroplane was some lost relic from hundreds of years ago, but it was only just a bit more than ten years ago. He’s not an old man, and he sounds as healthy and vigorous as he should be. It’s like he was in some incepted fourth layer dream world, and now he’s come back to be a young man again. Which is great. If it makes him happy, and it will obviously make a lot of other people very happy, do it to it Jeff Magnum. Welcome back, and hopefully you can make some new music soon.
Yeah, man you’re right. It’s like the more he wanted to be out of mind, the more people have looked at him as this other-worldly being. Hopefully he comes back around, we could always use another sincere and creative human in the music industry.
Think about this for a second: Jandek has performed live more in the last ten years than Jeff Mangum has.
>Not sure what happened to the first part of the set, though.
Perhaps you could start by R’ing TFA:
>…halfway through Mangum’s set I found myself running up the stairs…
Hard-hitting music journalism there, guys. Don’t ever change.
The Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist reference left me a little dazed.
OH MY GOD INDIE JESUS HAS RETURNED
Best comment ever. Sincerely made my day.
for the record, i don’t think he’s indie jesus, but for some strange reason, his fans treat him that way. aeroplane was good, but come on…
Man, what a terrible show to be late for.
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I’d have love to have heard the recording of “Gardenhead.” Not that I don’t appreciate all these other tracks. Jeff Mangum just makes me happy.
A great read for anyone who loves the music of jeff and neutral milk hotel:
http://www.amazon.com/Neutral-Milk-Hotels-Aeroplane-Over/dp/082641690X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291696362&sr=8-1