Neutral Milk Hotel discography
Neutral Milk Hotel performing in 2014
Studio albums2
EPs2
Singles3
Compilation album2

The discography of Neutral Milk Hotel, a Ruston, Louisiana-based indie rock group, consists of two studio albums, two singles, two extended plays, two compilation albums, and three demos.

Neutral Milk Hotel formed in 1989 as an offshoot of Milk, a high school musical project of singer-songwriter Jeff Mangum,[1] and the band was largely a Mangum solo project in the group's earlier days.[2] The group was a part of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, a collective of musicians that includes, among others, notable indie rock bands The Apples in Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control, and Of Montreal. 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, was released on the independent label Merge, and has sold a relatively high 5,000 copies. Afterwards, the band began to tour for the first time, and grew to include horns player Scott Spillane, multi-instrumentalist Julian Koster, 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.[3][4][5] 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."[6]

Albums

Studio albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
US
Vinyl
[7]
On Avery Island
  • Released: March 26, 1996 (US); September 9, 1996 (UK)
  • Label: Merge (MRG #103), Fire (Fire #53)
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
 —
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
  • Released: February 10, 1998 (US); May 18, 1998 (UK)
  • Label: Merge (MRG #136), Blue Rose (BRRC #10192), Domino (Domino #21)
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
 12
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart

Compilation albums

Title Album information
Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Released: December 12, 2011
  • Label: Neutral Milk Hotel Records
  • Formats: vinyl
The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Released: February 24, 2023
  • Label: Merge Records
  • Formats: vinyl

Extended plays

Title Album details
Everything Is
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Cher Doll (Cher #002), Fire (Blaze #079), Orange Twin (OTR #005), Neutral Milk Hotel (NMH #001)
  • Formats: 7", 10", CD, digital download
Ferris Wheel on Fire
  • Released: December 12, 2011
  • Label: Neutral Milk Hotel Records
  • Formats: 10", digital download

Singles

Title Year Album
"Holland, 1945" 1998 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
"You've Passed"/"Where You'll Find Me Now" 2011 Walking Wall of Words
"Little Birds"[11]

Demos

Year Information Formats
1990 Beauty (Milk demo)[12] CS
1991 Invent Yourself a Shortcake CS
1992 Beauty
  • Label: Elephant 6
 CS
1993 Hype City Soundtrack
  • Label: Elephant 6
 CS
Unreleased Demo #1 CS
1994 Shannon's Monroe House Demo CS
Unreleased Demo #2 CS

Miscellaneous

Year Song Album Comments
1993 "Ruby Bulbs" Those Pre-phylloxera Years The title is sometimes spelled "Rubby Bulbs" because of someone misspelling it.
1994 "Up and Over" Amazing Phantom Third Channel The original version of the song "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. Three" from In the Aeroplane over the Sea.
"Bucket"[13] Periscope: Another Yoyo Compilation Taken from the band's July 1994 Yoyo A Gogo Festival performance.
1995 "Invent Yourself a Shortcake" Champagne Dancing Party Taken from an improvisational collaboration with members of Olivia Tremor Control.
"Everything Is"[14] Appetite For Swag Originally appeared on "Everything Is"
1996 "Love Me on a Tuesday"[15] Yo-Yo a Go-Go The same song as "Tuesday Moon",[16] which appeared on Everything Is, Hype City Soundtrack, and Invent Yourself A Shortcake.
"(Untitled)" Ptolemaic Terrascope This track is a different song than the untitled tenth track from In the Aeroplane over the Sea.
1997 "Glue" The Basement Tapes, Volume Two: Live Underground A cover of a song by The Gerbils.
"Naomi"[14] Audio CD-29 Originally appeared on On Avery Island.
1998 "Everything Is"[17] I Wouldn't Piss On It If It Was On Fire Originally appeared on "Everything Is".
"Oh Comely (live)" More Than You Can Ask Or Imagine Live version of "Oh Comely" from In the Aeroplane over the Sea recorded at the 1997 Terrastock festival.
"Oh Comely"[14] 9 O'Clock in the Morning Originally appeared on In the Aeroplane over the Sea.
1999 "Engine"[18] Oh, Merge: Merge Records 10 Year Anniversary Compilation Originally appeared on "Holland, 1945".
2000 "In the Aeroplane over the Sea"[19] Songs for Summer Originally appeared on In the Aeroplane over the Sea
2002 "Everything Is"[14] Orange Twin Records Sampler The compilation also contains two Mangum solo tracks.
2004 "Song Against Sex"[14] Old Enough to Know Better Originally appeared on On Avery Island

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 live 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;[6] 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.

See also

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. "Neutral Milk Hotel releases". neutralmilkhotel.org. Retrieved on September 2, 2007.
  • Cooper, Kim (2005). In the Aeroplane over the Sea 33⅓. (New York) Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1690-X.
  • DeRogatis, Jim (2003). Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock. (Milwaukee) Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-634-05548-8.
Specific
  1. ^ Cooper (2005). p. 9
  2. ^ DeRogatis (2003). p. 541
  3. ^ Richardson, Mark (February 15, 2018). "How Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Became a Polarizing Cult Classic". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
  4. ^ "What Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' Is Really About". PopMatters. June 25, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
  5. ^ "Neutral Milk Hotel Leader Makes Rare Appearance". Billboard. August 3, 2005. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Fierma, Marci. "Interview: Neutral Milk Hotel Archived 2007-06-29 at the Wayback Machine ". Pitchfork Media, February 1, 2002. Retrieved on August 26, 2007.
  7. ^ "Neutral Milk Hotel Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
  8. ^ Cooper (2005). p. 37
  9. ^ Mass, Emily (April 29, 2013). "Neutral Milk Hotel Reunites, Announces Tour Dates". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  10. ^ "British certifications – Neutral Milk Hotel". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved December 22, 2021. Type Neutral Milk Hotel in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  11. ^ Fitzmaurice, Larry (September 16, 2011). "Listen to Another Unreleased Neutral Milk Hotel Song, Mix From Jeff Mangum". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
  12. ^ "Draft of Milk – Beauty (1990, Cassette)" – via www.discogs.com.
  13. ^ Cramer, Stephen. "Periscope: Another Yoyo Compilation". Allmusic. Retrieved on August 26, 2007.
  14. ^ a b c d e Bachner, Gavin. "Compilations with Neutral Milk Hotel tracks". neutralmilkhotel.org. Retrieved on September 3, 2007.
  15. ^ "Yo-Yo a Go-Go". Allmusic. Retrieved on August 26, 2007.
  16. ^ Bachner, Gavin. "Neutral Milk Hotel Song Index". neutralmilkhotel.org. Retrieved on September 12, 2007.
  17. ^ Phares, Heather. "I Wouldn't Piss On It If It Was On Fire [Fire/2 Disc]". Allmusic. Retrieved on August 26, 2007.
  18. ^ Phares, Heather. "Oh, Merge: Merge Records 10 Year Anniversary Compilation". Allmusic. Retrieved on August 26, 2007.
  19. ^ Wilson, MacKenzie. "Songs for Summer". Allmusic. Retrieved on August 26, 2007.
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Bachner, Gavin. "Other Neutral Milk Hotel Rarities". neutralmilkhotel.org. Retrieved on September 2, 2007.
  21. ^ Cooper (2005). p. 75
  22. ^ ""Trilogy (Through My Tear/Goldaline/Now There Is Nothing)" | Neutral Milk Hotel". Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 – via www.youtube.com.

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