The King of Carrot Flowers

When you were young you were the king of carrot flowers
And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet

And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder
And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor
As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for

And this is the room 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

And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking
And dad would dream of all the different ways to die
Each one a little more than he could dare to try



That album (Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea") came out 8 years ago and I just got into it last month.

8 years I could have spent immersed in unspeakable genius, PISSED AWAY. :cry:

summer of 1998 for me. Such a deep and powerful and lovely apparition is Jeff Mangum. I pray he never follows it up and destroys the mystique of this one perfect creation.

That's happened to me, though not with this album (which might be my all-time favourite). I lucked into it right away, by fluke. My wife and I have crazy-danced to "Holland, 1945" too many times to count.

I'd forgotten how much I love this song.

I go to Athens quite a bit as my best friend lives there. He is the singer for Elf Power by the way.

This is a great band I'd never heard of before!

On edit: and that I will recommend to all my friends, and that I now want to send an email to the lead singer of. Holy. Frickin. Shit.

Tucker

Glad I could be of service! :patriot:

But this one really helped me catch some of the albums I missed (that was one of them!):

http://rateyourmusic.com/albums_by_year

Some of the ratings there (all prog, most classic rock, etc.) are inflated, but in general it's good for finding neat stuff everyone else apparently has heard already. :cry:

JOy Division's Closer #1, while Underwater Moonlight, Sandinista, X's Los Angeles, The Cramps, Doc at the Radar Station, Prince and more languish below. That just ain't right. :cry: At least Remain in Light is # 2.

I can't wait to see more. ;)

and this at #48. tsk.tsk - Jon Hassell & Brian Eno. Fourth World Volume One: Possible Musics

Rush at #1 - 1981. And all the gems fall in behind. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts at #22. That's sickening. Where are these people and how can I hurt them?! I could be here all day kvetching! ;)

Imagine my surprise when about half the album came on during brunch at Comet Cafe in Milwaukee.

I like the title track.

So, I shall go to Tower Records on my lunch break and pick up this cd. :-)

Thanks for the recommendation.

Johnny-come-lately asshole. x(

:shrug:

I was WAY wrong.

I've found it simply stunning for many years now. I was also a little late to the party, first getting into it in about 2000; but ever since then, it's been on permanent rotation. One of the most perfect records ever.

...because I disliked the first one, and I thought (and still think) the whole Elephant-6 thing was overrated.

The whole thing was inspired by a trip Jeff Magnum took to the Anne Frank house while they were on tour for their first album. Magnum was moved by her house/plight, and essentially wrote an album about her.

Probably in my top-10 albums.