![So I finally bought and listened to Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.” Then I listened to it again. And again.
It truly is an amazing album, but I feel like I am listening to it at the wrong moment in time. Had I picked it up in ‘98 when it came out and when I was a college student, it probably would have been the defining album of my college experience (right now that’s held in a tie between Old 97’s “Fight Songs,” The Refreshments’ “Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy,” Barenaked Ladies’ “Stunt” and Ben Folds Five’s “Whatever and Ever Amen”) [“Ruby Vroom” fails to make the list because it was released in ‘94, before I was in college.].
Instead, hearing “In the Aeroplane” for the first time in 2009, I’m left knowing this is an amazing album — one, in fact, that I will listen to dozens and dozens of times — but it isn’t an album that will speak to where I am right now or have a lasting impact in my musical influences.](http://15.media.tumblr.com/TuKlWkthCp6zutucrdEqs5Wyo1_400.jpg)
So I finally bought and listened to Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.” Then I listened to it again. And again.
It truly is an amazing album, but I feel like I am listening to it at the wrong moment in time. Had I picked it up in ‘98 when it came out and when I was a college student, it probably would have been the defining album of my college experience (right now that’s held in a tie between Old 97’s “Fight Songs,” The Refreshments’ “Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy,” Barenaked Ladies’ “Stunt” and Ben Folds Five’s “Whatever and Ever Amen”) [“Ruby Vroom” fails to make the list because it was released in ‘94, before I was in college.].
Instead, hearing “In the Aeroplane” for the first time in 2009, I’m left knowing this is an amazing album — one, in fact, that I will listen to dozens and dozens of times — but it isn’t an album that will speak to where I am right now or have a lasting impact in my musical influences.
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