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4 unusual facts about In the Aeroplane Over the Sea


Holland, 1945

"Holland, 1945" is the second single and sixth track from the 1998 Neutral Milk Hotel album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Pet Sounds Studio

Recordings made in this studio include sessions for Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Olivia Tremor Control's Dusk at Cubist Castle and Black Foliage, The Minders' Hooray for Tuesday, The Apples in stereo's Fun Trick Noisemaker, Tone Soul Evolution, Her Wallpaper Reverie and The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone, as well as early singles for McIntyre's solo project Von Hemmling.

Many Elephant 6 albums have been recorded in the studio, including the critically acclaimed Neutral Milk Hotel album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Synthetic Flying Machine

Jeff Mangum wrote a song about the band of the same name, which became "Up and Over" and finally "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3" on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.


Cultural depictions of Anne Frank

Neutral Milk Hotel — US indie rock band whose 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was inspired by the lead singer Jeff Mangum's affection for Anne Frank.

The Olivia Tremor Control

Jeff Mangum followed OTC with Neutral Milk Hotel, releasing On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, as well as a few "underground" acoustic demos.


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Holland, 1945

The lyric "all when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes" could be seen as a reference to the White Rose resistance group that existed in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s, though songwriter Jeff Mangum claims that he had never heard of the movement before In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was released.