| Artist: | Neutral Milk Hotel |
| Studio: | 2 |
| Singles: | 3 |
| Ep: | 2 |
| Option: | 2 |
| Option Name: | Compilation album |
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]
| Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Vinyl [7] | |||||
| On Avery Island | — |
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| In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| 12 |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart | |||||
| Title | Album information | |
|---|---|---|
| Walking Wall of Words |
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| The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel |
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| Title | Album details | |
|---|---|---|
| Everything Is |
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| Ferris Wheel on Fire |
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| 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] |
| Year | Information | Formats |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Beauty (Milk demo)[12]
| CS |
| 1991 | Invent Yourself a Shortcake | CS |
| 1992 | Beauty
| CS |
| 1993 | Hype City Soundtrack
| CS |
| Unreleased Demo #1 | CS | |
| 1994 | Shannon's Monroe House Demo | CS |
| Unreleased Demo #2 | CS |
| 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" | A cover of a song by The Gerbils. | |
| "Naomi" | Originally appeared on On Avery Island. | ||
| 1998 | "Everything Is"[17] |
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; 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.
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