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The \"Highway To Hell\" is the Canning Highway in Australia, which seems to go on forever, at least according to AC/DC.
\n![\"Metallica\"](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-artalbums-240-d23acc89012a5df0d04a4c061aabdf8a.png\")
An unexpected guest vocal: Marianne Faithfull on the Metallica song \"The Memory Remains.\" A star in the '60s, this collaboration helped revive her career.
\n![\"Billy](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-artalbums-240-00464475d2f105a391d7712718012f71.png\")
When singing \"Cradle Of Love,\" Billy Idol typically changes a line to, \"This song is so cheesy.\"
\n![\"Elton](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-artalbums-240-5b0907c9604e337dfdb617e95c712f4a.png\")
Bernie Taupin was 17 when he wrote the lyrics to Elton John's \"Your Song.\" Looking back, he says it's \"one of the most na\u00efve and childish lyrics in the entire repertoire of music.\"
\n![\"Michael](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-artalbums-240-3bd11bddd0306c7d1498ad606473cc51.png\")
Wesley Snipes played the rival gang leader in Michael Jackson's \"Bad\" video.
\n![\"311\"](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-artalbums-240-a2c67fc1a79413c91e75f86b3e0f0939.png\")
The 311 song \"Amber\" is likely about Nicole Scherzinger, who was dating the band's lead singer Nick Hexum.
\n![\"Harold](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-blog-240-18.jpg\")
\n A founding member of the band War, Harold gives a first-person account of one of the most important periods in music history.
\n![\"Supertramp](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-blog-240-299.jpg\")
\n Roger tells the stories behind some of his biggest hits, including \"Give a Little Bit,\" \"Take the Long Way Home\" and \"The Logical Song.\"
\n![\"Producer](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-blog-240-1294.jpg\")
\n Ron Nevison explains in very clear terms the Quadrophenia concept and how Heart staged their resurgence after being dropped by their record company.
\n![\"The](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-blog-240-573.jpg\")
\n Jon Fratelli talks about the band's third album, and the five-year break leading up to it.
\n![\"Jimmy](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-blog-240-249.jpg\")
\n The powerhouse producer behind Janet Jackson's hits talks about his Boyz II Men ballads and regrouping The Time.
\n![\"Scott](\"https://www.songfacts.com/img-blog-240-496.jpg\")
\n Writing with Phil Lynott, Scott saw their ill-fated frontman move to a darker place in his life and lyrics.
\nThe \"Highway To Hell\" is the Canning Highway in Australia, which seems to go on forever, at least according to AC/DC.
\nAn unexpected guest vocal: Marianne Faithfull on the Metallica song \"The Memory Remains.\" A star in the '60s, this collaboration helped revive her career.
\nWhen singing \"Cradle Of Love,\" Billy Idol typically changes a line to, \"This song is so cheesy.\"
\nBernie Taupin was 17 when he wrote the lyrics to Elton John's \"Your Song.\" Looking back, he says it's \"one of the most na\u00efve and childish lyrics in the entire repertoire of music.\"
\nWesley Snipes played the rival gang leader in Michael Jackson's \"Bad\" video.
\nThe 311 song \"Amber\" is likely about Nicole Scherzinger, who was dating the band's lead singer Nick Hexum.
\n\n A founding member of the band War, Harold gives a first-person account of one of the most important periods in music history.
\n\n Roger tells the stories behind some of his biggest hits, including \"Give a Little Bit,\" \"Take the Long Way Home\" and \"The Logical Song.\"
\n\n Ron Nevison explains in very clear terms the Quadrophenia concept and how Heart staged their resurgence after being dropped by their record company.
\n\n Jon Fratelli talks about the band's third album, and the five-year break leading up to it.
\n\n The powerhouse producer behind Janet Jackson's hits talks about his Boyz II Men ballads and regrouping The Time.
\n\n Writing with Phil Lynott, Scott saw their ill-fated frontman move to a darker place in his life and lyrics.
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NMH Definitive Discography pt. 4:\r\n
\r\nRelated Bands / Guest Appearances
(listed in no particular order)
\r\n![](\"cov-hacksaw.jpg\")
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: 2002
\r\n\r\nLabel: Cloud Recordings
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 002)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Midheaven \r\nMailorder,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: The current project of Jeremy Barnes. This album is an \r\natmospheric disc of mostly instrumental, folky piano compositions supplemented \r\nwith bells, voices, accordion, trumpet, and other accoutrements from the usual \r\nElephant 6 gang of contributors, including Barnes' Neutral Milk Hotel bandmates\r\nJeff Mangum and Scott Spillane, the Olivia Tremor Control/Circulatory \r\nSystem's Eric Harris and John Fernandes, and Of Montreal's Derek Almstead. For \r\nmore visit www.ahawkandahacksaw.co.uk
\r\nJeremy has also released solo music under the name Marta Tennae, with a track on \r\nthe Japanese compilation U.S. Pop Life vol. 10 - Athens Experimental \r\n(January 2001) and a self-released a limited edition CD-R recording entitled \r\nExcerpts from a Janitor's Almanac (April 2001).
\r\n
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A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Darkness At Noon
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: March 28, 2005
\r\n\r\nLabel: Leaf
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and LP (cat# BAY43)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Midheaven \r\nMailorder,\r\nposteverything,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Jeremy Barnes returns with another ecclectic collection \r\nof songs. To quote Midheaven Mailorder, "A reverential madman, he drops an \r\nimpassioned bomb on traditional structures, mines through the wreckage and \r\nreassembles pieces with the attentive care given to holy relics. AHAAH doesn't \r\nbreak from musical history as much as sing its essential values in wholly new \r\nforms." Again, Jeff Mangum makes a guest appearance.
\r\n
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A Hawk and a Hacksaw - \r\nWay the Wind Blows
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: October 9, 2006 (UK), October 17, 2006 (US)
\r\n\r\nLabel: Leaf
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and LP
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Jeremy Barnes returns with another ecclectic collection \r\nof songs.
\r\nA Hawk and a Hacksaw & the Hun Hangar Ensemble was released on June 5, \r\n2007. (Amazon)
\r\n
Bablicon - In A Different City
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: Aug. 1999
\r\n\r\nLabel: Misra, Pickled Egg
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and LP (cat# MISRA 001 and EGG 13)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Orange \r\nTwin,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Bablicon was formed in Chicago in 1996 by The Diminisher (Dave \r\nMcDonnell), Marta Tennae (Jeremy Barnes), and Blue Hawaii (Griffin \r\nRodriguez). Each member of the trio plays an arsenal of instruments. In A Different City, their first \r\nalbum, has both material which is highly composed and wholly improvised. It was \r\nrecorded by the band in an abandoned machine shop. The roar of Chicago's \r\nelevated train (whose tracks ran only a few feet away from the shop's walls) \r\ncontinually interrupted the proceedings.
\r\nBablicon also released an EP called The Orange Tapered Moon (2000) and a \r\nsecond full-length called A Flat Inside a Fog: The Cat That Was a Dog \r\n(2001). There's also a 7" single for the track "Chunks Of Syrup Amidst Plain \r\nYoghurt" (August 1999), and they have a song on the Japanese compilation \r\nU.S. Pop Life vol. 10 - Athens Experimental (January 2001).
\r\n
Black Swan Network - Late Music, Vol. 1
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: August 4, 1997
\r\n\r\nLabel: Camera Obscura
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 3)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: out of print
\r\n\r\nComments: The first and only full-length release by the Olivia Tremor Control's \r\nalter egos the Black Swan Network (following an EP credited to both bands \r\nearlier in 1997), the album sounds almost nothing like the quirky but accessible \r\npsychedelic pop of OTC. The seven lengthy untitled tracks are based on tapes \r\nsent in by listeners of the Olivia Tremor Control's debut album, Dusk at \r\nCubist Castle, describing their dreams. However, the tapes have been \r\nmanipulated to the point where, for the most part, the spoken word parts are \r\nunidentifiable, and only occasionally recognizable as speech. Similarly, only on \r\nrare occasions are instruments identifiable as themselves. The results, \r\nparticularly on the longer pieces, can slip into formlessness at times, but not \r\nbad, as far as experimental noise goes. Both Jeff Mangum (loops) and\r\nJulian Koster (electronics) lend a hand.
\r\n
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Chocolate U.S.A. - All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: 1992
\r\n\r\nLabel: Bar/None
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and cassette (cat# 26)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: out of print (used at Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Julian Koster's band before joining NMH. Formed in 1989, they \r\nwere originally called Miss America, but a lawsuit prompted them to rename the \r\nband. Described as "fun with a lot of depth behind the wackiness.... think ween/ \r\ndead milkmen/ they might be giants/ camper van beethovan," this album was \r\noriginally a self-released demo cassette, but was later put out by Bar/None.
\r\nThere's also a 7" single for the song "100 Feet Tall" b/w "Skateboard Heaven" \r\nthat preceded this album on Bar/None. Also, the band ran a monthly tape club \r\ncalled "Chocolatey Good Smash Hit Of The Month Club" for several years, which \r\ngave members a new lo-fi tape of songs and stories each month.
\r\n
![](\"cov-chocolate-smokemachine.jpg\")
Chocolate U.S.A. - Smoke Machine
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: September 25, 1994
\r\n\r\nLabel: Bar/None
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and cassette (cat# 48)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: out of print (used at Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: The second and final album from Chocolate USA, the band led by Julian \r\nKoster, is a more cohesive record, as opposed to their first release which was \r\nbasically a collection of demos. This album also features the talents of Olivia Tremor Control members \r\nEric Harris and Bill Doss.
\r\n
Circulatory System
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: August 2001
\r\n\r\nLabel: Cloud Recordings
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 1)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Cloud \r\nRecordings,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Olivia Tremor Control offshoot lead by William Cullen Hart. Jeff \r\nMangum pops up on this recording (drums and voices), as do many other \r\nElephant 6 players, such as Julian Koster, Scott Spillane, Jeremy Barnes, Eric \r\nHarris, Laura Carter, Andrew Rieger, John Fernandes, Heather McIntosh, Pete \r\nErchick.
\r\nThere is also a CD-R from Circulatory System on Cloud Recordings \r\ncalled Inside Views, which is a "reanimation" of the album. Basically the \r\nsame songs but in very different forms.
\r\n
Curse Of The Seven Jackals (soundtrack)
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: 2001
\r\n\r\nLabel: Perhaps Transparent
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD-R
\r\n\r\nAvailability: Hard copies apparently out of print, but mp3s are \r\navailable for purchase (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Soundtrack to an underground film by Chris Jolly. \r\nOriginal music featuring: Laura Carter, Eric Harris, Jeff Mangum, Heather \r\nMcIntosh, and Chris Jolly. Winner of Best Film at the 8th New York Underground Film Festival and \r\nBest Feature 2001 at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal \r\nplays the lead role in the film. From\r\na synopsis: "A haunting score of piano, cello and theremin helps maintain \r\nthe otherworldly mood that Jolly manages to cull from his mundane sources." \r\nThere are four instrumental tracks on the CD, plus some dialog bits from the \r\nmovie. The CD was available for sale (CD-R copy) on the small label\r\n\r\nPerhaps Transparent for a while, but is currently available only as mp3 \r\ndownloads from Amazon, I believe. The film, by the way, has not been \r\ncommercially released for purchase as \r\nof yet, and might never be.
\r\n
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Elf Power - When the Red King Comes
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: October 1997
\r\n\r\nLabel: Arena Rock/Elephant 6
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 007)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: This perennial Elephant 6 band is lead by Andrew \r\nRieger and Laura Carter. Jeff Mangum contributed to this album, the band's second, most \r\nnotably singing brief backing vocals in the lovely track "The Arrow Flies Close". John and Will (The Olivia Tremor Control, The Circulatory System), Kevin \r\nBarnes (Of Montreal), Dave Wrathgeber (Fablefactory), and Julian Koster (The \r\nMusic Tapes, Neutral Milk Hotel) also appear.
\r\n
![](\"cov-elfpower-adreaminsound.jpg\")
Elf Power - A Dream In Sound
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: May 11, 1999
\r\n\r\nLabel: Arena Rock Recording
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 10)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Elf Power's third album. It was recorded by the band and Dave Fridmann \r\n(Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) over two weeks at his studio in Cassadaga, NY in the \r\nfall of 1998. It was their first real "studio" album. Some contributors include\r\nJeff Mangum, John D'Azzo (The Gerbils), W. Cullen Hart (The Olivia Tremor \r\nControl, The Circulatory System), Scott Spillane (Neutral Milk Hotel and The \r\nGerbils) and Dave Wrathgeber (Fablefactory). Additionally, Jeff drew the \r\nillustration that appears on the cd itself.
\r\n
![](\"cov-elfpower-thewinteris.jpg\")
Elf Power - The Winter is Coming
\r\nRelease Date: October 17, 2000
\r\n\r\nLabel: SugarFree Records
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 21)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: out of print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Elf Power's fourth album. It was recorded over several months at a \r\nhome studio in Athens, GA with the help of producer Chris Colbert and the usual \r\ncontributors including: Raleigh Hatfield, Roxanne Martin (Dixie Blood Mustache, \r\nFablefactory), Scott Spillane (The Gerbils, Neutral Milk Hotel), Dave \r\nWrathgeber (Fablefactory), W. Cullen Hart (The Olivia Tremor Control, The \r\nCirculatory System), and Jeff Mangum.
\r\n
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The Gerbils - Are You Sleepy?
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: 1998
\r\n\r\nLabel: Hidden Agenda
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 006)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Band featuring, among others, Neutral Milk Hotel cohorts Scott \r\nSpillane (bass, guitar, vocals) and Jeremy Barnes (drums, vocals). \r\nThis album features the track "Glue", which has been performed/covered by Neutral \r\nMilk Hotel.
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The Gerbils - The Battle of Electricity
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: 2001
\r\n\r\nLabel: Orange Twin
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# OT-006)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Orange Twin,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Another release from the band lead by Scott Spillane and John D'Azzo. \r\nAlso featured are William Westbrook, Eric Harris, Bill Doss, Heather McIntosh, \r\nKevin Barnes, Pete Erchick, and Jeremy Barnes.
The Gerbils have also put out a few 7" singles and compilation tracks. For \r\nmore info, visit\r\nhttp://www.elephant6.com/bands/gerbils.html
\r\n\r\n
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The Instruments - Billions of Phonographs
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: October 1, 2002
\r\n\r\nLabel: Orange Twin
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# OT-010)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Orange Twin,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Somewhat of a solo album from Heather McIntosh, cellist for Japancakes \r\nand Circulatory System. It's been described as a beautiful and brilliant record \r\nof entrancing folk melodies and orchestration. Contributors to the album include\r\nJeff Mangum (vocal harmonies), Will Hart (drums and vocal harmonies), Julian Koster (singing saw), and Laura Carter (clarinet, accordion, \r\nvocals), to name a few.
\r\n
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Major Organ and the Adding Machine
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: June 18, 2001
\r\n\r\nLabel: Orange Twin
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# OT002) and LP (cat# SODY031)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Orange Twin,\r\nMerge,\r\nAmazon). \r\nVinyl also in print, released October 2005 by\r\nIsota Records.
\r\n\r\nComments: Insane, surreal, often annoying psych from this Elephant 6 assembly. \r\nJeff Mangum contributes some vocals and whatnot. The mysterious Major Organ is the \r\napparent leader of this project, though some have speculated he is in fact a \r\npseudonym for Mr. Mangum, or at the very least, a revolving pseudonym Jeff has \r\nhad a turn as. Other contributors featured include\r\nJulian Koster (Music Tapes, Neutral Milk Hotel), Eric Harris (Olivia Tremor \r\nControl), Will Cullen Hart (The Circulatory System, The Olivia Tremor Control), \r\nAndrew Rieger (Elf Power), and Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal).
\r\nFor more info, visit\r\nhttp://www.orangetwin.com/major.html
\r\n
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The Music Tapes \r\n- 1st Imaginary Symphony For Nomad
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: July 6, 1999
\r\n\r\nLabel: Merge
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and LP (cat#\r\nMRG158)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Merge,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Julian Koster's (Neutral Milk Hotel) conceptual pop project involving TV's from \r\nouter space, offing your parents, and other youthful concerns...part tape \r\ncollage/musique concrete pop-art experiment, part Beach Boys song-cycle. An 1895 \r\nEdison wax cylinder recorder, a wire recorder from the '40s, and reel-to-reel \r\nand cassette tapes were used to record the album. Recording took 4 years and was \r\ndone mostly at home and at the home \r\nof Grandmother of Music Tapes (Julian's grandmother's house in Long Island, NY). \r\nAdditional recording was done on state of the art hard drive. The album was \r\ncompressed and E.Q.'d using the original EMI desk and limiter at Abbey Road \r\nstudios in London. Also contributing to the record was The Elephant Six \r\nOrchestra, Eric Harris (The Olivia Tremor Control, Chocolate USA), Andy Gonzales \r\n( Marshmallow Coast, Of Montreal), Robert Carter, W. Cullen Hart (The Olivia \r\nTremor Control, Circulatory System), Brian Dewan, Jeff Mangum (Neutral \r\nMilk Hotel, Circulatory System), Scott Spillane (Neutral Milk Hotel, The \r\nGerbils), and the school kids who used to buy pretzels from Julian when he was a \r\npretzel seller in Union Square Park, NYC. A supplemental comic book is also \r\nincluded with the CD.
\r\nThe Music Tapes have also put out a couple 7" singles and a few compilation tracks. For \r\nmore info, visit\r\nhttp://www.elephant6.com/bands/musictapes.html\r\n
\r\nA followup LP, The 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking, was recorded, \r\nbut has yet to see proper release. You can find it online. Jeff Mangum is again \r\nlisted amongst the contributors. It's a story with music by Julian and his group \r\nThe Music Tapes, narrated by Brian Dewan accompanied by bowed banjos, singing \r\nsaws, and sound effects. It's a strange and lovely tale for all ages.
\r\n
\r\n\r\nOf Montreal - The Gay Parade
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: February 16, 1999
\r\n\r\nLabel: Bar/None
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 105)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Jeff Mangum is credited on this album with \r\n"holding hands while jumping on the furnace." Among the many other contributors \r\nto this album are Scott Spillane, Jeremy Barnes, Laura Carter, Andrew Rieger, \r\nJohn Fernandes, Heather McIntosh, Pete Erchick, and John Dazzo.
\r\nJeff is also listed in the credits for the 2003 Of Montreal release Then Who \r\nWill Protect Big Oil, while Jeremy and Scott also guest on 2002's \r\nAldhil's Arboretum.
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The Olivia Tremor Control - Singles & Beyond
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: August 8, 2000
\r\n\r\nLabel: Emperor Norton / Kindercore
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and LP
\r\n\r\nAvailability: out of print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: OTC's original line-up was childhood friends Bill Doss, Will Cullen \r\nHart, and Jeff Mangum. As this trio, the band released their debut vinyl \r\nEP, California Demise, on the Elephant 6 label in 1994. Shortly after, \r\nJeff left the band to concentrate his efforts on NMH, though he returned several \r\ntimes throughout the band's existence to lend his talents, both in studio and on \r\nstage. While the original EP is long out of print, the Singles & Beyond \r\nCD compiles the songs, along with several other rare tracks from the band. Jeff \r\npops up on some of the other tracks as well, notably faint backing vocals on \r\n"Fireplace".
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The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From The Unrealized Film \r\nScript "Dusk At Cubist Castle"
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: 1996 (2004 reissue)
\r\n\r\nLabel: Flydaddy (US), Blue Rose (UK), Cloud Recordings (reissue)
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and LP
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Cloud \r\nRecordings,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Psychedelic opus in the vein of the late '60s output of the Beatles \r\nand Beach Boys. Guest contributors include Jeff Mangum (Piano, Vocals, Melodica, \r\nChant, Slide Guitar), Julian Koster (Guitar, Saw, Mallets), and Robert Schneider \r\n(Bass, Vocals, Melodica, Producer, Engineer, Tibetan Bowls).
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The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music \r\nvolume 1
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: 1999 (2004 reissue)
\r\n\r\nLabel: Flydaddy, Cloud Recordings (reissue)
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD and LP
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Cloud \r\nRecordings,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Another OTC release featuring Jeff Mangum as a contributor, \r\nnotably supplying some vocals on "I Have Been Floated". Was out of print for a \r\nwhile, but recently re-released on Cloud Recordings, run by former OTC members \r\nJohn Fernandes and William Cullen Hart.
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Orange Twin Field Works - Vol. 1
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: June 18, 2001
\r\n\r\nLabel: Orange Twin
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# OT-003)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Orange Twin,\r\nMerge,\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: A cinematic collage of music recorded and edited by Jeff Mangum, \r\nthough he does not perform on the recording. Includes 6 panel poster. There are \r\nno liner notes or track separations. This is a recording on the way to, from, \r\nand at the Koprivshtitsa Festival of 2000 in Bulgaria. As a field recording, \r\nit's is a bit different because you can hear the mood of the festival here and \r\nthere... horns from the street, people participating. Songs flow in and out of \r\neach other due to some deft editing, so it's not one stage-recorded snippet \r\nafter another. The songs are great quality and represent some of the region's \r\nmost beautiful sounds... "flat" Balkan-style folk singing, bells and bagpipes, \r\naccordions, unusual strings and percussion and Turk-sounding wind instruments, \r\n7/8 and 9/8 time signatures. You get Indian gamelan, mussette accordion, vocal \r\nchoruses, foreign tongue talking, and psychedelic bagpipes all in one trippy 33 \r\nminute track.
\r\nFor more info, visit:\r\nhttp://www.orangetwin.com/bulgaria.html
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Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't - Individualized Shirts \r\n
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: July 4, 2001 (reissued June 3, 2003)
\r\n\r\nLabel: Cloud (reissued by Orange Twin)
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 16)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Orange \r\nTwin,\r\nAmazon,\r\npipesyousee)
\r\n\r\nComments: Project led by Pete Erchick (Olivia Tremor Control), joined by a \r\nroster of friends, including Jeff Mangum [drums], Eric Harris [drums, \r\naccompaniment], Will Cullen Hart [drums, voices, sounds], John Fernandes \r\n[violin], Heather McIntosh [cello], and Scott Spillane [guitar, trumpet].
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St. Thomas - Hey Harmony
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: 2003
\r\n\r\nLabel: City Slang
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Norway's favorite alt-country singer St. Thomas' 2003 \r\nalbum features both Jeremy Barnes and Scott Spillane. It's produced by Mark \r\nNevers from Lambchop. Reissued on the Racing Junior label in 2004.
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Tall Dwarfs - The Sky Above, The Mud Below
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: February 11, 2003
\r\n\r\nLabel: Carrot Top
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# 31)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Amazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: The Tall Dwarfs, formed in 1979 by singers/songwriters Chris Knox and \r\nAlec Bathgate, are pioneers of the lo-fi aesthetic and towering figures of the \r\nNew Zealand pop music scene. What should especially interest NMH fans about this \r\nrecording is the involvement of Jeff Mangum on two songs, "Possum Born" \r\n(a crazy freak-out) and "Over the Waves" (an almost Aeroplane-esque tune). In addition to co-writing the pair, Jeff contributes \r\nbacking vocals and acoustic guitar to the latter. Sometime NMH member Laura \r\nCarter also performs on the album.
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Thimble Circus - Lullaby For Worriers
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: February 2003
\r\n\r\nLabel: self-released
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD
\r\n\r\nAvailability: in print (Orange \r\nTwin)
\r\n\r\nComments: Thimble Circus is the recording project of Jill Carnes. \r\nShe has toured with The Music Tapes where she was accompanied onstage by Eric \r\nHarris (The Olivia Tremor Control, The Music Tapes). She also contributed to Of \r\nMontreal's Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies album on the track "The \r\nEvents Leading Up to the Collapse of Detective Dullight." Not only a musician, \r\nJill is also a visual artist. She designed the artwork for the UK version of \r\nNeutral Milk Hotel's On Avery Island album. In 2001, she completed the \r\nrecordings for this, her first album. It features guest appearances by Jeff \r\nMangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), Scott Spillane (The Gerbils, Neutral Milk \r\nHotel), Peter Erchick (Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't, The Circulatory System), \r\nHeather McIntosh (The Circulatory System, The Instruments). An album of fun and playful songs featuring toy piano and ukelele, Lullaby for \r\nWorriers was self-released in February 2003.
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Various Artists - Christmas in Stereo
\r\n\r\nRelease Date: November 1997
\r\n\r\nLabel: Kindercore Records
\r\n\r\nFormat: CD (cat# KC 018)
\r\n\r\nAvailability: out of print? (Japanese import version available from\r\nAmazon)
\r\n\r\nComments: Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster recorded a version of Louis Armstrong's \r\n"What A Wonderful World" for inclusion on this CD under the moniker Major Organ and \r\nthe Adding Machine, years before the name was used for the Orange Twin album \r\nmentioned above. I've heard that Jill Carnes (from Thimble Circus) handles most \r\nof the vocals on this track.
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\r\nOther albums Scott Spillane has played on:
\r\nThe Apples in Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie (2002) [Flugelhorn]
\r\nFive-Eight - Good Nurse (2000) [Euphonium, Flugelhorn, Bugle]
\r\nGreat Lakes - Great Lakes (2000)
\r\nGreat Lakes - Distance Between (2002) [Trumpet]
\r\nJe Suis France - Fantastic Area (2003) [Sound Effects]
\r\nOf Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse (2001) [Trumpet]
\r\nOf Montreal - Aldhils Arboretum (2002) [Horn]
\r\nPrinceton Reverbs Colonial - Ring the Pair-A-Bells (2002) [Voices]
\r\nThe Sunshine Fix - Future History of a Sunshine Fix (2000) [Guitar, Trombone, \r\nTrumpet, Vocals, Loops]
\r\nVarious Artists - Happy Happy Birthday to Me, Vol. 2 (2001) [Scott contributes a \r\nsong called "Angels Wings Will Carry Me"]
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\r\nOther albums Julian Koster has played on:
\r\nElf Power - Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs (1995) [Moog Synthesizer]
\r\nElk City - Sea Is Fierce (2001) [Saw]
\r\nFablefactory - American Custard (1999) [Moog Synthesizer]
\r\nMasters of the Hemisphere - Masters of the Hemisphere (1999)
\r\nOf Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse (2001) [Accordion, Vocals]
\r\nThey Might Be Giants - Factory Showroom (1996) [Saw, Singing Saw]
\r\nThey Might Be Giants - Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants (2002) [Singing Saw]
\r\nVarious Artists - Serotonin Ronin (1998) [Electronics]
Other albums Jeremy Barnes has played on:
\r\nBright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness (1998) [Percussion, Drums, Sound \r\nEffects]
\r\nNow It's Overhead - Now It's Overhead (2001) [Percussion]
\r\nAlan Jenkins (The Thurston Lava Tube) - Free Surf Music #3 (2001) [Drums]
\r\nOf Montreal - Aldhils Arboretum (2002) [Handclapping]
\r\nBroadcast - played drums with them on a tour
\r\nGuignol - Angela, David and the Neopolitan Road Issue (2003)
\r\nBeirut - Gulag Orkestar (2006)
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\r\nAnd lastly, I should mention Robert Schneider, an important contributor to both\r\nAvery Island and Aeroplane, and Elephant 6 in general, has a band \r\ncalled the Apples In Stereo who have put out several great albums. Jeff \r\nplays on some of them (though you can't really tell by listening). For \r\nmore info, visit\r\nhttp://www.elephant6.com/bands/apples.html
See also:\r\n \r\nthe musical adventures \r\nof Jeff Mangum
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