Inspired by the news that there's a new Jeff Mangum song (a cover of The Tall Dwarfs' "Sign the Dotted Line", which I've listened to at least 30 times in the past 10 hours), which is available on the Chris Knox tribute album Stroke on Merge Records, I found a couple Mangum videos released by Merge in November to coincide with the release of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on 180g vinyl. And the videos are awesome, pretty high quality recordings (FWIW), especially this performance of "Two-Headed Boy" from 1998, a song that would go on to become my 2nd favorite song ever recorded by any artist ever.
And here's some other great Mangum performances...
More Mangum live, the stunning "Oh Comely"...
And some other rarities from the reclusive genius... mostly recorded over a decade ago, the last time he released any new music.
Download Jeff Mangum - "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3 (live)".mp3
Download Neutral Milk Hotel - "Ferris Wheel on Fire (live)".mp3
- Download Neutral Milk Hotel - "My Dreamgirl Don't Exist (live)".mp3
Download Neutral Milk Hotel - "Two-Headed Boy (live from New Zealand in 2001)".mp3
Download Neutral Milk Hotel - "Song About Sex (live in 2001)".mp3
- The song ends with an explanation of Mangum's 2-year absence from music, after In the Aeroplane over the Sea; he returned with this performance and I don't think he's performed these songs in public since.
- Here's two very early versions of "Engine" and "Gardenhead" (circa 1993)
- And finally, here's Mangum and aforementioned Chris Knox from the only(?) concert Mangum has performed in this decade, live in Auckland, New Zealand, doing a cover of John Lennon's "Mother". and I guess their friendship is why Mangum has come out of hiding to release the cover song of Knox's Tall Dwarfs song mentioned above (warning: I wouldn't say this is necessarily very listenable, but it's interesting)
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