Communist Daughter

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“Communist Daughter”
“Communist Daughter” cover
Song by Neutral Milk Hotel
Album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Released February 10, 1998
Recorded July - September 1997
Pet Sounds Studio - Denver, Colorado
Genre Indie rock, indie pop
Length 1:57
Label Merge Records
Writer Jeff Mangum
Composer Jeff Mangum
Producer Robert Schneider
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea track listing
  1. "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One"
  2. "The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two & Three"
  3. "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  4. "Two-Headed Boy"
  5. "The Fool"
  6. "Holland, 1945"
  7. "Communist Daughter"
  8. "Oh Comely"
  9. "Ghost"
  10. (Untitled)
  11. "Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two"

"Communist Daughter" is the seventh track of the Neutral Milk Hotel album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

The track is the second shortest to be found on the album, next to "The Fool". It is also structured relatively simply in musical terms. In the key of G major, the song follows a simple I-V-IV-IV pattern (or G-D-C-C).

Though the song is driven by Jeff Mangum's vocal and acoustic guitar performance, there is an undercurrent of other elements as well. Throughout the entire song, recorded sound effects and noise pan in and out of the left and right audio channels. At certain points of a song, an organ is played, and at the end of the song, a horn part is repeated.