The Fool (song)

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“The Fool”
“The Fool” 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 1:53
Label Merge Records
Composer Scott Spillane
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"

"The Fool" is the fifth track of the Neutral Milk Hotel album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

The song is the only one on the album not to have been written in whole or in part by Jeff Mangum. It was instead written by Scott Spillane, originally for a short film of the same name by friend Joey Foreman who was then attending the University of Texas.[1]

The track was recorded live on two-track DAT and is one of the few songs on the album to be recorded in a single take with minimal overdubbing.[1] Spillane's horn arrangements on the song are performed by himself, Rick Benjamin, and Merisa Bissinger.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Cooper, Kim [2005] (2007). In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 33⅓. New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1690-X. 
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