Everything about Beauty Album totally explained
Beauty is a tape cassette of music released by
Jeff Mangum under the
Neutral Milk Hotel name in 1992. Like
Invent Yourself a Shortcake, this tape wasn't intended for wide distribution, instead copies were likely to have been circulated amongst Jeff's friends, which is typical of many early
Elephant 6-related 'albums' (there are similar early recordings by bands who would later become
Marbles,
The Olivia Tremor Control,
The Sunshine Fix and
Chocolate U.S.A. among others). The first five tracks of the tape are acoustic recordings, and feature Engine, which would later find official release on the
Holland, 1945 7", and Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone, which in a faster mix would feature on
On Avery Island, as well as the live favourite Sailing Through. The second half of the tape is recorded on various occasions, and three of the five tracks (Noisy Racket, Conversation With Will Cullen Hart, Hypnotic Sounds) snippets of noise or conversation (incidentally, Hypnotic Sounds would later appear on
Demo 2 and the
Orange Twin re-issue of the
Everything Is single as Aunt Eggma Blowtorch, minus a minute-long introductory jam). The other two are full band efforts. Someone Is Waiting, a noisy feedback-drenched drone, later appeared on
On Avery Island, whilst Bucket, one of the first songs the band recorded in a full recording studio (which Mangum wasn't entirely happy with, claiming it to be "unfinished"
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Track listing
Engine – 4:22
Circle of Friends – 3:28
Wishful Eyes – 6:00
Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone – 5:47
Sailing Through – 4:36
Bucket – 3:10
Noisy Racket – 3:55
Conversation with Will Cullen Hart – 6:15
Someone Is Waiting – 1:45
Hypnotic Sounds – 6:13
Note: track 8 is commonly listed as "Conversation with Robert Schneider,"
but is actually between Jeff Mangum and Will Cullen Hart of The Olivia Tremor Control and The Circulatory System.Further Information
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