MK118 - "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1" - Neutral Milk Hotel - Why is this song so good?

This is a cover of “The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1”, which is a song from the Neutral Milk Hotel album, “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”. Written and performed by Neutral Milk Hotel. Guitar parts and chords from the song are explained, as well as deep listening to the lyrics and air organ parts.

Neutral Milk Hotel

Jeff Mangum – guitar, voice, organ, floor tom, bowed fuzz bass, tapes, shortwave radio

Jeremy Barnes – drums, organ

Scott Spillane – trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, euphonium

Julian Koster – Wandering Genie, the singing saw, bowed banjo, accordion, white noise

Additional musicians

Robert Schneider – home organ, air organ, fuzz bass, harmony vocal, one-note piano

Laura Carter – zanzithophone

Rick Benjamin – trombone

Marisa Bissinger – saxophone, flugelhorn

Michelle Anderson – uilleann pipes

Artwork

Chris Bilheimer – art direction

Jeff Mangum – art direction

Brian Dewan – "Flying Victrola" illustration