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4 records

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

1998

Jeff Mangum wrote it after reading Anne Frank's diary, played a musical saw on it, and then more or less disappeared for a decade.

★ 7.6

1992

Recorded for about eight hundred dollars in the drummer's garage in Stockton. He later took to greeting the audience with handstands.

★ 7.5

1993

Phair wrote it as a song-by-song answer to Exile on Main St., in the same running order, from home cassettes she had made alone.

★ 6.9

1997

Smith doubles his own voice on almost every song, which is why it sounds like two people whispering the same thing slightly apart.

★ 6.1