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Where do we start. Jeff Mangum (who really is Neutral Milk Hotel) started out by playing drums and bass in Olivia Tremor Control. After their first album, California Demise, he decided to pursue his own music although he was still a major player on every OTC album to follow. He then made the first NMH album, On Avery Island. With this album it became obvious which parts of the OTC albums came from him. He soon followed this album with In the Aeroplane Over the Sea which brought him national attention. Before this he was merely part of an underground "cult" called Elephant 6 which is a collective of about 40 different bands that all work on each others albums. A few years later, after almost completely falling off the map, he collaborated with some of the E6 people and made an experimental band called Major Organ and the Adding Machine. This was a huge disappointment for most fans and critics because they were under the impression that they were getting a new NMH album whereas this was almost exclusively strange noises and sound collages. After this very little was heard from Mr. Mangum until it was discovered that he had a slight nervous breakdown and joined a traveling circus. I'm not kidding. Since then he has played only one show and that was just as a backing musician for OTC. Friends say that he will likely never record again.
I hope that helped.
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(Anonyman!'s reading level has increased by one, rendering him at 3rd grade level.)
Edit: As for Modest Mouse, I have only one album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. (Everyone keeps telling me it's crap compared to "The Old Shit".