''Live at Jittery Joe's'' is a live
album released in 2001 by
Jeff Mangum of
Neutral Milk Hotel to combat the high prices of bootlegs on
eBay. Filmmaker
Lance Bangs recorded it at the
Athens, GA venue
Jittery Joe's
Jittery Joe's is a chain of coffeehouses based in Athens, Georgia. In 1994, the first Jittery Joe's opened in downtown Athens. There are nine locations in Athens and one in each of the Georgia cities of Watkinsville, Georgia, Watkinsville, Atlant ...
on March 7, 1997, during a live solo performance; this location was the original Jittery Joe's at 243 W. Washington St., not one of the current locations. Jeff had not prepared a setlist, so some of the songs were chosen by the audience. A noisy child can be heard throughout the performance (most notably during "Oh Comely").
Most of the songs included on this album had studio versions on earlier Neutral Milk Hotel releases, except for a cover of
Phil Spector's "
I Love How You Love Me." This album contains a different, earlier version of "Two-Headed Boy, Pt. Two" than appears on ''
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea''. The performance is also noteworthy for being the public debut of "Oh Comely." The CD version has a
QuickTime
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video of the performance on the enhanced section.
Track listing
Notes
The tracks ''Jesus Christ'' and ''Up and Over We Go'' are both featured on ''
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'' from
Neutral Milk Hotel, except having different names (they are sonically the same featured on the album). Both tracks are from the song ''The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three'' with the set list splitting the parts two and three into individual tracks.
External links
Live at Jittery Joe'sat
Orange Twin Records
2001 live albums
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