Mentions (5)
"Just remembered in highschool, in Iran, I once got the aux to my persian uncle's car on a roadtrip and played the full In The Aeroplane Over The Sea album and forced him, his wife and child and my own mom to listen to the whole thing. (They don't understand an english sentence more complex than "hel"
"hearing in the aeroplane over the sea at 14 pulled me out of a dark place and set me down a path of light. how strange it is to be anything at all"
"Something about the song triggered an absolute visceral sensation of existence for me. I looked down at my hands and body and was filled with a sense of existential wonder. I felt so strange inhabiting my body and viewing everything through the vantage point of my eyes. The lyrics: "How strange it i"
"There is a post about ITAOTS that just says 'It's so good brehs' and not in a single reply is he called a new🚬. No one replying seems to be embarrassed that they clearly only just discovered the album."
"The other instance is when I was in college and listened to the Neutral Milk Hotel song: "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". Something about the song triggered an absolute visceral sensation of existence for me."