I've loved “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” — the song — for ages, its giddy, melancholy, wide-eyed, amazed, arms-outstretched joyful everythingness always having done it for me…if there’s ever been a song which expressed how wonderful and strange it is to be anything at all, this is it. - 9/4/06
It was only this year that I finally listened to the album, but this song has been part of my life for much longer; I’ve always responded to its wild, unhinged celebration of life, shaded, needless to say, by an all too vivid awareness of always imminent mortality. The song really does reminds one of that strangeness — and at the same time, it’s a reminder of what indelible, undeniable cause for celebration this is.
