I need some sleep
It can't go on like this.
I tried counting sheep
but there's one I always
miss.
Everyone says I'm getting
down too low.
Everyone says you just
gotta let it go.
You just gotta let it go!
You just gotta let it go!
I need some sleep.
Time to put the old horse down.
I'm in too deep
and the wheels keep spinning 'round.
Everyone says I'm getting'
down too low
Everyone says you just gotta let it go.
You just gotta let it go!
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Showing posts with label Eels. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Time To Put The Old Horse Down
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Sunday, 5 September 2010
Art of the Cover - Eels "Tomorrow Morning" (2010)
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Fine artwork to another fine new collection from Mark Oliver Everett and pals - which dropped last week.
The ninth studio release from Eels, "Tomorrow Morning" is the final part of a concept trilogy, including Hombre Lobo (2009) and End Times (2010). The trilogy reaches its highpoint here in this bright and reflective piece.
As ever, it's a work filled with complexity and ambiguity. Layers of light and dark. Here, the seemingly optimistic theme is tempered by a rare foray into the usage of cold electronic melodies and percussion (loops, drum machines etc.)
Still, Everett - shockingly - produces a positive and uplifting album that finishes the trilogy on an uncharacteristic high.
The limited two CD edition is to one to go with, as it includes a bonus CD that contains four additional tracks from the trilogy.
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Thursday, 14 January 2010
I'd say that daylight is time to go home
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Why don't you get me a way out of here?
Buy me a ticket.
A seat in the rear.
Cause I'd say that daylight is time to go home.
Every day, voice in my ear
telling me "get out of here!"
I think that you know it's not so bad,
sitting in rust and taking a bath.
But I think that I could find a new way.
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009
The Love Song - Eels "Little Bird"
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Right now I can't see making sense of this world. I just can't take how very much. Goddamn, I miss that girl!
A simple yet beautiful video below for the gorgeous, yearning "Little Bird" from the upcoming Eels album "End Times" due to drop January 19, 2010. Just Mark alone on a porch, with guitar and amp, singing beautiful heartache.
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It's E's stab at a "Blood on the Tracks" type 'divorce album' which recounts annals from the dark demise of his relationship with now ex-wife Anna.
I've been listening to it for a few days now and it's a really fine collection of songs, typically - as is Mark Oliver Everett's wont - bleak and beautiful in equal measure. As evidenced in "Little Bird" - a glorious simple bijou. A lullaby of lost love. A song, though mired in sorrow and suffering, that's sublime and redemptive.
The protagonist, who's in the midst of deep loneliness and pain - and who's either delusional or medicated - speaks to a little bird on his porch; a creature that is "the only friend I have in the world." He "just can't take how very much, goddamn" he misses his beloved. He sees no end to the heartbreak and suffering ... "so tell me this can't be how it's gonna end. Tell me my heart, somehow, dear God, is gonna mend."
The final verse is hopeful and redemptive though. He knows he needs to fight the pain and not let that girl and this broken love destroy him. He imagines the little bird telling him as much ... "Little bird, I guess you're right. Can't let her take me out, without a fight.
However he might try to intellectualise the situation though, "right now I can't see making sense of this world." Yap. Been there buddy!
It's still not gonna be "easy gettin' through (the) night." On this night and for many nights to come.
"Little Bird" is a glorious powerful piece of art. Another timeless Everett moment.
Little bird
Hoppin' on my porch
I know it sounds kinda sad
But what's it all for?
Right now you're the only friend I have in the world
And I just can't take how very much
Goddamn
I miss that girl
Little bird
You look all right
I'm sure it's not easy
Gettin' through your night
So tell me this can't be how it's gonna end
Tell me my heart
Somehow
Dear God
Is gonna mend
Little bird
I guess you're right
Can't let her take me out
Without a fight
But right now I can't see making sense of this world
I just can't take how very much
Goddamn
I miss that girl
Eels - "Little Bird"
Art of the Cover - Eels "End Times" (2010)
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Some lovely artwork from Mark Oliver Everett's excellent upcoming “divorce album” recounting annals from the dark tale that is the demise of Everett’s relationship with his now ex-wife Anna. It's a fine collection of songs, typically bleak and beautiful in equal measure.
The LP is gorgeously illustrated by graphic novelist Adrian Tomine, the cover depicting a sombre looking man with a long grey beard standing alone in a street in the depths of night.
Since Everett’s known for his impressively long facial hair, perhaps this is a glimpse at E's self-predicted morose future!
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Friday, 11 December 2009
The Song : Eels - Dead of Winter
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And strangers break their promise 'You won't feel any pain'.
Eels - with gorgeous string accompaniment - perform a great version of the bleak yet beautiful "Dead of Winter" from a show back in 2005 released as the fine "Eels with Strings: Live at Town Hall" LP.
"Dead of Winter" first appeared on 1998's "Electro-Shock Blues" - a harrowing yet wonderful collection of songs wrtitten by Mark Oliver Everett in the midst of unimagainable personal loss.
"Electro-Shock Blues" was Everett's response to his sister's suicide and his mother's terminal lung cancer. It represented an attempt at coming to terms with suddenly becoming the only living member of his family (his father having earlier died of a heart attack in 1982).
The song "Dead of Winter" deals with the darkest of subject matter. The title of the song itself is a very black pun!
"Dead of Winter" speaks about Everett witnessing the painful radiation treatment given to his mum in hospital, a place of suffering and lies where "strangers break their promise 'You won't feel any pain'."
It recounts watching his mum's slow and agonising terminal decline in the face of the unrelenting cancer. It's a bleak account of witnessing a loved one's immense suffering that contains unflinching lines like "I know you're going pretty soon. Radiation sore throat got your tongue. Magic markers tattoo you and show it where to aim."
"Dead of Winter" is a very dark and very powerful song, yet ultimately redemptive.
The song ends in a vague echo of the Samuel Beckett line "I can't go on. I'll go on."
He will stand strong even in the midst of all this darkness and suffering. He will not be like his sister who, in desperation, opted for a sadly terminal means of escape.
He will not succumb to the pain, to the blackness, poetically declaring; "I will not fade. Fade into the night."
Standing in the dark outside the house
Breathing in the cold and sterile air
Well i was thinking how it must feel
To see that little light
And watch it as it disappears
And fades into
And fades into the night
So I know you're going pretty soon
Radiation sore throat got your tongue
Magic markers tattoo you
And show it where to aim
And strangers break their promises
"You won't feel any" ...
"You won't feel any pain"
And the streets are jammed with cars
Rockin' their horns
To race to the wire
Of the unfinished line
Thought that I'd forget all about the past
But it doesn't let me run too fast
And I just wanna stand outside
And know that this is right
And this is true
And I will not
Fade into
Fade into the night
Standing here in the dark
Eels - Dead of Winter (Live)
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Meet The Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1 (1996–2006)
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Meet The Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1 (1996–2006)
Released January 15, 2008 (US)
January 21, 2008 (UK)
Recorded 1996–2006
Label DreamWorks/Universal Records
Released January 15, 2008 (US)
January 21, 2008 (UK)
Recorded 1996–2006
Label DreamWorks/Universal Records
A great collection of intelligent songs about fun stuff like suicide!
Meet The Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1 (1996–2006) was a greatest hits compilation to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the wonderful Eels, featuring a DVD of music videos, behind-the-scenes photos, and commentary by Mark Oliver Everett.
In addition to previously unreleased tracks (most notably an elegant remix of "Climbing to the Moon" by fellow L.A.-based musician Jon Brion), standout tunes include the Beck-like college-rock-radio hit "Novocaine for the Soul," the wry folk of "I Like Birds," and the melancholy chamber-pop number "Trouble With Dreams," which all showcase the Eels' knack for oddball narratives and engaging melodies.
Along with Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous, Everett (aka E) is one of the 21st century's few true pop eccentrics working under a major-label umbrella, and MEET THE EELS is an excellent introduction to his strange but undeniably intriguing sensibility.
This DVD/CD set spans the first decade of the band with 24 selections on CD and 12 previously unreleased videos on DVD. Featuring fan favorites culled from their critically acclaimed releases on Dreamworks, SpinArt, and Vagrant, this set also includes previously unreleased tracks. This title carries a parental advisory.
Issued in 2008, MEET THE EELS celebrates Mark Oliver Everett's first decade recording under the Eels banner. Proceeding in semi-chronological order from 1996's BEAUTIFUL FREAK to '06's LIVE AT TOWN HALL, the collection touches on all the proudly quirky alt-pop performer's significant releases, spending plenty of time on his acclaimed '05 double album, BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS.
This debuted on the UK Album Chart at #26.
![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171104102228im_/http://www.eelstheband.com/images/EELS_RaritiesCover.jpg)
Read more ... Eels homepage
Meet The Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1 (1996–2006) was a greatest hits compilation to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the wonderful Eels, featuring a DVD of music videos, behind-the-scenes photos, and commentary by Mark Oliver Everett.
In addition to previously unreleased tracks (most notably an elegant remix of "Climbing to the Moon" by fellow L.A.-based musician Jon Brion), standout tunes include the Beck-like college-rock-radio hit "Novocaine for the Soul," the wry folk of "I Like Birds," and the melancholy chamber-pop number "Trouble With Dreams," which all showcase the Eels' knack for oddball narratives and engaging melodies.
Along with Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous, Everett (aka E) is one of the 21st century's few true pop eccentrics working under a major-label umbrella, and MEET THE EELS is an excellent introduction to his strange but undeniably intriguing sensibility.
This DVD/CD set spans the first decade of the band with 24 selections on CD and 12 previously unreleased videos on DVD. Featuring fan favorites culled from their critically acclaimed releases on Dreamworks, SpinArt, and Vagrant, this set also includes previously unreleased tracks. This title carries a parental advisory.
Issued in 2008, MEET THE EELS celebrates Mark Oliver Everett's first decade recording under the Eels banner. Proceeding in semi-chronological order from 1996's BEAUTIFUL FREAK to '06's LIVE AT TOWN HALL, the collection touches on all the proudly quirky alt-pop performer's significant releases, spending plenty of time on his acclaimed '05 double album, BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS.
This debuted on the UK Album Chart at #26.
![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171104102228im_/http://www.eelstheband.com/images/EELS_EssentialCover1.jpg)
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EELS CELEBRATE FIRST DECADE WITH BEST OF AND RARITIES COLLECTIONS
FIRST RETROSPECTIVE, MEET THE EELS: ESSENTIAL EELS VOL. 1 (CD+DVD), AND FIRST RARITIES COLLECTION, EELS USELESS TRINKETS (2CD+DVD), SPAN 1996-2006 FOR THE ACCLAIMED ALT-ROCK ENTITY
Release date: USA January 15, 2008 / UK January 21, 2008
The EELS are one of music's most acclaimed and idiosyncratic enterprises, accomplishing what The New Yorker calls "that rarest thing in contemporary pop: a unique sound." The ever-changing lineup of musicians that play the songs of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett (aka E), unveils both its first best of compilation, Meet The EELS: Essential EELS Vol. 1 (CD+DVD), and its first collection of rarities, B-sides, film contributions and unreleased tracks, the EELS Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD), each issued by DreamWorks/Geffen/UMe on January 15, 2008. All videos are available for the first time on DVD and all music is digitally remastered with both packages packed with never before seen photos, artifacts and Everett's notes about each track.
Meet The EELS: Essential EELS Vol. 1 spans the first decade of the EELS with 24 selections on CD and 12 promotional videos on DVD. The CD opens with four tracks from the band's 1996 debut Beautiful Freak, two tracks from the Eels' highly acclaimed second album 1998's Electro-shock Blues follow plus a previously unreleased Jon Brion remix of "Climbing to The Moon."
Four songs from 2000's Daisies Of The Galaxy, which NME dubbed "a masterpiece in almost every way," are represented on the Essentials album plus three tracks from 2001's Souljacker, which Time Magazine crowned as one of the best albums of the year, was acclaimed overseas with NME calling it "downright brilliant" and the London Sunday Times named it Album Of The Year, writing that "the conventional wisdom that (the earlier album} Electro-shock Blues was E's masterpiece will have to be reassessed: it was clearly just one of his masterpieces."
2003's live-in-the-studio Shootenanny! (awarded four stars by Rolling Stone) adds two fan favorites, while five songs from the highly acclaimed, and best charting album in the band's history Blinking Lights and Other Revelations are included. Also on the Essentials album are the previously unreleased "Get Ur Freak On", a live version of "Dirty Girl" from 2006's With Strings: Live At Town Hall and "I Need Some Sleep" from the Shrek 2 soundtrack.
Highlights within the 50 CD tracks of EELS Useless Trinkets are longtime concert favorite "Living Life" from the Daniel Johnston tribute album, the previously unreleased 2006 cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You" and other covers including James Carr's "Dark End of The Street" and Prince's "If I Was Your Girlfriend. " Useless Trinkets also includes a large handful of BBC performances, unique live versions of "Novocaine For The Soul" and "My Beloved Monster," tracks from films-- The End Of Violence, Holes, Levity and How The Grinch Stole Christmas and several previously unreleased tracks including the original collections title track which frontman Everett performs backed by a 28 piece orchestra. The DVD features six performances from the EELS' Lollapalooza 2006 performance, including a gospel rave-up take on "My Beloved Monster" and a high octane rumble through "Souljacker part I".
Meet The EELS: Essential EELS Vol. 1 and EELS Useless Trinkets prove why, following that 2006 Lollapalooza performance, Rolling Stone wrote: "EELS define coolness. "
Read more ... Eels homepage
Last Stop: This Town:
Tracklisting
1. "Novocaine for the Soul" (from Beautiful Freak)
2. "Susan's House" (BF)
3. "My Beloved Monster" (BF)
4. "Your Lucky Day in Hell" (BF)
5. "3 Speed" (from Electro-Shock Blues)
6. "Last Stop: This Town" (ESB)
7. "Climbing to the Moon" (Jon Brion Remix) (previously unreleased)
8. "Flyswatter" (from Daisies of the Galaxy)
9. "I Like Birds" (DotG)
10. "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" (DotG)
11. "It's a Motherfucker" (DotG)
12. "Souljacker part I" (from Souljacker)
13. "That's Not Really Funny" (SJ)
14. "Fresh Feeling" (SJ)
15. "Get Ur Freak On" (previously unreleased)
16. "Saturday Morning" (from Shootenanny!)
17. "Love of the Loveless" (S!)
18. "Dirty Girl" (Live at Town Hall) (from Eels with Strings: Live at Town Hall)
19. "I Need Some Sleep" (from Shrek 2: The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
20. "Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)" (from Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
21. "I'm Going to Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart" (BL&OR)
22. "Trouble with Dreams" (BL&OR)
23. "Railroad Man" (BL&OR)
* This track has been slightly edited for length, presumably so as to keep the compilation under 80 minutes.
24. "Losing Streak" (BL&OR)
Big thanks to the original posters
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Monday, 21 January 2008
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives (BBC4 Eels documentary)
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This year is the 50th anniversary of Hugh Everett’s most important contribution to science – a controversial theory of quantum mechanics that predicts the existence of PARALLEL UNIVERSES, one of the most fantastic scientific predictions ever to have been conceived.
![http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett/everett-01.jpg](http://web.archive.org./web/20171104102228im_/http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett/everett-01.jpg)
Hugh died of a heart attack in his home in 1982 where his body was found by 19 year old son Mark. Even though they had lived in the same house, the two of them were alienated and Mark knew nothing about his father’s work.
“My father never, ever said anything to me about his theories. I was in the same house with him for at least 18 years but he was a total stranger to me. He was in his own parallel universe. He was a physical presence, like the furniture, sitting there jotting down crazy notations at the dining room table night after night. I think he was deeply disappointed that he knew he was a genius but the rest of the world didn't know it,” - Mark Oliver Everett.
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In this intelligent and imaginative film, the wry and charismatic Mark takes a journey back into his father’s life, meeting his old college pals, family friends and colleagues and takes a crash course in the weird world of quantum mechanics in order to understand his father’s mind blowing theory.
You can get a taster of this movie here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGzonNfpRw4
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PWPL.part1.rar
PWPL.part2.rar
PWPL.part3.rar
PWPL.part4.rar
PWPL.part5.rar
PWPL.part6.rar
Thanks to chopper
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