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Electro-Shock Blues is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Eels. It was released in the United Kingdom on September 21, 1998 and October 20 in the United States by record label DreamWorks.
Electro-Shock Blues was written largely in response to frontman Mark Oliver Everett's (more commonly known as E) sister's suicide and his mother's terminal lung cancer. The title refers to the electroconvulsive therapy received by Elizabeth Everett when she was institutionalized. Many of the songs deal with their decline, his response to loss and coming to terms with suddenly becoming the only living member of his family (his father having died of a heart attack in 1982; Everett, then 19 years old, was the first to discover his body).
Though much of the album is, on its surface, bleak, its underlying message is that of coping with some of life's most difficult occurrences. The record begins with "Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor", a sparse piece composed of one of his deceased sister's final diary entries. Later, the album's emotional climax is reached in two tracks: "Climbing to the Moon", which draws upon E's experiences visiting his sister at a mental health facility shortly before her death; and "Dead of Winter", a song about his mother's painful radiation treatment and slow succumbing. The album's last song, entitled "P.S. You Rock My World", is a hopeful bookend to "Elizabeth", containing subtly humorous lyrics that describe, among other things, an elderly woman at a gas station honking her car at E, incorrectly assuming he is the attendant, and E's decision that "maybe it's time to live".
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Beautiful Freak is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Eels. It was released on 13 August 1996 and was the first record released by record label DreamWorks.
Four singles were released to promote the album: "Novocaine for the Soul", in February 2016; "Susan's House", in May; "Your Lucky Day in Hell", in September; and "Beautiful Freak", the following year.
Beautiful Freak is largely the solo work of musician Mark Oliver Everett, and is his first album using the full band name Eels in an attempt to get the records in the same general location in the stores as his previous works under the name "E". The album is produced by E, Jon Brion, Mark Goldenberg and Michael Simpson.
Everett had suggested having a little girl with big eyes on the cover. The girl that came in to have her picture taken, Elle Brosh, incidentally looked "like a miniature Susan" to Everett, a girlfriend of his a few years before and the subject of the song "Susan's House".
Music video by Eels performing Novocaine For The Soul. (C) 1996 Geffen Records
Beautiful Freak / / Eels / / 1996 Novocain for the Soul - 0:00 Susan's House - 3:07 Rags to Rags - 7:08 Beautiful Freak - 10:57 Not Ready Yet - 14:30 My Beloved Monster - 19:17 Flower - 21:43 Guest List - 25:12 Mental - 28:24 Spunky - 32:25 Your Lucky Day in Hell - 35:32 Manchild - 40:08 © Eels - DreamWorks Records - 1996
Music video by Eels performing Last Stop: This Town. (C) 1998 Geffen Records
Electro-Shock Blues / / Eels / / 1998 Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor - 0:00 Going to your Funeral (Part 1) - 2:28 Cancer for the Cure - 5:05 My Descent Into Madness - 9:51 3 Speed - 13:40 Hospital Food - 16:22 Electro-Shock Blues - 19:44 Efils' God - 22:13 Going to your Funeral (Part 2) - 25:26 Last Stop: This Town - 26:53 Baby Genius - 30:17 Climbing to the Moon - 32:21 Ant Farm - 36:01 Dead of Winter - 38:06 The Medication is Wearing Off - 41:00 P.S. You Rock My World - 44:49 ©The Eels - DreamWorks Records - 1998
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