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Rich LSB
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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 13:19 Post subject: Eels |
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Anyone else a fan?
I think they're (he?) is incredible. Every album a delight, including the newie. |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 13:45 Post subject: yes |
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| Yeah I really like them, not so much their first album, or shootenanny which was a bit toss but the other three are great, I really like 'I like birds' and 'the bus stop boxer'. Im gonna get the new one soon as ive got any cash money. |
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AdamW
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 13:50 Post subject: |
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I love Beautiful Freak, Electro-Shock Blues and Daisies of the Galaxy, but Souljacker lacked the colour, wit and invention of the previous three albums and I lost touch with them.
I interviewed "E" in Cardiff once. He was rude to some old people who came and sat at our table.
What's the new album like? Is it a continuation of E's toy instrumentz with beatz approach?
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Rich LSB
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 14:01 Post subject: |
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It seems to be kinda the follow-up to Electroshock Blues/Daisies of the Galaxy. He's been working on this one on and off since then, it seems. Being a double album, it seems like a lot to digest but so far it measures up to his previous stuff... it certainly sounds a lot like Electro-Shock (as you say, toy sounds with beats) rather than the guitars and a band approach of Shootenanny!. All in all, it sounds like a very sad and ... I've actually found bits of it too sad to listen to. Very Tom Waits-y.
But you don't like Shootenanny? Wow. I love it. It seems like guitar pop perfection to me. Souljacker I find much more patchy. I'm very excited about seeing them at the Royal Festie Hall next month.
And I'd imagine E certainly has the capacity to be... er, rude. But I also imagine that he does good interview...? |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 14:10 Post subject: |
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| Shootenanny just seemed like he was phoning it in, there were one or two good songs but the rest were like eels by numbers. I liked Souljacker though, so what do i know. |
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AdamW
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 14:36 Post subject: |
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| Rich LSB wrote: |
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And I'd imagine E certainly has the capacity to be... er, rude. But I also imagine that he does good interview...? |
The thing about good interviews is you need good questions... and that's where the problem lay that day, I think. [ask bc, he'll tell you  ]
I haven't actually heard Shootenanny... it was Souljacker that I wasn't so keen on: but I did like the remix of Mr E's Beautiful Blues on the bonus CD that came with it... so much so that it's still being used as the theme tune to a radio show I present.
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katieken
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 15:01 Post subject: |
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| I like Eels, particularly Electro Shock Blues. High class stuff. I always find Eels a bit magical in a strange way. |
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Hew
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 17:23 Post subject: |
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Electro shock blues is one of my favourite albums ever. Souljacker and shootenanny were a bit poor though. The new one is sounding good to me so far.
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