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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Eels |
| Record Label: |
Vagrant Records (USA) |
| Contributing Artist: |
Peter Buck |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
April 26, 2005 |
| Number of Discs: |
2 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Theme From Blinking Lights
2. From Which I Came / A Magic World
3. Son of a Bitch
4. Blinking Lights (For Me)
5. Trouble With Dreams
6. Marie Floating Over the Backyard
7. Suicide Life
8. In the Yard, Behind the Church
9. Railroad Man
10. Other Shoe
11. Last Time We Spoke
12. Mother Mary
13. Going Fetal
14. Understanding Salesman
15. Theme For a Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists
16. Checkout Blues
17. Blinking Lights (For You) |
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Song List: Disc 2
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1. Dust of Ages
2. Old Shit/New Shit
3. Bride of Theme From Blinking Lights
4. Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
5. I'm Going to Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart
6. To Lick Your Boots
7. If You See Natalie
8. Sweet Li'l Thing
9. Dusk: A Peach in the Orchard
10. Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb
11. Ugly Love
12. God's Love
13. Losing Streak
14. Last Days of My Bitter Heart
15. Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight
16. Things the Grandchildren Should Know |
| More Information |
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Eels: Mark Oliver Everett. Additional personnel: Chet, John Sebastian , Peter Buck, Tom Waits, Koool G Murder, Puddin', Butch. Since 1996's BEAUTIFUL FREAK, Mark Oliver Everett used his band, Eels, as a mouthpiece for his inspirationally morose worldview. Recorded over a period of seven years in Everett's basement, the 33 tracks of 2005's BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS see the singer/songwriter backing off from the rockier sounds of 2003's SHOOTENANNY! to meditate on the significance of family, aging, and death. The results are often breathtaking, a warm blanket of a song cycle whose tracks are the more mature, resolute descendents of the tunes on 1998's ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES. While the majority of this material features a full band, many of the most triumphant and affecting tracks were recorded with only Everett's expressive vocals and piano ("If You See Natalie," "Last Time We Spoke," "Dust of Ages"). "To Lick Your Boots," a defense for a slandered friend, was co-written by and features R.E.M.'s P... |
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