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Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006, Vol. 1 | 
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| Artist: Eels
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 14065
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 0009898300
UPC: 602517460119
EAN: 0602517460119
ASIN: B000Y2WAKM
Release Date: January 15, 2008
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Disc 1
| • | Novocaine For The Soul | | • | Susan's House | | • | My Beloved Monster | | • | Your Lucky Day In Hell | | • | 3 Speed | | • | Last Stop: This Town | | • | Climbing To The Moon (Jon Brion Remix)* | | • | Flyswatter | | • | I Like Birds | | • | Mr. E's Beautiful Blues | | • | It's A Motherfucker | | • | Souljacker Part 1 | | • | That's Not Really Funny | | • | Fresh Feeling | | • | Get Ur Freak On* | | • | Saturday Morning | | • | Love Of The Loveless | | • | Dirty Girl (Live At Town Hall) | | • | I Need Some Sleep | | • | Hey Man (Now You're Really Living) | | • | I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart | | • | Trouble With Dreams | | • | Railroad Man | | • | Losing Streak |
Disc 2
| • | Novocaine For The Soul | | • | Susan's House | | • | Rags To Rags | | • | Your Lucky Day In Hell | | • | Last Stop: This Town | | • | Cancer For The Cure | | • | Flyswatter | | • | Souljacker part I | | • | Saturday Morning | | • | Hey Man (Now You're Really Living) | | • | Trouble With Dreams | | • | Dirty Girl (Live at Town Hall) |
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Album Description
MEET THE EELS: ESSENTIAL EELS VOL. 1, 1996-2006 spans the first decade of the EELS with 24 selections on CD and 12 previously unreleased videos on DVD. Featuring fan favorites culled fromthe EELS critically acclaimed releases on Dreamworks and Vagrant. ESSENTIAL EELS also includes 2 previously unreleased tracks, the Jon Brion remix of "Climbing To The Moon" and a cover of Missy Elliot's "get ur freak on."
Album Description
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, 1996-2006. This is available on CD and CD/DVD. All videos are available for the first time on DVD and all music is digitally remastered and the CD and CD/DVD are packed with never before seen photos, artifacts and Everett's notes about each track. Meet The EELS: Essential EELS Vol. 1, 1996-2006 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's 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.
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| Customer Reviews:
 great CD November 27, 2008
M Hicks
I love this CD. I'd heard the Eels before but didn't realize it. I heard them on the PBS show "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" and like the music so I decided to try this best of CD. I love nearly every song. Mr. E's Beautiful Blues, Flyswatter and Trouble With Dreams are my favorites. Good stuff!
Everett rules May 24, 2008
Deborah E. Lynch (Hershey, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mark Everett is an amazing artist who writes lyrics that actually mean something and accompanies them with creative, inspiring music played on everything from the saw to the Wurlitzer organ to the bass guitar. I wish for him commercial success, yet I don't because I hope he continues to hold to his principles to make the music that speaks to him rather than what speaks to the masses and the record companies. This is an outstanding collection of music.
 A Superb 10 Year Compilation ... January 29, 2008
Kort Kramer (South Florida, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
...from a man called E!
Companioned with Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2007 (2CD+DVD), this just might be all you would ever need from the Eels first 10 years. All 36 songs are terrific and while I may miss a few favorites, most of them are here and the Eels albums are well represented.
Anyone new to the Eels, this is a good primer.
True fans of the Eels probably have more or all these tracks from the albums, making this not so neccessary. Just get the Rarities album in that case. But for completists, this is a must as it has 12 good quality videos on the companion DVD. So yeah, you might as well just pick this up no matter who you are. ;']
While I have your ear, let me recommend Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall. It is the best concert video I have seen in a long time and a great companion piece to this Best Of CD.
So what are you waiting for, go pick this up! It truly is Novocaine For The Soul...
Why buy this collection? January 22, 2008
Mark Colan (Medford, MA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are new to the Eels, this is a fine introduction. Eels fans may quibble about the best choices for a collection like this, but I like what was chosen here.
If you are a fan of the Eels, you probably have their albums, and thus you have most of the audio tracks here. There are still two reasons why you might want to get it.
1. (lesser reason) It has two audio tracks that were previously unpublished. But of course the companion "Useless Trinkets" collection has 50 B-sides, soundtracks, rarities and unreleased tracks, plus a DVD with six live performances, so that's the one to get for previously unpublished content, if you could only choose one.
2. (bigger reason) The companion DVD in Meet the Eels features 12 music videos (one is a live performance). Some of these videos were previously released on CD singles, but they seem to be higher quality here. It isn't HD or even modern DVD quality (some of these are >10 years old), but they are much better quality than the tiny versions they put on the CD singles.
In particular, the video for "Last Stop: This Town" is a most imaginative and appealing music video; you'll have to see it to believe it. Watch in amazement as a carrot... well, that would be spoiling it.
About my rating: I would give it 4 1/2 stars if it were an option. Anthologies are rarely as good as the complete original albums, but this one offers more in the form of the videos.
No way you can get the greatest eels on one disc, but it's a good start... January 19, 2008
Randomanthony (Wisconsin, IL)
Eels are one of my favorite bands, and as with most greatest hits deals, fans can quibble about why this song was left off or this song included. This is a decent collection of the band/man's best work, although I'd recommend playing the disc on shuffle. The songs are sequenced in order of their release so you start with the oldest material and work to the newest. Shuffle allows you to get a better mix of the band's work. After you start with "Meet The Eels" hit the rest of the catalog...it's worth it:)
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