Blinking Lights And Other Revelations

Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations

Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
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Artist: Eels
Brand: Dig
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Music Label: Vagrant Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  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 Salesmen
  15. Theme for a Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists
  16. Checkout Blues
  17. Blinking Lights (For You)
Music CD 2
  1. Old Shit/New Shit
  2. Bride of Theme from Blinking Lights
  3. Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
  4. I'm Going to Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart
  5. To Lick Your Boots
  6. If You See Natalie
  7. Sweet Li'l Thing
  8. Dusk: A Peach in the Orchard
  9. Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb
  10. Ugly Love
  11. God's Silence
  12. Losing Streak
  13. Last Days of My Bitter Heart
  14. Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight
  15. Things the Grandchildren Should Know
  16. Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight

Music reviews of Blinking Lights And Other Revelations

Music Review: Promise fulfilled
Rating: 4 Stars

It's taken E several years and albums to fulfill the promise of the great Electro-Shock Blues. Whereas on Electro-Shock E was struggling with the emotional wreckage of his father's sudden death, sister's suicide, and mother's long illness and passing, this is the work of a mature musician making peace with his history.

Description of Blinking Lights And Other Revelations

A homemade epic, 'Blinking Lights'is an imaginative, emotional reflection on the condition of living, recorded mostly in Everett's Los Angeles basement over a period of several years. Sprawling over it's two discs are songs about faith, responsibility, growing up, dignity, disappointment, comfort, hope and renewal. It's the most personal eels album since 1998's Electro Shock Blues'. That album dealt with the nearly simultaneous suicide of Everett's sister and terminal illness of his mother, from the subjects' points of view. This album finds him a few years down the line, now battling some of the family demons himself, with the after effects of past tragedies becoming more of a personal issue in his adult life, sometimes fearlessly autobiographical, and other times built around the related stories of others. Vagrant. 2005.
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is a big, important record that's also devastatingly somber. Which, depending on how serious an Eels fan you are and the sturdiness of your psyche, can be taken as an endorsement or a warning. Shades of the band's superb sophomore effort, Electro-Shock Blues, recorded after the suicide of Everett's sister and the death of his father, show up here on such wounded tracks as "Checkout Blues," "If You See Natalie," and "I'm Going to Stop Pretending I Didn't Break Your Heart." Permeating those are instrumental snippets, some sad and ponderous ("Theme from Blinking Lights"), others bordering on bright ("Theme for a Pretty Girl that Makes You Believe God Exists"), and a handful of ironic exercises in straight-up pop (the winking "Going Fetal" and the cynical but upbeat "Hey Man [Now You're Really Living]"). Spread over two discs, the mood of Blinking Lights burns in fast and builds in its ferocity, so that when lighter moments like the funny "Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb" surface, they seem like ominous breaks in the storm. Though these songs make it easy to forget that Everett's gruff, fuzzed-over vocals have also graced fare breezy enough to be included on the Shrek soundtrack, their beauty delivers a thoughtful listener from caring. --Tammy La Gorce

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