Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
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Artist: EelsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Published: 1998
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
- Elizabeth On The Bathroom Floor
- Going To Your Funeral Part 1
- Cancer For The Cure
- My Descent Into Madness
- 3 Speed
- Hospital Food
- Electro-Shock Blues
- Efil's God
- Going To Your Funeral Part II
- Last Stop: This Town
- Baby Genius
- Climbing To The Moon
- Ant Farm
- Dead Of Winter
- The Medication Is Wearing Off
- P.S. You Rock My World
Music reviews of Electro-Shock Blues
Music Review: E announces to world that a new musical genius is on the scene
Rating: 5 Stars
Electro-Shock Blues was the first Eels album I bought. I'd heard a song off of it on Pandora, so thought I'd check them out. Little did I know that I was about to be indoctrinated into the cult of E! I was literally blown away from what I heard.
From the opening lines of this album, "Laying on the bathroom floor/kitty licks my cheek once more/And I could try/ But waking up is harder when you wanna die" you know you are hearing a "rock" album like none you've ever heard before. Sometimes Electro-Shock Blues is sad beyond belief, sometimes it is rocking hard and loud, and there's even beautiful fantasies to come along on--"Last Stop This Town" in which we can all join E and his sister for a flight away from all of the pain of this world. It's a beautiful and joyous fantasy, typical of E to be able to take tragedy and find hope and beauty in it.
In my other reviews of Eels albums, and other folks reviews up here, most people should know E's story by now. At the time of this album, his sister had just committed suicide. Shortly later, he found out his mother had terminal cancer. At the age of 19 E found his father, one of the 20th century's most famous physicists (and apparently not a very nice man) dead in the family's hallway. He had, at the time of this album, lived through more tragedy in a young life than most people go through in a lifetime.
So it's hard to imagine, even though "Beautiful Freak" was such a hit and he could have ridden that gravy train for awhile, how he could not have dealt with these tragedies that were happening to him, just as he achieved his first musical success w/Beautiful Freak. Fans of Beautiful Freak may have been put off that this album is such a "downer," but it won E a whole new trove of fans who could appreciate his nuanced outlook on life, his beautiful talent for turning a phrase and making us feel what he's feeling, and overall, an important and mature album examining the human condition. If it sounds like pretty heavy stuff, it is, but in the very best possible way.
If you're looking for bubblegum pop, this is going to be a huge disappointment. But if you like your music (and your art in general) to delve deeply into the why's and wherefore's of life--to ask the question "what's it all about?" and then make the brave attempt to answer it, then this album will blow you away. Like the album that E released in 2005, which in many ways seems like a sequel to this album, "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations," this is a work of genius. If E had wanted to hang up a calling card letting the world know that there's a new kid on the block ready to claim the title of best singer/songwriter of his generation, he couldn't have done any better than this album.
For anyone who has a heart, and has ever experienced profound loss, and the healing that follows, go along on the journey that this album will take you. In the end, the feeling is catharsis. Or to quote E, in the last song on the album, "P.S. You Rock My World":
"Laying in bed tonight i was thinking
And listening to all the dogs
And the sirens and the shots
And how a careful man tries
To dodge the bullets
While a happy man takes a walk
And maybe it is time to live"
That in a nutshell is the E philosophy: acknowledge the pain, but fight on, determined to make it to the day when you put the past behind you, and find happiness. Apparently, our E is now a happily married man, and so he is the proof of his own philosophy. And with all he's survived, E has earned his happiness many times over!
Description of Electro-Shock Blues
18 tracks. Light scuffs on disc will not affect play. Slip cover.The sound of Eels' Electro-Shock Blues, the follow-up to the band's intriguing Beautiful Freak, reflects a year in which leader Mark "E" Everett suffered the loss of his sister to suicide as well as the illness of his mother and other tragedies. The music's hushed, sometimes dark sound and Everett's earnest vocals are often more convincing than his diary-entry lyrics, despite the power and daring inherent in describing illness in alt-pop settings that recall everything from hip-hop to Tom Waits. --Rickey Wright
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