Eels - Souljacker [Bonus Disc]
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Artist: EelsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-03-12
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Dog Faced Boy
- That's Not Really Funny
- Fresh Feeling
- Woman Driving, Man Sleeping
- Souljacker Part I
- Friendly Ghost
- Teenage Witch
- Bus Stop Boxer
- Jungle Telegraph
- World Of S#!t
- Souljacker Part II
- What Is This Note?
- I Write The B-Sides
- Hidden Track
- Jehovah's Witness
- Rotten World Blues
Music reviews of Souljacker [Bonus Disc]
Music Review: Ecclectic fun, with glimpses of greatness
Rating: 4 Stars
I came late to the Eels via, I'm embarrassed to say, the Scrubs soundtrack CD. This is a quirky, multi-influenced (and, it seems, multi-influencing) CD. I hear in A.D. 2006 Jack White's riffs referencing E.'s 2001 resurrection of fuzzed guitar, which in turn references the long-gone MC5 ("Teenage Witch"). Which is what you get when you've lived too long. It makes the liner-notes especially irritating: "And ladies, don't worry. There are some tender moments her as well...Check out E telling his lady how happy she makes him in "What's This Note?", "World of Sh**" and of course, "Fresh Feeling". Better bring your hankie!" Jeez. And all the more so since these are fantastic songs!
Who is this guy? (I don't mean to liner-note writer. I mean E.). "If you're scared to die/ you better not be scared to live", he writes in "Friendly Ghost". Eels recordings are peopled with characters caught between the crappy place they've been and the crap they're in now--and that goes for their love songs as well. In the gorgeous "Woman Driving, Man Sleeping", two people ride in the dark, the woman holding a crumpled map in her lap, the man dreaming of knocking on closed doors--a gentle and unexpected metaphor.
Eels get Yardbirds-happy (or at least pseudo-Delta) in the fantastic "Jungle Telegraph"--and you almost expect Paul Butterfield's train to come arollin' through the glitzy, distorted vocals. "Send me some lovin'!" Indeed. It's still on the A-list. Because though at times it's self-indulgent, other times spare and lovely, E. and the Eels' Souljacker is, in the end, just plain fun. Who else would synthesize a Mediterranean horn in reedy counterpoint over a tune called, "World of Sh**"? Come on!
Bonus disc includes the precious and cheerfully depressing "Rotten World Blues". Good fun for all!
Description of Souljacker [Bonus Disc]
4th album from the Eels. 12 tracks including 'Dog Faced Boy', 'Friendly Ghost', 'World Of Shit' & 'Teenage Witch'.If irony could be traded like currency, Eels singer-songwriter E would be a wealthy man. As it is, his remarkable ability to filter out the mundane and focus on the fringes, where the really interesting cats dwell, guarantees he'll always have a career but will never be a household name. On Souljacker, E and the gang frame a motley assortment of characters with the sonic equivalent of a doodle pad--all random squiggles, free-floating words and phrases, disembodied hearts, and unblinking eyes. As such, unlikely bedfellows--"Dog Faced Boy," "Friendly Ghost," "Bus Stop Boxer," "Woman Driving, Man Sleeping"--are bundled in a patchwork quilt of guitars, bass, drums, organ grinder-style synth, and quite possibly a toy piano and percussion. The unabashedly goo-goo-eyed ballad "Fresh Feeling" launches with a swell of strings, just to underscore how dreamy our protagonist feels, and the spastic instrumental twitches on "That's Not Really Funny" counter the song's title, while doubling as one of the few elements able to snap E's voice out of its vaguely narcoleptic drone. Ruggedly individual and wickedly catchy (not to mention more upbeat than the two death-obsessed albums preceding it), Souljacker cements E's position as patron saint to the weird-and-weary-but-still-hopeful. --Kim Hughes
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