Eels - Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2007 (2CD+DVD)
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Artist: EelsEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2008-01-15
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Novocaine For The Soul (Live From Hell)
- Fucker
- My Beloved Monster (Live From Tennessee)
- Dog's Life
- Susan's Apartment
- Manchester Girl (BBC)
- Flower (BBC)
- My Beloved Mad Monster Party (BBC)
- Animal
- Stepmother
- Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
- Your Lucky Day In Hell (Michael Simpson Remix)*
- Altar Boy
- Novocaine For The Soul (Moog Cookbook Remix)
- If I Was Your Girlfriend (Live)*
- Bad News
- Funeral Parlor
- Hospital Food (BBC)
- Open The Door (BBC)
- Birdgirl On A Cell Phone
- Vice President Fruitley
- My Beloved Monstrosity
- Dark End Of The Street (Live)*
- The Cheater's Guide To Your Heart (Live)*
- Useless Trinkets*
- Mr. E's Beautiful Remix
- Souljacker Part I (Alternate Version)*
- Dog Faced Boy (Alternate Version)*
- Jennifer Eccles
- Rotten World Blues
- Can't Help Falling In Love
- Christmas Is Going To The Dogs
- Mighty Fine Blues
- Eyes Down
- Skywriting
- Taking A Bath In Rust
- Estranged Friends*
- Her
- Waltz Of The Naked Clowns
- I Like Birds (Live)*
- Sad Foot Sign
- Living Life
- The Bright Side
- After The Operation
- Jelly Dancers
- I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Live At Town Hall)
- Mr. E's Beautiful Blues (Live At Town Hall)
- I Want To Protect You*
- I Put A Spell On You (Live)*
- Saw A Ufo*
- Saturday Morning
- Eyes Down
- My Beloved Monster
- A Magic World
- Not Ready Yet
- Souljacker part I*previously unreleased
Music reviews of Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2007 (2CD+DVD)
Music Review: All but 2 Tracks from B-Sides and Raritiea
Rating: 1 Stars
Every song from "B-Sides and Rarities" except "Flyswatter (Polka Dots Remix)" and a hidden track are included. I actually wouldn't be mad if they had included *every* track, but excluding 2 forces me to keep B-Sides in my itunes collection (yes, I'm a completionist, I only include full albums in iTunes, and yes that is my fault) Still, its an annoying thing to do to put out an album that includes *nearly* every track from another album, but not all. I digress
Description of Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2007 (2CD+DVD)
Highlights within the 50 CD tracks EELS USELESS TRINKETS: B-SIDES, SOUNDTRACKS, RARITIES AND UNRELEASED 1996-2006 are longtime concert favorite "Living Life" fromthe Daniel Johnston tribute album, the previously unreleased 2006 cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You" and other covers including James Carr's "Dark End of The Street" and Prince's "If I Was Your Girlfriend." USELESS TRINKETS also includes a large handful of BBC performances, unique live versions of "Novocaine For The Soul" and "My Beloved Monster," tracks from films - The End Of Violence, Holes, Levity and How The Grinch Stole Christmas andmany previously unreleased tracks including the original collections title track which frontman Everett performs backed by a 28 piece orchestra. The DVD features six performances fromthe EELS'Lollapalooza 2006 performance, including a gospel rave-up take on "My Beloved Monster" and a high octane rumble through "Souljacker part I."From son of an internationally renowned physicist, to oddball post-grunge one-hit-wonder, to ongoing alt-rock sideshow curiosity you just can't shut up, to engaging diarist of life at its most interesting, imagined or indeed tormented--Mark Oliver Everett a.k.a. 'E' a.k.a. Eels (he is effectively, for all their shape-shifting, the band incarnate) can lay reasonable claim to being one of the most notable American songwriters alive today. And given the already vast, sprawling nature of his 10-year back catalogue it will come as no surprise to discover that a few choice cuts fell between the cracks en-route. And thus, this double collection of Eels rarities, b-sides, session tracks and song re-jigs is about as delightful, if random, as any straight album he's released. He's always had too many sides to be a square, but even so it's surprising to see single songs' split personalities laid bare and equally dominant here. "Novocaine for the Soul" appears in two pleasingly alternate guises, as spoken word sub-grunge music-box and then playful, vocoder heavy robotic-minimalism, the Shrek-soundtracking "My Beloved Monster" is reinvented three times over, and "Susan's House" is reborn as suspenseful noir-hip hop in "Susan's Apartment". And tracks like hoarse, upbeat "Rotten World Blues", lullaby-simple "Taking a Bath in Rust" and twinkling lament "Living Life" are chart-toppers in any other reality. Trinkets are by definition a little useless, they serve no real purpose, yet with the aid of time the opposite often becomes true. Useless Trinkets, like Eels' career, is much like that. Hold it close. --James Berry
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