Anyone else?

Love the lyrics. E (Mark Everett) has a great way with words and he can be pretty inventive especially around the time of Beautiful Freak and Daisies of the Galaxy.

Great music too; dark and beautiful, the way Elbow can be.

Definitely! I remember getting Electro-Shock Blues and being amazed by how powerful it was, and how uplifting, despite the subject matter. E has a great sense of melody, as well as being a really superb lyricist.

U gotta love eels

Anyone heard about/read the book E wrote recently? If you listen to his music regularly, you know he's had an interesting and dramatic life, to say the least. I haven't bought this yet but I will do, because I'm sure his telling of the tale will be worth reading.

I'll probably wait until the paperback edition, being such a tightwad. I have heard of it however.

There was a fantastic documentary recently about E's dad who was a brilliant theorist/scientist type bod and came up with the whole multiverse/multiple dimension theory stuff. E featured prominently as he spoke about his relationship with his dad. Excellent if you ever get to see it.

Time to wake this thread up, for anyone who's interested, because there's a new Eels disc on the way...first single and a mini-documentary on the new album are available on the Eels MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/eels

Looking forward to hearing this!

Cheers Chrissie. I'll wander over there and have a look.
Oh! and I managed to get a copy of E's book in hardback for three quid on offer in the local HMV at Christmas

Sounding good. Looking forward to the new album.

Glad to hear you got the book, Hotblack - I enjoyed it a lot, though I wish I'd found a cheap copy like you did...mine was waaay more than that!

And the new single does sound good, doesn't it! Can't wait to hear the rest of it - I think it's gonna ROCK!

I just became friends with E's dog, Bobby , Jr., on MySpace. He has appeared in a couple of Eels videos and on a track from Blinking Lights... And he has his very own MySpace page. So now I'm his friend.

MySpace is a funny place.

In case you missed it, new song/video is up and sounds smashing...it's classic Eels and it's really making me hungry for the rest of the album.

Video is here: EELS- That Look You Give That Guy

Hi all - I've just got an Eels greatest hits - I don't know much about them/him. Just wonderful - More music that I can't believe I missed!

Glad you're enjoying it ticky...E is absolutely one of my favorite songwriters ever!

Just watched a program about E and his dad on telly last night, funnily enough. E never knew his father too well (he passed away when E was 18), but his dad was a very well-respected quantum physicist and he proposed a theory about parallel universes back in the 50's. The show was about E's attempt to investigate and understand his father's life and work. It was very cool...there's a website with info if anyone's curious and has a few minutes to kill: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/

Lovely Interview with Mark here:

http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/features/4774/eels-/-q&a

Eels have announced ANOTHER new release, for early next year! Hot on the heels of Hombre Loco, we have even more new Eels to look forward to! He does keep himself busy, doesn't, he?

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