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ALBUMEELS TIME!Eels
Albums by Eels
ALBUMEELS TIME!Eels
ALBUMExtreme WitchcraftEels
ALBUMEarth to DoraEels
ALBUMThe DeconstructionEels
ALBUMRoyal Albert HallEels
ALBUMThe Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett (Deluxe Version)Eels
ALBUMWonderful, Glorious (Deluxe Version)Eels
ALBUMTomorrow MorningEels
ALBUMEnd TimesEels
ALBUMHombre LoboEels
Eels's Popular Music Videos
Possum (feat. Eels)
meija
Shotgun Clown (feat. Eels)
Sharpton Mann
Artist Playlists
Eels Essentials
Mr Everett's kaleidoscopic sound.
Eels: Influences
Slack-rock stars and contrarians shape his irreverent ethos.
Eels: Deep Cuts
Upbeat blues rock and ‘60s go-go grooves get an acerbic spin.
Inspired by Eels
The sensitive, lo-fi indie rockers they helped spawn.
Artist Biography
Alternative rock band Eels has landed four albums in the UK Top 10, beginning with 1996’s Beautiful Freak.
∙ A Beatles fan since early childhood, Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett—who goes by the stage name E—was inspired by Ringo Starr to start playing drums at age six.
∙ Eels’ 1998 album, Electro-Shock Blues, includes instrumental contributions from Jon Brion, T-Bone Burnett, Lisa Germano, and Grant-Lee Phillips.
∙ Legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders directed the video for their single “Souljacker, Pt. 1.”
∙ “Going Fetal,” from 2005’s Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, features a guest vocal from Tom Waits, one of Everett’s all-time heroes.
∙ In 2007, Everett hosted Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, a documentary about his father, Dr. Hugh Everett III, who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
∙ Pete Townshend called Everett’s autobiography, Things the Grandchildren Should Know, “one of the best books ever written by a contemporary artist.”
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Genre
Alternative