tbob
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Post by tbob on Nov 22, 2020 11:20:33 GMT -5
Nice throwback to read through this thread again. Eels were mentioned by a lot of you guys, and I think I agree. At least three close-to-perfect albums, and a couple of really good ones to. I think his 2020 release is his best in many years. Completely agree with everything you, and everyone else, says about Eels. Great band, and I’d go so far to as to say their first four albums are stellar and there’s plenty of highlights after that including as you say this year’s record which is their best in many a year. Next to Bruce’s new record it’s the new one I can’t stop playing. Before live music ground to halt they played my local festival Green Man in Wales on the Sunday early evening in 2019. The festival is about five miles away from where I live and me and a group of friends go to see them at least once or twice on every tour wherever they happen to play, so it was nice to see them so local to us. To boot it was a top set and just a few days ago they put the full set up on YouTube! Highly recommended: youtu.be/Pcua_F80Shw
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Post by muzzleofbees on Nov 23, 2020 6:00:13 GMT -5
Nice throwback to read through this thread again. Eels were mentioned by a lot of you guys, and I think I agree. At least three close-to-perfect albums, and a couple of really good ones to. I think his 2020 release is his best in many years. Completely agree with everything you, and everyone else, says about Eels. Great band, and I’d go so far to as to say their first four albums are stellar and there’s plenty of highlights after that including as you say this year’s record which is their best in many a year. Next to Bruce’s new record it’s the new one I can’t stop playing. Before live music ground to halt they played my local festival Green Man in Wales on the Sunday early evening in 2019. The festival is about five miles away from where I live and me and a group of friends go to see them at least once or twice on every tour wherever they happen to play, so it was nice to see them so local to us. To boot it was a top set and just a few days ago they put the full set up on YouTube! Highly recommended: youtu.be/Pcua_F80ShwGonna have a look at that! I saw him in Oslo back in 2005, when he did the With Strings tour. It was really good. Then, he came back a little over a year ago, to do a more straight up rock'n'roll set, and it was even better than what I anticipated. Eels was among the first "alternative" band I ever listened to, along with Oasis and Weezer. I started out with Daisies Of The Galaxy, which still is my favourite. But I really adore Electro-Shock Blues and Blinking Lights too. Beautiful Freak not far behind, and I still dig stuff from Souljacker and Shootenanny, though they're a bit more uneven.
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