one thing i love about daisies is that it pretty much jettisons all of the postdelay collage stuff, even the track harkening back to that ("flyswatter") sounds much more organic and uh played
it's a neat effect on electro-shock but it's mostly the framing device for all the weakest songs imo (cf. "hospital food"). "last stop: this town" is a miracle tho
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
I cannot stand "Hospital Food", really stands out like a sore thumb on that record.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
oh i guess jon brion only plays organ on "climbing to the moon" but i'd say electro-shock generally kinda has his *swarm of bass clarinets appears out of nowhere* thing going on, which i associate pretty heavily with the late '90s aka the span of time between tidal and when the pawn
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
ok yeah blinking lights is awesome
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
That could be me in a couple yearsSuckin' fumes under the highway pass
On a rainy dayWhile I wear newspapers for pantsAnd a T-shirt that says"Damn, I'm Good."
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link
I love these early singles, really looking forward to the debut album, oh it's mostly a bunch of dreary underbite shit like this title track I'm walking away in disgust and ignoring them, but now he's popping up on the BBC singing Mr E's Beautiful Blues, I'll check out the new album, it's great! Should I go back and check out the one I missed Electroshock Blues, hmmm, everything I've read about it makes it sound like doubling down on the navelgazing self pity, well turns out I'm the dumdum, this is their masterpiece! Souljacker is the perfect soundtrack to nodding your head as you descend further into substance abuse, John Parish, right? Blinking Lights, meant to be a return to form, FROM WHAT, I ASK YOU? With a double album you expect overlong songs, but this is mostly stuff that peters out after any half formed idea, fucksake it's still going on? Oh Ok, they're putting out another album, I'll maybe get around to that at some point (repeat last line to fade)
That is "My Story Of Eels, From Sketchy Memory"
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
ESB is the greatest album that I never ever want to listen to
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 20 May 2021 07:48 (two years ago) link
I had hit a point of diminishing returns with recent Eels albums to the point that I never even checked out Earth to Dora. Gotta say that the new one, Extreme Witchcraft, has a lot of charm even if it's not a patch on his best work. This is the most I've enjoyed an Eels record since probably Hombre Lobo.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
I will say it "sounds 1998" in the sense that E sounds like he was in thrall to Odelay but had no interest in layering loads of samples, so he ended up with a much more sparse and skeletal sound, which works very well with his lyrical approach, which is basically the opposite of Beck's
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Wednesday, May 19, 2021 7:47 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't it sounds like Odelay so much as it does the more introspective acoustic stuff Beck was doing on Mutations, "Dead Melodies", "We Live Again", etc. I think mistook the latter song for Eels when I first heard it
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link