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The Alternative-Rock Indie-Rock act Eels is a creation of singer+multi-instrumentalist
& songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, he was born on April 9, 1963 in
Fairfax County, Virginia USA, to a father who is renowned as one of the
greatest scientists of the 20th century; throughout his teens Mark Everett
was 'ME', gradually it was shortened to the even easier 'E'.
With bassist Tommy Walter and drummer Jonathan 'Butch' Norton, E, began
playing on the Los Angeles club scene in the mid-'90s and eventually signed
a recording contract with DreamWorks.
The band's debut full-length disc, "Beautiful Freak", arrived
in August of 1996, shortly after its release, Eels embarked on a tour
throughout America and Europe; the record peaked at #2 on Billboard's
Heatseekers and broke the U.S. Top 200 Albums chart reaching the #114;
the first single, "Novocaine For The Soul", rose to #1 spot
on The Modern Rock chart while the track "Susan's House" made
top 10 in European charts.
Before Mr. E and his band headed back into the studio to record the follow-up
to "Beautiful Freak", Walter departed to pursue his own project
Abandoned Pools; "Electro-Shock
Blues" contained E's reaction to the recent deaths of his family
members, E found his father dead, his sister, Elizabeth, commited suicide
in 1996 and his mother was terminally ill with lung cancer and close to
death; the second album failed to chart and generated "Last Stop:
This Town" which barely entered the top 40 of The Modern Rock Tracks
chart, followed by the minor hit "Cancer For The Cure", this
song was later chosen for the soundtrack to the Sam Mendes movie "American
Beauty"; Eels went on tour to support its second album through extensive
touring on both sides of the Atlantic with the new bassist Adam Siegal.
In March of 2000, Eels issued the mellow "Daisies Of The Galaxy",
R.E.M.'s Peter Buck guested on the album;
the first single, "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" was a hidden song
on the album, followed another single "Flyswatter", but the
third LP was essentially a flop.
E and Norton decided to started a new progect: The Eels Orchestra 2000,
a six-piece band featured saxophone, trombone, trumpet, banjo, guitar,
violin, upright bass, piano, melodica, clarinet, and timpani; the band
toured throughout Europe, America and Australia, the result was a live-compilation
entitled "Oh What A Beautiful Morning".
Eels returned with its fourth-studio effort, "Souljacker" in
September of 2001, guitarist John Parish, previously in PJ
Harvey's band, co-wrote most of the songs of the album which notched
the single "Souljacker Pt. I", the video was directed by Wim
Wenders.
"Shootenanny!" followed two years later, the set hit #7 on the
Billboard Magazine's Top Heatseekers Albums chart and included the single
"Saturday Morning". Former drummer Butch Norton left the band
after recording the album, he was replaced with Puddin who joined Everett,
guitarist Shon 'Golden Boy' Sullivan and bassit Koool G Murder for the
Tour Of Duty.
Eels' sixth album, "Blinking Lights And Other Revelations",
appeared to little fanfare in April 2005, the 33-track double-CD set includes
the single "Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)".
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