Shootenanny [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Head Eel Mark "E" Everett purges his soul with a smile on Shootenanny!, as he delivers bursts of bittersweet wit and lighthearted drama. Unlike solemn 1996 epic Electro-Shock Blues and 2001’s thorny Souljacker, E's songwriting here puts the emphasis on light melodies and clean pop craft. While his limber genre-jumping often earns comparisons to Beck, there's also some of Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy in E’s razor-burn voice. And though Shootenanny! isn’t out on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’s experimental ledge, it has a similar unruly twang that injects a dose of whimsy into soul-searching songs like "Love of the Loveless." "Wrong About Bobby," for instance, glides along on sunny, jangling guitars while E tries and fails to forgive a violent grudge. By mixing sweet with sour, E's warm and fuzzy mope rock sounds great whether it's blasting out of a convertible on a sunny day or playing in the background on a rainy night. --Matthew Cooke --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Album Details
UK Version with Exclusive Enhanced Studio Footage and Performance.

Shootenanny!
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great Stuff
  • Keep Them Coming E
  • great album, Eels take a new turn
  • have yourself a shootenanny
  • Not quite up to snuff with their others.
 Shootenanny!
Eels
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Similar Items:
  1. Daisies of the Galaxy
  2. Souljacker [Bonus Disc]
  3. Electro-Shock Blues
  4. Beautiful Freak
  5. Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

ASIN: B00009B8G2
Release Date: 2003-06-03

Tracks:

  1. All in a Day's Work
  2. Saturday Morning
  3. The Good Old Days
  4. Love of the Loveless
  5. Dirty Girl
  6. Agony
  7. Rock Hard Times
  8. Restraining Order Blues
  9. Lone Wolf
  10. Wrong About Bobby
  11. Numbered Days
  12. Fashion Awards
  13. Somebody Loves You

Amazon.com

Head Eel Mark "E" Everett purges his soul with a smile on Shootenanny!, as he delivers bursts of bittersweet wit and lighthearted drama. Unlike solemn 1996 epic Electro-Shock Blues and 2001's thorny Souljacker, E's songwriting here puts the emphasis on light melodies and clean pop craft. While his limber genre-jumping often earns comparisons to Beck, there's also some of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy in E's razor-burn voice. And though Shootenanny! isn't out on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's experimental ledge, it has a similar unruly twang that injects a dose of whimsy into soul-searching songs like "Love of the Loveless." "Wrong About Bobby," for instance, glides along on sunny, jangling guitars while E tries and fails to forgive a violent grudge. By mixing sweet with sour, E's warm and fuzzy mope rock sounds great whether it's blasting out of a convertible on a sunny day or playing in the background on a rainy night. --Matthew Cooke

Album Details

UK Version with Exclusive Enhanced Studio Footage and Performance.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Stuff.......2007-07-05

This is probably the Eels' most accessible album. But that doesnt mean that is not up to snuff with their other work. On the contrary it is one of my favorites of theirs. The mood glides along from happiness, hope, longing, depression etc. (you know the drill) there is no doubt though that all the songs are sincere. This album is perfect for anyone getting into the Eels, and is essential to any fan's collection.

5 out of 5 stars Keep Them Coming E.......2005-02-27

From my first sight of Beautiful Freak two years ago, lead singer/lone wolf band member (not forgetting drummer Butch) E continues to pleasantly surprise me with his increasingly incendiary music. From the poppy edges of BF that attracted me to this band in the first place, to the utter heartbreak and/or soul searching of Electro-Shock Blues (thus far my second fav album by E), to the light at the end of the tunnel of Daises of the Galaxy, to the BUS-STOP BOXER in all of us through Souljacker, and now to Shootenanny! my, by far, favorite album by this great "band" (yeah, I'll call them a band). The first two songs of the thirteen are a bit weak but the remaining eleven are rides you won't want to make just once. From buying this album yesterday I haven't quit listening to it yet there's just something so appealing about the EELS and E that it's impossible to describe in words. This album exceeded my expectations of what E was capable of, hitting me in all of the pressure points, really touching my soul in a way few thing ever do. I thank God for the day he introduced me to E and his little band called the EELS that day two years ago. I've never looked back and look foward eagerly to the band's April release of their new effort: "Blinking Lights and other Revelations." To E: Keep them coming man, keep em coming.

5 out of 5 stars great album, Eels take a new turn.......2004-12-09

this new album, which comes after the sometimes criticized 'Souljacker' experimentation, has a far more conventionnal sound ; although easily recognisable as a member of the 'eels' galaxy. I found it a great album because of its melancolic songwriting and melodies, which gives this new release an intime and personnal aspect (a bit like the previous 'Electro Shock Blues') ; and of course because of the presence of the core elements of eels greatest albums such as an original and 'mindcatching' sound and E soft and 'folk' singing.

5 out of 5 stars have yourself a shootenanny.......2004-09-09

E and Butch have been producing rock of the finest quality for years. While Souljacker was full fledged rock, in Shootenanny E emerges somehow having found how to mix some rockin' folk with the melancholy we loved in Electroshock Blues. All I can do is stand back and say: "how did this happen? I'm toe-tappin' happy and drip-droppin' wishing life was better." What?!? you say. Yeah, that's what E does that no one else is on to. You're happy, you're diggin' the folk twang, you want more, and yet you can also sit back and honestly, nostalgically say: these are rock hard times.
Now that E has emerged above the clouds of CMJ indie kids and come into a realm where there is no one but E, the kind of unique realms of rock dwelt in by the likes of Beck, guys who are flying solo and continue to amaze, we can say: enough talk, just enjoy Eels.

4 out of 5 stars Not quite up to snuff with their others........2004-06-08

The songs are great, the lyrics are great, the album is great... just not as great as the others. All of their albums so far have received 5 stars by me, until this one. Some of the songs seem out of place. It was refreshing to see some of the songs recapture the sound that was discovered on E's solo albums, but even this can't bump it up to a five.
Shootenanny!
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great Stuff
  • Keep Them Coming E
  • great album, Eels take a new turn
  • have yourself a shootenanny
  • Not quite up to snuff with their others.
 Shootenanny!
Eels
Manufacturer: Universal/Polydor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Similar Items:
  1. Daisies of the Galaxy
  2. Souljacker [Bonus Disc]
  3. Electro-Shock Blues
  4. Beautiful Freak
  5. Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

ASIN: B00009Q98W
Release Date: 2003-06-02

Tracks:

  1. All in a Day's Work
  2. Saturday Morning
  3. Good Old Days
  4. Love of the Loveless
  5. Dirty Girl
  6. Agony
  7. Rock Hard Times
  8. Restraining Order Blues
  9. Lone Wolf
  10. Wrong About Bobby
  11. Numbered Days
  12. Fashion Awards
  13. Somebody Loves You

Amazon.com

Head Eel Mark "E" Everett purges his soul with a smile on Shootenanny!, as he delivers bursts of bittersweet wit and lighthearted drama. Unlike solemn 1996 epic Electro-Shock Blues and 2001's thorny Souljacker, E's songwriting here puts the emphasis on light melodies and clean pop craft. While his limber genre-jumping often earns comparisons to Beck, there's also some of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy in E's razor-burn voice. And though Shootenanny! isn't out on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's experimental ledge, it has a similar unruly twang that injects a dose of whimsy into soul-searching songs like "Love of the Loveless." "Wrong About Bobby," for instance, glides along on sunny, jangling guitars while E tries and fails to forgive a violent grudge. By mixing sweet with sour, E's warm and fuzzy mope rock sounds great whether it's blasting out of a convertible on a sunny day or playing in the background on a rainy night. --Matthew Cooke

Album Details

UK Version with Exclusive Enhanced Studio Footage and Performance.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Stuff.......2007-07-05

This is probably the Eels' most accessible album. But that doesnt mean that is not up to snuff with their other work. On the contrary it is one of my favorites of theirs. The mood glides along from happiness, hope, longing, depression etc. (you know the drill) there is no doubt though that all the songs are sincere. This album is perfect for anyone getting into the Eels, and is essential to any fan's collection.

5 out of 5 stars Keep Them Coming E.......2005-02-27

From my first sight of Beautiful Freak two years ago, lead singer/lone wolf band member (not forgetting drummer Butch) E continues to pleasantly surprise me with his increasingly incendiary music. From the poppy edges of BF that attracted me to this band in the first place, to the utter heartbreak and/or soul searching of Electro-Shock Blues (thus far my second fav album by E), to the light at the end of the tunnel of Daises of the Galaxy, to the BUS-STOP BOXER in all of us through Souljacker, and now to Shootenanny! my, by far, favorite album by this great "band" (yeah, I'll call them a band). The first two songs of the thirteen are a bit weak but the remaining eleven are rides you won't want to make just once. From buying this album yesterday I haven't quit listening to it yet there's just something so appealing about the EELS and E that it's impossible to describe in words. This album exceeded my expectations of what E was capable of, hitting me in all of the pressure points, really touching my soul in a way few thing ever do. I thank God for the day he introduced me to E and his little band called the EELS that day two years ago. I've never looked back and look foward eagerly to the band's April release of their new effort: "Blinking Lights and other Revelations." To E: Keep them coming man, keep em coming.

5 out of 5 stars great album, Eels take a new turn.......2004-12-09

this new album, which comes after the sometimes criticized 'Souljacker' experimentation, has a far more conventionnal sound ; although easily recognisable as a member of the 'eels' galaxy. I found it a great album because of its melancolic songwriting and melodies, which gives this new release an intime and personnal aspect (a bit like the previous 'Electro Shock Blues') ; and of course because of the presence of the core elements of eels greatest albums such as an original and 'mindcatching' sound and E soft and 'folk' singing.

5 out of 5 stars have yourself a shootenanny.......2004-09-09

E and Butch have been producing rock of the finest quality for years. While Souljacker was full fledged rock, in Shootenanny E emerges somehow having found how to mix some rockin' folk with the melancholy we loved in Electroshock Blues. All I can do is stand back and say: "how did this happen? I'm toe-tappin' happy and drip-droppin' wishing life was better." What?!? you say. Yeah, that's what E does that no one else is on to. You're happy, you're diggin' the folk twang, you want more, and yet you can also sit back and honestly, nostalgically say: these are rock hard times.
Now that E has emerged above the clouds of CMJ indie kids and come into a realm where there is no one but E, the kind of unique realms of rock dwelt in by the likes of Beck, guys who are flying solo and continue to amaze, we can say: enough talk, just enjoy Eels.

4 out of 5 stars Not quite up to snuff with their others........2004-06-08

The songs are great, the lyrics are great, the album is great... just not as great as the others. All of their albums so far have received 5 stars by me, until this one. Some of the songs seem out of place. It was refreshing to see some of the songs recapture the sound that was discovered on E's solo albums, but even this can't bump it up to a five.
Shootenanny!
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Shootenanny!
    Eels
    Manufacturer: Universal
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000091KVN
    Release Date: 2003-05-28

    Tracks:

    1. All in a Day's Work
    2. Saturday Morning
    3. Good Old Days
    4. Love of the Loveless
    5. Dirty Girl
    6. Agony
    7. Rock Hard Times
    8. Restraining Order Blues
    9. Lone Wolf
    10. Wrong About Bobby
    11. Numbered Days
    12. Fashion Awards
    13. Somebody Loves You

    Album Description

    Japanese edition of the L.A. based indie act's 2003 album includes one bonus track, 'Sad Foot Sign'. 14 tracks. Dreamworks.

    Album Details

    Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track

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