Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD)

Eels - Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD)

Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD)
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Artist: Eels
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-01-15
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Novocaine For The Soul (Live From Hell)
  2. Fucker
  3. My Beloved Monster (Live From Tennessee)
  4. Dog's Life
  5. Susan's Apartment
  6. Manchester Girl (BBC)
  7. Flower (BBC)
  8. My Beloved Mad Monster Party (BBC)
  9. Animal
  10. Stepmother
  11. Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
  12. Your Lucky Day In Hell (Michael Simpson Remix)*
  13. Altar Boy
  14. Novocaine For The Soul (Moog Cookbook Remix)
  15. If I Was Your Girlfriend (Live)*
  16. Bad News
  17. Funeral Parlor
  18. Hospital Food (BBC)
  19. Open The Door (BBC)
  20. Birdgirl On A Cell Phone
  21. Vice President Fruitley
  22. My Beloved Monstrosity
  23. Dark End Of The Street (Live)*
  24. The Cheater's Guide To Your Heart (Live)*
  25. Useless Trinkets*
Music CD 2
  1. Mr. E's Beautiful Remix
  2. Souljacker Part I (Alternate Version)*
  3. Dog Faced Boy (Alternate Version)*
  4. Jennifer Eccles
  5. Rotten World Blues
  6. Can't Help Falling In Love
  7. Christmas Is Going To The Dogs
  8. Mighty Fine Blues
  9. Eyes Down
  10. Skywriting
  11. Taking A Bath In Rust
  12. Estranged Friends*
  13. Her
  14. Waltz Of The Naked Clowns
  15. I Like Birds (Live)*
  16. Sad Foot Sign
  17. Living Life
  18. The Bright Side
  19. After The Operation
  20. Jelly Dancers
  21. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Live At Town Hall)
  22. Mr. E's Beautiful Blues (Live At Town Hall)
  23. I Want To Protect You*
  24. I Put A Spell On You (Live)*
  25. Saw A Ufo*
Music CD 3
  1. Saturday Morning
  2. Eyes Down
  3. My Beloved Monster
  4. A Magic World
  5. Not Ready Yet
  6. Souljacker part I*previously unreleased

Free Music Notes for Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD)

Free Music Review: Not Useless - Essential!
Hit: 5 Stars

The EELS.

You love 'em or hate 'em -- there is no middle ground. Their offbeat style of alternative rock with either soothe your soul or abrade it. I am in the former camp. I love the Eels, can't get enough of this intelligent, catchy stuff. Mark Oliver Everett (otherwise known as E) IS the Eels -- no disrespect to the other fine musicians in the band. His presence just overshadows the rest. That is not a bad thing, and the music always comes together in a way that makes it seem like it had to be just so -- all elements from vocals to instrument blend perfectly, nothing overshadowing anything else. At the center of it all is E and his raspy, emotional, insightful and intelligent lyrics. They are the glue that holds the songs together.

I digress, this is supposed to be a review of the Trinkets album. Well, all of what I just wrote still applies.

This is a wonderful collection for the fans, less so for Eels newcomers. For them I would say start with their studio albums (like Daisies of the Galaxy and Electro-Shock Blues) and fall in love with them that way. For the rest of us, this is a treasure trove of rare tracks and alternate takes that Eels fans will eat up! Not every song has the amazing production quality of the Eels studio albums, but for the most part they are quite good. Picking favorites out of the 50 collected tracks is a daunting task. If you are an Eels fan then you know different tracks will resonate more for you on different days. With each disc clocking in at around 75 minutes, there is plenty to enjoy. Live tracks are fun to hear...often getting different treatment than the studio versions. The Moog version of "Novocain for the Soul" is a favorite of mine, as is the rockier version of "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" at the beginning of disc 2 and covers like "Can't Help Falling In Love" and "I Put A Spell On You."

The presentation is wonderful, a richly designed 4-fold digipack with photos from most of the Eels eras. The accompanying book has tons of photos and concept art, and E's commentary about each of the tracks makes the experience all the more enjoyable and enlightening. Also fun is the 6 track Lollapalooza 2006 live performance DVD where the band really rocks out. The hijinks of the "security guard" is also fun to watch. It is an interesting contrast considering the Eels with Strings that was to follow.

All in all, this double CD set does an admirable job of gathering rarities from the Eels first 10 years. I would recommend it to any fan of E and the Eels. I'd also like to recommend Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall, one of the best concert DVDs I've seen in a while. It makes a nice companion for Trinkets, and their greatest hits so far compilation, Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006, Vol. 1. New-fans should probably start with Meet the Eels before moving on to this album.

4.5 Stars. Here's looking forward to 10 more innovative years!
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Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD) Poster

From son of an internationally renowned physicist, to oddball post-grunge one-hit-wonder, to ongoing alt-rock sideshow curiosity you just can?t shut up, to engaging diarist of life at its most interesting, imagined or indeed tormented--Mark Oliver Everett a.k.a. ?E? a.k.a. Eels (he is effectively, for all their shape-shifting, the band incarnate) can lay reasonable claim to being one of the most notable American songwriters alive today. And given the already vast, sprawling nature of his 10-year back catalogue it will come as no surprise to discover that a few choice cuts fell between the cracks en-route. And thus, this double collection of Eels rarities, b-sides, session tracks and song re-jigs is about as delightful, if random, as any straight album he?s released. He?s always had too many sides to be a square, but even so it?s surprising to see single songs? split personalities laid bare and equally dominant here. "Novocaine for the Soul" appears in two pleasingly alternate guises, as spoken word sub-grunge music-box and then playful, vocoder heavy robotic-minimalism, the Shrek-soundtracking "My Beloved Monster" is reinvented three times over, and "Susan?s House" is reborn as suspenseful noir-hip hop in "Susan?s Apartment". And tracks like hoarse, upbeat "Rotten World Blues", lullaby-simple "Taking a Bath in Rust" and twinkling lament "Living Life" are chart-toppers in any other reality. Trinkets are by definition a little useless, they serve no real purpose, yet with the aid of time the opposite often becomes true. Useless Trinkets, like Eels? career, is much like that. Hold it close. --James Berry

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