Last week Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) and his revolving lineup of bandmates known as The EELS unveiled their first “best of” compilation, Meet The EELS: Essential EELS Vol. 1, 1996-2006, and its first collection of rarities, EELS Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (Label: DreamWorks/Geffen).
Meet The EELS offers 24 tracks that showcase the band’s evolution plus 12 videos. Useless Trinkets features 50 hard-to-find B-sides, film contributions and unreleased tracks, and a DVD of live performance footage from Lollapalooza 2006.
All music has been digitally remastered and both releases are accompanied by notes from E and full-color booklets. More release info & track listings here.
We got our hands on one copy of Meet The Eels, one copy of Useless Trinkets and one signed 7″ vinyl.
What You Can Win
- Meet The Eels CD
- Useless Trinkets CD
- Limited Edition 7″ vinyl (1 of 3,000) featuring two unreleased tracks (”Climbing To The Moon” [Jon Brion remix] and “I Want To Protect You”)
How to Win
E-mail us with a lyric from your favorite EELS song and why. We’ll randomly pick a winner out of a funny hat (seriously, a funny-looking hat) on January 25. Feel free to post it in the comments, too.
Some of the entries thus far:
- “Do you know what it’s like to fall on the floor, cry your guts out until you’ve got no more? Hey man, now you’re really living!”
- “This nagging malaise, Is more than a phase, It feels like a job, But no boss ever pays you to lay there, And think how you’ll die, While the tears start to well in your eyes”
- “Something about spending the afternoon, Asleep in your arms”
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