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Shootenanny!

Artist: Eels
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

21 reviews
Sales Rank: 13706

Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 41
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 600445045880
EAN: 0600445045880
ASIN: B00009Q98W

Release Date: June 2, 2003
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Tracks:

•	All In A Day's Work
•	Saturday Morning
•	The Good Old Days
•	Love Of The Loveless
•	Dirty Girl
•	Agony
•	Rock Hard Times
•	Restraining Order Blues
•	Lone Wolf
•	Wrong About Bobby
•	Numbered Days
•	Fashion Awards
•	Somebody Loves You

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•	Electro-Shock Blues
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•	Beautiful Freak
•	Souljacker - Limited Edition

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
Head Eel Mark "E" Everett purges his soul with a smile on Shootenanny!, as he delivers bursts of bittersweet wit and light-hearted 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 such as "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 across a garden on a sunny day or playing in the background on a rainy night. --Matthew Cooke

Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding February 17, 2008
I didn't know what to expect from this album at all so what a fantastic surprise it turned out to be. The first thing that struck me was how immediate the album was for me. There were very few 'growers' on the it. I loved most of them straight away. To me this is E at his best. A perfect mix of beautiful melodies, great rockers and seriously catchy tunes. The closest album in style to 'Beautiful Freak' in my opinion.

5 out of 5 stars

The best album ever from the best band! January 12, 2008
A short review because there's not much to say to be honest! I love E and this is quite simply a fantastic album. Everything he does is carefully created and delivered and this is his best and most varied album in my opinion. Brilliant!

5 out of 5 stars

Their most under-rated album? February 7, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Reading through some of the other reviews from Amazon customer's on this album reinforces my view that Shootenanny! doesn't always get the credit it deserves.
While it is true that the previous 4 albums were always going to be a hard act to follow, Eel's 5th album shouldn't be condemned as simply a taster for the (admittedly magnificent) Blinking Lights.
Opening track "All In A Day's Work" displays E's black humour at it's best, while "Saturday Morning", as another reviewer pointed out already, should evoke fond memories for any of us who recall what it was like to be a kid waking up at the start of the weekend wondering what havoc we could cause that day-I could even claim that listening to it has made me more forgiving of my own kids when they run riot through my flat of a Saturday afternoon. Indeed, to me at least, it is this ability to write poignantly on any subject from childhood experience to the (rather more dark) material of "Restraining Order Blues" which marks Mark "E" Everett out as one of the finest songwriters of this generation(along with the wonderful Ian McNabb-but that's another story...)
But this is not a "bleak" album in the way that say, "Electro-Shock Blues" was, although still a fine work in itself maybe not the best "starting point" for the curious first-time Eel's purchaser? Admittedly I am too sentimental for my own good but the two songs which make this album for me are the glorious "Numbered Days" and to a slightly lesser extent the closer "Somebody Loves You". If these songs don't fail to melt the hardest heart or bring solace to anybody who(like most of us)has had a hard time either generally or from the dreaded "affairs of the heart" then there really is no hope for you(and I speak as a cynic).
Much is made(quite rightly) of the fact that E is a talented multi-instrumentalist, but what makes this album for me is his voice-certainly not classically beautiful by any means but the sheer empathy, humanity and world-weariness he feels really comes through on Shootenanny!-indeed there are few better commentators on the human condition in the world of music at the moment.
In conclusion, if you've never bought an Eels album before, then you won't go wrong with any of them but please don't let yourself be put off "Shootenanny!" as some sort of "Second-Rate" Eels product-it stands up on it's own and is well worth your consideration.

5 out of 5 stars

My favourite album April 13, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I have been trying to decide which is my favourite album of all time between "Elephant by the White Stripes, "Absolution" by Muse or this, and I think this album just wins it, because I can relate to the lyrics in almost every song, so they all mean something to me. I really do think this is a masterpiece. After a few listens, there was only one track I did not like - "Fashion Awards", but I persevered with it and I even find myself humming that from time to time. This is one of only a few albums I can listen over and over without getting bored.

2 out of 5 stars

Heard it before and better April 8, 2005
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

I love Eels , particularly 'Daisies' and 'Electro-Shock' but this does sound like a clumsy attempt at keeping everyone happy until the epic 'Blinking Lights...' arrives. Songs sound like weak returns to familiar ideas. 'Love of the Loveless' is pleasnat enough but the best track for me by a clear mile is the stunning 'Agony'