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Useless Trinkets B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased

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Artist: Eels
Label: Universal
Category: Music

List Price: ~~Ł17.99~~
Buy New: Ł10.30
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

3 reviews
Sales Rank: 7803

Format: Cd+dvd, Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics, Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 182
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 000989400
UPC: 602517460140
EAN: 0602517460140
ASIN: B000Y2WAL6

Release Date: January 21, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: brand new sealed

Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Novocaine For The Soul
•	Fucker
•	My Beloved Monster
•	Dog's Life
•	Susan's Apartment
•	Manchester Girl
•	Flower
•	My Beloved Mad Monster Party
•	Animal
•	Stepmother
•	Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
•	Your Lucky Day In Hell
•	Altar Boy
•	Novocaine For The Soul By Moog Cookbook
•	If I Was Your Girlfriend
•	Bad News
•	Funeral Parlor
•	Hospital Food
•	Open The Door
•	Birdgirl On A Cell Phone
•	Vice President Fruitley
•	My Beloved Monstrosity
•	The Dark End Of The Street
•	The Cheater's Guide To Your Heart
•	Useless Trinkets

Disc 2

•	Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
•	Souljacker Part I
•	Dog Faced Boy
•	Jennifer Eccles
•	Rotten World Blues
•	Can't Help Falling In Love
•	Christmas Is Going To The Dogs
•	Mighty Fine Blues
•	Eyes Down
•	Skywriting
•	Taking A Bath In Rust
•	Estranged Friends
•	Her
•	Waltz Of The Naked Clowns
•	I Like Birds
•	Sad Foot Sign
•	Living Life
•	The Bright Side
•	After The Operation
•	Jelly Dancers
•	I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
•	Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
•	I Want To Protect You
•	I Put A Spell On You
•	Saw A U.F.O

Disc 3

•	Saturday Morning
•	Eyes Down
•	My Beloved Monster
•	A Magic World
•	Not Ready Yet
•	Souljacker Part I

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

a great alternative best-off July 26, 2008
this album is a great way to revisit some old favourites afresh whilst discovering plenty of new songs and artists.

Not that many songs are listed as previously unreleased but i've got all their albums and a vast majority of their singles and had only heard about 15 of these tracks before.

the two Prince covers are excellent aand have lead me to want to buy something by him, there's also some very interesting reworkings of the songs previously released on albums - naturally these aren't as good as the proper versions but they are still good and give fresh new take on them.

there's also lots of completely original songs such as rotten world blues which is catchy enough to be a single and of course it's handy to have all those b-sides compiled.

well worth buying for the long-term fan.

5 out of 5 stars

For eels fans only February 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

The versions of novocaine & the live version of "I like birds" make this a must for eels fans. The greatest hits CD is contentious but this is very interesting, even when it doess'nt work. For eels fan only but there are a good 10 or so tracks that make it worth buying, even if you haven't got all they've ever done !

4 out of 5 stars

Loads of lost treasure for Eels fans January 24, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful

Like so many B-Sides and Rarity compilations, it's only really the die-hard fans of the artist who will go and buy the CD. I am an Eels fan (and obviously I did buy the CD) and can only say that there is a fantastic amount of lost/rare tracks to enjoy on this compilation for Eels fans. There are a couple of oddities on here which you probably won't listen to again but with standout tracks like Living Life and the absolutely gorgeous last track Saw A UFO, there is much to enjoy.