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ARTIST: E. (MARK EVERETT) A.K.A. EELS
TITLE: “HELLO CRUEL WORLD” (3:50)
TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS/ABOVE):
LABLE: POLYDOR RECORDS
CAT.#: CDP 654
YEAR: 1992
CONDITION: THIS IS OPENED BUT UNPLAYED. COMES IN A CARD SLEEVE IN NM CONDITION.THIS WILL MAIL OUT INSIDE A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVE.,
MORE INFO: THIS CD IS OUT OF PRINT. FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY OF A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK. NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. PRINTED ON THE BACK & CD ARTWORK IS “FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY-NOT FOR SALE”. FROM HIS “A MAN CALLED (E)” ALBUM.
ARTIST INFO:
E. (MARK EVERETT) BIO-INFO
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett, 58, is the frontman of alternative rock band Eels and is also known by the stage name E. Since 1996, Eels have released 13 studio albums including the acclaimed Beautiful Freak, Electro-Shock Blues and Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. Eels won best international breakthrough act at the 1998 Brit awards, while a 2007 BBC documentary about Everett and his father, physicist Hugh Everett III, won a Royal Television Society award. He lives in Los Angeles. The new Eels album, Extreme Witchcraft, will be released on 28 January and they tour the UK from March.
After the death of his mother and suicide of his sister in the 1990s, it is no wonder that Mark Oliver Everett had many grievances to nurse. Rather than lamenting his past, however, the front man for the eels continued to sing about overcoming and accepting the pain. Now, recently divorced, with a ten-month old son, Everett stresses that “life is in constant motion,” and in order to record his band’s most recent album, The Deconstruction (released last month, the band’s first album in four years), he had to tear down his defenses.
Everett (also known as ‘E’) recorded with bandmates Koool G Murder, P-Boo and the Deconstruction Orchestra & Choir and co-produced it with Mickey Petralia, the first time the latter twirled the knobs on an eels album since Electro-shock Blues in 1998. The Deconstruction is a mix of acoustic numbers, distorted guitar and delicate piano intros that provide a trippy but contemporary listening experience.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Everett or the history of the band, it all began with Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush.
Everett was born in Virginia on April 9, 1963 to Dr. Hugh Everett III, Ph.D, a quantum physicist, and Nancy Everett. At the age of eight, Everett showed an interest in his sister Elizabeth’s record collection, Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush was one of his favorites. Upon listening to the album, he was determined to record an album of his own someday.
“The one (song) that probably set me on that path very early on was, for some reason when I was 10 years old, I think, my favorite record was Plastic Ono Band, the first John Lennon solo album. And I didn’t have any perspective for it at the time, but it’s unusual looking back on it — for a 10-year-old kid to be so into that record — because it’s an extremely raw, personal record. It’s the one that’s got him howling for his mother that abandoned him.” – Mark Oliver Everett (in an interview with NPR)
Growing up, Everett led a complicated life, and in his early teens (perhaps in order to cope with his troubles), he took up playing the drums. Within a few years, he learned to play the piano, as well as his sister’s guitar. By the time he reached his early twenties, Everett began recording his own demos and went by the first initial of his last name, ‘E’. It was only a matter of time before he left his native Virginia and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career. Once E was settled in Los Angeles, he began to write and record his own songs, and shortly after, was signed to Polydor Records.
His first album, A Man Called (E), was released in 1992, followed by Broken Toy Shop, which was released in 1993. Despite E’s busy tour schedule, the albums did not sell particularly well. Shortly after the release of his second album, E left Polydor to form the band eels (typeset in all lower case or all upper case letters). Why the peculiar name? E figured if he named the band ‘eels’ their recordings would be filed next to his solo albums, since albums are filed alphabetically. When the first eels album was released, he discovered that ‘E’ and ‘eels’ were separated by the Eagles and Earth, Wind & Fire. What a bummer! The original lineup consisted of E (vocals / guitar), Tommy Walter (bass), and Butch Norton (drums).
In 1996, the band signed with Dreamworks and released a debut album, Beautiful Freak, from which the track “Novocain for the Soul” received several MTV nominations and became a hit in England. (In 1998, the eels received the ‘Best International Newcomer Award’ at the Brit Awards, which was presented to them by the faux metal band Spinal Tap.)
“For a long time, I didn’t ever consider writing songs about what was going on with these tragedies in my family because it just felt too personal and I was just so immersed in it. And then one day when I was back there visiting my mom while she was sick, I was laying on my childhood bed, laying there just sad and depressed over the whole situation and in my imagination. I was laying there looking up at the ceiling, I saw a blue sky, and that was this big moment where I suddenly realized, ‘Oh, I can write about this stuff and make it something that can help me and help people, I think.’ And that’s why I did it.” – Mark Oliver Everett (in an interview with NPR)
Not long after the release of the eels’ first Dreamworks album, E’s sister Elizabeth committed suicide. By 1998, his mother was terminally ill with lung cancer. Since his father had died in 1982, this meant that E was the only surviving member of his family. This, without a doubt, depressed him to no end, and the eels were a perfect outlet to express the emotional state that he was in. Within the upcoming months, Tommy Walter had left the group, but E was adamant about recording another album. In September of 1998, eels released the Electroshock Blues LP, which largely focused on the death of his mother and sister. The title itself refers to the electroshock therapy that his sister received when she was institutionalized, and the title track “Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor” is his description of a journal entry his sister wrote after her first suicide attempt. With Walker no longer in the band, E enlisted several musicians to contribute to his album,
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