vanmas wrote: 
Whats depressing about being a 'bus stop boxer' ?

Songs that have no green font in the song comments should move to the top of the playlist and be marked with an asterisk as uncontaminated and safe to bother with.

Getting a Beck-vibe. I like it!

Yes!  I like to guess the artists of songs I'm hearing here for the first time - thought sure this one was Beck.

I like the depressing atmosphere in their songs!
Please play more of them!

 WonderLizard wrote: 
me agrees

For my money, along with Damon Gough and the late Elliott Smith, the most melodic songwriters of the last decade more or less.

 fuh2 wrote: 
That was an amazing show. I had no idea that Everett's ideas were so soundly rejected by the physics community. You could also really sense how much Mark Everett had been affected by living with and in the shadow of his father. At one point he mentioned that when he picked up his dead father's body, it was one of the few times that they had actually touched. 

Prolly my favorite Eels tune!

Getting a Beck-vibe. I like it!

 SchoepTone wrote:  Very interesting show.

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

PARALLEL WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES SOUNDTRACK on iTunes HERE

Award-winning BBC documentary film about EELS leader and his father: The BAFTA and RTS Award-winning BBC documentary PARALLEL WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES follows the lead singer of US rock band EELS, MARK OLIVER EVERETT, on his journey of discovery across America to learn about the father he never knew, HUGH EVERETT III, the quantum physicist. This year is the 50th anniversary of Hugh Everett's most important contribution to science - a controversial theory of quantum mechanics that predicts the existence of PARALLEL UNIVERSES, one of the most fantastic scientific predictions ever to have been conceived. Hugh wrote the theory as a young Ph.D. student at Princeton University, but for 20 years it remained largely ignored by the scientific community. Faced with derision and rejection Everett abandoned academia and forged a career in the American defense industry. It was only at the end of his life, that his visionary work began to be taken seriously. Hugh died of a heart attack in his home in 1982 where his body was found by 19 year old son Mark. Even though they had lived in the same house, the two of them were alienated and Mark knew nothing about his father's work: "My father never, ever said anything to me about his theories. I was in the same house with him for at least 18 years but he was a total stranger to me. He was in his own parallel universe. He was a physical presence, like the furniture, sitting there jotting down crazy notations at the dining room table night after night. I think he was deeply disappointed that he knew he was a genius but the rest of the world didn't know it," - Mark Oliver Everett. In this intelligent and imaginative film, the wry and charismatic Mark takes a journey back into his father's life, meeting his old college pals, family friends and colleagues and takes a crash course in the weird world of quantum mechanics in order to understand his father's mind blowing theory. (BBC) ************************ The film made its BBC premiere November 26, 2007 and has played several times since due to popular demand. The official U.S. premiere was at The Paley Center in New York City, May 29, 2008. The film was broadcast in America on PBS as part of the acclaimed NOVA series October 21, 2008.

Anything by E rocks. He is one of the truly great contemporary artists.

The PBS show about E's scientist father was very cool.

coloradojohn wrote:
The original being "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum?

I like this song so much...
Several times I played this almost the whole night, on repeat

Also, check "World of S..t" from this album, if you already haven't... great album in general.

Always enjoy hearing some Eels

Digging it.

Cool song from a cool, cool group. I agree with the posts that advise seeing Mr. E and Co. live -- they will rock yer socks off. I saw them do Club Quattro at Shibuya here a few years back, and they did so many encores they finally did a cover -- a version of ZZ's La Grange that blew the orig away! They rocked this place like an 8.8 quake!
I agree also that E and Beck's voices sometimes could be totally interchangeable. They have a similar underbite delivery or something...and they're both moody, brooding smarty-pantses, ain't they? They can really pull out and put down priceless lines, too, can't they? Love 'em -- and love RP for playin' 'em!

celadonstone wrote:

"Don't look at me I'm the busstop bomber"(and beastiologist)

OldFrenchie wrote:

The guy on the cover looks like the inspiration for the Unabomber's look.

Darkmatter wrote:
He's molesting it. You can totally see it in the dog's expression.

I like the dude on the cover. Wonder where he is going with that dog of his?

I really like the version of this on the Live at Town Hall album too.

rah wrote:You mean, this isn't Beck??

i just saw them for the first time last week and they were amazing. they totally brought a rock show and retooled all their songs, even this one to fit it. it was awesome. if you can go see them live.

SchoepTone wrote:

Kind of whatish, but not totally what.

Xeric wrote:

don't know if i think it's too much, but there was a very long time when i thought this was Beck.

Much much too Beckish.

Is this song cool or what?

I just took my first boxing lesson... downtown Houston... crusty old boxing gym... got home sweaty... popped on RP... laughed.

I was surprised to see so much favorable response to this one - I'll stay open-minded then, but first listen says "3" - ho hum.