Excellent!

E is quite the prolific musician with many albums before and after this one, but Shootenanny remains one of my favorites.

Lyrics:


They told me that I couldn't come back here again
Took me for some kind of fool
Said I was doing things that never should be done
But I don't care about their rules

As if I cared 'bout the little minds
In the little heads of the herd
There's nothing you could dream
Would be more absurd

And everybody knows these are rock hard times
I gotta make it through
These are rock hard times

I don't know what it is they're trying to do to me
Make me into some sick joke
But no one's laughing
And least of all not me
It's hard to laugh as you choke

Hollywood lies piled up to the sky
Floating your way soon
Hope you like the rotten stench of doom

And everybody knows these are rock hard times
I gotta make it through
These are rock hard times

And everybody knows these are rock hard times
I gotta make it through
These are rock hard times

I don't know what it is they think I'm gonna try
They don't know what they need to fear
The surest sign that the end is coming soon
Is right there in the bathroom mirror

Everybody knows these are rock hard times
I gotta make it through
These are rock hard times
These are rock hard times

 By_The_Bay wrote:

Your mom's was too, but I gave her something to do.

:roll: :)

Lyrics:


When I was born the doctors said
"There's something wrong inside that baby-head"
When I was a boy at Sunday school
(Yeah!) I told them all that they were fools

All in a day's work
To live and breathe
A sight to see
And so it goes...

I went into the fortune-teller's
She wouldn't read my horoscope
I go into the laundromat
(Yeah!) The people all buy extra soap

All in a day's work
To live and breathe
A sight to see

All in a day's work
To live and breathe
A sight to see

hahaha - always wonder if Eels' tunes are Beck; thought this was Jeff Tweedy!!

this guy sounds a bit like beck
 

I like it!
(Just feel bad for Anny) 

I just love everything I hear from this guy. Thanks RP :)

love eels. love

Bought this CD and nearly wore it out when it burst on the scene...think it was 2003 or 4, not the date listed here. Anyway, Mr. E rocks!

Great song but not worth $1.29 on iTunes. Very dumb idea to impose that price point on people, even if you're just trying to drive them towards buying the whole album. 

Should be called "All in a BORING Day's Work" :?

That's funny, at first I thought it was White Stripes. It's not winning me over so far, any more than a White Stripes song would.

mc904 wrote: I was thinking of Mannish Boy at first. Ah well, it all comes down to the blues.

The more I hear from these guys the more I like them. The nineties had numerous eels overplayed radio songs. It seems there is so much more depth to this group than what the radio gave us

This is a great tune! I like most of the songs on this CD. I first heard it here.

Pick another one! Eels (or E, as he called himself previously) has a bunch of great songs - so why this boring tune?! Speaking about E... his first album "A Man Called E" (1992) was pure magic. Recommended without reservation. (click here)