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Blinking Lights And Other Revelations [Box set]

Eels Audio CD
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Dr. Hugh Everett III, Ph.D., was what Scientific American magazine calls "one of the most important scientists of the 20th century." A quantum physicist who authored The Many Worlds Theory, Everett inspired countless science fiction books, movies and Star Trek episodes with the concept of parallel universes. As a young teenager he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein, debating ... Read more in Amazon's Eels Store

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  • Audio CD (25 April 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B0008JF5US
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 6,211 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Theme From Blinking Lights 1:44£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. From Which I Came / A Magic World 3:13£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Son Of A Bitch 2:27£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Blinking Lights (For Me) 2:00£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Trouble With Dreams 4:33£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Marie Floating Over The Backyard 2:02£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Suicide Life 2:41£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. In The Yard, Behind The Church 4:05£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Railroad Man 4:16£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. The Other Shoe 2:32£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Last Time We Spoke 2:22£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Mother Mary 3:21£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Going Fetal 2:19£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Understanding Salesman 2:43£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen15. Theme For A Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists 2:05£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen16. Checkout Blues 2:25£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen17. Blinking Lights (For You) 2:00£0.69  Buy MP3 


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Listen  1. Dust Of Ages 2:20£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Old Shit / New Shit 3:14£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Bride of Theme From Blinking Lights 1:50£0.59  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Hey Man (Now You're Really Living) 3:02£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart 3:54£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. To Lick Your Boots 3:30£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. If You See Natalie 3:39£0.59  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Sweet Li'l Thing 3:27£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Dusk:A Peach In The Orchard 1:17£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Whatever Happened To Soy Bomb 2:26£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Ugly Love 2:56£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen12. God's Silence 1:26£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Losing Streak 2:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Last Days Of My Bitter Heart 1:35£0.59  Buy MP3 
Listen15. The Stars Shine In The Sky Tonight 3:31£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen16. Things The Grandchildren Should Know 5:22£0.69  Buy MP3 


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It may have taken several years for Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett, a.k.a. E, to write and record Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, but the end result is no less than a masterpiece. At two discs and 33 tracks, it’s a veritable epic, but when your topic is no less than life itself, it’s good to have a bit of space to work in. This is a grown-up album about being a grown-up, and in the years it took to create, Everett has done a lot of growing up, and dealt with a lot of tragedy: his mother died of cancer, his sister committed suicide, and his cousin was on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. With all that, it’s almost a wonder that Blinking Lights doesn’t lose itself totally to melancholy. Sure, there’s an overarching sense of sadness to this album (culminating in the beautiful and painful "If You See Natalie"), but tracks like "Hey Man", "Trouble with Dreams" and "Going Fetal" (the latter featuring Tom Waits) all display a hopeful exuberance and contagious optimism. It may be a lot to take in over a single listen, but Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is well worth the effort. It’s a remarkable achievement. --Robert Burrow

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely fantastic 28 April 2005
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
After Shootenanny, which I personally feel is their worst album to date, lacking the immediacy of Beautiful Freak or Daisies of the Galaxy, the sheer unadulterated excellence of Electro Shock Blues or quirky, fuzzy rock sensibilities of Souljacker, I was concerned as to how this one would turn out. I needn't have been, the latest Eels album is a triumph.
From the toe-tapping catchiness of Going Fetal on disc one and its compatriot Hey man (Now You're Really Living) on disc two, to the melancholy of 'If you see Natalie' the double album is packed with excellent and catchy tunes.
On the flipside, there is a lot of what could maybe be described as 'filler' and some of the songs may sound extremely familiar to Eels fans. I admit to getting a feeling of de ja vu when listening to Blinking Lights, certain tracks seeming to echo songs present on other older Eels albums. Overall however it's only a minor issue and not enough to detract from a truly excellent album.
This has been described elsewhere as E's masterpiece and for once it's right to believe the hype.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Seven years in the making, and it shows. 15 Jun 2005
By Jase
Format:Audio CD
Mark "E" Everett has had to endure a lot of personal loss and grief over the years. It's always been a credit to him that he's always been able to transform this misery into enthralling and inspiring music.
Blinking Lights may just be his best work yet. Written over the course of seven years, this album more than any of his others offers the scope to cover many of his personal tragedies. As a result, it's a double-disc 33 track sprawling epic, touching upon a number of events in Everett's life, both from childhood, and more recent times.
On the first listen, much of the album washes over you, with many of the tracks sounding vaguely similar. Musically, this is pitched somewhere between the first two eels albums, featuring some of the big tunes of Beautiful Freak, as well as some of the stark minimalism of Electro-Shock Blues, and the auto-harp is prevalent throughout. With subsequent listens, however, the subtle variation of the tracks takes hold, and the album truly opens up to you.
Considering all that's happened to Everett, there's a remarkable optimism here. Going Fetal, Old Shit/New Shit and Hey Man (now you're really living) are genuinely cheery moments, whilst the lilting A Magic World is an inspiration. Meanwhile, the excellent Trouble With Dreams sounds like the lost brother to Flyswatter from Daisies of The Galaxy.
Lyrically, we're on fairly familiar territory, with the wry humour of tracks such as Son Of A Bitch mixed with a charming, almost childish naivety on tracks such as Blinking Lights For Me ("and the doctor in the sky, gonna bring his chopper down, gonna bring me out alive"). As ever, Everett plays the well-meaning, misunderstood outcast very well, just listen to Things The Grandchildren Should Know, and the wonderful Ugly Love ("If she finds me so repulsive, she wouldn't be the first to wretch").
Of course, it wouldn't be an eels album without a great sense of melancholy, and Blinking Lights offers some of his saddest songs to date. If You See Natalie is an achingly beautiful piano ballad, whilst Last Time We Spoke is ominous. Best of all is Railroad Man, a song about losing your purpose in life to the relentless progress of technology.
The whole thing is held together by Everett's worn, earnest vocals, managing to be both deadpan and heartfelt. As a whole, Blinking Lights rarely jumps out at you, and could perhaps do with being five or six songs shorter. But given time, this blossoms into the finest moment of the eels distinguished career.

Key moments: From Which I Came/A Magic World, Trouble With Dreams, Railroad Man, If You See Natalie, Ugly Love

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Vast, beautiful and spellbinding 17 Jun 2005
Format:Audio CD
First off, no it's not Electro Shock blues, but nothing else ever will be. No one could write something like that twice and survive. This is bigger. If electro shock is about a bad time in life (most of its songs are about moments and they form part of a strict narrative), this is about life, all of it, vast and rambling. It's an album I've owned for a few weeks now, and I still haven't got my head around it, but it is nothing less than fantastic. Simply put there are few artists out there who could produce a double CD that wouldn't be a simple vanity project; E is one of them.
Highlights are of course Old xxxx/New xxxx, Hey Man (the most uplifting song he has ever written) and Lick your Boots, but it includes many smaller gems in its glittering hoard (If you see Natalie, My Kind of Love and the finally Things the Grandchildren should know).
This album deserves that the listener put the effort into listening that E put into making. Given that, it is brilliant.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kaleidoscopic, Idiosyncratic, Infectious Pop
Recorded over a 6 year period between 1998 and 2004, Mark Everett's 'compilation' Blinking Lights And Other Revelations is a brilliantly diverse and eclectic collection of pop gems... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Keith M
5.0 out of 5 stars Bold, Breathtaking And Simply Beautiful.
'Blinking Lights And Other Revelations' is a sprawling 33-song album, spread over two discs, that deals with love, loneliness, religion and twenty first century confusion, as told... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by J. Hood
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely in my top ten albums of all time.
Bravo, E. A long album, arranged with variations and instrumentals which tie the whole thing up brilliantly. Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2009 by Mabu
5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest album ever? But in my top 10
Electro shock is beautiful .....Beautiful freak is .....well beautiful and blinking lights for me tops both just purely by virtue there are so many great tunes.... Read more
Published on 14 Sep 2009 by Alan S. Waldron
5.0 out of 5 stars An album I'm glad to have in my life
Simply as the title suggests. I bought this originally as a present to myself on my 18th on the year Blinking Lights was released and now almost 4 years later it still plays a big... Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2009 by T. Simms
5.0 out of 5 stars ignore remote control
this is one of the few bands that hold my attention throughout all of the tracks ignoring the remote completely.
Published on 6 Mar 2008 by Mr. R. Neary
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute gem of an album.....
OK, I am an Eels fan, but this album is just a great listening experience. The album has the sound of an amalgamation of the previous 5 Eels albums, although it's probably E's most... Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2007 by Mr. Jonathan Robin Oxley
5.0 out of 5 stars This man is a genius
To fill one album full of great songs is hard enough, but to make a double album this good is incredible. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2006 by "robbie_the_robot"
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece pretty much covers it
"Blinking Lights..." was the first Eels album I heard, about half a year ago. I now own all the Eels albums. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2006 by John Tansey
5.0 out of 5 stars Eel - luminating! Eel- aborately and wonderfully poignant
Buy it!
Sliced bread was never this good!
Simply THE masterpiece album of 2005.
I could deconstruct every nuance, every melodic development, every lyric that shakes... Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2006 by Callum Doone
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