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cole sconiers | Pace, Florida United States | 07/28/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Yes this is good. EE rock, and it is good."
GET AGITATED!!!!!
Jared A. Auner | Denton, TX USA | 04/23/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"If ya ask me (and I know you didn't) the Electic Eels were the first true Punk Rock band. The Who, The Velvet Underground, and The Stooges all came earlier, lit the spark and provided the musical and cultural context for punk. The Ramones, Crime, and The Damned all came later and started the process of codifying this primitive music into a formal aesthetic. The Eels came in between, existing from 1972 to 1975 (they made these recordings during their final months together in that year)and existed seemingly to provoke and anger clevland audiences. Their shows were filled with violence, lawn equipment gone awry and off-key sung commercial jingles. This attitude plus the utter noisy viscousnes of their primitive attack makes them, in my mind, the primary candidate for "the first real punk rock band". Buy this as well as Scat's excellent comp. "Those were Different Times" which feature stuff not on this collection, but which you absolutely must hear. If you are interested in '70s punk or any kind of raw, original American music you NEED this. Pleasure yourself with your dollars and let this split apart your lonely mind."