The Eyeball of Hell

The Eyeball of Hell Artist: The Electric Eels
Label: Scat Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 753417006225
EAN: 0753417006225
ASIN: B00005OADU


Release Date: 2001-10-30

The Eyeball of Hell


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Tracks:

  1. Agitated (orig.)
  2. Cyclotron
  3. Jaguar Ride
  4. You're Full of Shit
  5. Girl
  6. IQ 301-Man!
  7. Black Leather Rock
  8. Dead Man's Curve
  9. Tidal Wave
  10. Anxiety
  11. Cold Meat
  12. Dolly Boy
  13. Silver Daggers
  14. Zoot Zoot
  15. Accident
  16. Refrigerator (alt.)
  17. Bunnies (alt.)
  18. Sewercide (alt.)
  19. Spinach Blasters
  20. It's Artastic
  21. As If I Cared
  22. Cards and Fleurs
  23. Jazz Is (part 2)
  24. Natural Situation

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Album Description

Quite possibly the first punk rock band. Who else wrote songs like "You're Full of Shit" in 1975? No one before, and perhaps since, exuded negativity, nihilism and despair so thoroughly and absurdly as Cleveland's Electric Eels. When their debut 45 "Agitated" was issued on Rough Trade in 1978, it was assumed by many that the group were contemporary (and German). Unlike previous compilations, the eyeball of hell includes the mighty original version. Many of the tracks are previously unreleased and all were mastered from the original tapes. Includes liner notes and art by founder John Morton as well as fellow Eels Brian McMahon and Paul Marotta. Also see our release "Those Were Different Times" which includes more great Eels, with no overlap in material.

Album Description

While BTO and Grand Funk ruled the airwaves, the Electric Eels confronted the cities of Cleveland and Columbus with clothing held together with rattraps and safety pins, Marshalls covered in Fiberglas, a lawnmower, and songs like 'You're Full of Shit'. The Eels' music was unabashedly confrontational, angry, absurd, desperate, self-destructive and very ahead of its time. This release tells their story accurately and in detail. From Scat Records.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars I love the electric eels, but..........2007-04-11

It gets to be too much after a while. This band has been explored with similar collections before and they are all pretty much the same. This record does win the award for the worst cover art in my collection though.

3 out of 5 stars Well, its certainly punk.......2005-10-17

I enjoy this album, but I doubt many will. If you like your music primative, noisy, and technically incompetant that you'll dig this. If you like your music with any kind of audiophile merit, this album will scare you to tears. The Eels never saw the inside of a recording studio, all these songs were produced on a home reel to reel player. I'm into primative music, such as the Stooges' first LP and the Ramones. This is certainly an entertaining listen, but its not something I can take out everyday to throw on. That being said there are a few absolutely incredible punk classics contained. "Anxiety" and "Agitated" are two of the snottiest songs ever recorded, making the Dead Boys look like Mel Torme. "Dead Man's Curve" is a hiliarious Jan and Dean cover. "You're Full of Sh^t" has a title alone that proves punk existed before there was a name for it. My favorite track is "Cyclotron", which is surprisingly catchy. A good album for the CD wallet, if not an essential one. I'd reccomend "The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs", another compilation of an obscure Cleavland proto-punk band.

4 out of 5 stars this is totally gnar rippage!.......2003-07-19

I bought this cd because i heard the song "Agitated" on a cbgb's album. I thought it was great. The first time I listened to this cd, i think i got a headache. Actually, I think I did the second and third times as well. After that, I discovered the poetry of chaos and despair. I could tell how bored and mad about being bored they were when writing songs. They're fast, loud, and annoying. If that doesn't make you want to buy it, maybe they're laugh out loud lyrics will- trying to think up words that rhymed with the last ones (it didn't matter what they were), and just singing whatever came to mind- you'll see what I mean. This single compound disc went from giving me headaches, to making the Electric Eels one of my favorite bands ever.

5 out of 5 stars GET AGITATED!!!!!.......2003-04-24

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.

5 out of 5 stars

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