35. Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy (2000)
I don't know many that have been through the turmoil that Mark E. Everett has. If you read his stellar autobiography Things The Grandchildren Should Know you will get a sense of surrealism at the sheer amount of people - not just his family - that fall dead around him, it's almost like black humour the way he tackles it in his writing, and at times in his music too. 'Daisies Of The Galaxy' best captures the bottom line of the book, in that we have to make the most out of all the shit we have been through and it's incredibly upbeat and joyous compared to his previous two LP's 'Beautiful Freak' and 'Electroshock Blues.' Picking a favourite Eels album is like picking the cutest animal or a favourite country, there are quite a lot of goodies to choose from. He's as good as Johnny Cash and I know that's a bold statement. This is maybe not the most affecting, but it's extremely sunny and took one of the most underrated bands of all time onto a brilliant, new level.
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