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Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire by The Eels
Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire is an album by The Eels, released in 2009. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 15 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “That look you give that guy”, on 10 lists with a best position of #9.
Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire, the seventh Eels album, prowled out on Vagrant on June 2, 2009, and E, aka Mark Oliver Everett, gives the whole thing a werewolf's appetite; hombre lobo is Spanish for exactly that. It kicked off a trilogy of concept albums that End Times and Tomorrow Morning would complete the following year, and its cover tips its hat to the Cuban cigar brand Cohiba.
Backed by the likes of Koool G Murder, The Chet and new drummer Knuckles, E flips between fuzzed-out, snarling garage stompers like lead single "Fresh Blood" and hushed, tender numbers like "That Look You Give That Guy", howling at the moon one minute and murmuring the next. A documentary, Tremendous Dynamite, caught the recording, and the album climbed to number 43 on the Billboard 200, the band's best showing there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That look you give that guy | 10 | #9 | – | 2009–2024 | |
| 2 | Fresh Blood | 4 | #34 | – | 2009–2025 | |
| 3 | Prizefighter | 1 | #48 | – | 2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.