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The Eels
Band Los Feliz United States Formed 1995 American rock band
The Eels formed in 1995 in Los Feliz, United States. The Eels has 131 chart appearances on 93 radio countdowns from 33 stations on RockLists, spanning 1996–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Novocaine for the Soul”, which appears on 39 lists with a best position of #16. The station that charted The Eels most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 40 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1996.
Eels is really one man: Mark Oliver Everett, a Los Angeles singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who goes by E and has been the band's only constant through years of shifting lineups. Family, death and love that isn't returned are his recurring subjects, and he has a knack for making misery sound close to comedy.
Beautiful Freak, the 1996 debut on DreamWorks, with Tommy Walter on bass and Butch on drums, was a wonky wonderland of broken hearts. "Novocaine for the Soul" rode a creaky, hip-hop-tinged beat and a sweet, woozy chorus straight onto alternative radio, and "Susan's House" and "Your Lucky Day In Hell" kept the gallows humor coming. Electro-Shock Blues in 1998 went darker still, with "Last Stop - This Town" and the bittersweet "P.S. You Rock My World", and Daisies of the Galaxy lightened up with the jaunty "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues".
E never stopped. Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire in 2009 snarled through "That look you give that guy", "Fresh Blood" and "Prizefighter", and Tomorrow Morning and Wonderful, Glorious followed. Of the band's fifteen studio albums, seven have reached the Billboard 200.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Eels on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novocaine for the Soul | 39 | #16 | – | 1996 | |
| 2 | Mr. E's Beautiful Blues | 12 | #26 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | Last Stop - This Town | 12 | #33 | – | 1998 | |
| 4 | That look you give that guy | 10 | #9 | – | 2009 | |
| 5 | Novicane For The Soul | 8 | #23 | – | 1996 | |
| 6 | Fresh Feeling | 4 | #42 | – | 2002 | |
| 7 | Fresh Blood | 4 | #34 | – | 2009 | |
| 8 | Trouble With Dreams | 4 | #390 | – | – | |
| 9 | Saturday Morning | 2 | #56 | – | 2004 | |
| 10 | New Alphabet | 3 | #38 | – | 2013 | |
| 11 | I Like The Way This is Going | 2 | #20 | – | 2010 | |
| 12 | The Deconstruction | 1 | #40 | – | 2018 | |
| 13 | Susan's House | 6 | #56 | – | 1996 | |
| 14 | Souljacker | 1 | #43 | – | 2001 | |
| 15 | Mistakes Of My Youth | 1 | #454 | – | – | |
| 16 | Your Lucky Day In Hell | 6 | #1823 | – | – | |
| 17 | Prizefighter | 1 | #48 | – | 2009 | |
| 18 | Spectacular Girl | 1 | #75 | – | 2010 | |
| 19 | Goldy | 1 | #65 | – | 2024 | |
| 20 | P.S. You Rock My World | 7 | #1867 | – | – | |
| 21 | Looking Up | 1 | #77 | – | 2010 | |
| 22 | Girl From The North Country | 1 | #707 | – | – | |
| 23 | Sunday Morning | 1 | #85 | – | 2003 | |
| 24 | From Which I Came/A Magic World | 1 | #934 | – | – | |
| 25 | Last Stopabcxyz This Town | 1 | #1806 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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