One of the best albums ever made. 6 stars!

Review Score: (10/10)
Words cannot describe how incredible this album is, but I'll try. First of all, this is easily one of my favorite 10 albums of all time. I can't get the songs out of my head... the music is so catchy, AND the lyrics are so intelligent and piercing! E experiments with a few different styles here, from harder stuff like Mental to funk like Guest List, to more depressing slow stuff like Manchild. My favorites are Not Ready Yet, Flower, Guest List, Your Lucky Day in Hell, and Manchild. However, it's ALL great stuff. The only low points for me are Mental and Spunky, but that's only because they're not INCREDIBLE like the rest of the songs... they're still very good by normal standards though! My only warning would be that this album is VERY depressing... by the time the last notes of Manchild (a real downer of a song, but an appropriate last track) have faded, I'm often in tears. But it's so worth it! Buy this album!

More Reviews:

• memorably beautiful
• Debut, a little up and down but a classic
• Today could be your lucky day...
• I am impressed
• This album is its own littler microcosm.
• one day the world will be ready for you.
• Not electrical EELS
• Strange but lovely
• THE EELS--FULL PROOF PLAN TO SUCESS
• Tried to get into it, but....
• One of the most beautiful, sad CDs I own
• Not a masterpiece.
• You Must Hear This Record...You Must Hear This Record...
• incredible, depressing, oddly beautiful musical achievement
• A Revelation
• A Must Have
• The eels Rock!
• the cd that complete's any music lovers collection.
• ...
• Anybody who wants creativity check this album out...........
• One of my favorite CD's ever
• Beautiful
• Brilliant Debut!!!
• Beautiful E
• Good beats, bad guitar
• Amazing
• Outcast
• It deserves 10 stars!
• Beautiful Freak
• Strangely fascinating, give it a listen
• A real pleasant surprise
• In My Top Fifty of All Time
• Oddly electrifying
• Eels For The Soul
• A truly excellent unknown group.
• Excellent debut from Eels
• The most unknown genius of music is the group Eels
• The most important album that I have ever listened to
• One of the best unknown groups out there
• Beautiful indeed.
• absolutely beautiful
• spontaneous buy proves life saving
• melancholic, but still strangely uplifting
• Wonderful!
• The best
• Beautiful
• brilliant
• Breathtakingly smooth and depressingly uplifting
• This is pretty so-so...
• Original and very cool.
• This is one of the greatest albums I've ever heard.
• Very good the second time around
• This is the best debut album i have ever heard!
• Beautiful
• Beautiful! A masterpiece! Awesome lyrics!!
• Masterpiece
• best album of late 90s