Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy / Smog - Knock Knock
This week we delve back into the box once again, and it’s another tape that David copied for me in the summer of 2001. What we have here is a twofer, with Daisies of the Galaxy by Eels on side 1 and Knock Knock by Smog on side 2, so without further ado let’s get to it! Artist: Eels Album: Daisies of the Galaxy UK Record Label: DreamWorks UK Release Date: 28th February 2000 UK Single Releases from Album: 'Mr. E's Beautiful Blues' and 'Flyswatter' Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) has been making music since the mid-1980s, he signed with Polydor in the early-1990s and released two solo albums A Man Called E (1992) and Broken Toy Shop (1993). Whilst touring in support of the latter he began working with drummer Jonathan “Butch” Norton, and in 1995 the two of them teamed up with bassist Tommy Walter to form Eels. Shortly thereafter they signed with the fledgling DreamWorks label and like most people in the UK, I’m fairly sure I first heard Eels when Radio 1 started...