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| "Cancer for the Cure" | ||||
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| Single by Eels | ||||
| from the album Electro-Shock Blues | ||||
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| Released | November 30, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||
| Length | 4:45 | |||
| Label | DreamWorks | |||
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"Cancer for the Cure" is a song by American rock band Eels. It was released on 30 November 1998, as a single from their 1998 album Electro-Shock Blues . It peaked at number 60 in the UK Singles Chart. [1]
The song featured in the soundtrack to the 1999 DreamWorks film American Beauty . Tom Baker of DIY Magazine found its use to be memorable and that it highlighted "the whole “seedy suburbia” angle." [2]
Tom Baker of DIY Magazine saw the song as another "counter-cultural theme songs, a la ‘Novocaine…’, creeping, creepy howling voices, grinding industrial noises, and singing about “kids diggin’ up a brand new hole / Where to put deadbeat mom,” followed by sinister laughter." describing the song as, "Blacker than black, even when the Monster Mash organs come in for the chorus." [2]
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