Oh What a Beautiful Morning

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Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
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Live album by
ReleasedDecember 2000 (2000-12)
Recorded Multiple locations, 2000
Genre Indie rock
Length63:25
Label E Works/ARTISTdirect.com
Producer E
Eels chronology
Daisies of the Galaxy
(2000)
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
(2000)
Souljacker
(2001)
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Oh What a Beautiful Morning is a 2000 live album from Eels. It features highlights from the band's Daisies of the Galaxy tour, as well as several acoustic solo tracks recorded live at several concerts where Eels opened for Fiona Apple.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by E, except where noted:

  1. "Feeling Good" (Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley) – 2:32
  2. "Overture"  – 7:02
Composed of:
"Last Stop: This Town" (E and Mike Simpson)
"Beautiful Freak"
"Rags to Rags"
"Your Lucky Day in Hell" (E and Mark Goldenberg)
"My Descent into Madness" (E, Paul Huston, Dan Nakamura, and Simpson)
"Novocaine for the Soul" (E and Goldenberg)
"Flower" (E and Jacobsen)
  1. "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" (Rodgers and Hammerstein) – 6:01
  2. "Abortion in the Sky" – 1:29
  3. "It's a Motherfucker" – 2:06
  4. "Fucker" – 2:18
  5. "Ant Farm" – 2:08
  6. "Climbing to the Moon" – 4:06
  7. "Grace Kelly Blues" – 3:31
  8. "Daisies of the Galaxy" – 4:02
  9. "Flyswatter" – 8:06
  10. "Vice President Fruitley" (Butch, E, and Germano) – 3:13
  11. "Hot and Cold" (Butch) – 3:10
  12. "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" (E and Simpson) – 2:23
  13. "Not Ready Yet" (Jon Brion and E) – 4:05
  14. "Susan's House" (E, Jim Jacobsen, and Jim Weatherly) – 4:28
  15. "Something Is Sacred" – 2:37

Recording

Personnel

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Production

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References

  1. Jones, Jennifer. Oh What a Beautiful Morning at AllMusic. Retrieved February 8, 2012.