Limited Edition Vagrant 25th Anniversary 3LP on on Crystal Violet Vinyl. Featuring Tom Waits, Peter Buck & John Sebastian. The 2005 album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is about "God and all the questions related to the subject of God," says it's creator, Mark Oliver Everett, also known as Eels leader E. "It's also about hanging on to my remaining shreds of sanity and the blue sky that comes the day after a terrible storm," he adds, "and it's a love letter to life itself, in all it's beautiful, horrible glory." The album is full of unusual instrumentation and some notable guest stars. One song ("Last Time We Spoke") features Everett's hound dog, Bobby, Jr., howling a lonesome solo. A few songs later, Eels-fan-turned-collaborator Tom Waits cries a solo - literally - ("Going Fetal"). Later on, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck (making his second appearance on an Eels album) plays dobro, guitar and bass (the Buck co-written "To Lick Your Boots"), and on an album that prominently features the autoharp on several songs, it's exciting to know that the king of rock & roll autoharp, The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, makes a rare appearance, playing autoharp on one track ("Dusk: A Peach in the Orchard," co-written by Sebastian).

Disc 1

1. Theme From Blinking Lights
2. From Which I Came/A Magic World
3. Son of a Bitch
4. Blinking Lights (For Me)
5. Trouble With Dreams
6. Marie Floating Over the Backyard
7. Suicide Life
8. In the Yard, Behind the Church
9. Railroad Man
10. Other Shoe
11. Last Time We Spoke

Disc 2

1. Mother Mary
2. Going Fetal
3. Understanding Salesman
4. Theme for a Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists
5. Checkout Blues
6. Blinking Lights (For You)
7. Dust of Ages
8. Old Shit/New Shit
9. Bride of Theme From Blinking Lights
10. Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
11. I'm Going to Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart

Disc 3

1. To Lick Your Boots
2. If You See Natalie
3. Sweet Li'l Thing
4. Dusk: A Peach in the Orchard
5. Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb
6. Ugly Love
7. God's Silence
8. Losing Streak
9. Last Days of My Bitter Heart
10. Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight
11. Things the Grandchildren Should Know

Label: Vagrant Records

Catalog: 720341

Genre: Rock