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Eels

American indie rock band
MusicGroup rock_band Q11904
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Eels is a music group whose sound encompasses alternative rock[1], post-grunge[1], and pop rock[1].

Eels

Summary

Eels is a rock band[1]. Eels draws 1,457 Wikipedia views per month (rock_band category, ranking #186 of 861).[2]

Key Facts

  • Eels was influenced by Neil Young[3].
  • Eels was influenced by Jellyfish[4].
  • Eels was influenced by Elvis Costello[5].
  • Eels was influenced by Meat Puppets[6].
  • Eels was influenced by The Beach Boys[7].
  • Eels was influenced by The Beatles[8].
  • Eels's instance of is recorded as rock band[9].
  • Eels's genre is alternative rock[10].
  • Eels's genre is post-grunge[11].
  • Eels's genre is pop rock[12].
  • Eels's record label is recorded as DreamWorks Records[13].
  • Eels's discography is recorded as Eels discography[14].
  • Eels's Commons category is recorded as Eels (band)[15].
  • Eels's country of origin is recorded as United States[16].
  • Eels comprises Mark Oliver Everett[17].
  • 1995 marks the founding of Eels[18].
  • Eels's location of formation is recorded as Los Feliz[19].
  • Eels's official website is recorded as http://www.eelstheband.com/[20].
  • Eels's official website is recorded as http://eelstheband.com/[21].
  • Eels's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Eels (band)[22].
  • Eels's different from is recorded as EELS[23].
  • Eels's start of work period is recorded as 1995[24].
  • Eels's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Eels'}[25].
  • Eels's member category is recorded as Category:Eels (band) members[26].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[27]

  • Country: US[28]

  • Began / founded: 1995[29]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, chamber pop, downtempo, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, rock, singer-songwriter, slowcore, trip hop[30]

  • Community tags: alternative, alternative rock, chamber pop, downtempo, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, rock, singer-songwriter, singer/songwriter, slowcore, trip hop[31]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 14387b0f-765c-4852-852f-135335790466[32]

Why It Matters

Eels draws 1,457 Wikipedia views per month (rock_band category, ranking #186 of 861).[2] Eels has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33]

Related Entities

Burt Bacharach Elton John Elvis Costello Leonard Cohen Lou Reed Neil Young Nick Drake Paul Simon The Beach Boys The Beatles The Kinks Tom Waits United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . AllMusic. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . AllMusic. wikidata.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . AllMusic. wikidata.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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