Mark Oliver Everett of Eels Has a Favorite T-Shirt

I got Electro-Shock Blues through a record club in the late ’90s. I had no idea what Mark Oliver Everett was writing about at the time. I just knew I wanted more Eels records. All these years later, I finally got to sit down with E and talk music and clothes. Eels just put out their 16th studio album, Cookie Happened . E tells me he was already a few songs in before it occurred to him he was making a record. We get into the little notepads where he keeps his song ideas, the Bob Dylan cassette he brought with him from Virginia, and what happens when a song he wrote to get himself through something ends up doing the same for somebody else. Also, I found a vintage Eels tee in Tokyo for over $200. When I told E about it, we got into the T-shirt he swears by. Listen to Cookie Happened * Sponsored by Bezel - the trusted marketplace for buying and selling your next luxury watch Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.