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Length
  
46:40

Artist
  
Mark Oliver Everett

Label
  
Polydor Records

Broken Toy Shop(1993)
  
Beautiful Freak(1996)

Release date
  
7 December 1993

Genres
  
Rock music, Indie rock

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Released
  
December 7, 1993 (1993-12-07)

Recorded
  
1993, Southern California, United States

Producers
  
Mark Oliver Everett, Mark Goldenberg, Parthenon Huxley, Michael Koppelman

Similar
  
Mark Oliver Everett albums, Indie rock albums

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Broken Toy Shop is the second album by American singer-songwriter E (a.k.a. Mark Oliver Everett), released in December 1993 by record label Polydor. It his last record as a solo artist before forming the band Eels. The album is currently out of print.

Contents

Shine it all on


Content

The overall theme of the album pertains to love and love lost.

Track listing

All songs written by E, except where noted.

  1. "Shine It All On" (E, Parthenon Huxley) – 4:04
  2. "Standing at the Gate" – 3:31
  3. "The Only Thing I Care About" (E, Huxley) – 2:40
  4. "Manchester Girl" – 3:21
  5. "L.A. River" (Jennifer Condos, E) – 2:28
  6. "A Most Unpleasant Man" – 3:18
  7. "Mass" (Sean Coleman, E) – 3:38
  8. "Tomorrow I'll Be Nine" – 2:52
  9. "The Day I Wrote You Off" – 3:30
  10. "Someone to Break the Spell" (Anderson, Condos, E, Susanna Hoffs) – 2:51
  11. "She Loves a Puppet" (Condos, E) – 2:46
  12. "My Old Raincoat" (E, Huxley) – 3:57
  13. "Permanent Broken Heart" – 3:28
  14. "Eight Lives Left" – 2:52

Personnel

  • E – vocals, accordion, drums, keyboards, Hammond organ, percussion, celeste, conga, glockenspiel, guitar, sound effects, tambourine, whistling, melodica, bells, production
  • Rusty Anderson – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Sean Coleman – acoustic and electric guitar, piano
  • Jennifer Condos – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Mark Goldenberg – bass guitar, drums, electric guitar, keyboards, production
  • Richard Greene – Violin
  • Parthenon Huxley – acoustic and rhythm guitar, keyboards, production
  • Michael Koppelman – acoustic guitar, production
  • Chris Solberg – organ, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, piano
  • Patrick Warren – keyboards, Chamberlin
  • Winston Watson – drums

    • Songs

    1Shine It All On4:04
    2Standing at the Gate3:31
    3The Only Thing I Care About2:41

    References

    Broken Toy Shop Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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