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Eels was a strange band more than 12 years ago when the song “Novocaine for the Soul” was a surprise hit, and the band has never really normalized. The two decade-spanning retrospectives released this year, “Meet the Eels” and “Useless Trinkets,” are full of bandleader Mark Oliver Everett’s quirky, catchy little ditties like “I Like Birds” and “Funeral Parlor.” The songs tend to change a bit live, which you can see firsthand tonight at the Somerville

Theatre as the band hits Boston on the first leg of its new US tour. 7:30 p.m. $21. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville. 617-625-5700. somervilletheatreonline.com [N. Z.] © Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. more stories like this

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