Editing Shootenanny! (section)

== Critical reception ==
{{music ratings
| MC = 73/100<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/shootenanny!/eels |title=''Shootenanny!'' Reviews – Metacritic |website=[[Metacritic]] |accessdate=June 6, 2013}}</ref>
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/shootenanny!-mw0000028234 |title=''Shootenanny!'' – Eels <nowiki>| Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |</nowiki> AllMusic |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |website=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=April 19, 2015}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=Blenderreview>{{cite web|url=http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_1833.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040811095432/http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_1833.html|title=Eels Shootenanny!|work=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|author=Harris, John|archivedate=August 11, 2004|accessdate=December 7, 2021}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3score = B+<ref name="Kot">{{cite magazine |last=Kot |first=Greg |date=June 6, 2003 |title=[''Shootenanny!'' review] |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2003/06/06/shootenanny |accessdate=April 19, 2015}}</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/may/30/popandrock.shopping5 |title=CD: Eels: ''Shootenanny'' <nowiki>| Music |</nowiki> The Guardian |last=Peschek |first=David |date=May 30, 2003 |website=[[The Guardian]] |accessdate=April 19, 2015}}</ref>
| rev5      = ''[[Pitchfork Media|Pitchfork]]''
| rev5score = 2.8/10<ref name="Dahlen">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2687-shootenanny/ |title=Eels: ''Shootenanny!'' <nowiki>| Album Reviews |</nowiki> Pitchfork |last=Dahlen |first=Chris |date=May 22, 2003 |website=[[Pitchfork Media|Pitchfork]] |accessdate=June 6, 2013}}</ref>
| rev6      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev6score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Fine">{{cite magazine |last=Fine |first=Jason |date=June 12, 2003 |title=[''Shootenanny!'' review] |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=924 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/review.asp?aid=2046625 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030524205248/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/review.asp?aid=2046625 |archivedate=May 24, 2003 |accessdate=April 19, 2015}}</ref>
| rev7 =      ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score =  {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Cross">{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=Eels|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/273 273]}}</ref>
| rev8      = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev8score = C<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Harvilla |first=Rob |date=July 2003 |title=Eels: Shootenanny!/MC Honky: I Am the Messiah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0HASap-qBoC |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |page=111|language=en |access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref>
| rev9      = ''[[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]]''
| rev9score = 6.3/10<ref name="Passantino">{{Cite web |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/musicreviews/eels-shootenanny.shtml |title=Eels: Shootenanny |last=Passantino |first=Dom |date=July 21, 2003 |website=[[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030806105746/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/musicreviews/eels-shootenanny.shtml |archive-date=August 6, 2003 |access-date=April 19, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev10      = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10score = {{rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Christgau  |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |date=January 13, 2004 |title=MLK Fever |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv104-04.php |magazine=[[The Village Voice]] |access-date=May 24, 2018}}</ref>
}}

''Shootenanny!'' received a generally favorable response, though some critics were divided.<ref name="Metacritic" />

[[Greg Kot]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' called the album "downright moving at its best", saying "It offers the Eels' usual twisted take on California [[Pop rock|pop-rock]], with more prominent blues voicings to complement the scrappy guitars and narcotized atmospherics."<ref name="Kot"/>A negative review came from Chris Dahlen of [[Pitchfork Media|Pitchfork]], who wrote: "Musically and lyrically, E is spent – out of ideas, out of innovation, unable to cough up anything but by-the-numbers pop in the fourteen originals he wrote for this disc."<ref name="Dahlen"/> Dom Passantino of [[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]] opined that the album "suffers from a lack of identity".<ref name="Passantino" />''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' gave a negative review, saying "This is the kind of bedroom [[Folk-pop|folk pop]] E's done prettier--and weirder--before."<ref name="Metacritic" /> 

John Harris of ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' praised it, saying "Mark “E” Everett’s creative essence remains unchanged. He still combines his at-odds-with-the-world dysfunction — embodied on the misfit roadhouse rocker “All in a Day’s Work” by his keening, lived-in vocal style — with perfectly realized [[Art pop|art-pop]]." bur noted it was "not nearly as musically ambitious" as ''[[Beautiful Freak]]'' (1996) and concluded, "Everett can still match the cream of his previous work."<ref name=Blenderreview>{{cite web|url=http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_1833.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040811095432/http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_1833.html|title=Eels Shootenanny!|work=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|author=Harris, John|archivedate=August 11, 2004|accessdate=December 7, 2021}}</ref>''Rolling Stone'' called it "Lighter and more laid-back, with breezy melodies and fuzzy guitar-and-keyboard arrangements that sound built for a summer night's drive.", while ''Q'' noted "a sunnier, [[Jangle pop|jangly guitar pop]] backdrop".<ref>{{Citation |title=Shootenanny! by Eels |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/shootenanny!/eels/critic-reviews |access-date=2025-04-06 |language=en}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'' was critical, dismissing the album as "an adolescent demand for attention with little justification."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Peschek |first=David |date=2003-05-30 |title=Eels: Shootenanny |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/may/30/popandrock.shopping5 |access-date=2025-04-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

[[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[AllMusic]] called the album the band's best since ''[[Electro-Shock Blues|Electro Shock Blues]]'' (1998), finding it to be more accessible than the latter, saying Everett "sounds like a combination of [[Beck]] and [[Tom Waits]], put through a [[power pop]] prism." and "This record isn't folky, the way hootenannies were, but it does have a strong blues and singer/songwriter element to the record."<ref>{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=''Shootenanny!'' – Eels <nowiki>| Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |</nowiki> AllMusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/shootenanny!-mw0000028234 |accessdate=April 19, 2015 |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>