Susan's House
{{short description|1997 single by Eels}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Susan's House
| cover = Eels-Susan'sHouse.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Eels
| album = Beautiful Freak
| released = 5 May 1997 (UK)
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| genre = {{flatlist|
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| length = 3:56
| label = DreamWorks
| writer = {{flatlist|
- E
- Jim Weatherly
- Jim Jacobsen
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| producer =
| prev_title = Novocaine for the Soul
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Your Lucky Day in Hell
| next_year = 1997
}}
"Susan's House" is a song by American rock band Eels. It was released as the third single from their 1996 debut album, Beautiful Freak.
Content
In his autobiography, Mark Oliver Everett states that Susan "wasn't a crazy girl, a rare exception at the time". Her house was in Pasadena, not a walkable distance from where Everett lived at the time. The song focuses on the social problems in the area he walks through as he goes over to visit her. By the time of recording the song, he and Susan had already been apart a few years. Susan is also the subject of the song "Beautiful Freak" from the same album.{{cite book |title= Things The GrandChildren Should Know|last= Everett|first=Mark |author-link= Mark Oliver Everett |year=2008 |publisher= Little, Brown |isbn=978-0-316-02787-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7l6ZPwAACAAJ}}
The song samples the piano introduction from the 1974 Gladys Knight & the Pips track "Love Finds Its Own Way", written by Jim Weatherly, who, along with Jim Jacobsen, is credited as co-writing "Susan's House" on both the original single and album.
Release
"Susan's House" reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, the group's highest-charting single in the country to date.{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2608/eels/ |title=Eels
Track listing
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| title1 = Susan's House
| length1 = 3:56
| title2 = Stepmother
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| title3 = Manchester Girl
| length3 = 3:21
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| writer1 = {{hlist|E|Jim Weatherly|Jim Jacobsen}}
| writer3 = E
| note3 = BBC Radio 1 version
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Charts
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!Chart (1997) !Peak |
| {{singlechart|UKsinglesbyname|9|artist=Eels|accessdate=7 August 2017|rowheader=true}} |
References
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{{Eels}}
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Category:Song recordings produced by Mark Oliver Everett
Category:Songs written by Mark Oliver Everett
Category:Songs written by Jim Weatherly
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