“Last Stop - This Town” by The Eels

"Last Stop: This Town" was a single from Electro-Shock Blues, Eels' 1998 album, and it's a strange, buoyant trip through grief. E wrote it with Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers, who also shared production, recording and mixing duties with him, and the song is about E's sister Elizabeth, who took her own life before the album was made. It turns that loss into something that floats instead of sinks.

Garth Jennings of Hammer & Tongs directed the video, a deadpan fever dream in which E sings among scattered vegetables while a carrot slowly becomes his double, finally strapped into a toy robot and walking off, cut with the band playing on rising and falling rotating platforms. It was up for Breakthrough Video at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. Australia and Britain got a proper release; America only a promo.

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