“Susan's House” by The Eels

"Susan's House" was the third single Eels pulled from Beautiful Freak, their 1996 debut, and it's a love song that keeps getting distracted by the street: Mark Oliver Everett heads over to Susan's place in Pasadena and takes in the social troubles of the neighborhoods he passes. In his autobiography he remembered her as a rare sane presence at the time, and she's the subject of the album's title track too, though the two had been apart for a few years by the time this was recorded.

It samples the piano intro of Gladys Knight & the Pips' 1974 "Love Finds Its Own Way", which puts that song's writer, Jim Weatherly, in the credits beside Everett and Jim Jacobsen. E produced it and plays guitar and Wurlitzer, with Jacobsen on keyboards, Tommy Walter on bass and Butch on drums. In the UK it climbed to number 9, still the band's highest-charting single there.

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