Susan's House

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"Susan's House"

Single by Eels

from the album Beautiful Freak

Released

5 May 1997 (UK)

Genre

Length

3:56

Label

DreamWorks

Songwriter(s)

E
Jim Weatherly
Jim Jacobsen

Eels singles chronology

"Novocaine for the Soul"
(1997)

"Susan's House"
(1997)

"Your Lucky Day in Hell"
(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

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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 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.^[1]

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

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"Susan's House" reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, the group's highest-charting single in the country to date.^[2]

Track listing

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Susan's House"	E Jim Weatherly Jim Jacobsen	3:56
2.	"Stepmother"
3.	"Manchester Girl" (BBC Radio 1 version)	E	3:21

Charts

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Chart (1997)	Peak position
UK Singles (OCC)^[3]	9

References

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^ Everett, Mark (2008). Things The GrandChildren Should Know. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-02787-8.
^ "Eels | Full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
^ "Eels: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 August 2017.

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Beautiful Freak Electro-Shock Blues Daisies of the Galaxy Souljacker Shootenanny! Blinking Lights and Other Revelations Hombre Lobo End Times Tomorrow Morning Wonderful, Glorious The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett The Deconstruction Earth to Dora Extreme Witchcraft Eels Time!

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