Eels - Susan's House

[@schroedingersdeadcat]

That must be her sister. The MUST be her sister, right? Brilliant line

[@samzerafa3185]

Musical poetry at its finest 👌

[@aileengarvin3632]

22 years later and I can still see my seventeen year old self poised with a finger over a double cassette tape player recording the top 40 off radio 1 on a sunday

[@davecarpenter2517]

Same. I was 17 too. Care free!

[@declanryan6540]

🤗😎❤👍👍👍

[@zaftra]

Remember the days.

[@davidk6271]

48 years for me, poised over a Grundig reel to reel

[@davidl6332]

=) cool

[@davelockwood8814]

A song of immense beauty and sadness.

[@johnmichel4865]

Loving a bit of eels action 25 years later. Now I recall the piano hook on this track reminds me of the theme tune to Cagney & Lacey (for viewers of a certain vintage).

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

The original piano sample came from Love Finds Its Own Way by Gladys Knight And The Pips from 1974... Now you've got me wondering if that song also inspired the Cagney And Lacey theme! 😂

[@johnmichel4865]

@@DaveAndBeth1978 Tbf I'm going to listen now for the first time in a very long time!

[@FatLeonard84]

When pop and art house met, God I miss the 90's

[@DonWood]

Heard this on the radio for the first time in ages and realised I had forgotten how good this is

[@digitalbath84]

That was me, yesterday! Still sounds great

[@GHOSTDOGLOPPI]

masterpiece.. the song and the album.. i love mr E..

[@break.the.default_4328]

This song has the weirdest juxtaposition between the verse and the chorus that I've ever heard, its amazing haha

[@davidwalsh3656]

It's as if Beck and Sting did a collaboration...

[@stevenaddison4167]

It’s a true relevant song though innit

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

The piano segment you mean? It's a sample of Love Finds Its Own Way by Gladys Knight And The Pips

[@jamesure2426]

It's dark then that cheery keyboard comes in. Ha

[@frostysprings]

This song is and will always be it

[@dunner079]

I can remember this on the late night radio when they would play the classic alternative music when I was a little kid. Nostalgia every time.

[@dabooda7]

I saw these guys live at the Redding Festival in '97. Best live performance I've ever seen, the energy was incredible.

[@TheHilikus89]

When I was 8 years old this song scared the shit out of me for some unknown reason

[@anSealgair]

TheHilikus89 Because it was the gritty streets set to ominous music and voice. But there’s comfort in the chorus and that’s the message of the song.

[@michaelnurse9089]

I am 43 and it still does. Because it is just too real. Way too real.

[@shitchops]

@@michaelnurse9089 what is the song about ? im 36 and still have no idea ^__^

[@glennveira7279]

Think Susan is a drug xealer

[@PRODBLANE]

:)

[@dbradx]

"The sick florescent light shimmering on their skin" - love that lyric.

[@okee9]

Every now and again I sit down and listen to this album, have loved it since it was released, they’re like a sedated Nirvana

[@LifeIsPeachy1]

I see what you mean. His voice sounds similar to Kurt Cobain's in a way

[@CalciumMoonCheese]

i want this piano loop to play during every relaxing moment in my life

[@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129]

It's actually sampled from Gladys Knight and the Pips' Love Finds Its Own Way

[@philobrandon5710]

@@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129 and that makes it a second layer of connections to Jim Weatherly, good observation.

[@philobrandon5710]

and I know E knows that

[@terrychilderley9574]

So much atmosphere in this song.

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

Ha! I see what you did there!

[@EminentKnight]

E's a really amazing artist. Underrated as hell!

[@JaneRhonda626]

Love how it tells a sort of story as the song goes on :D

[@JustthePhoneGuyYT]

I love this song so much, my dad showed it me when i was little and i still love it

[@lc8147]

Pure nostalgia - this song was the first MP3 I ever downloaded in 1997, when my dad got us internet (I was 12). Managed to save up enough pocket money to buy the Beautiful Freak album on CD a few years after!

[@MiraCassandre]

One of my first album ever. Pure nostalgia indeed!

[@tarantulagirl]

I was 17 when this song came out. I used to have major depression and I’d walk to my boyfriends house so not to be alone and with somebody who made me happy. This song was always in my head.

[@ProsecutorZekrom]

“Goin’ over to Stuart’s house” Can’t think of any other boy’s names that fit, so that’ll have to be it

[@jessiewagner8025]

hubert@@ProsecutorZekrom

[@nathanielkhoom6043]

I was the same, 17 years old, depressed and suicidal, and would jump on the train and go to my girlfriend Sharon's house. She had a number of issues and I wasn't strong enough to help her. That was several lifetimes ago now. I can't decide if I miss it or not.

[@EddieWatts-yl1yi]

I had a girl mate called suzi and would walk in the evening to her house to escape my home to get intoxicated

[@luvelydoll]

i love this song. every time i listen to it i can actually imagine everything he's saying. i wish i can make my own music video to this it's just amazing

[@fugyamofug]

such a rad track lo fi and heavy this whole album is really good was there best stuff

[@user-kk5iw2mm9i]

Yesterday, was that you? Looked just like you Strange things my imagination might do Take a breath, reflect on what we've been through Or am I just going crazy cause I miss you?

[@MarissaBookiebabe89072]

I just queued that up next because I instantly started thinking about it!

[@matthewshipman9243]

Atmos!

[@emiljames9976]

slug

[@dfaj3243]

I always come back to this song... 🔙👌🏾🎶🥰

[@paulelliott3220]

Such a brilliant song - early days and a wonderful example of superb dynamics, instrumentation and a brilliant delivery Right ? Keep it Eels people

[@Nick-li4jr]

This is exactly how i imaged this video to look in my minds eye, nice 🙌

[@LordJorMagi]

Wow... 2020, this is a trip to a long forgotten time!. And he never arrived Susan's House. As another dude said here before, "it seems like he become another of the lost souls he crossed with". Dark and cool interpretation. I love it!.

[@sanchoodell6789]

Back in the 90's I always used to play this song on my Walkman when I went over to Susan's house!

[@MarcoPollo77]

It means to keep on keepin' on because even though we are temporarily distracted by the things that we see in this life, we have to have an ultimate goal and we have to keep working towards that goal.

[@David-fu7mt]

A few years ago I went to a concert at the Redwood in LA. Afterward, I drove to Burbank and went to the Donut Prince, and this song is the reason why.

[@lizzyman8792]

Through the misfortune of life I will gravitate toward the greater happiness.great song

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

I love the piano sample from "Love Finds Its Own Way" by Gladys Knight And The Pips in each chorus... "Susan's House" couldn't be any more different stylistically, thematically or genre-wise from the Gladys Knight song, yet somehow it just fits perfectly...

[@edwardl1622]

I heard a song way back called L.A. River , E broken toy shop album , I bought the album cause of that song , I just heard going down to Susan's house - blown away again , I love this song

[@Redrobottyler]

Thank you vevo. Thank you for providing the song I want and making it free.

[@jonathanfreeman7441]

This will always remind of a girl I loved a long time ago.

[@noahprovis8496]

Remember listening to Eels when I was 9 and I was AMAZED and thus my love for music began

[@Petrolhead350cui]

Always loved this song.

[@robertrigby-jones2805]

WHHHAAATT not even a million views? this song is nostalgia

[@emilyeymundsonmusic]

this song is incredible

[@PRODBLANE]

yes

[@Simon0]

i like the bit where it goes 'they go into the seven eleven... and i keep walking'

[@thormackenzie2768]

Ialways stoppe in the,seven eleven on my way to junior high

[@madcapandrew]

It's a reference to his ex-girlfriend, Susan. He just decided to write her into the song even though they were broken up at the time. They stayed good friends. He talks a lot about it in his book Things the Grandchildren Should Know. Great stuff.

[@mrneutral8423]

This song probably changed my life.

[@garyabbot4659]

mrneutral probably?

[@mrneutral8423]

@@garyabbot4659 yep

[@Neurotic_Rachel]

I absolutely adore this song.

[@jin6000]

This song messed with my head when I was a kid. Amazing, but SUCH a contrast between dark as f**k subject matter and the lightness of that chorus melody. Listening to it now brings me RIGHT back.

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

The chorus is a sample of the piano line from Love Finds Its Own Way by Gladys Knight And The Pips from 1974... Its possibly the most effective use of sampling ever IMO, it fitted in perfectly

[@SausageDogss]

that must be her sister,that must be her sister - right?

[@Frantzen79]

If i were to name one music hero that has had a major effect on me it is Mr. E...

[@Blondejam]

A track that has hooked me for some twenty years ago. A sublime and hard hitting beautiful song full of reality ... True reality and it continues...

[@pyewackett5]

It's a good album . Yesterday, today & always 😊

[@philipworkman33]

heading back now, it was SLICE

[@philobrandon5710]

My second cousin Jim Weather died in February, was in the Grammy: In Memoriam, and wrote the keyboard break used by the Pips.

[@smokerforever18]

Their performance was so great....

[@Parkerlee1000]

This was used as a drama little sketch and play we did in school from 2004-2008 so nostalgic 😂

Great tune.

[@MaulSlasher]

What a strange,insecure and changing atmosphere this song has. Love it,though

[@Antonia-ri9hj]

Beautifully put.

[@B.M.C.92]

Funny you have used the word atmosphere. A group called atmosphere sampled the piano melody in this song..... music.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWrUk6mjf8qai9U&feature=share

[@TheIncredibleHulk97]

This song, and this video, i can't describe how beatifull they are.

[@catharticacid]

Enjoyed their output back in the distant 90's. Susans House, reckon it's their best. Great to revisit.

[@TehDMV]

I lost it at: And I keep walking... And I keep walking. 😭 How many of us keep walking throughout our lives, despite all of the tragedy around us, despite all of the things we can and should change?

[@josephschemo615]

That line really hits me as well.

[@thatrunningirl]

so good

[@grayoutdoors7690]

I remember buying the single on cassette, good old days

[@carlmalone5212]

The piano bits kind of remind me of the opening tune of the 80's cop tv-show 'hill street blues' .i like the sad sort of vibe the song gives off, but I've always had a blues disposition i guess

[@lancefarrellance]

love the drums, i don't have time to look through 255 comments to see if someone said that but its true...now i have to go...cause ...iam going over to adrianne's house

[@stargazer2312]

the eels drummer is awesome in every song

[@leachimsdiam7009]

I'm 14 my dad showed me this it's great

[@ferise1]

how old dad?

[@leachimsdiam7009]

54

[@ferise1]

Oh he was still kinda old when Eels got popular

[@jeffjohns9162]

Ahahahaha

[@ryukiishiki1303]

stfuuuu everyone is a special snowflake u fuccboi

[@RicardoCharles83]

a beautiful tune, great as a whole...

[@shylent79]

Always one of my faves !

[@GameboyGuitar]

best song ever

[@udokaterberg6835]

great! saw them in 1998! awsom!

[@popo-hi4hk]

This song reminds me of my youth.

[@SarahCrummy]

Thanks Douglas.

[@ChongMcBong]

beautiful, thanks Eels :)

[@lindasmith3978]

Thank you, Eels; you are stimulating my neurons! I am getting Demo ideas.

[@hannahw158]

comment j'ai pu passer à côté de ça pendant tant d'années, excellentissime groupe Eels, je découvre peu à peu tous vos morceaux et je plane à 100 à l'heure :) merci merci merci ..

[@mantra3000]

Vocals are wonderfully produced.

[@sktenjoib]

this band has sooooooooo much cool and unique music to offer if you give them the chance

[@blueblousedesigns]

I always play this when I'm sad and nostalgic and I don't know why.

[@Mog435]

lovin this !!

[@oliveroneill1388]

love this

[@jessiewagner8025]

just went on a crazy wormhole from the video game steins:gate that just briefly mentions everett-wheeler model, and with an acquaintance with the last name everett spelled the same way, i decided to check out ol hugh everett and his model of many-world interpretations of quantum mechanics and found out his son had a band called eels. I thought thats a pretty hip name and figured id check it out and did not disappoint.

[@johndunnejnr]

Masterp'E'ce

[@xfranzy182x]

Love it!

[@nafets555]

Best song.

[@ciaranmartin4401]

#great tune

[@dymondgeezer2003]

Didnt know that, thanks!

[@jeanmichelroyer137]

Un morceau bien cool de 1997 ! JMR

[@EladShochat]

thanks! :)

[@BipolarBearLA]

This has been my neighborhood since the mid-90s (Echo Park)

[@lupodelupis3672]

For me Eels means great indie pop.

[@oranjelibertine]

Was this track big in USA? I remember it finding an audience in UK for sure. My sister is called Susan, so it automatically had an audience in our house!!

[@horlock91]

hhaahaha, clocked this yesterday, new i heard this sample somewhere else

[@the_luggage]

This song always reminds me of (BBC Radio 1's) Jo Whiley for some reason...

[@PogieJoe]

This makes me wish E would read audiobooks.

[@raymundlingat9835]

i saw this video on mtv, when mtv is the cool and talk of the town😎

[@variax2thedopechannle]

and people still said talk of the town

[@Docuforyou]

This song is like Micky Spillane meets hill street blues.

[@jamesbaker7166]

Trippy song

[@Rydonittelo]

There where lots of bands with this style in the 90s, with the muffled voice and slow beat. I know it gets made fun of a lot now but I think it's cool as. Drinking in LA was another personal favourite

[@marcobpunkt7614]

I loved bran van 3000😍....im 41 now .mi always listen to Techno and still do..but music Like this i also Love...more and more...especially the old

[@Rydonittelo]

@@marcobpunkt7614 What kind of Techno?

[@marcobpunkt7614]

@@Rydonittelo for example that Kind of techno what is in my Profil

[@Rydonittelo]

@@marcobpunkt7614 Cool. Like Minimal Techno and Schranz. In the 00s I went to Amsterdam for Sensation Black 3 years in a row for Hardstyle and Hardcore. I'm from Scotland and hard Dutch stuff is popular here. 👍🏻

[@jasonhoe3793]

I wonder how Susan is?

[@theunwelcome]

I always had it in my head that he never got there, just became another one of the lost souls he describes in the verses... my own interpretation, of course

[@wearytraveller3204]

Her house burned down

[@liebingf]

🌿♡💥

[@MarkMark-mn4jo]

His dad was the inventor of The Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

[@gingergrrrl6242]

Looks like not many people are interested in life-altering quantum physics theory

[@annyjadi3054]

Going over to susan's house Walking south down baxter street Nothing hiding behind this picket fence There's a crazy old woman smashing bottles On the sidewalk where her house burnt down two years ago People say that back then she really wasn't that crazy Going over to susan's house Going over to susan's house She's gonna make it right Down by the donut prince A fifteen year old boy lies on the sidewalk With a bullet in his forehead In a final act of indignity The paramedics take off all his clothes For the whole world to see While they put him in the bag Meanwhile an old couple argues inside the queen bee The sick fluorescent light shimmering on their skin Going over to susan's house Going over to susan's house I can't be alone tonight Take a left down echo park A kid asks do i want some crack Tv sets are spewing baywatch Through the windows into black Here comes a girl with long brown hair Who can't be more than seventeen She sucks on a red popsicle while she pushes a baby girl In a pink carriage And i'm thinking that must be her sister That must be her sister, right? They go into the 7-11 And i keep walking Going over to susan's house

[@alexandra411c4t]

Listening still in 2021

[@vincentroy3819]

What did Owen Sheers mean when he referenced this in his collection, Skirrid Hill?