Synopsis

Sleeper perform "Nice Guy Eddie" in a stark, playful setting that places the band in a few inches of water. Louise Wener sings to camera while the group plays around her, with the shallow water turning an otherwise straightforward performance clip into an oddly theatrical tableau. The visual simplicity contrasts with the song's narrative, which follows a financially motivated relationship with an older, wealthy man that unexpectedly develops into genuine affection.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Nice Guy Eddie" was released in July 1996 as the third single from Sleeper's second album, "The It Girl."

• The song reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, giving Sleeper another Top 10 hit during the height of Britpop.

• The title refers to Nice Guy Eddie Cabot, the character played by Chris Penn in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film "Reservoir Dogs."

• Several songs being developed for "The It Girl" reportedly had working titles based on characters from "Reservoir Dogs." "Nice Guy Eddie" was the one title that survived into the finished release.

• The video's most distinctive image is the band performing in shallow water. The unusual setting was noted in later writing about Sleeper's visual style and gives the performance a deliberately artificial, slightly surreal quality.

• The track was written by Louise Wener and produced by Stephen Street, who also worked on much of the band's breakthrough material.

• A segment of the song was later used by BBC Wales as intro and outro music for coverage of the FAW Invitational Cup and its successor, the FAW Premier Cup.