Home Movies | ||||
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Greatest hits album by | ||||
Released | 10 May 1993 | |||
Recorded | 1983–1993 | |||
Label | Blanco y Negro Records | |||
Producer | Various | |||
Everything but the Girl chronology | ||||
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Singles from Home Movies | ||||
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Home Movies is acompilation album byEverything but the Girl featuring songs from seven of their first eight studio albums (there is nothing from their second album "Love Not Money") as well as two newly recorded songs, acover ofSimon & Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy in New York" and the band's own "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love". The album was released in 1993 and reached number 5 on theUK Albums Chart.
The band'scover ofSimon & Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy in New York" was released as a single and spent 5 weeks in theUK Singles Chart, peaking at number 42.[3][4] A music video was directed byHal Hartley.
The second and final single released from the album was "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love", which peaked at number 72 on the UK chart.[5] The song was later covered byKaren Ramirez, re-titled "Looking for Love", and spent 11 weeks on the UK chart, peaking at number 8.[6]
All songs written byTracey Thorn andBen Watt, except where noted.
A companionmusic video compilation, also titledHome Movies, was released simultaneously with the album featuring the following videos.
Thorn wrote of the shoot for the "Mine" video in 1984, "[It was] filmed in a stupefyingly hot studio, where my make-up melted and had to be reapplied throughout the day, till by evening it was inches thick on my face and made me look likeJackie Stallone".[7]
Chart (1993) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[8] | 183 |
UK Official Album Chart[9] | 5 |