1985Released
4:00

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In the Mötley Crüe: The End - Live In Los Angeles DVD, bass player Nikki Sixx said of this song: "It was a response to us from being gone so long during Shout At The Devil [1983 album and tour]. It was our first time. A tour bus picked us up at our little tiny apartments and we took off to go play some shows, and 18 months later we got dropped back in our little apartments. I was calling Tommy like, 'Hey, what are you doing?' 'Sitting here. What are you doing?' 'I don't know what to do.' 'I don't know what to do either. Want to grab a beer? How about a bindle of cocaine - that too. And a couple of strippers.' We didn't know what to do, so we started writing songs for Theater Of Pain and 'Home Sweet Home' started to come out. The lyrics came out of that feeling of being gone so long and wanting to come back, which is ironic, right? Because all you ever want is to get in a band and go on the road, but then you're on the road and you want to come home."

When this song was first released in 1985, it peaked at #89 in the US. In 1991, a new version was released as "Home Sweet Home '91," which made it to #37.

The original video, directed by Wayne Isham, stars with a vignette showing each band member getting a phone call and saying, "I'm on my way." The guy handing them the phone in each scene is Michael Berryman, who played the principal in Mötley Crüe's "Smokin' In The Boy's Room" video (which Isham also worked on). Berryman can also be seen in the movies One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Hills Have Eyes. For the 1991 re-release, a new video was made, this time a black-and-white clip directed by Matt Mahurin.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Home Sweet Home.
FKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
76BPM

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The album Home Sweet Home is released on.

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Mötley Records
2008 Masters 2000, Inc.
2008 Masters 2000, Inc.

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