Home by the Sea
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| Song by Genesis | |||||
| Album | Genesis | ||||
| Released | October 3, 1983 | ||||
| Recorded | February - August 1983 | ||||
| Genre | Progressive Rock/Pop Rock | ||||
| Length | 11:14 (4:53 and 6:21) | ||||
| Label | Atlantic, Virgin, Vertigo | ||||
| Writer | Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford | ||||
| Producer | Genesis, Hugh Padgham | ||||
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Home by the Sea is a suite of two songs by English progressive rock band Genesis. It first appeared on their eponoymous album in 1983. Lyrically, the song is about a burglar who breaks into a house only to find it is haunted.[1] The burglar is captured by the ghosts who force him to listen to their stories for the rest of his life - "let us relive our lives in what we tell you".
The piece was written at a point in Genesis' career when they were transitioning from progressive rock to a more streamlined, commercial approach. As such, it combines simple pop hooks with an extended section more characteristic of progressive rock into one two-part piece. Played together, "Home by the Sea" and "Second Home by the Sea" are over eleven minutes long. Both sections of the piece were featured on the live album Longs (1993) and the triple-disc retrospective Platinum Collection (2004).
In some countries, the song was a single with a music video to go with it (a mimed live performance). Live versions have also appeared on the home videos The Mama Tour, The Invisible Touch Tour and The Way We Walk - Live in Concert. More recently, it was performed on every night of the Turn It On Again tour, albeit transposed down a key to account for the deepening of Phil Collins's voice over the years.[2] The "Second Home by the Sea" section, being mostly instrumental, was performed in its original key, including the brief vocal part near the end of the song.
In an interview, Phil Collins noted the track as an example of how the band often recorded songs without playing together as a group. Using a prerecorded drum machine as initial background, the band members would first produce 'guide' parts (such as vocal or guitar) to settle on the format of the song, and later rerecord them for final compilation into the song, adding 'real' drum parts as well. The result was hailed as sounding very much like the group playing together live.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Tony Banks interview, The Way We Walk - Live in Concert DVD (2001)
- ^ Genesis - The Movement (link)
- ^ Interview with Phil Collins (from Hitmen, 1986 Part Two. Retrieved 2007-12-15.)
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