So Good to Be Back Home Again

"So Good to Be Back Home Again"
Single by The Tourists
from the album Reality Effect
B-side"Circular Fever"
Released1 February 1980 (1980-02-01)
Recorded1979
GenrePower pop[1]
Length2:30
LabelLogo
Songwriter(s)Peet Coombes
Producer(s)Tom Allom
The Tourists singles chronology
"I Only Want to Be with You"
(1980) 		"So Good to Be Back Home Again"
(1980) 		"Don't Say I Told You So"
(1980)
Official video
"So Good to Be Back Home Again" on YouTube

"So Good to Be Back Home Again" is a song by British band The Tourists, released in February 1980 as a single from the band's second album Reality Effect. It peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.[2]

Background and reception

After the surprising success of "I Only Want to Be with You", the band capitalised on this by releasing the similarly themed "So Good to Be Back Home Again".[3] At the time, reviewing the song for Record Mirror, Simon Ludgate wrote that "they have enjoyed a great deal of publicity on the success of one single. It's vital therefore to produce a very strong second single and this will probably do the job", with it being "quite catchy".[4] Logo Records' co-founder Geoff Hannington said "it would certainly have been my choice as the first single had we not had that cover". "It was an obvious commercial song to go with".[3]

The energetic song "is one of The Tourists' few love songs, especially unlikely with its cheerful tone", with Annie Lennox and Peet Coombes harmonising together. It is also "clearly drawn from early Beatles'".[3]

Cover version

It was covered by rock band The Wildhearts in 1997 as "So Good to Be Back Home". It was released as a B-side to their single "Anthem" and was included on the 2010 reissue of their album Endless, Nameless.[5][6]

Charts

Chart (1980) Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[7] 9
UK Singles (OCC)[2] 8

References

  1. ^ Petridis, Alexis (April 21, 2022). "Annie Lennox's 30 greatest songs – ranked!". The Guardian. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Tourists: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  3. ^ a b c Ellis, Lucy (2009-12-16). Annie Lennox: The Biography. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-114-1.
  4. ^ "Singles" (PDF). Record Mirror. 9 February 1980. p. 8. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  5. ^ "So Good To Be Back Home | The Wildhearts". Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  6. ^ Judge, Stephen. "Wildhearts - Earth Vs. the Wildhearts/P.H.U.Q./Fishing For Luckies/Endless, Nameless". Blurt Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  7. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – So Good to Be Back Home Again". Irish Singles Chart.