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"Home and Dry" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 18 March 2002 by Parlophone as the first single from their eighth studio album, Release (2002). It reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and number 44 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.
The music, composed by Chris Lowe, is based around a single riff that carries through the verse, bridge, and chorus. Neil Tennant added four different vocal melodies; Auto-Tune was used on his voice in the bridge. Johnny Marr played a guitar solo on the track, and Jody Linscott added percussion. The line spoken by Lowe, "We're going home", is a reference to same words sung by Paul McCartney on the Beatles song "Two of Us" (1969).
The lyrics describe waiting anxiously for a loved one to return safely home from abroad. The line "those dark and frantic transatlantic miles" conveys a fear of flying and the lonely feeling of being in a plane over the ocean at night. The September 11 attacks occurred while they were working on the album, and although the lyrics had been written earlier, mix engineer Michael Brauer commented, "This song is about that now".
Three versions of the single were released, two on CD and one on DVD. A slipcase to hold all three was sent to the 32,000 people on the Pet Shop Boys mailing list as a promotion to encourage sales. CD1 included new B-sides "Sexy Northerner" and "Always". The lead track on CD2 was an ambient mix of "Home and Dry", and it also featured the previously released "Break 4 Love" (2001). The music video for the song was on the DVD, with another new B-side, "Nightlife", and an alternate mix of "Break 4 Love".
In the United States, "Home and Dry" was released by Sanctuary Records as a noncommercial single. The track was sent to Hot Adult Contemporary radio stations on 5 April 2002. A remix by German trance duo Blank & Jones was distributed to Club DJs on 12 April; it spent five weeks on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at 44 in July. The remix was included on a bonus disc with the US edition of Release, along with the ambient mix and the music video. AOL offered MP3 downloads of the song and streams of the video.
A remix of one of the B-sides, "Sexy Northerner", was included on Disco 3 and was released as a promotional single in the United States in 2003; it peaked at number 15 on the Dance Club Play chart.
The single packaging was designed by Scott King. It features the name Pet Shop Boys in large letters on different coloured sleeves. CD1 (pictured) has a yellow background, CD2 is orange, and the DVD is red. The look was a departure from the small lettering commonly used on their covers.
The unusual music video, directed by Wolfgang Tillmans, primarily consists of footage of rats running across tracks and eating discarded food at Tottenham Court Road Underground station. There are occasional shots of the duo performing the song in the empty nightclub, Heaven. The video was deemed unsuitable for broadcast by MTV. However, the German music television channel VIVA Plus played the video in heavy rotation in March 2002.
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Home and Dry
"Home and Dry" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 18 March 2002 by Parlophone as the first single from their eighth studio album, Release (2002). It reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and number 44 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.
The music, composed by Chris Lowe, is based around a single riff that carries through the verse, bridge, and chorus. Neil Tennant added four different vocal melodies; Auto-Tune was used on his voice in the bridge. Johnny Marr played a guitar solo on the track, and Jody Linscott added percussion. The line spoken by Lowe, "We're going home", is a reference to same words sung by Paul McCartney on the Beatles song "Two of Us" (1969).
The lyrics describe waiting anxiously for a loved one to return safely home from abroad. The line "those dark and frantic transatlantic miles" conveys a fear of flying and the lonely feeling of being in a plane over the ocean at night. The September 11 attacks occurred while they were working on the album, and although the lyrics had been written earlier, mix engineer Michael Brauer commented, "This song is about that now".
Three versions of the single were released, two on CD and one on DVD. A slipcase to hold all three was sent to the 32,000 people on the Pet Shop Boys mailing list as a promotion to encourage sales. CD1 included new B-sides "Sexy Northerner" and "Always". The lead track on CD2 was an ambient mix of "Home and Dry", and it also featured the previously released "Break 4 Love" (2001). The music video for the song was on the DVD, with another new B-side, "Nightlife", and an alternate mix of "Break 4 Love".
In the United States, "Home and Dry" was released by Sanctuary Records as a noncommercial single. The track was sent to Hot Adult Contemporary radio stations on 5 April 2002. A remix by German trance duo Blank & Jones was distributed to Club DJs on 12 April; it spent five weeks on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at 44 in July. The remix was included on a bonus disc with the US edition of Release, along with the ambient mix and the music video. AOL offered MP3 downloads of the song and streams of the video.
A remix of one of the B-sides, "Sexy Northerner", was included on Disco 3 and was released as a promotional single in the United States in 2003; it peaked at number 15 on the Dance Club Play chart.
The single packaging was designed by Scott King. It features the name Pet Shop Boys in large letters on different coloured sleeves. CD1 (pictured) has a yellow background, CD2 is orange, and the DVD is red. The look was a departure from the small lettering commonly used on their covers.
The unusual music video, directed by Wolfgang Tillmans, primarily consists of footage of rats running across tracks and eating discarded food at Tottenham Court Road Underground station. There are occasional shots of the duo performing the song in the empty nightclub, Heaven. The video was deemed unsuitable for broadcast by MTV. However, the German music television channel VIVA Plus played the video in heavy rotation in March 2002.