Better Be Home Soon
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| Single by Crowded House | |||||||||
| from the album Temple of Low Men | |||||||||
| B-side | Kill Eye | ||||||||
| Released | July 1988 | ||||||||
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| Recorded | 1988 | ||||||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||||||
| Length | 3:07 | ||||||||
| Label | Capitol | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Neil Finn | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Mitchell Froom | ||||||||
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"Better Be Home Soon" 
Sample is a 1988 song written by Neil Finn and performed by New Zealand/Australian Rock band Crowded House. The song was released as a single in July 1988 by Capitol Records. It performed modestly on both the American and British charts, but managed to peak at number two on the Australian and New Zealand charts. The song appeared on the album Temple of Low Men, which was also released in July 1988. In 2001, and the song was voted by members of APRA as the 33rd best New Zealand song of the 20th century. In 2005, following drummer Paul Hester's death, Neil Finn performed the song solo at the ARIA Awards while a montage of Hester's life was played in the background.
Nick Seymour attempted to explain the concept of the video in a 1988 issue of Smash Hits. He likened it to the INXS video he worked on for Listen Like Thieves "only theirs was sort of macho." He called it a fun video with the Dickensian style clothes people were wearing. Seymour says it this way:
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