Two track remix 12″ featuring Weatherall Mix and Youth Pressure Dub versions of Come Home
Come Home (Weatherall Mix) / Come Home (Youth Pressure Dub)
| Release Name: | Come Home 12" The Mixes |
| Artist Name: | |
| Release Date: | 1st November 1991 |
| Format: | Promo Single |
| Catalogue: | HOME 1 |
Two track remix 12″ featuring Weatherall Mix and Youth Pressure Dub versions of Come Home
Remix and rerelease of Come Home that reached 32 in the UK Singles Chart.
7″ JIM6 – Come Home (Flood Mix) / Dreaming Up Tomorrow
CAS JIMMC 6 – Come Home (Flood Mix) / Dreaming Up Tomorrow
12″ (purple) JIM612 – Come Home (Extended Flood Mix) / Fire Away / Stutter (live)
12″ (green) JIMM612 – Come Home (live) / Gold Mother (Warp Mix) / Come Home (Weatherall Mix)
CD JIMCD6 – Come Home (Extended Flood Mix) / Come Home (Flood Mix) / Fire Away / Gold Mother (Warp Mix)
| Release Name: | Come Home (Flood Mix) |
| Artist Name: | |
| Release Date: | 25th June 1990 |
| Format: | Studio Single |
| Catalogue: | 7" JIM6; 12" (purple) JIM612; 12" (green) JIMM612; CD JIMCD6; CAS JIMMC 6 |
Following the release of Gold Mother, Come Home was remixed by Flood and rereleased at the end of the band’s triumphant World Cup tour and Glastonbury performance.
The single continued to make use of multiformatting to boost the chart position. Dreaming Up Tomorrow and Fire Away, the two new tracks, dealt with religion and politics, two of Tim’s favourite subjects. Come Home itself was well represented with Flood’s single remix, an extended Flood mix, a live Radio Europe session from April 1990 and a remix by Andy Weatherall, the man who created Primal Scream’s Loaded. A live version of Stutter recorded by Key 103 at the December 1989 Manchester Apollo show and a remix of Gold Mother by Sheffield’s Warp completed the additional tracks.
Fontana, spurred on by the success of How Was It For You? and Gold Mother, sent the band to the sun-drenched Spanish desert for the video shoot which culminated in the band shirtless daubing black paint on each other’s chests and faces.
The single’s artwork mirrored one of the famous James t-shirts with “come” on the front and “home” on the back.
To support the single, the band made a number of TV appearances including a performance on the roof of the BBC’s studio in Manchester for the children’s TV show “8.15 from Manchester.” Despite the single charting at number 32, the band were still not invited to perform on Top of the Pops.
Reviews
NME
Reviewed by Fruitbat and Jim Bob of Carter USM
F : It’s not that radical a remix, is it? I didn’t really notice any difference with the version that was out before.
J : The original record was really good, but I don’t really see the point of that one much. It’s not even longer. It seems a bit silly to bring it out again, a bit of a cheap move. I don’t know who persuaded them to do it. It’s one of my favourite records of the last year but this cheapens it a bit. It’ll be a massive dancefloor hit and if it was from Manchester it would be even bigger.
NME : It is
J : Oh yeah
White label DJ promo
Come Home (Extended Flood Mix) / Come Home (Weatherall Mix)
| Release Name: | Come Home remix white label promo |
| Artist Name: | |
| Release Date: | 1st June 1990 |
| Format: | Promo Single |
| Catalogue: | JIMDJ612 |
White label DJ promo
The first release of James’ anthemic Come Home reached 84 in the UK Singles Chart.
7″ RT245 – Come Home (Short Version) / Promised Land
12″ RTT245 – Come Home (Long Version) / Promised Land / Slow Right Down (demo) / Come Home (Short Version)
CD RTT245CD – Come Home (Long Version) / Promised Land / Slow Right Down (demo) / Come Home (Short Version)
| Release Name: | Come Home |
| Artist Name: | |
| Release Date: | 20th November 1989 |
| Format: | Studio Single |
| Catalogue: | 7" RT245; 12" RTT245; CD RTT245CD |
Come Home was initially intended as the first single off the Gold Mother album which the band had recorded for Rough Trade in the summer of 1989. It was dished out to club DJs as a white-label promo by Rough Trade without revealing James as the artist in order to combat the band’s reputation as wimpy, vegan, celibate Buddhists.
James biggest UK tour to date was announced to coincide with the release. With a “Powerplay” listing on Radio 1’s Simon Mayo show ensuring daytime airplay, a hit single looked like a safe bet, especially as the release coincided with the start of the Madchester explosion.
The single was backed by Promised Land, a song inspired by the then-Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The lyrics were a direct searing attack on government policy in the middle of the Poll Tax crisis. The other track was a demo version of Slow Right Down, a powerful up-tempo track that was wasted as a b-side.
Artwork for the single was once again provided by Central Station Design.
Marketing of the single was however a disaster. Pluggers were left without copies of the single, the accompanying video failed to capture the energy of the song and was rarely aired and crucially, many record shops were left without or with insufficient copies of the single.
The single entered the charts at number 84, but was denied the momentum that might have led to a second-week improvement by an error in the charts at Music Week which meant Come Home was not listed.
Furious with the situation, James went to see Geoff Travis, MD of Rough Trade, who told them they would only ever be a minority interest with an audience of 20-30,000. With more belief in their own potential, the band asked to be released from their contract and to be able to buy the album from Rough Trade. Travis agreed and soon after, the band signed to the Fontana arm of the Phonogram label.
“Harder, fresher and more bitter than most bands around. Should rank them up there with The Mondays”
White label promo sent to DJs without band name
Come Home (Short Version) / Slow Right Down (Demo Version) / Promised Land / Come Home (Long Version)
| Release Name: | Come Home - Rough Trade white label promo |
| Artist Name: | |
| Release Date: | 1st November 1989 |
| Format: | Promo Single |
| Catalogue: | no catalogue number |
White label promo sent to DJs without band name