Home Sweet Home
by Mötley Crüe
- 152
- BPM
- F major
- Key
- 7B
- Camelot
- 41
- Danceability
- 10
- Acousticness
In the video for "Home Sweet Home", each member of Mötley Crüe takes a phone call from home and answers, "I'm on my way!" Vince Neil is at a beach, Mick Mars sits on a throne in a haunted house, Nikki Sixx is at a bar and Tommy Lee is at a wild party. Wayne Isham directed, with actor Michael Berryman in a guest role. The concert footage was shot at The Summit in Houston, and Reunion Arena in Dallas stands in for the exterior. The video topped the MTV daily request chart for over three months, until MTV invoked its unwritten "Crue Rule" and dropped videos 30 days after their premiere.
The power ballad first appeared in 1985 on Theatre of Pain. It was remixed and released again in 1991 as "Home Sweet Home '91", with a new video, on the Decade of Decadence compilation. Carrie Underwood covered it as a single in 2009. In 2005 Chester Bennington of Linkin Park sang co-lead on a re-recording after Hurricane Katrina, and on June 21, 2025, it was remixed into a duet with Dolly Parton for the song's 40th anniversary.
Home Sweet Home runs at 152 BPM, the tempo of hard techno, punk and fast rock. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.58 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 395 ms. It is in F major, Camelot 7B, which shares its notes with D minor and mixes cleanly with Bb major and C major.
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