"Take Me Home" is a song written and performed by English drummer, singer and songwriter Phil Collins. It is the tenth and final track on Collins' third solo album, No Jacket Required. Collins co-produced the song with Hugh Padgham and released it as a single in the UK in July 1985 and the U.S. in March 1986. It did moderately well in the UK, peaking at No. 19.[1] While it was not as successful as other singles from the album, such as "Sussudio" or "One More Night" in the US, it still reached the top 10, peaking at No. 7.[2]
The "extended mix" of "Take Me Home", released on the 12-inch single, was one of the six songs to be included on Collins' 12"ers album. John "Tokes" Potoker created an edited extended mix of the song for the Japanese release of 12"ers, removing around one and half minutes from the full length mix.
In a readers poll, Rolling Stone ranked "Take Me Home" number five on their list of ten best Collins songs.[3]
"Take Me Home" became Collins's show closer during the No Jacket Required World Tour. It remained at the end of the live show for at least a decade, including the Seriously, Live! World Tour of 1990. The song was not featured in the 2001 video Live & Loose in Paris, although it was played as an encore.
Reception for the song was mostly positive. Jan DeKnock of the Chicago Tribune said that the song was "hypnotic".[8] Geoff Orens of AllMusic said that the song was an AMG Track Pick, and that the "pulsating 'Take Me Home' utilizes the drama of 'In the Air Tonight' on a more wistful track".[9]David Fricke of Rolling Stone said that the song had "engaging, circular rhythm and languid melodic texture".[10] Marty Racine of the Houston Chronicle thought that "Take Me Home" was one of the few songs that "[rose] above the crowd [on the album]".[11]Cash Box called it "an urgent ballad" with "intensity and hummable refrain".[12]Billboard called it an "introspective mood piece of melancholy and defiance."[13]
"Take Me Home" appeared on the Phil Collins tribute albumUrban Renewal, as performed by Malik Pendleton.
In 2003, the hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony based their song "Home" on this single.[17] That version of the song featured the original song's chorus, and reached No. 19 in the UK. Collins appeared in the music video to sing the chorus.[17]
In 2014, R&B singer JoJo included her own revamped interpretation of "Take Me Home" on her three-track Valentine's Day EP, #LoveJo. The cover, which features production from Da Internz, was praised for JoJo's vocals and the incorporation of trap and 808 beats. "The clear standout is her version of Phil Collins’ 'Take Me Home,' all militant stomp buried under ambient noise," said Sam Lansky of Time magazine. "Her voice soars and crashes over the glitchy, stuttering beat."[18]
In 2016, the extended mix was prominently used in a scene from the season 2 premiere episode of USA's television series Mr. Robot, in which an executive of the show's villainous corporation is blackmailed into publicly burning $5.9 million of his own company's money.[19]
Little Big Town and Sugarland covered this song to honor LBT's 25th anniversary as a band, and they performed it on the 2024 CMT Music Awards. The title was also the name of the tour in Fall 2024.
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All songs were written by Phil Collins, except where noted.
^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 71. ISBN0-646-11917-6. N.B. the Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.
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