So Good to Be Back Home Again
{{short description|1980 single by The Tourists}}
{{Infobox song
| name = So Good to Be Back Home Again
| cover = File:The Tourists So Good to Be Back Home Again.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = The Tourists
| album = Reality Effect
| B-side = Circular Fever
| released = {{start date|1980|2|1|df=yes}}
| format =
| recorded = 1979
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Power pop{{cite web|first= Alexis|last= Petridis|title= Annie Lennox's 30 greatest songs – ranked!|website= The Guardian|date= April 21, 2022|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/21/annie-lennox-30-greatest-songs-ranked|accessdate= August 3, 2024}}
| length = {{duration|m=2|s=30}}
| label = Logo
| writer = Peet Coombes
| producer = Tom Allom
| prev_title = I Only Want to Be with You
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = Don't Say I Told You So
| next_year = 1980
| misc = {{External music video|header=Official video |{{YouTube|MWaFcZGp-2c
|"So Good to Be Back Home Again"}}}}
}}
"So Good to Be Back Home Again" is a song by British band The Tourists, released in February 1980 as a single from the band's second album Reality Effect. It peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.
Background and reception
After the surprising success of "I Only Want to Be with You", the band capitalised on this by releasing the similarly themed "So Good to Be Back Home Again".{{Cite book|last=Ellis|first=Lucy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BzwKfkQS1QwC|title=Annie Lennox: The Biography|date=2009-12-16|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0-85712-114-1|language=en}} At the time, reviewing the song for Record Mirror, Simon Ludgate wrote that "they have enjoyed a great deal of publicity on the success of one single. It's vital therefore to produce a very strong second single and this will probably do the job", with it being "quite catchy".{{cite magazine|date=9 February 1980|title=Singles|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/80/Record-Mirror-1980-02-09.pdf|magazine=Record Mirror|page=8|access-date=2 November 2020}} Logo Records' co-founder Geoff Hannington said "it would certainly have been my choice as the first single had we not had that cover". "It was an obvious commercial song to go with".
The energetic song "is one of The Tourists' few love songs, especially unlikely with its cheerful tone", with Annie Lennox and Peet Coombes harmonising together. It is also "clearly drawn from early Beatles'".
Cover version
It was covered by rock band The Wildhearts in 1997 as "So Good to Be Back Home". It was released as a B-side to their single "Anthem" and was included on the 2010 reissue of their album Endless, Nameless.{{Cite web|title=So Good To Be Back Home {{!}} The Wildhearts|url=http://www.thewildhearts.com/discography/so-good-to-be-back-home/|access-date=2020-11-02}}{{Cite web|last=Judge|first=Stephen|title=Wildhearts - Earth Vs. the Wildhearts/P.H.U.Q./Fishing For Luckies/Endless, Nameless|url=https://blurtonline.com/review/wildhearts-earth-vs-the-wildheartsp-h-u-q-fishing-for-luckiesendless-nameless/|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Blurt Magazine|language=en-US}}
Charts
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!Chart (1980) !Peak |
| {{singlechart|Ireland2|9|song=So Good to Be Back Home Again|rowheader=true}} |
| {{singlechart|UKsinglesbyname|8|artist=Tourists|rowheader=true|refname="UK"}} |