Home Is in Your Head

Infobox Album | Name = Home Is in Your Head
Type = Album
Artist = His Name Is Alive

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Released = July 25, 1991
Recorded = 1989-1990
Genre = Rock
Length = 48:19
Label = 4AD Records
Producer = His Name Is Alive, Ivo Watts-Russell, John Fryer
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:u0jw7ia5g77r]
Last album = "Livonia"
(1990)
This album = "Home Is in Your Head"
(1991) | Next album = "The Dirt Eaters EP"
(1992) |

"Home Is in Your Head" is an album by His Name Is Alive, originally released in 4AD in the UK in 1991, and in 1992 on 4AD/Rykodisc in the USA.

History

Like their 4AD debut, Livonia, His Name Is Alive's "Home Is in Your Head" comprises tracks that originated in Warren Defever's basement 4-track recorder, later remixed by Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer into something suitable for release. Featuring mostly material recorded from 1989-1990, some songs date from the same era as the songs from "Livonia" (1985-1989). 4AD's press release for "Livonia" in 1990 mentions that the band's second 4AD album (which turned out to be this album) was already completed. "Home Is In Your Head" was released in the fall of 1991.

"Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking" was later used in the film Jerry Maguire in a key scene. This jokingly earned HNIA the moniker "the band that gave Tom Cruise a nervous breakdown."

Track listing

Original 4AD release

The original release 1991 release of "Home Is in Your Head" on 4AD (CAD1013) on LP, cassette and CD, contained the following tracklsting:
# "Are You Coming Down This Weekend?" – 0:18
# "Her Eyes Were Huge Things" – 1:37
# "The Charmer" – 2:14
# "Hope Called in Sick" – 1:36
# "My Feathers Needed Cleaning" – 2:27
# "The Well" – 2:25
# "There's Something Between Us and He's Changing My Words" – 1:20
# "The Phoenix, a Pool of Ice" – 0:50
# "Are We Still Married?" – 2:51
# "Put Your Finger in Your Eye" – 0:50
# "Home Is in Your Head" – 2:23
# "Why People Disappear" – 4:17
# "Here Eyes Are Huge" – 1:11
# "Save the Birds" – 0:23
# "Chances Are We Are Mad" – 2:37
# "Mescalina" – 0:48
# "Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking" – 3:26
# "Very Bad a Bitter Hand" – 3:02
# "Beautiful and Pointless" – 2:25
# "Tempe" – 3:25
# "Spirit and Body" – 1:49
# "Love's a Fish Eye" – 3:32
# "Dreams Are of the Body" – 2:39

Tracks four, five and six are a suite of songs collectively known as "The Song of Schizophrenia".

All of the tracks are written by Warren Defever, credited as His Name Is Alive, except for "The Well", which was written by Karin Oliver, "Tempe", written by Jymn Auge, and "There's Something Between Us and He's Changing My Words", which is a cover of a song by Bone Machine. Defever and Auge actually co-wrote this song, as Bone Machine was an early band of theirs. Guitarist Auge had guested on "Livonia", and by this album was a full-time member of HNIA.

A hidden song is included on the last track. After a brief moment of silence following the conclusion of "Dreams Are of the Body", a song called "The Other Body" begins. This is a demo track that ends abruptly, as the tape ran out during recording.

Rykodisc USA release and later 4AD reissue

The album was only available in the USA as an import until 1992, when Rykodisc reissued the album on CD. The Rykodisc release, which is now out of print, also contained The Dirt Eaters EP, which had been released early in 1992. When 4AD reissued the album on CD in 1998, they also included these tracks. This is the track listing for this version:

# "Are You Coming Down This Weekend?" - 0:18
# "Her Eyes Were Huge Things" - 1:37
# "The Charmer" - 2:14
# "Hope Called in Sick" - 1:36
# "My Feathers Needed Cleaning" - 2:27
# "The Well" - 2:25
# "There's Something Between Us and He's Changing My Words" - 1:20
# "The Phoenix, a Pool of Ice" - 0:50
# "Are We Still Married?" - 2:51
# "Put Your Finger in Your Eye" - 0:50
# "Home Is in Your Head" - 2:23
# "Why People Disappear" - 4:17
# "Here Eyes Are Huge" - 1:11
# "Save the Birds" - 0:23
# "Chances Are We Are Mad" - 2:37
# "Mescalina" - 0:48
# "Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking" - 3:26
# "Very Bad a Bitter Hand" - 3:02
# "Beautiful and Pointless" - 2:25
# "Tempe" - 3:25
# "Spirit and Body" - 1:49
# "Love's a Fish Eye" - 3:32
# "Dreams Are of the Body" - 2:39
# "Man on the Silver Mountain" - 3:45
# "Are We Still Married?" - 2:59
# "Is This the Way the Tigers Do?" - 3:37
# "We Hold the Land in Great Esteem" - 4:03
# "The Dirt Eaters" - 3:44

The running time for this version is 66:28.The Rykodisc version contained a different cover, which was a slightly re-worked version of the back cover of the 4AD release. All 4AD releases have used the same front and back cover.