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"Home Sweet Home" is a song by the American glam metal band Mötley Crüe and is one of the first examples[citation needed] of a power ballad.
Originally released on the band's 1985 album, Theatre of Pain, the song was accompanied by a music video which documented the band's undertakings over the course of a concert, or several concerts. "Home Sweet Home" was later remixed and re-released as a single in 1991, as "Home Sweet Home '91." This version featured on the band's Decade of Decadence compilation album. The song is often referred to as a power ballad, and its success was a prelude to similar marketing formula for other hair bands in the late 1980s.[1] The song ranks #12 on VH1's chart of the greatest power ballads of all time. The original release of "Home Sweet Home" charted at #89 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Home Sweet Home '91" peaked at #37 on the same chart in 1992.[2] To date, "Home Sweet Home '91" is the last Mötley Crüe song to chart in the American Billboard Top 40.
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