Home Movies (album)
Home Movies is a compilation album by Everything but the Girl featuring songs from their first eight studio albums as well as two newly recorded songs, a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy in New York" and "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love". The album was released in 1993 and reached number 5 on the UK Albums Chart. Singles. The band's cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy in New York" was released as a single and spent 5 weeks in the UK Singles Chart peaking at number  42. A music video for their version of the song was directed by Hal Hartley. The second and final single released from the album was "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love" which peaked at number 72 on the UK chart. The song was later covered by Karen Ramirez, re-titled "Looking for Love", and her version spent 11 weeks on the UK chart reaching number 8 at its peak. Track listing. All songs written by Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, except where noted. Video. A companion music video compilation also titled "Home Movies" was released simultaneously with  the album featuring the following videos. Thorn wrote of the shoot for the "Mine" video in 1984, "[It was] filmed in a stupefyingly hot studio, where my make-up melted and had to be reapplied throughout the day, till by evening it was inches thick on my face and made me look like Jackie Stallone". Charts. Album