Song · Jebediah
“Leaving Home” by Jebediah
From the album Slightly Odway (1997)
“Leaving Home” by Jebediah appears on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1997 and 2013. It was first released in 1997 on the album Slightly Odway. Its best result is #10 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #145 alternative song of 1997 and #5,289 alternative song of all time.
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"Leaving Home" was the song that launched Jebediah's debut album Slightly Odway in 1997, the lead single for the Australian alt-rock band on Murmur, and it came out of boredom. The band were rehearsing in Melbourne ahead of recording their "Jerks of Attention" single with producer Lyndsay Gravina, got restless and started jamming; Kevin Mitchell had a chord progression and a scrap of melody in his head, and they built the rest from there, including a middle eight Mitchell cheerfully admitted was pure Weezer. He wrote the words in his bedroom in Perth.
The writing credit goes to band members Kevin and Brett Mitchell, Chris Daymond and Vanessa Thornton. Neill King produced and Chris Lord-Alge mixed it bright and punchy. It reached number 48 on the ARIA singles chart, and the critic Ian McFarlane counted it and "Jerks of Attention" as a pair of cracking singles.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 10 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 50 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1998) | 100 |
| 2013 | 98 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013) | 100 |
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