''Has a Good Home'' is the first album by the

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, released under the name of their solo project Final Fantasy.

Track listing

''All songs written by Owen Pallett except where noted.'' # "None of You Will Ever See a Penny" – 2:32 # "This Is the Dream of Win & Regine" – 3:24 # "Your Light is Spent" – 3:06 # "Furniture" – 2:02 # "The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead" – 3:31 # "Took You Two Years to Win My Heart" – 3:58 # "The Chronicles of Sarnia" – 2:49 # "↩" – 0:39 # "Adventure.exe" – 2:01 # "Library" – 3:11 # "That's When the Audience Died" – 4:37 # "Learn to Keep Your Mouth Shut, Owen Pallett" – 1:34 # "An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy" – 2:45 (

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, Owen Pallett) # "Please Please Please" – 3:29 # "Better Than Worse" – 3:58 (

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, Owen Pallett) # "The Sea" – 2:15 (Not included on TomLab version)

Track list information

* The Win and Regine referred to in "This Is The Dream of Win & Regine" are

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and

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, the band with whom Pallett plays live (and often opens for) and for whom Pallett arranged the orchestral sections on their albums. The title of the song is also a reference to "

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. * "The Sea" also appears on the Final Fantasy '' Young Canadian Mothers'' 7" as "The Sea (Tenderizer)". This recording is distinctly different from the ''Has a Good Home'' recording, sounding softer and less like a sea-shanty, and favouring a mix of instruments as opposed to Pallett's violin and voice alone. * "Adventure.exe" appeared on the

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commercial, advertising the new Dolphin, Racoon, Panther and Canary packages. * Track 13, "An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy", takes its melody directly from the song "Star Maze" from '' Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins'', which plays in the final level of the Space Zone. * "Better Than Worse" was originally recorded by

on his album ''Exhausted, The Cost Of''. That album was entirely ''

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'' and was recorded while he was riding his

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. The instrumentation heard on ''Has A Good Home'' was written by Pallett.

References

2005 debut albums Owen Pallett albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub