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Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)
| Field | Value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain) | ||||||
| cover | Kiss the Dirt.jpg | ||||||
| caption | Cover art for Australian and US vinyl editions | ||||||
| type | single | ||||||
| artist | INXS | ||||||
| album | Listen Like Thieves | ||||||
| released | * March 1986 | ||||||
| * 22 August 1986 (UK)<ref>{{cite magazine | last | Smith | first=Robin | date=16 August 1986 | title=News Digest | magazine=Record Mirror | page=49}} |
| recorded | August 1985 | ||||||
| studio | Rhinoceros Studios (Sydney, Australia) | ||||||
| genre | * Alternative rock | ||||||
| * college rock<ref name | "AllMusic"{{AllMusic | class=album | id= mw0000588088 | ||||
| title | INXS - Shine Like It Does: The Anthology (1979-1997) (2001) Review | last= Erlewine | first= Stephen Thomas | access-date= March 7, 2024}} | |||
| length | 3:56 | ||||||
| label | Atlantic | ||||||
| writer | * Andrew Farriss | ||||||
| producer | Chris Thomas | ||||||
| prev_title | What You Need | ||||||
| prev_year | 1985 | ||||||
| next_title | Listen Like Thieves | ||||||
| next_year | 1986 | ||||||
| misc |
- 22 August 1986 (UK)
- pop rock
- college rock{{AllMusic |class=album |id= mw0000588088
- Michael Hutchence "Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)" is a song by the Australian rock band INXS. It was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence from their fifth studio album Listen Like Thieves (1985).
It was released as the album's third single in March 1986 and reached number 15 on the Australian singles chart, becoming the band's tenth top 20 hit in their country. It was, however, the band's seventh single that failed to chart in the United States, but it did manage to reach number 24 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
The music video shows the band performing on a salt lake and on the moon plains in Coober Pedy in northern South Australia. The band flew direct from the United States to the site and filmed the clip overnight then flew back to the United States. In the bridge, the band is shown performing while fire and gloom cover the area, before the skies clear up at the end. It was directed by Alex Proyas.
Charts
| Chart (1986) | Peak | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| position | ||||||||||
| last=Kent | first=David | author-link=David Kent (historian) | title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 | publisher=Australian Chart Book | location=St. Ives, N.S.W. | year=1993 | edition=Illustrated | page=149 | isbn=0-646-11917-6}} N.B. the Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988. | 15 |
| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) | 42 | |||||||||
| UK singles chart | 54 | |||||||||
| US Billboard Album Rock Tracks | 24 |
References
References
- Smith, Robin. (16 August 1986). "News Digest".
- Kent, David. (1993). "Australian Chart Book 1970–1992". Australian Chart Book.
- "charts.nz > INXS – Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain) (song)". Hung Medien.
- "Official Charts > INXS". [[Official Charts Company.
- "Billboard > Artists / INXS > Chart History > Mainstream Rock Songs (page 2)". [[Billboard (magazine).
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