Released March 1986 Recorded 1985 Label Atlantic | Format 7" single, 12" Single Length 3:56 | |
Genre Alternative rock, pop rock, post-punk | ||
"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 and included as the third track on the 1985 album Listen Like Thieves.
It was released as the album's fourth single in March 1986 and reached #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 #24 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
In 2002, "Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)" was included on the soundtrack of the popular and critically acclaimed Rockstar video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
The music video shows the band performing on a salt lake and on the moon plains in Coober Pedy in South Australia. The band flew direct from the USA to the site and filmed the clip overnight then flew back to the USA. In the bridge, the band is shown performing while fire and gloom cover the area, before the skies clear up at the end.