I'm not gonna lie, I'm a gamer, I discovered this song through Vice City-I was born in 1991 and I was just short of that awesome decade that was the Eighties but I've since grown to truly love all of INXS' music and I think Michael Hutchence was a truly special performer the likes of which we'll never see again.
He truly was. My wife and I talk about him a lot. Much like you, she kind of missed out on so much great music, born in '88 and growing up in a small country town . I've tried to expose her to all manner of interesting music in the hopes she'll like it but with INXS, no effort is required. The only problem was having to tell her that Michael died before she even knew who he was. Broke her heart. She cried.
I Was There For The Whole 80's Period.That Was The Best Decade.I Would Like To Go Back In Time.I Just Came Across This Gem By Inxs.I Love It Especially Michael Hutchence He Is So Missed❤
I count myself fortunate! Born and raised in Nashville so, like everyone else, I was in a band. Started 1980 at 14 and spent those wonderful teen years playing covers of INXS, Duran Duran, Flock of Seagulls, Loverboy and even Donnie Iris. Also, got to see INXS live at Starwood Amphitheatre!!! It was an amazing time to be alive!!!!!!
and countless walkman, many gave there lives in my service, except that one I threw off the Manly Ferry for chewing up my Midnight Oil tape of the JJJ ten year anniversary Oils on the Water.
Early INXS was so good! They were hungry for success then. And they reached the Pinnacle with that incredible Wembley Stadium concert. That was their peak! Then it went all downhill after that and ended in tragedy. RIP MH-You were Great!
Just like Elvis, Prince, Bowie and George Michael, there will never be another Michael Hutchence. He was the Jim Morrison of our generation. Still not sure if it was an accidental death, suicide or murder. RIP beautiful!
That's beautiful as a fellow Aussie myself Michael could make you happy sad at the same time with his voice and your right no one will ever sing like him ever 😀
a might late in my response but agreed ! APROPOS that you would enjoy a great short film FULL MOON DIRTY HEARTS which is a visual album of theirs should still be up somewhere! CHEERS!
@@chrissimpson6701 it’s kind of ironic that in the beginning Michael was probably the weak link as they were all multi-instrumentalist and he was just a scrawny kid who wrote poetry that had an average voice but then became the Michael Hutchence we all know
Yeah…Nowadays it’s over processed rap that celebrates rape culture (yes, that’s the truth-Just listen to G-Easy’s “No Limits” and you’ll see what I mean)
My first introduction to INXS and 80's new wave/pop in general. Thank you Vice City! Hutch, thanks for the music and the memories. The Listen Like Thieves album was such a great album. I played it so much I wore it out LOL!
My first INXS album -- All of them so fantastic. What I love most about this video is that is showcases their Aussie-ness with the beautiful Bush landscape of central Australia - paying homage to what makes them so special. Forever in-love with these guys. Bless Michael's beautiful soul.
pushing 60, saw the stones, genesis, pink floyd, and many more. Michael was THE best frontman I ever had the pleasure of seeing. So engaging and a booming voice to beat. So pure and easy. Aussies (midnight oil) always brought it!!
I had Listen Like Thieves on vinyl and cassette back in the 80s, and it was one of the records I listened to before high school and on the way home from school riding my Hutch freestyle bike. Those were incredible times.
Yes, he was gorgeous inside and out! What a talented singer and I wish I had grown up during his time! How lucky people are that got to see him live in concert! Nothing today sounds half as good and his voice is unmatched! He is missed by every generation!! 💕
He had happiness and everything.. just when the accident happened to where he wasnt able to smell or taste drove him into deep depression and drugs.. as would anyone else he had 4 beautiful daughters.
Their music just blows all the crap put out now out of the water. Every damn song they did was epic. I get lost in this nightly. If only Michael knew how much people would still love his music in 2020...
Well said, and Michael was wrong, he had said, there was too much up and coming talent behind them, (if he wasn't front and center) wrong!! There just isn't and that's why he's called the last Rock Star. There is a painful lack of talent like this!!
@@rossbuchan6593 Awesome music Ross, I couldn’t agree more! Please forgive me for pointing out the following though-if you are 50+ now. The confusing three... There as in “look over there!” Their as in “their car was parked” They’re, abbreviated for they are, as in “they’re not going to like me pointing these grammar errors out” Yes I’m a grammar nazi! Respect for a fellow who loves the same music I do!
Another favorite is Melting In The Sun. Unless you have the album itself, most people dont get to hear all the great songs by INXS that were not played over the radio.
@@wandaguidry6413 I've found that the deep cuts on many albums are my favorites, or among them at least. LLT has no filler... everything on it is just outstanding.
I know bands ham it up for videos but I truly believe these chaps had so much fun playing their music, jamming together. I feel that happiness and pleasure come thru the songs and the videos!
What a song and what a video! Soooo starkly Australian. The red soil and the red sunset! So glad they chose to film in such a location, putting their homeland front and center. These guys absolutely killed it in front of the camera!
I am so thankful that INXS made a world of difference in my life!!! Just when this screwed up world starts getting on my nerves, I can listen to Michael and the Band restore some sanity in ME!!! BELLA!! BELLA!!!!
One of their best videos and best of the best Hutchence/A. Farriss songwriting collabs!!...love how Michael dances, struts, kicks and sways. They look so young here.💓😍
This song is superb! Describes life beautifully and a perfect memorial for Michael Hutchence! We all fall down the mountain end up kissing dirt but the thing that keeps us going is that SOMETIMES it doesn't hurt. Thank you INXS!!!
Alien Jack - I love your comment. So true. I can't stop listening to this song, as soon as it ends I'm replaying over and over. It just gets to my brain and soul. Wish Michael Hutchence was still with us in physical form, but in his music he most definitely lives on. Such a unique and very special person, gone way to soon.
The message in this song is incredible. And then when the guitars pick up towards the end, and Michael is singing about climbing back up from whatever ails you... priceless.
INXS is one of the most underrated bands in rock n roll history. The music is so great and Hutchence's lyrics are so poignant. I wish he was still alive and that they kept making music. RIP Michael x
Agree. It's so sad and it bothers me that Michael wanted to be remembered for his poetry and lyrics, but was defined mainly as a sex symbol. I think that was something that contributed to his depression later on towards the end of his life. To this day people mostly talk about his looks as opposed to him being a great songwriter, intelligent, worldly, etc. Yes, he was a very handsome man, but he was so much more than his looks. Wish he was still here, happy, and wish that INXS was still around. I feel they would be if he hadn't passed. I also wish I had been born way earlier than 1995 so that I could have had a better chance to see them live at least once. 😢
If the US had The Doors, Australians have INXS...such a beautiful poetry combined with beautiful music is - sometimes - a rare thing to see..I think this would be their anthem song...thnak you INXS for reminding us of our fragile carnal and spiritual nature..RIP MH..
There will Never be another Michael Hutchence ...this guy.. oozed Sexy and a appeal on a microphone that made you shiver at his voice.. he is so missed... loved the band.. the music.. never be another like Them..
Courtesy of Vice City. That hardcore buildup at the end is simply amazing. And then the song finishes up with one last simple, chill verse. This song is pretty much just about perfect. In other words, I really wouldn't hesitate to play this song in the car with anyone, no matter who they were or what their music preference was/is. Enjoy my friends. RIP Michael we all love you and your groovy moves live on forever through us and your timeless videos and performances.
I luv how they strip songs down to the core. Sometimes just a beat, a breath, guitar/synthesizer/drum solo. I would have to call it of the minimalist genre.
Hutchence wrote the song with INXS multi-instrumentalist Andrew Farriss, who told Songfacts the meaning behind the song. "The lyric of 'Kiss The Dirt' is about how it doesn't matter how big you get as an actor or an artist or whatever field or endeavour you are involved in," said Farriss. "Eventually, whether it's age or the tyranny of time, there's a myriad of things that can happen to you, and none of us really knows where we're really going in the end. It's not supposed to be a depressing lyric. The idea is, everybody falls off the mountain eventually, doesn't matter how high you get." "What Michael wrote is really beautiful poetically," he added. "When you're a little kid, you play in the dirt. If you've got some dirt to play on, a bit of earth, you might build a sandcastle or you might just dig a hole in your backyard, just messing around. But, you're always going to kiss the dirt in the end. Everything reverts back to the earth in the end. Everything."
INXS is one of those bands I heard growing up in the 80s and 90s and liked them but never bought any of the albums. Now I feel like I rediscovering them decades later. I'm in my mid 40s.
*LYRICS:* Playing in the dirt We find the seeds of doubt Don't water them with your tears Don't think about all the years You'd rather be without Eden let's me in I find the seeds of love And climb upon the highwire I kiss and tell all my fears *(Chorus)* Falling down the mountain End up kissing dirt Look a little closer Sometimes it wouldn't hurt Playing in the dirt We find the seeds of fun And we scream like alleycats Tearing down what we attack To prove that we are one Cutting through the night And we find the seeds of lust And loose our minds on one intent These passions never seem to end *(Chorus)* Falling down the mountain End up kissing dirt Look a little closer Sometimes it wouldn't hurt
My favourite INXS song.
The loss of Michael Hutchence was/is devastating.
@@luismode-they didn't
This my favourite INXS song also 😍🎵🤘 & my 2nd favourite INXS song is 'Dont Change' 😍😘
I absolutely idolized Michael in my youth; he was the coolest guy in the world.
People wonder why I hate Bob Geldoff...
@@BeckieBuskin same for me 👍
Personal favorite. Hidden gem in the catalog. Huge INXS fan.
Word...
Right, so I only know it as a B-side, but to find out that it was a single supported by such an expensive video? Mind blown.
correct on all points
Didn't recognize it until I heard. It's been too long.
Just sold kick on vinyl!😂❤$
I like the bass during the chorus.
Wrote there own songs, made there own beats, and filmed there own videos..true talent! Never gets old!!
Listen! I just wanna use your love toniiiiiight.
And amazing live
Well said
This was directed by Alex Proyas. Same guy that did The Crow, Dark City and I, Robot.
@@echoguitarist ???? Damn!!
It is incredible how atemporal this band is. this song has almost 40 years now and it sounds so modern.
Michael was supremely talented, INXS is eternal
The 80's were just oozing with great music and creative genius.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm a gamer, I discovered this song through Vice City-I was born in 1991 and I was just short of that awesome decade that was the Eighties but I've since grown to truly love all of INXS' music and I think Michael Hutchence was a truly special performer the likes of which we'll never see again.
He truly was.
My wife and I talk about him a lot.
Much like you, she kind of missed out on so much great music, born in '88 and growing up in a small country town .
I've tried to expose her to all manner of interesting music in the hopes she'll like it but with INXS, no effort is required.
The only problem was having to tell her that Michael died before she even knew who he was.
Broke her heart. She cried.
Mee too!
We'll see at least one more Michael Hutchence sort soon... No worries 😏
I Was There For The Whole 80's Period.That Was The Best Decade.I Would Like To Go Back In Time.I Just Came Across This Gem By Inxs.I Love It Especially Michael Hutchence He Is So Missed❤
My favorite game was GTA: Vice City too I just brought that song on iTunes lol it's the best I heard the song on the game
Quem está em 2024 a ouvir esta maravilha? Abraços para quem gosta de Inxs......
Here in Arizona, USA.
Me ..September the 17th 2024
I know this song since it was released ..always ❤ it
Underated song imo
@@boticelli9957 it's October, honey. Wherever you've been, I hope you've had fun. 😊
@@JanetMarcum-o7r you are right ..October the 17th 2024
I count myself fortunate! Born and raised in Nashville so, like everyone else, I was in a band. Started 1980 at 14 and spent those wonderful teen years playing covers of INXS, Duran Duran, Flock of Seagulls, Loverboy and even Donnie Iris. Also, got to see INXS live at Starwood Amphitheatre!!! It was an amazing time to be alive!!!!!!
I love Starwood! I saw the cure , motley Crue, Aerosmith, Duran Duran and others
One of the best song of INXS
100% agree!!
X2
Pienso lo mismo....y el vídeo también...
Yes! Agree.
The 80s were special, almost magical.
Miss that Era!!🎉❤
If you didn't have fun in the 80s you were either dead or in jail😂
They were magical ❤
The 90's surpassed that. I don't give a shit what some frustrated or mid age crisis Gen X'rs say
@xtrm2009 no the 90s did not surpass the 80s 😉 but the 90s were still awsom ❤️
Love INXS my favourite band anyone else listening in 2024
Yes ❤❤
One of the best bands ever!!❤💥🔥💯
The one thing inxs could never do was disappoint
I'm only 21 but I grew up on their music because of my mom. R.I.P mom 💙
💗
Losing mother at such a young age is heartbreaking... I am so sorry for ur loss.. May she rest in peace.... All my strengths and love with you 🙏❤❤
@@Areufuckingkiddingme thank you 🥺
Sorry for your lost
18 from vice city 🥴
My passion for INXS will Never end .
The Listen Like Thieves album was such a great album. I played it so much I wore it out LOL!
Oh hell yes! "What You Need" hooks you, and this is one of the songs that reel you in.
and countless walkman, many gave there lives in my service, except that one I threw off the Manly Ferry for chewing up my Midnight Oil tape of the JJJ ten year anniversary Oils on the Water.
Listen Like Thieves is still my favorite Inxs album. A real masterpiece... even more so than Kick, I think (which is a close second).
Not one bad song. When it first came out, I worked out listening to the entire album and to this day, I still use it for my work out.
I had this album in middle school. I wore it out, TWICE! Had to start buying CDs. Kick and Thieves were my first.
I still love it. INXS. Music never die's. ❤
Early INXS was so good! They were hungry for success then. And they reached the Pinnacle with that incredible Wembley Stadium concert. That was their peak! Then it went all downhill after that and ended in tragedy.
RIP MH-You were Great!
Just like Elvis, Prince, Bowie and George Michael, there will never be another Michael Hutchence. He was the Jim Morrison of our generation. Still not sure if it was an accidental death, suicide or murder. RIP beautiful!
"Some days I am everything that I hate. There's nothing if the truth won't survive."
He always reminded me of of Jim Morrison also 👍👍
Yeah another talent gone way too soon !!
That's beautiful as a fellow Aussie myself Michael could make you happy sad at the same time with his voice and your right no one will ever sing like him ever 😀
You know, I never even thought of that, but you're right - Jim Morrison is a great comparison.
INXS was a great band, musically and visually. Miss them a lot.
a might late in my response but agreed ! APROPOS that you would enjoy a great short film FULL MOON DIRTY HEARTS which is a visual album of theirs should still be up somewhere! CHEERS!
They were nothing without Michael.
@@chrissimpson6701 it’s kind of ironic that in the beginning Michael was probably the weak link as they were all multi-instrumentalist and he was just a scrawny kid who wrote poetry that had an average voice but then became the Michael Hutchence we all know
we all miss them
I liked that basketball song: SUICIDE AND ALL, YOU WANNA MAKE A, SUICIDE AND ALL -
Never get tired of inxs ❤
Nobody writes them any more like this
the melody of the chorus touches my spirit in a vey immense feeling.. this song is EPIC
Absolutely
Yeah…Nowadays it’s over processed rap that celebrates rape culture (yes, that’s the truth-Just listen to G-Easy’s “No Limits” and you’ll see what I mean)
Still listening in 2023, my 80s playlist is a prescription for stayin kewl 😎
Most underrated front man ever. Good looking, great voice, charisma. Good band.
Nobody like him that is for sure.
Don’t think he was under rated mate.
The Jim Morrison of 80's and 90's, his death was a tragedy for the music.
My first introduction to INXS and 80's new wave/pop in general. Thank you Vice City!
Hutch, thanks for the music and the memories.
The Listen Like Thieves album was such a great album. I played it so much I wore it out LOL!
My first INXS album -- All of them so fantastic. What I love most about this video is that is showcases their Aussie-ness with the beautiful Bush landscape of central Australia - paying homage to what makes them so special. Forever in-love with these guys. Bless Michael's beautiful soul.
Andrew Farriss and Michael were song writing geniuses. I saw INXS twice, The last time was at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney in 1984
I was very fortunate to see them 3 times. First in 83 opening up for men at work. Inxs blew them away. I was hooked. Front row for Kick in Indy
Andrew Farriss still is.
Quelle chance !!!!!!! (
I just love how free this is. Just pure happiness. I cried. Thank you, guys.
Say what you want, but '80s music is the best.
I love love love love INXS! Forever a fan and forever missing Michael and his beautiful voice
pushing 60, saw the stones, genesis, pink floyd, and many more. Michael was THE best frontman I ever had the pleasure of seeing. So engaging and a booming voice to beat. So pure and easy. Aussies (midnight oil) always brought it!!
I had Listen Like Thieves on vinyl and cassette back in the 80s, and it was one of the records I listened to before high school and on the way home from school riding my Hutch freestyle bike.
Those were incredible times.
I love when the keyboard kicks in at 1:14! Thank you Vice City!!!
Love for ever INXS music and vinyls
The 80's are still the best decade of music.
This song sits in my psyche and reappears at the most stunning moments. So beautiful. ❤
One of many songs that I love by INXS.
That voice 😍 and beautiful man, was he. Miss you beloved Michael. I'm so sorry you were in pain and didn't find the happiness you deserved.
Yes, he was gorgeous inside and out! What a talented singer and I wish I had grown up during his time! How lucky people are that got to see him live in concert! Nothing today sounds half as good and his voice is unmatched! He is missed by every generation!! 💕
He had happiness and everything.. just when the accident happened to where he wasnt able to smell or taste drove him into deep depression and drugs.. as would anyone else he had 4 beautiful daughters.
It's hard to beat the energy and optimism that 1980s music had
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE SOURCES, SOMETIMES...
Я тоже их очень люблю! Бесподобная группа!
Everything 80's is AWESOME!!! BEST ERA EVER!!! LOVED THE 80'S💓💓🎵🎼
Ahh, before the woke revolution!
It had so much optimism! Even in film!
Their music just blows all the crap put out now out of the water. Every damn song they did was epic. I get lost in this nightly. If only Michael knew how much people would still love his music in 2020...
Well said, and Michael was wrong, he had said, there was too much up and coming talent behind them, (if he wasn't front and center) wrong!! There just isn't and that's why he's called the last Rock Star. There is a painful lack of talent like this!!
So true Lisa ...my fave band since I was 12 I'm 50 now there music never ages
@@rossbuchan6593 Awesome music Ross, I couldn’t agree more!
Please forgive me for pointing out the following though-if you are 50+ now.
The confusing three...
There as in “look over there!”
Their as in “their car was parked”
They’re, abbreviated for they are, as in “they’re not going to like me pointing these grammar errors out”
Yes I’m a grammar nazi!
Respect for a fellow who loves the same music I do!
@@oldtimer2192 that's ok appreciate the corrections : )
that is a name given to me recently: *R O C K S T A R* and I will take it@@janebraun4482 love a star that rocks
the best INXS video, so fondly when you first discovered them. great song!
Gotta love Australian music!! ❤❤
Favorite INXS song.
Mine too used to listen to this in the ARMY and my First Sergeant called I N X S, instead of INXS. Funny great Times in the army 88-92.
Another favorite is Melting In The Sun. Unless you have the album itself, most people dont get to hear all the great songs by INXS that were not played over the radio.
@@wandaguidry6413 I've found that the deep cuts on many albums are my favorites, or among them at least. LLT has no filler... everything on it is just outstanding.
Me too. Happy/sad memories of a time long gone.
Tossup between this and burn for you for me
the album is still freakin' amazing.
I know bands ham it up for videos but I truly believe these chaps had so much fun playing their music, jamming together. I feel that happiness and pleasure come thru the songs and the videos!
I don't think he's dead cause legends never die!
What a song and what a video! Soooo starkly Australian. The red soil and the red sunset! So glad they chose to film in such a location, putting their homeland front and center. These guys absolutely killed it in front of the camera!
I am so thankful that INXS made a world of difference in my life!!! Just when this screwed up world starts getting on my nerves, I can listen to Michael and the Band restore some sanity in ME!!! BELLA!! BELLA!!!!
One of their best videos and best of the best Hutchence/A. Farriss songwriting collabs!!...love how Michael dances, struts, kicks and sways. They look so young here.💓😍
This makes my heart happy. So glad I grew up in the 80s and experienced INXS as a kid. Such a great time to be alive. ❤️❤️❤️
me too!!!!
Instantly transported to 1985. I'm 12 years old. This song is on the radio. Life is simple. Damn, I miss those days.
This song and video = happiness. Thank you, boys.
Nobody writes them any more like this
Nobody writes them any more like this
This song is superb! Describes life beautifully and a perfect memorial for Michael Hutchence! We all fall down the mountain end up kissing dirt but the thing that keeps us going is that SOMETIMES it doesn't hurt. Thank you INXS!!!
Memories for michael hutchence
Alien Jack - I love your comment. So true. I can't stop listening to this song, as soon as it ends I'm replaying over and over. It just gets to my brain and soul. Wish Michael Hutchence was still with us in physical form, but in his music he most definitely lives on. Such a unique and very special person, gone way to soon.
@@deb7412 😔💕🌹
The message in this song is incredible. And then when the guitars pick up towards the end, and Michael is singing about climbing back up from whatever ails you... priceless.
Use to drive around in the 80's playing this cassette. Miss those days - before CELL PHONES.
Truly. I loathe the things and what they've done to the culture.
Aaaaagh!!!CELL PHONEZ!!!!!!!!
CELL PHONE BAD! AGHHHH MY BOOMER BODY HAS AN AVERSION TO PHONEZ!!11
Better to say: Fckin IPHONES !!
CELLphones...
We are everytime getting controlled by them.
This song and video = happiness. Thank you, boys.
Listen Like Thieves - absolutely brilliant album
INXS is one of the most underrated bands in rock n roll history. The music is so great and Hutchence's lyrics are so poignant. I wish he was still alive and that they kept making music. RIP Michael x
Agree. It's so sad and it bothers me that Michael wanted to be remembered for his poetry and lyrics, but was defined mainly as a sex symbol. I think that was something that contributed to his depression later on towards the end of his life. To this day people mostly talk about his looks as opposed to him being a great songwriter, intelligent, worldly, etc. Yes, he was a very handsome man, but he was so much more than his looks. Wish he was still here, happy, and wish that INXS was still around. I feel they would be if he hadn't passed. I also wish I had been born way earlier than 1995 so that I could have had a better chance to see them live at least once. 😢
Why underated 🤔their world famous🙈.
Such a carefree and timeless time in music. I will forever be searching for the parallel universe where I was at this moment in time....
look up L.A.B in the air...
🤘2020👏
Ive found it. A long time ago. Hope you find yours.
I was about 16 years old in New South Wales. It was okay I suppose 😏
I'm absolutely in love with this bass line)
Such a beautiful song. It’s the best song from a brilliant album.
Love your screen name. Antifa are grubs
thanks Hutch (never forgoten), thanks INXS, greetings to Australia from Polska.
Andy Farris is my hero in this group . What a Beethoven!. A melody making ,composing machine. Pure genius!
My first introduction to INXS and 80's new wave/pop in general. Thank you Vice City!
Australia in the 80’s & 90’s This was an anthem…
Such a great song still to this day…
we can feel their hunger to get their sound out there, loud and clear! Rock on that inxs awesome sound!
Flash FM!
Hutch, thanks for the music and the memories.
it doesn't get any better than INXS...
If the US had The Doors, Australians have INXS...such a beautiful poetry combined with beautiful music is - sometimes - a rare thing to see..I think this would be their anthem song...thnak you INXS for reminding us of our fragile carnal and spiritual nature..RIP MH..
it doesn't get any better than INXS...
There will Never be another Michael Hutchence ...this guy.. oozed Sexy and a appeal on a microphone that made you shiver at his voice.. he is so missed... loved the band.. the music.. never be another like Them..
yes, indeed that one mold each person on this planet iz or has.........
So many awesome tracks. These guys will live on forever.
it doesn't get any better than INXS...
I'm not gonna lie, I took the bus to Buy this album when I was a just a kid, still makes me kick the dirt when I hear it, INXS!! One and only...
Sometimes I like to come here and listen to great 80s music and can't help but think how bad music is these days.
thank god for bands like INXS!
I would give both my nuts to have seen this band live in full flight! What a song, what a man, what a voice!
I saw them...1988 in Orlando FL. And yes they were every bit as great..
I went to all their concerts in my area for a couple albums starting in 1983...
I hate you all. .. :'(
I saw them on the Listen Like Thieves tour back in 80's.
@@vjenkins6815 DAAAAAAMN YOUUUUU!!!!
Favorite INXS song.
Hutch, thanks for the music and the memories.
the melody of the chorus touches my spirit in a vey immense feeling.. this song is EPIC
oh yeah!
The bass and drums are so integral to Inxs's sound... Stellar...
Courtesy of Vice City. That hardcore buildup at the end is simply amazing. And then the song finishes up with one last simple, chill verse. This song is pretty much just about perfect. In other words, I really wouldn't hesitate to play this song in the car with anyone, no matter who they were or what their music preference was/is. Enjoy my friends. RIP Michael we all love you and your groovy moves live on forever through us and your timeless videos and performances.
it's like two different songs and that's my favorite part of it. good comment.
Nice!!
one of my favorite INXS songs. it's a shame it got very little airplay when it was released. RIP Michael, you are missed.
MrWillyWonka
Your words are the words of a rare scholar and a true gentleman.... Well said sir....
+MrWillyWonka Don't waste good music on those with hollow heads.
RIP Michael on your 26th anniversary. We miss you! 😢
Hutch, thanks for the music and the memories.
before and whilst being a thrash metal fan I loved INXS, i bought everything i could in every country i visited back then
I luv how they strip songs down to the core. Sometimes just a beat, a breath, guitar/synthesizer/drum solo. I would have to call it of the minimalist genre.
FOREVER❤#INXS❣️
Hutchence wrote the song with INXS multi-instrumentalist Andrew Farriss, who told Songfacts the meaning behind the song. "The lyric of 'Kiss The Dirt' is about how it doesn't matter how big you get as an actor or an artist or whatever field or endeavour you are involved in," said Farriss. "Eventually, whether it's age or the tyranny of time, there's a myriad of things that can happen to you, and none of us really knows where we're really going in the end. It's not supposed to be a depressing lyric. The idea is, everybody falls off the mountain eventually, doesn't matter how high you get."
"What Michael wrote is really beautiful poetically," he added. "When you're a little kid, you play in the dirt. If you've got some dirt to play on, a bit of earth, you might build a sandcastle or you might just dig a hole in your backyard, just messing around. But, you're always going to kiss the dirt in the end. Everything reverts back to the earth in the end. Everything."
The spirit of being Alive... I thank these Dreamtime Boys for finding its Rhythm & Frequency.
Talk about nostalgia!! This is an awesome tune
Incredibly underrated singer.
This song has such an awesome one minute bridge - 2:16 to 3:16
INXS had the most awesome bass players of the 80's
So many awesome tracks. These guys will live on forever.
Listen Like Thieves was by far my favorite INXS album. Almost wore out that cassette.
Thanks for all the songs INXS. This one makes always cheers me up.
Happy 59th Birthday Michael!!! Love you and miss you always.
INXS is one of those bands I heard growing up in the 80s and 90s and liked them but never bought any of the albums. Now I feel like I rediscovering them decades later. I'm in my mid 40s.
This and Listen Like Thieves was my first meeting with INXS , it was on The Tube!! From then I was caught!! Miss him so!!
My fave INXS song
That breakdown near the end is supreme 👌
*LYRICS:*
Playing in the dirt
We find the seeds of doubt
Don't water them with your tears
Don't think about all the years
You'd rather be without
Eden let's me in
I find the seeds of love
And climb upon the highwire
I kiss and tell all my fears
*(Chorus)*
Falling down the mountain
End up kissing dirt
Look a little closer
Sometimes it wouldn't hurt
Playing in the dirt
We find the seeds of fun
And we scream like alleycats
Tearing down what we attack
To prove that we are one
Cutting through the night
And we find the seeds of lust
And loose our minds on one intent
These passions never seem to end
*(Chorus)*
Falling down the mountain
End up kissing dirt
Look a little closer
Sometimes it wouldn't hurt
Well done my friend!
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This and Never Tear Us Apart are my absolute faves from INXS. Awesome music.
I still love this one.The '80s were and still are fantastic when it came to real music and videos.
This is a great song and perfectly placed on the album set list. Many Memories with this one!