Dirty Creature

"Dirty Creature"
Single by Split Enz
from the album Time and Tide
B-side
  • "Make Sense Of It"
Released 1982
Recorded 1982
Genre Pop, rock
Length 4:02
Label Mushroom Records
Writer(s) Tim Finn, Nigel Griggs, Neil Finn
Split Enz singles chronology
"Iris"
(1982)
"Dirty Creature"
(1982)
"Six Months in a Leaky Boat"
(1983)

"Dirty Creature is a single from New Zealand art rock group Split Enz's album Time and Tide. It was written by Tim Finn, Nigel Griggs and Neil Finn and released as a single in 1982.[1]

Tim Finn had been suffering from panic attacks at the time, and co-wrote the song as a relief for his condition.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Dirty Creature" 4:02
  2. "Make Sense Of It" 3:40

Personnel

Chart performance

The song entered the New Zealand top 40 chart at 7 on 25 April 1982 and spent 18 weeks in the charts, peaking at 3.[3]

Chart (1982) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[4] #6
New Zealand Singles Chart[5] #3

Notes

  1. Tim Finn Interview
  2. Charts.org.nz
  3. Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, N.S.W. (1993). ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. "New Zealand Charts". Retrieved 2010-11-11.

External resources

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