"Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)" is a song by the Australian alternative 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 on August 1986 and reached #15 on the Australian singles chart, becoming the band's eighth 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.
On 2002, "Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)" was included on the soundtrack of the popular and controversial Rockstar computer and video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
The music video shows the band performing in the desert. In the bridge, the band is shown performing while fire and gloom cover the area, before the skies clear up at the end.
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