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2 Personnel  




3 Charts  


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"Dirty Creature"
SinglebySplit Enz
from the album Time and Tide
B-side"Make Sense of It"
ReleasedMarch 1982
GenrePop, rock
Length4:02
LabelMushroom Records
Songwriter(s)Tim Finn, Nigel Griggs, Neil Finn
Split Enz singles chronology
"Iris"
(1981) 		"Dirty Creature"
(1982) 		"Six Months in a Leaky Boat"
(1982)

"Dirty Creature" is a song by New Zealand art rock group Split Enz. It was released in March 1982 as the lead single from their eighth studio album Time and Tide.

Tim Finn had been suffering from panic attacks at the time, and co-wrote the song as a relief for his condition.[1]

Track listing

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

Personnel

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Charts

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Weekly charts

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Weekly chart performance for "Dirty Creature"
Chart (1982) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2][3] 6
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[4] 3

Year-end charts

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Year-end chart performance for "Dirty Creature"
Chart (1982) Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 60

References

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  1. ^ Tim Finn Interview Archived 2008-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ a b "National Top 100 Singles for 1982". Kent Music Report. 3 January 1983. Retrieved 22 January 2023 – via Imgur.
  • ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 288. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  • ^ "Split Enz – Dirty Creature". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

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