Dirty Creature

"Dirty Creature"
Single by Split 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]