Hey Dude (song)

"Hey Dude"
Single by Kula Shaker
from the album K
B-side
  • "Troubled Mind"
  • "Into the Deep"
  • "Drop in the Sea"
  • "Crispian Reading from the Mahabharata"
Released26 August 1996 (1996-08-26)
RecordedJanuary–May 1996
StudioVarious
Genre
Length4:07
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)John Leckie
Kula Shaker singles chronology
"Tattva"
(1996)
"Hey Dude"
(1996)
"Govinda"
(1996)
Music video
"Hey Dude" on YouTube

"Hey Dude" is a Britpop song by English psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker. Written by frontman Crispian Mills and Kula Shaker, the song was released as the third single (and fourth overall) from their 1996 debut studio album, K, on 26 August 1996. Produced by John Leckie, "Hey Dude" became the band's joint-highest-charting song in the United Kingdom (alongside "Hush"), peaking at number two in September 1996. Internationally, the single charted in Australia, Ireland, and the Netherlands, as well as on the Canadian and US rock charts. In Australia, the song was ranked at number 60 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996.[2]

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  2. ^ "Hottest 100 1996". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 9 June 2022.