"The Dolphin's Cry" is a song by the alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Live

Live (band)

Live is an American rock band from York, Pennsylvania, composed of Chad Taylor , Patrick Dahlheimer , and Chad Gracey . Lead singer and principal songwriter Ed Kowalczyk left the band in November 2009....

. It was released as the first single from their fourth studio album The Distance to Here

The Distance to Here

The Distance to Here is the fourth studio album by the band Live, released in 1999. It debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200, selling 138,000 copies in its first week and was certified Platinum by the RIAA on November 19, 1999.-Track listing:...

in 1999. The song was co-produced by Jerry Harrison

Jerry Harrison

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 of Talking Heads

Talking Heads

Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...

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Music video

The video, directed by Martin Weisz, features the band playing in an alley as successively larger waves of water flow towards them. The other people in the alley grow more panicked as the waves get larger. Towards the end of the song, the largest wave sweeps through the alley and knocks the band down, but they get back up and resume playing.

US version (Promo)

1. "The Dolphin's Cry" (Radio Edit) – 4:02
2. "The Dolphin's Cry" (Album Version) – 4:27
3. "The Dolphin's Cry" (Suggested Callout Hook) – 0:21

South African and Australian version

1. "The Dolphin's Cry" (Radio Edit) – 4:02
2. "Vine Street" – 3:19
3. "Sun" (Loop Version) – 4:42

European version 1

1. "The Dolphin's Cry" (Album Version) – 4:24
2. "Vine Street" – 3:19
3. "Lakini's Juice" (Sippin' on Lakini's Juice Remix) (Kowalczyk, Live) – 7:42

European version 2

1. "The Dolphin's Cry" (Album Version) – 4:24
2. "Sun" (Loop Version) – 4:42
3. "Turn My Head" (Recorded live in Melbourne, Australia 1997) (Kowalczyk, Live) – 4:14
4. "The Dolphin's Cry" (Video)

German version 2

1. "The Dolphin's Cry" – 4:24
2. "Vine Street" – 3:19
3. "Sun" (Loop Version) – 4:42

Chart Positions

In the US "The Dolphin's Cry" reached #78 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 Chart, #2 on the Mainstream Rock Chart and #3 on the Modern Rock Tracks Chart. In Canada the song topped the Rock / Alternative chart

Canadian rock/alternative chart

The Canadian rock/alternative chart was first published on June 11, 1995 by RPM magazine under the name Alternative 30. The song which held the number-one spot on this first chart was "More Human than Human" by White Zombie...

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The single also reached #7 in Belgium (Flanders), #10 in The Netherlands, #25 in Australia, #48 in New Zealand and #62 in the UK. The song proved to be Live's final entry in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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External links

• Official band website
• Official music video via Live's VEVO
  Vevo
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  channel on YouTube
  YouTube
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