Mountain (Chocolate Starfish song)

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"Mountain"
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Single by Chocolate Starfish
from the album Chocolate Starfish
Released14 February 1994 (1994-02-14) [1]
Length4:57
Label EMI
Songwriter Chocolate Starfish
Producer Brian Canham
Chocolate Starfish singles chronology
"All Over Me"
(1993)
"Mountain"
(1994)
"Four Letter Word"
(1994)

"Mountain" is a song by Australian rock group Chocolate Starfish. The song was released in February 1994 as the third single from their debut studio album, Chocolate Starfish (1994).

Contents

Background

In a 2012 interview, band member Adam Thompson said: "I remember when we actually wrote 'Mountain', we'd recorded 'You're So Vain' and we'd written a whole bunch of other songs and we were looking for another single. Zoran (Romich) had come up with a couple of chords and I was playing this game where I was running back from the gym, trying not to step on the cracks in the pavement... and suddenly the rhythm that I was running or jogging sort of fitted, and I had that chord going on in the background and I thought 'Gee, that’s a good melody.' And when I got back, virtually within a night, we'd written 'Mountain' and we knew straight away that it was going to be a hit single. We just knew."

Thompson added; "And as for the lyric, I was over in L.A. with the band and left my girlfriend at home and she said 'I don't want you to tour anymore. When you come home, I want you to stay with me and get a normal job and to be a responsible boyfriend.' And this was obviously my dream for eight or nine years to be in a band and the passion that I was trying to find and when I was writing the song, the metaphor of the mountain and the river just came to me. She wanted me to stay still, like a mountain, an immovable force and I felt like a river that was just meandering and finding its destiny. The guys and I just looked at it and said 'Yep, that's gonna work.' and, of course, it did." [2]

Track listing

CD single

  1. "Mountain"
  2. "Mountain" (acoustic)

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [3] 12

References

  1. "New Release Summary – Product Available from : 14/2/94: Singles". The ARIA Report . No. 209. 13 February 1994. p. 20.
  2. "Interview with ADAM THOMPSON (CHOCOLATE STARFISH)". Rock Club 40. 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. "Chocolate Starfish – Mountain". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 7 December 2016.