My Life (Kids in the Kitchen song)

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"My Life"
My Life by Kids in the Kitchen.jpg
Single by Kids in the Kitchen
from the album Shine
ReleasedNovember 1985
Format7"
Studio Platinum Studios, Melbourne
Genre New wave, Poprock
Label Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s) Bruce Curnow, Craig Harnath, Greg Dorman, Greg Woodhead, Scott Carne
Producer(s) Mark S. Berry
Kids in the Kitchen singles chronology
"Current Stand"
(1985)
"My Life"
(1985)
"Out of Control"
(1986)

"My Life" is a song by Australian pop/new wave group Kids in the Kitchen. The song was released in November 1985 as the sixth and final single from their debut album, Shine (1985). The song peaked at number 74 on the Australian Kent Music Report.

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s. The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many diverse styles. "Pop" and "rock" were roughly synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they became increasingly differentiated from each other.

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from blues and rock and roll sounds to create rock music or pop music (later) that incorporated disco, mod, and electronic music. Initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop.

Kids in the Kitchen were an Australian pop, funk and new wave band which formed in 1983. They enjoyed chart success with four top-20 hits on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart, "Change in Mood" (1983), "Bitter Desire" (1984), "Something That You Said" and "Current Stand". The related album, Shine, reached No. 9 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart and was the 16th-biggest-selling album of 1985 in Australia. A second album, Terrain, followed in August 1987 but did not chart and the group disbanded in 1988. Kids in the Kitchen supported the Australian leg of Culture Club's 2016 world tour.

Contents

The group performed the song live on Countdown.

Track listing

7" (K9885)

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1985)Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report [1] 74

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References

  1. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.