Catch Me I'm Falling Explained

Catch Me I'm Falling
Cover:	Catch_Me_I'm_Falling_by_Real_LIfe.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Real Life
Album:	Heartland
B-Side:	Exploded Bullets
Released:	December 1983 (AUS) March 1984 (US)
Recorded:	1983
Genre:	New wave synth-pop
Length:	3:58
Label:	Wheatley Curb
Producer:	Steve Hillage
Prev Title:	Openhearted
Prev Year:	1983
Next Title:	Always
Next Year:	1984

"Catch Me I'm Falling" is a song by Australian new wave and synth-pop band Real Life. Released in December 1983 as the third single from the band's debut studio album Heartland. The song is built on the success of the debut single "Send Me an Angel" and became the band's second top 10 hit in Australia, spending 27 weeks in the Kent Music Report top 100.^[1] It also hit no. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the United States.

The song is about living one's dreams.

Music video

At the beginning of the video the band members are wearing luminous glow in the dark face paint. The band performs the song in a bright room along with their respective instruments and then it is distributed among the members throughout the studio. In addition there are movie effects.^[2]

Track listings

7" single (WRS-006)

"Catch Me I'm Falling" – 3:33
"Thrill Me" – 4:12

7" single (MCA-52362/ MCA 885)

"Catch Me I'm Falling" – 4:02
"Exploding Bullets" – 4:09

12" single (RCA / WRST 007)

"Catch Me I'm Falling" (Edit) – 4:10
"Exploding Bullets" (Extended Mix) – 5:38
"Catch Me I'm Falling" (Extended Mix) – 5:52

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1984)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	8
Germany (Media Control Charts)^[4]	9
Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade)^[5]	12
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[6]	40
U.S. Cash Box Top 100^[7]	46

Year-end charts

Cover versions

1984: Conny & Jean ("Hilf mir, ich liebe dich"/"Wege durch die Nacht")
1984: Headliner (Thomas Anders)
1998: At Vance
2005: Novaspace
2020: Topmodelz

Notes and References

Web site: Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – 1984 . Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien . 15 April 2017 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170516171201/http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=27161&pages=2 . 16 May 2017 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D7stsq52Eg Music video in youtube.com
Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 0-646-11917-6 .
Web site: Offizielle Deutsche Charts > Real Life – Catch Me I'm Falling (single). German. GfK Entertainment. 2016-08-24.
Web site: hitparade.ch > Real Life in der Schweizer Hitparade. German. Hung Medien. 2016-08-24.
Web site: Billboard > Artists / Real Life > Chart History > The Hot 100. Billboard. 2016-08-24. 2016-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20160923042348/http://www.billboard.com/artist/364735/real-life/chart?f=379. dead.
Web site: Cash Box Top 100 5/12/84 . 2018-01-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120930235001/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19840512.html# . 2012-09-30 . dead. . Cash Box magazine.
Web site: Kent Music Report No 548 – 31 December 1984 > National Top 100 Singles for 1984. Kent Music Report. Imgur. 12 January 2022.