Keep on My Side

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{{Infobox song

| name = Keep on My Side

| cover = Ammonia-koms.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Ammonia

| album = Eleventh Avenue

| released = May 1998

| recorded = 1997
Tarbox Studios
Cassadaga, New York

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| genre = {{hlist

| Grunge

|rock

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| length = {{duration|m=3|s=25}}

| label = Murmur

| writer = Alan Balmont, Simon Hensworth, Dave Johnstone

| producer = Dave Fridmann

| prev_title = Monochrome

| prev_year = 1998

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}}

"Keep on My Side" was Ammonia's fourth single from their second album Eleventh Avenue.{{cite news|url=http://www.ammonia.com.au/ammonia-articles/1998/9/4/mr-phil-ammonia/ |title=Mr Phil Ammonia|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=4 September 1998|first=Simon|last=Wooldridge|access-date=31 July 2015}} It was released in May 1998 on Murmur Records,{{cite web|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20041219130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/45627/20041220-0000/www.amo.org.au/release7f0f.html|url=http://www.amo.org.au/release7f0f.html|title=Keep on My Side – Ammonia|publisher=Australian Council for the Arts|work=Australian Music Online|archive-date=19 December 2004|access-date=31 July 2015}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} just after the album's release, and was the last single the band released before breaking up.

Together with the other songs on the album, it was recorded in 1997 at Tarbox Studios{{cite web|url=http://www.tarboxroadstudios.com/ammonia.html|title=Ammonia|publisher=Tarbox Studios|access-date=31 July 2015}} in Cassadaga, New York, with producer Dave Fridmann.{{cite web|url=http://www.tarboxroadstudios.com/tarbox/Clients.html|title=Tarbox Studios – Clients|publisher=Tarbox Studios|access-date=31 July 2015}}{{cite news|url=http://www.ammonia.com.au/ammonia-articles/1998/5/7/a-good-dose-of-ammonia/|title=A Good Dose of Ammonia|newspaper=Illawarra Mercury|date=7 May 1998|first=Paul|last=Zalunardo|access-date=31 July 2015}} The Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane felt the single showed "melodic rock akin to UK bands like Radiohead or Teenage Fanclub."{{cite book | last1 = McFarlane | first1 = Ian | author-link1 = Ian McFarlane | title = Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop | chapter = Encyclopedia entry for 'Ammonia' | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040803073430/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=30 | chapter-url = http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=30 | year = 1999 | publisher = Allen & Unwin | location = St Leonards, NSW | archive-date = 3 August 2004 | isbn = 1-86508-072-1 }}