Sound As Ever is an album by You Am I

You Am I

You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Tim Rogers. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts, and are renowned for their live performances.-History:Tim Rogers formed the first...

 released in November 1993. It was recorded at Pachyderm Studio

Pachyderm Studio

Pachyderm Recording Studio is a residential recording studio located in rural Cannon Falls, Minnesota, United States, 35.8 mi southeast of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. It is located in a secluded old-growth forest with a vibrant trout stream. The studio was founded in 1988...

 in rural Cannon Falls, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 & produced by Lee Ranaldo

Lee Ranaldo

Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...

, (Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

). Tracks include the singles 'Adam's Ribs' , 'Berlin Chair

Berlin Chair

"Berlin Chair" is the second single from the album Sound As Ever by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1994 and reached #23 in that year's Hottest 100, while in the 1998 Hottest 100 of All Time it came in at #61 and #52 in the 2009 Hottest 100 of All Time. In a phone-in poll in 1999,...

' and 'Jaimme's Got A Gal

Jaimme's Got A Gal

"Jaimme's Got A Gal" is the third single from the album Sound As Ever by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1994 and reached #77 in that year's Hottest 100. The Jaimme of the title is Jaimme Rogers, the brother of You Am I's frontman and chief songwriter Tim Rogers, who had been a...

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A raw sounding debut album produced by Lee Ranaldo, Sound As Ever marked a seminal line in the ground for Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers is the frontman of Australian rock band You Am I. He is also a solo artist, as well as having fronted and released albums with bands The Twin Set and The Temperance Union.-History:...

, Andy Kent

Andy Kent

-Biography:Andy Kent joined You Am I in late 1991 at the age of twenty-two, replacing Nick Tischler, and joining Tim Rogers with new drummer Mark Tunaley . Kent was the band's live sound engineer prior to being asked to join the band at a performance in Canberra...

 and Mark Tunaley as a back to basics, punk influenced Australian rock band.

Tim Rogers said of the album, "Lee was the sweetest man in the world and continues to be so. Nirvana

Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

 had just packed up after In Utero and we were the next ones in, this bunch of little yokels from Australia."

Track listing

The Australian track listing is as follows:



All songs: Rogers/You Am I (except where noted)

1. Coprolalia
2. Berlin Chair
   Berlin Chair
   "Berlin Chair" is the second single from the album Sound As Ever by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1994 and reached #23 in that year's Hottest 100, while in the 1998 Hottest 100 of All Time it came in at #61 and #52 in the 2009 Hottest 100 of All Time. In a phone-in poll in 1999,...
   
   
3. Trainspottin'
4. Adam's Ribs
   Adam's Ribs (song)
   "Adam's Ribs" is the first single from the album Sound As Ever by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1993 and reached #50 in that year's Hottest 100.-Track listing:# "Adam's Ribs" – 3:55# "Spit" - 1:21# "Alembic" - 4:06...
   
   
5. Rosedale
6. Forever And Easy
7. Everyone's To Blame
8. Jaimme's Got A Gal
   Jaimme's Got A Gal
   "Jaimme's Got A Gal" is the third single from the album Sound As Ever by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1994 and reached #77 in that year's Hottest 100. The Jaimme of the title is Jaimme Rogers, the brother of You Am I's frontman and chief songwriter Tim Rogers, who had been a...
   
   
9. Who's Leaving You Now? (Kent/Rogers/You Am I)
10. Ordinary
11. You Scare Me
12. Off The Field (Tunaley/You Am I)
13. Sound As Ever

When the album was released in America 'Off The Field' was omitted from the album, and 'Coprolalia', 'Berlin Chair', 'Trainspottin' and 'Jaimme's Got A Gal' were remixed by David Bianco.

Personnel

Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers is the frontman of Australian rock band You Am I. He is also a solo artist, as well as having fronted and released albums with bands The Twin Set and The Temperance Union.-History:...

 - Vocals, Guitar, Organ


Andy Kent

Andy Kent

-Biography:Andy Kent joined You Am I in late 1991 at the age of twenty-two, replacing Nick Tischler, and joining Tim Rogers with new drummer Mark Tunaley . Kent was the band's live sound engineer prior to being asked to join the band at a performance in Canberra...

 - Bass, Backing Vocals


Mark Tunaley - Drums, Percussion, Vocals


Lee Ranaldo

Lee Ranaldo

Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...

 - Producer, Mixer, Additional; Vocals, Guitar and Keyboard


Wayne Connolly

Wayne Connolly

 Wayne Connolly is an Australian producer/engineer and musician. Throughout the 1990s Connolly played in Sydney band The Welcome Mat, who released a series of critically acclaimed albums and EPs through Waterfront Records and id/Mercury...

 - Mixer

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1994	Australian ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... Albums Chart	61