You Am I
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You Am I are an Australia
n 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.
formed the first version of the band with his school friend Nick Tischler and his older brother Jaimme in December 1989. The band's name was derived from late-night sessions under the influence of alcohol. This initial line-up was short-lived and by the end of 1990 both Nick and Jaimme had left the band. (In the band's 1993 song "Jaimme's Got A Gal," Tim explains why his brother left.) They were replaced by the group's one-time sound mixer Andy Kent
(bass) and Mark Tunaley on drums.
The band released several EPs and singles in the early 90s, though the real breakthrough came when Lee Ranaldo
of Sonic Youth
caught the band performing at the 1993's Big Day Out
festival. Ranaldo also produced their debut album, Sound As Ever
. The album went on to win the 1993 ARIA Award for Best Alternative Release. The band was signed to Ra Records, an alternative rock oriented sub-branch of rooArt Records, with U.S. distribution by Restless Records
.
After the release of their first album, Tunaley and the band parted ways. He was replaced by Russell Hopkinson
(formerly of the band Nursery Crimes), creating the core line-up of the band to the present day. Since then, the line-up has been augmented by David Lane of The Pictures
on second guitar. Lane is said to have come to the band's attention via his own work with The Pictures, and by transcribing, with extreme accuracy, the band's guitar tabs on a You Am I web website.
Lane has also said (on the Cream & The Crock documentary) that he almost decided not to be a part of the band, saying he was "fucking up his favourite band by playing in it" after playing his first show with them and stuffing up a bunch of solos.
You Am I had toured the United States
beginning in the mid-'90s, including playing with Soundgarden
on the Lollapalooza
festival, Redd Kross
, The Strokes
, and Smoking Popes
. (Soundgarden first came across them at the 1994 Big Day Out festival.) Despite little success in The States, the band became well known throughout Australia.
Further success came with the albums Hi Fi Way
and Hourly, Daily
, with both picking up ARIA Awards. Hourly, Daily was the first album released on the Shock
label to go to number one in the ARIA charts upon launch. These albums were marked by retro-inspired '60s bop and folky 12 string melodies, a departure from the band's earlier hard rock/ grunge sound.
Subtle country influences were apparent on their 1998 #4 Record
, that included "Heavy Heart." A heart-rending, borderline- karaoke inspired ballad... about being dumped by one's girlfriend.
In 1999, front man Tim Rogers released his first solo album What Rhymes With Cars And Girls
.
After an album absence prolonged by touring and record label interference, Dress Me Slowly
was released April 2001. Dress Me Slowly was guitarist David Lane's first bona fide appearance on a studio record.
Deliverance
was released in 2002, but did not enjoy the kind of critical and commercial success that the band's earlier work had enjoyed. The band released "Who Put The Devil In You?" as a download-only internet single that year.
In September 2003, the band parted ways with its record label BMG
, with whom it had been signed in 1998 after BMG acquired rooArt Records.
In the four years between Deliverance and You Am I's next album, Convicts, both Davey Lane and Tim Rogers kept busy with their own solo projects. Lane performed at the 2004 ARIA Music Awards
as part of the supergroup The Wrights
, featuring members of many other Australian rock bands, and in 2005 released an LP with The Pictures
, Pieces of Eight. Rogers released two albums with The Temperance Union in this period, Spit Polish
in 2004 and the Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs
double album in 2005.
At the Falls Festival held at Marion Bay over New Years Eve of 2004/05, You Am I were scheduled to play a set. Tim Rogers appeared heavily intoxicated on stage, and when a fight broke out between band members, You Am I were forced off stage much to the disappointment of festival goers. John Butler and Missy Higgins were re-called onto stage to do a quick impromptu to fill the hour set-time.
On 29 January 2005, You Am I performed at WaveAid
, which was to raise money for the relief effort after hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean tidal wave disaster
. In late 2005, You Am I recorded their seventh studio album entitled Convicts with producer Greg Wales. The title is believed to be a tongue in cheek dig of English people referring to Australians as convicts because of their First Fleet
origins. It may also refer to the alternate name used by the band to perform secret gigs during the Hi Fi Way
–#4 Record
era. The album was released on 13 May 2006 on the band's new record label, Virgin
. The Convicts album was also released in the USA on Yep Roc Records
. The band toured America in the fall and summer of 2007 to promote the record.
The band's 8th studio album, Dilettantes, was released on 13 September 2008, alongside the radio-only single Erasmus
. The album debuted at number one on the ARIA Australian Music charts, and number twelve on the overall chart.
You Am I performed at the Sydney Cricket Ground
on 14 March 2009 for Sound Relief
, a benefit concert for victims of the Black Saturday Victorian bushfires
and the Queensland
Flood
s.
In July 2009 You Am I came in at #52 with "Berlin Chair" in Triple J
Hottest 100 of all time, voted by the Australian public.
In August 2010, it was announced that they had left EMI to sign with new Sydney label Other Tongues.
You Am I performed at the 2010 NRL Grand Final
in October.
Their ninth album is self-titled and will be released on 8 October.
In an interview with music journalist Nick Milligan on Friday 24 September 2010, Tim Rogers said of the new self-titled album, "I'm still bewildered by this record. I haven't gotten my head around it. It was extraordinary making it and I don't feel like I've finished the creation of it. I'm still yet to understand it. I like that. I think with previous records I felt I understood what went on and what we were supposed to do. What it's references were. With this [record] I just let myself freefall into it and get lost in the creation of it. I haven't got a grasp on it and I'm enjoying the exhilaration of that. I'm still listening to this record wondering who the person was that wrote that... and whether I'd like to meet him."
Mark Tunaley was the band's first "official" drummer, and is You Am I's only drummer to date to employ heavy metal style of drumming, which included double bass drum parts. He left the group shortly after the recording of Sound As Ever, due to differing perceptions of the band's direction. His sole songwriting contribution to the band ('Off The Field') was left off the US release of the album.
Greg Hitchcock, formerly of The Verys, was a touring member of the band for the Hourly, Daily era. He played guitar and electric piano with the band for some time up until #4 Record. He was never formally a member of the band, but appeared in the video clips for 'Soldiers', 'Good Mornin' and 'Tuesday' (though ironically not in the 'Trike' clip, on which he actually played the organ solo). Rogers later said that he was never quite comfortable with the electric piano on stage because he felt the band lost its spontaneous feel.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter 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:...
. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
, and are renowned for their live
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performances.
History
Tim RogersTim 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:...
formed the first version of the band with his school friend Nick Tischler and his older brother Jaimme in December 1989. The band's name was derived from late-night sessions under the influence of alcohol. This initial line-up was short-lived and by the end of 1990 both Nick and Jaimme had left the band. (In the band's 1993 song "Jaimme's Got A Gal," Tim explains why his brother left.) They were replaced by the group's one-time sound mixer 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) and Mark Tunaley on drums.
The band released several EPs and singles in the early 90s, though the real breakthrough came when 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...
of 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...
caught the band performing at the 1993's Big Day Out
Big Day Out
The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...
festival. Ranaldo also produced their debut album, Sound As Ever
Sound As Ever
Sound As Ever is an album by You Am I released in November 1993. It was recorded at Pachyderm Studio in rural Cannon Falls, Minnesota & produced by Lee Ranaldo,...
. The album went on to win the 1993 ARIA Award for Best Alternative Release. The band was signed to Ra Records, an alternative rock oriented sub-branch of rooArt Records, with U.S. distribution by Restless Records
Restless Records
Restless Records was started in El Segundo, California in 1981 by Enigma Records and primarly released alternative, metal and punk records. Restless also licensed and released records from Bar/None Records, Metal Blade Records and Mute Records...
.
After the release of their first album, Tunaley and the band parted ways. He was replaced by Russell Hopkinson
Rusty Hopkinson
Rusty Hopkinson is the drummer for Australian rock act You Am I.Allegedly, Rusty was an occasional drinking buddy of You Am I while with his then band, indie act Nursery Crimes, around the turn of the 1990s...
(formerly of the band Nursery Crimes), creating the core line-up of the band to the present day. Since then, the line-up has been augmented by David Lane of The Pictures
The Pictures
The Pictures are an Australian alternative rock band based in Melbourne, Victoria. The band is led by Davey Lane, the lead guitarist of Australian alternative rock band You Am I. To date, the Pictures have released two studio albums, as well as three EPs...
on second guitar. Lane is said to have come to the band's attention via his own work with The Pictures, and by transcribing, with extreme accuracy, the band's guitar tabs on a You Am I web website.
Lane has also said (on the Cream & The Crock documentary) that he almost decided not to be a part of the band, saying he was "fucking up his favourite band by playing in it" after playing his first show with them and stuffing up a bunch of solos.
You Am I had toured the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
beginning in the mid-'90s, including playing with Soundgarden
Soundgarden
Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
on the Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
festival, Redd Kross
Redd Kross
Redd Kross, a rock band from Hawthorne, California had their roots in 1978 in a band called The Tourists begun by Jeff and Steve McDonald while the brothers were still in middle school...
, The Strokes
The Strokes
The Strokes are an American indie rock band formed in 1999 in New York City. Consisting of Julian Casablancas , Nick Valensi , Albert Hammond, Jr. , Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti ....
, and Smoking Popes
Smoking Popes
The Smoking Popes are an American pop punk from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1991. They play punk-influenced pop music with crooning vocals...
. (Soundgarden first came across them at the 1994 Big Day Out festival.) Despite little success in The States, the band became well known throughout Australia.
Further success came with the albums Hi Fi Way
Hi Fi Way
Hi Fi Way is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1995. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart and is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed Australian albums of the last twenty years, inspiring the likes of Jet, the Vines and Wolfmother...
and Hourly, Daily
Hourly, Daily
Hourly, Daily is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in July 1996. The album is Tim Rogers' portrait of Australian life, spread across 15 tracks. Themes include childhood, suburbia, and relationships...
, with both picking up ARIA Awards. Hourly, Daily was the first album released on the Shock
Shock Records
Shock Records is Australia's largest independent record label. It helps distribute records from overseas records labels such as Epitaph Records, and also for small record labels designed specifically for that band such as Cement Records...
label to go to number one in the ARIA charts upon launch. These albums were marked by retro-inspired '60s bop and folky 12 string melodies, a departure from the band's earlier hard rock/ grunge sound.
Subtle country influences were apparent on their 1998 #4 Record
No. 4 Record
#4 Record is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1998. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart upon its release. This was You Am I's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Australian charts, a record at the time...
, that included "Heavy Heart." A heart-rending, borderline- karaoke inspired ballad... about being dumped by one's girlfriend.
In 1999, front man Tim Rogers released his first solo album What Rhymes With Cars And Girls
What Rhymes With Cars And Girls
What Rhymes With Cars And Girls is the first solo album by You Am I frontman Tim Rogers, and the only release featuring the backing band The Twin Set . 'You've Been So Good To Me So Far' and 'I Left My Heart All Over The Place' were released as a double-sided radio single...
.
After an album absence prolonged by touring and record label interference, Dress Me Slowly
Dress Me Slowly
Dress Me Slowly is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in April, 2001 by BMG Australia. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Clif Norrell at Q Studios in Sydney, except for "Beautiful Girl", "Watcha Doin' To Me" and "Kick a Hole in the Sky" which were...
was released April 2001. Dress Me Slowly was guitarist David Lane's first bona fide appearance on a studio record.
Deliverance
Deliverance (You Am I album)
Deliverance is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 2002.Tim Rogers later said of the album, "We just wanted 3-minute songs about being in love and rooting and loving being in a rock 'n' roll band and I think everyone associated with us absolutely hates it."-Track listing:All...
was released in 2002, but did not enjoy the kind of critical and commercial success that the band's earlier work had enjoyed. The band released "Who Put The Devil In You?" as a download-only internet single that year.
In September 2003, the band parted ways with its record label BMG
BMG
Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
, with whom it had been signed in 1998 after BMG acquired rooArt Records.
In the four years between Deliverance and You Am I's next album, Convicts, both Davey Lane and Tim Rogers kept busy with their own solo projects. Lane performed at the 2004 ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...
as part of the supergroup The Wrights
The Wrights
The Wrights were a one-off Australian rock music "supergroup". They consisted of Nic Cester , Bernard Fanning , Phil Jamieson , Kram , Chris Cheney , Davey Lane and Pat Bourke...
, featuring members of many other Australian rock bands, and in 2005 released an LP with The Pictures
The Pictures
The Pictures are an Australian alternative rock band based in Melbourne, Victoria. The band is led by Davey Lane, the lead guitarist of Australian alternative rock band You Am I. To date, the Pictures have released two studio albums, as well as three EPs...
, Pieces of Eight. Rogers released two albums with The Temperance Union in this period, Spit Polish
Spit Polish
Spit Polish is the second solo album by Tim Rogers, and the first to feature his backing band The Temperance Union. The album was released on the April 26, 2004 as a digipack, and was later re-released in a standard jewel case. A vinyl LP was also pressed for sale at gigs...
in 2004 and the Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs
Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs
Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs is a double album by Tim Rogers and the Temperance Union. The album was released on the 29 September 2007 as a double-digipack. 'Do It Again' was released as a radio single...
double album in 2005.
At the Falls Festival held at Marion Bay over New Years Eve of 2004/05, You Am I were scheduled to play a set. Tim Rogers appeared heavily intoxicated on stage, and when a fight broke out between band members, You Am I were forced off stage much to the disappointment of festival goers. John Butler and Missy Higgins were re-called onto stage to do a quick impromptu to fill the hour set-time.
On 29 January 2005, You Am I performed at WaveAid
WaveAid
WaveAid was a fund raising concert held on Saturday the 29th of January 2005 as a means for raising funds for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami. It was held at the Sydney Cricket Ground and broadcast on television by Channel [V] and MTV, and on radio...
, which was to raise money for the relief effort after hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean tidal wave disaster
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake...
. In late 2005, You Am I recorded their seventh studio album entitled Convicts with producer Greg Wales. The title is believed to be a tongue in cheek dig of English people referring to Australians as convicts because of their First Fleet
First Fleet
The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships which sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 with about 1,487 people, including 778 convicts , to establish the first European colony in Australia, in the region which Captain Cook had named New South Wales. The fleet was led by Captain ...
origins. It may also refer to the alternate name used by the band to perform secret gigs during the Hi Fi Way
Hi Fi Way
Hi Fi Way is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1995. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart and is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed Australian albums of the last twenty years, inspiring the likes of Jet, the Vines and Wolfmother...
–#4 Record
No. 4 Record
#4 Record is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1998. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart upon its release. This was You Am I's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Australian charts, a record at the time...
era. The album was released on 13 May 2006 on the band's new record label, Virgin
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
. The Convicts album was also released in the USA on Yep Roc Records
Yep Roc Records
Yep Roc Records is an independent International record label based in Haw River, North Carolina and owned by Redeye Distribution . The label has put out albums by artists like The Go-Betweens, The Fleshtones, Gang of Four, The Reverend Horton Heat, and The Minus 5, as well as the work of important...
. The band toured America in the fall and summer of 2007 to promote the record.
The band's 8th studio album, Dilettantes, was released on 13 September 2008, alongside the radio-only single Erasmus
Erasmus (song)
"Erasmus" is the first single from the album Dilettantes by Australian rock band You Am I, their eighth studio album.It was released as a download only single on iTunes on 6 September 2008.-Track listing:# "Erasmus" – 3:27# "Dilettantes" - 4:25...
. The album debuted at number one on the ARIA Australian Music charts, and number twelve on the overall chart.
You Am I performed at the Sydney Cricket Ground
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...
on 14 March 2009 for Sound Relief
Sound Relief
Sound Relief was a multi-venue rock music concert held on 14 March 2009, which was announced by the Premier of Victoria, John Brumby on 24 February 2009...
, a benefit concert for victims of the Black Saturday Victorian bushfires
February 2009 Victorian bushfires
The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009...
and the Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
Flood
Flood
A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water...
s.
In July 2009 You Am I came in at #52 with "Berlin Chair" in Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
Hottest 100 of all time, voted by the Australian public.
In August 2010, it was announced that they had left EMI to sign with new Sydney label Other Tongues.
You Am I performed at the 2010 NRL Grand Final
2010 NRL Grand Final
The 2010 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2010 NRL season. Played on Sunday, 3 October at Sydney's ANZ Stadium, the match was contested by the St. George Illawarra Dragons and the Sydney Roosters. It was the first time the two sides met in a grand final. They...
in October.
Their ninth album is self-titled and will be released on 8 October.
In an interview with music journalist Nick Milligan on Friday 24 September 2010, Tim Rogers said of the new self-titled album, "I'm still bewildered by this record. I haven't gotten my head around it. It was extraordinary making it and I don't feel like I've finished the creation of it. I'm still yet to understand it. I like that. I think with previous records I felt I understood what went on and what we were supposed to do. What it's references were. With this [record] I just let myself freefall into it and get lost in the creation of it. I haven't got a grasp on it and I'm enjoying the exhilaration of that. I'm still listening to this record wondering who the person was that wrote that... and whether I'd like to meet him."
Former members
Jaimme Rogers and Nick Tischler were in an early incarnation of the band, lasting December 1989 to the end of 1990. This lineup is not known to have recorded any music.Mark Tunaley was the band's first "official" drummer, and is You Am I's only drummer to date to employ heavy metal style of drumming, which included double bass drum parts. He left the group shortly after the recording of Sound As Ever, due to differing perceptions of the band's direction. His sole songwriting contribution to the band ('Off The Field') was left off the US release of the album.
Greg Hitchcock, formerly of The Verys, was a touring member of the band for the Hourly, Daily era. He played guitar and electric piano with the band for some time up until #4 Record. He was never formally a member of the band, but appeared in the video clips for 'Soldiers', 'Good Mornin' and 'Tuesday' (though ironically not in the 'Trike' clip, on which he actually played the organ solo). Rogers later said that he was never quite comfortable with the electric piano on stage because he felt the band lost its spontaneous feel.
Albums
- Sound As EverSound As EverSound As Ever is an album by You Am I released in November 1993. It was recorded at Pachyderm Studio in rural Cannon Falls, Minnesota & produced by Lee Ranaldo,...
(rooArt Records, 25 October 1993) - Hi Fi WayHi Fi WayHi Fi Way is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1995. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart and is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed Australian albums of the last twenty years, inspiring the likes of Jet, the Vines and Wolfmother...
(rooArt Records, 20 February 1995) - Hourly, DailyHourly, DailyHourly, Daily is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in July 1996. The album is Tim Rogers' portrait of Australian life, spread across 15 tracks. Themes include childhood, suburbia, and relationships...
(rooArt Records, 10 July 1996) - #4 RecordNo. 4 Record#4 Record is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1998. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart upon its release. This was You Am I's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Australian charts, a record at the time...
(rooArt Records, 25 April 1998) - ...Saturday Night, 'Round Ten (rooArt Records, 20 September 1999)
- Dress Me SlowlyDress Me SlowlyDress Me Slowly is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in April, 2001 by BMG Australia. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Clif Norrell at Q Studios in Sydney, except for "Beautiful Girl", "Watcha Doin' To Me" and "Kick a Hole in the Sky" which were...
(BMG Australia, 30 April 2001) - DeliveranceDeliverance (You Am I album)Deliverance is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 2002.Tim Rogers later said of the album, "We just wanted 3-minute songs about being in love and rooting and loving being in a rock 'n' roll band and I think everyone associated with us absolutely hates it."-Track listing:All...
(BMG Australia, 30 September 2002) - No After You Sir...: An Introduction to You Am INo After You Sir...: An Introduction to You Am INo, After You Sir... is a compilation album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 2003. The album was released in the United Kingdom only.-Track listing:#Junk#Minor Byrd#Good Mornin'#The Applecross Wing Commander#Hourly Daily#Mr...
(Transcopic Records, May 2003) - The Cream & the Crock – The Best of You Am I (BMG Australia, 15 September 2003)
- Convicts (Virgin/EMI, 13 May 2006/ Yep Roc Records, 23 January 2007)
- Dilettantes (Virgin, 12 September 2008)
- You Am IYou Am I (album)You Am I is the ninth studio album by Australian rock band You Am I, released on 8 October 2010.The first single "Shuck" was premiered on Triple J radio on 17 August and released as a downloadable single....
(Other Tongues, 8 October 2010)
EPs
- Snake TideSnake Tide (EP)Snake Tide is You Am I's debut EP, released in May 1991. It is the last You Am I recording to feature original bassist Nik Tischler.-Background:...
(Independent, May 1991) - GoddamnGoddamn (EP)Goddamn is the second EP released by You Am I in May 1992. The EP was You Am I's first release with bassist Andy Kent who was previously a mixer for the band...
(Timberyard RecordsTimberyard RecordsTimberyard Records was a pioneering record label in the Australian independent music movement of the 1980s. Initially releasing prominent underground Sydney acts such as Box the Jesuit, The Dubrovniks, Girl Monstar, Johnny Teen and the Broken Hearts and the Zen Genies plus an early EP of You Am I,...
, May 1992) - Can't Get StartedCan't Get Started (EP)Can't Get Started is the third EP released by You Am I, in October 1992. It was You Am I's first release on Ra Records, a sub-branch of rooArt Records.- Track listing :All songs: Rogers/You Am I# "Grand Ted"# "Rational Hell"# "Goddamn"# "IOU2"...
(RooArt Records, October 1992) - CoprolaliaCoprolalia (EP)Coprolalia is the fourth EP released by You Am I, in April 1993. A film clip was made for "Last Thing You Can Depend On".- Track listing :All songs: Rogers/You Am I# "Cool Hand Luke"# "Last Thing You Can Depend On"# "Can't Get Started"...
(rooArt Records, April 1993)
Singles
| Year | Title | ARIA Chart 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... |
Triple J Hottest 100 Triple J Hottest 100 The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll, based on the votes of national Australian radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. Voting is conducted by the internet and begins roughly two weeks prior to the new year for the previous year's songs... |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | "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... " |
- | 50 | Sound As Ever Sound As Ever Sound As Ever is an album by You Am I released in November 1993. It was recorded at Pachyderm Studio in rural Cannon Falls, Minnesota & produced by Lee Ranaldo,... |
| 1994 | "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,... " |
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| "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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| "When You Got Dry/How Much Is Enough When You Got Dry/How Much Is Enough "When You Got Dry/How Much Is Enough" was a double A-Side single only released on 7 inch vinyl in November 1994 by Australian rock band You Am I... " |
- | - | Hi Fi Way Hi Fi Way Hi Fi Way is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1995. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart and is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed Australian albums of the last twenty years, inspiring the likes of Jet, the Vines and Wolfmother... |
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| 1995 | "Cathy's Clown Cathy's Clown (You Am I song) "Cathy's Clown" is the first single from the album Hi Fi Way by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1995 and was the band's first single to make the Australian Top 40 singles chart, reaching number 36.... " |
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| "Jewels and Bullets Jewels and Bullets "Jewels And Bullets" is the second single from the album Hi Fi Way by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1995 and reached number 93 in the 1995 Triple J Hottest 100.-Track listing:# "Jewels and Bullets " – 2:58... " |
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| "Purple Sneakers Purple Sneakers "Purple Sneakers" is the third single from the album Hi Fi Way by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1995 and reached number 24 in the 1995 Triple J Hottest 100.-Track listing:# "Purple Sneakers" – 3:30# "Sci-Fi Way" - 2:42... " |
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| "Mr. Milk Mr. Milk "Mr. Milk" is the first single from the album Hourly, Daily by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1995 and reached number 50 on the Australian chart.-Track listing:# "Mr... " |
50 | - | Hourly, Daily Hourly, Daily Hourly, Daily is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in July 1996. The album is Tim Rogers' portrait of Australian life, spread across 15 tracks. Themes include childhood, suburbia, and relationships... |
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| 1996 | "Soldiers Soldiers (You Am I song) "Soldiers" is the second single from the album Hourly, Daily by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1996 and reached number 80 in the 1996 Triple J Hottest 100 and number 33 on the Australian charts.... " |
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| "Good Mornin' Good Mornin' "Good Mornin" is the third single from the album Hourly, Daily by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1996 and reached number 84 in the 1996 Triple J Hottest 100 and number 44 on the Australian charts.... " |
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| "Trike Trike (song) Trike is a single released by Australian rock band You Am I in 1997. It was released to make two tracks added to the international release of Hourly, Daily available to Australian fans, along with three extra B-sides... " |
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| 1998 | "What I Don't Know 'bout You What I Don't Know 'bout You "What I Don't Know 'bout You" is the first single from the album #4 Record by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1998 and reached number 23 on the Australian charts, the band's highest chart position at that time.... " |
23 | - | #4 Record No. 4 Record #4 Record is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1998. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart upon its release. This was You Am I's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Australian charts, a record at the time... |
| "Rumble Rumble (You Am I song) "Rumble" is the second single from the album #4 Record by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1998 and reached number 65 in that year's Hottest 100.-Track listing:# "Rumble" – 2:36# "Arse-Kickin' Lady From The North-West" - 2:54... " |
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| 2000 | "Damage Damage (You Am I song) "Damage" is the first single from the album Dress Me Slowly by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 2000 and reached number 37 on the Australian national charts and number 23 in that year's Hottest 100.-Track listing:# "Damage" – 3:27... " |
37 | 23 | Dress Me Slowly Dress Me Slowly Dress Me Slowly is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in April, 2001 by BMG Australia. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Clif Norrell at Q Studios in Sydney, except for "Beautiful Girl", "Watcha Doin' To Me" and "Kick a Hole in the Sky" which were... |
| "Get Up Get Up (You Am I song) "Get Up" is the second single from the album Dress Me Slowly by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 2001 and reached number 44 on the Australian national charts and number 57 in that year's Hottest 100.-Track listing:# "Get Up" – 3:12... " |
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| 2001 | "Kick a Hole in the Sky Kick a Hole in the Sky "Kick A Hole In The Sky" is the third and final single from the album Dress Me Slowly by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 2001 and reached number 56 in that year's Hottest 100.-Track listing:# "Kick A Hole In The Sky " – 3:54... " |
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| 2002 | "Who Put the Devil in You Who Put the Devil in You "Who Put The Devil In You" is the first single from the album Deliverance by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 2002 and reached number 79 in that year's Hottest 100.It was released as an exclusive download from You Am I's website.... " |
- | 79 | Deliverance Deliverance (You Am I album) Deliverance is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 2002.Tim Rogers later said of the album, "We just wanted 3-minute songs about being in love and rooting and loving being in a rock 'n' roll band and I think everyone associated with us absolutely hates it."-Track listing:All... |
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| 2006 | "It Ain't Funny How We Don't Talk Anymore It Ain't Funny How We Don't Talk Anymore "It Ain't Funny How We Don’t Talk Anymore" is the first single from the album Convicts by Australian rock band You Am I, their seventh studio album.It was released in 2006 as a download-only single.... " |
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| 2008 | "Erasmus Erasmus (song) "Erasmus" is the first single from the album Dilettantes by Australian rock band You Am I, their eighth studio album.It was released as a download only single on iTunes on 6 September 2008.-Track listing:# "Erasmus" – 3:27# "Dilettantes" - 4:25... " |
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| "Beau Geste Beau Geste (song) "Beau Geste" is the second single from the album Dilettantes by Australian rock band You Am I, their eighth studio album. The track is loosely based on the Beau Geste story, with snippets of French dialog appearing during the instrumental section.... " |
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| 2009 | "Givin' Up and Gettin Fat Givin' Up And Gettin Fat "Givin' Up And Gettin Fat" is the third single from the album Dilettantes by Australian rock band You Am I, their eighth studio album. The accompanying music video acts as a prequel to the band's Beau Geste video, featuring the band in 1920s Marseilles.... " |
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| 2010 | "Shuck" | - | - | You Am I You Am I (album) You Am I is the ninth studio album by Australian rock band You Am I, released on 8 October 2010.The first single "Shuck" was premiered on Triple J radio on 17 August and released as a downloadable single.... |
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