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Hi Fi Way
''Hi Fi Way'' is the second album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1995. ''Hi Fi Way'' was You Am I's first release with new drummer Rusty Hopkinson (formerly of Nursery Crimes) after the departure of former drummer Mark Tunaley. ''Hi Fi Way'' reached #1 on the local albums chart and is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed Australian albums of the 1990s. In 2008, it was voted the sixth greatest Australian album of all time in ''The Age'' newspaper's 50 Greatest Aussie Albums poll. In October 2010, it was listed at No. 8 in the book, ''100 Best Australian Albums''. The album included the singles "Cathy's Clown", " Jewels and Bullets" and " Purple Sneakers". You Am I's Tim Rogers later said of the album, "I was really high and really drunk the whole time. My ambition for it was always huge, but we're more suited to a scrappier sounding thing, with the way that I sing and play guitar. We had seven days to make it, living in New York." Receptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Am I
You Am I are an Australian power pop band, fronted by its lead singer-songwriter and guitarist, Tim Rogers. They formed in December 1989 and are the first Australian band to have released three successive albums that have each debuted at the number-one position on the ARIA Albums Chart: '' Hi Fi Way'' (February 1995), '' Hourly, Daily'' (July 1996) and '' #4 Record'' (April 1998). Nine of their tracks appeared on the related ARIA Singles Chart top 50 with " What I Don't Know 'bout You" (February 1998), their highest charting, at No. 28. You Am I have received ten ARIA Music Awards from thirty-one nominations. The band have supported international artists such as the Who, the Rolling Stones, Sonic Youth and Oasis. You Am I's second studio album, ''Hi Fi Way'', appeared in the eighth position in the book, '' 100 Best Australian Albums'' (October 2010). Their third album, ''Hourly, Daily'' was listed at number fifty five. The same two releases were also vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Rogers (musician)
Timothy Adrian Rogers (born September 20, 1969) is an Australian musician and actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band You Am I. He has also recorded solo albums with backing bands. As of July 2013, Rogers has released 12 albums with You Am I and five solo albums. Early life Born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Rogers moved between towns multiple times during his adolescence, including Adelaide and Canberra. Following his primary school years in Applecross, a suburb of Perth, Rogers later became school captain at Sydney school Oakhill College. Rogers studied law at the Australian National University in Canberra, aged 18, though did not complete a degree. While at ANU, Rogers lived at Toad Hall residential accommodation, and worked part-time at Canberra Theatre. During this time, Rogers met Andy Kent, who later became the long-term bass player of You Am I. Career Music Box the Jesuit The first band that Rogers joined which performed in front of crowds was Box the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Albums
1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age. America Online and Prodigy (online service), Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public. Events January * January 1 ** The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). ** Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union. * January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard then ''Mir'' space station, breaking a duration record. * January 10–January 15, 15 – The World Youth Day 1995 festival is held in Manila, Manila, Philippines, culminating in 5 million people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Connolly
Wayne Paul Connolly is an Australian music producer, audio engineer and musician. From 1991 to 1997 Connolly played lead guitar and sang in guitar group The Welcome Mat and released two studio albums. Since 1994, he has played in Knievel with Tracy Ellis and Nick Kennedy. Knievel have released four studio albums and a compilation of B-sides and rarities. Career Musician Connolly formed The Welcome Mat in 1990 with Cory Messenger on vocals and guitar, Pete Bennett on drums (ex-Fiction Romance) and Dave Moss on bass guitar. Leo Mullins (of The Benedicts) replaced Moss on bass guitar in 1991. They released two albums ''Gram'' (1993) and ''Lap of Honour'' (1996) before disbanding in 1997. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane says, " heystarted out as a chirpy, jangly guitar pop outfit before heading in a tougher, though still melodic and harmony-laced, power pop direction." In 1994 Connolly formed Knievel on lead guitar and vocals with Tracy Ellis (ex-Oliver) on bass guita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Soundtracks
Epic Soundtracks was the stage name of the British musician Kevin Paul Godfrey (23 March 1959 – 6 November 1997). Born in Croydon, Surrey, he was brought up in Solihull, West Midlands with his brother Adrian Nicholas Godfrey, who was known as Nikki Sudden (1956–2006). In 1972, Kevin and Adrian formed the nucleus of what was to become the post-punk rock group Swell Maps, with "Soundtracks" on drums and piano, and "Sudden" on guitar and vocals. Soundtracks later played drums for Crime & the City Solution and These Immortal Souls. In 1991, Soundtracks decided to focus on his own songwriting career, and began the series of recordings that comprised his three solo records. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist he released three critically acclaimed solo albums, and two more were released posthumously. Notable fans of Soundtracks' solo work include Evan Dando and Thurston Moore. Dave Graney paid tribute to Soundtracks with the song "A Boy Named Epic" on The Royal Dave Grane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Auer
Jonathan Paul Auer (born September 29, 1969) is an American musician who co-founded the power pop band The Posies, along with Ken Stringfellow. Auer and Stringfellow also participated in the rejuvenated Big Star and in 2003 released ''Private Sides'', a six-song split EP (Arena Rock Recording Co./Rykodisc). Auer played guitar on the 2004 William Shatner record ''Has Been'' which was produced and arranged by Ben Folds. Auer was a founding member of Sky Cries Mary, a member of The Squirrels, Lucky Me, Jean Jacket Shotgun and Chariot. As a solo artist, his credentials include: an EP, ''61/2'' and a full-length record on the label Pattern25 called '' Songs from the Year of Our Demise''. As a record producer, he has worked with bands such as You Am I, Monostereo, Cheap Star, Love Battery, Redd Kross, Truly, The Melismatics, and Tad. Personal life Auer grew up in Bellingham, Washington Bellingham ( ) is the county seat of Whatcom County, Washington, Whatcom County in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Kent
Andrew Charles Kent (born 1969) is the bass player for Australian rock band You Am I.Spencer et al, (2007Kent, Andyentry. Retrieved 3 February 2010.Spencer et al, (2007You Am Ientry. Retrieved 4 February 2010. Biography Andy Kent was born in Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ..., New Zealand. He joined You Am I in late 1991. At the age of twenty-two, he replaced Nick Tischler, and joined Tim Rogers with new drummer Mark Tunaley (who had replaced Rogers' brother Jaimme). Kent was the band's live sound engineer prior to being asked to join the band at a performance in Canberra. Kent's first recorded appearance with the band was on their '' Goddamn'' EP in 1992. Tuanaley later left the band after the release of their first album, '' Sound As Ever'', and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam's Ribs (song)
"Adam's Ribs" is the debut single by Australian rock band You Am I, from the album '' Sound as Ever''. It was released in 1993 and reached #50 in that year's Hottest 100. Reception ''Junkee Media'' said, "'Adam's Ribs' channels the bands heavier and grungier influences through a power-pop streamline. The main riff could just as easily belong to The Who as it could to Nirvana Nirvana, in the Indian religions (Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism), is the concept of an individual's passions being extinguished as the ultimate state of salvation, release, or liberation from suffering ('' duḥkha'') and from the ..., and that’s entirely a compliment." Track listing # "Adam's Ribs" – 3:55 # "Spit" - 1:21 # "Alembic" - 4:06 Charts References {{authority control 1993 debut singles You Am I songs Songs written by Tim Rogers (musician) 1993 songs Songs written by Andy Kent Songs written by Mark Tunaley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 peaked at No. 73 on the Australian ARIA singles chart. "Berlin Chair" was also listed at No. 23 in that year's Triple J Hottest 100, while in the 1998 Hottest 100 of All Time it came in at No. 61 and No. 52 in the 2009 Hottest 100 of All Time. In a phone-in poll in 1999, the song was voted best Australian song of the 1990s. Composition Tim Rogers started writing the song while living in Chippendale, Sydney. It was finished with help from Andy Kent and Mark Tunaley. Rogers had titled the song after seeing ''Berlin chair'', a piece by Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld, which Rogers had seen while living in Canberra years earlier. Biographer Craig Mathieson described the imagery of the chair as symbolising "the hard, even impenetrable male edge, that he song's characterhad with his girlfriend." Reception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When You Got Dry
"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 You Am I are an Australian power pop band, fronted by its lead singer-songwriter and guitarist, Tim Rogers. They formed in December 1989 and are the first Australian band to have released three successive albums that have each debuted at the .... Track listing Side One # "When You Got Dry " – 3:22 # "Ken (The Mother Nature's Son)" - 2:23 Side Two # "How Much Is Enough " - 3:41 # "Bitter Young Man Of The Fanzine Press " - 1:54 All songs by Tim Rogers Charts References {{DEFAULTSORT:When You Got Dry How Much Is Enough 1994 singles You Am I songs Songs written by Tim Rogers (musician) 1994 songs Songs written by Andy Kent Songs written by Rusty Hopkinson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FasterLouder
Junkee Media, formerly known as Sound Alliance, is a digital media company based in Australia. History Junkee Media was founded in 2000 when Matt Callander, Libby Clark, and Andre Lackmann launched their dance music website ''inthemix''. The website began as a part-time hobby for the three, who were soon joined by Neil Ackland. Ackland discovered the site online and got in touch with its creators. Sound Alliance acquired ''Mess+Noise'' in October 2008 from failed media group Destra Corporation. ''Mess+Noise'' has been operating since 2005 when it began as a bimonthly print publication. In 2006, Tim Duggan co-founded the national LGBT site ''Same Same'' with Sound Alliance. Sound Alliance launched ''Junkee'' in March 2013, an online title aimed at an audience aged 18 to 29 years. The publisher told its audience that Junkee would be built on principles uncovered in a comprehensive youth survey of a few thousand 18- to 29-year-olds. Sound Alliance used ''Junkee'' to trial native ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
