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  • Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
  • Video for the You Am I song "Purple Sneakers" which was the third single off the Album "Hi Fi Way" (1995). Footage was taken from a live performance in New York City. Directed by Leah Singer

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  • @jamiemuller2987
    @jamiemuller2987 6 місяців тому +19

    No one ever mentions this in the ‘greatest’ conversation. I don’t understand why. This f’n song is one of the greatest Australian songs ever written. After almost 30 years of listening to it, it still smashes me and hits with melancholy and joy all at once.

    • @roberthodgson3735
      @roberthodgson3735 5 місяців тому +2

      Exactly, perfectly said.

    • @terrycarthy4433
      @terrycarthy4433 2 місяці тому

      My thoughts only but i've not hesrd this on the radio too often ; quality song, grear soubd. Local bands deserve a go

  • @darrenfahey8558
    @darrenfahey8558 Рік тому +8

    Still the best Aussie rock band ever

  • @andrewwatts8485
    @andrewwatts8485 Місяць тому

    You am i .. great memories, great band, great songs.. tallent.

  • @Waltiswicked
    @Waltiswicked 11 місяців тому +9

    This is a beautifully written rock song, not a wasted word in any of it.

  • @grinja73
    @grinja73 9 років тому +111

    This is still one of the greatest rock songs of all time

    • @ThePaulv12
      @ThePaulv12 8 років тому +1

      +earth I don't know about that, but it a pretty fucking good song I must admit.
      Thing is good music does this too you. I get it (as I'm tapping my feet writing this)

    • @70zenboy
      @70zenboy 7 років тому +3

      oink ooink because music can be very much a subjective thing rather than a objective one. If old mate reckless no its one of the best rock songs ever written then he is perfectly valid in holding that opinion. Anyone who loved and still lives this band may well agree with him.

    • @rexeverything4591
      @rexeverything4591 4 роки тому +2

      Fucken ay it is. Timeless.

    • @Six660
      @Six660 4 роки тому +5

      Great fucking Aussie rock.

    • @urabus99
      @urabus99 2 роки тому +1

      Ain't that the truth

  • @EMC2Scotia
    @EMC2Scotia 10 років тому +31

    Songs like this live forever....

  • @heatherdaher3086
    @heatherdaher3086 5 років тому +5

    Songs like this live forever....
    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    Songs like this live forever....

  • @tanyacat5089
    @tanyacat5089 2 роки тому +9

    Listening to this song today still as good as ever…

    • @Andrew-fw6pj
      @Andrew-fw6pj 6 місяців тому

      So true. Such an epic, timeless tune. Makes me feel sad, happy and hopeful all at the same time. Time sure flies.

  • @aaronackerley7816
    @aaronackerley7816 9 років тому +32

    You Am I, Still blow me away after all these year. They just fucking rock. Hi Fi Way, what an album.

    • @lisantrent
      @lisantrent 9 років тому +5

      Aaron Ackerley yeah i am still listening to them too, just awesome and timeless!

    • @bluebird28tl
      @bluebird28tl 6 років тому

      Aaron Ackerley itbwas truly a brilliant effortl. So many awesome tracks. I still listen to it.

    • @cameronshort8210
      @cameronshort8210 Рік тому

      Thankyou to drum magazine I read they were going to be one of the best Aussie bands so I bought HiFi Way great fukn album

  • @kailaniandi
    @kailaniandi 9 місяців тому +3

    This was just released when I moved to Australia, only got back to the USA a few years ago. I went to several U am I shows fortunately. One at the 'Alex' on the sunny coast way before it was demolished and became a bunch of units. Playing a few gigs at the blue bar there afterwards myself. My son earned his wings as a chef in the same spot, and now he's got his own restaurant in Dickey Beach 'Nicks pizza' memories are great from this area. Great times!

  • @luzgarcia885
    @luzgarcia885 5 років тому +3

    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    this was the song of my 95/96, loved it !! and I also had purple doc martens haha.

  • @woodford3000
    @woodford3000 Рік тому +4

    Best song ever. I could listen to this song over and over. Fantastic.

  • @ausrobinla
    @ausrobinla 6 років тому +9

    One of the all-time best opening lines.

  • @patreetz
    @patreetz 5 років тому +6

    With love from Canada xoxo love this song.

  • @karenm2350
    @karenm2350 Рік тому +3

    I never tire of this song! Takes me straight back to living in Glebe in the '90s.

  • @floriabauers5207
    @floriabauers5207 4 роки тому +4

    Songs like this live forever....
    great AUSSIE rock song. still as fresh as the day it was put out.
    Having a Brew Am I with You Am I in Cairns tonight!!!!!

  • @yharyhar8
    @yharyhar8 8 років тому +56

    so beautiful. Ths song is the most underrated song in Aus music history.

    • @ThePaulv12
      @ThePaulv12 7 років тому +4

      It is a very underrated song. It's kinda like 20 or so years has to go by before one realizes what we used to take for granted yeah?

    • @blackwingvalleylover
      @blackwingvalleylover 6 років тому +3

      Saw them live in 1997- one of the best gigs of my life.

    • @johndude2726
      @johndude2726 5 років тому +2

      I second this notion! One of the best songs in Aus music history..

    • @festivalrecords.info-aguid6609
      @festivalrecords.info-aguid6609 3 роки тому +1

      @@tonyrobertson1085 I think the overrated is probably the most unoriginal and overused term online (damn, just used it again!!)

    • @CatWoman6
      @CatWoman6 3 роки тому

      @@tonyrobertson1085 😹

  • @jeffgagen3561
    @jeffgagen3561 9 років тому +15

    great AUSSIE rock song. still as fresh as the day it was put out.

  • @amberphillips2542
    @amberphillips2542 5 років тому +1

    Good video! I'm liked and share 716 times :D

  • @ranjitadh9574
    @ranjitadh9574 Рік тому +3

    Love from Nepal

  • @dodsonjames9663
    @dodsonjames9663 4 роки тому +6

    this was the song of my 95/96, loved it !! and I also had purple doc martens haha.
    great AUSSIE rock song. still as fresh as the day it was put out.

  • @ranjitadh9574
    @ranjitadh9574 2 роки тому +3

    From Nepal Absolute Love

  • @EffieTheLuent
    @EffieTheLuent 3 роки тому +3

    So, so good. So, so underrated this song. Top 50 Aussie classics of all time.

  • @sax7380
    @sax7380 8 місяців тому

    Torquay pub in October was fun. Long time after Lismore 92' at uni with welcome mat. Berlin chair ep.

  • @patwhite9575
    @patwhite9575 6 років тому +13

    yep I was a 36 year old when I bought this album .these guys and the living end probably the best aussies from the 90s but post grunge there were stacks of greatbands in auss , the uk and the states,great times went to the big,day out and livid in bris .need another rock resurgence me thinks

    • @ThePaulv12
      @ThePaulv12 4 роки тому +3

      Custard! Re-visit Custard or discover them. Been around for about 30 years now.

    • @dalediamond
      @dalediamond 2 роки тому

      How’s life been?

  • @Pepeadriano1
    @Pepeadriano1 5 років тому +2

    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    Songs like this live forever....

  • @jimsmowingofficial
    @jimsmowingofficial Рік тому +2

    love this song

  • @olyasabirova8715
    @olyasabirova8715 5 років тому +4

    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    TOTAL CLAZZIC!
    off to see them tonight in London. Fifth time I think, always a great gig!

  • @grantharrismusic
    @grantharrismusic Рік тому +2

    You Am I and Even are such defining bands of my 20s

    • @J_S209
      @J_S209 Рік тому +1

      Of my twenties too Grant ... and still now in my fifties. I love this band.

  • @marianmiskovic
    @marianmiskovic 3 роки тому +2

    ...yes, one of their many other great songs

  • @soozdundee
    @soozdundee Рік тому +1

    Miss going to the footy with Tim.
    Go Tigers.

  • @anthonymcdibble9496
    @anthonymcdibble9496 2 роки тому +3

    Beautiful song

  • @travershunt3233
    @travershunt3233 7 місяців тому

    Ill go check it out saw tea party from Canada there ..best pub gig ive ever seen ..u old sunny lad 👍😋♥️

  • @MHP423
    @MHP423 2 роки тому +3

    If you grew up in the 90's then you should, no you must know this song..

  • @bexsonelixabeth7816
    @bexsonelixabeth7816 9 років тому +12

    Major band in the soundtrack of my teens, oh the nostalgia!! Seen them a bunch of times and brilliant always

  • @coreyhibbs2675
    @coreyhibbs2675 5 років тому +2

    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    Songs like this live forever....
    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    off to see them tonight in London. Fifth time I think, always a great gig!

    • @Six660
      @Six660 4 роки тому

      Great band. No doubt. But no such thing as the best ever.... What about Chisel. The Church. Aussie Crawl. Angels. AC/DC! Rose Tattoo. Living End. Oil's. Too many superb bands to ever say there's only one that's the best!

    • @terrycarthy4433
      @terrycarthy4433 2 місяці тому

      Masters Apprentices....

  • @AngelCastillo-zc9wc
    @AngelCastillo-zc9wc 5 років тому +1

    You Am I are the 70 year band like Mississippi's Robert johnson.. How good is this!!!
    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    This is still one of the greatest rock songs of all time

  • @ganatas9597
    @ganatas9597 2 роки тому +2

    2022 festival hall UNCAGED festival next week. Get on it.

  • @stevendenny5667
    @stevendenny5667 11 місяців тому +3

    Had a scratch only you could itch
    Underneath the Glebe Point Bridge
    And now every boy in a knitted vest
    Has got some precedent
    So we took a personality pill
    And something red to swill
    And now every fire has gone out
    in every heart that wanted to kill
    Let's call it a day
    Every thought that once had a sound
    We'll have to hide 'til no one is around
    'cause there ain't no room in the city today
    For explanations that you just can't say
    Found out what shame can mean
    In purple sneakers and grey jeans
    And every walked to a school that once made sense
    Sure felt like an accident
    Let's call it a day
    For every trouble you found
    There's a drink to lose it and drown
    But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?
    Every day that once had a sound
    We'll have to hide 'til no one is in town
    I don't hate I just feel better
    When no one else is around
    So we'll take a personality pill
    And something red to swill
    And now every fire has gone out
    i every heart that wanted to kill
    Let's call it a day
    For every trouble you found
    There's a drink to lose it and drown
    But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?
    You can shave a million ways
    To make damn sure that the twelve in you stays
    But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?

  • @DavidGonzalez-cy9ow
    @DavidGonzalez-cy9ow 5 років тому +2

    You Am I are the 70 year band like Mississippi's Robert johnson.. How good is this!!!
    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.

    • @SuperRoo_22
      @SuperRoo_22 2 роки тому

      What about The Angels, Rose Tattoo, AC/DC, Cold Chisel, Men At Work, Midnight Oil, Crowded House, Mental As Anything, Noiseworks, Icehouse, Silverchair, Australian Crawl, Cosmic Psychos, INXS, The Screaming Jets? Yes, we Aussie's hve been blessed with an abundance of talent. 👍🇦🇺

  • @kye3849
    @kye3849 3 роки тому +3

    i dont hate; just feel better when your not around/ brilliant

  • @alren8477
    @alren8477 5 років тому +4

    What great feelings this brings on !

  • @someotherguyyouknow
    @someotherguyyouknow 12 років тому +3

    Great to see this band are getting more exposure here on the 'tube. I was lucky enough to see them live a few times back in the late 90's - early 00's. Privileged is probably a better word than lucky. They were absolutely amazing live, no video or live recording of a live show can convey how much energy You Am I put out on stage. Even on a Wednesday night in front of uni students in Wagga.
    Some of the best times in my life.

    • @Andrew-fw6pj
      @Andrew-fw6pj 6 місяців тому

      And they’ve gone from strength to strength. Better musically now than ever. Constantly evolving while remaining as stoic and loyal as ever to their long-term fan base. Tim will be producing music for another 20-30 plus years and it will still be brilliant. We ain’t seen the best of them yet… Rusty, Davey and Andy are machines. So damn good.

  • @olgakuznetsova4375
    @olgakuznetsova4375 Рік тому +1

    Amazing 😍😍

  • @jean-mariedelwiche8966
    @jean-mariedelwiche8966 5 років тому +2

    This is still one of the greatest rock songs of all time
    Had a scratch only you could itch....underneath the Glebe Point Bridge....

  • @ThetitanixAuDrewKruck
    @ThetitanixAuDrewKruck 13 років тому +10

    i can still smell and feel the room i was in when i first heard this brilliant song, 16 years later every time i go over the Glebe Point bridge i get goosebumps.............shame about the video, just sayin...

  • @kjsdonuts2347
    @kjsdonuts2347 5 років тому +1

    great AUSSIE rock song. still as fresh as the day it was put out.
    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.

  • @redimade
    @redimade Рік тому +1

    i remember when the album came out, i had it and i loved it, i saw a music reviewer do an article on it from the u.k and he blasted the hell out of it, obviously a crap music critic. I was so mortified that i wrote a letter to the publication, this was pre internet.

  • @roberthodgson3735
    @roberthodgson3735 5 місяців тому

    So many feels elicited by this song ❤️

  • @JasonCairns8
    @JasonCairns8 11 років тому +1

    You Am I are the 70 year band like Mississippi's Robert johnson.. How good is this!!!

  • @fgj6831
    @fgj6831 5 років тому +1

    great AUSSIE rock song. still as fresh as the day it was put out.
    so beautiful. Ths song is the most underrated song in Aus music history.

  • @amandajane079
    @amandajane079 11 років тому +5

    this was the song of my 95/96, loved it !! and I also had purple doc martens haha.

    • @ThePaulv12
      @ThePaulv12 7 років тому

      When Natasha Stott Despoja was wearing em. That was before she married a fascist ffs - oh the irony lol ...
      Heady days!

  • @icethebreak
    @icethebreak 8 років тому +8

    off to see them tonight in London. Fifth time I think, always a great gig!

  • @zjblair2345
    @zjblair2345 5 років тому +3

    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    Had a scratch only you could itch....underneath the Glebe Point Bridge....

  • @ricardomelara8207
    @ricardomelara8207 5 років тому +2

    Good video! I'm liked and share 716 times :D
    great AUSSIE rock song. still as fresh as the day it was put out.

  • @juZZ1969
    @juZZ1969 3 роки тому +3

    Great drumming on a beauty of a song

  • @mickando1978
    @mickando1978 8 років тому +7

    Still awesome

  • @PaulDragicevich
    @PaulDragicevich 4 роки тому +3

    "I don't hate, I just feel better, when noone else is around" the lyric for SPD

  • @andrewwatts3083
    @andrewwatts3083 4 роки тому +3

    Love it

  • @jalmelb
    @jalmelb 10 років тому +3

    Simply brilliant.

  • @69jenniferlove
    @69jenniferlove 13 років тому +4

    this is a nice album

  • @irritablenerd
    @irritablenerd 12 років тому +1

    7 months late, but the comment must be made. Nice to know the rest of the world now has access to these great tracks available to me back in the mid 90s in Australia when I was a teen. The truth is, things like this are everywhere, you just have to keep an year out and hate everything that sounds crap! But don't bag th US - these guys would have been nothing if they didn't play in the same festival as Sonic Youth, a US band. It was Lee Renaldo who heard them and decided to produce for them.

  • @poshladdie
    @poshladdie 10 років тому +3

    Superb song. Glebe Point Bridge is in Annandale, Inner-West, Sydney. Some think it is the Anzac Bridge. When I hear this song it reminds me of Badde Manners in Glebe. Chai and a hangover !

    • @MrNevilPinto
      @MrNevilPinto 9 років тому +1

      It reminds me of the mid 90s, growing up in Perth while wishing I lived somewhere like Glebe
      Since spent many a morning at badde mannors

    • @terrycarthy4433
      @terrycarthy4433 4 роки тому

      Thanks for the detail...this Melbournian enjoys detail and, indeed, this fine tune.

  • @caunguyentroi6802
    @caunguyentroi6802 4 роки тому

    this was the song of my 95/96, loved it !! and I also had purple doc martens haha.
    Had a scratch only you could itch....underneath the Glebe Point Bridge....

  • @lanabanana68
    @lanabanana68 5 років тому +6

    he reminds me a little bit of Ray Davies for some reason.

    • @smfletcher1944
      @smfletcher1944 4 роки тому +1

      I've always felt the same...could be the working class sensibility in their songwriting, plus non macho singing

    • @terrycarthy4433
      @terrycarthy4433 4 роки тому +1

      I can hear that. "As long as I gaze up Waterloo Sunset" etc.

    • @andrewgunn4415
      @andrewgunn4415 Рік тому

      Me too.

  • @JasonCairns8
    @JasonCairns8 11 років тому +2

    Having a Brew Am I with You Am I in Cairns tonight!!!!!

  • @TheTiffany70
    @TheTiffany70 6 років тому +2

    awesome band

  • @sundevil22
    @sundevil22 7 років тому +3

    The Glebe Point Bridge not the same as the ANZAC bridge! What a song, best Aussie band of the 90's wish I could remember the live shows a little better.

  • @lapalad
    @lapalad 10 років тому +1

    Well that download picked me up

  • @benchurchill1939
    @benchurchill1939 2 роки тому +1

    💯

  • @PomPotsy
    @PomPotsy 11 років тому +1

    Such a cool song

  • @luismeralucky
    @luismeralucky 6 років тому +1

    Great one...like you am i

  • @OutOfAmmoOutOfTime
    @OutOfAmmoOutOfTime 6 років тому +3

    Had a scratch only you could itch....underneath the Glebe Point Bridge....

  • @customdoonacoversaustralia3620
    @customdoonacoversaustralia3620 7 років тому +2

    fuckin awesome. as i remembered 15 years ago

  • @flamingolane9509
    @flamingolane9509 11 років тому +1

    TOTAL CLAZZIC!

  • @Dina-md3ji
    @Dina-md3ji 6 місяців тому

    Yoga and Pilates and yoga and meditation and yoga is the best way to start the day whatever you do in lifestyle and entertainment and media and entertainment and SAS sy

  • @Darren-D.C-Cross
    @Darren-D.C-Cross 6 років тому +1

    love yas

  • @davileme4103
    @davileme4103 3 роки тому +1

    Obrigado nego 5 chupetinha men

  • @barrynotsteelable
    @barrynotsteelable 11 років тому +3

    its a fucking shit hot song . sorry . it just is a classic,. the chord progression everything the words the way its sung . its no easy lick and voice . top effort . one of my Aussie faves full stop .

  • @chrismathers6822
    @chrismathers6822 6 років тому +2

    Let them know if you want more....

  • @pegasusmilk6017
    @pegasusmilk6017 2 роки тому +2

    He sounds like that teacher in South Park

    • @Genny-Zee
      @Genny-Zee Рік тому

      Do you mean mr Mackey 😂😢😢😂

  • @USMAN99945
    @USMAN99945 5 років тому +2

    Good video! I'm liked and share 716 times :D
    Had a scratch only you could itch....underneath the Glebe Point Bridge....
    Had a scratch only you could itch....underneath the Glebe Point Bridge....

  • @Halfwait
    @Halfwait 5 років тому +2

    Fuckin love YOU AM I 👊

  • @PJozi
    @PJozi 13 років тому +1

    @jingles95
    Why not? it's about the tune as well. and there could be a lot worse words to hear.

  • @Jay4P
    @Jay4P 12 років тому +1

    i dedicate this song to my shoes.

  • @nuffzed2001
    @nuffzed2001 9 років тому +1

    For Georgina Bartter, who came to her demise after taking MDMA at the Harbour Life festival 2014, RIP

    • @lisantrent
      @lisantrent 9 років тому

      cs goh That is so sad x

  • @Genny-Zee
    @Genny-Zee Рік тому

    Lil Tim had an ear piercing? So cute…also who is the girl at 1:10

  • @marcuselders2772
    @marcuselders2772 5 років тому +1

    Tim Rogers = check mate

  • @jingles95
    @jingles95 13 років тому +1

    @sOluTelYaBuLouS Really? You want the last words you ever hear to be "purple sneakers"?

  • @BigJim6869
    @BigJim6869 2 місяці тому

    Is this australian

  • @Jasbadsirron
    @Jasbadsirron 12 років тому +2

    imagine how many other great songs like this exist out there around the world..but unless someone points you in their direction, you will never get to hear them...sad really...all we get is American bullshit pop and commercial rubbish these days :-(

  • @ppp60870
    @ppp60870 11 років тому +2

    awesome!! sad there are so many shit bands out there getting airplay #goodcharlotte

  • @juanmanuel2430
    @juanmanuel2430 4 роки тому +3

    The greatest Australian rock band ever. Easily.
    this was the song of my 95/96, loved it !! and I also had purple doc martens haha.