Dilettantes (album)

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Dilettantes
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Studio album by
You Am I
Released13 September 2008
Recorded2008
Genre Rock
Label Virgin Records
Producer Greg Wales
You Am I chronology
Convicts
(2006)		Dilettantes
(2008)		 You Am I
(2010)

Dilettantes is the eighth studio album by the Australian rock band You Am I, released on 13 September 2008. [1] It was recorded at Electric Avenue Studios in Sydney and Sing Sing South in Melbourne before being mixed at Studios 301 in Sydney. [2] The first single, "Erasmus", was premiered on Triple J radio on Dools & Linda's show on 6 August, and was released on iTunes along with the album's title track as a downloadable single on 6 September. Video clips were released in November for "Beau Geste" and "Givin' Up And Gettin Fat" to be released as radio/iTunes singles.

Contents

The title track, "Dilettantes", was previewed as streaming audio on The Vine from 30 July 2008. [3]

The iTunes Plus release includes a bonus video of live footage from a 1998 gig at the Budokan, supporting Soundgarden, on the #4 Record tour.

Songwriter Tim Rogers said of the album, "I think I'm as proud of that as I am of anything we've ever done." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Dilettantes" – 4:25
  2. "Disappearing" – 4:58
  3. "Beau Geste" – 3:11
  4. "Frightfully Moderne" – 3:11
  5. "Wankers" – 4:46
  6. "The Big Wheel" – 2:41
  7. "The Boy's Angry at the Water" – 4:02
  8. "Givin' Up and Gettin Fat" – 4:17
  9. "Erasmus" – 3:28
  10. "Davey's Gone Green Again" – 3:30
  11. "Jolly's First Time Around The Sun" – 4:36
  12. "The Piano Up The Tree" – 7:09

(all songs written by Tim Rogers)

iTunes Plus bonus track

  1. "Live at the Budokan" (video) – 18:25

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [5] 12

References

  1. ↑ Music Games DVDs at JB HIFI Australia
  2. ↑ "You Am I – Music – Time Out Sydney". Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
  3. ↑ "First taste of You Am I's 'Dilettantes' – Music | thevine.com.au". Archived from the original on 4 August 2008. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  4. ↑ Dan Condon. "No Struggle, No Progress". Time Off (24 November 2010). Fortitude Valley, QLD: Street Press Australia Pty Ltd: 17.
  5. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – You Am I – Dilettantes". Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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