Purple Sneakers

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"Purple Sneakers"
Purplesneakers.jpg
Single by You Am I
from the album Hi Fi Way
ReleasedJune 1995
Recorded Greene St. Recording, New York City
Genre Alternative rock
Length3:30
Label rooArt Records
Songwriter(s) Rusty Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers
Producer(s) Lee Ranaldo
You Am I singles chronology
"Jewels and Bullets"
(1995)
"Purple Sneakers"
(1995)
"Mr. Milk"
(1995)

"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. [1]

The song opens with the lyric "Had a scratch only you could itch, underneath the Glebe Point bridge", which refers to the Anzac Bridge in Sydney. [2] [3] The Glebe Island Bridge was still under construction when Tim Rogers wrote and recorded the song in 1994, with the bridge's official name changing to 'Anzac Bridge' on Remembrance Day in 1998. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Purple Sneakers" – 3:30
  2. "Sci-Fi Way" - 2:42
  3. "We're Desperate" - 1:59

Tracks 1 and 2 (Rogers). Track 3 by X.

"Sci-Fi Way" is an instrumental which features samples taken from 1950s sci-fi movies and other television shows including Ren & Stimpy.

"We're Desperate" is a cover of the X song and features Rusty Hopkinson on backing vocals.

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