Original video located here. Accessed 15th August 2011
Song title: Tuesday
Artist: You Am I
Year: 1996
Why I like this song:
Recently I have been listening to You Am I's Hourly Daily album.
Back in the mid-nineties, there was a time when these guys seemed unstoppable: They were the biggest act in the land, they had a monumentally successful album, they were scooping up the ARIAs and they were inspiring many young people to get a guitar and get a band together.
So it is interesting to hear this album now: Did I miss something back then that many people latched onto?
I will admit that presenting the album as a day, from dawn to evening, is effective. Granted it worked for the Moody Blues but this is the same formula wrung through an Australian perspective. And that perspective being that of suburbia.
Furthermore, the album itself certainly has a freshness about it that is undeniable.
Its debatable whether or not this album would've succeeded without that of Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory but if this was the Australian answer to the trends of Britpop then hey, why not?
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