Dress Me Slowly

Dress Me Slowly
Studio album by You Am I
Released	April, 2001
Recorded	Q Studios - Sydney
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	BMG Australia
Producer	Clif Norrell
You Am I chronology
...Saturday Night, 'Round Ten 1999 Dress Me Slowly 2001 Deliverance 2002

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Dress Me Slowly is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in April, 2001 by BMG Australia. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Clif Norrell at Q Studios in Sydney, except for "Beautiful Girl", "Watcha Doin' To Me" and "Kick a Hole in the Sky" which were recorded by Paul McKercher at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne and mixed by Skip Saylor Studios in Los Angeles. It was also the first studio album to feature Davey Lane. "Beautiful Girl", "Watcha Doin' To Me" and "Kick a Hole in the Sky" were all recorded around 6 months after the album was nominally finished, because the band had written them in the interim and simply wanted to include them in the final product.^[2]

Having signed with an American label, the band was asked to record demos for the first time, and linked with new producers. Tim Rogers said, "I hated the American guys and the English guys who were asking us to modernise our sound. We're just so unsuited to that. I've got the voice of a 12-year-old girl and the mind of a 70-year-old dero. But I love that record. The actual recording of it with Clif was an absolute joy."^[3]

The album debuted at #3 on the ARIA charts, breaking their run of #1 debuts since Hi Fi Way. A small vintage clothes store in Fitzroy, Melbourne has also paid tribute to the album by naming the store "Dress Me Slowly"

Track listing

All songs written by Tim Rogers.

1. Judge Roy
2. Get Up
3. Beautiful Girl
4. Damage
5. Doug Sahm
6. Watcha Doin' To Me
7. Bring Some Sun Back Wit' You
8. Satisfied Mind
9. Weeds
10. Gone, Gone, Gone
11. Sugar
12. Kick a Hole in the Sky
13. End O' The Line

The Temperance Union EP

Limited copies of the album in digipack packaging included a bonus CD of eight songs called 'The Temperance Union EP', consisting of solo songs written and performed by Tim Rogers. He later formed a backing band for his solo albums named The Temperance Union.

1. Makin' Toast
2. The Smokin' Popes
3. Faith
4. Paragon Cafe
5. The Loneliest Folk In The World
6. Dreamin'
7. The Man You Want Me To Be
8. Get Drunk, Ring Yer Friends

The words for 'Dreamin' ended up being put to new music and reappeared as 'I Only Understand Her In The Rain' on Spit Polish.

Personnel

You Am I

• Tim Rogers - vocals, guitar
• Andy Kent - bass
• Russell Hopkins - drums, percussion
• Davey Lane - guitar

Additional musicians

• Adrian Keating - strings
• Michelle Kelly - strings
• Deborah Lander - strings
• Kate Morgan - strings
• James Greening - horns
• Carolyn Johns - horns
• Anthony Kable - horns
• Phil Slater - horns

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ You Am I.com.au
3. ^ Dan Condon. "No Struggle, No Progress". Time Off (Fortitude Valley, QLD: Street Press Australia Pty Ltd) (24 November 2010): pg 17.