Pick You Up

Pick You Up

Infobox Single
Name = Pick You Up
Type = Single
Artist = Powderfinger
from Album = Double Allergic


Released = flagicon|Australia 13 April 1996
Recorded = Sing Sing Studios, Melbourne
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:19
Label = Polydor
Producer = Tim Whitten
Last single = "Save Your Skin"
(1994)
This single = "Pick You Up"
(1996)
Next single = "D.A.F."
(1996)

"Pick You Up" is the first single released from Powderfinger's second album "Double Allergic". The single was released on 13 April 1996, [cite web|url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/powderfinger/pick_you_up/|title=Pick You Up by Powderfinger|publisher=Rate Your Music|accessdate=2007-10-21] and was Powderfinger's first moderate success both on commercial and Indie radio stations, and the most successful single from the album reaching #23 on the ARIA Charts. [cite web|url=http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?key=286153&cat=s|title=Powderfinger - Pick You Up|publisher=Australian-charts.com|accessdate=2007-10-21] In 2007, eleven years after its initial release, "Pick You Up" was selected to be included in the soundtrack for Australian SBS soccer television program The World Game. The song is the oldest recording on the compilation album. [cite web|url=http://www.play4me.com.au/product/sbs_world_game_1492058_3412.html|title=SBS: World Game (Soundtrack)|publisher=Play4Me|work=SBS|accessdate=2007-10-21]

History

"Pick You Up" was the first release by Powderfinger to receive significant radio airplay. Whilst "Reap What You Sow", off their previous EP; "Transfusion", had achieved some success, "Pick You Up" was the first to be played regularly nation-wide. Guitarist Darren Middleton said the band were "stoked" with the song's success, saying that "it's great for us because hopefully it'll give us a few more opportunities to do what we want to do." Middleton attributed part of the success of "Pick You Up" to Tim Whitten, producer of the song and "Double Allergic", describing Whitten as "what a band looks for in a producer/engineer".cite web|title=Powder Pick Up To Cure All Your Allergies| url=http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/text/article2.htm |work=Concrete Press|last=Budden|first=Matt|date=14 May 1996|publisher= [http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/central.htm Powderfinger Central] |accessdate=2007-10-20]

Powderfinger's lead singer, Bernard Fanning, was equally impressed with the radio response to "Pick You Up" and the next single, "D.A.F.". He told Drum Media "it's pretty weird hearing your song on B105", in response to a question about the accessibility of the new album. In another interview, with "Juice", Fanning described "Pick You Up" as "a pretty obvious sort of song", calling "D.A.F." the more mysterious single from "Double Allergic".cite web|title=Out Of The Blue| url= http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/text/article5.htm |work=Juice|last=Wooldridge|first=Simon|date=March 1997|publisher= [http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/central.htm Powderfinger Central] |accessdate=2007-10-20] Guitarist Ian Haug said it was odd for the band that "Pick You Up" was such a well-known song, when previously "people had known all our stuff equally because we've never had a big radio song." He also said that the song was able to attract new audiences to the band, some of whom would "go home after that song", but others who would develop as the band's new fan base. Despite the increase in popularity, Haug didn't think the band had changed a great deal, saying "I don't think our style has changed to lose the audience we had."cite web|title=Powder Me Up| url=http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/text/article6.htm |work=Concrete Press|last=Basil|first=Jack|date=29 October 1996|publisher= [http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/central.htm Powderfinger Central] |accessdate=2007-10-20]

In 2007, Fanning noted that their song "Nobody Sees" was the bookend to "Pick You Up", with its first line "Who's gonna pick you up?", noting that he's no longer going to. [cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s2098170.htm|title=Bernard Fanning on Nobody Sees|work=Triple J Music News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=2007-11-22|accessdate=2008-01-12]

Response

"Pick You Up" was nominated for the 1996 ARIA Award for "Song of the Year". The song was also performed live by the band at the ceremony.cite web|title=Break The Barrier| url= http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/text/articl27.htm |work=Rolling Stone|last=Grimson|first=Tracy|date=January 1997|publisher= [http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/central.htm Powderfinger Central] |accessdate=2007-10-20] Concrete Press journalist Matt Budden was filled with praise for the four tracks on "Pick You Up's" single. He said that "Pick You Up" had a "very professional sound", which he said was well complimented by Bernard Fanning's "grainy" voice. He also praised the rhythmic guitar set, saying that it "lingers like the smell at a cookie factory." Budden also lauded the b-sides, describing "Toffee Apple" as being reminiscent of Spinal Tap, calling the combination of "slow repetitive guitars" and "soft sweet lyrics" in "Wobbly Knee" beautiful, and dubbing "Come Away" bizarre in the most positive sense.

Angus Fountaine of The Sunday Telegraph also approved of Fanning's voice in "Pick You Up", stating that "His smooth vocal […] catapulted the band from rough 'n' ready indy hopefuls to slick Top 40 fortune seekers."cite web|title=Hot Ticket: Powderfinger at the Metro tonight| url= http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/text/article9.htm|work=The Sunday Telegraph|last=Fountaine|first=Angus|date=2 November 1997|publisher= [http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/central.htm Powderfinger Central] |accessdate=2007-10-20] When performed live, Alphonse Leong of Drop-D Magazine said that "Pick You Up", "which sounds kind of sappy on disc, packed more of a wallop live". He also described Powderfinger as "a band with a mastery of loud, driving music".cite web|title=Invaders from Oz| url= http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/text/articl18.htm|work=Drop-D Magazine|last=Leong|first=Alphonse|date=3 October 1997|publisher= [http://www.ozmusic-central.com.au/powderfinger/central.htm Powderfinger Central] |accessdate=2007-10-20]

Track listing

#"Pick You Up" – 4:19
#"Toffee Apple" – 2:24
#"Wobbly Knee" – 3:56
#"Come Away" – 3:55
#"Piles" (Hidden Track)

References


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