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“Cathy's Clown” by You Am I
From the album Hi Fi Way (1995)
“Cathy's Clown” by You Am I appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1995. It was first released in 1995 on the album Hi Fi Way. Its best result is #84 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #297 alternative song of 1995.
"Cathy's Clown" kicked off the Hi Fi Way campaign in 1995 as the album's first single, and it finally broke You Am I into the Australian Top 40, peaking at No. 36. Lee Ranaldo produced it and mixed it with Jon Auer, John Siket recorded, and the music is credited to Tim Rogers, Andy Kent and Russell Hopkinson, with Rogers alone on the words.
Rogers has owned up to the theft in the intro, telling Jane Gazzo it comes from the Beatles' "Everybody's Got Something to Hide", or more exactly from a version the Hoodoo Gurus played on a live-to-air broadcast. The lyric, which he calls a mess, is a fictional spin on the job his then-partner Tracy was throwing herself into at the State Library, where her drive to study her way into a senior post left him in awe.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 84 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995 | 100 |
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