Catch My Disease
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| "Catch My Disease" | ||
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| Single by Ben Lee | ||
| from the album Awake Is The New Sleep | ||
| Released | April 25, 2005 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | ??? | |
| Genre | ??? | |
| Length | 4 min 14 s | |
| Label | New West Records (USA) Ten Fingers / Inertia (Australia) |
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| Producer(s) | Brad Wood | |
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| Ben Lee singles chronology | ||
| "Gamble Everything For Love" (2004) |
"Catch My Disease" (2005) |
"Into The Dark" (2005) |
"Catch My Disease" is a single by Australian artist Ben Lee. It is from the album Awake Is The New Sleep, which was produced in America. The song gained moderate popularity and went to #27 in Australia, and also came in second place in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2005.
The song also got some international recognition when it appeared in the opening scene of an episode of the American drama series "Grey's Anatomy", and consequently went on to appear as a live track on the drama's original soundtrack.
[edit] Track listing
The following tracks appear on the single:
- "Catch My Disease"
- "Float On"
- "No Right Angles" (live at KEXP, Seattle)
- "Something Borrowed, Something Blue" (live for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic)
- "Catch My Disease" (Demo)
- "Gamble Everything For Love" (Video)
[edit] Trivia
3 minutes and 17 seconds into the song, a person can be heard sneezing in the background, referring to the "catching" of the disease mentioned in the song.
When Lee performs the song live, the second verse is usually changed. Instead of singing "I was backstage in Pomona", he sings "backstage at/in..." and substitutes the name of whatever venue he is playing at the time. He usually changes the next line, "She drank beer with Coca-Cola" to make it rhyme with the original. For example, when he peformed on the live music TV series "Live at the Chapel", the second verse went, "I was backstage at the Chapel, and that's the way I like it. She drank beer with schnapps and apple, and that's the way I like it." He will also usually change the names of the bands mentioned in the third verse as well.
The song is also used in a 2006 Dell computer commercial.
The song is featured in the 2005 film Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
