What I Don't Know 'bout You

"What I Don't Know 'bout You"
Single by You Am I
from the album #4 Record
Released February, 1998
Format CD
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:10
Label rooArt Records
Producer(s) George Drakoulias
You Am I singles chronology
"Tuesday"
(1997)
"What I Don't Know 'bout You"
(1998)
"Rumble"
(1998)

"What I Don't Know 'bout You" is the first single from the album #4 Record by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1998 and reached number 23 on the Australian charts, the band's highest chart position at that time.[1]

Rogers said the song, "was my favourite song that I'd written at that point. I loved the lyrics in particular, but it just wasn't recorded in the way I thought it should."[2]

Track listing

  1. "What I Don't Know 'bout You " – 3:10
  2. "You Want It So Bad " - 3:53
  3. "Cathy's Clown (live)" - 2:54
  4. "The Applecross Wing Commander (live)" - 5:59


"You Want It So Bad" is a You Am I original which later appeared on the …Saturday Night, 'Round Ten bonus disc 'Ignorance and Vodka'.

The live performances of "Cathy's Clown" and "The Applecross Wing Commander" were recorded at the 1997 Reading Festival in the UK.

Film Clip

The film clip for 'What I Don't Know 'bout You' was a tribute to the seminal 70s Australian movie, Don's Party. It features the band and several well-known young Australia actors (including Ben Mendelsohn, Matt Day, Stephen Curry, Tania Lacy and Nadine Garner reenacting scenes from the movie, along with the characters interacting with the band playing in a garden.

References

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