No. 4 Record

Work for #4 Record, You Am I's fourth studio album, began late in 1997 with George Drakoulias (the Black Crowes, the Jayhawks) producing at his Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, again.{{cite book | author1 = McFarlane, Ian | authorlink1 = Ian McFarlane | others = Jenkins, Jeff (Foreword) | title = The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop | chapter = Encyclopedia entry for 'You Am I' | publication-date = 2017 | location = Gisborne, VIC | publisher = Third Stone Press | edition = 2nd | pages = 525–527 | isbn = 978-0-9953856-0-3 }}{{Cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040315235556/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/y/youami.html | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/y/youami.html | title = You Am I | publisher = Australian Rock Database | last1 = Holmgren | first1 = Magnus | archive-date = 15 March 2004 | url-status = usurped | access-date = 7 October 2022 }} The line-up of the band was Rusty Hopkinson on drums and percussion, Andy Kent on bass guitar and Tim Rogers on lead vocals and guitar. Drakoulias had previously recorded the group in 1996. The limited edition version, issued in May 1998, included a bonus disc of nine tracks, Radio Settee, which was recorded for youth radio station Triple J's programme Live at the Wireless.{{Citation | author1=You am I (Musical group) | author-link1=You Am I | title=Number Four Record: Radio Settee | date=1996 | publisher=Ra Records | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8486912 | access-date=7 October 2022}}

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Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane believes it is "lean, nifty rock’n’roll"; while music journalist, Ed Nimmervoll observed it was a "back-to-basics" album.{{cite web | archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20021218145432/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/parchive/2001/S2001-Mar-29/www.howlspace.com.au/en/youami/youami.htm | url=http://www.howlspace.com.au/en/youami/youami.htm | title=You Am I | first=Ed | last=Nimmervoll | author-link=Ed Nimmervoll | work=HowlSpace | archive-date=18 December 2002 | access-date=7 October 2022 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Rolling Stone Australia{{'}}s writer claimed the album, "strikes perhaps the group's best balance between pure pop and jagged, potent riffola: even if the American producer did his best to sand the rough edges off 'Billy' and the great rock & roll radio pop of 'Rumble'."{{cite magazine | title = The Year in Recordings | magazine = Australian Rolling Stone Yearbook |page = 139| date = December 1998| publisher = Tilmond Pty Ltd}}

AllMusic's Jack Rabid said the band, "finally makes some headway toward matching its vicious, chaotic live intensity. You have an LP that beguiles, teases, sweetens, and often throbs in popcraft. It also blasts in fits and starts of harsh edge, chops, infectious attitude, and, when it suits them, abandon."{{cite web| publisher= AllMusic | title=You Am I – #4 Record | first=Jack | last=Rabid | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/-4-record-mw0000598384 }} Andrew Bartlett of Woroni felt, "As well as being fine listening, there's some lyrical usage worth noting on this disc."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140140556 |title=Entertainment: Music: Number 4 Record You Am I |newspaper=Woroni |volume=50 |issue=6 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=1 July 1998 |access-date=7 October 2022 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia }}

Ranked as 19th most under-rated album of all time, FasterLouder said, "For a band that always styled itself on the sloppy swagger of the Stones, the clever wordplay of The Kinks and the brazen cheek of The Faces, #4's about as close as they got to an amalgam of that holy trinity."{{cite web| work= FasterLouder |author=Darren Levin| title=The Most Underrated Albums of All Time| url=http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/the-most-underrated-albums-of-all-time/830627/4| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602082644/http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/the-most-underrated-albums-of-all-time/830627/4| url-status=dead| archive-date=2 June 2016}}

All tracks by Tim Rogers.

1. "Junk" – 2:39
2. "The Cream & the Crock" – 3:20
3. "What I Don't Know 'bout You" – 3:10
4. "Fifteen" – 3:05
5. "Top of the Morn' & Slip of the Day" – 3:40
6. "Billy" – 2:13
7. "Come Home Wit' Me" – 3:11
8. "Heavy Heart" – 3:11
9. "Rumble" – 2:36
10. "Guys, Girls, Guitars" – 2:58
11. "Plans" – 3:53
12. "...And Vandalism" – 3:40

The limited edition of the album came with a live bonus disc, featuring songs recorded for a Triple J's programme Live at the Wireless set. Several tracks have Brad Shepherd of The Hoodoo Gurus on extra guitar and harmonica, while Phil Stack contributes double bass to tracks 3 and 4.

1. "Live with Me"
2. "Looking for a Kiss"
3. "Berlin Chair" (acoustic)
4. "Heavy Heart" (acoustic)
5. "Junk"
6. "Billy"
7. "Trike"
8. "Fox on the Run"
9. "Mr Milk"

The EP has three cover versions: "Live with Me" is a cover of the Rolling Stones song; "Looking for a Kiss" is a cover of a New York Dolls; and "Fox on the Run" is a cover of Sweet.

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